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Definition of Kusan
1. Noun. A member of the North American Indian people of Oregon.
2. Noun. A Penutian language spoken by the Kusan.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Kusan
Literary usage of Kusan
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reconnoitring Central Asia: Pioneering Adventures in the Region Lying by Charles Thomas Marvin (1886)
"... and discoveries en route— The Sarik Turcomans—Arrives in Afghanistan—The
strategical importance of kusan—Russia and the emancipation of the 40000 slaves ..."
2. The Origins of the Islamic State, Being a Translation from the Arabic by Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyá Balādhurī, Philip Khuri Hitti (1916)
"kusan came and invested the city, whose inhabitants at that time were few and
whose 'amil was abu-Karimah. In the course of the siege, two Armenian brothers ..."
3. The Russians at Merv and Herat: And Their Power of Invading India by Charles Thomas Marvin (1883)
"The ascent and descent of the pass do not measure more than a few miles, and the
total remaining distance, from the robat north of the range to kusan, ..."
4. Indian Linguistic Families of America, North of Mexico by John Wesley Powell (1891)
"kusan FAMILY. = Kusa, Gatschet in Mag. Am. Hist., 257, 1882. Derivation: Milhau,
in a manuscript letter to Gibbs (Bureau of Ethnology), states that "Coos in ..."
5. The Tarikh-i-rashidi: A History of the Moghuls of Central Asia; an English by Dughlát Muhammad Haidar, N. Elias, Edward Denison Ross (1895)
"... leaving a garrison in its fort, repaired to Bai and kusan.1 Mir ... army against
Bai and kusan, making several raids into those territories, ..."
6. Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico V. 2/4 by Frederick Webb Hodge (2003)
"Within historic times there have been 4 villages in this region in which the
kusan language was spoken. ... The kusan villages known to have existed are: ..."
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