Mic-mac

American: French name for the native Indians of Nova Scotia, . ⁂ (1) As a special name it means the Algonkin of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Cape Breton, and Prince Edward’s Island. The still more special name for the present dialect is Miramichi . (2) As a cla name it may conveniently be made to include (i.) on the North the Skoffi and Sheshatapoosh of Labrador; (ii.) the Mic-mac proper of the South; (iii.) the New England forms of speech, as the Abenaki , Penobscot , and Etchemin , whence we derived the present name for the State of Mayne. It corresponds thus with the Acadian and Gaspesian of the French, including the French denominations Souriquois, Montagnard, and others. Grammar by Mail lard, New York, 1864.     R. G. L.