Word Meanings - PEQUOTS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A tribe of Indians who formerly inhabited Eastern Connecticut.

Related words: (words related to PEQUOTS)

• INHABITATE
  To inhabit.
• INHABITATIVENESS
  A tendency or propensity to permanent residence in a place or abode; love of home and country.
• FORMERLY
  In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore.
• INHABITANCE; INHABITANCY
  The state of having legal right to claim the privileges of a recognized inhabitant; especially, the right to support in case of poverty, acquired by residence in a town; habitancy. (more info) 1. The act of inhabiting, or the state of
• TRIBE
  A number of species or genera having certain structural characteristics in common; as, a tribe of plants; a tribe of animals. Note: By many recent naturalists, tribe has been used for a group of animals or plants intermediate between order
• INHABITATION
  1. The act of inhabiting, or the state of being inhabited; indwelling. The inhabitation of the Holy Ghost. Bp. Pearson. 2. Abode; place of dwelling; residence. Milton. 3. Population; inhabitants. Sir T. Browne. The beginning of nations and
• EASTERN CHURCH
  That portion of the Christian church which prevails in the countries once comprised in the Eastern Roman Empire and the countries converted to Christianity by missionaries from them. Its full official title is The Orthodox Catholic Apostolic Eastern
• INHABITED
  Uninhabited. Brathwait.
• INHABITANT
  One who has a legal settlement in a town, city, or parish; a permanent resident. (more info) 1. One who dwells or resides permanently in a place, as distinguished from a transient lodger or visitor; as, an inhabitant of a house, a town, a city,
• INHABIT
  To live or dwell in; to occupy, as a place of settled residence; as, wild beasts inhabit the forest; men inhabit cities and houses. The high and lofty One, that inhabiteth eternity. Is. lvii. 15. O, who would inhabit This bleak world alone Moore.
• EASTERNMOST
  Most eastern.
• INHABITRESS
  A female inhabitant.
• INHABITABLE
  Capable of being inhabited; habitable. Systems of inhabitable planets. Locke.
• INHABITER
  An inhabitant. Derham.
• INHABITIVENESS
  See LOWELL
• EASTERN
  1. Situated or dwelling in the east; oriental; as, an eastern gate; Eastern countries. Eastern churches first did Christ embrace. Stirling. 2. Going toward the east, or in the direction of east; as, an eastern voyage. Eastern Church. See Greek
• CEPHALOTRIBE
  An obstetrical instrument for performing cephalotripsy.
• DIATRIBE
  A prolonged or exhaustive discussion; especially, an acrimonious or invective harangue; a strain of abusive or railing language; a philippic. The ephemeral diatribe of a faction. John Morley.
• SUBTRIBE
  A division of a tribe; a group of genera of a little lower rank than a tribe.
• NONINHABITANT
  One who is not an inhabitant; a stranger; a foreigner; a nonresident.
• SOUTHEASTERN
  Of or pertaining to the southeast; southeasterly.
• NORTHEASTERN
  Of or pertaining to the northeast; northeasterly.
• COINHABITANT
  One who dwells with another, or with others. "Coinhabitants of the same element." Dr. H. More.