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Murray   /mˈəri/   Listen
Murray

noun
1.
British classical scholar (born in Australia) who advocated the League of Nations and the United Nations (1866-1957).  Synonyms: George Gilbert Aime Murphy, Gilbert Murray.
2.
Scottish philologist and the lexicographer who shaped the Oxford English Dictionary (1837-1915).  Synonyms: James Augustus Henry Murray, James Augustus Murray, James Murray, Sir James Augustus Henry Murray, Sir James Augustus Murray, Sir James Murray.
3.
A southeast Australian river; flows westward and then south into the Indian Ocean at Adelaide.  Synonym: Murray River.



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... Sainte Helene d'une maniere inconnue', London. Murray; Bruxelles, De Mat, 20 Avril 1817. This work merits a note. Metternich (vol, i. pp. 312-13) says, "At the time when it appeared the manuscript of St. Helena made a great impression upon Europe. This pamphlet was generally regarded as ...
— The Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte • Bourrienne, Constant, and Stewarton

... buyer for Appenweier & Murray's Thirty-second Street store, on the first Monday of January; and in consequence on the second Monday of January Harry Flaxberg came to work as city salesman for Polatkin & Scheikowitz. He also maintained the role of party of the second part in a contract drawn by Henry ...
— Elkan Lubliner, American • Montague Glass

... a noble city, of which it ill befits a passer-through to speak. Volumes have been written on its antiquities, and volumes on its history; and all of either that my readers need know, they will find in Murray's hand-book. ...
— Prose Idylls • Charles Kingsley

... foreman, came running over to him from a pile of merchandise that had been set off the right of way on the wagon-road for loot. "That's the superintendent's car coming, ain't it, Murray?" he cried, looking across the creek ...
— Whispering Smith • Frank H. Spearman

... day, Dr. Murray of Oxford has compiled an illuminating grammar of the language, indicating the various dialects of the Lowlands and their geographical areas. Local antiquarians have also written out lists of words special to particular counties. Dialect books, such as the entertaining Johnnie Gibb of ...
— Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland • Daniel Turner Holmes


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