Muir

Muir

A Muir is the Scots word for moorland, and Scots Gaelic for sea, and is the etymological origin of the surname and Clan Muir/Mure/Moore in Scotland and other parts of the world.

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Famous quotes containing the word muir:

    “The ancestral deed is thought and done,
    And in a million Edens fall
    A million Adams drowned in darkness,
    For small is great and great is small,
    And a blind seed all.”
    —Edwin Muir (1887–1959)

    “Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humour is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.”
    —Frank Muir (b. 1920)

    “Long time he lay upon the sunny hill,
    To his father’s house below securely bound.”
    —Edwin Muir (1887–1959)