_Hick_, c. any Person of whom any Prey can be made, or Booty taken from; also a silly Country Fellow. _Hide-bound-horse_, whose Skin sticks very close, and tite like a Pudding Bag, usually when very Fat. _Hide-bound-muse_, Stiff, hard of Delivery, Sir _J. Suckling_ call’d _Ben. Johnson’s_ so. _Higglede-piggledy_, all together, as Hoggs and Piggs lie Nose in Arse. _High Flyers_, Impudent, Forward, Loose, Light Women; also bold Adventurers. _High shoon_, or _Clouted-shoon_, a Country Clown. _High Pad_, c. a Highway Robber well Mounted and Armed. _Highjinks_, a Play at Dice who Drinks. _Hightetity_, a Ramp or Rude Girl. _High Tide_, c. when the Pocket is full of Money. _Hind_, the Plough-boy or Ploughman’s Servant at Plough and Cart. _Hinde_, the third Year; _Hearse or Brockets Sister_, the second Year; Calf the first Year. _Hip_, _upon the Hip_, at an Advantage in Wrestling or Business. _Hissing_, the Note of the Snake and the Goose, the Quenching of Metals in the Forge; also upon any dislike at the Play-house, and sometimes tho’ seldom in the Courts of Judicature, upon any foul Proceedings. The like is done also in other larger Assemblies. _Hob_, a plain Country Fellow; or Clown, also the Back of a Chimney. _Hobinal_, the same. _Hobbist_, a Disciple, and fond Admirer of _Thomas Hobbs_, the fam’d Philosopher of _Malmsbury_. Sir _Posthumus Hobby_, one that Draws on his Breeches with a Shoeing-horn; also a Fellow that is Nice and Whimsical in the set of his Cloaths. _Hob-nail_, a Horse Shoe-nail; also a High-shoon or Country Clown. _Hobsons-choice_, that or None. _Hocus-pocus_, a Juggler that shews Tricks by Slight of Hand. _Hodge_, a. Country Clown, also Roger. _Hodmenduds_, Snails in their Shells. _Hodge podge_, see Hotch-potch. _Hog_, c. a Shilling; also see _Wild Boar_. _You Darkman Budge, will you Fence your Hog at the next Boozing-ken_ c. do ye hear you House Creeper, will you Spend your Shilling at the next Ale-house. _A meer Hog or Hoggish Fellow_, a greedy, covetous, morose Churl. _A Hog-grubber_, a close-fisted, narrow-soul’d sneaking Fellow. _He has brought his Hoggs to a fair Market, or he has Spun a fair Thread. Great Cry and little Wooll, as the Man said, when he Shear’d his Hoggs_, Labour in Vain which the Latines express by _Goats-wooll_, as the English by the shearing of Hoggs. _Hogg steer_, see _Wild Boar_. _Hogen-mogen_, a Dutch Man; also High and Mighty, the Sovereign States of _Holland_. _Hogo_, for _Haut Goust_, a strong Scent; also a high Taste or Relish in Sauce. _Hold his Nose to the Grind-stone_, to Keep him Under or Tie him Neck and Heels in a Bargain. _Hollow hearted_, False, Base, Perfidious, Treacherous. _Holyday-bowler_, a very bad Bowler, _Holyday Cloths_, the Best. _Blind Men’s Holyday_, when it is Night.