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NATICK-ENGLISH DICTIONARY 



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ponquag, n. a fording place, Gen. 32, 22; 

 poiiiiqui, shallow, C. See tmskeonk. 



[Ahn. pankSk-Kt, il y a peu d'eau dans 

 la riviere; pakdiSi, peu; ne-hi'kagan- 

 sSffhe, je passe la riviere au guet, 

 Rasles. Mod. Abn. po'^gua, shallow; 

 po"^guaso, very shallow, Osunk. 46, 5.'5. 

 Chip, bdgw'i, Bar.] 



ponteam (? ) , v. t. with prefix : ponhponieain 

 li(t.i.mnni'ttonk, he digs through the wall, 

 Ezek. 12, 7; nag pmmup-ponleaog, they 

 dig (quite) through (the wall), v. 12. 



ponum, ponaiu (pamuin, C. ), v. t. he 

 jilaoe^, i)uts(it) by hand (Lat. pon-it), 

 PjX. 4, 6; 40, 22, 24: nup-ponam, I put 

 (it), 1 Sam. 28, 31. Imperat. po»,s/), 

 put thou. Gen. 24, 2; 47, 49; poniU'h, 

 let him put, Rom. 14, 13. Suppos. pon uk, 

 he who puts, (and part. ) putting. V. t. 

 an. ponnu, he puts or places (him): 

 itp-pon-uh, he put him. Gen. 2, 5; Is. 

 14, 1; poneh, put thou me, 1 Sam. 2, 36. 

 V. t. inan. and an. ponamauau, he puts 

 (it) on (him): up-ponamau-un, he puts 

 it on (him), Gen. 39, 4; up-ponuni-iin- 

 mii, he puts (it) on (it). Gen. 29, 3. 



I'Ssirr. ponmmtuta, (let us) lay it on; 

 poneu-lmxh, lay down your burthens; 

 (lukuck pi'mamuii, to lay in the earth, 

 R. W. Abn. ne-pSnemen, je le mets; 

 iie-p8nmaSan, je mets dans lui. ] 



*pooke, poke, ' a small kind [of tobacco] , 

 with short round leaves', used by the 

 Indians in New England, Josselyn, 

 N. E. Rarities, 54. Wood's vocabulary 

 gives 'pooke, coltsfoot.' Prof. Tucker- 

 man, in a note to Josselyn, loc. cit., 

 makes thisinferior kind of tobacco, ' ' not 

 colt's foot, but Nicotiana rustiea, L., the 

 Yellow Henbane of Gerard's Herbal, p. 



. 356." But he is unquestionably right 

 in his inference that "the name poke 

 or pooke was perhaps always indefi- 

 nite." It signifies merely 'that which 

 is smoked', or 'which smokes'. See 

 pmkeu, and cf. ptikit. 



[Corvado (Brasil?) bob', tobaccij; 

 Vuri poke; see Martins. ] 



popdmompakecheg', vbl. n. pi. 'creeping 

 tilings'. Acts 10, 12. See painompagln. 



popomshaonk, vbl. n. from popomshau, 

 freq. of //oiniishmt, a going to and fro. 

 Is. 33, 4. 



popdn, V. i. it is winter; n. winter, Cant. 

 2, 11; Ps. 74, 17 (pret. puppoau-vp, it was 

 winter, Mass. Ps. ). Adj. and adv. po- 

 ponae, of \yinter, in the winter. Cf. 

 tohkoi. 



[Narr. papi'iiie; papoitn-h'csinisli, win- 

 ter month; pupapocnp (misprint for pa- 

 pocup), last winter, R. W. 69, 70. Quir. 

 pahduks, in winter. Pier. 28. Abn. 

 pebSn, I'hiver; pebSne, le passe; pebSghe, 

 le prochain. Cree pepoon, it is winter; 

 ]}epoon-oop' un, it was winter; kuttd 

 pejtoon, it will be winter; suppos. pe- 

 pook, when it is winter; pepook-oopun, 

 when it was winter; pepooke, when it 

 shall be winter, Howsc 191, 192. Chip. 

 peebon, last winter; peebonoong, next 

 winter; peebong, Si-h. Old Alg. pi- 

 po'in.] 



*poponauinsuog' (Narr. ), winter fish. 

 See *paponaumJ<u. 



*popoquatese (Peq. ), a quail, Stiles. 

 See palipahkuJias; *paupork; pojlipmhqut- 

 iog. 



popotowegash, n. pi. bellows, Jer. 6, 29 

 (i. e. Ijlow instrument). From ^j(B(u». 

 [Pel. pu la iroa gan, Zeisb.] 



*popowuttaliig' (Xarr. ), a drum, R. W. 



*poppek, n. a tlea, C. See papekq. 



pdquag, a hole or hollow. See piikqui. 



*poquauliock (Xarr. ), the round clam 

 (Venus mercenaria), the 'quahaug' of 

 the Eastern markets; ' ' a little thick shell 

 fish which the Indians wade deep and 

 dive for. . . . They break out of the shell 

 about half an inch of a black part of it, 

 of which they make their xuckaAhock or 

 blackmoney." — R. W. 104. From poh- 

 keni, in the sense of closed. Cf. kup- 

 jxjgki, thick, and )iogki, shell, distin- 

 guishing it from the Mya arenaria 

 {xirkiitsuog) or gaping clam. 



[Peq. p' quaughhaug, ponh-qnanhhaug. 

 Stiles. Abn. pekSaliak, 'huitres' (cf. 

 pekSaliank, 'ils sont douses', i. e. affer- 

 mis or serres?). Del. jioc que it, clam, 

 mussel, Zeisb.] 



posampu. See prnminpii, he liioks into 

 lit I. 



posekinau, -num, v. t. an. and inan. 

 he buries i^hiiu), inters (him), (Ten. 23, 

 19; nup-posekin-non, I bury. Gen. 23, 13; 

 imperat. ponekin ke-nup-a)m, bury thy 

 deail, (ien. 23, 11, 15; suppos. posekinit, 



