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 Horse-nightcap, subs. (old).—See Horse's-Collar.

Horse-pox, subs. (old).—A superlative of Pox (q.v.). Used in adjuration. E.g., A horse-pox on you! Ay, with a horse-pox, etc.

Horse-Protestant, subs. (tailors').—A churchman.

Horse-sense, subs. (American).—Sound and practical judgment.

1893. Lippincot, Mar., p. 260. A round bullet head, not very full of brains, perhaps, yet reputed to be fairly stocked with what is termed horse sense.

Horses-and-Mares. To play AT HORSES-AND-MARES, verb. phr. (schoolboys').—To copulate. For synonyms, see Greens and Ride.

Horse's-head, subs. (cobblers').—The boot-sole, heel, and what is left of the front after the back and part of the front have been used to fox (q.v.) other boots withal.

Horse-shoe, subs. (venery).—The female pudendum. [In German, Sie hat ein Hufeisen verloren (of women) = she has been seduced, i.e., she has lost a horse-shoe.]

Horse's-meal, subs. (old).—Meat without drink.

1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v.

Horse-sovereign, subs. (common).—A twenty-shilling piece with Pistrucci's effigies of St. George and the Dragon.

1871. London Figaro, 26 Jan. A number of those coins, sometimes known as horse sovereigns, are to be issued.

Hortus, subs. (venery).—See quot. [Cf., Garden.] For synonyms, see Monosyllable.

1728 Bailey, Eng. Dict., s.v. Hortus [by some writers] the privy parts of a woman.

Hose. In my other hose, subs. phr. (old). A qualification of refusal or disbelief; IN A HORN (q.v.); OVER THE LEFT (q.v.).

1598. Florio. A Worlde of Wordes, s.v. Zoccoli Zoccoli, tushtush, awaie, in faith sir no, yea in my other hose.

Hoss. See Horse.

HOSS-FLY (or OLD HOSS-FLY), subs. (American).—A familiar address; cf., Horse, subs. sense 3.

Host. To reckon without one's host, verb. phr. (old: now recognised).—To blunder.

1690. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew. s.v. Host. To reckon without one's host, or count your Chickens before they are Hatched.

Mine Host, subs. phr. (colloquial).—A taverner.

Hosteler, subs. (old).—See quot.

1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v. Hosteler, i.e., oat stealer

Hot, subs. (Winchester College).—1. A mellay at football.

2. (Ibid).—A crowd.

1878. Adams, Wykehamica, p. 367. It would be replaced and a fresh hot formed.

Adj. (colloquial).—1. Of persons: sexually excitable; lecherous; ON HEAT (q.v.); RANDY (q.v.). Of things (as books): obscene; BLUE (q.v.); HIGH-KILTED (q.v.); Hot member (q.v.) = a male or female debauchee; or (as in sense 2), a man or woman contemptuous of decorum.