Maury

[ mawr-ee, mor-ee ]

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noun

Matthew Fon·taine [fon-, teyn, fon, -teyn], 1806–73, U.S. naval officer and scientist.

Maury

/ ˈmɔːrɪ /

MauryMatthew Fontaine18061873MUSSCIENCE: hydrographerSCIENCE: oceanographer Matthew Fontaine. 1806–73, US pioneer hydrographer and oceanographer

Maury

/ môr′ē /

American naval officer and oceanographer who charted the currents and winds of the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans and wrote the pioneering book Physical Geography of the Sea (1855).

On the first question he consulted Lieutenant Maury, the great authority on mareography.

Porphyritic mountains, says M. Maury, imprint on the landscape a peculiarly picturesque character.

Cardinal Maury took up the suggestion with enthusiasm, and employed all his eloquence to impress the Sacred College with the idea.

At one time, when Commodore Maury was very sick, he asked one of his daughters to get the Bible and read to him.

We may subjoin to these two appreciations the judgment of the Abb Maury, himself a great orator.

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