The Public School Word-book / A conribution to to a historical glossary of words phrases and turns of expression obsolete and in current use peculiar to our great public schools together with some that have been or are modish at the universities

by John Stephen Farmer

1878. Adams, Wykehamica, s.v. Huff, the strong ale brewed by the College.

Hum, verb (Derby).—To smell.

Hundred (The), subs. 1. (Loretto).—A long straight walk within the school grounds.

2. (Tonbridge: obsolete).—One of the lower football grounds. There were Upper, Middle, Lower, Fourth, and Fifth Hundreds. See Fifty.

Husky, subs. (Winchester: obsolete).—See quot.

c. 1840. Mansfield, School-Life, p. 145. There were two kinds [Gooseberry fool] HUSKY and non-husky.

Ick. See Ack.

Iliad, subs. (Charterhouse).—The regular penalty for late attendance at chapel and other minor offences.

Imperator, subs. (Stonyhurst).—A name given to the two first boys in each class.