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A West Indian food fish (Malacanthus plumieri) related to the tilefish.

A native house servant in India. Balfour (Cyc. of India).

An East Indian weight, varying in different localities from 25 to about 82 pounds avoirdupois.

Designating, or pertaining to, an American Indian linguistic stock occupying the Mexican States of Veracruz, Chiapas, Tabasco, Campeche, and Yucatan, together with a part of Guatemala and a part of Salvador. The Mayan peoples are dark, short, and brachycephallic, and at the time of the discovery had attained a higher g…

Maize or Indian corn; -- the common name in South Africa.

A physician. [Obs.] Shak. Medicine bag, a charm; -- so called among the North American Indians, or in works relating to them. -- Medicine man (among the North American Indians), a person who professes to cure sickness, drive away evil spirits, and regulate the weather by the arts of magic. -- Medicine seal, a small g…

An East Indian genus of large trees. Melanorrhoea usitatissima is the lignum-vitæ of Peru, and yelds a valuable black varnish.

One of a mixed white and Indian people living in parts of Tennessee and the Carolinas. They are descendants of early intermixtures of white settlers with natives. In North Carolina the Croatan Indians, regarded as descended from Raleigh's lost colony of Croatan, formerly classed with negroes, are now legally recognized…

A small deerlet, or chevrotain, of India.

Lady; mistress; -- used by Hindustani-speaking natives in India in addressing European women.

tree (Prosopis pubescens), having spiral pods used as fodder and sometimes as food by the Indians. -- Mesquite grass, a rich native grass in Western Texas (Bouteloua oligostachya, and other species); -- so called from its growing in company with the mesquite tree; -- called also muskit grass, grama grass.…

The offspring of an Indian or a negro and a European or person of European stock. [Spanish America] Mestizo wool, wool imported from South America, and produced by mixed breeds of sheep.

The offspring of a white person and an American Indian.

A tribe of Indians that formerly occupied the country between the Wabash and Maumee rivers.

A tribe of Indians inhabiting Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. [Written also Mikmaks.]

A singing bird of India of the family Campephagidæ.

r, the sole and upper part being one piece. It is the customary shoe worn by the American Indians.

A tribe of warlike Indians formerly inhabiting Northern California. They are nearly extinct.

One of a tribe of Indians who formed part of the Five Nations. They formerly inhabited the valley of the Mohawk River.

A tribe of Lenni-Lenape Indians who formerly inhabited Western Connecticut and Eastern New York. [Written also Mohegans.]