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First; original; indigenous; primitive; native; as, the aboriginal tribes of America. "Mantled o'er with aboriginal turf." Wordsworth.

The quality of being aboriginal. Westm. Rev.

Primarily.

to trace origin to. How do these facts tend to affiliate the faculty of hearing upon the aboriginal vegetative processes H. Spencer.

A native of America; -- originally applied to the aboriginal inhabitants, but now applied to the descendants of Europeans born in America, and especially to the citizens of the United States. The name American must always exalt the pride of patriotism. Washington.

A product of human workmanship; -- applied esp. to the simpler products of aboriginal art as distinguished from natural objects.

Aboriginal; indigenous; native.

An aboriginal or autochthonous condition.

An aboriginal American name for the sweet potato (Ipomæa batatas).

; sing. Dyak. (Ethnol.) The aboriginal and most numerous inhabitants of Borneo. They are partially civilized, but retain many barbarous practices.

Expressing a phrase or sentence in a single word, -- as is the case in the aboriginal languages of America.

One of the aboriginal inhabitants of America; -- so called originally from the supposed identity of America with India.

One born in a country; an aboriginal animal or plant; an autochthon. Evelyn. Tylor.

An aboriginal tribe inhabiting the southern part of Kamtschatka.

An individual of one of the races of aboriginal inhabitants which survive in Hindostan. -- a.

One of the aboriginal inhabitants of New Zealand; also, the original language of New Zealand. -- a.

A native; an aboriginal. [Obs.] Sir W. Raleigh.

One of an aboriginal people of Southern India, regarded by the four castes of the Hindoos as of very low grade. They are usually the serfs of the Sudra agriculturalists. See Caste. Balfour (Cyc. of India).

A kind of aboriginal shell money, or wampum, of the Atlantic coast of the United States; -- originally applied only to polished white cylindrical beads.

An aboriginal weapon consisting of a 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.