hic

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Hiccoughed p. pr. & vb. n. Hiccoughing. ] To have a hiccough or hiccoughs. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. hickup, hicket, hickock; prob. of imitative origin; cf. D. & Dan. hik, Sw. hicka, Armor. hak, hik, W. ig, F. hoquet. ] (Physiol.) A modified respiratory movement; a spasmodic inspiration, consisting of a sudden contraction of the diaphragm, accompanied with closure of the glottis, so that further entrance of air is prevented, while the impulse of the column of air entering and striking upon the closed glottis produces a sound, or hiccough. [ Written also hickup or hiccup. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

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

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. 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.