1854 Rep. Indian Affairs (U.S.) 262 East of this tribe..is a tribe known as the Mo-docks. They speak the same language as the Klamaths.

1878 Amer. Antiquarian 1 82 The Klamath language..is spoken by two tribes only, the Klamath Lake people and the Modocs, in two dialects which are almost identical and therefore should be called subdialects.

1925 A. L. Kroeber Handbk. Indians Calif. xxii. 319 The Modoc..probably possessed more tribal solidarity than the great majority of California Indians.

1973 A. H. Whiteford N. Amer. Indian Arts 47 The Modoc and Klamath made tule baskets and hats.

1992 E. Renfro Shasta Indians of California v. 105 The Klamath and Modoc are more often classified within the Columbia Plateau Culture area rather than the Californian by anthropologists.

1890 A. S. Gatschet Klamath Indians i. p. xxiii A smaller pine species, Pinus contorta (kápka, in Modoc ḵúga)..is peeled by the Indians to a height of twenty feet.

1965 Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 10 123 The last family represented in Oregon is Klamath-Modoc... Modoc is represented by only about seven or eight speakers.

1977 C. F. Voegelin & F. M. Voegelin Classif. & Index World's Langs. 288 Klamath... D[ialect] also Modoc.

1854 Rep. Indian Affairs (U.S.) 263 The country around An-coose and Modoc lakes is claimed and occupied by the Modoc Indians.

1874 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 3 Index 537/1 Modoc bow and arrows.

1907 F. W. Hodge Handbk. Amer. Indians I. 918/1 The Modoc language is practically the same as the Klamath.

1949 New Yorker 2 Apr. 25/2 Broncho Charlie's mother and father were killed by Modoc Indians.

1995 Sci. Amer. Dec. 88/1 Long ago, say the Modoc people of the Pacific Northwest, Moon was lonely, if bright, over the waters.

1931 Technol. Rev. Nov. 66/2 If a person attaches himself to aviation solely for social or publicity reasons..he is called a modock, a purely synthetic term..originally advanced by one Cy Caldwell, aeronautical humorist, who claimed it meant less than nothing in delicatessen Greek.

1933 C. K. Stewart Speech Amer. Airman (M.A. thesis, Univ. of Akron) 78 Modock, one who talks about aviation but never flies.

1936 C. B. Allen & L. D. Lyman Wonder Bk. Air 312 A modoc, the derivation of which is obscure, is a flashy chap who goes around wearing helmet and goggles, and more than likely, leather boots and riding breeches, too, and talking about the big things he is going to do for aviation.

1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §756/2 Modock, one who has taken up aviation for publicity, social, or similar reasons.

1960 H. Wentworth & S. B. Flexner Dict. Amer. Slang 341/2 Modoc, one who becomes an Air Force flier for publicity, social prestige, or similar reasons.