SPECIALIZATION
Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
|
1998
|
|
© Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language 1998, originally published by Oxford University Press 1998. (Hide copyright information)
Copyright
SPECIALIZATION. A process of
SEMANTIC CHANGE in which narrowing occurs in the meaning of a word. In Middle English,
deer meant a four-legged beast (compare Dutch
dier and German
Tier), but the early restriction to one kind of animal (the family Cervidae) has long since eclipsed the earlier meaning. Such specialization is slow and need not be complete;
fowl is now usually restricted to the farmyard hen, but it retains its old meaning of ‘bird’ in expressions like
the fowls of the air and wild fowl (compare Chaucer's
‘Parlement of Fowles’ and German
Vogel).
Cite this article
Pick a style below, and copy the text for your bibliography.
 "Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)")
|
MAHICANS' TREASURED BIBLE FINALLY COMING HOME.(Main)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 5/13/1990; 700+ words
; ...recorded residents, the Mahican Indians who greeted...Stockbridge-Munsee, as the Mahicans' descendants are known...European settlers, the Mahicans lost most of their native...invited survivors from the Mahicans and other devastated...However, they kept the Mahican language and traditions...
|
|
Restored cemetery site of tribal ceremony Mahican group celebrates Memorial Day at improved ancestral grave site
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 5/31/1997; ; 685 words
; ...site is surrounded by a white picket fence. On Friday, the traditional Memorial Day, members of the Stockbridge -Munsee Mahican tribe from Stockbridge and Bowler celebrated the improvements to the cemetery that began in 1993 when the cemetery land, which...
|
 "Indian Country Today (Lakota Times)")
|
Mission journals speak across the centuries
Newspaper article from: Indian Country Today (Lakota Times); 8/27/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...missions occupied mostly by Mahicans but also by people from the...Christianity on a huddle of Mahican remnants taking shelter where...adaptive for the survival of Mahicans and that operated on Mahican as well as on Moravian terms...
|
|
|
MAGISTRATE RESERVES DECISION IN INDIAN LAND DISPUTE.(Local)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 7/25/1991; 654 words
; ...old dispute with a band of Wisconsin Mahicans over a 36- square-mile parcel of New...claims of other Native Americans." The Mahicans - known 200 years ago as the Stockbridge...Henry J. Sockbeson, the lawyer for the Mahicans, argued that the Oneidas gave the land...
|
|
|
PARK PLAN HAS COMMUNITIES ARGUING AND NAME-CALLING.(CAPITAL REGION)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 8/9/1998; 700+ words
; ...Harris mumbled emphatically. Fred Tobey of Castleton said the island, once inhabited by Mahican Indians, should be called Mahican Island. ``Mahican Island is not only the proper name, it's the historic name,'' he said. At the public...
|
|
Mohawk Trail spans time and distance amid natural beauty.(Travel)
Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald; 6/4/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...in an east-west direction. Mohawk, Mahican and Pocunitucks Indians used the trail...trail was used for trade, between the Mahicans who lived along the Hoosic and Housatonic...footpath in a natural setting, now named the Mahican-Mohawk Recreation Trail, and leave...
|
 "Times Union (Albany, NY)")
|
Book unearths stories of combs, pipes, beads: "Before Albany" paints lively scenes of our Dutch Colonial past.
Newspaper article from: Times Union (Albany, NY); 9/4/2007; 700+ words
; ...examines how Dutch colonists interacted with Mahican and Mohawk people when the drastically...Dutch settlers lived near the Mohawks and Mahicans and engaged in trade with them were marked...flourished when he treated the Mohawks and Mahicans as competent adults deserving of respect...
|
|
Strange encounters between new and old worlds
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 5/5/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...the Mohawks and a fourth one from the Mahicans arrived in London. They represented...an enigmatic figure. He came from the Mahican people recently absorbed into the larger...Life.'' A double life between the Mahicans and the Mohawks? Between the confederation...
|
|
|
Book unearths stories of combs, pipes, beads; "Before Albany" paints lively scenes of our Dutch Colonial past.(Capital Region)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 9/4/2007; 700+ words
; ...examines how Dutch colonists interacted with Mahican and Mohawk people when the drastically...Dutch settlers lived near the Mohawks and Mahicans and engaged in trade with them were marked...flourished when he treated the Mohawks and Mahicans as competent adults deserving of respect...
|
|
|
A POOR BET AT EXTREMELY LONG ODDS.(CAPITAL REGION)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 3/2/2000; 700+ words
; ...to the territory. He counterclaims the Mahican rights to the grounds. Plausible, except other Mahicans and the Bureau of Indian Affairs don...send the traditional deadly enemy of the Mahican into disarray and the developer back to...
|
|
Mahican
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Mahican , confederacy of Native North Americans...see Native American languages ). The Mahican were of the Eastern Woodlands culture area...Wappinger; both were closely related to the Mahican. The Mohegan were a tribe of the Mahican...
|
|
Mahican Indians
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
Mahican Indians, Algonquian confederacy...the white settlements, the Mahicans moved to Pennsylvania and...were dispersed. The only Mahicans who have preserved the tribal...the Mohicans Cooper confuses Mahicans with Mohegans , with whom...
|
|
Mahicans
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History
Mahicans (or Mohicans ) A Native American people who inhabited the Hudson River valley. They shared many traits with the IROQUOIS to the...
|
|
Stockbridge Indian Settlement
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...the Stockbridge-Munsee band of the Mahican Nation occupied a 46,000-acre reservation...people, formed from an amalgamation of Mahicans, Wappingers, and Housatonics, began...62. Matthew Holt Jennings See also Mahican .
|
|
|
Stockbridge
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...cent. they were known as the Housatonic and were part of the Mahican confederacy. They then occupied part of the valley of the...Their principal village, Westenhuck, was for a long time the Mahican capital after the removal of the council fire from Schodac...
|
