ENGLISH-NATICK DICTIONARY 



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murmur — tontinued. 



lie murmurs at (it); vbl. n. mcomcoskm- 

 tniiink, a murmuring; nimmmskoinma- 

 orik, muttering, murmuring. 



musical instrument, pulipequon, pi. 

 ■^nsh; p((/tpt'^»rti(, he makes music; mo- 

 nopuhpeg, a trumpet ( puhpeeg, a trum- 

 pet or music, C. ). Cf. puhpeg, a dance, 

 an instrument of music, Ps. 14-t, 9. 

 From puhpuhki, hollow. 



muskrat, musc/uush (musquassus (pi.), 

 Smith'sDescr.of N.England, 1616. "The 

 niuskewashe is a beast that frequenteth 

 the ponds", Morton's N. E. Canaan. 

 Abn. mSskSessS, Raales), Fiber zibethi- 

 cus [musqui-6das, red animal]. 



must, 7nos, shall or must, auxil. Eliot 

 gives "mos, pish, shall or will", as 

 words "signifying futurity, added to the 

 indicative mode to express the time to 

 come", El. Gr. 20; but, strictly speak- 

 ing, mos expresses obligation or neces- 

 sity, p!j<h simple futurity: mos nun- 

 nup, 1 must die, Deut. 4, 22; ne mos 

 n'nih, it must needs be so, Mark l.S, 7 

 (moce, mesh, R. W.; rnesh nmnchem pi- 

 yaum, I could not come; moce, instantly; 

 mdish, even now, ibid.), mcoche, it 



must — cont in ue( 1 . 

 shall or must be, expressing obligation 

 or necessity for future action [for mos- 

 wutche or mo-mtche'] : mmche keii, panmij)- 

 wusham, etc., thou art to pass over 

 through, etc., i. e. it must be that 

 thou, etc., Deut. 2, 18; mcoche nut- 

 tahuttantamauomun God, we are bound 

 to thank God, 2 Thess. 1, 3. ncmt, used 

 by Cotton, sometimes for the verb to 

 be, sometimes apparently as a mere ex- 

 pletive, was sometimes emjjloyed to ex- 

 press conditional obligation or necessi- 

 ty — should or must — in a conditional or 

 conjunctive proposition: tioh kodtantog 

 aiuskoiantamvuitt . . . nont voh nuk- 

 kodtam, he who would repent must 

 forsake (his sins), C. kisiioni, kusnunt, 

 are similarly used by C. Mather (Notit. 

 Ind. 55) and In the title of the Indian 

 Laws. Cotton's Vocabulary gives pish 

 nunnvp, I shall die; 7iont pish nunnup- 

 piXtmw, '3'ou [we] must die'; mukkit- 

 chogquisog nont pulip&og, boys will 

 play. 



myself, rnihhinj [»7/w/i], my body, my 

 person, myself. Cf. Del. ii'liakeij, my 

 body, myself, Zeisb. See body. 



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nail, kenuhwheg, pi. -\-ash [for kenehheg, 

 kenaiheg, that which is sharp?], ken- 

 uhtugquonk, keneh-uhtug, sharp wood, a 

 wooden pin. Cf. wonkontug, 'a pin 'to 

 hang things on, Ezek. 15, 3, but lit. 

 a wooden hook {wonkiuhtug, crooked 

 stick). See pin. 



muhkos, muhkas, the nail of a man, 

 the hoof, claw, or talon of an animal; 

 pi. muhkossog; wuhkossog, wuhkassog, his 

 nails {mokdssuck, nails, R. W. ) [uhk- 

 ttssn, the an. form of uhquaeu, (it is) 

 pointed. Cf. uhquon, a hook; uhquc, 

 extreme, etc. See end]. 



naked, poskeu, (he is) naked; v. i. an. 

 poskissu, poskussn, (he is) naked, i. e., is 

 stripped, made bare, is become naked 

 {pauskesu, suppos. pi. pauskesilcheg, 

 'naked men and women', R. W.); 

 nupposkis (nippdskis, R. W.), I am 

 naked; poskis kuhkont, 'make bare thy 

 head', Is. 47, 2; poskissegk, maki' ymir- 



naked — continued, 

 selves bare; vbl. n. posklsseuonk, poskis- 

 suonk, nakedness (a making bare). 2^'^^' 

 kinum, he uncovers, makes (it) bare: 

 jmskinum irnhpit, he makes bare his 

 arm, an. poskinau, posekinwi, he makes 

 (him) bare, strips (him) naked; hence, 

 he buries (him). See bury, poskis- 

 sehheau, he causes (him) to be naked, 

 makes (him) naked. 



name, wesuonk (EL, R. W.,and C. ), the 

 name of a man; mwhiionk, his name; 

 ncowesuonk, my name; kronhuonk, thy 

 name(vbl. n. iroiavssoiressv , he is called, 

 he is named; lit. a calling, appellatio). 

 See call by a name (nominare). 



namely, nalmane, namely, 'viz'; neiic, 

 'id est', C. 



narrow, ])emayogok, peonogok (of a path 

 or way, Matt. 7, 13, 14; peemayagdt, a 

 little way, R. W.). totloilchi aiyeuonk, 

 'narrow compass', C. (?). 



