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:

    “Barely a twelvemonth after
    The seven days war that put the world to sleep,
    Late in the evening the strange horses came.”
    —Edwin Muir (1887–1959)

    “Those lumbering horses in the steady plough,
    On the bare field—I wonder why, just now,
    They seemed terrible, so wild and strange,
    Like magic power on the stony grange.”
    —Edwin Muir (1887–1959)

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