H

# The Letter H

## HABERDASHER of Nouns and Pronouns

a Schoolmaster or Usher.

## HACK, and Hue

to cut in pieces.

## HACKS

## or Hackneys

Hirelings.

## HACKUM

a fighting Fellow.

## HADDUMS

The Shark has been at Haddams; He is clapt or poxed.

## HALFBORD

Six-Pence.

## HALF a Hog

Six-Pence.

## HALF an Ounce

Half a Crown.

## HALF Seas over

almost drunk.

## HAMS

Breeches.

## HAMLET

a High Constable.

## HANDY-Blows

Fisty-cuffs.

## HANG it up

speaking of the Reckoning at a Bowsing-Ken score it up.

## HANK

He has a Hank upon him; He has an Advantage, or will make him do what he pleases.

## HANKTELO

a silly Fellow, a meer Codshead.

## HANS-en-Kelder

Jack in the Box, Child in the Womb.

## HARE

as he has swallowd a Hare, he is very drunk.

## HARKING

whispering on one side to borrow Money.

## HARMAN

a Constable.

## HARMANS

the Stocks.

## HARMANBECK

a Beadle.

## HARRIDAN

one that is half a Whore, half a Bawd, also a notorious Shrew, or noisy old Woman.

## HARTFORDSHIRE Kindness

drinking to the same Man again.

## HATCHET Faced

hard favoured, homely.

## HATCHES

as, Under the Hatches, in Trouble or Prison.

## To HAZLE Geld

to beat any one with a Hazle Stick or Plant.

## HEAD Cully of the Pass

## or Passage Bank

the Top Tilter of that Gang, throughout the whole Army, who demands and receives Contribution from all the Pass-Banks in the Camp.

## HEARING-Cheats

Ears.

## HEARTS-Ease

a Twenty Shilling Piece.

## HEATHEN Philosopher

a sorry poor tattered Fellow, whose Breech may be seen through his Pocket-holes.

## To HEAVE

to rob.

## HEAVE a Cough

to rob a House.

## HEAVER

the Breast.

## HECTOR

a vapouring, swaggering Coward.

## To HEDGE

to secure a desperate Bet, Wager or Debt. By Hedge or by stile, by Hook or by Crook.

## HEDGE-Bird

a scoundrel or sorry Fellow.

## HEDGE-Creeper

a Robber of Hedges.

## HEDGE-Priest

a sorry hackney Underling, an Vagabond. See Patrico.

## HEDGE-Tavern

## or Alehouse

a jilting, sharping Tavern, or blind Ale-house.

## HELL

the Place where the Taylors lay up their Cabbage, or Remnants.

## HELL-born-babe

a lewd, graceless, notorious Youth.

## HELL-Cat

a very lewd Woman.

## HELL-Driver

a Coachman.

## HELL-Hound

a profligate, lewd Fellow.

## HEMPEN-Widow

one whose Husband was hanged.

## HEN-peckt-Frigot

whose Commander and Officers are absolutely swayed by their Wives.

## HENPECT-Husband

whose Wife wears the Breeches.

## HICK

any Person from whom a Booty is taken, a silly Country Fellow; a Booby.

## HIGH-Flyers

impudent, forward, loose, light Women, also bold Adventurers.

## HIGHJINKS

a Play at Dice who Drinks.

## HIGH-PADS

## Hightway-men or Bully-Ruffians

an Order of Villains, and the boldest of all others. Before they commence, they furnish themselves, with good Horses, Swords, Pistols, &c. and sometimes singly, but mostly in Company, commit their execrable Robberies. They have a Vizor-Mask, and two or three Perukes of different Colours and Make, the better to conceal themselves. When they meet a Prize upon the Road, they have a Watch-Word, among them, which is no sooner pronounced, but every one falls on. It is usually the Rule among them, that the strongest and bold seize first; the Weaker generally bid stand, and fall in afterwards as Occasion requires. The Instructions given them are, to catch the Bridle in the Left-Hand, and to have the Sword or Pistol in the Right, and, if Opposition be made, or they are likely to be overpowered to kill as fast as they can, and then, either with Booty or without, to make off with all Expedition; and if they are pursued by an Hue or Cry, to conceal themselves in some By place, and let it pass by them.

## HIGH-Shoon

## or Clouted-Shoon

a Country Clown.

## A HIGHTE-TITY

a Romp or rude Girl.

## HIGH Tide

when the Pocket is full of Money.

## HOB

a plain Country Fellow or Clown.

## HOBINAL

the same [[as Hob]].

## HOBBY

as Sir Posthumus Hobby, one that draws on his Breeches with a Shoeing-horn; a Fellow that is nice and whimsical in the Set of his Cloaths.

## HOB Nail

a High-shoon or Country Clown.

## HOCUS

disguised in Liquor; drunk.

## HODGE-Podge

see Hotch-Potch.

## HOG

a Shilling; You Darkman Budge, will you Fence your Hog at the next Boozing Ken? you House-Creeper, will you spend your Shilling at the next Ale-house.

## HOG-Grubber

a close-fisted, narrow soul'd sneaking Fellow.

## HOLD his Nose to the Grind-stone

to keep him under, or tie him Neck and Heels into the Bargain.

## HOLIDAY-Bowler

a very bad Bowler. Blind Man's Holiday, when it is Night.

## HONEY-Moon

the first Month of Marriage.

## HOOD-wink'd

Blind-folded or Bluffed.

## To HOOF it

## or beat it on the Hoof

to walk on Foot.

## HOOKERS

See Anglers.

## HOOKT

over reached, snapt, trikt.

## HOP-Merchant

a Dancing-master.

## HORN mad

stark staring mad because Cuckolded.

## It revives the COCKLES of my Heart

said of agreeable News, or a Cup of Comfort, Wine or Cordial Water.

## In HUCKSTER'S Hands

at a desperate Pass, or Condition, or in a fair way to be lost.

## HUED

severely lash'd or flogg'd. The Cove was Hued in the Naskin, The Rogue was severely lash'd in Bridewell.

## A HUFF

a Bullying Fellow.

## HULVER head

a silly, foolish Fellow.

## HUM-Box

a Pulpit.

## HUM-Cap

old, mellow, and very strong Beer.

## HUM-Drums

## or Hums

a Society of Gentlemen, who meet near the Charter-House, or at the King's Head in St. John's Street. Less of Mystery, and more of Pleasantry than the Free Masons.

## HUMMING Liquor

Double Ale, Stout, Pharaoh.

## HUMMER

a great Lye, a Rapper.

## HUMMUMS

a Bagnio.

## HUMPTEY-Dumptey

Ale boil'd with Brandy.

## HUMS

Persons at Church; as, There is a great Number of Hums in the Autem; i. e. There is a great Congregation.

## HUNTING

decoying, or drawing others into Play.

## HUSH'D

murder'd, &c.

## HUSH Money

Money given to hush up, or conceal a Robbery or Theft, or to take off an Evidence from appearing against a Criminal, &c.

## HUSKY-Lour

a Jobs, or Guinea.