[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

seawan \sea"wan\, seawant \sea"want\, n.
   the name used by the algonquin indians for the shell beads
   which passed among the indians as money.
   1913 webster

   note: seawan was of two kinds; wampum, white, and
         suckanhock, black or purple, -- the former having
         half the value of the latter. many writers, however,
         use the terms seawan and wampum indiscriminately.
         --bartlett.
         1913 webster
see also:
wampum suckanhock 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

wampum \wam"pum\, n. north american indian wampum, wompam, from
   the mass. w'ompi, del. w=ape, white.
   beads made of shells, used by the north american indians as
   money, and also wrought into belts, etc., as an ornament.
   1913 webster

         round his waist his belt of wampum.      --longfellow.
   1913 webster

         girded with his wampum braid.            --whittier.
   1913 webster

   note: these beads were of two kinds, one white, and the other
         black or dark purple. the term wampum is properly
         applied only to the white; the dark purple ones are
         called suckanhock. see seawan. "it wampum consisted
         of cylindrical pieces of the shells of testaceous
         fishes, a quarter of an inch long, and in diameter less
         than a pipestem, drilled . . . so as to be strung upon
         a thread. the beads of a white color, rated at half the
         value of the black or violet, passed each as the
         equivalent of a farthing in transactions between the
         natives and the planters." --palfrey.
         1913 webster
see also:
seawan 

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

wampum
     n 1: informal terms for money syn: boodle, bread, cabbage,
           clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce,
          lolly, lucre, loot, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels,
           simoleons, sugar
     2: small cylindrical beads made from polished shells and
        fashioned into strings or belts; used by certain native
        american peoples as jewelry or currency syn: peag, wampumpeag
see also:
boodle bread cabbage clams dinero dough 
gelt kale lettuce lolly lucre 
loot moolah pelf scratch shekels 
simoleons sugar peag wampumpeag 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

73 moby thesaurus words for "wampum":
   anklet, armlet, bangle, beads, bijou, blunt, boodle, bracelet,
   brass, bread, breastpin, brooch, bucks, cabbage, cash, chain,
   chaplet, charm, chatelaine, chips, circle, coin, coronet, cowrie,
   crown, currency, diadem, dinero, dough, earring, fob, gelt, gem,
   gilt, grease, green, green stuff, greenbacks, jack, jewel, kale,
   legal tender, locket, lucre, mazuma, moolah, mopus, necklace,
   nose ring, oil of palms, ointment, oof, ooftish, pin,
   precious stone, rhinestone, rhino, ring, roanoke, rocks, sewan,
   shekels, simoleons, spondulics, stickpin, stone, sugar,
   the needful, tiara, tin, torque, wristband, wristlet

[5] : U.S. Gazetteer (1990)

wampum, pa borough, fips 80880
  location: 40.88647 n, 80.33880 w
  population 1990: 666 308 housing units
  area: 2.4 sq km land, 0.1 sq km water
  zip codes: 16157

[6] : U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000)

wampum, pa -- u.s. borough in pennsylvania
   population 2000:    678
   housing units 2000: 310
   land area 2000:     0.921043 sq. miles 2.385490 sq. km
   water area 2000:    0.042833 sq. miles 0.110937 sq. km
   total area 2000:    0.963876 sq. miles 2.496427 sq. km
   fips code:            80880
   located within:       pennsylvania pa, fips 42
   location:             40.888657 n, 80.339650 w
   zip codes 1990:     16157
   note: some zip codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
   headwords:
    wampum, pa
    wampum

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