Chapter V: Part 5

1847. THACKERAY, _Punch’s Prize Novelists_, “Codlingsby,” p. 232. From
the Addenbroke’s hospital to the Blenheim turnpike, all Cambridge was
in an uproar—the College gates closed—the shops barricaded—the
shop-boys away in support of their brother townsmen—the battle raged,
and the GOWN had the worst of the fight.

1853. BRADLEY, _Verdant Green_, II., ch. iii. When GOWN was absent,
Town was miserable.

1891. _Pall Mall Gaz._, 30th May, p. 4, c. 3. Town and GOWN joined in
harmony.

*Gownboy*, _subs._ (Charterhouse).—A scholar on the foundation:
they wore at the Charterhouse black Eton jackets, black
trousers, shoes called GOWSERS (_q.v._), and gowns. This
distinctive garb was abolished in 1872.

*Gownboy-arch* (Charterhouse).—An arch near the east end of the
chapel, formerly the doorway from Scholars’ Court into
Gown-boys. The earliest Old Carthusian name inscribed on it
bears date 1778.

*Gownboy-cricket*, _subs._ (Charterhouse).—Cricket in which
there are twenty bowlers to one batsman, with no fielders.

*Gownboys* (Charterhouse).—A boarding-house. [Because on
migration to Godalming in 1872 nearly all the old GOWNBOYS
(_q.v._) were received there.]

*Gowner*, _subs._ (Winchester).—The GOAL (_q.v._) at football
stood with his legs stretched out, and a gown, rolled up
into a ball, at each foot. When the ball was kicked over
either of these gowns, without goal’s touching it, this
counted two for the party who kicked it.—MANSFIELD (_c._
1840). Also _see_ GOAL and SCHITT. Now obsolete.

*Gownsman* (also *Gown*), _subs._ (University).—A student.

1800. C. K. SHARPE, in _Correspondence_ (1888), i. 96. A battle
between the GOWNSMEN and townspeople ... in spite of the
Vice-Chancellor and Proctors.

1850. F. E. SMEDLEY, _Frank Fairlegh_, ch. xxv. The ancient town of
Cambridge, no longer animated by the countless throngs of GOWNSMEN,
frowned in its unaccustomed solitude.

1853. BRADLEY, _Verdant Green_, III. By the time Mr. Bouncer finished
these words, the coach appropriately drew up at the “Mitre,” and the
passengers tumbled off amid a knot of GOWNSMEN collected on the
pavement to receive them.

1861. HUGHES, _Tom Brown at Oxford_. The townsmen ... were met by the
GOWNSMEN with settled steady pluck.

*Gowsers*, _subs._ (Charterhouse: obsolete).—Shoes.

*Grammar*, _subs._ 1. (Stonyhurst).—The Lower Fourth Form.

2. (Harrow).—_See_ UPPER SCHOOL.

*Grand-matches*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—The three final matches
of the STONYHURST-FOOTBALL (_q.v._) season, played always on
the Thursday before Shrove-tide, and on the following Monday
and Tuesday. These days are school holidays, and in the
evenings the great plays of the year are given.

*Grass*, _subs._ (Royal Military Academy).—Vegetables.

TO BE SENT TO GRASS, _verb. phr._ (University).—To be
rusticated; to RECEIVE A TRAVELLING SCHOLARSHIP (_q.v._).

1794. _Gent. Mag._, p. 1085. And was very near rustication [at
Cambridge] merely for kicking up a row after a beakering party. “Soho,
Jack!” briskly rejoined another, “almost presented with a travelling
fellowship? very nigh being SENT TO GRASS, hey?”

*Greaser*, _subs._ 1. (Durham: obsolete).—A cad.

2. (Winchester: obsolete).—A mode of torture performed by
rubbing a boy’s head hard with the knuckles.—MANSFIELD (_c._
1840).

*Great-go* (or *Greats*), _subs._ (Cambridge).—The final
examination for the B.A. degree: _cf._ LITTLE-GO. At Oxford,
GREATER.

1841. _Prince of the New-made Baccalere, Oxford._ GREAT-GO is passed.

1861. HUGHES, _Tom Brown at Oxford_, ch. x. Both small and GREAT are
sufficiently distant to be altogether ignored, if we are that way
inclined.

1856-7. THACKERAY, _King of Brentford’s Test._, st. 7. At college,
though not fast, Yet his little-go and GREAT-GO, He creditably pass’d.

1871. _Morning Advertiser_, April 28. Yes, Mr. Lowe has been plucked
for his GREAT GO.

1883. _Echo_, 3rd May, p. 2, c. 4. But few, indeed, are the men who
have been in for GREATS during the last twenty years, and who have not
blessed Mr. Kitchin for his edition of the _Novum Organum_.

*Grecian*, _subs._ (Christ’s Hospital).—A senior boy.

1870. _Blue Budget_, March. We have the full sanction and approval of
the GRECIANS, and some of them intend even to contribute articles
themselves.

1871. _The Blue_, Aug. Boys are taken at the age of seven years and
remain till they are sixteen.... If at their sixteenth year they have
shown remarkable aptitude, they are allowed to remain longer, and as
GRECIANS—a traditional title, the origin of which is unknown—to pursue
more advanced studies and to enjoy certain privileges as to table.
[_See_ Appendix.]

*Green.* 1. (Charterhouse).—The cricket-ground. _See_
UNDER-GREEN.

2. (Felsted: obsolete).—A Post-Office Order. [From the
colour.]

*Green-back*, _subs._ (University).—One of Todhunter’s series of
mathematical text-books. [Because bound in green cloth.
_Cf._ BLUE-RUIN = Bohn’s _Classical Series_.]

*Green Book, The* (Charterhouse).—A record of the date of
entering and leaving the school: this has been somewhat
loosely kept, and gaps are conspicuous.

*Green-room Boys*, _subs. phr._ (Stonyhurst).—Boys chosen to be
the stage-manager’s assistants at the Shrove-tide plays.

*Greens, The* (Stonyhurst: obsolete).—Two large grass plots, or
lawns and shrubberies, on the south front. A cricket-ball
hit full pitch into either of these from the opposite end of
the playground was known as “A Greener.” Whence GREEN-BOYS =
boys who used to look after the “GREENS.”

*Greeze*, _subs._ (Westminster).—A crowd.

*Greyers*, _subs._ (Harrow).—Grey flannel trousers: worn by all
the school not entitled to white FLANNELS (_q.v._) at
cricket.

*Greyhound*, _subs._ (Cambridge: obsolete).—A member of Clare
College; a CLARIAN (_q.v._).

1889. WHIBLEY, _Cap and Gown_, xxviii. The members of Clare ... were
called GRAYHOUNDS.

*Grind*, _subs._ (common).—(1) Study; reading for an
examination. Also as a _verb_. (2) A plodding student. (3)
Athletic sports in general: specifically, a training run.
Also as _verb_ = to teach; to instruct; to coach.

