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piali sapolill, baked bread ; piah sick, the venereal disease ; sagliillie 

 piali, lightning. 



Pil, adj. Chinook, Tlpelpbl. Father Pandosy gives Pilpilp, as 

 signifying red, in the Nez Perce or Sahaptin, also. Red; of a red- 

 dish color. Pil illahie, red clay or vermilion; pil dolla, gold ; pil 

 chickarain, copper ; pil kiuatan, a bay or chestnut horse. 



Pil'-pil, n. Jargon. Blood. Mahsh pilpil, to bleed ; to mensti'uate. 

 Derived from the foregoing. 



Pish, n. English. Fish. ; 



Pit-lilh', or Pit-hlil', adj. Quaere n. d. Thick in consistence, as 

 molasses. 



Piu-piu, n. French, Puer, to stink. Or from the sound often ut- 

 tered expressive of disgust at a bad smell. A skunk. 



Poh, V. Chinook, idem. By onoma. Mamook poh, to bloio out or 

 extinguish, as a caudle. 



Po'-lak-lie, n., adj. Chinook, Polakli. Night; darkness; dark. 

 Tenas polaklie, evening ; hyas polaklie, late at night; very dark; 

 sit-kum polaklie, midnight (literally, the half night). 



Po'-lal-lie, n. Quaere French, Poudre. Gunpowder ; dust ; sand. 

 Polallie illahie, sandy ground. The word is certainly neither Chi- 

 nook nor Chihalis. 



Poo, n. By onoma. (Hale.) The sound of a gun. Mamook poo, 

 to shoot; moxt poo, a double-barrelled gun; tohum poo, a six- 

 shooter. Nisqually, Opoo, to break ivind. 



Poo'-lie, adj. French, Pourri. Rotten. 



Pot'-latch, or Paht'-latsh, n.,-v. Nootka, Pahchilt (Jewitt) ; 

 Pachaetl, or Pachatl (Cook). A gift; to give. Cultus pot- 

 latch, a present or free gift. 



Pow'-itsh, n. Chinook, Pauitsh. A crab-apple. 



Puk'-puk, n. Probably an invented word. A blow ivith the fist ; 

 a fist-fight. Mamook pukpuk, to box; to fight with the fists ; puk- 

 puk solleks, to fight in anger, 



Puss'-puss, n. English. A cat. On Puget Sound, pronounced 

 jnsh-pish. Hyas pusspuss, a cougar. 



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Cagh-a-lie, or Sah'-ha-lie, adj. Chinook, Sakhali; Clatsop, 

 L'khshakhali. Up; above; high. Saghalie tyee (literally, the 

 chief above), God. A terra invented by the missionaries for want 

 of a native one. 



