Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A sacrificial plumed stick. Also written baho.
- n. In the Philippine Islands, Mangifera altissima, a lofty forest-tree, allied to the mango, but bearing much smaller fruit. The latter is preserved by the natives, who gather it before it is ripe and pickle it in vinegar.
Examples
“This member of the paho was the female; the remaining stick was the male.”
“One of the most important objects made in the secret ceremonials of the modern Pueblos is sacrificial in nature, and is called a paho or”
“One of these was declared by Kópeli to be a chief's paho.”
“While it is probably true that the Hopi barters his paho with the idea of receiving in return some desired gift, the main element is probably homage, but there is involved in it the third and highest element of sacrifice, abnegation.”
“Numerous specimens of a peculiar razor-shape paho were found, two of which are shown in plate CLXXV, _o_, _s_.”
“CLXXIV, _a_, represents a double stick paho, which closely resembles the prayer offering of the modern Flute society.”
“Deposited in this fragment were many stone arrowheads, several fragments of green paint, a flat green paho ornamented with figures of dragon-flies in black.”
“They are unlike any modern paho except in this particular.”
“A similar terraced extremity survives in the corn paho carried by the so-called Flute girls in the biennial celebrations of the Flute ceremonies in the modern Tusayan pueblos.”
“The constant appearance of the feather on the paho has suggested an interpretation of the prayer-plumes as symbolic sacrifices of birds on the theory of a part for the whole; we know that among the Nahua sacrifices of birds were common in many ceremonials.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘paho’.
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Exotic Fruits
List naming fruits found in foreign markets and lands that are seldom seen or heard of in America.
durian, ababai, cornelian cherry, sloe, ackee, Adam's fig, apple cactus, pitahaya, dragon fruit, pitaya, asam gelugor, tamarind and 347 more...
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A few of my favorite definitions from...
I'm especially fond of ones written by Charles Sanders Peirce.
theodolite, illusion, buckie, frank, abstract-concrete, semidiagrammatic, object-object, vortex-filament, dod, parrock, cobler, weather-box and 354 more...
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It's a Tree
Some tree names, run across while reading.
agoho, ipil-ipil, akle, banaba, dita, batino, devil-tree, alstonia, yemane, bangkal, bagras, narra and 28 more...
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More fun than a barrel of pickles
Pickled foods.
kimchi, chowchow, picalilli, sauerkraut, gherkin, cornichon, kosher dill, relish, chutney, tsukemono, achar, giardiniera and 27 more...
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