▪ I. hoc, hock, n. Obs. exc. Hist.
(hɒk)
[a. F. hoc (1642 in Hatz.-Darm.), app. ad. L. hoc ‘this’. (Not the same as It. oca, F. hoca.)]
Name of an old card game, ‘in which certain privileged cards give to the person who plays them the right of attributing to them whatever value he wishes’ (Hatzfeld).
| 1730–6 Bailey (folio), Hock, Hoca,..a Game at Cards. 1838 Southey Doctor cxlii. V. 46 The Game of Hoc, the Reverse, the Beast, the Cuckoo and the Comet. 1887 All Year Round 5 Feb. 66 Hoc was the favourite game of Cardinal Mazarin, which he introduced from Italy. |
▪ II. hoc, hoccamore
obs. ff. hock n.4, hook, hockamore.