11) mukluk. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth
Edition. 2000. ...1. A soft boot made of reindeer skin or sealskin and worn by Eskimos. 2. A slipper with a soft sole resembling this boot. Yupik maklak, bearded seal.... 12) 40615. Moore, Marianne. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996 ...are snobbishand sheep, unintelligent; water buffaloes, neurasthenic-even murderous.Reindeer seem over-serious. ATTRIBUTION:Marianne Moore (1887-1972), U.S. poet.... 13) Nenets. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth
Edition. 2000. ...Inflected forms: pl. Nenets1. A member of a reindeer-herding people of of extreme northwest Russia along the coast of the White, Barents, and Kara seas. 2. The Uralic... 14) Samoyedes. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 ...Peninsula, especially in the basin of the Ob and Yenisei rivers. Traditionally they hunted reindeer and held shamans in high repute. The Samoyede language, included... 15) Wollaston Lake. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 ...Wollaston Lake, 796 sq mi (2,062 sq km), NE Sask., Canada, NW of Reindeer Lake. It drains into both the Churchill and the Mackenzie river systems.... 16) Wollaston Lake. The Columbia Gazetteer of North America. 2000 ...Wollaston Lake (796 sq mi/2,062 sq km), NE Sask., W Canada, NW of Reindeer L. It drains into both the Churchill and the Mackenzie river systems.... 17) Holy Cross. The Columbia Gazetteer of North America. 2000 ...Holy Cross, village (1990 pop. 277), W Alaska, on Yukon R. at mouth of Innoko R. and Reindeer R. and 120 mi/193 km NE of Bethel; 62°12'N 159°47'W. Est. 1887.... 18) caribou. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth
Edition. 2000. ...Inflected forms: pl. caribou or carˇiˇbous Any of several large reindeer native to northern North America. Micmac alipu (influenced by Canadian French caribou, also... 19) caribou, in zoology. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 ...in zoology, name in North America for the genus (Rangifer) of deer from which the Old World reindeer was originally domesticated. Caribou are found in arctic and... 20) Verkhoyansk. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 ...Yana River, near the Arctic Circle. A river port, a fur-collecting depot, and the center of a reindeer-raising area, it lies in the coldest area of the earth. The... |