| 释义 |
Shawnee, a. and n.|ʃɔːˈniː|
Also † Savan(n)a, Shawanee, Shaweno, Shawnese, Shonee, etc.
[ad. Munsee šawanow, f. Shawnee šawanoki people of the south. Early forms in -ese prob. represent a hybrid formation with -ese, later interpreted as the pl. of a stem in -ee.]
A. adj.
1. Of or pertaining to an Algonquian Indian people, formerly resident in the eastern U.S. and now in Oklahoma; designating a member of this people or its language.
1674H. Woodward Let. 31 Dec. in S. Carolina Hist. Soc. Coll. (1897) V. 460 Two days before my departure arrived two Savana Indians. 1714J. Lawson Hist. Carolina 171 The Savanna Indians, who formerly lived on the Banks of the Messiasippi, and remov'd thence to the Head of one of the Rivers of South-Carolina. 1728in C. S. R. Hildeburn Century of Printing (1885) 94 Two Indian Treaties..Between the Honourable..Lieut. Governour of the Province of Pennsylvania.. And The Chiefs of the Conestogoe, Delaware, Shawanese and Canawese Indians. 1737Documents Colonial Hist. New-York (1855) VI. 106, I am very Sorry that there has been any Misunderstanding betwixt Governour Pen & the Shaweno Indians. 1748C. Weiser Jrnl. 10 Sept. in R. G. Thwaites Early Western Travels (1904) I. 31, I made a Present to the old Shawonese Chief. 1788[see Mohican, mohegan a.]. 1817State Papers & Publick Documents U.S. (1819) (ed. 3) XII. 450 The balance of our men (except five Shonee Indians who had left us several days before),..came on this side of the first chain of mountains. 1821T. Nuttall Jrnl. Trav. Arkansa 54 We stopped awhile at a Shawnee camp. 1826T. Flint Recoll. 231 A rich commandant..married a Shawnese wife. 1855A. W. Whipple Explor. Railway Route III. 51 [Figure D illustrates] one of a pair of Shawnee ear-drops..made by a native artist. 1949Democrat 30 June 7/4 Several Shawnee towns were set up in various places over the state [of Alabama]. 1973A. H. Whiteford N. Amer. Indian Arts 17 Creek and Shawnee bowls have designs incised around the rims.
2. Shawnee-haw, the larger withe-rod, Viburnum nudum; Shawnee salad, a perennial herb, Hydrophyllum virginianum, native to eastern North America and bearing clusters of white or purple flowers; Shawnee wood the western catalpa or catawba-tree, Catalpa speciosa.
1780J. Donelson Jrnl. 29 Mar. in Three Pioneer Tennessee Documents (1964) 9 Gathered some herbs in the bottoms of Cumberland, which some of the Company called Shawanee Sallad. 1822Trans. Hort. Soc. Lond. 1st Ser. IV. 445 The Hydrophyllum Virginicum is called by the Americans of the Western States, Indian Sallad, or Shawanee Sallad, because these Indians eat it as such, when tender. 1829Loudon Encycl. Plants 133 Hydrophyllum virginicum is used as a salad, under the name of Shawanese salad in North America. 1866Treas. Bot. s.v. Hydrophyllum. 1909 Cent. Dict. Suppl., Shawnee how. 1931W. N. Clute Common Names Plants 31 At least three plants commemorate them: the Shawnee haw.., the Shawnee salad.., and the Shawnee tree, also called Shawnee wood.
1818W. P. C. Barton Compendium Floræ Philadelphicæ I. 9 Catalpa-Tree, Catawba-Tree, Schawnes-wood. 1931Shawnee wood [see shawnee salad above].
B. n.
1. The name of an Algonquian Indian people; a member of this people.
1693Documents Colonial Hist. New-York (1854) IV. 43 Wee are glad that the Showannoes..did make their application to you last fall for protection. 1737Ibid. (1855) VI. 107, I Recommend to you to keep the Shawenoes among your Selves as you have Done the Tuskierores to prevent their Going to the French. 1755R. Dinwiddie Let. 14 Dec. in S. M. Hamilton Lett. to Washington (1898) I. 149 The Cherokees have taken up the Hatchet against the French & Shawnese. 1786[see Huron]. 1828M. Neville Last of Boatmen in Western Souvenir 1829 118 The scout thought it as praiseworthy to bring in the scalp of a Shawnee, as the skin of a panther. 1837R. M. Bird Nick of Woods I. 15 The Shawanee and the Wyandot still hunted the bear and buffalo in the cane-brake. 1854Southern Lit. Messenger XX. 401 The Shawnese still deserved their chastisement. 1891H. F. O'Beirne Leaders Indian Territory p. viii/1 The Shawnees awaited their opportunity until the Tonkaway braves had departed on a big hunt. 1964B. G. Hoffman Anthrop. Papers of Smithsonian Inst. No. 70 223 The Shawnee have what may be considered the best claim to having resided in..the Fort Ancient territory.
2. The language of this people.
1792H. H. Brackenridge Mod. Chivalry I. v. iii. 61 It would be necessary for him only to talk Irish, which he might pass for the Shawanee. 1940[see lexeme]. 1972Language XLVIII. 846 [It] is supposed to be found in..Tacana, Shawnee..and Wichita. |