DCHP-1 Online
hyas hias, hyass [< Chinook Jargon; cf. Nootka īh big, large] B.C. 
adj. adv. large; big; very.
See also: hyiu
- 1860 San Diego, he used to say, was a hyas klosh (very good) city--for at that time (he said) it was much larger than San Francisco.
- 1915 Hias Peter had a bias gun, and he raised it to his shoulder. . . .
- 1953 This evening we pitch off. We leave hyas quick--in half a pipe.
- 1958 But moosmoos is not a moose; it means cattle. Moose is ulchey or hyas mowitch, big deer.
- 1860 San Diego, he used to say, was a hyas klosh (very good) city--for at that time (he said) it was much larger than San Francisco.