Hum TRUM.  A musical instrument made of a mopstick, a
  bladder, and some packthread, thence also called a bladder
  and string, and hurdy gurdy; it is played on like a violin,
  which is sometimes ludicrously called a humstrum; sometimes,
  instead of a bladder, a tin canister is used.

Hump.  To hump; once a fashionable word for copulation.

Humpty dumpty.  A little humpty dumpty man or woman;
  a short clumsy person of either sex:  also ale boiled
  with brandy.

To hunch.  To jostle, or thrust.

Hunch-backed. Hump-backed.

Hung beef.  A dried bull’s pizzle.  How the dubber
  served the cull with hung beef; how the turnkey beat the
  fellow with a bull’s pizzle.

Hunks.  A covetous miserable fellow, a miser; also the
  name of a famous bear mentioned by Ben Jonson.

Hunt’s dog.  He is like Hunt’s dog, will neither go to
  church nor stay at home.  One Hunt, a labouring man at
  a small town in Shropshire, kept a mastiff, who on being
  shut up on Sundays, whilst his master went to church,
  howled so terribly as to disturb the whole village; wherefore
  his master resolved to take him to church with him: 
  but when he came to the church door, the dog having perhaps
  formerly been whipped out by the sexton, refused to
  enter; whereupon Hunt exclaimed loudly against his dog’s
  obstinacy, who would neither go to church nor stay at
  home.  This shortly became a bye-word for discontented
  and whimsical persons.

Hunting.  Drawing in unwary persons to play or game. 
  Cant.

Hunting the squirrel.  An amusement practised by
  postboys and stage-coachmen, which consists in following
  a one-horse chaise, anddriving it before them, passing close
  to it, so as to brush the wheel, and by other means terrifying
  any woman or person that may be in it.  A man whose
  turn comes for him to drink, before he has emptied his former
  glass, is said to be hunted.

HUNTSUP.  The reveillier of huntsmen, sounded on the
  French horn, or other instrument.

HURDY gurdy.  A kind of fiddle, originally made perhaps
  out of a gourd.  See humstrum.

Hurly Burly.  A rout, riot, bustle or confusion.

Hush.  Hush the cull; murder the fellow.

Hush money.  Money given to hush up or conceal a robbery, theft,
  or any other offence, or to take off the evidence
  from appearing against a criminal.

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.

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.