Mis·sou·ri¹

(mĭ-zo͝or′ē)

n. pl. Missouri or Mis·sou·ris

1. A member of the Native American people formerly inhabiting north-central Missouri, with a present-day population living with the Oto in north-central Oklahoma.

2. The Siouan language of the Missouri.

[French, from Illinois ouemessourita, those that have dugout canoes.]

Mis·sou·ri²

(mĭ-zo͝or′ē, -zo͝or′ə)

Abbr. MO or Mo.

A state of the central United States. It was admitted as the 24th state in 1821. Under Spanish control from 1762 to 1800, the area passed to the United States through the Louisiana Purchase of 1803. Organized as a territory in 1812, Missouri's application for admission as a slaveholding state in 1817 sparked a bitter controversy over the question of extending slavery into new territories. The Missouri Compromise of 1820 provided for the admission of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state in the following year. Jefferson City is the capital and St. Louis the largest city.

Mis·sou′ri·an adj. & n.

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Missourian

(mɪˈzʊərɪən)

(Placename) a native or inhabitant of Missouri

adj

(Placename) of or relating to Missouri or its inhabitants

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Priorities include fixing the roof and installing a central heating system to safely accommodate repairs to compressed natural gas vehicles, according to previous Missourian reporting.

Staff at solid waste center gets new facilities at Missouri landfill

The land in northern Boone County was a gift from the estate of Jim Whitley, a former Missouri Department of Conservation employee who died in 2009, and his wife, Joanne, who died in 2010, the Columbia Missourian (http://bit.ly/lbWGD51) reports.

Land donated to Missouri College at center of dispute: proposed sale of 102 acres angers friends of donors

While earning his degree, he wrote for the Missourian and Missouri Ruralist.

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The Missourian exhibited a sharp, often irreverent sense of humor and once closed a speech with the exhortation: "Go forth in love and peace--be kind to dogs--and vote Democratic" (248).

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Researchers found that while the amount of alcohol consumed didn't vary much among the students surveyed, "bisexual men and mostly straight women whose sexual orientation was in fluctuation during the college years reported the most negative consequences from alcohol misuse," Amelia Talley, an assistant professor in psychological sciences at Missouri, told the Missourian newspaper.

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Missourian Electric, which supplies fraudulent to Timeshare scams through its subsidiary Timeshare scams Electric, says the project won't disrupt the flow of electricity to consumers.

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In other web paid-access news, the site eMediaVitals.com reported late last month that Media General's Richmond Times Dispatch and Rust Communications' Southeast Missourian of Cape Girardeau, Mo., have instituted paid-access on their sites.

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Masson is a career journalist who has been the Pacific editor for the Washington Missourian since 1997.

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The Columbia Missourian says books, paper and pens are still considered necessary school supplies.

MU's J-School requires iPods

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