Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Metic

Metic (? o?; 277) , noun

[Greek {not transcribed}, prop., changing one's abode; {not transcribed}, indicating change + {not transcribed} house, abode: compare Latin metoecus, French métèque.]

(Greek Antiquities) A sojourner; an immigrant; an alien resident in a Grecian city, but not a citizen. — Mitford
The whole force of Athens, metics as well as citizens, and all the strangers who were then in the city. — Jowett (Thucyd. )