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hishi, n., hair, except that of the head, 

 which is paVshi; fur; feathers; wool; 

 leaves; a blade; a coat (hishi boafa, to 

 shed his coat); a leaf; a spire; a fleece. 



hishi aialhto, n., a woolsack. 



hishi alikti, n., a pin feather. 



hishi atoba, a., woolen. 



hishi chito, a., hairy; having much hair; 

 shaggy; leafy. 



hishi chito, v. n., to be hairy. 



hishi chito, n., a shag; a shag lock. 



hishi chito a n sha, a., shagged. 



hishi homi, tishi homi (q. v.), n., 

 pepper. 



hishi homi ani, n., a pepper corn. 



hishi homi humma, n., red pepper; cay- 

 enne pepper; capsicum; see tishi hum- 

 ma. 



hishi iksho, a., naked; destitute of hair, 

 except on the head; bare. 



hishi laua, a., leafy. 



hishi lapishta, n., short, fine hair; fuzz. 



hishi toba, a. , fledged ; feathered. 



hishi toba, pp., leafed; having leaves; 

 leaved. 



hishi toba, v. a. i., to fledge; to grow, as 

 feathers; to become feathers; to leaf. 



hishi tobattaha, pp., feathered entirely; 

 leafed out. 



hishi wanuksho, n., short fine hair; fuzz. 



hishi lukchi, see pishilukchi. 



hishunluk, see hoshurduk. 



hitoka, hotoka, n., a ball ground. 



hituchina, a., third. 



hituchina, v. n., to be the third. 



hituchinaha, adv., thrice; three times, 

 Acts 10: 16. 



hituchinanchi, v. t., to do it three 

 times, or the third time. 



hituk, hittuk, n., powder; gunpowder; 

 Choctaw pearlash, or potash. 



hituk aialhpisa, n., that in which 

 powder is measured, especially a single 

 charge, and called a charger. 



hituk aialhto, n., a powderhorn or flask; 

 a keg, or canister of powder. 



hituk aiikbi, n., a powdermill. 



hituk aionchiya, n., a pan; a priming 

 pan. 



hituk atoba, n., a powdermill. 



hituk bofota, n., dust; flying dust. 



hituk chubi, hituk chubbi, n., ashes; 

 dry dust; dust; wood ashes, Matt. 11: 

 21. 



hituk chubi ahoiya, n., a lye leach; an 

 ash leach; hoiya is the active verb. 



hituk chubi aholuya, n., an ash leach; 

 a leach; holuya is the passive of hoiya. 



hituk chubi aialhto, n., an ash box, 

 bin, or tub. 



hituk chubi holuya, n., lye. 



hituk chubi inchuka, n., an ash house. 



hituk chubi isht peli falaia, n., a peel; 

 a large fire shovel. 



hituk chubi isht piha, n. , an ash shovel ; 

 a fire shovel. 



hituk haksun onchiya, n., a priming; 

 the powder lying on the priming pan. 



hituk hoiya, n., lye. 



hituk isht alhpisa, n., a powder charger; 

 the measure of a load. 



hituk lakna, n., brimstone; sulphur. 



hituk lakna bota, n., the flour of sul- 

 phur or of brimstone. 



hituk laya bacha n ya, n., a train of 

 powder. 



hituk shibota, n., flying dust; smoke of 

 powder. 



hituk tohbi, n., flying dust; dust, Matt. 

 10: 14; pearlash; potash, such as is man- 

 ufactured by Americans. 



hituk yanha, n., embers; hot ashes. 



hitukla, hotukla, a., second. 



hitukla, v. n., to be second. 



hituklaha, adv., twice; second time. 



hituklanchi, v. t., to do it twice, or a sec- 

 ond time, or again. 



hiyoli, see hioli. 



ho, 2d per. pi. imp. mood, when the word 

 begins with a consonant, and oh when 

 with a vowel; hominli, come ye; ohia, 

 go ye. 



ho, oh, the "marriage pronoun," 

 a syllable thrown into the verb, or 

 placed at the beginning of a verb which 

 indicates certain relations by marriage, 

 such as son-in-law, daughter-in-law, or 

 father-in-law and mother-in-law; used 

 only by those who sustain this rela- 

 tion, and called "shame talk." 



ho, an exclamation. 



ho?, interrogative. See John 6: 29. 



ho, ho n , an art. used after a noun, usually 

 rendered as a or an, the indefinite ar- 

 ticle; as nana ho pisali, I see a thing, or 

 something. As the art. a n is written 

 a n , han, and ya n , so this has three 

 ways, on, hon, y n, and chiefly for the 



