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bashkachi, a. pi., lying in rows, as rows 

 of timber; hina bashkachi puta, the rows 

 of roads; bok ushi bashkachi puta, the 

 branches running in one direction, side 

 by side, as if in rows. 



bashkachi, v. n., to lie in rows; to be in 

 row 8. 



bashkachi, n., rows. 



bashli, v. t., to saw; to cut with a draw- 

 ing motion, as with a knife, sword, 

 scythe, or sickle, and therefore also 

 meaning to mow and to reap; to clip; 

 to castrate; to emasculate; to gash; to 

 geld; to hurt; to mark; to nick; to 

 reap; to shear; to slash; see Matt. 5: 30, 

 bashlit taplit ishkanchashke; ilebashli, to 

 cut himself. 



bashli, n., a cutter; a sawyer; a mower; 

 a reaper; a marker; a shearer. 



bashli, n., an incision; a cut. 



bashlit holissochi, v. t., to engrave. 



bashlit holissochi, n. , an engraver. 



Bashokla, or Paskokla, n., Pascagoula; 

 bread people, or cutting people [almost 

 certainly "bread people." — Eds.]. 



bashpapi, n. , a knife handle — acompound 

 word from bqshpo knife, and apt, han- 

 dle, stem, or stalk. 



bashpo, n., a knife; aknife blade; ablade; 

 Josh. 5: 2,3. 



bashpo chito, n., a large knife; bashpo 

 chito inshukcha, n.,ascabbard; a sheath. 



bashpo falaia, n., a long knife; a sword, 

 Josh. 5: 13; the blade of a sword; a 

 rapier; a dirk; a bilbo; a dagger, Matt. 

 26: 51, 52; 10: 34; Turk fabashpo falaia, 

 a Turk's sword, i. e., a scimiter. 



bashpo falaia aiulhpi, n., a hilt; the hilt 

 of a sword. 



bashpo falaia atakali askufachi, n., a 

 sword belt. 



bashpo falaia halupa, n., a sword blade. 



bashpo falaia i n shukcha, bashpo falaia 

 afohka, n., a scabbard for a sword, 

 Matt. 26: 52. 



bashpo falaia i n shukcha fohM, v. t., to 

 scabbard. 



bashpo falaia patha, n., a broadsword. 



bashpo ibbak pishinli, n., a table 

 knife; a case knife. 



bashpo isht impa, n., a table knife; a 

 case knife, lit. a knife to eat with. 



bashpo isht itibi, n., a dirk; a rapier; a 

 stiletto, lit., a knife to fight with. 



bashpo itala n kla halupa, n., a two- 

 edged knife; a knife sharpened on both 

 sides. 



bashpo poloma, n., a clasp knife; a 

 pocketknife. 



bashpo wishakchi, n., the point of a 

 knife. 



bashpuli, v. t., to sweep; to remove; to 

 obviate, as to prepare a path. 



bashpuli, n., a sweeper. 



bashpushi, n., a small knife; a pen- 

 knife; from bashpo, knife, ushi, son. 



bashshi, see bashi. 



basht, cut and; this is a contraction from 

 bashlit, to cut and. 



basht pisa, v. t., to cut and see. 



basht tapli, v. t, to cut off. 



basht tapli, n. , excision; basht tapa, pass., 

 cut off. 



basht tapli, v. t., to amputate; to cutoff; 

 to mutilate. 



basht tushafli, v. t, , to cut off; to slice off. 



bashto, n., the overcup oak tree. 



bati, n., the high sumac. 



beka, a., alone; mere; stark; bieka, the 

 prolonged form of beka. 



beka, v. n., to be alone; bieka in ano sa- 

 bieka hosh hikiaiachi n hoke, John 16: 32, 

 in an old translation; ishbieka, Deut. 

 28: 13. 



beka, bieka, adv., always; commonly; 

 usually; only; merely; simply; totally; 

 hitherto, Acts 23: 1; Luke 20: 20; yoh- 

 mi beka, he does so always; yammak 

 beka, that one only; beka is used in 

 speaking of the customary actions of 

 one who is dead, while cliatuk is used in 

 speaking of such actions of one who is 

 yet alive; cliatuk connects a past act 

 with present time, beka does not. 



beh, v. t., to breast, as a suckling calf 

 or lamb. 



biakak, biya n kak, n., a hawk; a chicken 

 hawk. 



bicha, pass., drawn; taken from a cask. 



bicha, v. a. L, to spout, as water. 



bichataha, pp., racked; drawn off. 



bicheli, v. t., to draw liquor; to take 

 from a cask; to cause a liquid to run 

 out; to draw; Inta! ho bicheli cha, 

 "Draw out now!" John 2: 8. 



