Chapter VII

used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one

From this reading MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE TEHUELCHES Indian method of curing measles -- Driving out the devil -- Magellan -- _Patagon_ -- Long boots -- Reports of travellers -- One of the finest races in the world -- Nomadic -- Hunters -- Decreasing in numbers -- Introduction of horses -- _Bolas_ -- No history -- Keen bargainers but not progressive -- Features -- Good teeth -- Women -- Morality -- Young and old women -- Half-bloods -- _Paisanos_ -- Reserved in character -- Habits -- Infants' heads bandaged -- Dance -- Wives bought -- Price of a wife -- Marriage ceremony -- White man in _toldos_ -- Bad influence -- Connections of white men and Tehuelche women -- Dress and adornment of women -- Work -- Lazy race -- High wages -- Ceremonies and customs -- Religion -- Gualicho -- Fear of Cordillera -- Fat hunger -- Tehuelche lives on horseback -- Esquimaux and Tehuelche -- Primitive peoples and their habits -- Food -- Tobacco -- Pipes -- Language -- Tribal government -- Physical strength -- Decreasing numbers -- Men of silence and men of uproar -- Courtesy of a Tehuelche.

a decoration of color or interest that is added to relieve plainness

From this reading MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE TEHUELCHES Indian method of curing measles -- Driving out the devil -- Magellan -- _Patagon_ -- Long boots -- Reports of travellers -- One of the finest races in the world -- Nomadic -- Hunters -- Decreasing in numbers -- Introduction of horses -- _Bolas_ -- No history -- Keen bargainers but not progressive -- Features -- Good teeth -- Women -- Morality -- Young and old women -- Half-bloods -- _Paisanos_ -- Reserved in character -- Habits -- Infants' heads bandaged -- Dance -- Wives bought -- Price of a wife -- Marriage ceremony -- White man in _toldos_ -- Bad influence -- Connections of white men and Tehuelche women -- Dress and adornment of women -- Work -- Lazy race -- High wages -- Ceremonies and customs -- Religion -- Gualicho -- Fear of Cordillera -- Fat hunger -- Tehuelche lives on horseback -- Esquimaux and Tehuelche -- Primitive peoples and their habits -- Food -- Tobacco -- Pipes -- Language -- Tribal government -- Physical strength -- Decreasing numbers -- Men of silence and men of uproar -- Courtesy of a Tehuelche.

the form of “a” used before a word that begins with a vowel sound

From this reading The wind, which had driven the snowstorm of the morning away to the east, swept drearily down out of an evening sky where neither sun nor sunset hues were to be seen, nothing but a spread of cold and misty grey, growing slowly overshadowed by the looming promise of more snow.

used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together

From this reading MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE TEHUELCHES Indian method of curing measles -- Driving out the devil -- Magellan -- _Patagon_ -- Long boots -- Reports of travellers -- One of the finest races in the world -- Nomadic -- Hunters -- Decreasing in numbers -- Introduction of horses -- _Bolas_ -- No history -- Keen bargainers but not progressive -- Features -- Good teeth -- Women -- Morality -- Young and old women -- Half-bloods -- _Paisanos_ -- Reserved in character -- Habits -- Infants' heads bandaged -- Dance -- Wives bought -- Price of a wife -- Marriage ceremony -- White man in _toldos_ -- Bad influence -- Connections of white men and Tehuelche women -- Dress and adornment of women -- Work -- Lazy race -- High wages -- Ceremonies and customs -- Religion -- Gualicho -- Fear of Cordillera -- Fat hunger -- Tehuelche lives on horseback -- Esquimaux and Tehuelche -- Primitive peoples and their habits -- Food -- Tobacco -- Pipes -- Language -- Tribal government -- Physical strength -- Decreasing numbers -- Men of silence and men of uproar -- Courtesy of a Tehuelche.

at the same time that; because; in the way that

From this reading As we came nearer we saw that one was that of a man clothed in a _chiripa_ and a _capa_ in which brown was the predominating colour.

from a particular thing or place or position (“forth” is obsolete)

From this reading The wind, which had driven the snowstorm of the morning away to the east, swept drearily down out of an evening sky where neither sun nor sunset hues were to be seen, nothing but a spread of cold and misty grey, growing slowly overshadowed by the looming promise of more snow.

having undesirable or negative qualities

From this reading MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE TEHUELCHES Indian method of curing measles -- Driving out the devil -- Magellan -- _Patagon_ -- Long boots -- Reports of travellers -- One of the finest races in the world -- Nomadic -- Hunters -- Decreasing in numbers -- Introduction of horses -- _Bolas_ -- No history -- Keen bargainers but not progressive -- Features -- Good teeth -- Women -- Morality -- Young and old women -- Half-bloods -- _Paisanos_ -- Reserved in character -- Habits -- Infants' heads bandaged -- Dance -- Wives bought -- Price of a wife -- Marriage ceremony -- White man in _toldos_ -- Bad influence -- Connections of white men and Tehuelche women -- Dress and adornment of women -- Work -- Lazy race -- High wages -- Ceremonies and customs -- Religion -- Gualicho -- Fear of Cordillera -- Fat hunger -- Tehuelche lives on horseback -- Esquimaux and Tehuelche -- Primitive peoples and their habits -- Food -- Tobacco -- Pipes -- Language -- Tribal government -- Physical strength -- Decreasing numbers -- Men of silence and men of uproar -- Courtesy of a Tehuelche.

covered or wrapped with a bandage

From this reading MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE TEHUELCHES Indian method of curing measles -- Driving out the devil -- Magellan -- _Patagon_ -- Long boots -- Reports of travellers -- One of the finest races in the world -- Nomadic -- Hunters -- Decreasing in numbers -- Introduction of horses -- _Bolas_ -- No history -- Keen bargainers but not progressive -- Features -- Good teeth -- Women -- Morality -- Young and old women -- Half-bloods -- _Paisanos_ -- Reserved in character -- Habits -- Infants' heads bandaged -- Dance -- Wives bought -- Price of a wife -- Marriage ceremony -- White man in _toldos_ -- Bad influence -- Connections of white men and Tehuelche women -- Dress and adornment of women -- Work -- Lazy race -- High wages -- Ceremonies and customs -- Religion -- Gualicho -- Fear of Cordillera -- Fat hunger -- Tehuelche lives on horseback -- Esquimaux and Tehuelche -- Primitive peoples and their habits -- Food -- Tobacco -- Pipes -- Language -- Tribal government -- Physical strength -- Decreasing numbers -- Men of silence and men of uproar -- Courtesy of a Tehuelche.

plural of “bargainer” — someone who purchases and maintains an inventory of goods to be sold

From this reading MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE TEHUELCHES Indian method of curing measles -- Driving out the devil -- Magellan -- _Patagon_ -- Long boots -- Reports of travellers -- One of the finest races in the world -- Nomadic -- Hunters -- Decreasing in numbers -- Introduction of horses -- _Bolas_ -- No history -- Keen bargainers but not progressive -- Features -- Good teeth -- Women -- Morality -- Young and old women -- Half-bloods -- _Paisanos_ -- Reserved in character -- Habits -- Infants' heads bandaged -- Dance -- Wives bought -- Price of a wife -- Marriage ceremony -- White man in _toldos_ -- Bad influence -- Connections of white men and Tehuelche women -- Dress and adornment of women -- Work -- Lazy race -- High wages -- Ceremonies and customs -- Religion -- Gualicho -- Fear of Cordillera -- Fat hunger -- Tehuelche lives on horseback -- Esquimaux and Tehuelche -- Primitive peoples and their habits -- Food -- Tobacco -- Pipes -- Language -- Tribal government -- Physical strength -- Decreasing numbers -- Men of silence and men of uproar -- Courtesy of a Tehuelche.

used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses

From this reading The wind, which had driven the snowstorm of the morning away to the east, swept drearily down out of an evening sky where neither sun nor sunset hues were to be seen, nothing but a spread of cold and misty grey, growing slowly overshadowed by the looming promise of more snow.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE TEHUELCHES Indian method of curing measles -- Driving out the devil -- Magellan -- _Patagon_ -- Long boots -- Reports of travellers -- One of the finest races in the world -- Nomadic -- Hunters -- Decreasing in numbers -- Introduction of horses -- _Bolas_ -- No history -- Keen bargainers but not progressive -- Features -- Good teeth -- Women -- Morality -- Young and old women -- Half-bloods -- _Paisanos_ -- Reserved in character -- Habits -- Infants' heads bandaged -- Dance -- Wives bought -- Price of a wife -- Marriage ceremony -- White man in _toldos_ -- Bad influence -- Connections of white men and Tehuelche women -- Dress and adornment of women -- Work -- Lazy race -- High wages -- Ceremonies and customs -- Religion -- Gualicho -- Fear of Cordillera -- Fat hunger -- Tehuelche lives on horseback -- Esquimaux and Tehuelche -- Primitive peoples and their habits -- Food -- Tobacco -- Pipes -- Language -- Tribal government -- Physical strength -- Decreasing numbers -- Men of silence and men of uproar -- Courtesy of a Tehuelche.

plural of “boot” — footwear that covers the whole foot and lower leg

From this reading MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE TEHUELCHES Indian method of curing measles -- Driving out the devil -- Magellan -- _Patagon_ -- Long boots -- Reports of travellers -- One of the finest races in the world -- Nomadic -- Hunters -- Decreasing in numbers -- Introduction of horses -- _Bolas_ -- No history -- Keen bargainers but not progressive -- Features -- Good teeth -- Women -- Morality -- Young and old women -- Half-bloods -- _Paisanos_ -- Reserved in character -- Habits -- Infants' heads bandaged -- Dance -- Wives bought -- Price of a wife -- Marriage ceremony -- White man in _toldos_ -- Bad influence -- Connections of white men and Tehuelche women -- Dress and adornment of women -- Work -- Lazy race -- High wages -- Ceremonies and customs -- Religion -- Gualicho -- Fear of Cordillera -- Fat hunger -- Tehuelche lives on horseback -- Esquimaux and Tehuelche -- Primitive peoples and their habits -- Food -- Tobacco -- Pipes -- Language -- Tribal government -- Physical strength -- Decreasing numbers -- Men of silence and men of uproar -- Courtesy of a Tehuelche.

inflected form of “buy” — obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction

From this reading MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE TEHUELCHES Indian method of curing measles -- Driving out the devil -- Magellan -- _Patagon_ -- Long boots -- Reports of travellers -- One of the finest races in the world -- Nomadic -- Hunters -- Decreasing in numbers -- Introduction of horses -- _Bolas_ -- No history -- Keen bargainers but not progressive -- Features -- Good teeth -- Women -- Morality -- Young and old women -- Half-bloods -- _Paisanos_ -- Reserved in character -- Habits -- Infants' heads bandaged -- Dance -- Wives bought -- Price of a wife -- Marriage ceremony -- White man in _toldos_ -- Bad influence -- Connections of white men and Tehuelche women -- Dress and adornment of women -- Work -- Lazy race -- High wages -- Ceremonies and customs -- Religion -- Gualicho -- Fear of Cordillera -- Fat hunger -- Tehuelche lives on horseback -- Esquimaux and Tehuelche -- Primitive peoples and their habits -- Food -- Tobacco -- Pipes -- Language -- Tribal government -- Physical strength -- Decreasing numbers -- Men of silence and men of uproar -- Courtesy of a Tehuelche.

an orange of low brightness and saturation

From this reading As we came nearer we saw that one was that of a man clothed in a _chiripa_ and a _capa_ in which brown was the predominating colour.

plural of “bush” — a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems

From this reading Snow lay in the hollows so deep that only the lean crests of the higher bushes could thrust themselves through its surface.

used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before

From this reading MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE TEHUELCHES Indian method of curing measles -- Driving out the devil -- Magellan -- _Patagon_ -- Long boots -- Reports of travellers -- One of the finest races in the world -- Nomadic -- Hunters -- Decreasing in numbers -- Introduction of horses -- _Bolas_ -- No history -- Keen bargainers but not progressive -- Features -- Good teeth -- Women -- Morality -- Young and old women -- Half-bloods -- _Paisanos_ -- Reserved in character -- Habits -- Infants' heads bandaged -- Dance -- Wives bought -- Price of a wife -- Marriage ceremony -- White man in _toldos_ -- Bad influence -- Connections of white men and Tehuelche women -- Dress and adornment of women -- Work -- Lazy race -- High wages -- Ceremonies and customs -- Religion -- Gualicho -- Fear of Cordillera -- Fat hunger -- Tehuelche lives on horseback -- Esquimaux and Tehuelche -- Primitive peoples and their habits -- Food -- Tobacco -- Pipes -- Language -- Tribal government -- Physical strength -- Decreasing numbers -- Men of silence and men of uproar -- Courtesy of a Tehuelche.

showing who or what does the action

From this reading The wind, which had driven the snowstorm of the morning away to the east, swept drearily down out of an evening sky where neither sun nor sunset hues were to be seen, nothing but a spread of cold and misty grey, growing slowly overshadowed by the looming promise of more snow.

inflected form of “come” — move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody

From this reading As we came nearer we saw that one was that of a man clothed in a _chiripa_ and a _capa_ in which brown was the predominating colour.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading As we came nearer we saw that one was that of a man clothed in a _chiripa_ and a _capa_ in which brown was the predominating colour.

plural of “ceremony” — a formal event performed on a special occasion

From this reading MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE TEHUELCHES Indian method of curing measles -- Driving out the devil -- Magellan -- _Patagon_ -- Long boots -- Reports of travellers -- One of the finest races in the world -- Nomadic -- Hunters -- Decreasing in numbers -- Introduction of horses -- _Bolas_ -- No history -- Keen bargainers but not progressive -- Features -- Good teeth -- Women -- Morality -- Young and old women -- Half-bloods -- _Paisanos_ -- Reserved in character -- Habits -- Infants' heads bandaged -- Dance -- Wives bought -- Price of a wife -- Marriage ceremony -- White man in _toldos_ -- Bad influence -- Connections of white men and Tehuelche women -- Dress and adornment of women -- Work -- Lazy race -- High wages -- Ceremonies and customs -- Religion -- Gualicho -- Fear of Cordillera -- Fat hunger -- Tehuelche lives on horseback -- Esquimaux and Tehuelche -- Primitive peoples and their habits -- Food -- Tobacco -- Pipes -- Language -- Tribal government -- Physical strength -- Decreasing numbers -- Men of silence and men of uproar -- Courtesy of a Tehuelche.

a formal event performed on a special occasion

From this reading MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE TEHUELCHES Indian method of curing measles -- Driving out the devil -- Magellan -- _Patagon_ -- Long boots -- Reports of travellers -- One of the finest races in the world -- Nomadic -- Hunters -- Decreasing in numbers -- Introduction of horses -- _Bolas_ -- No history -- Keen bargainers but not progressive -- Features -- Good teeth -- Women -- Morality -- Young and old women -- Half-bloods -- _Paisanos_ -- Reserved in character -- Habits -- Infants' heads bandaged -- Dance -- Wives bought -- Price of a wife -- Marriage ceremony -- White man in _toldos_ -- Bad influence -- Connections of white men and Tehuelche women -- Dress and adornment of women -- Work -- Lazy race -- High wages -- Ceremonies and customs -- Religion -- Gualicho -- Fear of Cordillera -- Fat hunger -- Tehuelche lives on horseback -- Esquimaux and Tehuelche -- Primitive peoples and their habits -- Food -- Tobacco -- Pipes -- Language -- Tribal government -- Physical strength -- Decreasing numbers -- Men of silence and men of uproar -- Courtesy of a Tehuelche.

an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story)

From this reading MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE TEHUELCHES Indian method of curing measles -- Driving out the devil -- Magellan -- _Patagon_ -- Long boots -- Reports of travellers -- One of the finest races in the world -- Nomadic -- Hunters -- Decreasing in numbers -- Introduction of horses -- _Bolas_ -- No history -- Keen bargainers but not progressive -- Features -- Good teeth -- Women -- Morality -- Young and old women -- Half-bloods -- _Paisanos_ -- Reserved in character -- Habits -- Infants' heads bandaged -- Dance -- Wives bought -- Price of a wife -- Marriage ceremony -- White man in _toldos_ -- Bad influence -- Connections of white men and Tehuelche women -- Dress and adornment of women -- Work -- Lazy race -- High wages -- Ceremonies and customs -- Religion -- Gualicho -- Fear of Cordillera -- Fat hunger -- Tehuelche lives on horseback -- Esquimaux and Tehuelche -- Primitive peoples and their habits -- Food -- Tobacco -- Pipes -- Language -- Tribal government -- Physical strength -- Decreasing numbers -- Men of silence and men of uproar -- Courtesy of a Tehuelche.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading As we came nearer we saw that one was that of a man clothed in a _chiripa_ and a _capa_ in which brown was the predominating colour.

