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La-bleed', n. French, La bride. A bndle. 



La-boos', n. French, La bouche. 2Vie mouth; mouth of a river 



Moxt laboos, the forks of a river. 

 La-boo-ti', n. French, La bouteille. A bottle. 

 La-ca-lat', n. French, La garotte. A carrot. 

 La-ca-set', n. French, La casette. A box, trunk, or chest. 

 La-clo-a, n. French, La croix. A cross. 

 Lagh, V. Chinook, Lakh. To lean; to tip, as a boat; to stoop; to 



bend over, as a tree. Wake mika lagh kopa okook house, don''t lean 



against that house. 

 La-gome, «. French, La gomme. Fitch; glue. La gome stick, 



light-wood; the pitch-pine. 

 La-gwin', or Lg.-kween', n. Quaere u. d. A saw. 

 La-haL See Slahal. 

 Lahb, n. French, L'herbe. The arbutus uva ursi, the loaves of 



■which are used in smoking, alone or mixed with tobacco. 

 La-hash, n. French, La ha cue. An axe or hatchet. 

 La-kam-mas'. See Kamass. 

 Lak'-it, or Lok'-it, adj. Chinook, Lakt. Four; four times. 



Lakit taht-lelum, forty. 

 La'-kles, n. French, La graisse. Fat ; oil. Sec, also, Glease. 

 La-lah, f . Chinook, Lakhwhola. To cheat ; fool ; to p)ractise jokes. 



Mamook lalah, to make fun. 

 La-lahm', or La-lum', n. French, La rame. An oar. Mamook 



lalahni, to roiv. 

 La-lang, n. French, La langue. The tongue ; a language. 

 La-leem', n. French, La lime. A file. 

 La-messe', n. French, idem. The ceremony of the mass. 

 La-mes-tin, or La-mo-tchin, n. French, La medecine. Mede- 



cine, not including magic. 

 Lam'-mi-eh, or Lam-mi-i, n. French, La vieille. An old 



tvoman. 

 La-mon-ti, or La-mo-ti, n. French, La montagne. A mountain. 

 La-peep', n. French, La pipe. A tobacco-pipe. Lapeep kullakala 



(literally, the "pipe-bird"), the band-tailed eagle, as its feathers 



■were used to ornament the pipe stems. 

 La-pehsh, n. French, La perche. A pole ; the setting-pole oj a 



bout or caitoe. 



