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A tribe of Indians who formerly inhabited Eastern Connecticut. [Written also Pequods.]

An extensive tribe or suborder of fishes, including the true perches (Percidæ); the pondfishes (Centrarchidæ); the sciænoids (Sciænidæ); the sparoids (Sparidæ); the serranoids (Serranidæ), and some other related families.

A tribe belonging to the Finnic race, and inhabiting a portion of Russia.

Of or pertaining to the seal tribe; phocal.

A subdivision of a phyle, or tribe, in Athens.

A tribe of neuropterous insects which includes the caddice flies; -- called also Trichoptera. See Trichoptera. [Written also Phryganides.]

The chief of a phyle, or tribe.

The office of a phylarch; government of a class or tribe.

A local division of the people in ancient Athens; a clan; a tribe.

One of a tribe of beetles which feed upon the leaves of plants, as the chafers.

the race history of an animal or vegetable type; the historic exolution of the phylon or tribe, in distinction from ontogeny, or the development of the individual organism, and from biogenesis, or life development generally.

A tribe.

An animal of the seal tribe, moving by short feet that serve as paddles.

A mountain tribe of Mexican Indians living near Acapulco. They are remarkable for having the dark skin of the face irregularly spotted with white. Called also speckled Indians.

Speaking many languages; polyglot. [R.] "The polyglottous tribes of America." Max Müller.

separate or divide into portions or shares; to parcel; to distribute. And portion to his tribes the wide domain. Pope.

of North America, a ceremonial distribution by a man of gifts to his own and neighboring tribesmen, often, formerly, to his own impoverishment. Feasting, dancing, and public ceremonies accompany it.

One of a tribe of wading birds (Pressirostres) including those which have a compressed beak, as the plovers.

A communistic building erected by certain Indian tribes of Arizona and New Mexico. It is often of large size and several stories high, and is usually built either of stone or adobe. The term is also applied to any Indian village in the same region. Pueblo Indians (Ethnol.), any tribe or community of Indians living in p…

to, a linguistic stock of South American Indians, including the majority of the civilized tribes of the ancient Peruvian Empire with some wild tribes never subjugated by the Incas. Most of these Indians are short, but heavy and strong. They are brachycephalic and of remarkably low cranial capacity. Nevertheless, they r…