mohican

3 definitions found

mohican - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Mahican \Mahican\ prop. n.
     Variant of Mohican. [Also spelled Mohican.]
     [WordNet 1.5]

  Mohicans \Mo*hi"cans\, prop. n. pl.; sing. Mohican. (Ethnol.)
     A tribe of Lenni-Lenape Indians who formerly inhabited
     Western Connecticut and Eastern New York. [Written also
     Mohegans.]
     [1913 Webster]

mohican - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  Mohican
      n 1: a member of the Algonquian people formerly living in the
           Hudson valley and eastward to the Housatonic [syn:
           Mohican, Mahican]
      2: the Algonquian language spoken by the Mohican [syn:
         Mohican, Mahican]