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Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Shoshones

· Sho·sho·nes · IPA
01 n. pl. A linguistic family or stock of North American Indians, comprising many tribes, which extends from Montana and Idaho into Mexico. In a rest…
  1. 1.
    A linguistic family or stock of North American Indians, comprising many tribes, which extends from Montana and Idaho into Mexico. In a restricted sense the name is applied especially to the Snakes, the most northern of the tribes.(Ethnol.)