{
  "hickories":{
    "as in birches , rattans":{
      "examples":[],
      "synonyms":[],
      "near synonyms":[
        "birches",
        "blacksnakes",
        "bullwhips",
        "cat-o'-nine-tails",
        "cowhides",
        "crops",
        "knouts",
        "quirts",
        "rattans",
        "rawhides",
        "straps",
        "floggers",
        "lashes",
        "scourges",
        "switches",
        "whips",
        "bastinadoes",
        "bastinades",
        "batons",
        "bats",
        "billies",
        "billy clubs",
        "bludgeons",
        "canes",
        "clubs",
        "cudgels",
        "flails",
        "nightsticks",
        "staffs",
        "staves"
      ],
      "near antonyms":[],
      "antonyms":[]
    },
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "hickory":{
    "as in birch , rattan":{
      "examples":[],
      "synonyms":[],
      "near synonyms":[
        "birch",
        "blacksnake",
        "bullwhip",
        "cat-o'-nine-tails",
        "cowhide",
        "crop",
        "knout",
        "quirt",
        "rattan",
        "rawhide",
        "strap",
        "flogger",
        "lash",
        "scourge",
        "switch",
        "whip",
        "bastinado",
        "bastinade",
        "bat",
        "baton",
        "billy",
        "billy club",
        "bludgeon",
        "cane",
        "club",
        "cudgel",
        "flail",
        "nightstick",
        "staff"
      ],
      "near antonyms":[],
      "antonyms":[]
    },
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "hiccough":{
    "a break in continuity":{
      "examples":[
        "the business has grown steadily for 14 years, with only a few minor hiccups"
      ],
      "synonyms":[
        "discontinuity",
        "gap",
        "hiatus",
        "interim",
        "interlude",
        "intermission",
        "interregnum",
        "interruption",
        "interstice",
        "interval",
        "parenthesis"
      ],
      "near synonyms":[
        "caesura",
        "comma",
        "interspace",
        "lag",
        "pause",
        "space",
        "time lag",
        "window",
        "entr'acte",
        "bumper",
        "adjournment",
        "discontinuance",
        "lapse",
        "suspension",
        "lull",
        "recess",
        "respite",
        "rest",
        "subinterval"
      ],
      "near antonyms":[
        "continuum",
        "run",
        "stretch",
        "procession",
        "progression"
      ],
      "antonyms":[
        "continuation",
        "continuity"
      ]
    },
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "hiccup":{
    "a break in continuity":{
      "examples":[
        "the business has grown steadily for 14 years, with only a few minor hiccups"
      ],
      "synonyms":[
        "discontinuity",
        "gap",
        "hiatus",
        "interim",
        "interlude",
        "intermission",
        "interregnum",
        "interruption",
        "interstice",
        "interval",
        "parenthesis"
      ],
      "near synonyms":[
        "caesura",
        "comma",
        "interspace",
        "lag",
        "pause",
        "space",
        "time lag",
        "window",
        "entr'acte",
        "bumper",
        "adjournment",
        "discontinuance",
        "lapse",
        "suspension",
        "lull",
        "recess",
        "respite",
        "rest",
        "subinterval"
      ],
      "near antonyms":[
        "continuum",
        "run",
        "stretch",
        "procession",
        "progression"
      ],
      "antonyms":[
        "continuation",
        "continuity"
      ]
    },
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "hickish":{
    "as in hick":{
      "examples":[],
      "synonyms":[],
      "near synonyms":[
        "hick",
        "countrified",
        "countryfied",
        "down-home",
        "folksy",
        "rustic",
        "rustical",
        "cornball",
        "corn-fed",
        "cornpone",
        "corny",
        "hokey"
      ],
      "near antonyms":[
        "cosmopolitan",
        "smart",
        "sophisticated",
        "worldly",
        "worldly-wise",
        "hip",
        "trendy",
        "with-it"
      ],
      "antonyms":[]
    },
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ]
  },
  "hiccups":{
    "a break in continuity":{
      "examples":[
        "the business has grown steadily for 14 years, with only a few minor hiccups"
      ],
      "synonyms":[
        "discontinuities",
        "gaps",
        "hiatuses",
        "interims",
        "interludes",
        "intermissions",
        "interregnums",
        "interregna",
        "interruptions",
        "interstices",
        "intervals",
        "parentheses"
      ],
      "near synonyms":[
        "caesuras",
        "caesurae",
        "commas",
        "interspaces",
        "lags",
        "pauses",
        "spaces",
        "time lags",
        "windows",
        "entr'actes",
        "bumpers",
        "adjournments",
        "discontinuances",
