Hicks
Americannoun
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Edward, 1780–1849, U.S. painter.
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Granville, 1902–82, U.S. writer, educator, and editor.
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Sir John Richard, 1904–1989, British economist: Nobel Prize 1972.
Example Sentences
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Others worked at the new house, piling sicks and mud into a heap.
From A Mountain Boyhood by Comstock, Enos B. (Enos Benjamin)
And then Mrs. Ostrich gets mad too, and sicks Reginald onto her.
From Danny's Own Story by Marquis, Don
His Pa allows him only sicks hundred a-year, wich isn’t above 1/2 enuff to keep a cabb, a cupple of hosses, and other thinks, which it’s not necessary to elude to here.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, July 24, 1841 by Various
He sicks me on to one after another.
From The Intrusion of Jimmy by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)
I think at first that they were like dogs that someone sicks into a fight.
From Shelled by an Unseen Foe by Fiske, James
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