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Definition of Penobscot

1. Noun. A member of the Algonquian people belonging to the Abnaki confederacy and living in the Penobscot valley in northern Maine.

2. Noun. A river in central Maine flowing into Penobscot Bay.

Definition of Penobscot

1. Proper noun. An extinct Abenaki (Algonquian) language, spoken in parts of the northeastern United States and in Quebec, related to Western Abenaki. ¹

2. Noun. One of a sovereign people indigenous to what is now Maritime Canada and the northeastern United States, particularly Maine. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Penobscot

Pennisetum cenchroides Pennisetum glaucum Pennisetum ruppelii Pennisetum setaceum Pennistum villosum Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Avenue Pennsylvania Dutch Pennsylvania German Pennsylvanian

Pennsylvanian period Pennsylvanians Penny Black Penny Blacks Penobscot (current term) Penobscot Bay Penobscot River Penobscots Penrith Penrose

Penrose drain Penrose stairs Penrose triangle Penry Pensacola Penstemon Penstemon barbatus Penstemon centranthifolius Penstemon cyananthus

Literary usage of Penobscot

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Mission work was continued in some measure, although under difficulties, among the Indians of the Penobscot and the St. John, but most of the Norridgewock ..."

2. Forest Life and Forest Trees: Comprising Winter Camp-life Among the Loggers by John S. Springer (1851)
"Penobscot River—Its various Names—Character of the Country through which it flows—Its Length—The vast Extent of Territory which it drains —Its Multitude of ..."

3. History of the Late War Between the United States and Great Britain by Henry Marie Brackenridge (1844)
"It was not long after this, that the British claimed all that part of the territory of Maine between the river Penobscot, and Passamaquoddy Bay. ..."

4. A Supplement to A Guide to Manuscripts Relating to the American Indian in by Daythal Kendall, John F. Freeman (1982)
"DAY, GORDON M. Letter to Frank G. Speck, Philadelphia; New Brunswick, NJ, May 23, 1947. TLS 1 p. Re: obtaining a copy of Speck's Penobscot Tra ..."

5. The History of the United States of America by Richard Hildreth (1877)
"THE BRITISH OCCUPY THE Penobscot. York to defend it, and Washington, who did not choose CHAPTER to risk a battle, found it necessary to abandon Stony XXXIX ..."

6. Index of Economic Material in Documents of the States of the United States by Adelaide Rosalia Hasse (1907)
"Penobscot INDIAN FUND Derived from sale of 4 townships of land purchased by state of said tribe In 1833, and from receipts of leases of shores of several ..."

7. Collections of the Maine Historical Society by Maine Historical Society (1913)
"... hereby Impowered and directed to receive and Examine all Accounts of Supplies & Transportation of Provision for the Inhabitants of Penobscot as also for ..."

8. History of the Lumber Industry of America by James Elliott Defebaugh (1907)
"About thirty percent of Maine's log crop is cut on the Penobscot River, ... Bangor, situated at the head of tide water, twenty miles from Penobscot Bay, ..."

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