Holborn hill.  To ride backwards up Holborn hill; to
  go to the gallows:  the way to Tyburn, the place of
  execution for criminals condemned in London, was up that
  hill.  Criminals going to suffer, always ride backwards,
  as some conceive to increase the ignominy, but more
  probably to prevent them being shocked with a distant view
  of the gallows; as, in amputations, surgeons conceal the
  instruments with which they are going to operate.  The
  last execution at Tyburn, and consequently of this
  procession, was in the year 1784, since which the criminals
  have been executed near Newgate

Holiday.  A holiday bowler; a bad bowler.  Blind man’s
  holiday; darkness, night.  A holiday is any part of a
  ship’s bottom, left uncovered in paying it.  Sea term.  It
  is all holiday; See all holiday.

Holy father.  A butcher’s boy of St. Patrick’s Market,
  Dublin, or other Irish blackguard; among whom
  the exclamation, or oath, by the Holy Father (meaning
  the Pope), is common.

Holy lamb.  A thorough-paced villain.  Irish.

Holy water.  He loves him as the Devil loves holy water,
  i.e. hates him mortally.  Holy water, according to the
  Roman Catholics, having the virtue to chase away the Devil
  and his imps.

Hollow.  It was quiet a hollow thing; i.e. a certainty, or
  decided business.

Honest man.  A term frequently used by superiors to inferiors. 
  As honest a man as any in the cards when all the
  kings are out; i.e. a knave.  I dare not call thee rogue for
  fear of the law, said a quaker to an attorney; but I wil
  give thee five pounds, if thou canst find any creditable
  person who wilt say thou art an honest man.

Honest woman.  To marry a woman with whom one has
  cohabitated as a mistress, is termed, making an honest
  woman of her.

Honey moon.  The first month after marriage.  A poor
  honey; a harmless, foolish, goodnatured fellow.  It is all
  honey or a t—­d with them; said of persons who are
  either in the extremity of friendship or enmity, either
  kissing or fighting.

Hood-winked. Blindfolded by a handkerchief, or other
  ligature, bound over the eyes.

Hoof.  To beat the hoof; to travel on foot.  He hoofed it
  or beat the hoof, every step of the way from Chester to
  London.

Hook and SNIVEY, with Nix the buffer.  This rig
  consists in feeding a man and a dog for nothing, and is
  carried on thus:  Three men, one of who pretends to be
  sick and unable to eat, go to a public house:  the two well
  men make a bargain with the landlord for their dinner,
  and when he is out of sight, feed their pretended sick
  companion and dog gratis.