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and bawdy-houses, by disposing of her favours on the
wayside, under a hedge; a low beggarly prostitute.
HEELS. To he laid by the heels; to be confined, or put in
prison. Out at heels; worn, or diminished: his estate or
affairs are out at heels. To turn up his heels; to turn up
the knave of trumps at the game of all-fours.
HEEL TAP. A peg in the heel of a shoe, taken out when it
is finished. A person leaving any liquor in his glass, is
frequently called upon by the toast-master to take off his
heel-tap.
HELL. A taylor's repository for his stolen goods, called
cabbage: see CABBAGE. Little hell; a small dark covered
passage, leading from London-wall to Bell-alley.
HELL-BORN BABE. A lewd graceless youth, one naturally
of a wicked disposition.
HELL CAT. A termagant, a vixen, a furious scolding woman.
See TERMAGANT and VIXEN.
HELL HOUND. A wicked abandoned fellow.
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HELL FIRE DICK. The Cambridge driver of the Telegraph.
The favorite companion of the University fashionables,
and the only tutor to whose precepts they attend.
HELTER SKELTER. To run helter skelter, hand over head,
in defiance of order.
HEMP. Young hemp; an appellation for a graceless boy.
HEMPEN FEVER. A man who was hanged is said to have
died of a hempen fever; and, in Dorsetshire, to have been
stabbed with a Bridport dagger; Bridport being a place
famous for manufacturing hemp into cords.
HEMPEN WIDOW. One whose husband was hanged.
HEN-HEARTED. Cowardly.
HEN HOUSE. A house where the woman rules; called also
a SHE HOUSE, and HEN FRIGATE: the latter a sea phrase,
originally applied to a ship, the captain of which had his
wife on board, supposed to command him.
HENPECKED. A husband governed by his wife, is said to
be henpecked.
HEN. A woman. A cock and hen club; a club composed
of men and women.
HERE AND THEREIAN. One who has no settled place of
residence.
HERRING. The devil a barrel the better herring; all equally
bad.
HERRING GUTTED. Thin, as a shotten hering.
HERRING POND. The sea. To cross the herring pond at
the king's expence; to be transported.
HERTFORDSHIRE KINDNESS. Drinking twice to the same
person.
HICK. A country hick; an ignorant clown. CANT.
HICKENBOTHOM. Mr. Hickenbothom; a ludicrous name
for an unknown person, similar to that of Mr. Thingambob.
Hickenbothom, i.e. a corruption of the German
word ickenbaum, i.e. oak tree.
HICKEY. Tipsey; quasi, hickupping.
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HIDE AND SEEK. A childish game. He plays at hide and
seek; a saying of one who is in fear of being arrested for
debt, or apprehended for some crime, and therefore does
not chuse to appear in public, but secretly skulks up and
down. See SKULK.
HIDEBOUND. Stingy, hard of delivery; a poet poor in invention,
is said to have a hidebound muse.
HIGGLEDY PIGGLEDY. Confusedly mixed.
HIGH EATING. To eat skylarks in a garret.
HIGH FLYERS. Tories, Jacobites.
HIGH JINKS. A gambler at dice, who, having a strong
head, drinks to intoxicate his adversary, or pigeon.
HIGH LIVING. To lodge in a garret, or cockloft
HIGH PAD. A highwayman. CANT.
HIGH ROPES. To be on the high ropes; to be in a passion.
HIGH SHOON, or CLOUTED SHOON. A country clown.
HIGH WATER. It is high water, with him; he is full of
money.
HIGHGATE. Sworn at Highgate a ridiculous custom formerly
prevailed at the public-houses in Highgate, to administer
a ludicrous oath to all travellers of the middling
rank who stopped there. The party was sworn on a pair
of horns, fastened on a stick: the substance of the oath
was, never to kiss the maid when he could kiss the mistress,
never to drink small beer when he could get strong, with
many other injunctions of the like kind; to all which was
added the saving cause of "unless you like it best." The
person administering the oath was always to be called
father by the juror; and he, in return, was to style him
son, under the penalty of a bottle.
HIKE. To hike off; to run away. CANT.
HIND LEG. To kick out a hind leg; to make a rustic bow.
HINNEY, MY HONEY. A north country hinney, particularly
a Northumbrian: in that county, hinney is the general
term of endearment.
HISTORY OF THE FOUR KINGS, or CHILD'S BEST GUIDE TO
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THE GALLOWS. A pack of cards. He studies the history
of the four kings assiduously; he plays much at cards.
HOAXING. Bantering, ridiculing. Hoaxing a quiz; joking
an odd fellow. UNIVERSITY WIT.
HOB, or HOBBINOL, a clown.
HOB OR NOB. Will you hob or nob with me? a question
formerly in fashion at polite tables, signifying a request or
challenge to drink a glass of wine with the proposer: if the
party challenged answered Nob, they were to chuse whether
white or red. This foolish custom is said to have
originated in the days of good queen Bess, thus: when
great chimnies were in fashion, there was at each corner
of the hearth, or grate, a small elevated projection, called
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