1690. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, s.v. Hearts-ease. An ordinary sort
of strong water.
1725. New Cant. Dict., s.v.
1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v.
Hearty, subs. and adj. (common).—Drink; drunk. For synonyms, see Drinks
and Screwed.
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.