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1. netop, n. View full entry 1643
...A friend, a close companion. Freq. used in salutation to an American Indian by early colonists....
2. Nipmuc, adj. and n. View full entry 1636
...Designating, of, or relating to the Nipmucs (see sense B.) or their language....
3. samp, n. View full entry 1643
...Coarsely-ground Indian corn; also a kind of porridge made from it....
4. squash, n.2 View full entry 1643
...A gourd produced by one or other of various species of trailing herbaceous annual plants belonging to the genus Cucurbita or N.O. Cucurbitaceæ, esp. a fruit of the...
5. tautog, n. View full entry 1643
...A labroid fish, Tautoga americana (T. onitis), also called black-fish or oyster-fish, abundant on the Atlantic coast of N. America, and esteemed for food....
