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<h1>The Letter H</h1>
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<h2>HABERDASHER <i>of Nouns and Pronouns</i></h2>
<p>a Schoolmaster or Usher.</p>
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<h2>HACK, <i>and Hue</i></h2>
<p>to cut in pieces.</p>
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<h2>HACKS</h2>
<h2>or <i>Hackneys</i></h2>
<p>Hirelings.</p>
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<h2>HACKUM</h2>
<p>a fighting Fellow.</p>
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<h2>HADDUMS</h2>
<p>
<i class="eg">The Shark has been at
Haddams</i>; He is clapt or poxed.</p>
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<h2>HALFBORD</h2>
<p>Six-Pence.</p>
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<h2>HALF <i>a Hog</i></h2>
<p>Six-Pence.</p>
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<h2>HALF <i>an Ounce</i></h2>
<p>Half a Crown.</p>
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<h2>HALF <i>Seas over</i></h2>
<p>almost drunk.</p>
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<h2>HAMS</h2>
<p>Breeches.</p>
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<h2>HAMLET</h2>
<p>a High Constable.</p>
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<h2>HANDY-<i>Blows</i></h2>
<p>Fisty-cuffs.</p>
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<h2>HANG <i>it up</i></h2>
<p>speaking of the Reckoning
at a <i>Bowsing-Ken</i> score it up.</p>
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<h2>HANK</h2>
<p>
<i class="eg">He has a Hank upon him</i>; He
has an Advantage, or will make him do
what he pleases.</p>
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<h2>HANKTELO</h2>
<p>a silly Fellow, a meer
Codshead.</p>
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<h2>HANS-<i>en-Kelder</i></h2>
<p>Jack in the Box,
Child in the Womb.</p>
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<h2>HARE</h2>
<p>as <i class="eg">he has swallowd a Hare</i>,
he is very drunk.</p>
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<h2>HARKING</h2>
<p>whispering on one side
to borrow Money.</p>
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<h2>HARMAN</h2>
<p>a Constable.</p>
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<h2>HARMANS</h2>
<p>the Stocks.</p>
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<h2>HARMANBECK</h2>
<p>a Beadle.</p>
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<h2>HARRIDAN</h2>
<p>one that is half a
Whore, half a Bawd, also a notorious
Shrew, or noisy old Woman.</p>
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<h2>HARTFORDSHIRE <i>Kindness</i></h2>
<p>drinking
to the same Man again.</p>
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<h2>HATCHET <i>Faced</i></h2>
<p>hard favoured,
homely.</p>
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<h2>HATCHES</h2>
<p>as, <i class="eg">Under the Hatches</i>, in
Trouble or Prison.</p>
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<h2><i>To</i> HAZLE <i>Geld</i></h2>
<p>to beat any one
with a Hazle Stick or Plant.</p>
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<h2>HEAD <i>Cully of the Pass</i></h2>
<h2>or <i>Passage Bank</i></h2>
<p>the Top Tilter of that Gang,
throughout the whole Army, who demands
and receives Contribution from
all the Pass-Banks in the Camp.</p>
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<h2>HEARING-<i>Cheats</i></h2>
<p>Ears.</p>
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<h2>HEARTS-<i>Ease</i></h2>
<p>a Twenty Shilling
Piece.</p>
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<h2>HEATHEN <i>Philosopher</i></h2>
<p>a sorry poor
tattered Fellow, whose Breech may
be seen through his Pocket-holes.</p>
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<h2><i>To</i> HEAVE</h2>
<p>to rob.</p>
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<h2>HEAVE <i>a Cough</i></h2>
<p>to rob a House.</p>
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<h2>HEAVER</h2>
<p>the Breast.</p>
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<h2>HECTOR</h2>
<p>a vapouring, swaggering
Coward.</p>
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<h2><i>To</i> HEDGE</h2>
<p>to secure a desperate Bet,
Wager or Debt. <i class="eg">By Hedge or by stile</i>,
by Hook or by Crook.</p>
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<h2>HEDGE-<i>Bird</i></h2>
<p>a scoundrel or sorry
Fellow.</p>
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<h2>HEDGE-<i>Creeper</i></h2>
<p>a Robber of Hedges.</p>
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<h2>HEDGE-<i>Priest</i></h2>
<p>a sorry hackney Underling,
an Vagabond. See <i>Patrico</i>.</p>
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<h2>HEDGE-<i>Tavern</i></h2>
<h2>or <i>Alehouse</i></h2>
<p>a jilting,
sharping Tavern, or blind Ale-house.</p>
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<h2>HELL</h2>
<p>the Place where the Taylors
lay up their Cabbage, or Remnants.</p>
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<h2>HELL-<i>born-babe</i></h2>
<p>a lewd, graceless,
notorious Youth.</p>
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<h2>HELL-<i>Cat</i></h2>
<p>a very lewd Woman.</p>
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<h2>HELL-<i>Driver</i></h2>
<p>a Coachman.</p>
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<h2>HELL-<i>Hound</i></h2>
<p>a profligate, lewd
Fellow.</p>
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<h2>HEMPEN-<i>Widow</i></h2>
<p>one whose Husband
was hanged.</p>
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<h2>HEN-<i>peckt-Frigot</i></h2>
<p>whose Commander
and Officers are absolutely swayed
by their Wives.</p>
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<h2>HENPECT-<i>Husband</i></h2>
<p>whose Wife
wears the Breeches.</p>
