My Hearty, phr. (nautical).—A familiar address.
Hearty-choke. To have a
hearty choke and caper sauce
for breakfast, verb. phr. (old).—To
be hanged. Cf., Vegetable
breakfast, and for
synonyms, see Ladder.
1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v.
1834. Ainsworth, Rookwood, 'Nix my Doly,' Who cut his last fling with great applause To a hearty choke with caper sauce.
1893. Danvers, The Grantham Mystery, ch. xiii, I am not particularly anxious to run the risk of being compelled to have a hearty-choke for breakfast one fine morning.
Heat, subs. (racing and colloquial).—A
bout; a turn; a trial; by
whose means the 'field' is gradually
reduced. Cf., Handicap.
1681. Dryden, Epil. to Saunders's Tamerlane, 25. But there's no hope of an old battered jade; Faint and unnerved he runs into a sweat, And always fails you at the second heat.
1751. Smollett, Peregrine Pickle, ch. lxxxviii. Our adventurer had the satisfaction of seeing his antagonist distanced in the first and second heats.
1753. Adventurer, No. 37. The first heat I put my master in possession of the stakes.
1819. Scott, Bride of Lammermoor, ch. xxii. There was little to prevent Bucklaw himself from sitting for the county—he must carry the heat—must walk the course.
On Heat, subs. phr. (venery).—Amorously
inclined, hot (q.v.).
[Said of women and bitches. ]
Heathen-philosopher, subs.
(old).—See quot.
1690. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, s.v. A sorry poor tatter'd Fellow, whose Breech may be seen through his Pocket-holes.
1725. New Cant. Dict. s.v.
1785. Grose, Dict. Vulg. Tongue, s.v. This saying arose from the old philosophers, many of whom despised the vanity of dress to such a point, as often to fall into the excess complained of.
Heave, subs. (old).—1. An attempt
to deceive or cajole: a dead-heave
= a flagrant attempt.
2. in. pl. (American).—An attack of indigestion or vomiting.
Verb (American).—1. To vomit.
1862. Browne ('Artemus Ward'), Artemus Ward, his book. 'Cruise of the Polly Ann.' Stickin my hed out of the cabin window, I hev.
2. (old).—To rob: has survived, in Shropshire, as a provincialism. The heler (hider) is as bad as the heaver = the receiver is as bad as the thief.
1567. Harman, Caveat, p. 66. To heue a bough, to robbe or rifle a boweth.
1575. Awdeley, Fraternitye of Vacabondes. But hys chiefest trade is to rob bowthes in a faire, or to pilfer ware from staules, which they cal heaving of the bowth.
1608. Dekker, Belman of London in Wks. (Grosart) III., 102. But the end of their land-voiages is to rob Boothes at fayres, which they call Heaving of the Booth.
1671. R. Head, English Rogue, Pt. I., ch. xlv. p. 319 (1874). I met with an old comrade that had lately heav'd a booth, Anglice broken open a Shop.
1690. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, s.v. Heave a bough. To rob a house.
1724. Coles, Eng. Dict., s.v.
1725. New Cant. Dict., s.v.
1748. T. Dyche, Dictionary, (5th Ed.). Heave (v.) . . . and in the Canting Language, it is to rob or steal from any person or thing.
1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v.
To heave on (or ahead),
verb. phr. (old).—To make haste;
to press forward.
1833. Marryat, Peter Simple, ch. iv. Come heave ahead, my lads, and be smart.