wearing or provided with clothing; sometimes used in combination

From this reading As we came nearer we saw that one was that of a man clothed in a _chiripa_ and a _capa_ in which brown was the predominating colour.

having a low or inadequate temperature or feeling a sensation of coldness or having been made cold by e.g. ice or refrigeration

From this reading The wind, which had driven the snowstorm of the morning away to the east, swept drearily down out of an evening sky where neither sun nor sunset hues were to be seen, nothing but a spread of cold and misty grey, growing slowly overshadowed by the looming promise of more snow.

having or capable of producing colors

From this reading As we came nearer we saw that one was that of a man clothed in a _chiripa_ and a _capa_ in which brown was the predominating colour.

plural of “connection” — a relation between things or events (as in the case of one causing the other or sharing features with it)

From this reading MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE TEHUELCHES Indian method of curing measles -- Driving out the devil -- Magellan -- _Patagon_ -- Long boots -- Reports of travellers -- One of the finest races in the world -- Nomadic -- Hunters -- Decreasing in numbers -- Introduction of horses -- _Bolas_ -- No history -- Keen bargainers but not progressive -- Features -- Good teeth -- Women -- Morality -- Young and old women -- Half-bloods -- _Paisanos_ -- Reserved in character -- Habits -- Infants' heads bandaged -- Dance -- Wives bought -- Price of a wife -- Marriage ceremony -- White man in _toldos_ -- Bad influence -- Connections of white men and Tehuelche women -- Dress and adornment of women -- Work -- Lazy race -- High wages -- Ceremonies and customs -- Religion -- Gualicho -- Fear of Cordillera -- Fat hunger -- Tehuelche lives on horseback -- Esquimaux and Tehuelche -- Primitive peoples and their habits -- Food -- Tobacco -- Pipes -- Language -- Tribal government -- Physical strength -- Decreasing numbers -- Men of silence and men of uproar -- Courtesy of a Tehuelche.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE TEHUELCHES Indian method of curing measles -- Driving out the devil -- Magellan -- _Patagon_ -- Long boots -- Reports of travellers -- One of the finest races in the world -- Nomadic -- Hunters -- Decreasing in numbers -- Introduction of horses -- _Bolas_ -- No history -- Keen bargainers but not progressive -- Features -- Good teeth -- Women -- Morality -- Young and old women -- Half-bloods -- _Paisanos_ -- Reserved in character -- Habits -- Infants' heads bandaged -- Dance -- Wives bought -- Price of a wife -- Marriage ceremony -- White man in _toldos_ -- Bad influence -- Connections of white men and Tehuelche women -- Dress and adornment of women -- Work -- Lazy race -- High wages -- Ceremonies and customs -- Religion -- Gualicho -- Fear of Cordillera -- Fat hunger -- Tehuelche lives on horseback -- Esquimaux and Tehuelche -- Primitive peoples and their habits -- Food -- Tobacco -- Pipes -- Language -- Tribal government -- Physical strength -- Decreasing numbers -- Men of silence and men of uproar -- Courtesy of a Tehuelche.

the past of “can”; used for possibility or polite requests

From this reading Snow lay in the hollows so deep that only the lean crests of the higher bushes could thrust themselves through its surface.

a courteous or respectful or considerate act

From this reading MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE TEHUELCHES Indian method of curing measles -- Driving out the devil -- Magellan -- _Patagon_ -- Long boots -- Reports of travellers -- One of the finest races in the world -- Nomadic -- Hunters -- Decreasing in numbers -- Introduction of horses -- _Bolas_ -- No history -- Keen bargainers but not progressive -- Features -- Good teeth -- Women -- Morality -- Young and old women -- Half-bloods -- _Paisanos_ -- Reserved in character -- Habits -- Infants' heads bandaged -- Dance -- Wives bought -- Price of a wife -- Marriage ceremony -- White man in _toldos_ -- Bad influence -- Connections of white men and Tehuelche women -- Dress and adornment of women -- Work -- Lazy race -- High wages -- Ceremonies and customs -- Religion -- Gualicho -- Fear of Cordillera -- Fat hunger -- Tehuelche lives on horseback -- Esquimaux and Tehuelche -- Primitive peoples and their habits -- Food -- Tobacco -- Pipes -- Language -- Tribal government -- Physical strength -- Decreasing numbers -- Men of silence and men of uproar -- Courtesy of a Tehuelche.

plural of “crest” — the top line of a hill, mountain, or wave

From this reading Snow lay in the hollows so deep that only the lean crests of the higher bushes could thrust themselves through its surface.

the process of becoming hard or solid by cooling or drying or crystallization

From this reading MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE TEHUELCHES Indian method of curing measles -- Driving out the devil -- Magellan -- _Patagon_ -- Long boots -- Reports of travellers -- One of the finest races in the world -- Nomadic -- Hunters -- Decreasing in numbers -- Introduction of horses -- _Bolas_ -- No history -- Keen bargainers but not progressive -- Features -- Good teeth -- Women -- Morality -- Young and old women -- Half-bloods -- _Paisanos_ -- Reserved in character -- Habits -- Infants' heads bandaged -- Dance -- Wives bought -- Price of a wife -- Marriage ceremony -- White man in _toldos_ -- Bad influence -- Connections of white men and Tehuelche women -- Dress and adornment of women -- Work -- Lazy race -- High wages -- Ceremonies and customs -- Religion -- Gualicho -- Fear of Cordillera -- Fat hunger -- Tehuelche lives on horseback -- Esquimaux and Tehuelche -- Primitive peoples and their habits -- Food -- Tobacco -- Pipes -- Language -- Tribal government -- Physical strength -- Decreasing numbers -- Men of silence and men of uproar -- Courtesy of a Tehuelche.

money collected under a tariff

From this reading MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE TEHUELCHES Indian method of curing measles -- Driving out the devil -- Magellan -- _Patagon_ -- Long boots -- Reports of travellers -- One of the finest races in the world -- Nomadic -- Hunters -- Decreasing in numbers -- Introduction of horses -- _Bolas_ -- No history -- Keen bargainers but not progressive -- Features -- Good teeth -- Women -- Morality -- Young and old women -- Half-bloods -- _Paisanos_ -- Reserved in character -- Habits -- Infants' heads bandaged -- Dance -- Wives bought -- Price of a wife -- Marriage ceremony -- White man in _toldos_ -- Bad influence -- Connections of white men and Tehuelche women -- Dress and adornment of women -- Work -- Lazy race -- High wages -- Ceremonies and customs -- Religion -- Gualicho -- Fear of Cordillera -- Fat hunger -- Tehuelche lives on horseback -- Esquimaux and Tehuelche -- Primitive peoples and their habits -- Food -- Tobacco -- Pipes -- Language -- Tribal government -- Physical strength -- Decreasing numbers -- Men of silence and men of uproar -- Courtesy of a Tehuelche.

an artistic form of nonverbal communication

From this reading MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE TEHUELCHES Indian method of curing measles -- Driving out the devil -- Magellan -- _Patagon_ -- Long boots -- Reports of travellers -- One of the finest races in the world -- Nomadic -- Hunters -- Decreasing in numbers -- Introduction of horses -- _Bolas_ -- No history -- Keen bargainers but not progressive -- Features -- Good teeth -- Women -- Morality -- Young and old women -- Half-bloods -- _Paisanos_ -- Reserved in character -- Habits -- Infants' heads bandaged -- Dance -- Wives bought -- Price of a wife -- Marriage ceremony -- White man in _toldos_ -- Bad influence -- Connections of white men and Tehuelche women -- Dress and adornment of women -- Work -- Lazy race -- High wages -- Ceremonies and customs -- Religion -- Gualicho -- Fear of Cordillera -- Fat hunger -- Tehuelche lives on horseback -- Esquimaux and Tehuelche -- Primitive peoples and their habits -- Food -- Tobacco -- Pipes -- Language -- Tribal government -- Physical strength -- Decreasing numbers -- Men of silence and men of uproar -- Courtesy of a Tehuelche.

becoming less or smaller

From this reading MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE TEHUELCHES Indian method of curing measles -- Driving out the devil -- Magellan -- _Patagon_ -- Long boots -- Reports of travellers -- One of the finest races in the world -- Nomadic -- Hunters -- Decreasing in numbers -- Introduction of horses -- _Bolas_ -- No history -- Keen bargainers but not progressive -- Features -- Good teeth -- Women -- Morality -- Young and old women -- Half-bloods -- _Paisanos_ -- Reserved in character -- Habits -- Infants' heads bandaged -- Dance -- Wives bought -- Price of a wife -- Marriage ceremony -- White man in _toldos_ -- Bad influence -- Connections of white men and Tehuelche women -- Dress and adornment of women -- Work -- Lazy race -- High wages -- Ceremonies and customs -- Religion -- Gualicho -- Fear of Cordillera -- Fat hunger -- Tehuelche lives on horseback -- Esquimaux and Tehuelche -- Primitive peoples and their habits -- Food -- Tobacco -- Pipes -- Language -- Tribal government -- Physical strength -- Decreasing numbers -- Men of silence and men of uproar -- Courtesy of a Tehuelche.

relatively deep or strong; affecting one deeply

From this reading Snow lay in the hollows so deep that only the lean crests of the higher bushes could thrust themselves through its surface.

(Judeo-Christian and Islamic religions) chief spirit of evil and adversary of God; tempter of mankind; master of Hell

From this reading MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE TEHUELCHES Indian method of curing measles -- Driving out the devil -- Magellan -- _Patagon_ -- Long boots -- Reports of travellers -- One of the finest races in the world -- Nomadic -- Hunters -- Decreasing in numbers -- Introduction of horses -- _Bolas_ -- No history -- Keen bargainers but not progressive -- Features -- Good teeth -- Women -- Morality -- Young and old women -- Half-bloods -- _Paisanos_ -- Reserved in character -- Habits -- Infants' heads bandaged -- Dance -- Wives bought -- Price of a wife -- Marriage ceremony -- White man in _toldos_ -- Bad influence -- Connections of white men and Tehuelche women -- Dress and adornment of women -- Work -- Lazy race -- High wages -- Ceremonies and customs -- Religion -- Gualicho -- Fear of Cordillera -- Fat hunger -- Tehuelche lives on horseback -- Esquimaux and Tehuelche -- Primitive peoples and their habits -- Food -- Tobacco -- Pipes -- Language -- Tribal government -- Physical strength -- Decreasing numbers -- Men of silence and men of uproar -- Courtesy of a Tehuelche.

being or moving lower in position or less in some value

From this reading The wind, which had driven the snowstorm of the morning away to the east, swept drearily down out of an evening sky where neither sun nor sunset hues were to be seen, nothing but a spread of cold and misty grey, growing slowly overshadowed by the looming promise of more snow.

in a cheerless manner

From this reading The wind, which had driven the snowstorm of the morning away to the east, swept drearily down out of an evening sky where neither sun nor sunset hues were to be seen, nothing but a spread of cold and misty grey, growing slowly overshadowed by the looming promise of more snow.

put on clothes

From this reading MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE TEHUELCHES Indian method of curing measles -- Driving out the devil -- Magellan -- _Patagon_ -- Long boots -- Reports of travellers -- One of the finest races in the world -- Nomadic -- Hunters -- Decreasing in numbers -- Introduction of horses -- _Bolas_ -- No history -- Keen bargainers but not progressive -- Features -- Good teeth -- Women -- Morality -- Young and old women -- Half-bloods -- _Paisanos_ -- Reserved in character -- Habits -- Infants' heads bandaged -- Dance -- Wives bought -- Price of a wife -- Marriage ceremony -- White man in _toldos_ -- Bad influence -- Connections of white men and Tehuelche women -- Dress and adornment of women -- Work -- Lazy race -- High wages -- Ceremonies and customs -- Religion -- Gualicho -- Fear of Cordillera -- Fat hunger -- Tehuelche lives on horseback -- Esquimaux and Tehuelche -- Primitive peoples and their habits -- Food -- Tobacco -- Pipes -- Language -- Tribal government -- Physical strength -- Decreasing numbers -- Men of silence and men of uproar -- Courtesy of a Tehuelche.

compelled forcibly by an outside agency

From this reading The wind, which had driven the snowstorm of the morning away to the east, swept drearily down out of an evening sky where neither sun nor sunset hues were to be seen, nothing but a spread of cold and misty grey, growing slowly overshadowed by the looming promise of more snow.

having the power of driving or impelling

From this reading MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE TEHUELCHES Indian method of curing measles -- Driving out the devil -- Magellan -- _Patagon_ -- Long boots -- Reports of travellers -- One of the finest races in the world -- Nomadic -- Hunters -- Decreasing in numbers -- Introduction of horses -- _Bolas_ -- No history -- Keen bargainers but not progressive -- Features -- Good teeth -- Women -- Morality -- Young and old women -- Half-bloods -- _Paisanos_ -- Reserved in character -- Habits -- Infants' heads bandaged -- Dance -- Wives bought -- Price of a wife -- Marriage ceremony -- White man in _toldos_ -- Bad influence -- Connections of white men and Tehuelche women -- Dress and adornment of women -- Work -- Lazy race -- High wages -- Ceremonies and customs -- Religion -- Gualicho -- Fear of Cordillera -- Fat hunger -- Tehuelche lives on horseback -- Esquimaux and Tehuelche -- Primitive peoples and their habits -- Food -- Tobacco -- Pipes -- Language -- Tribal government -- Physical strength -- Decreasing numbers -- Men of silence and men of uproar -- Courtesy of a Tehuelche.

the cardinal compass point that is at 90 degrees

From this reading The wind, which had driven the snowstorm of the morning away to the east, swept drearily down out of an evening sky where neither sun nor sunset hues were to be seen, nothing but a spread of cold and misty grey, growing slowly overshadowed by the looming promise of more snow.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE TEHUELCHES Indian method of curing measles -- Driving out the devil -- Magellan -- _Patagon_ -- Long boots -- Reports of travellers -- One of the finest races in the world -- Nomadic -- Hunters -- Decreasing in numbers -- Introduction of horses -- _Bolas_ -- No history -- Keen bargainers but not progressive -- Features -- Good teeth -- Women -- Morality -- Young and old women -- Half-bloods -- _Paisanos_ -- Reserved in character -- Habits -- Infants' heads bandaged -- Dance -- Wives bought -- Price of a wife -- Marriage ceremony -- White man in _toldos_ -- Bad influence -- Connections of white men and Tehuelche women -- Dress and adornment of women -- Work -- Lazy race -- High wages -- Ceremonies and customs -- Religion -- Gualicho -- Fear of Cordillera -- Fat hunger -- Tehuelche lives on horseback -- Esquimaux and Tehuelche -- Primitive peoples and their habits -- Food -- Tobacco -- Pipes -- Language -- Tribal government -- Physical strength -- Decreasing numbers -- Men of silence and men of uproar -- Courtesy of a Tehuelche.

the latter part of the day (the period of decreasing daylight from late afternoon until nightfall)

From this reading The wind, which had driven the snowstorm of the morning away to the east, swept drearily down out of an evening sky where neither sun nor sunset hues were to be seen, nothing but a spread of cold and misty grey, growing slowly overshadowed by the looming promise of more snow.

having an (over)abundance of flesh

From this reading MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE TEHUELCHES Indian method of curing measles -- Driving out the devil -- Magellan -- _Patagon_ -- Long boots -- Reports of travellers -- One of the finest races in the world -- Nomadic -- Hunters -- Decreasing in numbers -- Introduction of horses -- _Bolas_ -- No history -- Keen bargainers but not progressive -- Features -- Good teeth -- Women -- Morality -- Young and old women -- Half-bloods -- _Paisanos_ -- Reserved in character -- Habits -- Infants' heads bandaged -- Dance -- Wives bought -- Price of a wife -- Marriage ceremony -- White man in _toldos_ -- Bad influence -- Connections of white men and Tehuelche women -- Dress and adornment of women -- Work -- Lazy race -- High wages -- Ceremonies and customs -- Religion -- Gualicho -- Fear of Cordillera -- Fat hunger -- Tehuelche lives on horseback -- Esquimaux and Tehuelche -- Primitive peoples and their habits -- Food -- Tobacco -- Pipes -- Language -- Tribal government -- Physical strength -- Decreasing numbers -- Men of silence and men of uproar -- Courtesy of a Tehuelche.