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<h2>HICK</h2>
<p>any Person from whom a
Booty is taken, a silly Country Fellow;
a Booby.</p>
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<h2>HIGH-<i>Flyers</i></h2>
<p>impudent, forward,
loose, light Women, also bold Adventurers.</p>
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<h2>HIGHJINKS</h2>
<p>a Play at Dice who
Drinks.</p>
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<h2>HIGH-PADS</h2>
<h2><i>Hightway-men</i> or <i>Bully-Ruffians</i></h2>
<p>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 <i>stand</i>, 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 <i>Hue or Cry</i>, to conceal
themselves in some By place, and let
it pass by them.</p>
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<h2>HIGH-<i>Shoon</i></h2>
<h2>or <i>Clouted-Shoon</i></h2>
<p>a
Country Clown.</p>
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<h2>A HIGHTE-TITY</h2>
<p>a Romp or rude Girl.</p>
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<h2>HIGH <i>Tide</i></h2>
<p>when the Pocket is full of Money.</p>
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<h2>HOB</h2>
<p>a plain Country Fellow or Clown.</p>
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<h2>HOBINAL</h2>
<p>the same [[as <i>Hob</i>]].</p>
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<h2>HOBBY</h2>
<p>as Sir <i class="eg">Posthumus Hobby</i>, one
that draws on his Breeches with a
Shoeing-horn; a Fellow that is nice
and whimsical in the Set of his Cloaths.</p>
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<h2>HOB <i>Nail</i></h2>
<p>a <i>High-shoon</i> or Country
Clown.</p>
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<h2>HOCUS</h2>
<p>disguised in Liquor; drunk.</p>
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<h2>HODGE-<i>Podge</i></h2>
<p>see <i>Hotch-Potch</i>.</p>
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<h2>HOG</h2>
<p>a Shilling; <i class="eg">You Darkman
Budge, will you Fence your Hog at the
next Boozing Ken?</i> you House-Creeper,
will you spend your Shilling at the
next Ale-house.</p>
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<h2>HOG-<i>Grubber</i></h2>
<p>a close-fisted, narrow
soul'd sneaking Fellow.</p>
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<h2>HOLD <i>his Nose to the Grind-stone</i></h2>
<p>to
keep him under, or tie him Neck and
Heels into the Bargain.</p>
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<h2>HOLIDAY-<i>Bowler</i></h2>
<p>a very bad Bowler.
<i class="eg">Blind Man's Holiday</i>, when it is Night.</p>
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<h2>HONEY-<i>Moon</i></h2>
<p>the first Month of Marriage.</p>
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<h2>HOOD-<i>wink'd</i></h2>
<p>Blind-folded or Bluffed.</p>
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<h2><i>To</i> HOOF <i>it</i></h2>
<h2>or <i>beat it on the Hoof</i></h2>
<p>to walk on Foot.</p>
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<h2>HOOKERS</h2>
<p>See <i>Anglers</i>.</p>
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<h2>HOOKT</h2>
<p>over reached, snapt,
trikt.</p>
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<h2>HOP-<i>Merchant</i></h2>
<p>a Dancing-master.</p>
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<h2>HORN <i>mad</i></h2>
<p>stark staring mad because
Cuckolded.</p>
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<h2><i>It revives the</i> COCKLES <i>of my Heart</i></h2>
<p>said of agreeable News, or a Cup of
Comfort, Wine or Cordial Water.</p>
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<h2><i>In</i> HUCKSTER'S <i>Hands</i></h2>
<p>at a desperate
Pass, or Condition, or in a fair
way to be lost.</p>
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<h2>HUED</h2>
<p>severely lash'd or flogg'd.
<i class="eg">The Cove was Hued in the Naskin</i>, The
Rogue was severely lash'd in <i>Bridewell</i>.</p>
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<h2><i>A</i> HUFF</h2>
<p>a Bullying Fellow.</p>
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<h2>HULVER <i>head</i></h2>
<p>a silly, foolish Fellow.</p>
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<h2>HUM-<i>Box</i></h2>
<p>a Pulpit.</p>
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<h2>HUM-<i>Cap</i></h2>
<p>old, mellow, and very
strong Beer.</p>
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<h2>HUM-<i>Drums</i></h2>
<h2>or <i>Hums</i></h2>
<p>a Society of
Gentlemen, who meet near the <i>Charter-House</i>,
or at the <i>King's Head</i> in St.
<i>John's Street</i>. Less of Mystery, and
more of Pleasantry than the <i>Free Masons</i>.</p>
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<h2>HUMMING <i>Liquor</i></h2>
<p>Double Ale,
Stout, Pharaoh.</p>
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<h2>HUMMER</h2>
<p>a great Lye, a Rapper.</p>
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<h2>HUMMUMS</h2>
<p>a Bagnio.</p>
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<h2>HUMPTEY-<i>Dumptey</i></h2>
<p>Ale boil'd with
Brandy.</p>
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<h2>HUMS</h2>
<p>Persons at Church; as, <i class="eg">There
is a great Number of Hums in the Autem</i>;
i. e. There is a great Congregation.</p>
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<h2>HUNTING</h2>
<p>decoying, or drawing
others into Play.</p>
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<h2>HUSH'D</h2>
<p>murder'd, &c.</p>
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<h2>HUSH <i>Money</i></h2>
<p>Money given to <i>hush
up</i>, or conceal a Robbery or Theft, or
to take off an Evidence from appearing
against a Criminal, &c.</p>
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<h2>HUSKY-<i>Lour</i></h2>
<p>a Jobs, or Guinea.</p>
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