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Definitions for: Indian
[n] any of the languages spoken by Amerindians
[n] a member of the race of people living in North America when Europeans arrived
[n] 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"
Webster (1913) Definition: In"di*an (?; 277), a. [From India, and this fr. Indus,
the name of a river in Asia, L. Indus, Gr. ?, OPers. Hindu,
name of the land on the Indus, Skr. sindhu river, the Indus.
Cf. Hindoo.]
1. Of or pertaining to India proper; also to the East Indies,
or, sometimes, to the West Indies.
2. Of or pertaining to the aborigines, or Indians, of
America; as, Indian wars; the Indian tomahawk.
3. Made of maize or Indian corn; as, Indian corn, Indian
meal, Indian bread, and the like. [U.S.]
Indian bay (Bot.), a lauraceous tree (Persea Indica).
Indian bean (Bot.), a name of the catalpa.
Indian berry. (Bot.) Same as Cocculus indicus.
Indian bread. (Bot.) Same as Cassava.
Indian club, a wooden club, which is swung by the hand for
gymnastic exercise.
Indian cordage, cordage made of the fibers of cocoanut
husk.
Indian corn (Bot.), a plant of the genus Zea (Z. Mays);
the maize, a native of America. See Corn, and Maize.
Indian cress (Bot.), nasturtium. See Nasturtium, 2.
Indian cucumber (Bot.), a plant of the genus Medeola ({M.
Virginica}), a common in woods in the United States. The
white rootstock has a taste like cucumbers.
Indian currant (Bot.), a plant of the genus
Symphoricarpus (S. vulgaris), bearing small red
berries.
Indian dye, the puccoon.
Indian fig. (Bot.)
(a) The banyan. See Banyan.
(b) The prickly pear.
Indian file, single file; arrangement of persons in a row
following one after another, the usual way among Indians
of traversing woods, especially when on the war path.
Indian fire, a pyrotechnic composition of sulphur, niter,
and realgar, burning with a brilliant white light.
Indian grass (Bot.), a coarse, high grass ({Chrysopogon
nutans}), common in the southern portions of the United
States; wood grass. --Gray.
Indian hemp. (Bot.)
(a) A plant of the genus Apocynum (A. cannabinum),
having a milky juice, and a tough, fibrous bark,
whence the name. The root it used in medicine and is
both emetic and cathartic in properties.
(b) The variety of common hemp (Cannabis Indica), from
which hasheesh is obtained.
Indian mallow (Bot.), the velvet leaf ({Abutilon
Avicenn[ae]}). See Abutilon.
Indian meal, ground corn or maize. [U.S.]
Indian millet (Bot.), a tall annual grass ({Sorghum
vulgare}), having many varieties, among which are broom
corn, Guinea corn, durra, and the Chinese sugar cane. It
is called also Guinea corn. See Durra.
Indian ox (Zo["o]l.), the zebu.
Indian paint. See Bloodroot.
Indian paper. See India paper, under India.
Indian physic (Bot.), a plant of two species of the genus
Gillenia (G. trifoliata, and G. stipulacea), common
in the United States, the roots of which are used in
medicine as a mild emetic; -- called also {American
ipecac}, and bowman's root. --Gray.
Indian pink. (Bot.)
(a) The Cypress vine (Ipom[oe]a Quamoclit); -- so called
in the West Indies.
(b) See China pink, under China.
Indian pipe (Bot.), a low, fleshy herb ({Monotropa
uniflora}), growing in clusters in dark woods, and having
scalelike leaves, and a solitary nodding flower. The whole
plant is waxy white, but turns black in drying.
Indian plantain (Bot.), a name given to several species of
the genus Cacalia, tall herbs with composite white
flowers, common through the United States in rich woods.
--Gray.
Indian poke (Bot.), a plant usually known as the {white
hellebore} (Veratrum viride).
Indian pudding, a pudding of which the chief ingredients
are Indian meal, milk, and molasses.
Indian purple.
(a) A dull purple color.
(b) The pigment of the same name, intensely blue and
black.
Indian red.
(a) A purplish red earth or pigment composed of a silicate
of iron and alumina, with magnesia. It comes from the
Persian Gulf. Called also Persian red.
(b) See Almagra.
Indian rice (Bot.), a reedlike water grass. See Rice.
Indian shot (Bot.), a plant of the genus Canna ({C.
Indica}). The hard black seeds are as large as swan shot.
See Canna.
Indian summer, in the United States, a period of warm and
pleasant weather occurring late in autumn. See under
Summer.
Indian tobacco (Bot.), a species of Lobelia. See
Lobelia.
Indian turnip (Bot.), an American plant of the genus
Aris[ae]ma. A. triphyllum has a wrinkled farinaceous
root resembling a small turnip, but with a very acrid
juice. See Jack in the Pulpit, and Wake-robin.
Indian wheat, maize or Indian corn.
Indian yellow.
(a) An intense rich yellow color, deeper than gamboge but
less pure than cadmium.
(b) See Euxanthin.
In"di*an (?; 277), n.
1. A native or inhabitant of India.
2. One of the aboriginal inhabitants of America; -- so called
originally from the supposed identity of America with
India.
Synonyms: American Indian, American Indian, American-Indian language, Amerind, Amerind, Amerindian language, Amerindic, native American, North American Indian, Red Indian
See Also: Aleut, Aleutian, Algonquian, Algonquian, Algonquian language, Algonquin, Algonquin, Amerindian, Amerindian race, Anasazi, Arawak, Arawakan, Asian, Asiatic, Assamese, Atakapa, Atakapan, Athabascan, Athabascan, Athabaskan, Athabaskan, Athapascan, Athapascan, Athapaskan, Athapaskan, Athapaskan language, Attacapa, Attacapan, Bharat, Buffalo Indian, Caddo, Caddoan, Caddoan language, Carib, Caribbean language, Chickasaw, Creek, Dravidian, Eskimo, Esquimau, Gujarati, Gujerati, Haida, Hoka, Hoka, Hokan, Hokan, India, Indian race, Injun, Inuit, Iroquoian, Iroquoian language, Iroquois, Iroquois, Kashmiri, Kechua, Kechuan, Mahratta, Maracan language, Maraco, Maratha, Maya, Maya, Mayan, Mayan, Mayan language, Mosan, Muskhogean, Muskhogean, Muskhogean language, Muskogean, Muskogean, Muskogean language, Na-Dene, Nahuatl, Native American, natural language, Oriya, Panjabi, Penutian, Penutian, Plains Indian, Pueblo, Punjabi, Quechua, Quechuan, Quechuan language, red man, Redskin, Republic of India, Salish, sannup, Shoshone, Shoshoni, Siouan, Siouan language, squaw, Tanoan, Tanoan language, Taracahitian, Tlingit, tongue, Tupi-Guarani, Tupi-Guarani language, Uto-Aztecan, Uto-Aztecan language, Wakashan
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