Indian
['ɪndɪən]
Definition
(noun.) a member of the race of people living in America when Europeans arrived.
(noun.) a native or inhabitant of India.
(adj.) of or pertaining to American Indians or their culture or languages; 'Native American religions'; 'Indian arrowheads' .
(adj.) of or relating to or characteristic of India or the East Indies or their peoples or languages or cultures; 'the Indian subcontinent'; 'Indian saris' .
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Definition
(a.) Of or pertaining to India proper; also to the East Indies, or, sometimes, to the West Indies.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the aborigines, or Indians, of America; as, Indian wars; the Indian tomahawk.
(a.) Made of maize or Indian corn; as, Indian corn, Indian meal, Indian bread, and the like.
(n.) A native or inhabitant of India.
(n.) One of the aboriginal inhabitants of America; -- so called originally from the supposed identity of America with India.
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Definition
adj. belonging to the Indies East or West or to the aborigines of America.—n. a native of the Indies: a European who lives or has lived in India: an aboriginal of America.—ns. In′diaman a large ship employed in trade with India; In′dia-rub′ber an elastic gummy substance the inspissated juice of various tropical plants extensively used in the arts: caoutchouc.—adj. In′dic originating or existing in India a term comprehensively applied to all the Aryan languages of India.—Indian berry a climbing Indian shrub its fruit Cocculus Indicus; Indian club a bottle-shaped block of wood swung in various motions by the arms with the view of developing the muscles of these and of the chest &c.; Indian corn maize so called because brought from the West Indies; Indian cress an ornamental garden shrub from Peru with orange flowers; Indian file (see File); Indian fire a pyrotechnic composition used as a signal-light consisting of sulphur realgar and nitre; Indian red (see Red); Indian summer in America a period of warm dry calm weather in late autumn with hazy atmosphere.—India Docks extensive docks in London for the accommodation of vessels engaged in the West and East India trade; India ink (see Ink); India Office a government office in London where are managed the affairs of the Indian government; India paper a thin yellowish printing-paper made in China and Japan from vegetable fibre and used in taking the finest proofs from engraved plates—hence called India proofs; India shawl a Cashmere shawl.—East India Company a great chartered company formed for trading with India and the East Indies more especially applied to the English Company incorporated in 1600 and abolished in 1858; East Indian an inhabitant or a native of the East Indies; Red Indian one of the aborigines of America so called from the colour of the skin—(coll.) in U.S. Injen Injun; West Indian a native or an inhabitant of the West Indies.
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Examples
- It was said he had got possession of his Indian jewel by means which, bold as he was, he didn't dare acknowledge. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Repeated depredations on the frontiers had exasperated the inhabitants to such a degree, that they determined on revenge upon every Indian. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- When he had finished, an Indian orator stood up to thank him. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- It was made in America, and he fought the Indian wars and the war of the Revolution with it. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- You turned away, and went straight to the corner near the window--where my Indian cabinet stands. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The man to whom Pilar spoke was short and heavy, brownfaced, with broad cheekbones; gray haired, with wide-set yellowbrown eyes, a thin-bridged, hooked nose like an Indian's, a long Upper lip and a wide, thin mouth. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Was there any chance of his being hereafter useful to Sir Thomas in the concerns of his West Indian property? Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- I found the ash of a cigar, which my special knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian cigar. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- In those days the natives around these forests (who were half Indian and half Negro) happened to find some of this juice sticking on the tree. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Tell me first, I said, how the Indian in the armoury met his death, and what those last words meant, when he pointed to the dagger in your hand. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Turkish elements in Russian, Latin in English, Hamitic in Keltic, & so forth; & omitting various Indian, Melanesian & other groups. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The devil's dance of the Indian Diamond has threaded its way to London; and to London you must go after it, leaving me at the country-house. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Fitch’s first boat employed a system of paddles suspended by their handles from cranks, which, in revolving, gave the paddles a motion simulating that which the Indian imparts to his paddle. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- He looked like a walking-West-Indian-epidemic. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Look at that cigar store Indian, Robert Jordan thought. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Are the Indians then gypsies? Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- As the Indians had no letters, they had no orthography. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- A certain great traveller, who understood the Indians and their language, had figured in Mr. Seegrave's report, hadn't he? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The Indians are dexterous in contrivances for that purpose, which we had not. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Commend me to Fennimore Cooper to find beauty in the Indians, and to Grimes to find it in the Arabs. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I left the steamer at Gravesend, and discovered that the Indians had gone from that place to London. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- A plot organised among the Indians who originally owned the jewel, says Mr. Franklin-- a plot with some old Hindoo superstition at the bottom of it. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- It is well known that Indians are of different tribes, nations, and languages, as well as the white people. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Quito, which had been but a miserable hamlet of Indians, is represented by the same author as in his time equally populous. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The Indians won't risk coming back to-night, he said. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- It is Indian, and suggestive of Indians. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Then I mentioned Peepy's coming to stay with me, and then Pa began to cry again and said the children were Indians. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The Indians of the United States are now largely gathered into reservations and their former dress, arms and habits are being gradually changed for those of the whites. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The poor ill-used Indians have been most unjustly put in prison, says Mr. Franklin. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- In a year from the time when the Moonstone was pledged, the Indians will be on the watch for their third chance. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
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