| Pemmican 1. (n.) Among the North American Indians, meat cut in thin slices, divested of fat, and dried in the sun. 2. (n.) Meat, without the fat, cut in thin slices, dried in the sun, pounded, then mixed with melted fat and sometimes dried fruit, and compressed into cakes or in bags. It contains much nutriment in small compass, and is of great use in long voyages of exploration. Thesaurus Entries Caesar salad, Jell-O salad, Waldorf salad, ambrosia, barbecue, boiled meat, bouilli, chef salad, civet, cole slaw, combination salad, crab Louis, flesh, forcemeat, fruit salad, game, green salad, hachis, hash, herring salad, jerky, joint, jugged hare, macaroni salad, meat, menue viande, mince, pemmican, pot roast, potato salad, roast, salad, salade, salmagundi, sausage meat, scrapple, slaw, tossed salad, venison, viande |