_Halfbord_, c. Six Pence. _Half a Hog_, c. Six Pence. _Half Seas over_, almost Drunk. _Hamlet_, c. a High Constable. _Hamper’d_, caught in a Nooze, entangled, or embarassed in an intricate Affair. _Handy_, Dextrous. _Handy Blows_, Fisty-cuffs. _Handycrafts_, the Manual Arts or Mechanic Trades. _A great Twohanded Sword_, a swinging broad Sword. _A great Twohanded Fellow_, a huge swinging Fellow. _Such a thing fell into his Hand_, of one that improve another’s Notion, Speech, or Invention. _He will make a Hand of it_, he will make a Penny of it, or make it turn to Account. _They are Hand and Glove_, of Friends or Camerades that are Inseparable, and almost to the same purpose. _Clove and Orange._ _Change Hands, and change Luck_, or to Play your Cards in another Hand. _The same Hand and Fair Play_, when they Play on without changing Hands. _Many Hands make light Work._ _You stand with your Hands in your Pockets_, to an Idle Fellow that finds nothing to do. _Hank_, _He has a Hank upon him_, or the Ascendant over him. _Hanker after_, to Long or wish much for. _Hanktelo_, a silly Fellow, a meer Cods-head. _Hans-en kelder_, Jack in the Box, the Child in the Womb, or a Health to it. _Hard Drink_, that is very Stale, or begining so Sower. _Hard-drinking_, excessive Soking, or toping aboundance. _Hard Bargain_, a severe one. _Hard-favor’d_, Ugly, Homely. _Hard Frost_, a Keen or Sharp one. _Hard Case_, a severe or deep Misfortune, or ill Treatment. _Hard Master_ or _Dealer_, a very near one or close. _Hare_, the second Year. _A great Hare_, the third Year, _Leveret_ the first Year. _To hold with the Hare and run with the Hound_, or to keep fair with both Parties at once. _Hare-lipp’d_, Notcht or turn’d up in the middle. _Hare-sleep_, with Eies a’most open. _Hared_, Hurried. _Hare Seateth_ or _Formeth_, the proper term for the Place where she Setts or Lies. _A Hare Beateth or Tappeth_, makes a noise at Rutting time. _He has swallow’d a Hare_, he is very Drunk. _Harking_, Whispering on one side to borrow Money. _Harman_, c. a Constable. _Harmans_, c. the Stocks. _Harman-beck_, c. a Beadle. _Harp-upon_, a business to insist on it. _Harridan_, c. one that is half Whore, half Bawd. _Hart_, the Sixth Year, _A Stag_, the fifth Year. _A Staggard_, the fourth. _A Brock_, the third. _A Knobber_, the second. _Hind Calf_, or Calf, the First. _Hart Harboureth_, Lodgeth. _Hart Royal_, having been Hunted by a King or Queen. _Unharbour the Hart_, Dislodge him. _A Hart Belleth_, maketh a Noise at Rutting time. _A Hart goeth to Rut_, the Term for Copulation. _Hartfordshire-kindness_, Drinking to the same Man again. _Hartbold or prety Hearty_, of good Courage, or pert Spirit. _Hasty_, very Hot on a sudden. _The most Haste the worst speed_, or _Haste makes Waste_, of him that loses a Business by hurrying of it. _You are none of the Hastings_, of him that loses an Opportunity or a Business for want of Dispatch.