be afraid or feel anxious or apprehensive about a possible or probable situation or event

From this reading MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE TEHUELCHES Indian method of curing measles -- Driving out the devil -- Magellan -- _Patagon_ -- Long boots -- Reports of travellers -- One of the finest races in the world -- Nomadic -- Hunters -- Decreasing in numbers -- Introduction of horses -- _Bolas_ -- No history -- Keen bargainers but not progressive -- Features -- Good teeth -- Women -- Morality -- Young and old women -- Half-bloods -- _Paisanos_ -- Reserved in character -- Habits -- Infants' heads bandaged -- Dance -- Wives bought -- Price of a wife -- Marriage ceremony -- White man in _toldos_ -- Bad influence -- Connections of white men and Tehuelche women -- Dress and adornment of women -- Work -- Lazy race -- High wages -- Ceremonies and customs -- Religion -- Gualicho -- Fear of Cordillera -- Fat hunger -- Tehuelche lives on horseback -- Esquimaux and Tehuelche -- Primitive peoples and their habits -- Food -- Tobacco -- Pipes -- Language -- Tribal government -- Physical strength -- Decreasing numbers -- Men of silence and men of uproar -- Courtesy of a Tehuelche.

plural of “feature” — a prominent attribute or aspect of something

From this reading MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE TEHUELCHES Indian method of curing measles -- Driving out the devil -- Magellan -- _Patagon_ -- Long boots -- Reports of travellers -- One of the finest races in the world -- Nomadic -- Hunters -- Decreasing in numbers -- Introduction of horses -- _Bolas_ -- No history -- Keen bargainers but not progressive -- Features -- Good teeth -- Women -- Morality -- Young and old women -- Half-bloods -- _Paisanos_ -- Reserved in character -- Habits -- Infants' heads bandaged -- Dance -- Wives bought -- Price of a wife -- Marriage ceremony -- White man in _toldos_ -- Bad influence -- Connections of white men and Tehuelche women -- Dress and adornment of women -- Work -- Lazy race -- High wages -- Ceremonies and customs -- Religion -- Gualicho -- Fear of Cordillera -- Fat hunger -- Tehuelche lives on horseback -- Esquimaux and Tehuelche -- Primitive peoples and their habits -- Food -- Tobacco -- Pipes -- Language -- Tribal government -- Physical strength -- Decreasing numbers -- Men of silence and men of uproar -- Courtesy of a Tehuelche.

plural of “figure” — a diagram or picture illustrating textual material

From this reading In the middle of the level white pampa two figures upon galloping horses were visible.

superlative of “fine” — being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition

From this reading MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE TEHUELCHES Indian method of curing measles -- Driving out the devil -- Magellan -- _Patagon_ -- Long boots -- Reports of travellers -- One of the finest races in the world -- Nomadic -- Hunters -- Decreasing in numbers -- Introduction of horses -- _Bolas_ -- No history -- Keen bargainers but not progressive -- Features -- Good teeth -- Women -- Morality -- Young and old women -- Half-bloods -- _Paisanos_ -- Reserved in character -- Habits -- Infants' heads bandaged -- Dance -- Wives bought -- Price of a wife -- Marriage ceremony -- White man in _toldos_ -- Bad influence -- Connections of white men and Tehuelche women -- Dress and adornment of women -- Work -- Lazy race -- High wages -- Ceremonies and customs -- Religion -- Gualicho -- Fear of Cordillera -- Fat hunger -- Tehuelche lives on horseback -- Esquimaux and Tehuelche -- Primitive peoples and their habits -- Food -- Tobacco -- Pipes -- Language -- Tribal government -- Physical strength -- Decreasing numbers -- Men of silence and men of uproar -- Courtesy of a Tehuelche.

any substance that can be metabolized by an animal to give energy and build tissue

From this reading MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE TEHUELCHES Indian method of curing measles -- Driving out the devil -- Magellan -- _Patagon_ -- Long boots -- Reports of travellers -- One of the finest races in the world -- Nomadic -- Hunters -- Decreasing in numbers -- Introduction of horses -- _Bolas_ -- No history -- Keen bargainers but not progressive -- Features -- Good teeth -- Women -- Morality -- Young and old women -- Half-bloods -- _Paisanos_ -- Reserved in character -- Habits -- Infants' heads bandaged -- Dance -- Wives bought -- Price of a wife -- Marriage ceremony -- White man in _toldos_ -- Bad influence -- Connections of white men and Tehuelche women -- Dress and adornment of women -- Work -- Lazy race -- High wages -- Ceremonies and customs -- Religion -- Gualicho -- Fear of Cordillera -- Fat hunger -- Tehuelche lives on horseback -- Esquimaux and Tehuelche -- Primitive peoples and their habits -- Food -- Tobacco -- Pipes -- Language -- Tribal government -- Physical strength -- Decreasing numbers -- Men of silence and men of uproar -- Courtesy of a Tehuelche.

-ing form of “gallop” — ride at a galloping pace

From this reading In the middle of the level white pampa two figures upon galloping horses were visible.

having desirable or positive qualities especially those suitable for a thing specified

From this reading MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE TEHUELCHES Indian method of curing measles -- Driving out the devil -- Magellan -- _Patagon_ -- Long boots -- Reports of travellers -- One of the finest races in the world -- Nomadic -- Hunters -- Decreasing in numbers -- Introduction of horses -- _Bolas_ -- No history -- Keen bargainers but not progressive -- Features -- Good teeth -- Women -- Morality -- Young and old women -- Half-bloods -- _Paisanos_ -- Reserved in character -- Habits -- Infants' heads bandaged -- Dance -- Wives bought -- Price of a wife -- Marriage ceremony -- White man in _toldos_ -- Bad influence -- Connections of white men and Tehuelche women -- Dress and adornment of women -- Work -- Lazy race -- High wages -- Ceremonies and customs -- Religion -- Gualicho -- Fear of Cordillera -- Fat hunger -- Tehuelche lives on horseback -- Esquimaux and Tehuelche -- Primitive peoples and their habits -- Food -- Tobacco -- Pipes -- Language -- Tribal government -- Physical strength -- Decreasing numbers -- Men of silence and men of uproar -- Courtesy of a Tehuelche.

the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit

From this reading MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE TEHUELCHES Indian method of curing measles -- Driving out the devil -- Magellan -- _Patagon_ -- Long boots -- Reports of travellers -- One of the finest races in the world -- Nomadic -- Hunters -- Decreasing in numbers -- Introduction of horses -- _Bolas_ -- No history -- Keen bargainers but not progressive -- Features -- Good teeth -- Women -- Morality -- Young and old women -- Half-bloods -- _Paisanos_ -- Reserved in character -- Habits -- Infants' heads bandaged -- Dance -- Wives bought -- Price of a wife -- Marriage ceremony -- White man in _toldos_ -- Bad influence -- Connections of white men and Tehuelche women -- Dress and adornment of women -- Work -- Lazy race -- High wages -- Ceremonies and customs -- Religion -- Gualicho -- Fear of Cordillera -- Fat hunger -- Tehuelche lives on horseback -- Esquimaux and Tehuelche -- Primitive peoples and their habits -- Food -- Tobacco -- Pipes -- Language -- Tribal government -- Physical strength -- Decreasing numbers -- Men of silence and men of uproar -- Courtesy of a Tehuelche.

of an achromatic color of any lightness intermediate between the extremes of white and black

From this reading The wind, which had driven the snowstorm of the morning away to the east, swept drearily down out of an evening sky where neither sun nor sunset hues were to be seen, nothing but a spread of cold and misty grey, growing slowly overshadowed by the looming promise of more snow.

(biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level

From this reading The wind, which had driven the snowstorm of the morning away to the east, swept drearily down out of an evening sky where neither sun nor sunset hues were to be seen, nothing but a spread of cold and misty grey, growing slowly overshadowed by the looming promise of more snow.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE TEHUELCHES Indian method of curing measles -- Driving out the devil -- Magellan -- _Patagon_ -- Long boots -- Reports of travellers -- One of the finest races in the world -- Nomadic -- Hunters -- Decreasing in numbers -- Introduction of horses -- _Bolas_ -- No history -- Keen bargainers but not progressive -- Features -- Good teeth -- Women -- Morality -- Young and old women -- Half-bloods -- _Paisanos_ -- Reserved in character -- Habits -- Infants' heads bandaged -- Dance -- Wives bought -- Price of a wife -- Marriage ceremony -- White man in _toldos_ -- Bad influence -- Connections of white men and Tehuelche women -- Dress and adornment of women -- Work -- Lazy race -- High wages -- Ceremonies and customs -- Religion -- Gualicho -- Fear of Cordillera -- Fat hunger -- Tehuelche lives on horseback -- Esquimaux and Tehuelche -- Primitive peoples and their habits -- Food -- Tobacco -- Pipes -- Language -- Tribal government -- Physical strength -- Decreasing numbers -- Men of silence and men of uproar -- Courtesy of a Tehuelche.

plural of “habit” — an established custom

From this reading MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE TEHUELCHES Indian method of curing measles -- Driving out the devil -- Magellan -- _Patagon_ -- Long boots -- Reports of travellers -- One of the finest races in the world -- Nomadic -- Hunters -- Decreasing in numbers -- Introduction of horses -- _Bolas_ -- No history -- Keen bargainers but not progressive -- Features -- Good teeth -- Women -- Morality -- Young and old women -- Half-bloods -- _Paisanos_ -- Reserved in character -- Habits -- Infants' heads bandaged -- Dance -- Wives bought -- Price of a wife -- Marriage ceremony -- White man in _toldos_ -- Bad influence -- Connections of white men and Tehuelche women -- Dress and adornment of women -- Work -- Lazy race -- High wages -- Ceremonies and customs -- Religion -- Gualicho -- Fear of Cordillera -- Fat hunger -- Tehuelche lives on horseback -- Esquimaux and Tehuelche -- Primitive peoples and their habits -- Food -- Tobacco -- Pipes -- Language -- Tribal government -- Physical strength -- Decreasing numbers -- Men of silence and men of uproar -- Courtesy of a Tehuelche.

the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect

From this reading The wind, which had driven the snowstorm of the morning away to the east, swept drearily down out of an evening sky where neither sun nor sunset hues were to be seen, nothing but a spread of cold and misty grey, growing slowly overshadowed by the looming promise of more snow.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE TEHUELCHES Indian method of curing measles -- Driving out the devil -- Magellan -- _Patagon_ -- Long boots -- Reports of travellers -- One of the finest races in the world -- Nomadic -- Hunters -- Decreasing in numbers -- Introduction of horses -- _Bolas_ -- No history -- Keen bargainers but not progressive -- Features -- Good teeth -- Women -- Morality -- Young and old women -- Half-bloods -- _Paisanos_ -- Reserved in character -- Habits -- Infants' heads bandaged -- Dance -- Wives bought -- Price of a wife -- Marriage ceremony -- White man in _toldos_ -- Bad influence -- Connections of white men and Tehuelche women -- Dress and adornment of women -- Work -- Lazy race -- High wages -- Ceremonies and customs -- Religion -- Gualicho -- Fear of Cordillera -- Fat hunger -- Tehuelche lives on horseback -- Esquimaux and Tehuelche -- Primitive peoples and their habits -- Food -- Tobacco -- Pipes -- Language -- Tribal government -- Physical strength -- Decreasing numbers -- Men of silence and men of uproar -- Courtesy of a Tehuelche.

plural of “head” — the upper part of the human body or the front part of the body in animals; contains the face and brains

From this reading MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE TEHUELCHES Indian method of curing measles -- Driving out the devil -- Magellan -- _Patagon_ -- Long boots -- Reports of travellers -- One of the finest races in the world -- Nomadic -- Hunters -- Decreasing in numbers -- Introduction of horses -- _Bolas_ -- No history -- Keen bargainers but not progressive -- Features -- Good teeth -- Women -- Morality -- Young and old women -- Half-bloods -- _Paisanos_ -- Reserved in character -- Habits -- Infants' heads bandaged -- Dance -- Wives bought -- Price of a wife -- Marriage ceremony -- White man in _toldos_ -- Bad influence -- Connections of white men and Tehuelche women -- Dress and adornment of women -- Work -- Lazy race -- High wages -- Ceremonies and customs -- Religion -- Gualicho -- Fear of Cordillera -- Fat hunger -- Tehuelche lives on horseback -- Esquimaux and Tehuelche -- Primitive peoples and their habits -- Food -- Tobacco -- Pipes -- Language -- Tribal government -- Physical strength -- Decreasing numbers -- Men of silence and men of uproar -- Courtesy of a Tehuelche.

greater than normal in degree or intensity or amount

From this reading MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE TEHUELCHES Indian method of curing measles -- Driving out the devil -- Magellan -- _Patagon_ -- Long boots -- Reports of travellers -- One of the finest races in the world -- Nomadic -- Hunters -- Decreasing in numbers -- Introduction of horses -- _Bolas_ -- No history -- Keen bargainers but not progressive -- Features -- Good teeth -- Women -- Morality -- Young and old women -- Half-bloods -- _Paisanos_ -- Reserved in character -- Habits -- Infants' heads bandaged -- Dance -- Wives bought -- Price of a wife -- Marriage ceremony -- White man in _toldos_ -- Bad influence -- Connections of white men and Tehuelche women -- Dress and adornment of women -- Work -- Lazy race -- High wages -- Ceremonies and customs -- Religion -- Gualicho -- Fear of Cordillera -- Fat hunger -- Tehuelche lives on horseback -- Esquimaux and Tehuelche -- Primitive peoples and their habits -- Food -- Tobacco -- Pipes -- Language -- Tribal government -- Physical strength -- Decreasing numbers -- Men of silence and men of uproar -- Courtesy of a Tehuelche.

advanced in complexity or elaboration

From this reading Snow lay in the hollows so deep that only the lean crests of the higher bushes could thrust themselves through its surface.

the aggregate of past events

From this reading MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE TEHUELCHES Indian method of curing measles -- Driving out the devil -- Magellan -- _Patagon_ -- Long boots -- Reports of travellers -- One of the finest races in the world -- Nomadic -- Hunters -- Decreasing in numbers -- Introduction of horses -- _Bolas_ -- No history -- Keen bargainers but not progressive -- Features -- Good teeth -- Women -- Morality -- Young and old women -- Half-bloods -- _Paisanos_ -- Reserved in character -- Habits -- Infants' heads bandaged -- Dance -- Wives bought -- Price of a wife -- Marriage ceremony -- White man in _toldos_ -- Bad influence -- Connections of white men and Tehuelche women -- Dress and adornment of women -- Work -- Lazy race -- High wages -- Ceremonies and customs -- Religion -- Gualicho -- Fear of Cordillera -- Fat hunger -- Tehuelche lives on horseback -- Esquimaux and Tehuelche -- Primitive peoples and their habits -- Food -- Tobacco -- Pipes -- Language -- Tribal government -- Physical strength -- Decreasing numbers -- Men of silence and men of uproar -- Courtesy of a Tehuelche.

plural of “hollow” — a cavity or space in something

From this reading Snow lay in the hollows so deep that only the lean crests of the higher bushes could thrust themselves through its surface.

the back of a horse

From this reading MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE TEHUELCHES Indian method of curing measles -- Driving out the devil -- Magellan -- _Patagon_ -- Long boots -- Reports of travellers -- One of the finest races in the world -- Nomadic -- Hunters -- Decreasing in numbers -- Introduction of horses -- _Bolas_ -- No history -- Keen bargainers but not progressive -- Features -- Good teeth -- Women -- Morality -- Young and old women -- Half-bloods -- _Paisanos_ -- Reserved in character -- Habits -- Infants' heads bandaged -- Dance -- Wives bought -- Price of a wife -- Marriage ceremony -- White man in _toldos_ -- Bad influence -- Connections of white men and Tehuelche women -- Dress and adornment of women -- Work -- Lazy race -- High wages -- Ceremonies and customs -- Religion -- Gualicho -- Fear of Cordillera -- Fat hunger -- Tehuelche lives on horseback -- Esquimaux and Tehuelche -- Primitive peoples and their habits -- Food -- Tobacco -- Pipes -- Language -- Tribal government -- Physical strength -- Decreasing numbers -- Men of silence and men of uproar -- Courtesy of a Tehuelche.

