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chu n sa, n., neck of a junk bottle. 

 chu n sa, v. a. i., to be pointed or tapering; 



smaller at one end than at the other, 

 chusoha, chisoha (q. v.), v. a. i., to 



rattle, 

 chusoha, chisoha, n., a rattling, 

 chusohachi, chisohachi (q. v.), to rattle; 



to make it rattle; to purl, 

 chusokachi, v. a. i., to chink, 

 chusolichi, v. t., to chink, 

 chusopa, v. a. i. , to rattle, as chains, 

 chusopa, n., a rattling. 

 chusopa, a., rattling; tali chusopa, rattling 



iron ; a trace chain, 

 chusopachi, v. t. , to cause it to rattle, 

 chushak, n., the back side of the neck 



next to the shoulders. 

 chushak hishi, n. , the mane, 

 chushak hishi a n sha, a., maned; having 



a mane, 

 chushak hishi kallo, n., bristles. 

 chu n shkiksho, a., peevish, 

 chushukli, iachushukli, v. a. L, to be 



lame, 

 chushukli, a., lame. 



e prefixed per. pro. 1st per. pi. of active 

 verbs beginning with consonants, as 

 charili, to chop; echanli, we chop; eha- 

 chimolachi, ehqchi n yaiya, Matt. 11: 17. 



ebi, we kill; 1st per. pi. irreg., from abi. 



echi, v. t., used only in the imp., hand; 

 give; put this way into the hand; see 

 auechi; isht echi, v. a. i. , to begin, Luke 

 24: 27. 



eha, ehah, int., oh dear! heigh! heigh ho! 



ehehe, int., la; alas. 



eho, prefixed, per. pro. 1st per. inclu- 

 sive, pi. of active verbs, beginning with 

 consonants, as ehochanli, we all chop; 

 ehofokachin cho? shall we put on? Matt. 

 6:31. 



eka; in yahii paknak eka; see aika. 



ela, we come (from qla to arrive), 1st 

 per. pi. irreg. 



elefant, n., elephant; elefant noti, n., 

 ivory, 1 Kings 10: 18. 



elli, a., grievous; from illi. 



ema, we give; 1st per. pi. irreg., from 

 ima, to give (q. v. ). 



emo, we pick; we trim; 1st per. pi. irreg., 

 from amo, to piek, to trim. 



enchil, n., angel; the English word writ- 

 ten in Choctaw; yqmmakoka imenchil, 



their angels, Matt. 18: 10; enchil okla, 



angels, Luke 2: 15. 

 epa, we eat, 1st per. pi. irreg., from qpa, 



to eat. 

 Eplil, Epilil, n., April, 

 eshi, v. t. , to take, from ishi (q. v. ) ; eshi- 



tok, 1 Sam. 2: 21. This is nothing more 



than an intensive of ishi, requiring more 



time for the action: ishi, to take; eshi, 



to hold, 

 eshi, n., parturition, 

 eshichi, caus., to cause to take; qla eshi, 



to travail, "to have a child," 1 Sam. 



4:19. 

 et, adv. this way, i. e., toward or in the 



direction of the speaker, but not up to 



him; auet. (q. v.) means quite to the 



speaker. 



fabaspoa, a. pi., long and slender. 



fabaspoa, v. n., to be long and slender. 



fabasfoa, a. pi., long and slender; slim. 



f abassa, f obassa, a. sing. , long and slen- 

 der; slim. 



f abassa, v. n., to be long and slender; 

 to be slini. 



fabassachi, v. t., to make it long and 

 slender. 



f abassat itonla, v. a. i. , to lie prostrate. 



fabassoa, a. pi., long and slender; slim. 



fabassoa, v. n., to be long and slender. 



fachachi, v. t. pi., to throw with a stick, 

 which is done by holding a stick and 

 pressing the lower end of it against an 

 object on the ground and then making 

 the stick spring suddenly, whereby the 

 object is thrown; fachali, v. t. sing.; 

 facholi, pi. 



fachama, pp. sing., thrown by a stick, as 

 described under fachachi. 



fachamoa, pp. pi., thrown by a stick, 

 etc. 



fachamoli,v. t. pi., to throw by spring- 

 ing a stick, as above. 



fachanli, fichanli (q. v.), fachanli, v. a. 

 i., to peel up, as bark on a tree, or to 

 scale; to open; to crack open; to burst 

 open, as a bur or pod; to scale, Deut. 

 28: 27. 



fachanli, n., peeling up; the act of peel- 

 ing; a crack; lachowa fachanli, Deut. 

 28: 27. 



fachanlichi, v. t., to cause to peel; to 

 scale. 



