[mok-uh-sin, -zuh
n] 
| 1. | a heelless shoe made entirely of soft leather, as deerskin, with the sole brought up and attached to a piece of u-shaped leather on top of the foot, worn originally by the American Indians. |
| 2. | a hard-soled shoe or slipper resembling this, often decorated with beads. |
| 3. | any of several North American snakes of the genus Agkistrodon (Ancistrodon), esp. the cottonmouth. |
| moc·ca·sin (mŏk'ə-sĭn) n.
[Of Virginia Algonquian origin; akin to Powhatan mäkäsĭn, shoe, and Ojibwa makisin.] |