plural of “horse” — solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times

From this reading MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE TEHUELCHES Indian method of curing measles -- Driving out the devil -- Magellan -- _Patagon_ -- Long boots -- Reports of travellers -- One of the finest races in the world -- Nomadic -- Hunters -- Decreasing in numbers -- Introduction of horses -- _Bolas_ -- No history -- Keen bargainers but not progressive -- Features -- Good teeth -- Women -- Morality -- Young and old women -- Half-bloods -- _Paisanos_ -- Reserved in character -- Habits -- Infants' heads bandaged -- Dance -- Wives bought -- Price of a wife -- Marriage ceremony -- White man in _toldos_ -- Bad influence -- Connections of white men and Tehuelche women -- Dress and adornment of women -- Work -- Lazy race -- High wages -- Ceremonies and customs -- Religion -- Gualicho -- Fear of Cordillera -- Fat hunger -- Tehuelche lives on horseback -- Esquimaux and Tehuelche -- Primitive peoples and their habits -- Food -- Tobacco -- Pipes -- Language -- Tribal government -- Physical strength -- Decreasing numbers -- Men of silence and men of uproar -- Courtesy of a Tehuelche.

plural of “hue” — the quality of a color as determined by its dominant wavelength

From this reading The wind, which had driven the snowstorm of the morning away to the east, swept drearily down out of an evening sky where neither sun nor sunset hues were to be seen, nothing but a spread of cold and misty grey, growing slowly overshadowed by the looming promise of more snow.

a physiological need for food; the consequence of food deprivation

From this reading MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE TEHUELCHES Indian method of curing measles -- Driving out the devil -- Magellan -- _Patagon_ -- Long boots -- Reports of travellers -- One of the finest races in the world -- Nomadic -- Hunters -- Decreasing in numbers -- Introduction of horses -- _Bolas_ -- No history -- Keen bargainers but not progressive -- Features -- Good teeth -- Women -- Morality -- Young and old women -- Half-bloods -- _Paisanos_ -- Reserved in character -- Habits -- Infants' heads bandaged -- Dance -- Wives bought -- Price of a wife -- Marriage ceremony -- White man in _toldos_ -- Bad influence -- Connections of white men and Tehuelche women -- Dress and adornment of women -- Work -- Lazy race -- High wages -- Ceremonies and customs -- Religion -- Gualicho -- Fear of Cordillera -- Fat hunger -- Tehuelche lives on horseback -- Esquimaux and Tehuelche -- Primitive peoples and their habits -- Food -- Tobacco -- Pipes -- Language -- Tribal government -- Physical strength -- Decreasing numbers -- Men of silence and men of uproar -- Courtesy of a Tehuelche.

plural of “hunter” — someone who hunts game

From this reading MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE TEHUELCHES Indian method of curing measles -- Driving out the devil -- Magellan -- _Patagon_ -- Long boots -- Reports of travellers -- One of the finest races in the world -- Nomadic -- Hunters -- Decreasing in numbers -- Introduction of horses -- _Bolas_ -- No history -- Keen bargainers but not progressive -- Features -- Good teeth -- Women -- Morality -- Young and old women -- Half-bloods -- _Paisanos_ -- Reserved in character -- Habits -- Infants' heads bandaged -- Dance -- Wives bought -- Price of a wife -- Marriage ceremony -- White man in _toldos_ -- Bad influence -- Connections of white men and Tehuelche women -- Dress and adornment of women -- Work -- Lazy race -- High wages -- Ceremonies and customs -- Religion -- Gualicho -- Fear of Cordillera -- Fat hunger -- Tehuelche lives on horseback -- Esquimaux and Tehuelche -- Primitive peoples and their habits -- Food -- Tobacco -- Pipes -- Language -- Tribal government -- Physical strength -- Decreasing numbers -- Men of silence and men of uproar -- Courtesy of a Tehuelche.

inside something, or within a place, period, or state

From this reading MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE TEHUELCHES Indian method of curing measles -- Driving out the devil -- Magellan -- _Patagon_ -- Long boots -- Reports of travellers -- One of the finest races in the world -- Nomadic -- Hunters -- Decreasing in numbers -- Introduction of horses -- _Bolas_ -- No history -- Keen bargainers but not progressive -- Features -- Good teeth -- Women -- Morality -- Young and old women -- Half-bloods -- _Paisanos_ -- Reserved in character -- Habits -- Infants' heads bandaged -- Dance -- Wives bought -- Price of a wife -- Marriage ceremony -- White man in _toldos_ -- Bad influence -- Connections of white men and Tehuelche women -- Dress and adornment of women -- Work -- Lazy race -- High wages -- Ceremonies and customs -- Religion -- Gualicho -- Fear of Cordillera -- Fat hunger -- Tehuelche lives on horseback -- Esquimaux and Tehuelche -- Primitive peoples and their habits -- Food -- Tobacco -- Pipes -- Language -- Tribal government -- Physical strength -- Decreasing numbers -- Men of silence and men of uproar -- Courtesy of a Tehuelche.

of or relating to or characteristic of India or the East Indies or their peoples or languages or cultures

From this reading MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE TEHUELCHES Indian method of curing measles -- Driving out the devil -- Magellan -- _Patagon_ -- Long boots -- Reports of travellers -- One of the finest races in the world -- Nomadic -- Hunters -- Decreasing in numbers -- Introduction of horses -- _Bolas_ -- No history -- Keen bargainers but not progressive -- Features -- Good teeth -- Women -- Morality -- Young and old women -- Half-bloods -- _Paisanos_ -- Reserved in character -- Habits -- Infants' heads bandaged -- Dance -- Wives bought -- Price of a wife -- Marriage ceremony -- White man in _toldos_ -- Bad influence -- Connections of white men and Tehuelche women -- Dress and adornment of women -- Work -- Lazy race -- High wages -- Ceremonies and customs -- Religion -- Gualicho -- Fear of Cordillera -- Fat hunger -- Tehuelche lives on horseback -- Esquimaux and Tehuelche -- Primitive peoples and their habits -- Food -- Tobacco -- Pipes -- Language -- Tribal government -- Physical strength -- Decreasing numbers -- Men of silence and men of uproar -- Courtesy of a Tehuelche.

plural of “infant” — a very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk

From this reading MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE TEHUELCHES Indian method of curing measles -- Driving out the devil -- Magellan -- _Patagon_ -- Long boots -- Reports of travellers -- One of the finest races in the world -- Nomadic -- Hunters -- Decreasing in numbers -- Introduction of horses -- _Bolas_ -- No history -- Keen bargainers but not progressive -- Features -- Good teeth -- Women -- Morality -- Young and old women -- Half-bloods -- _Paisanos_ -- Reserved in character -- Habits -- Infants' heads bandaged -- Dance -- Wives bought -- Price of a wife -- Marriage ceremony -- White man in _toldos_ -- Bad influence -- Connections of white men and Tehuelche women -- Dress and adornment of women -- Work -- Lazy race -- High wages -- Ceremonies and customs -- Religion -- Gualicho -- Fear of Cordillera -- Fat hunger -- Tehuelche lives on horseback -- Esquimaux and Tehuelche -- Primitive peoples and their habits -- Food -- Tobacco -- Pipes -- Language -- Tribal government -- Physical strength -- Decreasing numbers -- Men of silence and men of uproar -- Courtesy of a Tehuelche.

a power to affect persons or events especially power based on prestige etc

From this reading MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE TEHUELCHES Indian method of curing measles -- Driving out the devil -- Magellan -- _Patagon_ -- Long boots -- Reports of travellers -- One of the finest races in the world -- Nomadic -- Hunters -- Decreasing in numbers -- Introduction of horses -- _Bolas_ -- No history -- Keen bargainers but not progressive -- Features -- Good teeth -- Women -- Morality -- Young and old women -- Half-bloods -- _Paisanos_ -- Reserved in character -- Habits -- Infants' heads bandaged -- Dance -- Wives bought -- Price of a wife -- Marriage ceremony -- White man in _toldos_ -- Bad influence -- Connections of white men and Tehuelche women -- Dress and adornment of women -- Work -- Lazy race -- High wages -- Ceremonies and customs -- Religion -- Gualicho -- Fear of Cordillera -- Fat hunger -- Tehuelche lives on horseback -- Esquimaux and Tehuelche -- Primitive peoples and their habits -- Food -- Tobacco -- Pipes -- Language -- Tribal government -- Physical strength -- Decreasing numbers -- Men of silence and men of uproar -- Courtesy of a Tehuelche.

the act of beginning something new

From this reading MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE TEHUELCHES Indian method of curing measles -- Driving out the devil -- Magellan -- _Patagon_ -- Long boots -- Reports of travellers -- One of the finest races in the world -- Nomadic -- Hunters -- Decreasing in numbers -- Introduction of horses -- _Bolas_ -- No history -- Keen bargainers but not progressive -- Features -- Good teeth -- Women -- Morality -- Young and old women -- Half-bloods -- _Paisanos_ -- Reserved in character -- Habits -- Infants' heads bandaged -- Dance -- Wives bought -- Price of a wife -- Marriage ceremony -- White man in _toldos_ -- Bad influence -- Connections of white men and Tehuelche women -- Dress and adornment of women -- Work -- Lazy race -- High wages -- Ceremonies and customs -- Religion -- Gualicho -- Fear of Cordillera -- Fat hunger -- Tehuelche lives on horseback -- Esquimaux and Tehuelche -- Primitive peoples and their habits -- Food -- Tobacco -- Pipes -- Language -- Tribal government -- Physical strength -- Decreasing numbers -- Men of silence and men of uproar -- Courtesy of a Tehuelche.

belonging to the thing or animal already mentioned

From this reading Snow lay in the hollows so deep that only the lean crests of the higher bushes could thrust themselves through its surface.

having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions

From this reading MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE TEHUELCHES Indian method of curing measles -- Driving out the devil -- Magellan -- _Patagon_ -- Long boots -- Reports of travellers -- One of the finest races in the world -- Nomadic -- Hunters -- Decreasing in numbers -- Introduction of horses -- _Bolas_ -- No history -- Keen bargainers but not progressive -- Features -- Good teeth -- Women -- Morality -- Young and old women -- Half-bloods -- _Paisanos_ -- Reserved in character -- Habits -- Infants' heads bandaged -- Dance -- Wives bought -- Price of a wife -- Marriage ceremony -- White man in _toldos_ -- Bad influence -- Connections of white men and Tehuelche women -- Dress and adornment of women -- Work -- Lazy race -- High wages -- Ceremonies and customs -- Religion -- Gualicho -- Fear of Cordillera -- Fat hunger -- Tehuelche lives on horseback -- Esquimaux and Tehuelche -- Primitive peoples and their habits -- Food -- Tobacco -- Pipes -- Language -- Tribal government -- Physical strength -- Decreasing numbers -- Men of silence and men of uproar -- Courtesy of a Tehuelche.

a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols

From this reading MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE TEHUELCHES Indian method of curing measles -- Driving out the devil -- Magellan -- _Patagon_ -- Long boots -- Reports of travellers -- One of the finest races in the world -- Nomadic -- Hunters -- Decreasing in numbers -- Introduction of horses -- _Bolas_ -- No history -- Keen bargainers but not progressive -- Features -- Good teeth -- Women -- Morality -- Young and old women -- Half-bloods -- _Paisanos_ -- Reserved in character -- Habits -- Infants' heads bandaged -- Dance -- Wives bought -- Price of a wife -- Marriage ceremony -- White man in _toldos_ -- Bad influence -- Connections of white men and Tehuelche women -- Dress and adornment of women -- Work -- Lazy race -- High wages -- Ceremonies and customs -- Religion -- Gualicho -- Fear of Cordillera -- Fat hunger -- Tehuelche lives on horseback -- Esquimaux and Tehuelche -- Primitive peoples and their habits -- Food -- Tobacco -- Pipes -- Language -- Tribal government -- Physical strength -- Decreasing numbers -- Men of silence and men of uproar -- Courtesy of a Tehuelche.

put into a certain place or abstract location

From this reading Snow lay in the hollows so deep that only the lean crests of the higher bushes could thrust themselves through its surface.

moving slowly and gently

From this reading MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE TEHUELCHES Indian method of curing measles -- Driving out the devil -- Magellan -- _Patagon_ -- Long boots -- Reports of travellers -- One of the finest races in the world -- Nomadic -- Hunters -- Decreasing in numbers -- Introduction of horses -- _Bolas_ -- No history -- Keen bargainers but not progressive -- Features -- Good teeth -- Women -- Morality -- Young and old women -- Half-bloods -- _Paisanos_ -- Reserved in character -- Habits -- Infants' heads bandaged -- Dance -- Wives bought -- Price of a wife -- Marriage ceremony -- White man in _toldos_ -- Bad influence -- Connections of white men and Tehuelche women -- Dress and adornment of women -- Work -- Lazy race -- High wages -- Ceremonies and customs -- Religion -- Gualicho -- Fear of Cordillera -- Fat hunger -- Tehuelche lives on horseback -- Esquimaux and Tehuelche -- Primitive peoples and their habits -- Food -- Tobacco -- Pipes -- Language -- Tribal government -- Physical strength -- Decreasing numbers -- Men of silence and men of uproar -- Courtesy of a Tehuelche.

to incline or bend from a vertical position

From this reading Snow lay in the hollows so deep that only the lean crests of the higher bushes could thrust themselves through its surface.

a position on a scale of intensity or amount or quality

From this reading In the middle of the level white pampa two figures upon galloping horses were visible.

plural of “life” — a characteristic state or mode of living

From this reading MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE TEHUELCHES Indian method of curing measles -- Driving out the devil -- Magellan -- _Patagon_ -- Long boots -- Reports of travellers -- One of the finest races in the world -- Nomadic -- Hunters -- Decreasing in numbers -- Introduction of horses -- _Bolas_ -- No history -- Keen bargainers but not progressive -- Features -- Good teeth -- Women -- Morality -- Young and old women -- Half-bloods -- _Paisanos_ -- Reserved in character -- Habits -- Infants' heads bandaged -- Dance -- Wives bought -- Price of a wife -- Marriage ceremony -- White man in _toldos_ -- Bad influence -- Connections of white men and Tehuelche women -- Dress and adornment of women -- Work -- Lazy race -- High wages -- Ceremonies and customs -- Religion -- Gualicho -- Fear of Cordillera -- Fat hunger -- Tehuelche lives on horseback -- Esquimaux and Tehuelche -- Primitive peoples and their habits -- Food -- Tobacco -- Pipes -- Language -- Tribal government -- Physical strength -- Decreasing numbers -- Men of silence and men of uproar -- Courtesy of a Tehuelche.

primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified

From this reading MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE TEHUELCHES Indian method of curing measles -- Driving out the devil -- Magellan -- _Patagon_ -- Long boots -- Reports of travellers -- One of the finest races in the world -- Nomadic -- Hunters -- Decreasing in numbers -- Introduction of horses -- _Bolas_ -- No history -- Keen bargainers but not progressive -- Features -- Good teeth -- Women -- Morality -- Young and old women -- Half-bloods -- _Paisanos_ -- Reserved in character -- Habits -- Infants' heads bandaged -- Dance -- Wives bought -- Price of a wife -- Marriage ceremony -- White man in _toldos_ -- Bad influence -- Connections of white men and Tehuelche women -- Dress and adornment of women -- Work -- Lazy race -- High wages -- Ceremonies and customs -- Religion -- Gualicho -- Fear of Cordillera -- Fat hunger -- Tehuelche lives on horseback -- Esquimaux and Tehuelche -- Primitive peoples and their habits -- Food -- Tobacco -- Pipes -- Language -- Tribal government -- Physical strength -- Decreasing numbers -- Men of silence and men of uproar -- Courtesy of a Tehuelche.

-ing form of “loom” — come into view indistinctly, often threateningly

From this reading The wind, which had driven the snowstorm of the morning away to the east, swept drearily down out of an evening sky where neither sun nor sunset hues were to be seen, nothing but a spread of cold and misty grey, growing slowly overshadowed by the looming promise of more snow.

