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One of a tribe of Indians who formed part of the Five Nations. They formerly inhabited the valley of the Mohawk River. 2. One of certain ruffians who infested the streets of London in the time of Addison, and took the name from the Mohawk Indians.

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One of a tribe of Indians who formed part of the Five Nations. They formerly inhabited the valley of the Mohawk River. 2. One of certain ruffians who infested the streets of London in the time of Addison, and took the name from the Mohawk Indians. Spectator. Macaulay.

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  To inhabit.
• INHABITATIVENESS
  A tendency or propensity to permanent residence in a place or abode; love of home and country.
• MOHAWK
  One of a tribe of Indians who formed part of the Five Nations. They formerly inhabited the valley of the Mohawk River. 2. One of certain ruffians who infested the streets of London in the time of Addison, and took the name from the Mohawk Indians.
• VALLEY
  1. The space inclosed between ranges of hills or mountains; the strip of land at the bottom of the depressions intersecting a country, including usually the bed of a stream, with frequently broad alluvial plains on one or both sides of the stream.
• FORMICARY
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  To reduce to a formula; to formulate. Emerson.
• LONDONISM
  A characteristic of Londoners; a mode of speaking peculiar to London.
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  In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore.
• FORMICAROID
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• FORMIDABLY
  In a formidable manner.
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  Resembling, or pertaining to, an ant or ants.
• INHABITANCE; INHABITANCY
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• INFESTER
  One who, or that which, infests.
• INHABITATION
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• OMNIFORMITY
  The condition or quality of having every form. Dr. H. More.
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  One who deforms.
• DIVERSIFORM
  Of a different form; of varied forms.
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