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A DICTIONARY OF THE CHOCTAW LANGUAGE 



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nukwimekachi, n., a palpitation; an 

 agitation of the heart, after violent run- 

 ning. 



nuna, v. a. i., to cook; to bake; to ripen; 

 to mellow. 



nuna, a., mature; ripe; mellow. 



nuna, pp., cooked in boiling water; 

 baked; roasted; done; boiled; matured; 

 iknuno, a., not cooked; unripe; imma- 

 ture; crude; heavy; not well baked. 



nuna, n., maturity; ripeness. 



nuna atapa, a., overdone. 



nunachechi, v. t., to cause to ripen, or 

 bake, etc. 



nunachi, v. t., to cook; to ripen; to bake; 

 to enripen; to mellow. 



nusachaya, from nnsi and achaya, a., 

 sleepy; wanting to sleep. 



nusapi, nusasapi (pi.), n., an oak; a 

 black-oak tree; a red oak. 



nusechi, v. t., to cause sleep; to throw 

 into a sleep; to bring on sleep. 



nusechi, n., a soporific. 



nuseka, n., a dreamer; a fortune teller. 



nusi, v. a. i., to sleep; to doze; to repose; 

 to kennel; to drowse; to rest; to roost; 

 to slumber; sanusi, nuseli, I sleep; 

 anusi, to sleep at or there, Josh. 2: 1; 

 nusitukosh oTccha, to awake from sleep ; 

 nusi hosh itonlatok, he was asleep, Matt. 

 8: 24. 



nusi, n., an acorn; a black-oak acorn; 

 mast; nusi hata, nusi lakna, nusi noli; 

 nusushi, nusinoti, nusi shauiya, water 

 oak resembling chilhpatha. 



nusi, n., a sleeper; a slumberer. 



nusi, n., sleep; rest; repose; refresh- 

 ment; a slumber; iknuso, n., a watch; 

 forbearance of sleep. 



nusi, n. , a sleep; a measure of time, being 

 one day or 24 hours. 



nusi, a., dormant; iknuso, restless; with- 

 out sleep. 



nusi, adv., asleep. 



nusi banna, a., somnolent; sleepy. 



nusi fehna, n., lethargy. 



nusi iskitini, n., a nap; iskitini nusi, v. 

 a. i., to nap. 



nusilhha, n., stupor; drowsiness; torpor. 



nusilhha, a., sleepy; drowsy; dull; le- 

 thargic; somnolent; torpid. 



nusilhha, v. n. , to be sleepy or drowsy. 



nusilhha, v. a. i., to doze; to drowse. 



nusilhhachi, v. t., to drowse; to make 

 one sleepy. 



nusilhhachi, n. , a soporific; an anodyne. 



nusit illi, a., fast asleep; v. n., to be fast 

 asleep. 



nusolba, a., sleepy; adv., sleepily. 



nushkobo, noshkobo, nishkobo, n., a 

 head; the head; the pate; a poll; the 

 top; the vertex; yamma noshkobo, his 

 head, Matt. 14: 11; Josh. 2: 19; Matt. 

 6: 17; 10: 30; 14: 8, 10; noshkobo //'/«, 

 his head; Matt. 8: 20; the pommel (of 

 a saddle), Josh. 11: 10. 



nushkobo atobbi, n., a capitation; a poll 

 tax; a tax; a tribute, Josh. 16: 10. 



nushkobo atobbi onuchi, v. t, to tax; 

 to lay a poll tax. 



nushkobo atobbichi, v. t., to put to 

 tribute, Josh. 17: 13. 



nushkobo beka, a., bareheaded. 



nushkobo beka, v. n., to be bare- 

 headed. 



nushkobo chumpa, n., tribute; a poll 

 tax; a per capita, Matt. 17: 25. 



nushkobo fochonli, nushkobo fach- 

 onli, n., dandruff. 



nushkobo foka, n., a headstall. 



nushkobo foni, n., the skull; the cra- 

 nium. 



nushkobo foni aiitachakalli, n., a su- 

 ture, the seam or joint which unites 

 the bones of the skull. 



nushkobo hakshup, n., the pate. 



nushkobo hotupa, n., the headache. 



nushkobo hotupa ahamrni, n., cam- 

 phor. 



nushkobo ikbi, v. t., to make a head; 

 to head. 



nushkobo ikbi, n., a header. 



nushkobo isht chumpa, n., tribute, 

 Mark 12: 14. 



nushkobo isht shema, n., a headdress; 

 an ornament for the head. 



nushkobo isht talakchi, n., a head 

 band. 



nushkobo iyafu n fo, n., the crown of the 

 head; the place where the hair grows 

 in a circle on the top of the head. 



nuskobo lachowa, n., scald head. 



nushkobo tabokaka, n., the pan; the 

 top of the head; the pate. 



nushkobo tabli, v. t., to behead; to de- 

 capitate; to head. 



nushkobo tabli, n., one who beheads. 



nushkobo tapa, pp., beheaded; decapi- 

 tated; decollated. 



nushkobo tapa, n., a head severed from 

 the bodv. 



