Word Meanings - DELAWARES - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A tribe of Indians formerly inhabiting the valley of the Delaware River, but now mostly located in the Indian Territory.

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• INDIANEER
  An Indiaman.
• INHABITATE
  To inhabit.
• INHABITATIVENESS
  A tendency or propensity to permanent residence in a place or abode; love of home and country.
• VALLEY
  1. The space inclosed between ranges of hills or mountains; the strip of land at the bottom of the depressions intersecting a country, including usually the bed of a stream, with frequently broad alluvial plains on one or both sides of the stream.
• FORMERLY
  In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore.
• INHABITANCE; INHABITANCY
  The state of having legal right to claim the privileges of a recognized inhabitant; especially, the right to support in case of poverty, acquired by residence in a town; habitancy. (more info) 1. The act of inhabiting, or the state of
• TRIBE
  A number of species or genera having certain structural characteristics in common; as, a tribe of plants; a tribe of animals. Note: By many recent naturalists, tribe has been used for a group of animals or plants intermediate between order
• INHABITATION
  1. The act of inhabiting, or the state of being inhabited; indwelling. The inhabitation of the Holy Ghost. Bp. Pearson. 2. Abode; place of dwelling; residence. Milton. 3. Population; inhabitants. Sir T. Browne. The beginning of nations and
• RIVER
  One who rives or splits.
• RIVERLING
  A rivulet. Sylvester.
• INHABITED
  Uninhabited. Brathwait.
• INHABITANT
  One who has a legal settlement in a town, city, or parish; a permanent resident. (more info) 1. One who dwells or resides permanently in a place, as distinguished from a transient lodger or visitor; as, an inhabitant of a house, a town, a city,
• RIVERY
  Having rivers; as, a rivery country. Drayton.
• RIVERET
  A rivulet. Drayton.
• INHABIT
  To have residence in a place; to dwell; to live; to abide. Shak. They say wild beasts inhabit here. Waller.
• RIVERSIDE
  The side or bank of a river.
• DELAWARE
  An American grape, with compact bunches of small, amber-colored berries, sweet and of a good flavor.
• LOCATE
  1. To place; to set in a particular spot or position. The captives and emigrants whom he brought with him were located in the trans-Tiberine quarter. B. F. Westcott. 2. To designate the site or place of; to define the limits of; as, to locate a
• DELAWARES
  A tribe of Indians formerly inhabiting the valley of the Delaware River, but now mostly located in the Indian Territory.
• INHABITRESS
  A female inhabitant.
• CEPHALOTRIBE
  An obstetrical instrument for performing cephalotripsy.
• EAST INDIAN
  Belonging to, or relating to, the East Indies. -- n.
• DIATRIBE
  A prolonged or exhaustive discussion; especially, an acrimonious or invective harangue; a strain of abusive or railing language; a philippic. The ephemeral diatribe of a faction. John Morley.
• SUBTRIBE
  A division of a tribe; a group of genera of a little lower rank than a tribe.
• COLLOCATION
  The act of placing; the state of being placed with something else; disposition in place; arrangement. The choice and collocation of words. Sir W. Jones.
• INNERMOSTLY
  In the innermost place. His ebon cross worn innermostly. Mrs. Browning.
• DISLOCATION
  The displacement of parts of rocks or portions of strata from the situation which they originally occupied. Slips, faults, and the like, are dislocations. (more info) 1. The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced. T. Burnet.
• NONINHABITANT
  One who is not an inhabitant; a stranger; a foreigner; a nonresident.
• WEST INDIAN
  A native of, or a dweller in, the West Indies.