1856. HUGHES, _Tom Brown’s School-days_, pt. II. ch. v. “Come along,
boys,” cries East, always ready to leave the GRIND, as he called it.
_Ibid._, ch. vii. “The thing to find out,” said Tom meditatively, “is
how long one ought to GRIND at a sentence without looking at the
crib.”

1872. _Chambers’s Jour._, April. Joe Rullock, the mighty gymnasiarch,
the hero of a hundred GRINDS, the unwearied haunter of the palæstra,
could never give the lie to his whole past life, and deny his own
gymnastics.

1887. _Chambers’s Jour._, 14th May, p. 310. Smalls made just such a
goal as was required, and the GRIND it entailed was frequently of no
slight profit to him.

THE GRIND, _subs._ (Cambridge).—The ferry-boat at
Chesterton. (Oxford) A diversion popular among the less
athletic tutors and undergraduates, which consists in
walking by the Banbury Road to the 2-1/2 mile stone,
crossing to the Woodstock Road, which is here only a quarter
of a mile distant, and so returning to Oxford, occasionally
varying the proceeding by reversing the order of the walk.
It is, however, probable that the introduction of golf has
dealt a severe blow at the popularity of this innocent
amusement. Also THE FIVE MILES GRIND.

’VARSITY GRIND (Oxford).—A steeplechase held at Stratton
Audley.

*Grind-days*, _subs._ (Loretto).—The GRIND-DAYS occur twice a
year: in October and March. Privileged boys, school
officers, Sixth and Fifth, and probably Upper Fifth, go by
train to various places, such as Peebles, Pomathorn, &c.,
and walk, perhaps about twenty miles, to some other place,
where they dine, returning by train. Some of the rest cross
the Pentlands, and the Juniors go up the highest Pentland.

*Grinder*, _subs._ (general).—A private tutor; a COACH (_q.v._).

1812. Miss EDGEWORTH, _Patronage_, ch. iii. Put him into the hands of
a clever GRINDER or crammer, and they would soon cram the necessary
portion of Latin and Greek into him.

1841. _Punch_, vol. i. p. 201. Then contriving to accumulate five
guineas to pay a GRINDER, he routs out his old note-books from the
bottom of his box and commences to read.

1841. A. SMITH, “The London Medical Student” in _Punch_, i. p. 229. G
was a GRINDER, who sharpen’d the fools.

1849. THACKERAY, _Pendennis_, ch. v. She sent me down here with a
GRINDER. She wants me to cultivate my neglected genius.

*Grinding-mill*, _subs._ (general).—The house of a tutor
or COACH (_q.v._), where students are prepared for an
examination.

*Groats.* TO SAVE ONE’S GROATS, _verb. phr._ (old
University).—To come off handsomely. [At the Universities
nine groats are deposited in the hands of an academic
officer by every person standing for a degree, which, if the
depositor obtains, with honour, are returned to him.—GROSE.]

*Grotius-time*, _subs._ (Winchester).—From 7 P.M. to 7.45 P.M.
on Sundays, in CLOISTER-TIME (_q.v._) when SIXTH BOOK
(_q.v._) and SENIOR PART (_q.v._) went into school to
translate the work of that author.—MANSFIELD (_c._ 1840).
Now obsolete.

*Groute*, _verb_ (Marlborough and Cheltenham).—To work or study
hard; to SWOT (_q.v._).

*Grovel*, _subs._ (Sherborne).—A scrummage at football.

*Grubber*, _subs._ (general).—A tuck-shop. _See_ LAMB’S-TAILS,
ROUND OTHELLOS, KILL-ME-QUICKS, and PICANINNIES.

1899. _Public School Mag._, Dec., p. 441. The shop is privately
managed by Mr. Kimmins, of High Street, Tonbridge [and] is known as
“GRUBBER.”

*Grubby*, _subs._ (Royal High School, Edin.).—The luncheon room.

*Gruff*, _adj._ (Christ’s Hospital).—Low-pitched: of the voice.
_See_ quot., and SQUEAKY.

_c._ 1844. _Reminis. of Christ’s Hospital_ [_The Blue_, Aug. 1874].
The voices, in our own peculiar phraseology, being divided into two
classes—those who sang “squeaky,” and those who sang GRUFF.

*Guarder*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—A goal-keeper: at football.
Whence SECOND-GUARDER = the “full-back” of Association
Football; and THIRD-GUARDER = the “halfback” of Association
Football.

*Gulf*, _subs._ (Cambridge).—The bottom of a list of “passes,”
with the names of those who only just succeed in getting
their degree. At Oxford a man who, going in for honours,
only gets a pass. Hence as _verb_ (Cambridge) = to place in
the GULF; TO BE GULFED = to be on such a list. [Men so
placed were not eligible for the Classical Tripos.]

1852. BRISTED, _Five Tears in an English University_, p. 205. Some ten
or fifteen men just on the line, not bad enough to be plucked, or good
enough to be placed, are put into the GULF, as it is popularly called
(the examiners’ phrase is “degrees allowed”), and have their degrees
given them, but are not printed in the calendar. _Ibid._, 297. I
discovered that my name was nowhere to be found—that I was GULFED.

1853. BRADLEY, _Verdant Green_, pt. III. p. 89. I am not going to let
them GULPH me a second time.

1863. H. KINGSLEY, AUSTIN ELLIOT, p. 123. The good Professor scolded,
predicted that they would all be either GULFED or ploughed.

1865. _Sporting Gaz._, April 1. A man who was _GULFED_ for
mathematical honours was certainly, in olden time, unable to enter for
the classical examination; but though the arrangement is altered, the
term is _not_ obsolete. A man who is GULFED is considered to know
enough mathematics for an ordinary degree, but not enough to be
allowed his degree in mathematics only; he is consequently obliged to
pass in all the ordinary subjects (except mathematics) for the “poll,”
before taking his degree.

1876. TREVELYAN, LIFE OF MACAULAY (1884), ch. ii. p. 61. When the
Tripos of 1822 made its appearance, his name did not grace the list.
In short ... Macaulay was GULFED.

1896. _Tonbridgian_, No. 339, 1124. Poole hopes to get a Third in
Honour Mods., and Law hopes to escape a GULF next year in the same.

*Gull*, _subs._ (Oxford: obsolete).—A swindler; a trickster.
_Cf._ “GULL-CATCHER,” of which it is probably an
abbreviation.

1825. _The English Spy_, v. i. p. 161. “You’ll excuse me, sir, but as
you are _fresh_, take care to avoid the GULLS.” “I never understood
that GULLS were birds of prey,” said I. “Only in Oxford, sir, and
here, I assure you, they bite like hawks.”

*Gutter*, _subs._ (Tonbridge).—A scrummage at Rugby football:
now nearly obsolete. [Properly the space between the teams
in the scrummage.]

_Verb_ (Winchester).—To fall in the water flat on the
stomach.

*Gymmy*, _subs._ (Manchester Grammar).—The gymnasium.

