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Mohican, Mohegan, a. and n.|məʊˈhiːkən, -gən|
Also 8 Mohigon, Mohickon, 9 Mohiccon, Mohigan, Moheecan; also in renderings of the native form, 8 Muhhekaneew, 9 Mahicanni, Mo-hee-con-neugh.
[From the native name.]
A. adj.
a. Of or pertaining to the Mohicans.
1643Mass. Bay Rec. (1853) II. 46 Concerning any advice..about the Nariganset or Mohegen sachems and their people. 1648T. Shepard Clear Sun-Shine of Gospel upon Indians New-Eng. 26 The Mohegen Counseller..is counted the wisest Indian in the Country. 1766C. Beatty Two Months' Tour (1768) 109 Thirty or forty of the Mohigon Indians. 1778T. Hutchins Topogr. Descr. Virginia etc. 66 Mohickons. 1788J. Edwards (title) Observations on the Language of the Muhhekaneew Indians. Ibid. 6 The analogy between the Mohegan, the Shawanee, and the Chippewau languages. 1881Encycl. Brit. XII. 831/1 The Pequod and Mohegan tribes were amongst the largest and most powerful. 1884G. Smith Short Hist. Chr. Missions ii. xii. 136 In 1661–63 the Moheecan Bible, the first Bible printed in America, was printed by him [sc. John Eliot].
b. Of a hairstyle, resembling that worn by the Mohicans, in which the head is shaved except for a strip of hair from the middle of the forehead to the back of the neck.
1960News Chron. 25 Mar. 7/5 James Greenwood, of York,..had his hair cut in Mohican style for his thirteenth birthday. 1960Guardian 27 Sept. 2/4 A Lowestoft boy..had a ‘Mohican’ haircut on Saturday and then went back to the barber to have the remaining strip of hair cut. 1965Evening Standard 29 Oct. 6/6 A man with a Mohican hair⁓cut.
B. n.
1. One of a warlike North American Indian people of the Algonquin stock, formerly occupying the western part of Connecticut and Massachusetts. (See also quot. 1819). Also, the language of this people.
1788J. Edwards Observ. Lang. Muhhekaneew Indians 5 They are by the Anglo-Americans called Mohegans. Ibid. 11 The Mohegans have no adjectives in all their language. 1819Rees Cycl. XXIII, Mohiccons, a tribe of Indians whose habitations lie on a branch of the Susquehannah... Also an Indian tribe in the N.W. territory, which inhabits near Sandusky. 1826J. F. Cooper (title) The Last of the Mohicans. 1836Pop. Encycl. IV. 73/2 note, The word kthuwhunin, in Mohegan. 1873R. Brown Races Mankind I. 225 The Mo-hee-con-neughs (or Mohicans) are now almost extinct.
†2. (See quot.) Obs.
1848Tait's Mag. May 309 A Mohican, in Cadonian phraseology, is a tremendously heavy man, who rides five or six miles [in an omnibus] for sixpence.
3. Phr. the last of the Mohicans, the title of a novel (1826) by J. F. Cooper (1789–1851), used allusively to designate the sole survivors of a noble class or race. Also fig.
1832Boston Transcript 3 Apr. 2/1 We have seen the last of the Mohigans and the last of the cocked-hats, and we pray that we may be able to say, on the morrow we have seen the last of the snow-storms. 1894A. Lang Cock Lane 136 A hundred years after the blue stockings looked on Johnson as the last survivor, the last of the Mohicans of superstition, the Psychical Society can collect some 400 cases of haunted houses in England. 1922Joyce Ulysses 644 Fourpence (the amount he deposited unobtrusively in four coppers, literally the last of the Mohicans). 1946H. Howe We Happy Few 7 You can't pay attention to a thing that John Calcott says because he is the perfect product of the school—our own special Last of the Mohicans. |