Word Meanings - SACHEM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A chief of a tribe of the American Indians; a sagamore.

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• CHIEFLESS
  Without a chief or leader.
• AMERICANIZATION
  The process of Americanizing.
• CHIEFEST
  First or foremost; chief; principal. "Our chiefest courtier." Shak. The chiefest among ten thousand. Canticles v. 10.
• TRIBE
  A number of species or genera having certain structural characteristics in common; as, a tribe of plants; a tribe of animals. Note: By many recent naturalists, tribe has been used for a group of animals or plants intermediate between order
• AMERICAN
  1. Of or pertaining to America; as, the American continent: American Indians. 2. Of or pertaining to the United States. "A young officer of the American navy." Lyell. American ivy. See Virginia creeper. -- American Party , a party, about 1854,
• AMERICANISM
  1. Attachment to the United States. 2. A custom peculiar to the United States or to America; an American characteristic or idea. 3. A word or phrase peculiar to the United States.
• AMERICAN PLAN
  In hotels, aplan upon which guests pay for both room and board by the day, week, or other convenient period; -- contrasted with European plan.
• CHIEF JUSTICE
  The presiding justice, or principal judge, of a court. Lord Chief Justice of England, The presiding judge of the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice. The highest judicial officer of the realm is the Lord High Chancellor. -- Chief
• CHIEF HARE
  A small rodent inhabiting the summits of the Rocky Mountains; -- also called crying hare, calling hare, cony, American pika, and little chief hare. Note: It is not a true hare or rabbit, but belongs to the curious family Lagomyidæ.
• SAGAMORE
  The head of a tribe among the American Indians; a chief; -- generally used as synonymous with sachem, but some writters distinguished between them, making the sachem a chief of the first rank, and a sagamore one of the second rank. "Be it sagamore,
• AMERICANIZE
  To render American; to assimilate to the Americans in customs, ideas, etc.; to stamp with American characteristics.
• CHIEFTAINCY; CHIEFTAINSHIP
  The rank, dignity, or office of a chieftain.
• CHIEF-JUSTICESHIP
  The office of chief justice. Jay selected the chief-justiceship as most in accordance with his tastes. The Century.
• CHIEFRIE
  A small rent paid to the lord paramount. Swift.
• CHIEFTAIN
  A captain, leader, or commander; a chief; the head of a troop, army, or clan. Syn. -- Chief; commander; leader; head. See Chief. (more info) capitaine, LL. capitanus, fr. L. caput head. Cf. Captain, and see
• AMERICAN PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION
  A secret organization in the United States, formed in Iowa in 1887, ostensibly for the protection of American institutions by keeping Roman Catholics out of public office. Abbrev. commonly to A.
• CHIEF BARON
  The presiding judge of the court of exchequer.
• CHIEF
  The upper third part of the field. It is supposed to be composed of the dexter, sinister, and middle chiefs. In chief. At the head; as, a commander in chief. From the king, or sovereign; as, tenure in chief, tenure directly from the king.
• CHIEFLY
  1. In the first place; principally; preëminently; above; especially. Search through this garden; leave unsearched no nook; But chiefly where those two fair creatures lodge. Milton. 2. For the most part; mostly. Those parts of the kingdom where
• CEPHALOTRIBE
  An obstetrical instrument for performing cephalotripsy.
• KERCHIEF
  couvrechef, F. couvrechef, a head covering, fr. couvrir to cover + 1. A square of fine linen worn by women as a covering for the head; hence, anything similar in form or material, worn for ornament on other parts of the person; -- mostly used in
• MISCHIEF
  + chief end, head, F. chef chief. See Minus, and 1. Harm; damage; esp., disarrangement of order; trouble or vexation caused by human agency or by some living being, intentionally or not; often, calamity, mishap; trivial evil caused by
• DIATRIBE
  A prolonged or exhaustive discussion; especially, an acrimonious or invective harangue; a strain of abusive or railing language; a philippic. The ephemeral diatribe of a faction. John Morley.
• ENKERCHIEFED
  Bound with a kerchief; draped; hooded; covered. Milton. That soft, enkerchiefed hair. M. Arnold.
• SUBTRIBE
  A division of a tribe; a group of genera of a little lower rank than a tribe.
• NECKERCHIEF
  A kerchief for the neck; -- called also neck handkerchief.
• MISCHIEFFUL
  Mischievous. Foote.
• MISCHIEFABLE
  Mischievous. Lydgate.
• COVERCHIEF
  A covering for the head. Chaucer.
• KERCHIEFED; KERCHIEFT
  Dressed; hooded; covered; wearing a kerchief. Milton.
• ANTI-AMERICAN
  Opposed to the Americans, their aims, or interests, or to the genius of American institutions. Marshall.