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HORSE GODMOTHER. A large masculine woman, a gentle. manlike kind of a lady.

HORSE LADDER. A piece of Wiltshire wit, which confifts in fending fome raw lad, or fimpleton, to a neighbouring farm house, to borrow a horse ladder, in order to get up the horses, to finish a hay mow.

HORSE'S MEAL. A meal without drinking.

HOSTELER, i. e. oat ftealer. Hofteler was originally the name for an inn-keeper; inns being in old English styled hoftels, from the French fignifying the fame.

HOT POT. Ale and brandy made hot.

HOT STOMACH. He has fo hot a ftomach, that he burns all the clothes off his back; faid of one who pawns his clothes to purchase liquor.

HOUSE, OF TENEMENT, TO LET. A widow's weeds; also an atchievement marking the death of a husband, fet up on the outside of the manfion: both supposed to indicate that the dolorous widow wants a male comforter. HOYDON. A romping girl.

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Confufion. A hubble-bubble fellow; a man of confufed ideas, or one thick of speech, whose words found like water bubbling out of a bottle. inftrument used for fmoaking through water in the Eaft Indies, called likewise a caloon, and hooker.

HUBBLE DE SHUFF. Confufedly. To fire hubble de fhuff; to fire quick and irregularly. Old military term. HUBBUB. A noise, riot, or disturbance..

HUCKLE MY BUFF. Beer, egg, and brandy, made hot. HUCKSTERS. Itinerant retailers of provifions. He is in huckfters hands; he is in a bad way.

To HUE. To lafh. The cove was hued in the nafkin; the rogue was foundly lashed in bridewell. Cant.

To HUFF. To reprove, or fcold at any one; alfo to bluster, bounce, ding, or fwagger. A captain huff; a noted bully. To ftand the huff; to be anfwerable for the reckoning in a public house.

HUG. To hug brown befs; to carry a firelock, or ferve as a private foldier. He hugs it as the Devil hugs a witch; faid of one who holds any thing as if he was afraid of lofing it.

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HUGGER MUGGER. By ftealth, privately, without making an appearance. They spent their money in a hugger mugger way.

HUGOTONTHEONBIQUIFFINARIANS. A fociety existing in

1748.

HULKY, OF HULKING. A great hulky fellow; an overgrown clumfy lout, or fellow.

HULVER-HEADED.

Having a hard impenetrable head: hulver, in the Norfolf dialect, fignifying holly, a hard and folid wood.

To Huм, or HUMBUG. by fome story or device. A humbug; a jocular imposition, or deception. To hum and haw; to hefitate in fpeech, alfo to delay, or be with difficulty brought to confent to any matter or business.

To deceive, or impofe on one

HUMS. Perfons at church. There is a great number of hums in the autem; there is a great congregation in the church.

HUM BOX. A palpit.

HUM CAP. Very old and ftrong beer, called also ftingo. See STINGO.

HUM DRUM. A hum drum fellow; a dull tedious narrator, a bore; alfo a fet of gentlemen, who (Bailey fays) used to meet near the Charter House, or at the King's Head in St. John's Street, who had more of pleasantry, and lefs of myftery, than the Free Mafons.

HUM DURGEON. An imaginary illness. He has got the hum durgeon, the thickest part of his thigh is nearest his a-fe; i. e. nothing ails him except low fpirits.

HUMBUGS. The brethren of the venerable fociety of humbugs was held at brother Hallam's, in Goodman's Fields.

HUMMER. A great lye, a rapper. See RAPPER.

HUMMING LIQUOR. Double ale, ftout pharaoh. See PHARAOH.

HUMMUMS. A bagnio, or bathing house.

HUMSTRUM. A mufical inftrument made of a mopstick, a bladder, and some packthread, thence alfo called bladder and ftring, and hurdy gurdy; it is played on like a violin,'

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which is fometimes ludicrously called a humftrum: fometimes, inftead of a bladder, a tin canifter is used.

HUMP. To hump; once a fashionable word for copulation. HUMPTY DUMPTY. A little humpty dumpty man or woman; a fhort clumfy perfon of either fex: alfo ale boiled with brandy.

TO HUNCH. To joftle, or thrust.

HUNCH-BACKED. Hump-backed.

