英:[kaɪ'ju:s]
美:[kaɪ'jus]
英:[kaɪ'ju:s]
美:[kaɪ'jus]
Cay·use
kaI yus [or] kaI yus
Cayuse, Cayuses
noun
a member of a once-nomadic Indigenous people of the northwestern U.S. located primarily in eastern Oregon and WashingtonNote: The Cayuse now exist as part of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation in northeastern Oregon.
cayuse plural cayuses, Western US a native range horse
"马,北落基山脉的印第安小马",1841年,美国英语,据说是一种 Chinook(太平洋西北部的土著)语言; 也是一个印第安人群体和语言的名称(1825年); 起源不明。
印第安种矮马
origin unknown
The first known use of Cayuse was in 1825
cedeverb
to give up especially by treaty
Russia ceded Alaska to the U.S. in 1867
cedeverb
to give up especially by treaty
Russia ceded Alaska to the U.S. in 1867
ceaselessadjective
constant entry 1 sense 4, continual
CDnoun
a small plastic disk on which information (as music or computer data) is recorded digitally and read by using a laser
cctransitive verb
to send someone a copy of (an email, letter, or memo)
cc an email to a coworker
cayusenoun
a small native horse of the western U.S.
1 "I want you to stick right here an' tote me to a cayuse!"
2 Jimmy thought he knew the trick, for when a cayuse cannot buck off its rider it goes for a tree, and if one keeps one's foot in the stirrup, one risks a broken leg.
3 There was a considerable proportion of the spotted roan, which is the traditional color for the Indian "cayuse."
4 “For uncle’s bought it and it beats riding a cayuse, I tell you!”
5 She seized the bridle, stroked the cayuse, and was in the saddle.
6 Ingleby took the bridle, and he and the cayuse floundered through what appeared to be a horrible maze of fallen branches and tangled undergrowth.
7 “Druther break cayuses any day, and twice on Sundays,” was the reply of the driver, as he climbed on the wagon and started the horses.
8 The horse, an Indian cayuse, tossed its head and glanced about nervously, as if its habit was to scent danger in the bush.
9 "You could 'a got 'em both then, an' had two cayuses to ride home on."
10 Put him on his cayuse an' start him south!
11 Billy’s own horse was a stringy cayuse with a hammer head, but he nearly always won first prize at the stock trials.
12 By a strange perversion the printer had changed the word "cayuse" into "hans."
13 Then the bush became a little clearer, and they went on more briskly, up and down steep slopes and past dim blurs of trees, while soil and gravel alike rang beneath the cayuse's feet.
14 I happened to hear the order he gave the shover, and I had my cayuse hitched over at Bob Sharkey's joint.
15 "We can lead th' cayuses till we can get in that barranca back there," Red replied.
16 Still, when a thin white haze blotted out the dim colonnades and obscured the firs beside the trail she strove to quicken the cayuse's pace a trifle.
17 The puncher still attached braced his cayuse to throw the steer when the slack of his rope was taken up.
18 On this or another expedition, Green was introduced to the idiosyncrasies of the Indian pony or cayuse.
19 In the grassy glades that encircle the snowy pile of Adams no vexatious undergrowth impedes the gallop of our fleet cayuse pony or obscures our vision.
20 He, with his yellow dog and sallow cayuse, was regarded as an indispensable institution.