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The state of existing in tribes; also, tribal feeling; tribal prejudice or exclusiveness; tribal peculiarities or characteristics.
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One of a nation or people who formerly dwelt in the northern part of Germany, and who, with other Teutonic tribes, invaded and conquered England in the fifth and sixth centuries.
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One of the ancient Scandinavian poets and historiographers; a reciter and singer of heroic poems, eulogies, etc., among the Norsemen; more rarely, a bard of any of the ancient Teutonic tribes.
n. pl.
One of the seven confederated tribes of Indians belonging to the Sioux, or Dakotas.
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A group of roving Turanian tribes occupying Eastern Siberia and the Amoor valley. They resemble the Mongols.
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A nation of savages or uncivilized people; a body of rude people united under one leader or government; as, the tribes of the Six Nations; the Seneca tribe.
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Bread of exhibition; loaves to set before God; -- the term used in translating the various phrases used in the Hebrew and Greek to designate the loaves of bread which the priest of the week placed before the Lord on the golden table in the sanctuary. They were made of fine flour unleavened, and were changed every Sabbath. The loaves, twelve in number, represented the twelve tribes of Israel. They were to be eaten by the priests only, and in the Holy Place.
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A group of races or tribes inhabiting Asia and closely related to the Mongols.
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To Russianize; as, to Russify conquered tribes.
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A member of any of numerous Tartar tribes of Central Asia, etc.; esp., one of the dominant race in Turkey.
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A family, race, or series of generations, descending from the same progenitor, and kept distinct, as in the case of the twelve tribes of Israel, descended from the twelve sons of Jacob.
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Of or pertaining to a tribe or tribes; as, a tribal scepter.
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A division, class, or distinct portion of a people, from whatever cause that distinction may have originated; as, the city of Athens was divided into ten tribes.
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To distribute into tribes or classes.
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A remarkable accretion of fat upon the buttocks of Africans of certain tribes, especially of Hottentot women.
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A linguistic family or stock of North American Indians, comprising many tribes, which extends from Montana and Idaho into Mexico. In a restricted sense the name is applied especially to the Snakes, the most northern of the tribes.
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A bard among the Highlanders of Scotland, who preserved and repeated the traditions of the tribes; also, a genealogist.
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An extensive tribe of North American Indians of the Shoshone stock, inhabiting Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, and adjacent regions. They are subdivided into several subordinate tribes, some of which are among the most degraded of North American Indians.
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A native or inhabitant of Tartary in Asia; a member of any one of numerous tribes, chiefly Moslem, of Turkish origin, inhabiting the Russian Europe; -- written also, more correctly but less usually, Tatar.
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A female; a woman; -- in the language of Indian tribes of the Algonquin family, correlative of sannup.
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