hiccough (ghas p), hiccup, hick up

i. [HICCOUGH, s.] To have a hiccough. When I'm in a fit, to hick up." Butler: Hudibras, pt. ii., c. i. Hick, s . [Prop. name.] Hick's mandril, s. An arbor for turning rings; at the center of the arbor there is a cone, round which, at equal distances, wedges are fitted into dovetailed grooves, and are expanded to the bore of the ring by a nut acting on a screw at the end of the cone.