HUNKS. A covetous miferable fellow, a mifer; alfo the name of a famous bear, mentioned by Ben Jonfon. HUNT'S DOG. He is like Hunt's dog, will neither go to church nor ftay at home. One Hunt, a labouring man at a small town in Shropshire, kept a maftiff, who on being fhut up on Sundays, whilft his mafter went to church, howled fo terribly as to disturb the whole village; wherefore his mafter refolved to take him to church with him : but when he came to the church door, the dog having perhaps formerly been whipped out by the fexton, refused to enter; whereupon Hunt exclaimed loudly against his dog's obftinacy, who would neither go to church nor ftay at home. This fhortly became a bye word for discontented

and whimsical perfons. HUNTING. Drawing in unwary perfons to play or game. Cant.

HUNTING THE SQUIRREL. An amufement practised by poft boys, and ftage coachmen, which confifts in following a one-horse chaife, and driving it before them, paffing clofe to it, fo as to brush the wheel, and by other means terrifying any woman or perfon that may be in it. A man whose turn comes for him to drink, before he has emptied his former glass, is faid to be hunted. HUNTSUP. The reveillier of huntfmen, founded on the French horn, or other inftrument.

HURDY GOURDY. A kind of fiddle, made perhaps out of a gourd at prefent it is confounded with the humftrum. See HUMSTRUM.

HURLY BURLY. A rout, riot, bustle, or confufion.

HUSH. Hush the cull; murder the fellow.

HUSH MONEY. Money given to hufh up or conceal a rob

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bery, theft, or any other offence, or to take off the evidence from appearing against a criminal. HUSKYLOUR. A guinea, or job. Cant.

HUSSAR-LEG ROLL UP. A meeting of a club fo called, was advertised A. D. 1747.

Hussy. An abbreviation of housewife, but now always ufed as a term of reproach; as, How now, huffy? or, She is a light huffy.

HUZZA. Said to have originally been the cry of the huzzars, or Hungarian light horfe; but now the national shout of the English, both civil and military, in the fea phrase termed a cheer; to give three cheers being to huzza thrice.

HYP, or HIP. A mode of calling to one paffing by. Hip, Michael, your head's on fire; a piece of vulgar wit to a red-haired man.

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ABBER. To talk thick and faft, as great praters usually do, to chatter like a magpye; also to speak a foreign language. He jabbered to me in his damned outlandish parlez vous, but I could not understand him; he chattered to me in French, or fome other foreign language, but I could not understand him.

JACK. A farthing, a fmall bowl ferving as the mark for bowlers, an inftrument for pulling off boots.

JACK ADAMS. A fool. Jack Adams's parish; Clerkenwell. JACK AT A PINCH. A poor hackney parfon.

JACK IN A BOX. A fharper, or cheat.

JACK IN AN OFFICE. An infolent fellow in authority.

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JACK KETCH. The hangman: vide DERRICK and KETCH. JACK NASTY FACE. A fea term, fignifying a common failor.

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JACK OF LEGS. A tall long-legged man; also a giant, faid to be buried in Wefton church, near Baldock, in Hert fordshire, where there are two ftones fourteen feet distant, faid to be the head and feet ftones of his grave, giant, fays Salmon, as fame goes, lived in a wood here, and was a great robber, but a generous one; for he plundered the rich to feed the poor: he frequently took bread for this purpose from the Baldock bakers, who catching him at an advantage, put out his eyes, and afterwards hanged him upon a knoll in Baldock field. At his death he made one requeft, which was, that he might have his bow and arrow put into his hand, and on fhooting it off, where the arrow fell, they would bury him; which being granted, the arrow fell in Wefton churchyard. About feventy years ago, a very large thigh bone was taken out of the church cheft, where it had lain many years for a show, and was fold by the clerk to Sir John Tredefkin, who, it is faid, put it up among the rarities of Oxford.

JACK PUDDEN. The merry andrew, zany, or jefter to a mountebank.

JACK ROBINSON. Before one could fay Jack Robinson; a saying to exprefs a very fhort time, originating from a very volatile gentleman of that appellation, who would call on his neighbours, and be gone before his name could be announced.

JACK SPRAT. A dwarf, or diminutive fellow.

JACK TAR, A failor.

JACK WEIGHT. A fat man.

JACK WHORE, A large masculine overgrown wench.
JACKANAPES, An ape; a pert, ugly, little fellow.

JACKED. Spavined. A jacked horse.

JACKMEN. See JARKMEN.

JACOB. A ladder: perhaps from Jacob's dream. Cant. Alfo the common name for a jay, jays being usually · taught to fay, Poor Jacob! a cup of fack for Jacob.

JACOBITES.