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river in Asia, L. Indus, Gr. Hindu, name of the land on the Indus, 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;

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river in Asia, L. Indus, Gr. Hindu, name of the land on the Indus, 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. Indian bay , a lauraceous tree -- Indian bean , a name of the catalpa. -- Indian berry. Same as Cocculus indicus. -- Indian bread. 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 , a plant of the genus Zea ; the maize, a native of America. See Corn, and Maize. -- Indian cress , nasturtium. See Nasturtium, 2. -- Indian cucumber , 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 , a plant of the genus Symphoricarpus (S. vulgaris), bearing small red berries. -- Indian dye, the puccoon. -- Indian fig. The banyan. See Banyan. 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 , a coarse, high grass , common in the southern portions of the United States; wood grass. Gray. -- Indian hemp. 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. The variety of common hemp (Cannabis Indica), from which hasheesh is obtained. -- Indian mallow , the velvet leaf . See Abutilon. -- Indian meal, ground corn or maize. -- Indian millet , a tall annual grass , 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 , the zebu. -- Indian paint. See Bloodroot. -- Indian paper. See India paper, under India. -- Indian physic , a plant of two species of the genus Gillenia , 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. The Cypress vine ; -- so called in the West Indies. See China pink, under China. -- Indian pipe , a low, fleshy herb , 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 , 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 , a plant usually known as the white hellebore -- Indian pudding, a pudding of which the chief ingredients are Indian meal, milk, and molasses. -- Indian purple. A dull purple color. The pigment of the same name, intensely blue and black. -- Indian red. 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. See Almagra. -- Indian rice , a reedlike water grass. See Rice. -- Indian shot , a plant of the genus Canna . 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 , a species of Lobelia. See Lobelia. -- Indian turnip , an American plant of the genus Arisæma. 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. An intense rich yellow color, deeper than gamboge but less pure than cadmium. See Euxanthin.

Related words: (words related to INDIAN)

• INDIANEER
  An Indiaman.
• PROPER
  Properly; hence, to a great degree; very; as, proper good.
• INDUSTRIOUS
  1. Given to industry; characterized by diligence; constantly, regularly, or habitually occupied; busy; assiduous; not slothful or idle; -- commonly implying devotion to lawful and useful labor. Frugal and industrious men are commonly friendly to
• AMERICANIZATION
  The process of Americanizing.
• SOMETIMES
  1. Formerly; sometime. That fair and warlike form In which the majesty of buried Denmark Did sometimes march. Shak. 2. At times; at intervals; now and then;occasionally. It is good that we sometimes be contradicted. Jer. Taylor. Sometimes . . .
• INDIA RUBBER
  . See Caoutchouc.
• AMERICAN
  1. Of or pertaining to America; as, the American continent: American Indians. 2. Of or pertaining to the United States. "A young officer of the American navy." Lyell. American ivy. See Virginia creeper. -- American Party , a party, about 1854,
• RIVER
  One who rives or splits.
• AMERICANISM
  1. Attachment to the United States. 2. A custom peculiar to the United States or to America; an American characteristic or idea. 3. A word or phrase peculiar to the United States.
• RIVERLING
  A rivulet. Sylvester.
• AMERICAN PLAN
  In hotels, aplan upon which guests pay for both room and board by the day, week, or other convenient period; -- contrasted with European plan.
• PROPERLY
  1. In a proper manner; suitably; fitly; strictly; rightly; as, a word properly applied; a dress properly adjusted. Milton. 2. Individually; after one's own manner. Now, harkeneth, how I bare me properly. Chaucer.
• PROPERNESS
  1. The quality of being proper. 2. Tallness; comeliness. Udall.
• INDUSTRIALLY
  With reference to industry.
• PROPERATE
  To hasten, or press forward.
• INDUSTRIAL
  Consisting in industry; pertaining to industry, or the arts and products of industry; concerning those employed in labor, especially in manual labor, and their wages, duties, and rights. The great ideas of industrial development and economic social
• INDIAMAN
  A large vessel in the India trade. Macaulay.
• RIVERY
  Having rivers; as, a rivery country. Drayton.
• RIVERET
  A rivulet. Drayton.
• PROPERTIED
  Possessing property; holding real estate, or other investments of money. "The propertied and satisfied classes." M. Arnold.
• IMPROPERLY
  In an improper manner; not properly; unsuitably; unbecomingly.
• EAST INDIAN
  Belonging to, or relating to, the East Indies. -- n.
• IMPROPERATION
  The act of upbraiding or taunting; a reproach; a taunt. Improperatios and terms of scurrility. Sir T. Browne
• LINDIA
  A peculiar genus of rotifers, remarkable for the absence of ciliated disks. By some zoölogists it is thought to be like the ancestral form of the Arthropoda.
• IMPROPERTY
  Impropriety.
• HINDOOISM; HINDUISM
  The religious doctrines and rites of the Hindoos; Brahmanism.
• WEST INDIAN
  A native of, or a dweller in, the West Indies.