Haze, to confuse and annoy a subordinate by contradictory, unnecessary, and perplexing orders.
Hazy, intoxicated, also dull and stupid.
Head-beetler, the bully of the workshop, who lords it over his fellow-workmen by reason of superior strength, skill in fighting, &c. Sometimes applied to the foreman.
Header, a plunge head foremost into water, or a fall in the same posture from accident. Nowadays a theatrical expression for any supposedly daring jump of hero or heroine in sensational dramas.
Head or tail, “I can’t make HEAD OR TAIL of it,” i.e., cannot make it out. Originally a gambling phrase.
Head-rails, the teeth.—Sea.
Head-serag, a master, overseer, or other important personage; from SERANG, a boatswain.—Bengalee, and Sea.
Heap, “a HEAP of people,” a crowd; “struck all of a HEAP,” suddenly astonished.
Heat, a bout, or turn, in horse or foot racing. By means of heats the field is gradually reduced.
Heavy dragoons, bugs, in contradistinction from fleas, which are “light infantry.”—Oxford University.