adj. 1. rural. Opposite of urban. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. characteristic of rural people, especially those not knowledgeable about matters outside their locality; as, hick ideas; a hick town.
Syn. -- bumpkinly, rustic, unsophisticated. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture; a hayseed.
Syn. -- yokel, rube, yahoo, hayseed, bumpkin, chawbacon. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. (Elec.) A device used to adapt a lighting fixture for mounting in an outlet box, or on a pipe. [ PJC ]

2. A red mark on the skin, caused by a passionate, sucking kiss at that location. [ slang ] [ PJC ]

3. a doohickey. [ informal ] [ PJC ]

n. [ North American Indian pawcohiccora (Capt. J. Smith) a kind of milk or oily liquor pressed from pounded hickory nuts. “Pohickory” is named in a list of Virginia trees, in 1653, and this was finally shortened to “hickory.” J. H. Trumbull. ] (Bot.) An American tree of the genus Carya, of which there are several species. The shagbark is the Carya alba, and has a very rough bark; it affords the hickory nut of the markets. The pignut, or brown hickory, is the Carya glabra. The swamp hickory is Carya amara, having a nut whose shell is very thin and the kernel bitter. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hickory shad. (Zool.) (a) The mattowacca, or fall herring. (b) The gizzard shad. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A member or follower of the “liberal” party, headed by Elias Hicks, which, because of a change of views respecting the divinity of Christ and the Atonement, seceded from the conservative portion of the Society of Friends in the United States, in 1827. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. & v. i. See Hiccough.

{ } n. [ OE., also hyghwhele, highawe. ] The lesser spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopus minor) of Europe. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]