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marry — continued. 



takin^awife; n. agent. miaiiniUeiu'ii-in, 

 a bride (one marrying); recipr. irc- 

 iauadleog, they marry one another 

 {airclairdiiiock, 'tliey make a match,' 

 R. W.). See husband; wife. 



marsh. See meadow. 



marten (iMustela aniericana), umppen- 

 iiiKjh, openoch, Gen. Reg. xi, 219 (marte, 

 jii'pinial-esuS; peaude marte, qKinakessS, 

 Rasles; openocJi and unppenrmk, Judd, 

 Hist, of Hadley, 355; Del. woap elms, 

 Zeisb. Voc. 13)". 



master, souihn, master (governor, C. ), 

 poi-a. nus-soi)tim-om [-cow], my jnaster; 

 nussonthnom ketasscot, 'my lord the 

 king', 2 Sam. 13, 33; pi. sontlnioog, son- 

 timosog (vbl. n. HDiitimawiik, sovereignty, 

 C). 



mastery, sohkaiisiionk, xolikiiIi'<iiiiiik, mas- 

 tery, victory, vbl. n. from xnliknxii, .inji- 

 /.vii/.sK, he conquers. 



mat, viiuuioiauhdiKi, 'embroidered mats 

 which the women make' to line their 

 houses, hangings, R. W. ahockqtiosin- 

 ash, the mats with which the wigwams 

 are covered, ibid. ; cf. i)e ibuhqiionik, the 

 covering of it. Cant. 3, 10; vppdhqvos, 

 ohhohqiioi^, a tent, covering, etc. mattan- 

 naiike, pi. niatliiiiDoukanash, 'a fine sort 

 of mats to sleep on', R. W. inatasqims, 

 a mat, C. 



matter, uiiiiiiiciiuiik, res. See Vmsiness. 



may, »■<//(, 'may or can', joine<l to a 

 verb, 'expresses the notion of a 150S- 

 aWnWty to be', El. Gr. 20. Eliot classes 

 it as a 'conjunction of possibility'. El. 

 Gr. 22: imh kenushehf 'intendest thou 

 to kill me?' Ex. 2, 14; uttoh woh yrtish 

 en. n' II ill.' how can these things lie? 



maybe, vicmiiat, 'it may be that'. Gen. 

 16,2 (oHijyii'a/, perhaps, it may be; am- 

 miate matteag, may be not, C. ; see taitil, 

 R. W. 63). pagiioclche, pagii-odche, it may 

 be, perhaps [pogqiidlcke, perhaps, C. ). 

 toll, 'it may be' (an 'adverb of doubt- 

 ing'). El. Gr. 22 ( /"// with the significa- 

 tion of would thati (iii'mam) is 'an- 

 nexed to every person and variation in 

 the optative mood'. El. Gr. 34, 65). 

 See how. 



meadow, wompaskeht; wompaiquehtic, in 

 a meadow, micuckaskeete, a meadow, 

 K. AV. l = niiikkushqiit, a plain, from 



m.eadow — continued. 



iiiogki-askeht, or mogki-os)ik-iil, great 

 green place, or where there is much 

 grass], tixttagoskltuash,' a fresh mead- 

 ow' R. W. l=taUAgk-o$keht, pi. oskeh- 

 iitash, shaking grass (boggy, marshy)]. 

 vjososhqtiit, marsh: na tit vososhquit, 

 'the marshes thereof, Ezek. 47, 11 

 ( irossdskeht, a meadow, C. ) . 



meal, 2)ishqui]iick, unparched meal, R.AV. 

 [=pasquag, that which is fine or in 

 powder]. See fine, ncalikik {nokehiok, 

 'parch'd meal . . . which they eat 

 with a little water, hot or cold', R. 

 W. ; rtorake, 'which is nothing but In- 

 dian corn parched in the hot ashes; the 

 ashes being sifted from it, it is after- 

 wards beat to powder'. Wood, N. E. 

 Prospect), used by Eliot for 'meal', 

 'flour', 'ground corn':/)n.s9((0(7 nmhkik, 

 ' fine flour' ; vljl. n. causat. inan. iimkhik- 

 aiiehteiifili, 'grind thou meal', Is. 47,2, 

 i. e. make it to be meal. From nmhki, 

 it is soft; suppos. nmhkik, that which is 

 soft. Del. " psiiicjamdcrin, or lassmandne, 

 as they call Indian corn parched, 

 pounded, and used with water or boiled 

 down as pottage ' ' , Hkw. , Hist. Account, 

 p. 187. Abn. jiesedamSii, 'farine de h\6 

 groule'; nSkhamcii, 'farine'; skamSniit- 

 Skhamen, 'farine de ble d'Inde', Rasles. 



measure, quttuhhuin, quthaiii, quadliam, 

 he measures (it), takes the measure 

 (weight, capacity, or dimen.«ions) of it; 

 qutluhhush (quttwhhush, C. ), measure 

 thou (it); freq. quaquadlmm, he meas- 

 ures (it) repeatedly or habitually ; vbl. n. 

 qiitliilihrniiaioiik, measure, weight, etc. (a 

 measuring); suppos. part. in&n. qidtiih- 

 heg, qidtulucheg, (that which measures) 

 a measure; v. t. an. and inan. qutlnlihu- 

 viauau, he weighed (it) to or for (him); 

 mik-qxdhumau teoguash, I weighed him 

 the money, Jer. 32, 9; active (verb of 

 action) 57(H»/(»7ios», he measures; pass, 

 it is measured, hence, by measure; after 

 a numeral, measures of (sometimes, but 

 rarely, pi. qidtiihwhdsiiash): .ilnrinchage 

 qidtuhwhSfHi, piisqiiag iimkhik, 'thirty 

 measures of fine flour', 1 K. 4, 22 {nen 

 mik-qidlohirhoiis, I measure, C). 



measures of length.: dmskinansu, a 

 .span (omskiimaii, he spans (it). Is. 48, 

 13); neqidoinskinausu, one span (nees- 



