Mohican
[moh-hee-kuh n]
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"Uncas will stay," the young Mohican calmly answered in English.
The Last of the MohicansJames Fenimore Cooper
The violence of the exertion cast the young Mohican at his side.
The Last of the MohicansJames Fenimore Cooper
A difficult matter it was, too, to keep this Mohican boy snug in the ambushment.
The Last of the MohicansJames Fenimore Cooper
Whenever we had met a dark-haired person, he had said to me: "Do you think that is a Mohican?"
A Jolly FellowshipFrank R. Stockton
It was the Mohican and Lenape who veiled their faces, not the Iroquois.
The ReckoningRobert W. Chambers
mohican
- a punk hairstyle in which the head is shaved at the sides and the remaining strip of hair is worn stiffly erect and sometimes brightly coloured
- a person wearing such a hairstyle
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Mohican
Mahican (məˈhiːkən)
- plural -cans or -can a member of a North American Indian people formerly living along the Hudson river and east of it
- the language of this people, belonging to the Algonquian family
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Word Origin and History for mohican
Mohican
from Mahican (Algonquian) ma:hi:kan "people of the tidal estuary." Spelling with -o- popularized by James Fenimore Cooper's novel.
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