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Indian

adjective

Of or relating to or characteristic of India or the East Indies or their peoples or languages or cultures. "Indian saris"

Of or pertaining to American Indians or their culture or languages. Synonyms: Amerind, Amerindic, Native American. "Indian arrowheads"

noun

A member of the race of people living in America when Europeans arrived. Synonyms: American Indian, Red Indian.

A native or inhabitant of India.

Any of the languages spoken by Amerindians. Synonyms: American-Indian language, American Indian, Amerind, Amerindian language.

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"Indian" Quotes from Famous Books

... navigation beats all my experience," said Captain Arms, wiping the water out of his eyes. "I was struck by a waterspout once in the Indian Ocean, and I thought that that capped the climax, but it was only a catspaw to this. Give me a clear offing and I don't care how much wind blows, but blow me if I want to get under any more ...

— The Second Deluge • Garrett P. Serviss

... S. Carlos to Castro is only twelve leagues in a straight line, the formation of the road must have been a great labour. I was told that several people had formerly lost their lives in attempting to cross the forest. The first who succeeded was an Indian, who cut his way through the canes in eight days, and reached S. Carlos: he was rewarded by the Spanish government with a grant of land. During the summer, many of the Indians wander about the forests (but chiefly in the higher parts, where the woods are not quite so thick), in search of the ...

— A Naturalist's Voyage Round the World - The Voyage Of The Beagle • Charles Darwin

... a sober period of burnt wood and a period of burnt leather, during which excited neighbors with a keen sense of smell called the fire department three times and the board of health once. And now Indian heads broke out all over town and the walls looked as if a shoemaker's apron had been chosen ...

— Mrs. Budlong's Chrismas Presents • Rupert Hughes

... As when the Indian to Dakota comes, Or farthest Idaho, and where he dwelt, He with his clan, a humming city finds; Thereon awhile, amazed, he stares, and then To right and leftward, like a questing dog, Seeks first the ancestral altars, then the hearth Long cold with ...

— Underwoods • Robert Louis Stevenson

... luxuriance of this desert place was owing to a few springs and the dammed-up waters of the Rio Forlorn. Before he had come to the oasis it had been inhabited by a Papago Indian tribe and a few peon families. The oasis lay in an arroyo a mile wide, and sloped southwest for some ten miles or more. The river went dry most of the year; but enough water was stored in flood season to irrigate the ...

— Desert Gold • Zane Grey

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