*Gyp* (or *Gip*), _subs._ (Cambridge).—A college servant. At
Oxford, a scout; at Dublin, a skip. [Etymology doubtful:
according to _Sat. Rev._ an abbreviation of Gipsy Joe:
according to Cambridge undergraduates, from the Greek γυψ
(GUPS) = a vulture; from the creature’s rapacity.]

1794. _Gent. Mag._, p. 1085. [A Cambridge college servant is called a
JIP.]

1803. _Gradus ad Cantab._, 128. To avoid gate-bills he will be out at
night as late as he pleases, ... climb over the college wall, and fee
his GYP well.

1842. _Tait’s Mag._, Oct., “Reminiscences of Coll. Life.” There is
attached to colleges and halls a person more useful than ornamental,
and better known than paid, whom Oxonians name GYP, from his supposed
moral affinity to a vulture (γυψ). The same is in Dublin denominated a
_Skip_, because of the activity which is an indispensable item in his
qualifications.

1849. C. KINGSLEY, _Alton Locke_, ch. xii. I’ll send you in luncheon
as I go through the butteries; then, perhaps, you’d like to come down
and see the race. Ask the GYP to tell you the way.

1850. SMEDLEY, _Frank Fairleigh_, p. 254. Fellow you call the GYP
wanted to make me believe you were out—thought I looked too like a
governor to be let in, I suppose.

1882. F. ANSTEY, _Vice Versâ_, ch. v. Who should we see coming
straight down on us but a Proctor with his bull-dogs (not dogs, you
know, but the strongest GYPS in the college).

*Gyte*, _subs._ (Royal High School, Edin.).—A first year’s
student.

*Habit*, _subs._ (old University).—See quot.

1803. _Gradus ad Cantabrigiam._ HABIT. College HABIT, College dress,
called of old, livery: the dress of the Master, Fellows, and Scholars.

*Hades*, _subs._ (The Leys).—A W.C. _Cf._ STYX.

*Haggory*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—One of the gardens in the
_Higher Line_ (_q.v._) playground, which the Irish boys in
the early years of the century turned into a debating-place,
to promote the views of O’Connell and his party. [A
corruption of ἁγορά.]

*Hairy*, _adj._ (Oxford).—Difficult.

_d._ 1861. ARTHUR CLOUGH, _Long Vacation Pastoral_. Three weeks hence
we return to the shop and the wash-hand-stand-bason, Three weeks hence
unbury Thicksides and HAIRY Aldrich.

1864. _The Press_, Nov. 12. HAIRY for difficult is a characteristic
epithet.

*Half-faggot*, _subs._ (Winchester).—_See_ quot.

1881. _Felstedian_, Nov., p. 75, “A Day’s Fagging at Winchester.” At
6.15, when the first bell for chapel rings, I go round and wake up
everybody; as the præfects like hot water for washing, I make up a
fire, and put on the boilers; in other words, throw a bundle of sticks
called a “HALF-FAGGOT” on the old-fashioned “dogs,” or uprights, which
form the only fireplaces in chambers, coal not being in use.

*Hall*, _subs._ 1. (Oxford).—Dinner. Also as _verb_ = to dine.
[Taken in College Hall.]

1891. _Harry Fludyer at Cambridge_, 55. A lot of Freshmen got together
after HALL (it was a Saint’s day, and they’d been drinking audit) and
went and made hay in Marling’s rooms.

2. (Sherborne).—Evening preparation.

3. (Shrewsbury).—_See_ SENIOR HALL.

TO GO ON HALL, _verb. phr._ (Winchester).—To fag: as a
breakfast waiter.

1867. COLLINS, _The Public Schools_, p. 48. However, as boys came to
school better scholars, and were consequently higher placed, fourth
form fags grew scarce, and the junior fifth were ordered, as the
phrase was, TO GO ON HALL. One champion stood upon his rights, and
refused; the indignant prefect proposed to thrash him publicly; the
juniors rose in a body and pinioned the prefects. Fond mammas, and
other declaimers against school tyranny, will regret to hear that this
spirited resistance was not appreciated by Dr. Williams; after a
patient hearing of the pleas on both sides, he supported the prefect’s
authority (it may be concluded that they had not really exceeded it),
and six of the ringleaders were expelled.

*Hall-crier*, _subs._ (Shrewsbury).—_See_ quot.

1867. COLLINS, _The Public Schools_, p. 249. And two HALL-CRIERS (or
latterly one), whose chief business was to read out at breakfast time
lists of the fags on duty for cricket or football, descriptions of
lost articles, &c. &c. This office in former days had commonly to be
performed under a fire of such missiles as came handiest—amongst them
often the regulation iron spoons supplied for the bread-and-milk
breakfast which was the fare in the rougher days of Shrewsbury. Each
proclamation began in due form with “Oh yes! oh yes! (Oyez! oyez!)”
and ended with “God save the King (or Queen)! and d—— the Radicals!”

*Hall-fagging*, _subs._ (Charterhouse).—A duty imposed on
sixteen of the lowest boys in each House. They have to
attend in Hall, usually four at a time, and carry out
orders, while the monitors have breakfast and tea. There
was no need for this duty at Old Charterhouse, fags
being always at hand. At New Charterhouse this was not
always the case; they were often playing at football or
cricket, or sitting in the library. Monitors, therefore,
arranged the system of HALL-FAGGING. Latterly it has
become usual to send into Hall fags who have offended
against monitorial discipline, have been talkative in
BANCO, or noisy in the cubicles. Where such culprits are
available the regular fags are exempt.—TOD.

*Halve*, _subs._ (Charterhouse).—A half-holiday: on Wednesdays
and Saturdays.

*Halves* (pron. _Hāves_), _subs._ (Winchester:
obsolete).—Half-Wellington boots, which were strictly _Non
licet_ (_q.v._).

*Hand.* To HAND UP, _verb. phr._ (Winchester).—To give
information against; to betray.

*Handball*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—(1) The Stonyhurst form of
Fives. Also (2) the ball used in playing; (3) the wall
against which the game is played; and (4) the courts into
which the wall and ground are divided.

1887. _Stonyhurst Mag._, iii. 18, “Stonyhurst in the Fifties.” On
Whit-Saturday HANDBALL came in. We had on that morning 2-1/2 hours’
school ... and having gone up to the study-place to put away our books
were let out by schools to run for places. In the old playground there
stood one of the present HANDBALLS, one side of it belonging to the
Higher Line, and one to the Lower. Of the Higher Line HANDBALLS [on
each side of this HANDBALL—the wall—were two HANDBALLS or courts] one
belonged to Rhetoric and one to Poetry. Of the Lower Line HANDBALLS
one to Grammar and one to Rudiments. There were besides in both Higher
and Lower Lines, other inferior HANDBALLS in the wall which separated
the playground from the garden, where the rails now stand. They were
called “The Pavilions,” and each contained three courts. Those in the
Higher Line were common property, the Lower Line ones belonged to
Rudiments, Figures, and Elements. Syntax had thus no HANDBALL and
Rudiments had two. In the Higher Line possession of the HANDBALL
always went to the first comers, those who first “touched-in” having
it. In the Lower Line during after-dinner recreation (at least in the
large HANDBALLS) it went by order of Compositions.

