See Also: NIAGARA MOHAWK POWER MOHAWK DIV. Credit Union(finance)
mohawk(medicine)
Mohawk(dictionary)
Mohawk(encyclopedia)
Mohawk Industries(finance)
Mohawk River(encyclopedia)
MOHAWK VALLEY Credit Union(finance)
Jameson Mohawk Community Center(health)
MOHAWK PROGRESSIVE Credit Union(finance)
NIAGARA MOHAWK PWR COR TROY E Credit Union(finance)

inconceivable (iou) and Mohawk (sh)


inconceivable (iou)



inconceivable adjective & noun. E17.
[from IN-3 + CONCEIVABLE.]
A. adjective. Unable to be mentally conceived of; unthinkable, unimaginable; colloq. very remarkable, extraordinary. E17.
B. Jowett Even these inconceivable qualities of space..may be made the subject of reasoning. H. James A domain of immeasurable extent and almost inconceivable splendour. R. Rendell It was inconceivable to him that anyone would give three hundred pounds for such a thing.
b. noun. An inconceivable thing. E18.
,inconceiva'bility noun M19.
inconceivableness noun M17.
inconceivably adverb in an inconceivable manner; to an inconceivable degree, unimaginably; colloq. remarkably, exceedingly: M17.

Mohawk (sh)




North American Indian people, the easternmost group of the Iroquois Confederacy, living in Canada and the U.S. Their language is a member of the Iroquoian language family.

Their name for themselves is Kahniakehake, which means "People of the Flint" and within the confederacy they were considered to be the "Keepers of the Eastern Door." The Mohawk lived near what is now Schenectady, N.Y. They were semisedentary; women practiced corn agriculture, while men hunted during the fall and winter and fished during the summer. Related Families lived together in longhouses. Most Mohawk sided with the British in both the French and Indian War and the American Revolution, in the latter under Joseph Brant. They number more than 35,000 and have a wide reputation as structural ironworkers; many have been hired in the building of major bridges.