Portuguese navigator in the service of Spain; he commanded an expedition that was the first to circumnavigate the world (1480-1521)

From this reading MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE TEHUELCHES Indian method of curing measles -- Driving out the devil -- Magellan -- _Patagon_ -- Long boots -- Reports of travellers -- One of the finest races in the world -- Nomadic -- Hunters -- Decreasing in numbers -- Introduction of horses -- _Bolas_ -- No history -- Keen bargainers but not progressive -- Features -- Good teeth -- Women -- Morality -- Young and old women -- Half-bloods -- _Paisanos_ -- Reserved in character -- Habits -- Infants' heads bandaged -- Dance -- Wives bought -- Price of a wife -- Marriage ceremony -- White man in _toldos_ -- Bad influence -- Connections of white men and Tehuelche women -- Dress and adornment of women -- Work -- Lazy race -- High wages -- Ceremonies and customs -- Religion -- Gualicho -- Fear of Cordillera -- Fat hunger -- Tehuelche lives on horseback -- Esquimaux and Tehuelche -- Primitive peoples and their habits -- Food -- Tobacco -- Pipes -- Language -- Tribal government -- Physical strength -- Decreasing numbers -- Men of silence and men of uproar -- Courtesy of a Tehuelche.

an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman)

From this reading MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE TEHUELCHES Indian method of curing measles -- Driving out the devil -- Magellan -- _Patagon_ -- Long boots -- Reports of travellers -- One of the finest races in the world -- Nomadic -- Hunters -- Decreasing in numbers -- Introduction of horses -- _Bolas_ -- No history -- Keen bargainers but not progressive -- Features -- Good teeth -- Women -- Morality -- Young and old women -- Half-bloods -- _Paisanos_ -- Reserved in character -- Habits -- Infants' heads bandaged -- Dance -- Wives bought -- Price of a wife -- Marriage ceremony -- White man in _toldos_ -- Bad influence -- Connections of white men and Tehuelche women -- Dress and adornment of women -- Work -- Lazy race -- High wages -- Ceremonies and customs -- Religion -- Gualicho -- Fear of Cordillera -- Fat hunger -- Tehuelche lives on horseback -- Esquimaux and Tehuelche -- Primitive peoples and their habits -- Food -- Tobacco -- Pipes -- Language -- Tribal government -- Physical strength -- Decreasing numbers -- Men of silence and men of uproar -- Courtesy of a Tehuelche.

social deportment

From this reading MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE TEHUELCHES Indian method of curing measles -- Driving out the devil -- Magellan -- _Patagon_ -- Long boots -- Reports of travellers -- One of the finest races in the world -- Nomadic -- Hunters -- Decreasing in numbers -- Introduction of horses -- _Bolas_ -- No history -- Keen bargainers but not progressive -- Features -- Good teeth -- Women -- Morality -- Young and old women -- Half-bloods -- _Paisanos_ -- Reserved in character -- Habits -- Infants' heads bandaged -- Dance -- Wives bought -- Price of a wife -- Marriage ceremony -- White man in _toldos_ -- Bad influence -- Connections of white men and Tehuelche women -- Dress and adornment of women -- Work -- Lazy race -- High wages -- Ceremonies and customs -- Religion -- Gualicho -- Fear of Cordillera -- Fat hunger -- Tehuelche lives on horseback -- Esquimaux and Tehuelche -- Primitive peoples and their habits -- Food -- Tobacco -- Pipes -- Language -- Tribal government -- Physical strength -- Decreasing numbers -- Men of silence and men of uproar -- Courtesy of a Tehuelche.

the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce)

From this reading MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE TEHUELCHES Indian method of curing measles -- Driving out the devil -- Magellan -- _Patagon_ -- Long boots -- Reports of travellers -- One of the finest races in the world -- Nomadic -- Hunters -- Decreasing in numbers -- Introduction of horses -- _Bolas_ -- No history -- Keen bargainers but not progressive -- Features -- Good teeth -- Women -- Morality -- Young and old women -- Half-bloods -- _Paisanos_ -- Reserved in character -- Habits -- Infants' heads bandaged -- Dance -- Wives bought -- Price of a wife -- Marriage ceremony -- White man in _toldos_ -- Bad influence -- Connections of white men and Tehuelche women -- Dress and adornment of women -- Work -- Lazy race -- High wages -- Ceremonies and customs -- Religion -- Gualicho -- Fear of Cordillera -- Fat hunger -- Tehuelche lives on horseback -- Esquimaux and Tehuelche -- Primitive peoples and their habits -- Food -- Tobacco -- Pipes -- Language -- Tribal government -- Physical strength -- Decreasing numbers -- Men of silence and men of uproar -- Courtesy of a Tehuelche.

an acute and highly contagious viral disease marked by distinct red spots followed by a rash; occurs primarily in children

From this reading MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE TEHUELCHES Indian method of curing measles -- Driving out the devil -- Magellan -- _Patagon_ -- Long boots -- Reports of travellers -- One of the finest races in the world -- Nomadic -- Hunters -- Decreasing in numbers -- Introduction of horses -- _Bolas_ -- No history -- Keen bargainers but not progressive -- Features -- Good teeth -- Women -- Morality -- Young and old women -- Half-bloods -- _Paisanos_ -- Reserved in character -- Habits -- Infants' heads bandaged -- Dance -- Wives bought -- Price of a wife -- Marriage ceremony -- White man in _toldos_ -- Bad influence -- Connections of white men and Tehuelche women -- Dress and adornment of women -- Work -- Lazy race -- High wages -- Ceremonies and customs -- Religion -- Gualicho -- Fear of Cordillera -- Fat hunger -- Tehuelche lives on horseback -- Esquimaux and Tehuelche -- Primitive peoples and their habits -- Food -- Tobacco -- Pipes -- Language -- Tribal government -- Physical strength -- Decreasing numbers -- Men of silence and men of uproar -- Courtesy of a Tehuelche.

the force of workers available

From this reading MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE TEHUELCHES Indian method of curing measles -- Driving out the devil -- Magellan -- _Patagon_ -- Long boots -- Reports of travellers -- One of the finest races in the world -- Nomadic -- Hunters -- Decreasing in numbers -- Introduction of horses -- _Bolas_ -- No history -- Keen bargainers but not progressive -- Features -- Good teeth -- Women -- Morality -- Young and old women -- Half-bloods -- _Paisanos_ -- Reserved in character -- Habits -- Infants' heads bandaged -- Dance -- Wives bought -- Price of a wife -- Marriage ceremony -- White man in _toldos_ -- Bad influence -- Connections of white men and Tehuelche women -- Dress and adornment of women -- Work -- Lazy race -- High wages -- Ceremonies and customs -- Religion -- Gualicho -- Fear of Cordillera -- Fat hunger -- Tehuelche lives on horseback -- Esquimaux and Tehuelche -- Primitive peoples and their habits -- Food -- Tobacco -- Pipes -- Language -- Tribal government -- Physical strength -- Decreasing numbers -- Men of silence and men of uproar -- Courtesy of a Tehuelche.

a way of doing something, especially a systematic way; implies an orderly logical arrangement (usually in steps)

From this reading MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE TEHUELCHES Indian method of curing measles -- Driving out the devil -- Magellan -- _Patagon_ -- Long boots -- Reports of travellers -- One of the finest races in the world -- Nomadic -- Hunters -- Decreasing in numbers -- Introduction of horses -- _Bolas_ -- No history -- Keen bargainers but not progressive -- Features -- Good teeth -- Women -- Morality -- Young and old women -- Half-bloods -- _Paisanos_ -- Reserved in character -- Habits -- Infants' heads bandaged -- Dance -- Wives bought -- Price of a wife -- Marriage ceremony -- White man in _toldos_ -- Bad influence -- Connections of white men and Tehuelche women -- Dress and adornment of women -- Work -- Lazy race -- High wages -- Ceremonies and customs -- Religion -- Gualicho -- Fear of Cordillera -- Fat hunger -- Tehuelche lives on horseback -- Esquimaux and Tehuelche -- Primitive peoples and their habits -- Food -- Tobacco -- Pipes -- Language -- Tribal government -- Physical strength -- Decreasing numbers -- Men of silence and men of uproar -- Courtesy of a Tehuelche.

an area that is approximately central within some larger region

From this reading In the middle of the level white pampa two figures upon galloping horses were visible.

filled or abounding with fog or mist

From this reading The wind, which had driven the snowstorm of the morning away to the east, swept drearily down out of an evening sky where neither sun nor sunset hues were to be seen, nothing but a spread of cold and misty grey, growing slowly overshadowed by the looming promise of more snow.

concern with the distinction between good and evil or right and wrong; right or good conduct

From this reading MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE TEHUELCHES Indian method of curing measles -- Driving out the devil -- Magellan -- _Patagon_ -- Long boots -- Reports of travellers -- One of the finest races in the world -- Nomadic -- Hunters -- Decreasing in numbers -- Introduction of horses -- _Bolas_ -- No history -- Keen bargainers but not progressive -- Features -- Good teeth -- Women -- Morality -- Young and old women -- Half-bloods -- _Paisanos_ -- Reserved in character -- Habits -- Infants' heads bandaged -- Dance -- Wives bought -- Price of a wife -- Marriage ceremony -- White man in _toldos_ -- Bad influence -- Connections of white men and Tehuelche women -- Dress and adornment of women -- Work -- Lazy race -- High wages -- Ceremonies and customs -- Religion -- Gualicho -- Fear of Cordillera -- Fat hunger -- Tehuelche lives on horseback -- Esquimaux and Tehuelche -- Primitive peoples and their habits -- Food -- Tobacco -- Pipes -- Language -- Tribal government -- Physical strength -- Decreasing numbers -- Men of silence and men of uproar -- Courtesy of a Tehuelche.

(comparative of “much” used with mass nouns) a quantifier meaning greater in size or amount or extent or degree

From this reading The wind, which had driven the snowstorm of the morning away to the east, swept drearily down out of an evening sky where neither sun nor sunset hues were to be seen, nothing but a spread of cold and misty grey, growing slowly overshadowed by the looming promise of more snow.

the time period between dawn and noon

From this reading The wind, which had driven the snowstorm of the morning away to the east, swept drearily down out of an evening sky where neither sun nor sunset hues were to be seen, nothing but a spread of cold and misty grey, growing slowly overshadowed by the looming promise of more snow.

(comparative of “near” or “close”) within a shorter distance

From this reading As we came nearer we saw that one was that of a man clothed in a _chiripa_ and a _capa_ in which brown was the predominating colour.

not one and not the other of two

From this reading The wind, which had driven the snowstorm of the morning away to the east, swept drearily down out of an evening sky where neither sun nor sunset hues were to be seen, nothing but a spread of cold and misty grey, growing slowly overshadowed by the looming promise of more snow.

not any; not one

From this reading MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE TEHUELCHES Indian method of curing measles -- Driving out the devil -- Magellan -- _Patagon_ -- Long boots -- Reports of travellers -- One of the finest races in the world -- Nomadic -- Hunters -- Decreasing in numbers -- Introduction of horses -- _Bolas_ -- No history -- Keen bargainers but not progressive -- Features -- Good teeth -- Women -- Morality -- Young and old women -- Half-bloods -- _Paisanos_ -- Reserved in character -- Habits -- Infants' heads bandaged -- Dance -- Wives bought -- Price of a wife -- Marriage ceremony -- White man in _toldos_ -- Bad influence -- Connections of white men and Tehuelche women -- Dress and adornment of women -- Work -- Lazy race -- High wages -- Ceremonies and customs -- Religion -- Gualicho -- Fear of Cordillera -- Fat hunger -- Tehuelche lives on horseback -- Esquimaux and Tehuelche -- Primitive peoples and their habits -- Food -- Tobacco -- Pipes -- Language -- Tribal government -- Physical strength -- Decreasing numbers -- Men of silence and men of uproar -- Courtesy of a Tehuelche.

migratory

From this reading MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE TEHUELCHES Indian method of curing measles -- Driving out the devil -- Magellan -- _Patagon_ -- Long boots -- Reports of travellers -- One of the finest races in the world -- Nomadic -- Hunters -- Decreasing in numbers -- Introduction of horses -- _Bolas_ -- No history -- Keen bargainers but not progressive -- Features -- Good teeth -- Women -- Morality -- Young and old women -- Half-bloods -- _Paisanos_ -- Reserved in character -- Habits -- Infants' heads bandaged -- Dance -- Wives bought -- Price of a wife -- Marriage ceremony -- White man in _toldos_ -- Bad influence -- Connections of white men and Tehuelche women -- Dress and adornment of women -- Work -- Lazy race -- High wages -- Ceremonies and customs -- Religion -- Gualicho -- Fear of Cordillera -- Fat hunger -- Tehuelche lives on horseback -- Esquimaux and Tehuelche -- Primitive peoples and their habits -- Food -- Tobacco -- Pipes -- Language -- Tribal government -- Physical strength -- Decreasing numbers -- Men of silence and men of uproar -- Courtesy of a Tehuelche.

and not; used after a negative to add a second negative

From this reading The wind, which had driven the snowstorm of the morning away to the east, swept drearily down out of an evening sky where neither sun nor sunset hues were to be seen, nothing but a spread of cold and misty grey, growing slowly overshadowed by the looming promise of more snow.

used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative

From this reading MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE TEHUELCHES Indian method of curing measles -- Driving out the devil -- Magellan -- _Patagon_ -- Long boots -- Reports of travellers -- One of the finest races in the world -- Nomadic -- Hunters -- Decreasing in numbers -- Introduction of horses -- _Bolas_ -- No history -- Keen bargainers but not progressive -- Features -- Good teeth -- Women -- Morality -- Young and old women -- Half-bloods -- _Paisanos_ -- Reserved in character -- Habits -- Infants' heads bandaged -- Dance -- Wives bought -- Price of a wife -- Marriage ceremony -- White man in _toldos_ -- Bad influence -- Connections of white men and Tehuelche women -- Dress and adornment of women -- Work -- Lazy race -- High wages -- Ceremonies and customs -- Religion -- Gualicho -- Fear of Cordillera -- Fat hunger -- Tehuelche lives on horseback -- Esquimaux and Tehuelche -- Primitive peoples and their habits -- Food -- Tobacco -- Pipes -- Language -- Tribal government -- Physical strength -- Decreasing numbers -- Men of silence and men of uproar -- Courtesy of a Tehuelche.

not one thing; not anything

From this reading The wind, which had driven the snowstorm of the morning away to the east, swept drearily down out of an evening sky where neither sun nor sunset hues were to be seen, nothing but a spread of cold and misty grey, growing slowly overshadowed by the looming promise of more snow.

the fourth book of the Old Testament; contains a record of the number of Israelites who followed Moses out of Egypt

From this reading MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE TEHUELCHES Indian method of curing measles -- Driving out the devil -- Magellan -- _Patagon_ -- Long boots -- Reports of travellers -- One of the finest races in the world -- Nomadic -- Hunters -- Decreasing in numbers -- Introduction of horses -- _Bolas_ -- No history -- Keen bargainers but not progressive -- Features -- Good teeth -- Women -- Morality -- Young and old women -- Half-bloods -- _Paisanos_ -- Reserved in character -- Habits -- Infants' heads bandaged -- Dance -- Wives bought -- Price of a wife -- Marriage ceremony -- White man in _toldos_ -- Bad influence -- Connections of white men and Tehuelche women -- Dress and adornment of women -- Work -- Lazy race -- High wages -- Ceremonies and customs -- Religion -- Gualicho -- Fear of Cordillera -- Fat hunger -- Tehuelche lives on horseback -- Esquimaux and Tehuelche -- Primitive peoples and their habits -- Food -- Tobacco -- Pipes -- Language -- Tribal government -- Physical strength -- Decreasing numbers -- Men of silence and men of uproar -- Courtesy of a Tehuelche.

belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something

From this reading MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE TEHUELCHES Indian method of curing measles -- Driving out the devil -- Magellan -- _Patagon_ -- Long boots -- Reports of travellers -- One of the finest races in the world -- Nomadic -- Hunters -- Decreasing in numbers -- Introduction of horses -- _Bolas_ -- No history -- Keen bargainers but not progressive -- Features -- Good teeth -- Women -- Morality -- Young and old women -- Half-bloods -- _Paisanos_ -- Reserved in character -- Habits -- Infants' heads bandaged -- Dance -- Wives bought -- Price of a wife -- Marriage ceremony -- White man in _toldos_ -- Bad influence -- Connections of white men and Tehuelche women -- Dress and adornment of women -- Work -- Lazy race -- High wages -- Ceremonies and customs -- Religion -- Gualicho -- Fear of Cordillera -- Fat hunger -- Tehuelche lives on horseback -- Esquimaux and Tehuelche -- Primitive peoples and their habits -- Food -- Tobacco -- Pipes -- Language -- Tribal government -- Physical strength -- Decreasing numbers -- Men of silence and men of uproar -- Courtesy of a Tehuelche.