*Handing-up*, _subs._ (Harrow).—A form of Lynch law inflicted
[up to the second quarter of the century] by monitors on a
boy known to have been guilty of any highly disgraceful
conduct reflecting on the character of the school—stealing,
for example. The monitors satisfied themselves, after
careful inquiry, of the guilt of the accused, and called him
before an assembly of the Upper School in Butler’s Hall,
where he received from each monitor a certain number of
blows with a study toasting-fork. The punishment was severe,
but merciful to the delinquent as an alternative in some
cases to expulsion if the charge had been brought before the
head-master.—THORNTON.

*Harder*, _subs._ (Harrow).—Racquets: as opposed to SQUASH
(_q.v._); also a racquet ball. Whence HARDER-COURT = the
racquet court.

*Hard-up*, _adv._ (Winchester).—Abashed or out of countenance;
exhausted (as in swimming).

*Harlequin*, _subs._ (Winchester).—The wooden centre of a red
indiarubber ball.

*Harry-soph*, _subs._ (Cambridge: obsolete).—See SOPH.

1795. _Gent. Mag._, p. 20. A HARRY, or ERRANT SOPH, I understand to be
either a person, four-and-twenty years of age, and of an infirm state
of health, who is permitted to dine with the Fellows, and to wear a
plain, black, full-sleeved gown; or else he is one who, having kept
all the terms, by statute required previous to his law-act, is _hoc
ipsa facto_ entitled to wear the same garment, and thenceforth ranks
as bachelor, by courtesy.

1803. _Gradus ad Cantabrigiam_. HARRY SOPH, or HENRY SOPHISTER;
students who have kept all the terms required for a law act, and hence
are ranked as Bachelors of Law by courtesy. They wear a plain, black,
full-sleeved gown.

*Hash*, _verb_ (general).—To study hard; TO SWAT (_q.v._).

*Hasher*, _subs._ 1. (Charterhouse).—A “made” dish.

2. (Charterhouse).—A football sweater—tight-fitting, with
the colours running round in horizontal lines. In 1863
football shirts were introduced in place of HASHERS.

*Hat*, _subs._ (Cambridge).—A gentleman commoner. [Who is
permitted to wear a hat instead of the regulation
mortar-board.] Also GOLD HATBAND.

1628. EARLE, _Microcosmographie_, “Young Gentleman of the Universitie”
(ed. ARBER, 1868). His companion is ordinarily some stale fellow that
has beene notorious for an ingle to GOLD HATBANDS, whom hee admires at
first, afterwards scornes.

1803. _Gradus ad Cantabrigiam._ Hat Commoner; the son of a nobleman,
who wears the gown of a Fellow Commoner with a HAT.

1830. LYTTON, _Paul Clifford_, ch. xxxii. I knew intimately all the
HATS in the University.

1841. LYTTON, _Night and Morning_, Bk. I. ch. i. He had certainly
nourished the belief that some one of the HATS or tinsel gowns, _i.e._
young lords or fellow.

*Hatch*, _subs._ (Winchester).—A flood-gate. [Hatch = a
flood-gate (BAILEY); also var. dial. = a garden-gate,
wicket-gate, or half-door.]

*Hatch-thoke*, _subs._ (Winchester).—A Founder’s
Commemoration-day. [THOKE = to lie late in bed; an old
custom being to lie in bed till breakfast on such occasions,
names being called at HATCH in Commoners.]

*Haul*, _verb_ (University).—To summon before the Proctor
for misdemeanour. Whence HAULABLE, _adj._, used of those
whose society authorities deem undesirable for the men:
_e.g._ they’re HAULABLE = those caught with them will be
proctorised.

1891. _Harry Fludyer at Cambridge_, 89. At last they were caught
trying to drive in through the big gate of John’s. Next day they were
HAULED and sent down.

TO HAUL UP, _verb. phr._ (Harrow).—To have a boy up to House
out of school-hours, to say “turned” repetitions.

*Haves.* _See_ HALVES.

*He*, _subs._ (Charterhouse).—A cake. YOUNG HE = a small cake; a
FISH-HE = fish-cake. _See_ SHE.

*Head*, _subs._ (Tonbridge).—The chief cricket-ground.

*Health Walk*, subs. (Stonyhurst).—When the weather has been bad
for some time, the boys are freed on the first fine day for
“HEALTH WALKS.” The name seems still to be surviving,
through more often the boys have football than walks on such
occasions.

*Heder*, _subs._ (Winchester).—A plunge, feet foremost. Fr. _une
chandelle_.

*Hedgehog*, _subs._ (Christ’s Hospital).—A London nickname for a
Hertford BLUE (_q.v._). _See_ Appendix.

_c._ 1800-29. _The Blue-Coat Boy_ [_More Gleanings from_ THE BLUE],
203. Another isolated statement of interest (unknown, perhaps, to
some), is that “Hertford boys called the London boys, ‘Jackdaws,’ and
those in London called those at Hertford ‘HEDGEHOGS’;” hedgehog boys
and pigtailed masters!

*Heifer*, _subs._ (Charterhouse: obsolete).—A charwoman.

*Hell*, _subs._ (Winchester).—A shady nook near Third Pot,
famous for a profusion of violets. [Dial. (Hants) = a dark,
wooded place: originally (SKEAT) a hidden place.]

*Hell-and-neck boy*, _subs. phr._ (Royal High School, Edin.:
obsolete).—A venturesome boy who had frequently climbed the
KITTLE-NINE-STEPS (q.v.).

*Hell Hole* and “*Hell’s Gates*,” _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—The name
of some foundations of an old factory built on the Hodder.

*High* (The), _subs._ (Oxford).—High Street. _Cf._ The BROAD,
the TURL, the CORN, &c.

*High*, _subs._ (Christ’s Hospital).—A fruit-pie. _See_ Low.

_c._ 1890. _More Gleanings from_ THE BLUE, 92. Those greedy gluttons
who during life had lain in wait for monied comrades, assailing them
with importunate entreaties or even with open violence. Now they
outstretched bony hands in vain for juicy “HIGHS,” which mocked and
eluded their grasp; bottles of ginger-beer and cherries hovered above
their skinny lips, as erst in “cherry-bob,” but never were they
granted taste or sip of cool beverage or dainty morsel.

*Higher Line*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—The three highest classes.

*High-master*, _subs._ (St. Paul’s and Manchester Grammar).—The
Head-master: at Manchester the term was used in the earliest
statutes of the school (1515). _See_ SUR-MASTER.

*Hills*, _subs._ 1. (Winchester).—St. Catharine’s Hill. Hence,
TO SHIRK HILLS = _see_ quot.

_c._ 1840. MANSFIELD, _School-Life_, p. 28. Some of his principal
duties were to take the boys “on to HILLS,” call names there, &c.

