Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An East Indian name of the great whale-shark, Rhinodon typicus.
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Examples
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Shooted "Slainte mhor", but noo we hae mair reason.
Lady Traquair's Brew 2006
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Tall she was and limber like a lance, her eyes like blue forget-me-nots that grow by the burn mhor, fearless and daring, with long black lashes.
The McBrides A Romance of Arran John Sillars
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"Ta duvil mhor (_great_) would pe in your heart and prain and poosom, my son."
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875 Various
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Mungo, who had upheld ancient ceremony by his crude performance on the _piob mhor_, was the attendant upon the table, -- an office he undertook with his bonnet on his head, "in token," as his master whisperingty explained to Count Victor, "of his sometimes ill-informed pnrpose of conducting every formal task in Doom upon the strict letter of military codes as pertained in camps, garrisons, and strongholds."
Doom Castle Neil Munro
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Possession of a Gaelic Bible (biobull) served as a talisman and, together with two other elements of domestic Highland culture -- bagpipes (piob mhor) and locally-distilled whisky (uisge beatha) -- not infrequently adorned the kitchen table simultaneously.
Book & Print in New Zealand: A Guide to Print Culture in New Zealand Penny Griffith 1885
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Stonehenge, or the _Coir-mhor_, on Salisbury Plain, is the grandest remaining monument of the Druids in the British Isles.
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"Ta duvil mhor (great) would pe in your heart and prain and poosom, my son."
Malcolm George MacDonald 1864
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_ -- What is the original weapon to which belongs the name of claymore (_claidh mhor_)?
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Adh mhor oraibh Gerry Adams MP, Sinn Fein President.
ANC Today 2007
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Mac an athar bu mhor prios B'urfunnach chath e ftri nan ccud.
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