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HABERDASHER OF PRONOUNS . A schoolmaster, or usher.
HACKNEY WRITER . One who writes for attornies or booksellers.
HACKUM . Captain Hackum; a bravo, a slasher.
HAD'EM . He has been at Had'em, and came home by Clapham; said of one who has caught the venereal disease.
HAIR SPLITTER . A man's yard.
HALBERT . A weapon carried by a serjeant of foot. To get a halbert; to be appointed a serjeant. To be brought to the halberts; to be flogged a la militaire: soldiers of the infantry, when flogged, being commonly tied to three halberts, set up in a triangle, with a fourth fastened across them. He carries the halbert in his face; a saying of one promoted from a serjeant to a commission officer.
HALF A HOG . Sixpence.
HALF SEAS OVER . Almost drunk.
HAMLET . A high constable. Cant.
HAMS . or HAMCASES Breeches.
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