Moccasin, the shoe of the North American Indian, made all of soft hide, and often ornamented.—The Moccasin Snake (Toxicophis piscivorus) of North America is a brown-coloured poisonous swamp snake; the skin is marked with black bars.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 7: Maltebrun to Pearson, p. 242
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