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.

Checker: Noelle

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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