(used especially of persons) having lived for a relatively long time or attained a specific age

From this reading MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE TEHUELCHES Indian method of curing measles -- Driving out the devil -- Magellan -- _Patagon_ -- Long boots -- Reports of travellers -- One of the finest races in the world -- Nomadic -- Hunters -- Decreasing in numbers -- Introduction of horses -- _Bolas_ -- No history -- Keen bargainers but not progressive -- Features -- Good teeth -- Women -- Morality -- Young and old women -- Half-bloods -- _Paisanos_ -- Reserved in character -- Habits -- Infants' heads bandaged -- Dance -- Wives bought -- Price of a wife -- Marriage ceremony -- White man in _toldos_ -- Bad influence -- Connections of white men and Tehuelche women -- Dress and adornment of women -- Work -- Lazy race -- High wages -- Ceremonies and customs -- Religion -- Gualicho -- Fear of Cordillera -- Fat hunger -- Tehuelche lives on horseback -- Esquimaux and Tehuelche -- Primitive peoples and their habits -- Food -- Tobacco -- Pipes -- Language -- Tribal government -- Physical strength -- Decreasing numbers -- Men of silence and men of uproar -- Courtesy of a Tehuelche.

touching and supported by a surface

From this reading MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE TEHUELCHES Indian method of curing measles -- Driving out the devil -- Magellan -- _Patagon_ -- Long boots -- Reports of travellers -- One of the finest races in the world -- Nomadic -- Hunters -- Decreasing in numbers -- Introduction of horses -- _Bolas_ -- No history -- Keen bargainers but not progressive -- Features -- Good teeth -- Women -- Morality -- Young and old women -- Half-bloods -- _Paisanos_ -- Reserved in character -- Habits -- Infants' heads bandaged -- Dance -- Wives bought -- Price of a wife -- Marriage ceremony -- White man in _toldos_ -- Bad influence -- Connections of white men and Tehuelche women -- Dress and adornment of women -- Work -- Lazy race -- High wages -- Ceremonies and customs -- Religion -- Gualicho -- Fear of Cordillera -- Fat hunger -- Tehuelche lives on horseback -- Esquimaux and Tehuelche -- Primitive peoples and their habits -- Food -- Tobacco -- Pipes -- Language -- Tribal government -- Physical strength -- Decreasing numbers -- Men of silence and men of uproar -- Courtesy of a Tehuelche.

used to mean any person in general, including the speaker

From this reading MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE TEHUELCHES Indian method of curing measles -- Driving out the devil -- Magellan -- _Patagon_ -- Long boots -- Reports of travellers -- One of the finest races in the world -- Nomadic -- Hunters -- Decreasing in numbers -- Introduction of horses -- _Bolas_ -- No history -- Keen bargainers but not progressive -- Features -- Good teeth -- Women -- Morality -- Young and old women -- Half-bloods -- _Paisanos_ -- Reserved in character -- Habits -- Infants' heads bandaged -- Dance -- Wives bought -- Price of a wife -- Marriage ceremony -- White man in _toldos_ -- Bad influence -- Connections of white men and Tehuelche women -- Dress and adornment of women -- Work -- Lazy race -- High wages -- Ceremonies and customs -- Religion -- Gualicho -- Fear of Cordillera -- Fat hunger -- Tehuelche lives on horseback -- Esquimaux and Tehuelche -- Primitive peoples and their habits -- Food -- Tobacco -- Pipes -- Language -- Tribal government -- Physical strength -- Decreasing numbers -- Men of silence and men of uproar -- Courtesy of a Tehuelche.

and nothing more

From this reading Snow lay in the hollows so deep that only the lean crests of the higher bushes could thrust themselves through its surface.

not allowed to continue to bat or run

From this reading MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE TEHUELCHES Indian method of curing measles -- Driving out the devil -- Magellan -- _Patagon_ -- Long boots -- Reports of travellers -- One of the finest races in the world -- Nomadic -- Hunters -- Decreasing in numbers -- Introduction of horses -- _Bolas_ -- No history -- Keen bargainers but not progressive -- Features -- Good teeth -- Women -- Morality -- Young and old women -- Half-bloods -- _Paisanos_ -- Reserved in character -- Habits -- Infants' heads bandaged -- Dance -- Wives bought -- Price of a wife -- Marriage ceremony -- White man in _toldos_ -- Bad influence -- Connections of white men and Tehuelche women -- Dress and adornment of women -- Work -- Lazy race -- High wages -- Ceremonies and customs -- Religion -- Gualicho -- Fear of Cordillera -- Fat hunger -- Tehuelche lives on horseback -- Esquimaux and Tehuelche -- Primitive peoples and their habits -- Food -- Tobacco -- Pipes -- Language -- Tribal government -- Physical strength -- Decreasing numbers -- Men of silence and men of uproar -- Courtesy of a Tehuelche.

past form of “overshadow” — be greater in significance than

From this reading The wind, which had driven the snowstorm of the morning away to the east, swept drearily down out of an evening sky where neither sun nor sunset hues were to be seen, nothing but a spread of cold and misty grey, growing slowly overshadowed by the looming promise of more snow.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE TEHUELCHES Indian method of curing measles -- Driving out the devil -- Magellan -- _Patagon_ -- Long boots -- Reports of travellers -- One of the finest races in the world -- Nomadic -- Hunters -- Decreasing in numbers -- Introduction of horses -- _Bolas_ -- No history -- Keen bargainers but not progressive -- Features -- Good teeth -- Women -- Morality -- Young and old women -- Half-bloods -- _Paisanos_ -- Reserved in character -- Habits -- Infants' heads bandaged -- Dance -- Wives bought -- Price of a wife -- Marriage ceremony -- White man in _toldos_ -- Bad influence -- Connections of white men and Tehuelche women -- Dress and adornment of women -- Work -- Lazy race -- High wages -- Ceremonies and customs -- Religion -- Gualicho -- Fear of Cordillera -- Fat hunger -- Tehuelche lives on horseback -- Esquimaux and Tehuelche -- Primitive peoples and their habits -- Food -- Tobacco -- Pipes -- Language -- Tribal government -- Physical strength -- Decreasing numbers -- Men of silence and men of uproar -- Courtesy of a Tehuelche.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading In the middle of the level white pampa two figures upon galloping horses were visible.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE TEHUELCHES Indian method of curing measles -- Driving out the devil -- Magellan -- _Patagon_ -- Long boots -- Reports of travellers -- One of the finest races in the world -- Nomadic -- Hunters -- Decreasing in numbers -- Introduction of horses -- _Bolas_ -- No history -- Keen bargainers but not progressive -- Features -- Good teeth -- Women -- Morality -- Young and old women -- Half-bloods -- _Paisanos_ -- Reserved in character -- Habits -- Infants' heads bandaged -- Dance -- Wives bought -- Price of a wife -- Marriage ceremony -- White man in _toldos_ -- Bad influence -- Connections of white men and Tehuelche women -- Dress and adornment of women -- Work -- Lazy race -- High wages -- Ceremonies and customs -- Religion -- Gualicho -- Fear of Cordillera -- Fat hunger -- Tehuelche lives on horseback -- Esquimaux and Tehuelche -- Primitive peoples and their habits -- Food -- Tobacco -- Pipes -- Language -- Tribal government -- Physical strength -- Decreasing numbers -- Men of silence and men of uproar -- Courtesy of a Tehuelche.

the human beings of a particular nation or community or ethnic group

From this reading MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE TEHUELCHES Indian method of curing measles -- Driving out the devil -- Magellan -- _Patagon_ -- Long boots -- Reports of travellers -- One of the finest races in the world -- Nomadic -- Hunters -- Decreasing in numbers -- Introduction of horses -- _Bolas_ -- No history -- Keen bargainers but not progressive -- Features -- Good teeth -- Women -- Morality -- Young and old women -- Half-bloods -- _Paisanos_ -- Reserved in character -- Habits -- Infants' heads bandaged -- Dance -- Wives bought -- Price of a wife -- Marriage ceremony -- White man in _toldos_ -- Bad influence -- Connections of white men and Tehuelche women -- Dress and adornment of women -- Work -- Lazy race -- High wages -- Ceremonies and customs -- Religion -- Gualicho -- Fear of Cordillera -- Fat hunger -- Tehuelche lives on horseback -- Esquimaux and Tehuelche -- Primitive peoples and their habits -- Food -- Tobacco -- Pipes -- Language -- Tribal government -- Physical strength -- Decreasing numbers -- Men of silence and men of uproar -- Courtesy of a Tehuelche.

involving the body as distinguished from the mind or spirit

From this reading MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE TEHUELCHES Indian method of curing measles -- Driving out the devil -- Magellan -- _Patagon_ -- Long boots -- Reports of travellers -- One of the finest races in the world -- Nomadic -- Hunters -- Decreasing in numbers -- Introduction of horses -- _Bolas_ -- No history -- Keen bargainers but not progressive -- Features -- Good teeth -- Women -- Morality -- Young and old women -- Half-bloods -- _Paisanos_ -- Reserved in character -- Habits -- Infants' heads bandaged -- Dance -- Wives bought -- Price of a wife -- Marriage ceremony -- White man in _toldos_ -- Bad influence -- Connections of white men and Tehuelche women -- Dress and adornment of women -- Work -- Lazy race -- High wages -- Ceremonies and customs -- Religion -- Gualicho -- Fear of Cordillera -- Fat hunger -- Tehuelche lives on horseback -- Esquimaux and Tehuelche -- Primitive peoples and their habits -- Food -- Tobacco -- Pipes -- Language -- Tribal government -- Physical strength -- Decreasing numbers -- Men of silence and men of uproar -- Courtesy of a Tehuelche.

plural of “pipe” — a tube with a small bowl at one end; used for smoking tobacco

From this reading MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE TEHUELCHES Indian method of curing measles -- Driving out the devil -- Magellan -- _Patagon_ -- Long boots -- Reports of travellers -- One of the finest races in the world -- Nomadic -- Hunters -- Decreasing in numbers -- Introduction of horses -- _Bolas_ -- No history -- Keen bargainers but not progressive -- Features -- Good teeth -- Women -- Morality -- Young and old women -- Half-bloods -- _Paisanos_ -- Reserved in character -- Habits -- Infants' heads bandaged -- Dance -- Wives bought -- Price of a wife -- Marriage ceremony -- White man in _toldos_ -- Bad influence -- Connections of white men and Tehuelche women -- Dress and adornment of women -- Work -- Lazy race -- High wages -- Ceremonies and customs -- Religion -- Gualicho -- Fear of Cordillera -- Fat hunger -- Tehuelche lives on horseback -- Esquimaux and Tehuelche -- Primitive peoples and their habits -- Food -- Tobacco -- Pipes -- Language -- Tribal government -- Physical strength -- Decreasing numbers -- Men of silence and men of uproar -- Courtesy of a Tehuelche.

-ing form of “predominate” — be larger in number, quantity, power, status or importance

From this reading As we came nearer we saw that one was that of a man clothed in a _chiripa_ and a _capa_ in which brown was the predominating colour.

the property of having material worth (often indicated by the amount of money something would bring if sold)

From this reading MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE TEHUELCHES Indian method of curing measles -- Driving out the devil -- Magellan -- _Patagon_ -- Long boots -- Reports of travellers -- One of the finest races in the world -- Nomadic -- Hunters -- Decreasing in numbers -- Introduction of horses -- _Bolas_ -- No history -- Keen bargainers but not progressive -- Features -- Good teeth -- Women -- Morality -- Young and old women -- Half-bloods -- _Paisanos_ -- Reserved in character -- Habits -- Infants' heads bandaged -- Dance -- Wives bought -- Price of a wife -- Marriage ceremony -- White man in _toldos_ -- Bad influence -- Connections of white men and Tehuelche women -- Dress and adornment of women -- Work -- Lazy race -- High wages -- Ceremonies and customs -- Religion -- Gualicho -- Fear of Cordillera -- Fat hunger -- Tehuelche lives on horseback -- Esquimaux and Tehuelche -- Primitive peoples and their habits -- Food -- Tobacco -- Pipes -- Language -- Tribal government -- Physical strength -- Decreasing numbers -- Men of silence and men of uproar -- Courtesy of a Tehuelche.

belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness

From this reading MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE TEHUELCHES Indian method of curing measles -- Driving out the devil -- Magellan -- _Patagon_ -- Long boots -- Reports of travellers -- One of the finest races in the world -- Nomadic -- Hunters -- Decreasing in numbers -- Introduction of horses -- _Bolas_ -- No history -- Keen bargainers but not progressive -- Features -- Good teeth -- Women -- Morality -- Young and old women -- Half-bloods -- _Paisanos_ -- Reserved in character -- Habits -- Infants' heads bandaged -- Dance -- Wives bought -- Price of a wife -- Marriage ceremony -- White man in _toldos_ -- Bad influence -- Connections of white men and Tehuelche women -- Dress and adornment of women -- Work -- Lazy race -- High wages -- Ceremonies and customs -- Religion -- Gualicho -- Fear of Cordillera -- Fat hunger -- Tehuelche lives on horseback -- Esquimaux and Tehuelche -- Primitive peoples and their habits -- Food -- Tobacco -- Pipes -- Language -- Tribal government -- Physical strength -- Decreasing numbers -- Men of silence and men of uproar -- Courtesy of a Tehuelche.

favoring or promoting progress

From this reading MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE TEHUELCHES Indian method of curing measles -- Driving out the devil -- Magellan -- _Patagon_ -- Long boots -- Reports of travellers -- One of the finest races in the world -- Nomadic -- Hunters -- Decreasing in numbers -- Introduction of horses -- _Bolas_ -- No history -- Keen bargainers but not progressive -- Features -- Good teeth -- Women -- Morality -- Young and old women -- Half-bloods -- _Paisanos_ -- Reserved in character -- Habits -- Infants' heads bandaged -- Dance -- Wives bought -- Price of a wife -- Marriage ceremony -- White man in _toldos_ -- Bad influence -- Connections of white men and Tehuelche women -- Dress and adornment of women -- Work -- Lazy race -- High wages -- Ceremonies and customs -- Religion -- Gualicho -- Fear of Cordillera -- Fat hunger -- Tehuelche lives on horseback -- Esquimaux and Tehuelche -- Primitive peoples and their habits -- Food -- Tobacco -- Pipes -- Language -- Tribal government -- Physical strength -- Decreasing numbers -- Men of silence and men of uproar -- Courtesy of a Tehuelche.

make a promise or commitment

From this reading The wind, which had driven the snowstorm of the morning away to the east, swept drearily down out of an evening sky where neither sun nor sunset hues were to be seen, nothing but a spread of cold and misty grey, growing slowly overshadowed by the looming promise of more snow.

any competition

From this reading MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE TEHUELCHES Indian method of curing measles -- Driving out the devil -- Magellan -- _Patagon_ -- Long boots -- Reports of travellers -- One of the finest races in the world -- Nomadic -- Hunters -- Decreasing in numbers -- Introduction of horses -- _Bolas_ -- No history -- Keen bargainers but not progressive -- Features -- Good teeth -- Women -- Morality -- Young and old women -- Half-bloods -- _Paisanos_ -- Reserved in character -- Habits -- Infants' heads bandaged -- Dance -- Wives bought -- Price of a wife -- Marriage ceremony -- White man in _toldos_ -- Bad influence -- Connections of white men and Tehuelche women -- Dress and adornment of women -- Work -- Lazy race -- High wages -- Ceremonies and customs -- Religion -- Gualicho -- Fear of Cordillera -- Fat hunger -- Tehuelche lives on horseback -- Esquimaux and Tehuelche -- Primitive peoples and their habits -- Food -- Tobacco -- Pipes -- Language -- Tribal government -- Physical strength -- Decreasing numbers -- Men of silence and men of uproar -- Courtesy of a Tehuelche.

