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Ship biscuits. This is a term used by sailors to distinguish their ordinary sea-bread from that obtained on shore, which is called soft TACK, or soft tommy. HARD TACK is also a phrase used by the London lower classes to signify coarse or insufficient food.
Unable to predict or know something
Difficult to accept or believe
Lacking money; impecunious; in financial difficulties.
Short of money. Originally a nautical phrase; when a vessel was hard put to it by stress of weather the order Hard up the helm I was given, and the tiller was put up as far as possible to windward so as to turn the ship's head away from the wind. So, when a man is "hard up" he has to weather the storm as best he may.
Cocaine
English proverb; full definition pending editorial review.
Effort and persistence in doing something
Traditional English proverbial phrase; full definition pending editorial review.
Baptists in Georgia (U.S.A.) who stuck to their principles and were impervious to any mellowing influence.
A cigar-end finder, who collects the refuse pieces of smoked cigars from the gutter, and having dried them, smokes them, or sells them as tobacco to the very poor. See TOPPER.
to make someone less sympathetic or compassionate
A mule.
A person or issue that persists or recurs over a long period
He has swallowed a hare; he is drunk; more probably a HAIR, which requires washing down,
Reckless, unthinking.
Whispering on one side to borrow money.
Jack Shepherd, with a Night Scene in Grotesque Characters, 8vo. (About 1736.)
(Thomas, Esq.) Caveat or Warening for Common Cursetors, vulgarly called vagabones, set forth for the utilitie and profit of his naturall countrey, augmented and inlarged by the first author thereof; whereunto is added the tale of the second taking of the counterfeit crank, with the true report of his behaviour and also his punishment for his so dissembling, most marvellous to the hearer or reader thereof, newly imprinted, 4to. Imprinted at London, by H. Middleton, 1573.
A large cask or tub with a rim cover, containing a supply of salt meat for immediate use. A nautical term.
A prize founded at Cambridge in memory- of William Harness (1790-1869), editor of a Life of Shakespeare, of the Plays of Massinger and Ford, etc., for the best essay connected with Shakespearean literature. Awarded every third year.
A sudden departure.
Next morning he was treated as the caliph, and every effort was made to make him forget his identity (The Sleeper Awakened).
To harp upon; to dwell upon a subject. Have among you, my blind harpers; an expression used in throwing or shooting at random among the crowd. Harp is also the Irish expression for woman, or tail, used in tossing up in Ireland: from Hibernia, being represented with a harp on the reverse of the copper coins of that country; for which it is, in hoisting the copper, i.e. tossing up, sometimes likewise called music.
To repeat or emphasize one idea or topic excessively
To repeat or emphasize something excessively
A hagged old woman; a miserable, scraggy, worn-out harlot, fit to take her bawd's degree: derived from the French word HARIDELLE, a worn-out jade of a horse or mare.
(William) Description of the Island of Britain (prefixed to Holinshed’s Chronicle), 2 vols. folio. 1577.
A country fellow. CANT.--Old Harry; the Devil.
Or OLD HARRY, (i.e., Old Hairy?) the Devil; "to play OLD HARRY with one," i.e., ruin or annoy him.
(ἐρίσοφος, very wise indeed), a student of law or physic at Cambridge who, being of the same standing as the students in arts in his year, is allowed to wear a full-sleeved gown when they assume their B.A. gowns, though he does not obtain his actual degree so soon. An undergraduate in his last year is a Senior Soph, in his last term a Questionist.
A hunter's phrase for a fat venison; a stag full of the pasture, called by Jaques "a fat and greasy citizen** (As You Like It, ii, 1).
He was running harum scarum; said of any one running or walking hastily, and in a hurry, after they know not what.
Wild, dissipated, reckless; four horses driven in a line. This is also called SUICIDE. See TANDEM, RANDEM, UNICORN, &c.
The full moon nearest the autumnal equinox, which rises for several days nearly at sunset, and at about the same time.
someone or something is no longer present
To flash the hash; to vomit. CANT.
A mess, confusion; "a pretty HASH he made of it;" to HASH UP, to jumble together without order or regularity. The term also occurs in the phrase "to settle his HASH," which is equivalent to "give him his gruel," or "cook his goose," i.e., to kill him.
to discuss and work out details
a cook or food server, especially in a cheap restaurant
The mouth.
Rushing leads to mistakes and loss
Precipitate, passionate. He is none of the Hastings sort; a saying of a slow, loitering fellow: an allusion to the Hastings pea, which is the first in season.
Making quick decisions often results in regret
Oatmeal and milk boiled to a moderate thickness, and eaten with sugar and butter. Figuratively, a wet, muddy road: as, The way through Wandsworth is quite a hasty pudding. To eat hot hasty pudding for a laced hat, or some other prize, is a common feat at wakes and fairs.
Old hat; a woman's privities: because frequently felt.
hair that is flattened or messy from wearing a hat
showing respect or humility, often in a submissive manner
Under the hatches; in trouble, distress, or debt.
"to throw the HATCHET," to tell lies. Same as "to draw the long bow."
A person hired to carry out unpleasant tasks
Vulva.
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
To intensely dislike someone
Two political factions of Sweden in the 18th century, the former favourable to France, and the latter to Russia. Carlyle says the latter were called Caps, meaning night-caps, because they were averse to action and war; but the fact is that the French partisans wore a French chapeau as their badge, and the Russian partisans wore a Russian cap.
Having or showing a superior attitude
to leave quickly or hurry away
To alter course so as to get farther away from an object.
to severely scold or criticize someone
See HACKELL'S COIT. Havelok the Dane (haV lok). A hero of mediseval romance. He was the orphan son of Birkabegn, king of Denmark, was exposed at sea through the treachery of his guardians, and the raft drifted to the coast of Lincolnshire. Here a fisherman named Grim found the young prince, and brought him up as his own son.