ESQUIMAU - Definition

Pronunciation:		'esku`mow
WordNet Dictionary

	Definition:	[n] the language spoken by the Eskimo people [n] a member of a people inhabiting the Arctic (northern Canada or Greenland or Alaska or eastern Siberia); the Algonquians called them Eskimo (`eaters of raw flesh') but they call themselves the Inuit (`the people')

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	Synonyms:	Eskimo, Eskimo, Inuit

	See Also:	American Indian, Eskimo-Aleut, Eskimo-Aleut language, Indian, North American Indian, Red Indian

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

	Definition:	\Es"qui*mau\, n.; pl. {Esquimaux}. [F.] Same as {Eskimo}. It is . . . an error to suppose that where an Esquimau can live, a civilized man can live also. --McClintock.