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Moraine
Moraine Mo*raine", n. [F. Cf. Prov. G. mur stones broken off, It. mora a heap of stones, hillock, G. m["u]rbe soft, broken up, OHG. muruwi, AS. mearu tender, Gr. ? to cause to wither, Skr. ml[=a] to relax.] (Geol.) An accumulation of earth and stones carried forward and deposited by a glacier. --Lyell. Note: If the moranie is at the extremity of the glacier it is a terminal moranie; if at the side, a lateral moranie; if parallel to the side on the central portion of the glacier, a medial moranie. See Illust. of Glacier. In the last case it is formed by the union of the lateral moranies of the branches of the glacier. A ground moranie is one beneath the mass of ice.
Morainic
Morainic Mo*rain"ic, a. Of or pertaining to a moranie.

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- Mícheál Ó Móráin (24 December 1911 – 6 May 1983) was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who served as Minister for Justice from 1968 to 1970, Minister for...
- Moran (Irish: Ó Móráin) is a modern Irish surname derived from membership of a medieval dynastic sept. The name means a descendant of Mórán. “Mor” in Gaelic...
- Moriba Joseph Morain (born 8 October 1992) is a Trinidadian sprinter. He won a gold medal in the 200 metres at the 2010 Central American and Caribbean...
- Pierre Morain (12 April 1930 – 27 May 2013) was a building worker, a trades unionist, a militant libertarian communist and an anti-colonialist activist...
- Lloyd L. Morain (2 April 1917 – 13 July 2010) was an American businessman, philanthropist, writer, environmentalist, art collector and film producer, who...
- Mary Stone Dewing Morain (1911 – June 14, 1999) was an American therapist, social reformer, and prominent secular humanist, the co-author, with her husband...
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- Chicago Sun-Times. p. 4. Retrieved June 15, 2008.(subscription required) Morain, Dan (April 6, 2008). "Obama's law days effective but brief". Los Angeles...
- by several collaborators subsequently, and notably by Atkin and François Morain [de], in 1993. The concept of using elliptic curves in factorization had...
- was in turn used by A. O. L. Atkin and François Morain as the basis for Atkin-Goldw****er-Kilian-Morain certificates, which are the type of certificates...