GLOSSARY 



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41. DEFINITION OF TECHNICAL TERMS AND RUSSIAN NOMENCLATURE, USED BY THE 



AUTHOR IN THE PRECEDING MONOGRAPH. 



AHLUCKEYAK (Aleutian). A rough back-bone. 



ALEUT (Russian). Name given to all native inhabitants of the Aleutian islands. 



ARREE (Russian). Lomria arra. The guillemot, or murre; so. named from the bird's harsh cry of "arra-arra". 



BAILLIE BRUSHKIE (Russian). Phaleris psittacula. Parroquet Auk; "white bosom". 



BANYAH (Russian). A steamy bath-house. 



BARBIE (Russian). An elderly married woman. 



BARRABKIE (Russiau). A but. 



BAREABAEA (Russian). A large hut, or "kozarmie". 



BOOROON (Russian). Surf. 



BIDAREAH (Russian). A large skin-covered boat, propelled with oars, or used with sails before the wind; carries 



from three to ten tons. 



BIDARKA (Russian). A small skin-covered canoe. 



BIDAESHIK (Russian). Ofte who eontrols a baidar and its crew; a'foreraan. 

 BOBROVIA (Russian). Otter island. 

 BOGA SLOV (Russian). Godfc word. \ 



BOORGA (Russian). Gale that blows fiercely and is laden with snow; from "booryah", a storm or tempest. 

 BOLSHOI (Ruse^n). Big. 

 BTJIK (&jjsian). A working ox.-or bull. 



BuLiu|Hj&lish).-aThe adult male fur- seal; also the adult 'male walrus and sea-lion. 

 CAjfOOSKiE (Russian). Simorhynchm cristatellus. Crested auk. 

 CHIKIE (Russian). Larus glaucus. Burgomaster gull. 



CHOBNIE GoosE'(Russian). Branta canadensis var. leucopareia. White-collared goose. 

 CHOOCHKIE (Russian). Simorhyiichus pusillus. Least, or knob-billed auk. 

 CHOOCHIL (Russian). To Stuff. 



COOKHNET (Russian). The Aleutian cooking hut outside of the barrabkie. 

 Cow (English). The adult female of the fur-seal, the sea-lion, and the walrus. 

 DALNOI MEES (Russian). Distant cape. 

 DEETIAH (Russian).-* Children. 

 DOMASHNIE (Russian). Houses. 

 EINAHXCHTO (Aleutian). The mammae. 



EMANNLSIIK (Russian). Namesday; or, literally, used as birthday. 

 EPATHA (Russian). Fratercula eomiculata. Horned puflSn. 

 FLENSING (English). Act of removing skins from seal carcasses. 

 FLIPPEE (English). The fore-hand and hind-foot of fur-seal, sea-lion, and walras. 

 GORBOTCH (Russian). Humpback. 

 GORODE (Russian). A town; a village. * 



GOVEROOSKIE (Russian). Larus brevirostris, and L. tridactylm. Gulls. 

 HAULING (English). Action of seals in coming up from the sea over the land. 

 HEAT, " HEATING" (English). That sudden decay of the seal's body after death. 

 HOLLUSCHAK, pi. HOLLUSCHICKIE (Russian). Bachelor; bachelors. 



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