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A DICTIONARY OF THE CHOCTAW LANGUAGE 



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bita, pass., turbaned; having on a frontal 



or head band, 

 bitanli, n., a crack; a small crack; a chap; 



a crevice; a flaw; yakni bitanli, a crack 



in the ground, and cracked ground ; a 



large crack, 

 bitanli, v. a. i., to crack open slightly; to 



chap, 

 bitanli, pass., cracked open; yakni bi- 

 tanli. 

 bitanlichi, v. t., to crack open; to chap; 



to flaw. 

 bitata n ya, v. a. i. pi., to crack open. 

 biteli, v. t., to put a frontlet or turban 



called a bita on one's self; to put on a 



silver headband, 

 bitelichi, v. t., to put a turban or head 



band on another person; to crown, Ps. 



8:5. 

 bitema, a., fetid; having a disagreeable 



smell, like that of old bones; foni at 



bitema, the bones are fetid, 

 bitema, v. a. i., to smell bad; to be fetid; 



to stink. 

 bitema, n., fetid; a stench like that of 



old bones. 

 bitemachi, v. t., to cause a fetid smell. 

 bitepa, v. t. sing., to put the hands on; 



to press on with the hands; ibbal; at 



. . . umbitepa, Luke 4: 40; to rest upon, 



while leaning on the hands; ombitepa, 



umbitepa, or o n bitepa are usual expres- 

 sions for "laying on." 

 bitka, v. t. pi., to bear on with the hands, 

 bitonoa, botonoa, pass., bent, 

 bitonoa, botonoa, v. a. i., to bend, 

 bitonoli, botonoli, v. t., to bend. 

 biu n ko, n., a strawberry; biu n ko at nuna, 



the strawberries are ripe. 

 biu n ko api, n., a strawberry vine, 

 biuntalali, see haiyantalali. 

 biya n kak, bia n kak, n., a hawk; a large 



chicken hawk. 

 boa, pass., beaten; beat; hammered; 



pounded; drubbed; see boli. 

 boafa, see boyafa. 

 boat pilefa, pass., riveted; beaten and 



turned down on; botpiliffi, v. t., to rivet. 

 boaffi, see boyqffi. 

 bochokachi, pass, pi., squeezed in the 



hand, 

 bocholi, v. t. pi., to squeeze in the hand, 

 bochopa, bichupa, pass, sing., squeezed 



in the hand. 



bochubli, bichubli,v. t., sing., to squeeze 

 in the hand; to hold fast as a trap holds 

 game. 



bochunoa, pass., squeezed up. 



bochunoli, v. t. pi., to squeeze them up. 



bochupha, v. a. i., to contract; draw up 

 and sink in like the breast of a child 

 with sickness in the breast. 



bochusa, v. a. i., to warp; to curl up; 

 to twist; itishima at bochusa, the shin- 

 gle warps. 



bochusa, pass., warped; bent; twisted. 



bochusachi, v. t., to warp; to twist; to 

 curl; to cause it to warp. 



bona; oka itiboha, water mixed and ren- 

 dered dirty or roily; kafi itiboha, roily 

 or muddy coffee. 



bohokachi, v. t., to churn. 



bohpoa, pass, of bohpuli, thrown; slung. 



bohpuli, v. t. pi., boli, sing., to send; to 

 throw; to sling; isht bohpulitfoki, v. t., 

 to inject; isht bohpulli, to take and 

 throw; isht bohpulit oka itokachi (from 

 it and okqclti), to douse. 



bohpuli, n., a sender; a thrower. 



bok,n.,abrook; acreek; a natural stream 

 of water less than a river; a river, as 

 Bok ham ma, Red river; Mississippi Bok, 

 Mississippi river. 



bok aiitisetili, n., a junction of creeks; 

 a place where the creeks meet and run 

 together. 



bok aiyanalli, n., the channel of the 

 creek; the place where the creek flows. 



bok anu n ka, n., a swamp on the sides of 

 acreek; (lit.) within the bok. 



bok anu n ka, a., swampy. 



bok asetili, n., the mouth of a creek. 



bok chulaifi., n. sing., a single division 

 of the creek; a branch of a creek; the 

 w< >rd branch as used in the South means 

 a small brook, a rivulet. 



bok chuli, n. pi., the branches of water 

 courses belonging to one creek; the 

 head branches which mingle and form 

 the creek. 



bok falaia, n., long creek; the name also 

 of a particular creek, Long creek; Bok 

 falaia ako n mintili, I came from Long 

 creek. 



bok falakto, n., the fork of a creek. 



bokintannap, n., the side of the creek; 

 the other side of the creek; the oppo- 

 site side of the creek. 



