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manitou
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also manito , "spirit, deity, supernatural being," 1690s, from a word found throughout the Algonquian languages (Delaware manutoow , Ojibwa manidoo ), first in English from Unami Delaware /manet:u/ .
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Manitou is a limited service Metro-North Railroad station. The station is open part-time, serving one peak hour (weekday) train in each direction, and six weekend trains each direction. It serves the residents of that hamlet in the southwestern corner of ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A god or spirit as the object of religious awe or ritual among some American Indians.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Manito \Man"i*to\, Manitou \Man"i*tou\, Manitu \Man"i*tu\, n. A name given by tribes of American Indians to a great spirit, whether good or evil, or to any object of worship. --Tylor. Gitche Manito the mighty, The Great Spirit, the creator, Smiled upon ...
Usage examples of manitou.
Lac la Peche, a small wood sacred to the native manitou that immigrating Faerie had named Rathbabh and taken for their own.
Migizi was familiar with the manitou, enough to recognize and put a name to all the mysteries, great and small.
He meant to ask Nanibush if this manitou was an errant soul, lost from Epanggishimuk, the spirit land in the west where Nanibush ruled and the spirits traveled after death.
Drawn by the kindness that the moonlight showed in her features, the strange manitou drifted from the woods to join them in the glade.
And because this was no longer England, tobacco as well, for she knew her journey would be taking her into the spirit realms where the native manitou dwelled.
But she was a manitou, and the ways of manitou were different from those of men.
By this, he knew her to be a manitou of the windmaker Nibanegishik, her charge being the winds of the west.
He thought of the manitou and looked for other futures for her and her sister.
Mishiginebek lived to punish those who mocked the manitou, who used their medicine for evil, by devouring their souls after death.
They were like a pack of unruly manitou, teasing little mysteries, forever following her about, asking questions, laying tricks, meeting her accusing looks with their guileless open gazes.
Emma said were manitou, drawn to them by the heavy use of magic it required to maintain the House in this Otherworld.
Freshly fallen from high, stratospheric clouds, the delicate frost coated every surface, from spars and rails to rigging, making the Manitou into a fairy ship of crystal dust, glowing in a profusion of pink sunrise refractions.
There a winch had lifted the prisoners and their provisions, just before the Reckless and the captured Manitou sailed off.
Once the skiff crew began boarding, drawing all the reavers aft, five waterlogged Manitou sailors managed to swim around to the bow and clamber aboard, using loops of dangling, cable.
The last two Manitou sailors, those responsible for springing the catapult trap, had been perhaps the bravest of all.