        "lapses",
        "suspensions",
        "lulls",
        "recesses",
        "respites",
        "rests",
        "subintervals"
      ],
      "near antonyms":[
        "continua",
        "continuums",
        "runs",
        "stretches",
        "processions",
        "progressions"
      ],
      "antonyms":[
        "continuations",
        "continuities"
      ]
    },
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "hickey":{
    "a small article the actual name of which one either does not know or cannot remember":{
      "examples":[
        "I lost the hickey that locks and unlocks the car's doors by remote control"
      ],
      "synonyms":[
        "dingus",
        "doodad",
        "doohickey",
        "thingamabob",
        "thingamajig",
        "thingumajig",
        "thingummy",
        "whatchamacallit",
        "whatnot",
        "whatsit",
        "whatsis",
        "what-is-it"
      ],
      "near synonyms":[],
      "near antonyms":[],
      "antonyms":[]
    },
    "a small, inflamed swelling of the skin":{
      "examples":[
        "the last thing she needed on her wedding day was a hickey for her radiant face"
      ],
      "synonyms":[
        "boil",
        "fester",
        "papule",
        "pimple",
        "pock",
        "pustule",
        "whelk",
        "zit"
      ],
      "near synonyms":[
        "blackhead",
        "blister",
        "milium",
        "whitehead",
        "bump",
        "lump",
        "protuberance",
        "sore",
        "wart",
        "weal",
        "welt"
      ],
      "near antonyms":[],
      "antonyms":[]
    },
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "hick":{
    "an awkward or simple person especially from a small town or the country":{
      "examples":[
        "city dwellers who looked down on their cousins from northern Maine as hicks"
      ],
      "synonyms":[
        "bumpkin",
        "chawbacon",
        "churl",
        "clodhopper",
        "cornball",
        "countryman",
        "hayseed",
        "provincial",
        "rube",
        "rustic",
        "yokel"
      ],
      "near synonyms":[
        "boor",
        "clod",
        "clown",
        "gawk",
        "lout",
        "oaf",
        "greenhorn",
        "tenderfoot",
        "peasant",
        "peon",
        "backwoodsman",
        "mountaineer"
      ],
      "near antonyms":[
        "slicker",
        "smoothy",
        "smoothie",
        "metropolitan",
        "suburbanite",
        "urbanite"
      ],
      "antonyms":[
        "cosmopolitan",
        "cosmopolite",
        "sophisticate"
      ]
    },
    "as in hickish":{
      "examples":[],
      "synonyms":[],
      "near synonyms":[
        "hickish",
        "countrified",
        "countryfied",
        "down-home",
        "folksy",
        "rustic",
        "rustical",
        "cornball",
        "corn-fed",
        "cornpone",
        "corny",
        "hokey"
      ],
      "near antonyms":[
        "cosmopolitan",
        "smart",
        "sophisticated",
        "worldly",
        "worldly-wise",
        "hip",
        "trendy",
        "with-it"
      ],
      "antonyms":[]
    },
    "as in unsophisticated":{
      "examples":[],
      "synonyms":[],
      "near synonyms":[
        "unsophisticated",
        "limited",
        "dogmatic",
        "dogmatical",
        "opinionated",
        "opinionative",
        "brassbound",
        "hidebound",
        "old-fashioned",
        "reactionary",
        "stodgy",
        "straitlaced",
        "straightlaced",
        "stuffy",
        "biased",
        "discriminating",
        "discriminatory",
        "jaundiced",
        "one-sided",
        "partial",
        "partisan",
        "prejudiced",
        "bigoted",
        "intolerant",
        "inflexible",
        "ironbound",
        "obdurate",
        "obstinate",
        "rigid",
        "set",
        "stubborn",
        "unyielding",
        "wrongheaded",
        "illiberal",
        "insular",
        "Lilliputian",
        "little",
        "narrow",
        "narrow-minded",
        "parochial",
        "petty",
        "picayune",
        "provincial",
        "sectarian",
        "small",
        "small-minded"
      ],
      "near antonyms":[
        "broad-minded",
        "catholic",
        "cosmopolitan",
        "liberal",
        "open",
        "open-minded",
        "receptive",
        "tolerant",
        "impartial",
        "nonpartisan",
        "objective",
        "unbiased",
        "unprejudiced",
        "freethinking"
      ],
      "antonyms":[]
    },
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "hic jacet":{
    "as in inscription , epitaph":{
      "examples":[],
      "synonyms":[],
      "near synonyms":[
        "epitaph",
        "inscription",
        "necrology",
        "obit",
        "obituary",
        "eulogy",
        "memorial",
        "testimonial",
        "tribute"
      ],
      "near antonyms":[],
      "antonyms":[]
    },
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  }
}