HONNÊTE, _m._ (thieves’), _the spring_. HONTEUSE, _f._, être en ----. See LESBIEN. HÔPITAL, _m._ (thieves’), _prison_, or “stir.” See MOTTE. A thief in prison is said to be “malade,” and when liberated he is, of course, “guéri.” (Popular) Goujon d’----, _leech_. HORIZONTALE, _f._ (familiar), _prostitute_, or “mot;” ---- de grande marque, _fashionable cocotte_, or “pretty horse-breaker.” For list of over one hundred and thirty synonyms, see GADOUE. HORLOGER, _m._ (popular), avoir sa montre chez l’----, _to have one’s watch at the pawnbroker’s_, “in lug,” or “up the spout.” HORREURS, _f. pl._ (popular), _broad talk_, or “blue talk.” Dire des ----, _to talk_ “smut.” Faire des ----, _to take liberties with women_, “to fiddle,” or “to slewther,” as the Irish have it. HOSTO, or AUSTO (soldiers’ and thieves’), _prison_, or “stir,” see MOTTE; (popular) _house_, or “crib.” HÔTEL, _m._ (popular), de la modestie, _poor lodgings_; ---- des haricots, _prison_, or “jug.” See MOTTE. Coucher à l’---- de la belle étoile, _to sleep in the open air, on mother Earth_, or “to skipper it.” HOTTERIAU, HOTTERIOT, _m._ (popular), _rag-picker_, or “tot-picker.” From hotte, _wicker basket_. HOUBLON, _m._ (popular), _tea_. HOUPE DENTELÉE, _f._ (freemasons’), _ties of brotherhood_. HOUSETTE, _f._ (thieves’), _boot_, or “daisy root.” Traîne-cul-les housettes, a _tatterdemalion_. HOUSSINE, _f._ (thieves’), Jean de l’----, _stick_; _bludgeon_. HOUSTE À LA PAILLE! (thieves’), _out with him!_ HUBIN, _m._ (thieves’), _dog_, or “tyke.” Après, ils leur enseignent à aquiger certaines graisses pour empêcher que les hubins les grondent.--_Le Jargon de l’Argot._ HUBINS, _m. pl._ (old cant), _tramps who pretend to have been bitten by rabid dogs or wolves_. Les hubins triment ordinairement avec une luque comme ils bient à Saint-Hubert.--_Le Jargon de l’Argot._ Saint Hubert was credited with the power of miraculously curing hydrophobia. There is still a church in Belgium, not far from Arlon, consecrated to Saint Hubert, to whose shrine rabid people (in more than one sense) repair to be cured. HUGOLÂTRE, _m._ (familiar), _fanatical admirer of the works of V. Hugo_. HUGREMENT (thieves’), _much_, or “neddy” (Irish). HUILE, _f._ (general), _wine_; _suspicion_; ---- blonde, _beer_; ---- de bras, de poignet, _physical strength_; _work_, or “elbow grease;” ---- de cotret, _blows administered with a stick_; might be rendered by “stirrup-oil.” The _Dict. Comique_ has: “Huile de cotret, pour coups de bâton, bastonnade.” Qu’ils vinssent vous frotter les épaules de l’huile de cotret.--_Don Quichotte._ Huile de mains, _money_, or “oil of palm.” For synonyms see QUIBUS. Pomper les huiles, _to drink wine to excess_, or “to swill.” HUIT (theatrical), battre un ----, _to cut a caper_. (Familiar) Un ---- ressorts, _a handsome, well-appointed two-horse carriage_. (Military) Flanquer ---- et sept, _to give a man a fortnight’s arrest_.