_c._ 1840. MANSFIELD, _School-Life at Winchester_, 214. HILLS—St.
Catherine’s Hill, a green hill about one mile and a half from College,
about five hundred feet high, and near the top surrounded by a deep
trench, the remains of an old Roman camp. The boys had to ascend this
twice a day on whole Holidays and Remedies, once before breakfast, and
again at half-past two. In the summer they also went out in the
evening, but did not ascend Hills, but disported themselves below.
These sorties were called “going on to HILLS,” the evening expedition
being called “Underhills.” _Ibid._, iii. Ordinary offences of a
trifling character, such as being late for Chapel or “SHIRKING HILLS”
[_i.e._ evading going Hills], were punished by the infliction of an
imposition—generally thirty lines of Virgil, English and Latin.

1867. COLLINS, _The Public Schools_, p. 24. Tuesdays and Thursdays
were partial holidays, on which the boys went out to the HILLS twice;
once in the morning, returning at nine to breakfast, and again in the
afternoon, coming off at three. There they played at quoits, football,
and something which seems to have borne a resemblance to cricket.

2. (Cambridge).—The Gogmagog Hills; a common morning’s
ride.—_Gradus ad Cantab._

*Hiss* (The), _subs._ (Winchester).—The signal given at the
commencement of school hours when a Master was coming
in.—MANSFIELD (_c._ 1840).

_c._ 1840. MANSFIELD, _School-Life at Winchester_ [1866], 104. Just
before school-time a boy was always stationed to watch the arrival of
the Master, of which he had to give notice by emitting a loud HISS,
upon which there was a general rush up to books; the previous uproar
dwindled to a calm, and work began.

*Hivite*, _subs._ (St. Bees’).—A student of St. Bees’
(Cumberland).

1865. _John Bull_, Nov. 11. To be a HIVITE has long been considered a
little worse than a “literate.”... Of the value of some St. Bees’
testimonials we may form an estimate, &c.

*Hobbs*, _subs._ (Tonbridge).—A fad; a mental eccentricity.
_See_ TACHS.

*Hobby*, _subs._ (common).—A translation. To RIDE HOBBIES = to
use CRIBS (_q.v._).

*Hockey-sticks and Fourpennies*, _subs. phr._ (Charterhouse).—A
kind of irregular cricket played at Old Charterhouse. The
bats were huge bludgeons called hockey-sticks, but without
any curve at the end; the balls were like large fives-balls,
and a little smaller than a regulation cricket-ball; the
wickets were usually coats or jackets; gownboy jackets were
much the best, because they were stiff and easily stood
upright; the pitch was either on the football ground, where
there was no grass, or on a flagged pavement in cloisters.

*Hodgsonites* (Charterhouse).—_See_ OUT-HOUSES.

*Hodman* (Oxford).—A scholar from Westminster School admitted to
Christ Church College.

1728. BAILEY, _Eng. Dict._, s.v. HODMAN.

1847. HALLIWELL, _Arch. Words_, s.v.... A nickname for a Canon of
Christ Church.

*Hog*, _subs._ (Cambridge: obsolete).—A student of St. John’s.
Also JOHNIAN HOG. _See_ CRACKLE, BRIDGE OF GRUNTS, and
ISTHMUS OF SUEZ.

1690. _Diary of Abraham de la Pryme_ (Surtees Society, No. 54), quoted
in _Notes and Queries_, 6 S., xi. 328. For us Jonians are called
abusively HOGGS.

1795. _Gent. Mag._, lxv. 22. The JOHNIAN HOGS were originally
remarkable on account of the squalid figures and low habits of the
_students_, and especially of the _sizars_ of Saint _John’s_ College.
[Another story of how name originated is given in detail in _Gent.
Mag._ (1795), lxv. 107.]

1889. WHIBLEY, _In Cap and Gown_, p. 28. An obsolete name for members
of St. John’s College, Cambridge.

*Hog Tower*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—A coaching room off Rhetoric
school-room. [So called (1) because part of a tower, and (2)
because the RHETORICIANS (_q.v._) originally wished to use
it for other “more profitable” purposes than for study.]

*Hoi Polloi*, _subs. phr._ (University).—The candidates for
ordinary degrees. [From the Greek.] _Cf._ GULF.

*Hol*, _subs._ (Harrow).—A holiday. Whence HOL-TAG = holiday
task.

*Holiday*, _subs._ (Sherborne: obsolete).—A Saint’s day:
sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

*Hollis*, _subs._ (Winchester).—A small pebble. [Said to be
derived from a boy of that name.—WRENCH.]

*Holy Club* (The), _subs._ (Oxford: obsolete).—A band of kindred
spirits who gathered round John Wesley while at Lincoln
College: in ridicule.

*Home-bill*, _subs._ (Charterhouse).—Food supplied by the butler
at breakfast or tea, to supplement the bread-and-butter
supplied by the house master. It consists of eggs, eggs and
bacon, ham, or sausages at breakfast; of poached eggs,
mince, sausages and potatoes, tongue, ham, brawn, beef,
or pork-pie at tea. The price is usually 4d. for each
HOME-BILL; in some houses 6d. is the charge for the Upper
School.

*Home-bug*, _subs._ (Harrow).—A home boarder; a day boy.

*Honour* (*Legion of*). _See_ LEGION.

*Honours*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—Classes in which extra classics
are read in the three highest Forms.

*Hook*, _intj._ (Oxford).—An expression implying doubt. [Query
from the note of interrogation (?) or connected with “Hookey
Walker.”]

1823. BEE, _Dict. of the Turf_, s.v. HOOKEY WALKER—and WITH A HOOK,
usually accompanied by a significant upliftment of the hand and
crooking of the forefinger, implying that what is said is a lie, or is
to be taken contrariwise.

1843. MONCRIEFF, _Scamps of London_, i. 1. _Bob._ Will you have some
gin? _Fogg._ Gin—yes! _Bob_ (turning away). Ha—ha!—WITH A HOOK ... I
wish you may get it.

1870. TRAILL, _Saturday Songs_, p. 22. It’s go and go over the left,
It’s go WITH A HOOK AT THE END.

*Horse-box*, _subs._ (The Leys).—A cubicle or recess in
dormitory: about 5 or 6 feet high. Whence TO DO TEN
HORSE-BOXES = to perform “Sinking-and-rising exercise” on
the same.

*Hot*, _subs._ (Winchester).—1. A mellay at football. 2. A
crowd. Hence to HOT UP (or DOWN) = to crowd; to mob.

_c._ 1840. MANSFIELD, _School-Life at Winchester_, 215. In Twenty-two
and Twenty-two (_q.v._) when the ball went out of bounds, it was
brought in and placed between the two sides, who all clustered up
close round, with their heads down, each party, by weight and kicking,
trying to force the ball through the other.

1878. ADAMS, _Wykehamica_, p. 367. It would be replaced and a fresh
HOT formed.

*Hot-end*, _subs._ (Winchester).—A half-burned faggot stick with
one end red-hot.

*Hots*, _subs._ 1. (Felsted: obsolete).—Tarts; pastry, &c.

2. (Felsted).—Money: specifically “coppers.”

