hush-shop
Or CRIB, a shop where beer and spirits are sold "on the quiet"—no licence being paid.
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huskylour
A guinea, or job. Cant.
hussy
An abbreviation of housewife, but now always used as a term of reproach; as, How now, hussy? or She is a light hussy.
hustle and bustle
A crowded and busy environment with a lot of activity
hutch up
to settle or live together
huxter
Money. Term much in use among costermongers and low sharpers. Probably from OXTER or HOXTER.
huzza
Said to have been originally the cry of the huzzars or Hungarian light horse; but now the national shout of the English, both civil and military, in the sea phrase termed a cheer; to give three cheers being to huzza thrice.
hy-yaw!
An interjectional exclamation of astonishment.—Anglo-Chinese.
hydrogen burning
a star's core nuclear reaction process
hyp
The hypochondriac: low spirits. He is hypped; he has got the blue devils, &c.
hyped
Excited.
Hypostatic Union
The union of the three Persons in the Trinity; also the union of the Divine and Human in Christ. The hypostasis (Gr. hypo, under, stasis, standing, hence foundation, essence) is the personal existence as distinguished from both nature and substance.
hyps
Or HYPO, the blue devils. From HYPOCHONDRIASIS.—Swift.
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