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:

    “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)

    “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)

    “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)