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NATICK-ENGLISH DICTIONARY 



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♦keesaqushin. (Xarr. ), it is high water, 

 R. AV., i. e. it is at its fall height, full 

 grown. Cf. h'siikidi. 

 *Keesuckquaiid (Xarr.), the Sun God, 

 a name of the sun, R. W. IKemkrjttde- 

 anit, God of Day or of the Sky]. See 

 kHmk: 

 ke'hche, kehcheu, v. i. (it is) chief, prin- 

 cipal, superior (because, ex principio; 

 cf. ko, kutche); hence, superior by 

 reason of age, old, ancient; an. pi. keh- 

 chiog, kuicliiog, the old (collectively), 

 the ancients, i. e. those who are from 

 the beginning, Ps. 119, 100; 148, 12; 

 Esth. 3, 13; kehchiog waantamwog, the 

 old are wise, ' with the ancients is wis- 

 dom', Job 12, 12. In the sing, kehche 

 aymonk, the chief place, 2 Sam. 23, 8; 

 kehcheu umtmshinneunk, the chief fath- 

 ers [i. e. fatherhood, n. collect.], Num. 

 31, 26. Cf. keht-; kehiauail 

 kehchemugqwomp, n. chief captain. 



See mugquoinp. 

 kehchesonksq \_= kehche-mnksqua], a 



queen, E.sth. 1, 9, 11. See sonkfKj. 

 kehchesuonk, vbl. n. a boil, a sore; pi. 



-oiigash, Job 2, 7. See kehkecht'su. 

 kshcliippam. See keechippam. 

 kehchisqua, kutchisqua, an ohl woman, 

 Ruth 1, 12; 1 Tim. 4, 7; jil. -quaog, 

 Zci'h. 8, 4; 1 Tim. r,, 2. 

 kehchissu, kechisu, kehchis, v. adj. 

 he is old, superior by age; as n. an 

 aged person, Gen. 44, 20; Lev. 19, 32; 

 nuk-kechisu, I am old, Job 15, 10 {nuk- 

 kechimi, Luke 1, 18); kuhchlsu-lt, 

 'when he is old', Mass. Ps., John 3, 4. 

 Like the Latin senex, senectus, kehcJim 

 denotes old age entitled to respect, 

 without associating with it the ideu of 

 decrepitude or senility. Cf. mahldn- 

 tam. " Chise is an old man, and kkh- 

 c/ii.«ca man that exceedeth in age." — E. 

 Winslow's Relation (1624). 



[Narr. kilchize, an old man; pi. -ziick; 

 kulchinnu, a middle-aged man (i. e. he 

 is growing old). Micm. kijigS, vieux; 

 kljigSiiik, les \ieux. Del. kika/, old, 

 Zeisb.] 

 kehcUthau, v. i. he forbears or le- 

 frains from doing (?): niix-xdumiumup 

 kehchithijii (inlinit.), ma/ta nuk-kehchil- 

 iohhou (causat. ), 'I was weary w^ith 

 forbearing, I could not stay', Jer. 20, 9; 



kehchithaii — continued. 



supi)os. kehchithaaii, if I forliear. Job 



16, 6. 

 kehkechai, n. a sore, 'botch', Deut. 28, 



kehkechesu, v. adj. an. he is sore, ' full 

 of sores', Luke 16, 20 (augm. of keh- 

 chem). Vbl. n. kehkechesuonk, a (run- 

 ning) sore, a boil, Ps. 38, 11; 77, 2; Job 

 2,7. 



[Narr. li'chesammam, I am in pain; 

 ncMsamam n'sHe, my foot is sore.] 

 kehketoDhkau, v. i. he goes on talking, 

 talks much. Freq. of kuttm, he speaks, 

 with 'k progressive. Vbl. n. kehketmh- 

 kdonk, keketwk-, talk, loquacity, Prov. 

 14, 23; Eccl. 10, 13; pi. -oiigash, 'bab- 

 blings', 1 Tim. 6, 20. N. agent, -kaeii, 

 a great talker; pi. -kamuog, Tit. 1, 10. 

 See kiitlm. 

 kehkomaii, kekomaii, v. t. an. he talks 

 about (him), slanders, or speaks re- 

 proachfully of: nuk-k6muk-quog, they 

 slander me, Ps. 31, 14. Vbl. n. kehko- 

 mailen, -mwdeii, a talebearer, a slan- 

 derea-, Prov. 18, 8. 



[Cree kiegamaijoo, he scolds him (?).] 



keht-, keiht-, in comp. words chief, 



principal, (relatively) greatest. As a 



prefix to nouns inan. corresponding to 



kehche- before nouns an. See httche. 



[Del. kilta, great. Abn. "maassa vel 

 kette, in antecessum," Rasles.] 

 k^tadtau, v. caus. inan. he makes 

 sharp, sharpens, whets (it) , Ps. 7, 12; 

 with inan. subj. -tauomco, it sharpens 

 (it), Prov. 27, 17; -tauun, he sharpens 

 it; pass, it is sharpened, made sharp, 

 Ezek. 21, 9; suppos. kehtattauon, if I 

 whet (my sword), Deut. 32, 41 [ketoHiig, 

 a whetstone, Wood). Cf. *cau6mp.ik. 



[Abn. ne-kittad8n, je I'aiguise; (ikit- 

 tadSn, il I'aiguise; kkladangan, pierre d 

 aiguiser.] 

 Kehtanit, Keihtannit [keht-( iii)anit, the 

 chief or greatest manit], for 'the Lord 

 God', Gen. 24, 3, 7. With the verb 

 subst. kehlaiiUoo, keihlannitto, he is (or 

 it is) the greatest manitto; and with the 

 locative suffix, kehtanito-ut, the place of 

 the great manlto, or where he is: 

 hence, probably, Katttdntoinnl, 'the 

 groat Southwest God,' (R. W.), or 

 rather his home in the Southwest. 

 [Del. getnnnitoint, Zeisb. Gr. 37.] 



