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  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Pemmican  \Pem"mi*can\,  n. 
  A  treatise  of  much  thought  in  little  compass. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Pemmican  \Pem"mi*can\,  n.  [Written  also  pemican.] 
  1.  Among  the  North  American  Indians,  meat  cut  in  thin  slices, 
  divested  of  fat,  and  dried  in  the  sun. 
 
  Then  on  pemican  they  feasted.  --Longfellow. 
 
  2.  Meat,  without  the  fat,  cut  in  thin  slices,  dried  in  the 
  sun,  pounded,  then  mixed  with  melted  fat  and  sometimes 
  dried  fruit,  and  compressed  into  cakes  or  in  bags.  It 
  contains  much  nutriment  in  small  compass,  and  is  of  great 
  use  in  long  voyages  of  exploration. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  pemmican 
  n  :  lean  dried  meat  pounded  fine  and  mixed  with  melted  fat;  used 
  especially  by  North  American  Indians 




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