/al gong"kin, -kwin/ , n. , pl. Algonquins , ( esp. collectively ) Algonquin for 1, 3, adj.
n.
1. a member of a group of North American Indian tribes formerly along the Ottawa River and the northern tributaries of the St. Lawrence.
2. their speech, a dialect of Ojibwa, of the Algonquian family of languages.
3. Algonquian.
adj.
4. Algonquian.
Also, Algonkin .
[ 1615-25; Algoumequin, presumably ]