Definition of Hykes

1. hyke [n] - See also: hyke

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hykes

hygroscopic
hygroscopic expansion
hygroscopically
hygroscopicities
hygroscopicity
hygroscopy
hygrosensation
hygrostat
hygrostatics
hygrostats
hygrostomia
hygrothermal
hygrothermograph
hying
hyke
hykes (current term)
hyl-
hyla
hylaeosaurus
hylarchical
hylas
hylase
hylding
hyldings
hyle
hyleg
hylegs
hylephobia
hyles
hyletics

Literary usage of Hykes

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in by John Pinkerton (1814)
"... this is actually no other than the drefs of the Arabs, when they appear in their hykes. The plaid of the Highlanders in Scotland is the very fame. ..."

2. The people's dictionary of the Bible [by J.R. Beard]. by John Relly Beard (1861)
"The chief branch of their manufacture is the making of hykes, or blankets as we should call them. In this work are employed only women, who do not use the ..."

3. An Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures by Thomas Hartwell Horne (1825)
"worn over these hykes. It is wove in one piece, and shaped exactly like the garment of the little god Telesphorus, viz. strait about tlie neck, ..."

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