HOOKEE Walker.  An expression signifying that the story
  is not true, or that the thing will not occour.

Hooked. Over-reached, tricked, caught:  a simile taken
  from fishing. **** hooks; fingers.

Hookers.  See anglers.

Hoop.  To run the hoop; an ancient marine custom.  Four
  or more boys having their left hands tied fast to an iron
  hoop, and each of them a rope, called a nettle, in their
  right, being naked to the waist, wait the signal to begin: 
  this being made by a stroke with a cat of nine tails, given
  by the boatswain to one of the boys, he strikes the boy before
  him, and every one does the same:  at first the blows are
  but gently administered; but each irritated by the strokes
  from the boy behind him, at length lays it on in earnest. 
  This was anciently practised when a ship was wind-bound.

To hoop.  To beat.  I’ll well hoop his or her barrel, I’ll
  beat him or her soundly.

To hop the twig.  To run away.  Cant.

Hop merchant.  A dancing master.  See caper merchant.

Hop-O-my-thumb.  A diminutive person, man or woman. 
  She was such a-hop-o-my thumb, that a pigeon, sitting
  on her shoulder, might pick a pea out of her a-se.

Hopkins.  Mr. Hopkins; a ludicrous address to a lame or
  limping man, being a pun on the word hop.

Hopping Giles.  A jeering appellation given to any person
  who limps, or is lame; St. Giles was the patron of
  cripples, lepers, &c.  Churches dedicated to that saint
  commonly stand out of town, many of them having been
  chapels to hospitals.  See Gyles.

Hopper-ARSED. Having large projecting buttocks:  from
  their resemblance to a small basket, called a hopper or
  hoppet, worn by husbandmen for containing seed corn,
  when they sow the land.

Horns.  To draw in one’s horns; to retract an assertion
  through fear:  metaphor borrowed from a snail, who on the
  apprehension of danger, draws in his horns, and retires to
  his shell.

Horn colic.  A temporary priapism.

Horn fair.  An annual fair held at Charlton, in Kent, on St.
  Luke’s day, the 18th of October.  It consists of a riotous
  mob, who after a printed summons dispersed through the
  adjacent towns, meet at Cuckold’s Point, near Deptford,
  and march from thence in procession, through that town
  and Greenwich, to Charlton, with horns of different kinds
  upon their heads; and at the fair there are sold rams
  horns, and every sort of toy made of horn; even the gingerbread
  figures have horns, The vulgar tradition gives the
  following history of the origin of this