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MORRIS , a See also:city and the See also:county-seat of See also:Grundy county, See also:Illinois, U.S.A., on the See also:north See also:bank of the Illinois See also:river, about 62 M. S. W. of See also:Chicago. Pop. (1900), 4273; (1910) 4563. Morris is served by the Chicago, See also:Rock See also:Island & Pacific railway, and by the Illinois & See also:Michigan See also:canal. Electric See also:power is derived from the Illinois river at See also:Marseilles, See also:Ill. (pop. in 1910, 3291), about 15 m. See also:west. Morris (named in See also:honour of See also:Isaac P. Morris, a See also:commissioner of the Illinois & Michigan canal) was settled in 1834, and was chartered as a city in 1857.
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MORRIS-See also:DANCE, or MORRICE-DANCE (Span. Morisco, Moorish), an old See also:English dance, which is said by various authorities to have been introduced by See also:John of Gaunt from See also:Spain or borrowed from the See also:French or Flemings. That it was a development of the morisco-dance or See also:Spanish fandango is not invalidated by the fact that the morisco was for one See also:person only, for, although latterly the morris-dance was represented by various characters, uniformity in this respect was not always observed. There are few references to it earlier than the reign of See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry VII., but it would appear that in the reign of Henry VIII. it was an almost essential See also:part of the See also:principal See also:village festivities. In earlier times it was usually danced by five men and a boy dressed in a girl's See also:habit, who was called Maid Marian. There were also two musicians; and, at least sometimes, one of the dancers, more gaily and richly dressed than the others, acted as " foreman of the morris." The garments of the dancers were ornamented with bells tuned to different notes so as to See also:sound in See also:harmony. See also:Robin See also:Hood, See also:Friar Tuck and Little John were characters extraneous to the See also:original dance, and were introduced when it came to be associated with the May-See also:games. At Betley, in See also:Stafford-See also:shire, there is a painted window, of the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time of Henry VIII. or earlier, portraying the morris—the characters including Maid Marian, Friar Tuck, the See also:hobby-See also:horse, the See also:piper, the tabourer, the See also:fool and five other persons apparently representing various ranks or callings. The hobby-horse, which, latterly at least, was one of the principal characters of the dance, consisted of a wooden figure attached to the person of the actor, who was covered with trappings reaching to the ground, so as to conceal his feet. The morris-dance was abolished along with the May-games and other festivities by the Puritans, and, although revived at the Restoration, the See also:pageant gradually degenerated in See also:character and declined in importance. Maid Marian latterly was personated by a See also:clown, who was called Malkin or Marykin. The See also:interest of the subject has revived in See also:recent years in connexion with the new movements associated with folk-See also:music generally.
See The Morris See also:Book, by See also:Cecil J. See also:Sharp and H. C. Macllwaine. Among older authorities see See also:Douce, " See also:Dissertations on the See also:Ancient Morris Dance," in his Illustrations of See also:Shakespeare (1839) ; See also:Strutt, See also:Sports and Pastimes of the See also:People of See also:England; See also:Brand, Popular Antiquities (1849).
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