HORNEY, a constable.
HOXTER, an inside coat-pocket.
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IN IT, to let another partake of any benefit or acquisition you have acquired by robbery or otherwise, is called putting him in it: a family-man who is accidentally witness to a robbery, &c., effected by one or more others, will say to the latter, Mind, I’m in it; which is generally acceded to, being the established custom; but there seems more of courtesy than right in this practice.
IN TOWN, flush of money; breeched.
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JACOB, a ladder; a simple half-witted person.
JACK, a post-chaise.
JACK-BOY, a postillion.
JACKET, to jacket a person, or clap a jacket on him, is nearly synonymous with bridging him. See [Bridge]. But this term is more properly applied to removing a man by underhand and vile means from any birth or situation he enjoys, commonly with a view to supplant him; therefore, when a person, is supposed to have fallen a victim to such infamous machinations, it is said to have been a jacketting concern.