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Moore

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Moore  (mr, môr)
A city of central Oklahoma, an industrial suburb of Oklahoma City. Population: 43,700.

Moore, Clement Clarke 1779-1863.
American scholar and poet who wrote the Christmas poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas" (1823).

Moore, George 1852-1933.
Irish writer whose works include poetry, drama, criticism, and novels, such as Esther Waters (1894).

Moore, George Edward 1873-1958.
British philosopher whose theories, presented in Principia Ethica (1903) and other works, influenced 20th-century epistemology and linguistic analysis.

Moore, Henry 1898-1986.
British sculptor whose works, mostly semiabstract human figures, are characterized by smooth organic forms.

Moore, Marianne Craig 1887-1972.
American poet whose descriptive works, published in Poems (1921), Complete Poems (1967), and other collections, are characterized by wit, irony, and unconventional meter.
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Noun1.Moore - United States composer of works noted for their use of the American vernacular (1893-1969)
2.Moore - English actor and comedian who appeared on television and in films (born in 1935)
3.Moore - English philosopher (1873-1958)
4.MooreMoore - Irish poet who wrote nostalgic and patriotic verse (1779-1852)
5.Moore - United States poet noted for irony and wit (1887-1872)
6.Moore - British sculptor whose works are monumental organic forms (1898-1986)

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Harold Moore was a bilious-countenanced, studious young man.
They shakes hands, and Jerry Moore says, "Is this a friend of yours, Bailey?
Mr Pope, however, very luckily found them in the said play, and, laying violent hands on his own property, transferred it back again into his own works; and, for a further punishment, imprisoned the said Moore in the loathsome dungeon of the Dunciad, where his unhappy memory now remains, and eternally will remain, as a proper punishment for such his unjust dealings in the poetical trade.
 
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