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Huron

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Hu·ron  (hyrn, -n)
n. pl. Huron or Hu·rons
1.
a. A Native American confederacy formerly inhabiting southeast Ontario around Lake Simcoe, with small present-day populations in Quebec and northeast Oklahoma, where they are known as Wyandot. The Huron traded extensively throughout eastern Canada until the confederacy was destroyed by war with the Iroquois in the mid-17th century.
b. A member of this confederacy.
2. The Iroquoian language of the Huron.

[French, boor, Huron, from Old French hure, bristling hair.]

Huron, Lake
The second largest of the Great Lakes, between southeast Ontario, Canada, and eastern Michigan. Part of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway system, it is navigable for oceangoing vessels, although winter ice in the shallower sections impedes free passage. Samuel de Champlain first sighted the lake in 1615.
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Noun1.HuronHuron - the 2nd largest of the Great Lakes  
Great Lakes - a group of five large, interconnected lakes in central North America


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de Morcerf" (these words were accompanied by a most peculiar smile), "whether you undertake, upon my arrival in France, to open to me the doors of that fashionable world of which I know no more than a Huron or a native of Cochin-China?
Not by birth, though adopted in that tribe; I think his birthplace was farther north, and he is one of those you call a Huron.
There was that accursed Huron, from the upper lakes, that I knocked from his perch among the rocks in the hills, back of the Hori--"
 
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