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Glossary <strong>of</strong> Common Words<br />

By 1.5. MacLaren<br />

acasanley<br />

occasionally<br />

acassions<br />

occasions<br />

acurad<br />

occurred<br />

afJered / afJeried afraid<br />

agusted<br />

adjusted<br />

akers<br />

acres<br />

aloude<br />

allowed<br />

Ambaraws<br />

for the Fr. emiJarras, "obstacle"; literally,<br />

"isl<strong>and</strong>s fonned by driftwood"<br />

amence<br />

immense<br />

anamaIcuia<br />

animalcula<br />

ancbious<br />

anxious<br />

aneul<br />

annual<br />

anph<br />

enough<br />

apiscoplion<br />

Episcopalian<br />

are<br />

air<br />

areley / arley<br />

early<br />

asend<br />

ascend<br />

Mpide<br />

espied<br />

aublesbed<br />

established<br />

avoud<br />

avoid<br />

axedent<br />

accident<br />

hair<br />

bear<br />

bakf_<br />

breakfast<br />

bard<br />

beard<br />

bare<br />

bear<br />

bariors<br />

barriers<br />

b2;a1/BMeltect basalt/basaltic<br />

bature<br />

for the Fr. batture, "gravel isl<strong>and</strong>s in<br />

midstream <strong>of</strong> a river"<br />

ben<br />

being<br />

bigade<br />

brigade, the corrunon name given to an<br />

outfit <strong>of</strong> Hudson's Bay Company<br />

canoes traveling together<br />

bing<br />

being<br />

boab<br />

both<br />

boan<br />

for the Fr. bon, "good"<br />

i:Joam/bouns<br />

bones<br />

bout<br />

bought; boat<br />

booth<br />

both<br />

bregade<br />

see bigade<br />

brock<br />

broke / broken<br />

brode<br />

broad<br />

brucb<br />

brush, brushwood<br />

burdanaws/Burdenaws unclear why t<strong>his</strong> ice took t<strong>his</strong> name;<br />

perhaps for the Fr. bourdon; avoir les<br />

bourdones, "to have the blues, to be<br />

irritated' '; t<strong>his</strong> certainly is the effect <strong>of</strong><br />

t<strong>his</strong> ice on Kane - t<strong>his</strong> word in W<strong>and</strong>erings<br />

<strong>of</strong> an Artist (245) is spelled<br />

bourdigneaux.<br />

cabree / cabrey for the Fr. cabri, "kid"; probably<br />

whitetailed deer, since W<strong>and</strong>erings <strong>of</strong><br />

an Artist calls them' 'prairie antelopes<br />

... the smallest <strong>of</strong> the deer tribe" (85)<br />

cace<br />

each/in each/in ~h<br />

case<br />

for the Fr. cache; en cache, "a store,<br />

a deposit, " as in the storing <strong>of</strong> food so<br />

as to save the trouble <strong>of</strong> carrying it<br />

cag<br />

keg<br />

calp<br />

scalp<br />

cammey clammy (?)<br />

canable<br />

cannibal<br />

caperes<br />

capers<br />

cantul<br />

cordial<br />

carge<br />

charge<br />

caring<br />

carrying<br />

carkies<br />

carcass<br />

carriaII<br />

cariole<br />

c.h, in<br />

Seecacb<br />

ceape<br />

keep<br />

ceeping<br />

keeping<br />

cepe<br />

keep<br />

cept<br />

kept<br />

cetch<br />

catch<br />

cetch / cetcbis<br />

sketch / sketches<br />

cheap / cbeape<br />

sheep<br />

cick<br />

sick<br />

clIIad/ dUd<br />

killed<br />

cind / cinde/ cindeley kind / kindly<br />

apt<br />

kept<br />

circb<br />

church<br />

cketch<br />

sketch<br />

cIoM<br />

clothes; close<br />

marcel coarse<br />

course<br />

coard<br />

cord<br />

coas<br />

cause<br />

comanIey<br />

commonly<br />

compebention<br />

comprehension<br />

comumtion<br />

consumption<br />

con<br />

son<br />

conducked<br />

conducted<br />

mneu/conew<br />

canoe<br />

congering<br />

conjuring<br />

CODO<br />

canoe<br />

mntince<br />

contents<br />

convonce<br />

conveyance<br />

cood<br />

could<br />

cot<br />

caught<br />

coos<br />

cause<br />

croused<br />

crossed<br />

cuc:seshion<br />

succession<br />

culled<br />

killed<br />

curence, a<br />

occurrence<br />

damped<br />

dampened<br />

decicy<br />

de-iced<br />

defamltia<br />

difficulty<br />

deseced<br />

deceased<br />

difacelta/ difacoltay difficulty<br />

dod<br />

dog<br />

dodg/doged<br />

dodge/dodged<br />

Doter<br />

daughter<br />

dought<br />

doubt<br />

dugbter /duter daughter<br />

eat/eate<br />

ate/eaten<br />

emance<br />

immense<br />

enenl/enterad entered<br />

Erived<br />

arrived<br />

The American Art <strong>Journal</strong>/Volume XXI • Number 2<br />

63

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