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Definition of Chiefs

1. chief [n] - See also: chief

Lexicographical Neighbors of Chiefs

Literary usage of Chiefs

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"As the tribes had their princes, so these clans, families, or thousands had their respective chiefs, who were called heads of houses of fathers, ..."

2. Notes on the Early Settlement of the North-western Territory by Jacob Burnet, D. Appleton and Company, Morgan and Overend (1847)
"Speeches of the chiefs of the different tribes.—Progress of the negotiations. ON Wednesday, July 15th, the Council assembled agreeably to adjournment. ..."

3. A History of the Highlands and of the Highland Clans by James Browne (1838)
"From this state of things originated the institution of chiefs, ... From this division of the people into clans and tribes under separate chiefs, ..."

4. The Writings of Thomas Jefferson. by Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Adgate Lipscomb, Albert Ellery Bergh (1905)
"To the chiefs of the Shawanee nation:— My Children, chiefs i of the Shawanee nation,—I have listened to the speeches of the Blackhoof, Blackbeard, ..."

5. The Writings of Thomas Jefferson. by Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Adgate Lipscomb, Albert Ellery Bergh (1905)
"To the chiefs of the Shawanee ... chiefs of the Shawanee nation,—I have listened to the speeches of the Blackhoof, Blackbeard, and the other head chiefs of ..."

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