Whence TRAV-HOTS = travelling money.

1893. _Felstedian_, Mar., p. 20. I made two brackets in the workshop,
they liked them awfully; I meant to get them something decent, but I
hadn’t got any HOTS.

1893. _Felstedian_, July, p. 82. All right; it’s only a HOT. Did you
hear what we did in our dormy last night?

1895. _Felstedian_, April, p. 44. HOTS—“Hots” and “half-hots” very
evidently “burn a hole in one’s pocket” if they are left there long
enough.

*Hot-tiger*, _subs._ (Oxford: obsolete).—Hot-spiced ale and
sherry.

*Hound*, _subs._ (Cambridge).—_See_ quot.

1879. E. WALFORD, in _Notes and Queries_, 5 S., xii. 88. In the
_Anecdotes of Bowyer_ ... we are told that a HOUND of King’s College,
Cambridge, is an undergraduate not on the foundation, nearly the same
as a “sizar.”

*House-captain*, _subs._ (The Leys).—A boy, not in studies,
responsible for order in House-room.

*House-game*, _subs._ (Harrow).—A game—football or cricket—in
which the whole House play.

*House-list*, _subs._ (Harrow).—The printed list, in BILL
(_q.v._) order, of each House.

*House-room*, _subs._ (The Leys).—The Common Room of boys below
VI^{th} who have no studies.

*House-singing*, _subs._ (Harrow).—An informal concert at which
school songs are sung collectively: held once a fortnight
except in summer.

*House-washing*, _subs._ (Rugby: obsolete).—A sort of compressed
paper-chase, backwards and forwards in a short distance over
Clifton Brook, a tributary of the Warwickshire Avon. [The
name suggests that this was not a dry process; each House as
a rule had a HOUSE-WASHING in the Easter term.]

*Housey*, _adj._ (Christ’s Hospital).—Belonging or peculiar to
the Hospital. The reverse of TOWNEY = of the town.

*Housle*, _verb_ (Winchester).—To hustle. [Dial.: _cf._ doust =
dust; fousty = fusty; rousty = rusty, &c.]

*Huff*, _subs._ (Winchester).—Strong ale brewed by the College.
[A survival: also HUFF-CAP.]

1579. FULWELL, _Art of Flattery_. Commonly called HUFCAP, it will make
a man look as though he had seene the devil.

1586. HOLINSHED, _Description of England_. These men hale at HUFF-CAP
till they be red as cockes, and little wiser than their combes.

1602. CAMPION, _English Poesy_ (BULLEN, _Works_, 1889, p. 247). Hunks
detests when HUFFCAP ale he tipples.

1614. GREENE, _Looking-Glass_ [DYCE], p. 127. The ale is strong ale,
’tis HUFCAP; I warrant you, ’twill make a man well.

1640. TAYLOR, _Works._ And this is it, of ale-houses and innes,
Wine-marchants, vintners, brewers, who much wins By others losing, I
say more or lesse, Who sale of HUFCAP liquor doe professe.

_c._ 1840. MANSFIELD, _School-Life_, p. 180. Washed down by libations
of HUFF.

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.

*Impo*, _subs._ (Charterhouse).—An imposition.

*Impositor*, _subs._ (Sherborne: obsolete).—A school Præfect:
sixteenth century.

*Inferior*, _subs._ (Winchester).—Any member of the school not a
PRÆFECT (_q.v._).

_c._ 1840. MANSFIELD, _School-Life_, p. 28. The Præfect of Hall ...
was looked upon by the INFERIORS with something more than a becoming
awe and reverence.

*Inform*, _verb_ (Charterhouse).—To sneak; to show up.

*Infra-dig*, _adj._ (Winchester).—Scornful; proud: _e.g._ “He
sported INFRA-DIG duck,” or “I am INFRA-DIG to it.”

*Island, The* (Rugby).—A mound or “tumulus” in the Close.

1867. COLLINS, _The Public Schools_, p. 372. They [the school
volunteer corps] had not only parades, but sham fights—if a fight
could be called a sham from which the combatants retired with broken
heads and bloody noses—attacking and defending the Doctor’s farmyard
on the little ISLAND between what were then the two Closes.

*Isthmus-of-Suez*, _subs._ (Cambridge).—The bridge at St. John’s
College, Cambridge, leading from the grounds to one of the
Courts, familiarly known as the “Bridge of Sighs.” Also THE
BRIDGE OF GRUNTS. [From its slight similarity to the
Venetian example. _Sues_ = swine, in punning reference to
the JOHNIAN HOGS (_q.v._).] _See_ CRACKLE and HOG.

1857. _Punch_, June 20. A resident Fellowe he was, I wis, He had no
cure of Soules; And across ye BRIDGE OF SUES he’d come From playinge
ye game of bowles.

1885. CUTHBERT BEDE, in _N. and Q._, 6 S., xi. 414. Another word is
_Sues_, for swine. This is applied to the bridge leading from the old
courts to the new, familiarly known as the BRIDGE OF SIGHS from its
slight similarity to the Venetian example, but also known as the
ISTHMUS OF SUEZ. This word _Suez_ was then transformed to _Suez_,
swine, to adapt it to its Johnian frequenters.

*Jack.* _See_ BLACK-JACK.

*Jackdaw*, _subs._ (Christ’s Hospital).—Hertford for a London
BLUE (_q.v._): obsolete.

_c._ 1800-29. _The Blue-Coat Boy_ [_More Gleanings from_ THE BLUE,
203]. Hertford boys called the London boys “JACKDAWS,” and those in
London called those at Hertford “Hedgehogs.”

*Jack-o’-Lantern*, _subs._ (Eton and Harrow: obsolete).—A
nocturnal form of “Hare and Hounds.”

1867. COLLINS, _The Public Schools_, p. 312. But there was an ancient
form of it [“Hare and Hounds”] at Harrow, so especially attractive as
being pursued at unlawful hours and under unusual difficulties, that
it deserves special mention. It was known also in former days at Eton,
and in both schools went by the name of JACK O’ LANTERN. About seven
o’clock on winter evenings, when it was quite dark, the boys, by
sufferance on the part of the authorities, were let out from their
several boarding-houses into the fields below the school. A stout and
active runner started in advance, carrying a lantern, by the light of
which the rest pursued him in full cry. He showed or concealed his
light from time to time, and a great point of the sport was to entice
the hounds into some pool or muddy ditch (which “Jack” himself has
carefully avoided) by showing the light exactly in a line on the other
side.

1885. THORNTON, _Harrow School_, p. 276. JACK-O’-LANTERN was abolished
by Dr. George Butler, but re-appeared in Dr. Longley’s time as one of
those forbidden pleasures so dear to youth. Always played in the
evening, and originally by sufferance of the authorities, the game in
question was simply a run across country after a lantern carried by a
swift-footed boy. Oftentimes would the luckless hounds be enticed into
some slough of despond, and the performers return in a condition of
mud which may find its equal on a wet football day or a paper-chase
forty years later, but yet present no adequate idea of the confusion
caused by the return from JACK-O’-LANTERN, of thirty or forty boys at
night when in ordinary clothes. It is one of the most distinct
evidences that no discipline existed when we read of such a proscribed
saturnalia having occurred after lock-up in Dr. Longley’s time. But
the fact has been communicated to us by Harrow men whose word is
indisputable.

