Cayuses

Variant of Cayuse

Cayuse definition

Cay·use (kī′yo̵̅o̅s′, -o̵̅o̅s′; kī yo̵̅o̅s′, -o̵̅o̅s′)

noun pl. Cayuses -·us′es or Cayuse -·use′

  1. a member of a group of North American Indians that lived in the Blue Mountains section of NE Oreg.
  2. the language of this people
  3. a horse, esp. a small Western horse used by cowboys

Etymology: < tribal name

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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