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A foot soldier; a policeman; also, an office attendant; a messenger. [India]

An Algonquin tribe of Indians who formerly inhabited a part of Illinois.

The plant which yields pepper, an East Indian woody climber (Piper nigrum), with ovate leaves and apetalous flowers in spikes opposite the leaves. The berries are red when ripe. Also, by extension, any one of the several hundred species of the genus Piper, widely dispersed throughout the tropical and subtropical region…

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

ignant pustule. -- Persian powder. See Insect powder, under Insect. -- Persian red. See Indian red (a), under Indian. -- Persian wheel, a noria; a tympanum. See Noria.

A paraffin obtained from petroleum from Rangoon in India, and practically identical with ordinary paraffin.

Boar hunting; -- so called by Anglo-Indians. [Colloq.] Tackeray.

A West Indian name for the prickly pear (Opuntia); -- called also pimploes.

A term used in designating an East Indian tree (the Vateria Indica or piney tree, of the order Dipterocarpeæ, which grows in Malabar, etc.) or its products. Piney dammar, Piney resin, Piney varnish, a pellucid, fragrant, acrid, bitter resin, which exudes from the piney tree (Vateria Indica) when wounded. It is used as…

lor of its abdomen in summer. [Prov. Eng.] Bunch pink is Dianthus barbatus. -- China, or Indian, pink. See under China. -- Clove pink is Dianthus Caryophyllus, the stock from which carnations are derived. -- Garden pink. See Pheasant's eye. -- Meadow pink is applied to Dianthus deltoides; also, to the ragged robin.…

An annual South American and West Indian plant (Spigelia Anthelmia).

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.

in token of amity or preparatory to making a treaty of peace, -- a custom of the American Indians.

A kind of clay slate, carved by the Indians into tobacco pipes. Cf. Catlinite.

f Europe, but now found near the abode of civilized man in nearly all parts of the world. Indian plantain. (Bot.) See under Indian. -- Mud plantain, a homely North American aquatic plant (Heteranthera reniformis), having broad, reniform leaves. -- Rattlesnake plantain, an orchidaceous plant (Goodyera pubescens), with…

stone or piece of antler fastened to the end of a slender wooden handle, used by American Indians from the Great Plains to the Mackenzie River.

Pudding made of Indian meal; also, porridge made of chestnut meal. [Italy]

A fabric of undyed silk from India and China.

A wooden flat-bottomed boat, a metallic cylinder, or a frame covered with canvas, India rubber, etc., forming a portable float, used in building bridges quickly for the passage of troops.

A name for several East Indian, or their wood, used for the masts and spars of vessels, as Calophyllum angustifolium, C. inophullum, and Sterculia foetida; -- called also peon.