_Hatchet-fac’d_, Hard-favor’d, Homely. _Under the Hatches_, in Trouble, or Prison. _Haut-bois_, Oaks, Beaches, Ashes, Poplars, _&c._ Also well known and pleasant Martial Music. _Havock_, Waste, Spoil. _They made sad Havock_, they Destroy’d all before ’em. _Hawk_, c. a Sharper. _Hawkers_, Retail News-Sellers. _Hawking_, going about Town and Country with Scotch-Cloth, _&c._ or News-Papers; also Spitting difficultly. _Hay_, a separate Enclosure of Wood Land, within a Forrest or Park, Fenced with a Rail or Hedge, or both. _To Dance the Hay._ _To make Hay while the Sun Shines_, or make good use of one’s Time. _Hazy Weather_, when it is Thick, Misty, Foggy. _Hazle-geld_, to Beat any one with a Hazle-Stick or Plant. _Heady_, strong Liquors that immediately fly up into the Noddle, and so quickly make Drunk. _Headstrong_, Stubborn, Ungovernable. _A Scald Head is soon Broke._ _Head Bully of the Pass or Passage Bank_, c. the Top Tilter of that Gang, throughout the whole Army, who Demands and receives Contribution from all the Pass Banks in the Camp. _Hearing Cheats_, c. Ears. _Hearts-ease_, c. a Twenty shilling piece; also an ordinary sort of Strong Water; and an Herb called by some the Trinity, by others, Three Faces in a Hood, Live in Idleness, Call me to you, or Pansies, an excellent Antivenerean _&c._ _Heathen Philosopher_, a sorry poor tatter’d Fellow, whose Breech may be seen through his Pocket-holes. _Heave_, c. to Rob. _Heave a Bough_, c. to Rob a House. _Heaver_, c. a Breast. _Heavy_, is either gross in Quantity or slow in Motion, because ordinarily the one is not without the other, and therefore we say, _heavy Bodies move slowly_. _A heavy Fellow_, a dull Blockish Slug. _Hector_, a Vaporing Swaggering Coward. _Hedge_, to secure a desperate Bet, Wager or Debt. _By Hedge or by Style_, by Hook or by Crook. _Hedge-bird_, a Scoundrel or sorry Fellow. _Hedge-creeper_, c. a Robber of Hedges. _Hedge-grapes_, very Crabbed, wholly unfit to make Wine. _Hedge-priest_, a sorry Hackney, Underling, Illiterate, Vagabond, see _Patrico_. _Hedge-Tavern_, or _Ale house_, a Jilting, Sharping Tavern, or Blind _Ale house_. _It hangs in the Hedge_, of a Law-suit or any thing else Depending, Undetermined. _As common as the Hedge, or High-way_, said of a Prostitute or Strumpet. _Hell_, the Place where the Taylers lay up their Cabbage, or Remnants, which are sometimes very Large. _Hell-born-babe_, a Lewd, Graceless, Notorious Youth. _Hell-cat_, a very Lewd Rakehelly Fellow. _Hell-driver_, a Coach-man. _Hell-hound_, a Profligate, Lewd Fellow. _Helter-skelter_, Pell-mell. _Hempen-widdow_, one whose Husband was Hang’d. _Hem_, to call after one with an inarticulate Noise. _Hemuse_, see Roe. _Hen-hearted_, Cowardly, Fearful. _Hen-peckt Friggat_, whose Commander and Officers are absolutely sway’d by their Wives. _Henpeckt Husband_, whose Wife wears the Breeches. _Herd of Dear or Hares_, a Company.