Hob or nob.  Will you hob or nob with me? a question
  formerly in fashion at polite tables, signifying a request or
  challenge to drink a glass of wine with the proposer:  if the
  party challenged answered Nob, they were to chuse whether
  white or red.  This foolish custom is said to have
  originated in the days of good queen Bess, thus:  when
  great chimnies were in fashion, there was at each corner
  of the hearth, or grate, a small elevated projection, called
  the hob; and behind it a seat.  In winter time the beer
  was placed on the hob to warm:  and the cold beer was
  set on a small table, said to have been called the nob; so
  that the question, Will you have hob or nob? seems only
  to have meant, Will you have warm or cold beer? i.e.
  beer from the hob, or beer from the nob.

HOBBERDEHOY.  Half a man and half a boy, a lad between
  both.

Hobbled. Impeded, interrupted, puzzled.  To hobble;
  to walk lamely.

HOBBLEDYGEE.  A pace between a walk and a run, a dog-trot.

Hobby.  Sir Posthumous’s hobby; one nice or whimsical
  in his clothes.

Hobby horse.  A man’s favourite amusement, or study,
  is called his hobby horse.  It also means a particular kind
  of small Irish horse:  and also a wooden one, such as is
  given to children.

Hobby HORSICAL.  A man who is a great keeper or rider
  of hobby horses; one that is apt to be strongly attached
  to his systems of amusement.

Hobnail.  A country clodhopper:  from the shoes of country
  farmers and ploughmen being commonly stuck full of
  hob-nails, and even often clouted, or tipped with iron. 
  The Devil ran over his face with hobnails in his shoes;
  said of one pitted With the small pox.

HOBSON’S choice.  That or none; from old Hobson, a
  famous carrier of Cambridge, who used to let horses to the
  students; but never permitted them to chuse, always
  allotting each man the horse he thought properest for his
  manner of riding and treatment.

Hocks. vulgar appellation for the feet.  You have left
  the marks of your dirty hocks on my clean stairs; a frequent
  complaint from a mop squeezer to a footman.

Hockey.  Drunk with strong stale beer, called old hock. 
  See Hickey.

Hocking, or HOUGHING.  A piece of cruelty practised by
  the butchers of Dublin, on soldiers, by cutting the tendon
  of Achilles; this has been by law made felony.

Hocus pocus.  Nonsensical words used by jugglers, previous
  to their deceptions, as a kind of charm, or incantation.  A
  celebrated writer supposes it to be a ludicrous corruption
  of the words hoc est corpus, used by the popish priests m
  consecrating the host.  Also Hell Hocus is used to express
  drunkenness:  as, he is quite hocus; he is quite drunk.