plural of “race” — any competition

From this reading MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE TEHUELCHES Indian method of curing measles -- Driving out the devil -- Magellan -- _Patagon_ -- Long boots -- Reports of travellers -- One of the finest races in the world -- Nomadic -- Hunters -- Decreasing in numbers -- Introduction of horses -- _Bolas_ -- No history -- Keen bargainers but not progressive -- Features -- Good teeth -- Women -- Morality -- Young and old women -- Half-bloods -- _Paisanos_ -- Reserved in character -- Habits -- Infants' heads bandaged -- Dance -- Wives bought -- Price of a wife -- Marriage ceremony -- White man in _toldos_ -- Bad influence -- Connections of white men and Tehuelche women -- Dress and adornment of women -- Work -- Lazy race -- High wages -- Ceremonies and customs -- Religion -- Gualicho -- Fear of Cordillera -- Fat hunger -- Tehuelche lives on horseback -- Esquimaux and Tehuelche -- Primitive peoples and their habits -- Food -- Tobacco -- Pipes -- Language -- Tribal government -- Physical strength -- Decreasing numbers -- Men of silence and men of uproar -- Courtesy of a Tehuelche.

a strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny

From this reading MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE TEHUELCHES Indian method of curing measles -- Driving out the devil -- Magellan -- _Patagon_ -- Long boots -- Reports of travellers -- One of the finest races in the world -- Nomadic -- Hunters -- Decreasing in numbers -- Introduction of horses -- _Bolas_ -- No history -- Keen bargainers but not progressive -- Features -- Good teeth -- Women -- Morality -- Young and old women -- Half-bloods -- _Paisanos_ -- Reserved in character -- Habits -- Infants' heads bandaged -- Dance -- Wives bought -- Price of a wife -- Marriage ceremony -- White man in _toldos_ -- Bad influence -- Connections of white men and Tehuelche women -- Dress and adornment of women -- Work -- Lazy race -- High wages -- Ceremonies and customs -- Religion -- Gualicho -- Fear of Cordillera -- Fat hunger -- Tehuelche lives on horseback -- Esquimaux and Tehuelche -- Primitive peoples and their habits -- Food -- Tobacco -- Pipes -- Language -- Tribal government -- Physical strength -- Decreasing numbers -- Men of silence and men of uproar -- Courtesy of a Tehuelche.

plural of “report” — a written document describing the findings of some individual or group

From this reading MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE TEHUELCHES Indian method of curing measles -- Driving out the devil -- Magellan -- _Patagon_ -- Long boots -- Reports of travellers -- One of the finest races in the world -- Nomadic -- Hunters -- Decreasing in numbers -- Introduction of horses -- _Bolas_ -- No history -- Keen bargainers but not progressive -- Features -- Good teeth -- Women -- Morality -- Young and old women -- Half-bloods -- _Paisanos_ -- Reserved in character -- Habits -- Infants' heads bandaged -- Dance -- Wives bought -- Price of a wife -- Marriage ceremony -- White man in _toldos_ -- Bad influence -- Connections of white men and Tehuelche women -- Dress and adornment of women -- Work -- Lazy race -- High wages -- Ceremonies and customs -- Religion -- Gualicho -- Fear of Cordillera -- Fat hunger -- Tehuelche lives on horseback -- Esquimaux and Tehuelche -- Primitive peoples and their habits -- Food -- Tobacco -- Pipes -- Language -- Tribal government -- Physical strength -- Decreasing numbers -- Men of silence and men of uproar -- Courtesy of a Tehuelche.

set aside for the use of a particular person or party

From this reading MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE TEHUELCHES Indian method of curing measles -- Driving out the devil -- Magellan -- _Patagon_ -- Long boots -- Reports of travellers -- One of the finest races in the world -- Nomadic -- Hunters -- Decreasing in numbers -- Introduction of horses -- _Bolas_ -- No history -- Keen bargainers but not progressive -- Features -- Good teeth -- Women -- Morality -- Young and old women -- Half-bloods -- _Paisanos_ -- Reserved in character -- Habits -- Infants' heads bandaged -- Dance -- Wives bought -- Price of a wife -- Marriage ceremony -- White man in _toldos_ -- Bad influence -- Connections of white men and Tehuelche women -- Dress and adornment of women -- Work -- Lazy race -- High wages -- Ceremonies and customs -- Religion -- Gualicho -- Fear of Cordillera -- Fat hunger -- Tehuelche lives on horseback -- Esquimaux and Tehuelche -- Primitive peoples and their habits -- Food -- Tobacco -- Pipes -- Language -- Tribal government -- Physical strength -- Decreasing numbers -- Men of silence and men of uproar -- Courtesy of a Tehuelche.

cut with a saw

From this reading As we came nearer we saw that one was that of a man clothed in a _chiripa_ and a _capa_ in which brown was the predominating colour.

inflected form of “see” — perceive by sight or have the power to perceive by sight

From this reading The wind, which had driven the snowstorm of the morning away to the east, swept drearily down out of an evening sky where neither sun nor sunset hues were to be seen, nothing but a spread of cold and misty grey, growing slowly overshadowed by the looming promise of more snow.

Complete absence of sound; a state of quietness and stillness.

From this reading MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE TEHUELCHES Indian method of curing measles -- Driving out the devil -- Magellan -- _Patagon_ -- Long boots -- Reports of travellers -- One of the finest races in the world -- Nomadic -- Hunters -- Decreasing in numbers -- Introduction of horses -- _Bolas_ -- No history -- Keen bargainers but not progressive -- Features -- Good teeth -- Women -- Morality -- Young and old women -- Half-bloods -- _Paisanos_ -- Reserved in character -- Habits -- Infants' heads bandaged -- Dance -- Wives bought -- Price of a wife -- Marriage ceremony -- White man in _toldos_ -- Bad influence -- Connections of white men and Tehuelche women -- Dress and adornment of women -- Work -- Lazy race -- High wages -- Ceremonies and customs -- Religion -- Gualicho -- Fear of Cordillera -- Fat hunger -- Tehuelche lives on horseback -- Esquimaux and Tehuelche -- Primitive peoples and their habits -- Food -- Tobacco -- Pipes -- Language -- Tribal government -- Physical strength -- Decreasing numbers -- Men of silence and men of uproar -- Courtesy of a Tehuelche.

the atmosphere and outer space as viewed from the earth

From this reading The wind, which had driven the snowstorm of the morning away to the east, swept drearily down out of an evening sky where neither sun nor sunset hues were to be seen, nothing but a spread of cold and misty grey, growing slowly overshadowed by the looming promise of more snow.

without speed (“slow” is sometimes used informally for “slowly”)

From this reading The wind, which had driven the snowstorm of the morning away to the east, swept drearily down out of an evening sky where neither sun nor sunset hues were to be seen, nothing but a spread of cold and misty grey, growing slowly overshadowed by the looming promise of more snow.

precipitation falling from clouds in the form of ice crystals

From this reading Snow lay in the hollows so deep that only the lean crests of the higher bushes could thrust themselves through its surface.

a storm with widespread snowfall accompanied by strong winds

From this reading The wind, which had driven the snowstorm of the morning away to the east, swept drearily down out of an evening sky where neither sun nor sunset hues were to be seen, nothing but a spread of cold and misty grey, growing slowly overshadowed by the looming promise of more snow.

for that reason; with the result that

From this reading Snow lay in the hollows so deep that only the lean crests of the higher bushes could thrust themselves through its surface.

distribute or disperse widely

From this reading The wind, which had driven the snowstorm of the morning away to the east, swept drearily down out of an evening sky where neither sun nor sunset hues were to be seen, nothing but a spread of cold and misty grey, growing slowly overshadowed by the looming promise of more snow.

the property of being physically or mentally strong

From this reading MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE TEHUELCHES Indian method of curing measles -- Driving out the devil -- Magellan -- _Patagon_ -- Long boots -- Reports of travellers -- One of the finest races in the world -- Nomadic -- Hunters -- Decreasing in numbers -- Introduction of horses -- _Bolas_ -- No history -- Keen bargainers but not progressive -- Features -- Good teeth -- Women -- Morality -- Young and old women -- Half-bloods -- _Paisanos_ -- Reserved in character -- Habits -- Infants' heads bandaged -- Dance -- Wives bought -- Price of a wife -- Marriage ceremony -- White man in _toldos_ -- Bad influence -- Connections of white men and Tehuelche women -- Dress and adornment of women -- Work -- Lazy race -- High wages -- Ceremonies and customs -- Religion -- Gualicho -- Fear of Cordillera -- Fat hunger -- Tehuelche lives on horseback -- Esquimaux and Tehuelche -- Primitive peoples and their habits -- Food -- Tobacco -- Pipes -- Language -- Tribal government -- Physical strength -- Decreasing numbers -- Men of silence and men of uproar -- Courtesy of a Tehuelche.

the star that is the source of light and heat for the planets in the solar system

From this reading The wind, which had driven the snowstorm of the morning away to the east, swept drearily down out of an evening sky where neither sun nor sunset hues were to be seen, nothing but a spread of cold and misty grey, growing slowly overshadowed by the looming promise of more snow.

the time in the evening at which the sun begins to fall below the horizon

From this reading The wind, which had driven the snowstorm of the morning away to the east, swept drearily down out of an evening sky where neither sun nor sunset hues were to be seen, nothing but a spread of cold and misty grey, growing slowly overshadowed by the looming promise of more snow.

the outer boundary of an artifact or a material layer constituting or resembling such a boundary

From this reading Snow lay in the hollows so deep that only the lean crests of the higher bushes could thrust themselves through its surface.

possessing sweep

From this reading The wind, which had driven the snowstorm of the morning away to the east, swept drearily down out of an evening sky where neither sun nor sunset hues were to be seen, nothing but a spread of cold and misty grey, growing slowly overshadowed by the looming promise of more snow.

the kind and number and arrangement of teeth (collectively) in a person or animal

From this reading MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE TEHUELCHES Indian method of curing measles -- Driving out the devil -- Magellan -- _Patagon_ -- Long boots -- Reports of travellers -- One of the finest races in the world -- Nomadic -- Hunters -- Decreasing in numbers -- Introduction of horses -- _Bolas_ -- No history -- Keen bargainers but not progressive -- Features -- Good teeth -- Women -- Morality -- Young and old women -- Half-bloods -- _Paisanos_ -- Reserved in character -- Habits -- Infants' heads bandaged -- Dance -- Wives bought -- Price of a wife -- Marriage ceremony -- White man in _toldos_ -- Bad influence -- Connections of white men and Tehuelche women -- Dress and adornment of women -- Work -- Lazy race -- High wages -- Ceremonies and customs -- Religion -- Gualicho -- Fear of Cordillera -- Fat hunger -- Tehuelche lives on horseback -- Esquimaux and Tehuelche -- Primitive peoples and their habits -- Food -- Tobacco -- Pipes -- Language -- Tribal government -- Physical strength -- Decreasing numbers -- Men of silence and men of uproar -- Courtesy of a Tehuelche.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE TEHUELCHES Indian method of curing measles -- Driving out the devil -- Magellan -- _Patagon_ -- Long boots -- Reports of travellers -- One of the finest races in the world -- Nomadic -- Hunters -- Decreasing in numbers -- Introduction of horses -- _Bolas_ -- No history -- Keen bargainers but not progressive -- Features -- Good teeth -- Women -- Morality -- Young and old women -- Half-bloods -- _Paisanos_ -- Reserved in character -- Habits -- Infants' heads bandaged -- Dance -- Wives bought -- Price of a wife -- Marriage ceremony -- White man in _toldos_ -- Bad influence -- Connections of white men and Tehuelche women -- Dress and adornment of women -- Work -- Lazy race -- High wages -- Ceremonies and customs -- Religion -- Gualicho -- Fear of Cordillera -- Fat hunger -- Tehuelche lives on horseback -- Esquimaux and Tehuelche -- Primitive peoples and their habits -- Food -- Tobacco -- Pipes -- Language -- Tribal government -- Physical strength -- Decreasing numbers -- Men of silence and men of uproar -- Courtesy of a Tehuelche.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE TEHUELCHES Indian method of curing measles -- Driving out the devil -- Magellan -- _Patagon_ -- Long boots -- Reports of travellers -- One of the finest races in the world -- Nomadic -- Hunters -- Decreasing in numbers -- Introduction of horses -- _Bolas_ -- No history -- Keen bargainers but not progressive -- Features -- Good teeth -- Women -- Morality -- Young and old women -- Half-bloods -- _Paisanos_ -- Reserved in character -- Habits -- Infants' heads bandaged -- Dance -- Wives bought -- Price of a wife -- Marriage ceremony -- White man in _toldos_ -- Bad influence -- Connections of white men and Tehuelche women -- Dress and adornment of women -- Work -- Lazy race -- High wages -- Ceremonies and customs -- Religion -- Gualicho -- Fear of Cordillera -- Fat hunger -- Tehuelche lives on horseback -- Esquimaux and Tehuelche -- Primitive peoples and their habits -- Food -- Tobacco -- Pipes -- Language -- Tribal government -- Physical strength -- Decreasing numbers -- Men of silence and men of uproar -- Courtesy of a Tehuelche.

used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt

From this reading Snow lay in the hollows so deep that only the lean crests of the higher bushes could thrust themselves through its surface.

used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind

From this reading MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE TEHUELCHES Indian method of curing measles -- Driving out the devil -- Magellan -- _Patagon_ -- Long boots -- Reports of travellers -- One of the finest races in the world -- Nomadic -- Hunters -- Decreasing in numbers -- Introduction of horses -- _Bolas_ -- No history -- Keen bargainers but not progressive -- Features -- Good teeth -- Women -- Morality -- Young and old women -- Half-bloods -- _Paisanos_ -- Reserved in character -- Habits -- Infants' heads bandaged -- Dance -- Wives bought -- Price of a wife -- Marriage ceremony -- White man in _toldos_ -- Bad influence -- Connections of white men and Tehuelche women -- Dress and adornment of women -- Work -- Lazy race -- High wages -- Ceremonies and customs -- Religion -- Gualicho -- Fear of Cordillera -- Fat hunger -- Tehuelche lives on horseback -- Esquimaux and Tehuelche -- Primitive peoples and their habits -- Food -- Tobacco -- Pipes -- Language -- Tribal government -- Physical strength -- Decreasing numbers -- Men of silence and men of uproar -- Courtesy of a Tehuelche.

belonging to the people or things already mentioned

From this reading MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE TEHUELCHES Indian method of curing measles -- Driving out the devil -- Magellan -- _Patagon_ -- Long boots -- Reports of travellers -- One of the finest races in the world -- Nomadic -- Hunters -- Decreasing in numbers -- Introduction of horses -- _Bolas_ -- No history -- Keen bargainers but not progressive -- Features -- Good teeth -- Women -- Morality -- Young and old women -- Half-bloods -- _Paisanos_ -- Reserved in character -- Habits -- Infants' heads bandaged -- Dance -- Wives bought -- Price of a wife -- Marriage ceremony -- White man in _toldos_ -- Bad influence -- Connections of white men and Tehuelche women -- Dress and adornment of women -- Work -- Lazy race -- High wages -- Ceremonies and customs -- Religion -- Gualicho -- Fear of Cordillera -- Fat hunger -- Tehuelche lives on horseback -- Esquimaux and Tehuelche -- Primitive peoples and their habits -- Food -- Tobacco -- Pipes -- Language -- Tribal government -- Physical strength -- Decreasing numbers -- Men of silence and men of uproar -- Courtesy of a Tehuelche.

used when the people doing the action are also its object

From this reading Snow lay in the hollows so deep that only the lean crests of the higher bushes could thrust themselves through its surface.

from one end or side of something to the other

From this reading Snow lay in the hollows so deep that only the lean crests of the higher bushes could thrust themselves through its surface.

push forcefully

From this reading Snow lay in the hollows so deep that only the lean crests of the higher bushes could thrust themselves through its surface.

used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive

From this reading The wind, which had driven the snowstorm of the morning away to the east, swept drearily down out of an evening sky where neither sun nor sunset hues were to be seen, nothing but a spread of cold and misty grey, growing slowly overshadowed by the looming promise of more snow.

