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Contributions to English Lexicography. 29 
Calumet, (thought by Dr. Duponceau to be derived from Fr. 
chalumeau, a reed; but more probably an American Indian word, 
see the quotation from a French writer below;) an Indian pipe 
for smoking tobacco, the accepting of which, with proper cere- 
monies, was a sign or symbol of peace and friendship, and the 
rejection of it, a symbol of war. 
“Tls [les eaveizes] ont comme les autres lusage de la pipe, qu ils ” 
appellent calumet.”—Father G. Marest in Letir. Edif. rv. 21. 
Cariboo, (probably an American Indian word ;) an animal of 
the stag kind. 
Chocolate, (Mexican, chocolati, probably connected with seb 
which see ;) a paste or cake composed of the kernel of cacao, with ; 
other ingredients. 
Hackmatack, (thought by Dr. Dwight to be an American In- 
dian word,) the popular name of the red larch, Pinus microcarpa. 
Hommoce, (thought by Dr. Webster to be an American Tndian 
word ;) a hillock or small eminence of’ a conical form. 
Hommony, (Powhatan, homony, broken maize ;) maize hulled 
and broken, but coarse, prepared for food by being mixed with 
water and boiled. Herite a vulgar comparison in many parts of 
this — “ as coarse as hommony.” 
Inca, or Ynea, (Peruvian, king or lord, comp. Chaainns tage, 
father ;) an appellation given to a dynasty of Peruvian, kings 
and to the princes of the blood, before the conquest of that | 
try by the Spaniards, and to the descendants of these kings since. 
ze, (probably an American Indian word ;) Indian corn, or 
the native corn of America, Zea Mays. 
Moccason, (a word derived from the Massachusetts Indians, 
but found in most of the languages of the Algonkin-Lenape fam- 
ily ; as, Knistinaux, moscasin ; Algonkin and Chippeway, maki- 
sin me" maukisin ; Scofii, masteshun ; Souriquois, mekezen ; 
Abenaki, mkessen ; Massachusetts, mohkissonah ; Narraganset, 
MOCUSSINASS ; Mobinnn, mkissin ; Delaware, maksen ; Nanticoke, 
meckissius ; Pamptico, moggison ; Powhatan, mockasin ; Miami, 
m’kasiu ; Illinois, mahkissina ; Menomeni, maukahshen : some 
of which have a plural termination ;) an Indian shoe or covering 
for the foot. 
Mohawk or Mohock, (the native name of one of the Iroquois 
tribes of Indians ;) an Indian of the Mohawk tribe ; by extension, 
a ruffian in the streets of London. 
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