Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Hurons \Hu"rons\, n. pl.
;  sing. {Huron}. (Ethnol.) A powerful and warlike tribe of
   North American Indians of the Algonquin stock. They formerly
   occupied the country between Lakes Huron, Erie, and Ontario,
   but were nearly exterminated by the Five Nations about 1650.