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Hickory

Hickory (hickory)
n.	(?)
Hick"o*ry
[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. Trumbu

An American tree of the genus Carya, of which there are several species. The shagbark is the C. alba, and has a very rough bark] it affords the hickory nut of the markets. The pignut, or brown hickory, is the C. glabra. The swamp hickory is C. amara, having a nut whose shell is very thin and the kernel bitter.

Hickory shad. (Zoöl.) (a) The mattowacca, or fall herring. (b) The gizzard shad.

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