HADDOCK. a purse; a haddock stuff'd with beans, is a jocular term for a purse full of guineas! HALF A BEAN, HALF A QUID; half-a-guinea. HALF A BULL. half-a-crown. HALF-FLASH AND HALF-FOOLISH. this character is applied sarcastically to a person, who has a smattering of the cant language, and having associated a little with family people, pretends to a knowledge of life which he really does not possess, and by this conduct becomes an object of ridicule among his acquaintance. HAMMERISH. down as a hammer. HANG IT ON. purposely to delay or protract the performance of any task or service you have undertaken, by dallying, and making as slow a progress as possible, either from natural indolence, or to answer some private end of your own, To hang it on with a woman, is to form a temporary connexion with her; to cohabit or keep company with her without marriage. HANK. a bull-bait, or bullock-hunt. HANK. to have a person at a good hank, is to have made any contract with him very advantageous to yourself; or to be able from some prior cause to command or use him just as you please; to have the benefit of his purse or other services, in fact, upon your own terms. HANK. a spell of cessation from any work or duty, on the score of indisposition, or some other pretence. HIGH-TOBY. the game of highway robbery, that is, exclusively on horseback. HIGH-TOBY-GLOAK. a highwayman.
A New and Comprehensive Vocabulary of the Flash Language by James Hardy Vaux, 1819
