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Morgan   /mˈɔrgən/   Listen
Morgan

noun
1.
United States anthropologist who studied the Seneca (1818-1881).  Synonym: Lewis Henry Morgan.
2.
United States biologist who formulated the chromosome theory of heredity (1866-1945).  Synonym: Thomas Hunt Morgan.
3.
A Welsh buccaneer who raided Spanish colonies in the West Indies for the English (1635-1688).  Synonyms: Henry Morgan, Sir Henry Morgan.
4.
Soldier in the American Revolution who defeated the British in the battle of Cowpens, South Carolina (1736-1802).  Synonym: Daniel Morgan.
5.
United States financier and philanthropist (1837-1913).  Synonyms: J. P. Morgan, John Pierpont Morgan.
6.
An American breed of small compact saddle horses.



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"Morgan" Quotes from Famous Books



... to see Morgan Hatfield, the commissioner. Don't I know him? He tin-horned over at Laskar for two or three years before he got into politics; an' now he's tin-hornin' the cattle owners of the state. He'll grin ...
— The Trail Horde • Charles Alden Seltzer
... Lively from her vantage-ground. "You were called up last night to see that child on Morgan street." ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873 • Various
... nigh him, and of them there was Queen Morgan le Fay, who was wife of King Lot, and an evil witch; the Queen of Northgales, a haughty lady; the Lady of the Out-Isles; and the Lady of the Marshes. And when the Lady of the Marshes saw the ...
— King Arthur's Knights - The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls • Henry Gilbert
... calls Mr. Jones, Who depones to her tones, And her gestures and hints about "breaking his bones," While Mr. Ap Morgan, and Mr. Ap Rhys Declared the deceased Had styled him "a Beast," And swear they had witness'd, with grief and surprise, The allusion she made to his limbs ...
— The Humourous Poetry of the English Language • James Parton
... Rockefeller-Morgan Faro, de king, say dey can't go, but Moses done got de Lawd on his side, an' he crossed de Red Sea in submarines, so Faro got drowned wid all his host. De mummy ob dat same Faro is still alive in de big museums ob de world, but whar de host ...
— Best Short Stories • Various


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