*Jambi*, _subs._ (Harrow).—Greek Iambics; an exercise in the
Upper School.

*Janny*, _subs._ (Royal High School, Edin.).—A janitor.

*Jark*, _subs._ (Oxford).—A safe-conduct pass; a JASKER. [_Cf._
JARK = a seal.]

1818. SCOTT, _Heart of Midlothian_, xxix. Stay, gentlemen, ... this is
a JARK from Jim Radcliffe.

*Jarrehoe*, _subs._ (Wellington).—A man-servant. _Cf._ GYP and
SCOUT.

*Jericho*, _subs._ (Oxford).—A low quarter of Oxford.

*Jesuit*, _subs._ (Cambridge).—A graduate or undergraduate of
Jesus College.

1771. SMOLLETT, _Humphrey Clinker_, To Sir W. Phillips, April 20.
Direct your next to me at Bath; and remember me to all our fellow
JESUITS.

1856. HALL, _College Words and Phrases_, p. 270, _s.v._

*Jib*, _subs._ (Dublin).—A first-year’s man.

1841. LEVER, _Charles O’Malley_, xiv. There [referring to Trinity
College Freshmen] ... are JIBS, whose names are neither known to the
proctor nor the police-office.

TO BE JIBBED, _verb. phr._ (Christ’s Hospital).—To be called
over the coals; to get into trouble. A Hertford word, the
London equivalent being TWIGGED. Obsolete.

*Jiffs, The* (Christ’s Hospital). _See_ Appendix.

_c._ 1890. _More Gleanings from_ THE BLUE, 92. North is the “Hall
playground” (I use the terrene names); south, the “Library”; east, the
“Ditch”; and west, the “JIFFS.”

*Jig*, _subs._ (Winchester).—A clever man: fifty years ago it
meant a swindler. The word has now the meanings (1) a low
joke, (2) a swindle, (3) an object of sport.

1600. HEYWOOD, 2 _Edward IV._, i. 1. There domineering with his
drunken crew Makes JIGS of us.

1620. COTGRAVE, _Dictionarie_, s.v. FARCE ... the JYG at the end of an
enterlude, wherein some pretie knaverie is acted.

1652. STAPYLTON, _Herodion_ (quoted in _Notions_). Devising with his
mates to find a JIGG, That he thereby might make himself a king.

*Jimmy.* ALL JIMMY, _adv. phr._ (Cambridge).—All nonsense.
[_Cf._ JEMMY-BURTY (Cambridge) = an _ignis fatuus_.]

*Jink*, _subs._ (Durham).—A dodge: at football.

*Jockey*, _subs._ (Winchester).—(1) To supplant; (2) to
appropriate; (3) to engage: _e.g._ “He JOCKEYED me UP to
books”; “Who has JOCKEYED my baker”; “This court is
JOCKEYED.” Probably an extended use of the word borrowed
from turf slang. JOCKEY NOT = the Commoner cry claiming
exemption, answering to “feign” at other schools: of which
the College “finge” seems a translation. The opposite of
JOCKEY UP = to LOSE DOWN.—_Notions._

1881. _Felstedian_, Nov. p. 75, “A Day’s Fagging at Winchester.” Here
let me observe that only the præfects have separate basins to wash in;
the juniors use the two stone conduits. As there are seven who are not
præfects, there is rather a rush for them, so I JOCKEY (_i.e._ secure)
one for the “candlekeeper” by turning on some water and putting his
sponge into it.

*John* (Westminster).—_See_ COLLEGE JOHN.

*Johnian*, _subs._ (Cambridge).—A student of St. John’s College:
also JOHNIAN PIG or HOG—_see_ HOG. Also as _adj._: _e.g._
JOHNIAN blazer, JOHNIAN melody, &c.

1785. GROSE, _Vulg. Tongue_, s.v. HOG ... JOHNIAN HOGS, an appellation
given to the members of St. John’s College, Cambridge.

1829. PRAED, _Poems_, “The Vicar.” Sit in the Vicar’s seat: you’ll
hear The doctrine of a gentle JOHNIAN.

1841. _Westminster Review_, xxxv. 236. The JOHNIANS are always known
as pigs. They put up a new organ the other day which was immediately
christened “Baconi Novum Organum.”

*Joram*, _subs._ (Winchester).—A tin beer-can, used in
Commoners; a quart pot. [Var. dial. = a large dish or jug.]
In College a BOB (_q.v._) was used.

*Jordan* (Eton).—_See_ PLAYING-FIELDS.

*Jossop*, _subs._ (general).—Syrup; juice; gravy; sauce.

*Jubilee*, _subs._ (Winchester: obsolete).—A pleasant time:
_e.g._ The town was all in a JUBILEE of feasts.—_Dryden._

1772. G. A. STEVENS, _Songs Comic and Satyrical_, p. 192. Day by day,
and night by night, Joyful JUBILEES we keep.

_c._ 1840. MANSFIELD, _School-Life at Winchester_ (1866), 216.
_Jubilee_—Any time when there was nothing to do, either in the way of
lessons or fagging.

*June* (Eton).—_See_ FOURTH OF JUNE.

*Jungle*, The (Stonyhurst: obsolete).—The Seminary wood.

1889. _Stonyhurst Mag._, iii. 347. The welcome shade of what was
facetiously called THE JUNGLE.

*Junior*, _subs._ (Winchester).—All Inferiors except the seven
CANDLEKEEPERS (_q.v._) and Senior Inferior.

_Adj._ (Winchester).—Applied to all comparable objects. Of
two neighbouring trees, the bigger is the “senior”: there
are a “senior” and a “JUNIOR” end to a table, a room, &c.
TIGHT JUNIOR = lowest of all.

1891. WRENCH, _Winchester Word-Book_, s.v. JUNIOR.... At about the end
of the fifteenth century _senior_ and JUNIOR superseded _major_ and
_minor_, before which the two sets of words seem to have been used
concurrently.

*Junior Hall* (Shrewsbury).—_See_ SENIOR HALL.

*Junior Soph.* _See_ SOPH.

*Junket!* _intj._ (Winchester).—An exclamation of
self-congratulation: _e.g._ “JUNKET” I’ve got a “remi.”
Hence to JUNKET OVER = to exult over. [JUNKETING = a
merry-making.]

1630. WADSWORTH [WRENCH]. They made him oft-times go on foot, whilst
they rode about JUNKETTING in his coach.

_d._ 1745. SWIFT, _Works_. Whatever good bits you can pilfer in the
day, save them to JUNKET with your fellow-servants at night.

*Keelie*, _subs._ (Royal High School, Edin.: obsolete).—A town
boy. Now = “cad.”

