Word Meanings - NARRAGANSETTS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A tribe of Indians who formerly inhabited the shores of Narragansett Bay.

Related words: (words related to NARRAGANSETTS)

• INHABITATE
  To inhabit.
• INHABITATIVENESS
  A tendency or propensity to permanent residence in a place or abode; love of home and country.
• FORMERLY
  In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore.
• NARRAGANSETTS
  A tribe of Indians who formerly inhabited the shores of Narragansett Bay.
• 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
• 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,
• INHABIT
  To live or dwell in; to occupy, as a place of settled residence; as, wild beasts inhabit the forest; men inhabit cities and houses. The high and lofty One, that inhabiteth eternity. Is. lvii. 15. O, who would inhabit This bleak world alone Moore.
• INHABITRESS
  A female inhabitant.
• INHABITABLE
  Capable of being inhabited; habitable. Systems of inhabitable planets. Locke.
• INHABITER
  An inhabitant. Derham.
• INHABITIVENESS
  See LOWELL
• CEPHALOTRIBE
  An obstetrical instrument for performing cephalotripsy.
• 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.
• NONINHABITANT
  One who is not an inhabitant; a stranger; a foreigner; a nonresident.
• COINHABITANT
  One who dwells with another, or with others. "Coinhabitants of the same element." Dr. H. More.
• REINHABIT
  To inhabit again. Mede.