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Molly Maguires

(Encyclopedia) Molly MaguiresMolly Maguiresməgwīˈərz [key], secret organization of Irish-Americans in the coal-mining districts of Pennsylvania. Its name came from a woman who led an extralegal,…

mollie

(Encyclopedia) mollie: see molly.

sailfin

(Encyclopedia) sailfin: see molly.

Sims, Christopher Albert

(Encyclopedia) Sims, Christopher Albert, 1942–, American economist, b. Washington, D.C., Ph.D. Harvard (1968). Sims has taught at Harvard (1967–70), the Univ. of Minnesota (1970–90), Yale (1990–99),…

molly

(Encyclopedia) molly or mollie, New World fish of the genus Poecilia, which includes the guppy or rainbow fish, Poecilia reticulata. Mollies, which are related to the killifishes, are found from the…

guppy

(Encyclopedia) guppy: see killifish; molly.

Sim, Alastair

actorBirthplace: Edinburgh, ScotlandBorn: 1900Died: 1976

Ivins, Molly

(Encyclopedia) Ivins, Molly (Mary Tyler Ivins), 1944–2007, U.S. journalist and political columnist, b. Monterey, Calif., B.A. Smith College, 1966, M.A. Columbia School of Journalism, 1967. A decided…

Picon, Molly

actressBirthplace: New York CityBorn: 1898Died: 1992

Brewer's: Molly

He's a regular Molly. Said of a man or big boy who betties or interferes with women's work, such as kitchen business, dressmaking, personal decoration, and so on. Source: Dictionary of…