1815. Scott, Guy Mannering, x. A couteau de chasse, or short hanger. In. pl. (old).—1. Ornamental loops from the girdle to suspend the sword and dagger. 1596. Shakspeare, Hamlet, v. 2. Six French rapiers and poignards, with their assigns, as girdle, hangers, and so on. 1596. Nashe, Unf. Trav. [Chiswick Press, 1891]. Huge hangers that have half a cowhide in them. 1599. Jonson, Every Man out of his Humour, iv., 4. I had thrown off the hangers a little before. 1610. Jonson, Alchemist, v., 2. Where be the French petticoats, And girdles and hangers? 2. (common).—Gloves; specifically gloves in the hand. 3. See Pothooks. Hang-in-chains, subs. phr. (old).—See quots. 1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v. Hang-in-chains, a vile desperate fellow. 1811. Lexicon Balatronicum, Hang-in-chains. A vile, desperate fellow. Persons guilty of murder, or other atrocious crimes, are frequently, after execution, hanged on a gibbet, to which they are fastened by iron bandages; the gibbet is commonly placed on or near the place where the crime was committed. Hanging, adj. (colloquial).—Fit for the halter. Hanging-bee, subs. (American).—A gathering of lynch-lawmongers, bent on the application of the rope. See Bee. Hanging Johnny, subs. phr. (venery).—The penis: specifically, in a condition of impotence or disease. For synonyms, see Creamstick and Prick. Hangman, subs. (old).—A jocular endearment. 1600. Shakspeare, Much Ado About Nothing, iii., 2. He had twice or thrice cut Cupid’s bowstring, and the little hangman dare not shoot at him. Hangman’s-day, subs. (old).—Monday, and (in America) Friday. 1859. Matsell, Vocabulum, s.v. Hangman’s day. Friday is so called from the custom of hanging people on a Friday. Hangman’s-wages, subs. (old).—Thirteen-pence-halfpenny. [The fee for an execution was a Scots mark: the value of which piece was settled, by a proclamation of James I., at 13½d.] 1602. Decker, Honest Whore, Pt. II., in Wks. (1873) ii., 171. Why should I eate hempe-seed at the hangman’s thirteene-pence halfe-penny ordinary? 1659. Hangman’s Last Will (Rump Song quoted in Notes and Queries, 2 S. xi., 316). For half thirteen-pence half-penny wages, I would have cleared out all the town cages, And you should have been rid of all the sages. I and my gallows groan. 1678. Butler, Hudibras, Pt. III., c. 2. To find us pillories and cart’s-tails, Or hangman’s wages. 1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v. Hangman’s wages, thirteenpence half-penny, which according to the vulgar tradition was thus allotted, one shilling for the execution, and three halfpence for the rope. Hang-slang about, verb. phr. (common).—To abuse; to slang (q.v.); to Billingsgate (q.v.). Hank, subs. (old colloquial).—1. A tie; a hold; an advantage; a difficulty. [In a hank = in trouble].