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Texan, a. and n.|ˈtɛksən|
[f. next + -an.]
A. adj. Of or pertaining to the State of Texas. In some specific names of animals, plants, etc.: e.g.
Texan armadillo, the peba; Texan fever = Texas fever; Texan hare, the American jack-rabbit; Texan pride, Phlox Drummondii, a bright-flowered annual, native in Texas; Texan shrew-mole, Scalops latimanus.
1832W. B. Dewees Lett. from Early Settler Texas (1852) 142 On arriving at that place the Texan troops put to flight seven hundred Mexicans. 1860Bartlett Dict. Amer. 218 Jackass Rabbit..known also as Mule Rabbit, Texan Hare, and Black-tailed Hare. 1888Cassell's Encycl. Dict., Texan shrew-mole.
B. n. A person or animal native to or inhabiting Texas.
1837H. Martineau Society in America II. ii. i. 81 If the government wished all possible success to the Texans, it could hardly do better than be quiet. 1868Trans. Illinois Agric. Soc. (1870) VII. 138 We also put five cows and a buffalo with some Texans about the 20th of June. 1940W. Faulkner Hamlet iv. i. 246 The Texan..managed to saw the mules about and so lock the wheels. 1974‘R. B. Dominic’ Epitaph for Lobbyist ii. 14 He combined formidable intelligence with a Texan's charm. |