ENGLISH-NATIOK DICTIONARY 



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frost — cuntinueil. 



quttintwh nuhtauogash, I freeze uiy ears 

 (my ears are frozen), C. ). 



froth. See foam. 



firuit, meechummuonk {-muoonk, C), pi. 

 -ongash [vbl. n. act. from ineerhununa), it 

 is eaten, used as food, the pass. inan. 

 form of meech, he eats], fruit, perhaps 

 all vegetable food. n.sg, (/.s7/./, ]>\.ii.ii/ii(ish, 

 ashqi«isli,greei'i fruit or vci^ctalik'S. pri- 

 marily anything green ur immature of 



■ vegetable growth, as wuskeasg, pi. jcus- 

 keasquo-ih, ' tender grass ' , 2 Sam. 23, 4; 

 Dan. 4, 15; from wuske, new, young, and 

 asq; with the indef. particle, m'askeht 

 (or by reduplication, oskotik, C. ), grass, 

 that which is green. From the same 

 root is aske, raw {askiin, it is raw, R. W. ; 

 askin, C. ); vuske, new, young; asq, 

 ashq, or osquam, not yet, a,nd ashkoshqni 

 {askosque, C. ), green in color. The 

 word asq was used especially to refer 

 to the fruit of the Cucurbitacese, mel- 

 ons, gourds, cucumbers, and what are 

 now known by their Indian name, 

 though the plural has been transformed 

 to the singular, 'squash-es. askmtasq, 

 pi. askattasquash, used by Eliot for 'cu- 

 cumbers', !N'um. 11, 5, was "askuta- 

 squasli, their vine apple, W'hich the 

 English from them call squashes" 

 (R. W.), and which Wood mentioned 

 (X. E. Prospect), as "ixqiioterqxKidies, 

 their best bread " ; from askrok, a snake, 

 and asq: snake-like or 'crook-neck' 

 squash, ^iiottcoasg, a gourd [from qunni, 

 long]; hence qiidnoowask, a bottle, C. 

 7nonaska)tasg, a melon (but by Cotton 

 mamosketumuk, 'cucumbers'. So, qui- 

 nosketiXmuk, 'muskmelon', and ohhos- 

 ketiiinuk, 'watermelon', C, 'or a raw 

 thing'; from tiskehturrmn, he eats it 

 raw), iitlnne, iniii, pi. mlrineash, ber- 

 ries, nuts, small fruit, grain, etc., that 

 which is produced by and is peculiar to 

 each tree or plant Im'uiini, the kind 

 of, the species of]. In the singular in 

 compound words it denotes kind or 

 species, the growing tree or plant; in 

 the i)lural, the fruit, as iri-<itrkeiiiiii, corn 



fruit — continued, 

 in the field, standing corn; pi. -minne- 

 ash, corn, grain; irenoniinneash, grapes 

 {ireeiioiii, a, grape; iveenomi<i, a vine [from 

 ■luaeenu, it goes round] ) ; vSmpimineash, 

 chestnuts, R. AV. [ivompi-minnecu^h, 

 white-nuts] ; an&ucheinineash, acorns, 

 R. W. (ainiahchim, a nut, pi. -minash, 

 C. ; Del. ■wiiiuichquim, an acorn, which 

 Heckewelder ( corres|iondence with Du- 

 ponceau, p. 407) derives hum. wunipach 

 {rninnepog, EL), a leaf, nach {nutch), a 

 hand, and quim, a 'nut growing on a 

 tree': 'the nut of the tree the leaves 

 of which resemble a hand'. Here he 

 evidently mistakes the radical force 

 of min, as the examples which he 

 gives sufficiently show. Seeoak.); wus- 

 swaquatomineug, walnuts, R. W. (wxis- 

 smhqtiattdmln-ash, C. ; imssoquat, a 

 walnut tree, R. W. ; Del. in'sim, hick- 

 ory nut [mcrjsi-min, smof)th nut]; ptuc- 

 qiiiin, walnut [pehikqui-imii, rovmd nut], 

 Hkw. ) ; qussuckominednug, the cherry 

 tree, 'RAV.lqussukquan-min, stone 

 iruitl; u-uUnhimneaiih, R. W., vxitlali- 

 m (■ » « f [ (( .« /t ] , C. , strawberries. See 

 produce. 



full, inimicae. See fill. 



fully, pakodche, completely, thoroughly; 

 tvaine, wdiolly, entirely; polishane (pd- 

 shamic, C. ), fully, completely, thor- 

 oughly. See comjiletely; all. 



future. "The time to come is expressed 

 b}' a word signifying futurity, added to 

 the indicative mood, as mos, pish, shall 

 or will". El. Gr. 20. pish {pitch, R. W. ) 

 with the present (or aorist) indicative 



forms the simple future, as pish 



he will . . .; pish . . ., I will . . . (pitch 

 n'keetamf shall I recover my health? 

 R. W. ) ; inos, though sometimes used 

 by Eliot as the equivalent of j)ish, de- 

 notes the future potential or conditional 

 'must' or 'shall': ?)e mos rinih, 'it must 

 needs be' so; mos nnnimp, I must die 

 (moce, R. W.). j*oo»ic6o)(A', the future 

 or to come, C, vbl. n. intrans. from 

 peiiomco, it is coming, ompetak, in the 

 future, in time to come (afterward). 



