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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.
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