Hedge creeper.  A robber of hedges.

Hedge priest. An illiterate unbeneficed curate, a patrico.

Hedge whore.  An itinerant harlot, who bilks the bagnios
  and bawdy-houses, by disposing of her favours on the
  wayside, under a hedge; a low beggarly prostitute.

Heels.  To he laid by the heels; to be confined, or put in
  prison.  Out at heels; worn, or diminished:  his estate or
  affairs are out at heels.  To turn up his heels; to turn up
  the knave of trumps at the game of all-fours.

Heel tap.  A peg in the heel of a shoe, taken out when it
  is finished.  A person leaving any liquor in his glass, is
  frequently called upon by the toast-master to take off his
  heel-tap.

Hell.  A taylor’s repository for his stolen goods, called
  cabbage:  see cabbage.  Little hell; a small dark covered
  passage, leading from London-wall to Bell-alley.

Hell-born babe.  A lewd graceless youth, one naturally
  of a wicked disposition.

Hell cat.  A termagant, a vixen, a furious scolding woman. 
  See termagant and vixen.

Hell hound.  A wicked abandoned fellow.

Hell fire Dick.  The Cambridge driver of the Telegraph. 
  The favorite companion of the University fashionables,
  and the only tutor to whose precepts they attend.

Helter skelter.  To run helter skelter, hand over head,
  in defiance of order.

Hemp.  Young hemp; an appellation for a graceless boy.

Hempen fever.  A man who was hanged is said to have
  died of a hempen fever; and, in Dorsetshire, to have been
  stabbed with a Bridport dagger; Bridport being a place
  famous for manufacturing hemp into cords.

Hempen widow.  One whose husband was hanged.

Hen-hearted. Cowardly.

Hen house.  A house where the woman rules; called also
  a she house, and hen frigate:  the latter a sea phrase,
  originally applied to a ship, the captain of which had his
  wife on board, supposed to command him.

Henpecked. A husband governed by his wife, is said to
  be henpecked.

Hen.  A woman.  A cock and hen club; a club composed
  of men and women.

Here and THEREIAN.  One who has no settled place of
  residence.

Herring.  The devil a barrel the better herring; all equally
  bad.

Herring gutted. Thin, as a shotten hering.

Herring pond.  The sea.  To cross the herring pond at
  the king’s expence; to be transported.

Hertfordshire kindness.  Drinking twice to the same
  person.