Word Meanings - GHOSTDANCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A religious dance of the North American Indians, participated in by both sexes, and looked upon as a rite of invocation the purpose of which is, through trance and vision, to bring the dancer into communion with the unseen world and the spirits of departed friends. The dance is the chief rite of the Ghost-dance, or Messiah, religion, which originated about 1890 in the doctrines of the Piute Wovoka, the Indian Messiah, who taught that the time was drawing near when the whole Indian race, the dead with the living, should be reunited to live a life of millennial happiness upon a regenerated earth. The religion inculcates peace, righteousness, and work, and holds that in good time, without warlike intervention, the oppressive white rule will be removed by the higher powers. The religion spread through a majority of the western tribes of the United States, only in the case of the Sioux, owing to local causes, leading to an outbreak.

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  of Owlery
• Branchial
  Of or pertaining to branchiae or gills.
• Brocatel
  A kind of coarse brocade, or figured fabric, used chiefly for tapestry, linings for carriages, etc.
• White
  Reflecting to the eye all the rays of the spectrum combined; not tinted with any of the proper colors or their mixtures; having the color of pure snow; snowy; -- the opposite of black or dark; as, white paper; a white skin.
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  Without bread; destitute of food.
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  Capable of being drawn.
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  The upper arm; the segment of the fore limb between the shoulder and the elbow.
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  Acting in common; participating.
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  Full of branches; having wide-spreading branches; consisting of branches.
• Broidered
  of Broider
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  of Bribe
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  Alt. of Drawknife
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  Having short wings.

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