leaves of the tobacco plant dried and prepared for smoking or ingestion

From this reading MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE TEHUELCHES Indian method of curing measles -- Driving out the devil -- Magellan -- _Patagon_ -- Long boots -- Reports of travellers -- One of the finest races in the world -- Nomadic -- Hunters -- Decreasing in numbers -- Introduction of horses -- _Bolas_ -- No history -- Keen bargainers but not progressive -- Features -- Good teeth -- Women -- Morality -- Young and old women -- Half-bloods -- _Paisanos_ -- Reserved in character -- Habits -- Infants' heads bandaged -- Dance -- Wives bought -- Price of a wife -- Marriage ceremony -- White man in _toldos_ -- Bad influence -- Connections of white men and Tehuelche women -- Dress and adornment of women -- Work -- Lazy race -- High wages -- Ceremonies and customs -- Religion -- Gualicho -- Fear of Cordillera -- Fat hunger -- Tehuelche lives on horseback -- Esquimaux and Tehuelche -- Primitive peoples and their habits -- Food -- Tobacco -- Pipes -- Language -- Tribal government -- Physical strength -- Decreasing numbers -- Men of silence and men of uproar -- Courtesy of a Tehuelche.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE TEHUELCHES Indian method of curing measles -- Driving out the devil -- Magellan -- _Patagon_ -- Long boots -- Reports of travellers -- One of the finest races in the world -- Nomadic -- Hunters -- Decreasing in numbers -- Introduction of horses -- _Bolas_ -- No history -- Keen bargainers but not progressive -- Features -- Good teeth -- Women -- Morality -- Young and old women -- Half-bloods -- _Paisanos_ -- Reserved in character -- Habits -- Infants' heads bandaged -- Dance -- Wives bought -- Price of a wife -- Marriage ceremony -- White man in _toldos_ -- Bad influence -- Connections of white men and Tehuelche women -- Dress and adornment of women -- Work -- Lazy race -- High wages -- Ceremonies and customs -- Religion -- Gualicho -- Fear of Cordillera -- Fat hunger -- Tehuelche lives on horseback -- Esquimaux and Tehuelche -- Primitive peoples and their habits -- Food -- Tobacco -- Pipes -- Language -- Tribal government -- Physical strength -- Decreasing numbers -- Men of silence and men of uproar -- Courtesy of a Tehuelche.

plural of “traveller” — a person who changes location

From this reading MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE TEHUELCHES Indian method of curing measles -- Driving out the devil -- Magellan -- _Patagon_ -- Long boots -- Reports of travellers -- One of the finest races in the world -- Nomadic -- Hunters -- Decreasing in numbers -- Introduction of horses -- _Bolas_ -- No history -- Keen bargainers but not progressive -- Features -- Good teeth -- Women -- Morality -- Young and old women -- Half-bloods -- _Paisanos_ -- Reserved in character -- Habits -- Infants' heads bandaged -- Dance -- Wives bought -- Price of a wife -- Marriage ceremony -- White man in _toldos_ -- Bad influence -- Connections of white men and Tehuelche women -- Dress and adornment of women -- Work -- Lazy race -- High wages -- Ceremonies and customs -- Religion -- Gualicho -- Fear of Cordillera -- Fat hunger -- Tehuelche lives on horseback -- Esquimaux and Tehuelche -- Primitive peoples and their habits -- Food -- Tobacco -- Pipes -- Language -- Tribal government -- Physical strength -- Decreasing numbers -- Men of silence and men of uproar -- Courtesy of a Tehuelche.

relating to or characteristic of a tribe

From this reading MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE TEHUELCHES Indian method of curing measles -- Driving out the devil -- Magellan -- _Patagon_ -- Long boots -- Reports of travellers -- One of the finest races in the world -- Nomadic -- Hunters -- Decreasing in numbers -- Introduction of horses -- _Bolas_ -- No history -- Keen bargainers but not progressive -- Features -- Good teeth -- Women -- Morality -- Young and old women -- Half-bloods -- _Paisanos_ -- Reserved in character -- Habits -- Infants' heads bandaged -- Dance -- Wives bought -- Price of a wife -- Marriage ceremony -- White man in _toldos_ -- Bad influence -- Connections of white men and Tehuelche women -- Dress and adornment of women -- Work -- Lazy race -- High wages -- Ceremonies and customs -- Religion -- Gualicho -- Fear of Cordillera -- Fat hunger -- Tehuelche lives on horseback -- Esquimaux and Tehuelche -- Primitive peoples and their habits -- Food -- Tobacco -- Pipes -- Language -- Tribal government -- Physical strength -- Decreasing numbers -- Men of silence and men of uproar -- Courtesy of a Tehuelche.

the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one or a numeral representing this number

From this reading In the middle of the level white pampa two figures upon galloping horses were visible.

a formal word for “on”

From this reading In the middle of the level white pampa two figures upon galloping horses were visible.

a state of commotion and noise and confusion

From this reading MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE TEHUELCHES Indian method of curing measles -- Driving out the devil -- Magellan -- _Patagon_ -- Long boots -- Reports of travellers -- One of the finest races in the world -- Nomadic -- Hunters -- Decreasing in numbers -- Introduction of horses -- _Bolas_ -- No history -- Keen bargainers but not progressive -- Features -- Good teeth -- Women -- Morality -- Young and old women -- Half-bloods -- _Paisanos_ -- Reserved in character -- Habits -- Infants' heads bandaged -- Dance -- Wives bought -- Price of a wife -- Marriage ceremony -- White man in _toldos_ -- Bad influence -- Connections of white men and Tehuelche women -- Dress and adornment of women -- Work -- Lazy race -- High wages -- Ceremonies and customs -- Religion -- Gualicho -- Fear of Cordillera -- Fat hunger -- Tehuelche lives on horseback -- Esquimaux and Tehuelche -- Primitive peoples and their habits -- Food -- Tobacco -- Pipes -- Language -- Tribal government -- Physical strength -- Decreasing numbers -- Men of silence and men of uproar -- Courtesy of a Tehuelche.

capable of being seen; or open to easy view

From this reading In the middle of the level white pampa two figures upon galloping horses were visible.

a recompense for worthy acts or retribution for wrongdoing

From this reading MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE TEHUELCHES Indian method of curing measles -- Driving out the devil -- Magellan -- _Patagon_ -- Long boots -- Reports of travellers -- One of the finest races in the world -- Nomadic -- Hunters -- Decreasing in numbers -- Introduction of horses -- _Bolas_ -- No history -- Keen bargainers but not progressive -- Features -- Good teeth -- Women -- Morality -- Young and old women -- Half-bloods -- _Paisanos_ -- Reserved in character -- Habits -- Infants' heads bandaged -- Dance -- Wives bought -- Price of a wife -- Marriage ceremony -- White man in _toldos_ -- Bad influence -- Connections of white men and Tehuelche women -- Dress and adornment of women -- Work -- Lazy race -- High wages -- Ceremonies and customs -- Religion -- Gualicho -- Fear of Cordillera -- Fat hunger -- Tehuelche lives on horseback -- Esquimaux and Tehuelche -- Primitive peoples and their habits -- Food -- Tobacco -- Pipes -- Language -- Tribal government -- Physical strength -- Decreasing numbers -- Men of silence and men of uproar -- Courtesy of a Tehuelche.

the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun

From this reading As we came nearer we saw that one was that of a man clothed in a _chiripa_ and a _capa_ in which brown was the predominating colour.

the speaker together with one or more other people

From this reading As we came nearer we saw that one was that of a man clothed in a _chiripa_ and a _capa_ in which brown was the predominating colour.

the past form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun

From this reading The wind, which had driven the snowstorm of the morning away to the east, swept drearily down out of an evening sky where neither sun nor sunset hues were to be seen, nothing but a spread of cold and misty grey, growing slowly overshadowed by the looming promise of more snow.

in or at the place that

From this reading The wind, which had driven the snowstorm of the morning away to the east, swept drearily down out of an evening sky where neither sun nor sunset hues were to be seen, nothing but a spread of cold and misty grey, growing slowly overshadowed by the looming promise of more snow.

used to introduce a clause giving more about a thing just mentioned

From this reading The wind, which had driven the snowstorm of the morning away to the east, swept drearily down out of an evening sky where neither sun nor sunset hues were to be seen, nothing but a spread of cold and misty grey, growing slowly overshadowed by the looming promise of more snow.

a Caucasian

From this reading MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE TEHUELCHES Indian method of curing measles -- Driving out the devil -- Magellan -- _Patagon_ -- Long boots -- Reports of travellers -- One of the finest races in the world -- Nomadic -- Hunters -- Decreasing in numbers -- Introduction of horses -- _Bolas_ -- No history -- Keen bargainers but not progressive -- Features -- Good teeth -- Women -- Morality -- Young and old women -- Half-bloods -- _Paisanos_ -- Reserved in character -- Habits -- Infants' heads bandaged -- Dance -- Wives bought -- Price of a wife -- Marriage ceremony -- White man in _toldos_ -- Bad influence -- Connections of white men and Tehuelche women -- Dress and adornment of women -- Work -- Lazy race -- High wages -- Ceremonies and customs -- Religion -- Gualicho -- Fear of Cordillera -- Fat hunger -- Tehuelche lives on horseback -- Esquimaux and Tehuelche -- Primitive peoples and their habits -- Food -- Tobacco -- Pipes -- Language -- Tribal government -- Physical strength -- Decreasing numbers -- Men of silence and men of uproar -- Courtesy of a Tehuelche.

a married woman; a man's partner in marriage

From this reading MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE TEHUELCHES Indian method of curing measles -- Driving out the devil -- Magellan -- _Patagon_ -- Long boots -- Reports of travellers -- One of the finest races in the world -- Nomadic -- Hunters -- Decreasing in numbers -- Introduction of horses -- _Bolas_ -- No history -- Keen bargainers but not progressive -- Features -- Good teeth -- Women -- Morality -- Young and old women -- Half-bloods -- _Paisanos_ -- Reserved in character -- Habits -- Infants' heads bandaged -- Dance -- Wives bought -- Price of a wife -- Marriage ceremony -- White man in _toldos_ -- Bad influence -- Connections of white men and Tehuelche women -- Dress and adornment of women -- Work -- Lazy race -- High wages -- Ceremonies and customs -- Religion -- Gualicho -- Fear of Cordillera -- Fat hunger -- Tehuelche lives on horseback -- Esquimaux and Tehuelche -- Primitive peoples and their habits -- Food -- Tobacco -- Pipes -- Language -- Tribal government -- Physical strength -- Decreasing numbers -- Men of silence and men of uproar -- Courtesy of a Tehuelche.

air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure

From this reading The wind, which had driven the snowstorm of the morning away to the east, swept drearily down out of an evening sky where neither sun nor sunset hues were to be seen, nothing but a spread of cold and misty grey, growing slowly overshadowed by the looming promise of more snow.

plural of “wife” — a married woman; a man's partner in marriage

From this reading MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE TEHUELCHES Indian method of curing measles -- Driving out the devil -- Magellan -- _Patagon_ -- Long boots -- Reports of travellers -- One of the finest races in the world -- Nomadic -- Hunters -- Decreasing in numbers -- Introduction of horses -- _Bolas_ -- No history -- Keen bargainers but not progressive -- Features -- Good teeth -- Women -- Morality -- Young and old women -- Half-bloods -- _Paisanos_ -- Reserved in character -- Habits -- Infants' heads bandaged -- Dance -- Wives bought -- Price of a wife -- Marriage ceremony -- White man in _toldos_ -- Bad influence -- Connections of white men and Tehuelche women -- Dress and adornment of women -- Work -- Lazy race -- High wages -- Ceremonies and customs -- Religion -- Gualicho -- Fear of Cordillera -- Fat hunger -- Tehuelche lives on horseback -- Esquimaux and Tehuelche -- Primitive peoples and their habits -- Food -- Tobacco -- Pipes -- Language -- Tribal government -- Physical strength -- Decreasing numbers -- Men of silence and men of uproar -- Courtesy of a Tehuelche.

plural of “woman” — an adult female person (as opposed to a man)

From this reading MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE TEHUELCHES Indian method of curing measles -- Driving out the devil -- Magellan -- _Patagon_ -- Long boots -- Reports of travellers -- One of the finest races in the world -- Nomadic -- Hunters -- Decreasing in numbers -- Introduction of horses -- _Bolas_ -- No history -- Keen bargainers but not progressive -- Features -- Good teeth -- Women -- Morality -- Young and old women -- Half-bloods -- _Paisanos_ -- Reserved in character -- Habits -- Infants' heads bandaged -- Dance -- Wives bought -- Price of a wife -- Marriage ceremony -- White man in _toldos_ -- Bad influence -- Connections of white men and Tehuelche women -- Dress and adornment of women -- Work -- Lazy race -- High wages -- Ceremonies and customs -- Religion -- Gualicho -- Fear of Cordillera -- Fat hunger -- Tehuelche lives on horseback -- Esquimaux and Tehuelche -- Primitive peoples and their habits -- Food -- Tobacco -- Pipes -- Language -- Tribal government -- Physical strength -- Decreasing numbers -- Men of silence and men of uproar -- Courtesy of a Tehuelche.

exert oneself by doing mental or physical work for a purpose or out of necessity

From this reading MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE TEHUELCHES Indian method of curing measles -- Driving out the devil -- Magellan -- _Patagon_ -- Long boots -- Reports of travellers -- One of the finest races in the world -- Nomadic -- Hunters -- Decreasing in numbers -- Introduction of horses -- _Bolas_ -- No history -- Keen bargainers but not progressive -- Features -- Good teeth -- Women -- Morality -- Young and old women -- Half-bloods -- _Paisanos_ -- Reserved in character -- Habits -- Infants' heads bandaged -- Dance -- Wives bought -- Price of a wife -- Marriage ceremony -- White man in _toldos_ -- Bad influence -- Connections of white men and Tehuelche women -- Dress and adornment of women -- Work -- Lazy race -- High wages -- Ceremonies and customs -- Religion -- Gualicho -- Fear of Cordillera -- Fat hunger -- Tehuelche lives on horseback -- Esquimaux and Tehuelche -- Primitive peoples and their habits -- Food -- Tobacco -- Pipes -- Language -- Tribal government -- Physical strength -- Decreasing numbers -- Men of silence and men of uproar -- Courtesy of a Tehuelche.

everything that exists anywhere

From this reading MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE TEHUELCHES Indian method of curing measles -- Driving out the devil -- Magellan -- _Patagon_ -- Long boots -- Reports of travellers -- One of the finest races in the world -- Nomadic -- Hunters -- Decreasing in numbers -- Introduction of horses -- _Bolas_ -- No history -- Keen bargainers but not progressive -- Features -- Good teeth -- Women -- Morality -- Young and old women -- Half-bloods -- _Paisanos_ -- Reserved in character -- Habits -- Infants' heads bandaged -- Dance -- Wives bought -- Price of a wife -- Marriage ceremony -- White man in _toldos_ -- Bad influence -- Connections of white men and Tehuelche women -- Dress and adornment of women -- Work -- Lazy race -- High wages -- Ceremonies and customs -- Religion -- Gualicho -- Fear of Cordillera -- Fat hunger -- Tehuelche lives on horseback -- Esquimaux and Tehuelche -- Primitive peoples and their habits -- Food -- Tobacco -- Pipes -- Language -- Tribal government -- Physical strength -- Decreasing numbers -- Men of silence and men of uproar -- Courtesy of a Tehuelche.

(used of living things especially persons) in an early period of life or development or growth

From this reading MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE TEHUELCHES Indian method of curing measles -- Driving out the devil -- Magellan -- _Patagon_ -- Long boots -- Reports of travellers -- One of the finest races in the world -- Nomadic -- Hunters -- Decreasing in numbers -- Introduction of horses -- _Bolas_ -- No history -- Keen bargainers but not progressive -- Features -- Good teeth -- Women -- Morality -- Young and old women -- Half-bloods -- _Paisanos_ -- Reserved in character -- Habits -- Infants' heads bandaged -- Dance -- Wives bought -- Price of a wife -- Marriage ceremony -- White man in _toldos_ -- Bad influence -- Connections of white men and Tehuelche women -- Dress and adornment of women -- Work -- Lazy race -- High wages -- Ceremonies and customs -- Religion -- Gualicho -- Fear of Cordillera -- Fat hunger -- Tehuelche lives on horseback -- Esquimaux and Tehuelche -- Primitive peoples and their habits -- Food -- Tobacco -- Pipes -- Language -- Tribal government -- Physical strength -- Decreasing numbers -- Men of silence and men of uproar -- Courtesy of a Tehuelche.