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   Wampanoag
         n 1: a member of the Algonquian people of Rhode Island and
               Massachusetts who greeted the Pilgrims

English Dictionary: wampum by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
wampum
n
  1. informal terms for money [syn: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, lucre, loot, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum]
  2. small cylindrical beads made from polished shells and fashioned into strings or belts; used by certain Native American peoples as jewelry or currency
    Synonym(s): wampum, peag, wampumpeag
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
wampumpeag
n
  1. small cylindrical beads made from polished shells and fashioned into strings or belts; used by certain Native American peoples as jewelry or currency
    Synonym(s): wampum, peag, wampumpeag
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
wine vinegar
n
  1. vinegar made from wine
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Wampum \Wam"pum\, n. [North American Indian wampum, wompam, from
      the Mass. w[a2]mpi, Del. w[be]pe, white.]
      Beads made of shells, used by the North American Indians as
      money, and also wrought into belts, etc., as an ornament.
  
               Round his waist his belt of wampum.         --Longfellow.
  
               Girded with his wampum braid.                  --Whittier.
  
      Note: These beads were of two kinds, one white, and the other
               black or dark purple. The term wampum is properly
               applied only to the white; the dark purple ones are
               called suckanhock. See {Seawan}. [bd]It [wampum]
               consisted of cylindrical pieces of the shells of
               testaceous fishes, a quarter of an inch long, and in
               diameter less than a pipestem, drilled . . . so as to
               be strung upon a thread. The beads of a white color,
               rated at half the value of the black or violet, passed
               each as the equivalent of a farthing in transactions
               between the natives and the planters.[b8] --Palfrey.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
  
  
      {Wine fly} (Zo[94]l.), small two-winged fly of the genus
            {Piophila}, whose larva lives in wine, cider, and other
            fermented liquors.
  
      {Wine grower}, one who cultivates a vineyard and makes wine.
           
  
      {Wine measure}, the measure by which wines and other spirits
            are sold, smaller than beer measure.
  
      {Wine merchant}, a merchant who deals in wines.
  
      {Wine of opium} (Pharm.), a solution of opium in aromatized
            sherry wine, having the same strength as ordinary
            laudanum; -- also {Sydenham's laudanum}.
  
      {Wine press}, a machine or apparatus in which grapes are
            pressed to extract their juice.
  
      {Wine skin}, a bottle or bag of skin, used, in various
            countries, for carrying wine.
  
      {Wine stone}, a kind of crust deposited in wine casks. See
            1st {Tartar}, 1.
  
      {Wine vault}.
            (a) A vault where wine is stored.
            (b) A place where wine is served at the bar, or at tables;
                  a dramshop. --Dickens.
  
      {Wine vinegar}, vinegar made from wine.
  
      {Wine whey}, whey made from milk coagulated by the use of
            wine.

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Wampum, PA (borough, FIPS 80880)
      Location: 40.88647 N, 80.33880 W
      Population (1990): 666 (308 housing units)
      Area: 2.4 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 16157

From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
   WIMP environment n.   [acronym: `Window, Icon, Menu, Pointing
   device (or Pull-down menu)'] A graphical-user-interface environment
   such as {X} or the Macintosh interface, esp. as described by a
   hacker who prefers command-line interfaces for their superior
   flexibility and extensibility.   However, it is also used without
   negative connotations; one must pay attention to voice tone and
   other signals to interpret correctly.   See {menuitis},
   {user-obsequious}.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   WIMP environment
  
      {WIMP}
  
  
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