HARK-YE-ING. Whispering on one side to borrow money. HARMAN. A constable. CANT. HARMAN BECK. A beadle. CANT. HARMANS. The stocks. CANT. HARP. To harp upon; to dwell upon a subject. Have among you, my blind harpers; an expression used in throwing or shooting at random among the crowd. Harp is also the Irish expression for woman, or tail, used in tossing up in Ireland: from Hibernia, being represented with a harp on the reverse of the copper coins of that country; for which it is, in hoisting the copper, i.e. tossing up, sometimes likewise called music. HARRIDAN. A hagged old woman; a miserable, scraggy, worn-out harlot, fit to take her bawd's degree: derived from the French word HARIDELLE, a worn-out jade of a horse or mare. HARRY. A country fellow. CANT.--Old Harry; the Devil. HARUM SCARUM. He was running harum scarum; said of any one running or walking hastily, and in a hurry, after they know not what. HASH. To flash the hash; to vomit. CANT. HASTY. Precipitate, passionate. He is none of the Hastings sort; a saying of a slow, loitering fellow: an allusion to the Hastings pea, which is the first in season. HASTY PUDDING. Oatmeal and milk boiled to a moderate thickness, and eaten with sugar and butter. Figuratively, a wet, muddy road: as, The way through Wandsworth is quite a hasty pudding. To eat hot hasty pudding for a laced hat, or some other prize, is a common feat at wakes and fairs. HAT. Old hat; a woman's privities: because frequently felt. HATCHES. Under the hatches; in trouble, distress, or debt. HATCHET FACE. A long thin face. HAVIL. A sheep. CANT. HAVY CAVY. Wavering, doubtful, shilly shally. HAWK. Ware hawk; the word to look sharp, a bye-word when a bailiff passes. Hawk also signifies a sharper, in opposition to pigeon. See PIGEON. See WARE HAWK. HAWKERS. Licensed itinerant retailers of different commodities, called also pedlars; likewise the sellers of news-papers. Hawking; an effort to spit up the thick phlegm, called OYSTERS: whence it is wit upon record, to ask the person so doing whether he has a licence; a punning allusion to the Act of hawkers and pedlars. To HAZEL GILD. To beat any one with a hazel stick. 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. HEAD RAILS. Teeth. SEA PHRASE. HEARING CHEATS. Ears. CANT. HEART'S EASE. Gin. HEARTY CHOAK. He will have a hearty choak and caper sauce for breakfast; i.e. he will be hanged. HEATHEN PHILOSOPHER. One whose breech may be seen through his pocket-hole: this saying arose from the old philosophers, many of whom depised the vanity of dress to such a point, as often to fall into the opposite extreme. TO HEAVE. To rob. To heave a case; to rob a house. To heave a bough; to rob a booth. CANT. HEAVER. The breast. CANT.