*Keep.* To KEEP CHAPEL, _verb. phr._ (University).—_See_ quot.
1852.

1850. _Household Words_, ii. p. 161. “As you have failed to make up
your number of chapels the last two weeks,” such were the very words
of the Dean, “you will, if you please, KEEP every CHAPEL till the end
of the term.”

1852. BRISTED, _Five Years_, _&c._, 32. The undergraduate is expected
to go to chapel eight times, or, in academic parlance, to KEEP eight
CHAPELS a week.

TO KEEP CAVE, _verb. phr._ (Eton).—To watch and give warning
on a tutor’s approach.

1883. BRINSLEY RICHARDS, _Seven Years at Eton_, ch. iv. Another had to
mount guard in the passage, or on the staircase, TO KEEP _cave_.

*Kick.* TO KICK OVER, _verb. phr._ (Winchester).—To kick a ball
up in the air, when it is rolling along, or lying on the
ground: considered very bad play.—MANSFIELD (_c._ 1840).
_Ibid._, 217. KICK-IN.—In a game at football the bounds on
each side were kept by a line of Juniors, whose duty it was
to KICK the ball IN again whenever it passed outside the
line. _See_ KICKING-IN.

*Kicking-in*, _subs._ (Winchester).—_See_ quot., and KICK.

_c._ 1840. MANSFIELD, _School-Life at Winchester College_, p. 138. But
football wasn’t all beer and skittles to the Fags. There was an
institution called KICKING-IN, which, while it lasted, was much worse
than “watching out” at cricket, although it had the very great merit
of not continuing so long; for, even on a whole holiday, we seldom had
more than two hours of it.

*Kick-off*, _subs._ (Winchester).—Taking the football in hand
and kicking it into the air: this was done after each SCHITT
(_q.v._), GOWNER (_q.v._), or GOAL (_q.v._) by the losing
side, and whenever a ball that had been kicked up in the air
had been caught by one of the other side.—MANSFIELD (_c._
1840).

*Kid*, _subs._ 1. (Winchester).—Cheese.

2. (The Leys).—A boy under fifteen. Hence KID-SIXES =
football for KIDS—six a side.

*Kill*, _verb_ (Winchester).—To hurt badly.

1800. EDGEWORTH, _Castle Rackrent_, “Glossary.” This word [KILL] ...
means not killed, but much hurt. In Ireland, not only cowards but the
brave “die many times before their death.” There “killing is no
murder.”

1836. MARRYAT, _Japhet_, iii. Sure enough it cured me, but wasn’t I
quite KILT before I was cured.

*Kill-me-quick*, _subs._ (The Leys).—A tuck-shop cake.

*King Edward’s, Birm.*—A curious custom exists here of inherited
nicknames: _e.g._ Years ago a boy named Pearson was
nicknamed “Jelly”; every Pearson, though unrelated to the
other, for many years afterwards was nicknamed “Jelly.” A
trio of brothers have been successively named “Tiddley,”
others “Topsy,” and “Bowie.” An elder brother was called
“Pussy,” and his younger brother “Kitten.”

*Kings*, TO GET KINGS, _verb. phr._ (Eton).—To obtain a
scholarship at King’s Coll., Cambridge. _See_ RIPPING.

*Kingsman*, _subs._ (Cambridge).—A member of King’s College.

1852. BRISTED, _Five Years_, 127. He came out the winner, with the
KINGSMAN, and one of our three.

*Kip*, _verb_ (Royal High School, Edin.).—To play truant. Common
throughout Scotland. [Possibly from “skip.”]

*Kish*, _subs._ (Marlborough).—A cushion: in ordinary use
doubled up under the arm for carrying school books, as well
as for sitting on in Form or Hall. As _verb_ = to use a
cushion as a weapon of offence. _See_ COMPOUND-KISH.

*Kittle-nine-steps*, _subs. phr._ (Royal High School, Edin.:
obsolete).—A pass on the very brink of the Castle rock, to
the north, by which it is just possible for a goat or a High
School boy to turn the corner of the building where it rises
from the edge of the precipice. _See_ HELL-AND-NECK-BOY.

*Klondyke*, _subs._ (The Leys).—A cross-country run to St.
Botolph’s.

*Knave*, _subs._ (Christ’s Hospital).—A dunce: at Hertford, a
KNACK.

*Knock.* TO KNOCK IN, _verb. phr._ (Oxford).—1. To return to
College after GATE is closed.

1825. _English Spy_, i. 155. “Close the oak, Jem,” said Horace
Eglantine, “and take care no one KNOCKS IN before we have knocked down
the contents of your master’s musical _mélange_.”

1837. BARHAM, _Ingoldsby Legends_, p. 464 [ed. 1862]. That same
afternoon Father Dick, who as soon Would KNOCK IN or “cut chapel,” as
jump o’er the moon, Was missing at vespers—at complines—all night! And
his monks were of course in a deuce of a fright.

1853. CUTHBERT BEDE, _Verdant Green_, I. xi. At first, too, he was on
such occasions greatly alarmed at finding the gates of Brazenface
closed, obliging him thereby to KNOCK IN.

1861. HUGHES, _Tom Brown at Oxford_, p. 458 [ed. 1864]. There’s twelve
striking. I must KNOCK IN. Good night. You’ll be round to breakfast at
nine?

2. TO KNOCK OUT, _verb. phr._ (Oxford).—To leave college
after hours: of out of college men only. _See_ KNOCK IN.

1861. H. KINGSLEY, _Ravenshoe_, vii. Five out-college men had KNOCKED
OUT at a quarter to three, refusing to give any name but the dean’s.

1861. HUGHES, _Tom Brown at Oxford_, xlv. p. 503 [ed. 1864]. “Hullo!”
he said, getting up; “time for me to KNOCK OUT, or old Copas will be
in bed.”

3. TO KNOCK UP, _verb. phr._ (Christ’s Hospital).—To gain a
place in class: _e.g._ I KNOCKED UP, and “I KNOCKED Jones
UP.” The Hertford equivalent is OX UP (_q.v._). Both forms
are now obsolete.

*Knuckle.* TO KNUCKLE DOWN, _verb. phr._ (Winchester).—To kneel.

1748. DYCHE, _Dict._ (5th ed.). KNUCKLE-DOWN (_verb_) to stoop, bend,
yield, comply with, or submit to.

*Labyrinth* (The), _subs._ (Stonyhurst: obsolete).—A part of the
Garden.

*Lag*, _subs._ (Harrow).—The last. The “lag of the school,” the
last boy in BILL-order (_q.v._) in the school.

1881. PASCOE, _Every-day Life in our Public Schools_. Every morning
the LAG junior prepares and brings to hall the list.

*Lage*, _subs._ (University: obsolete).—To wash. [_Cf._ the old
cant term _lagge_ = a bundle of clothes for washing.]

*Lamb’s-tails*, _subs._ (The Leys).—A cake sold at the
tuck-shop.

*Landies*, _subs._ (Winchester: obsolete).—Gaiters. [From
tradespeople—Landy and Currell—who supplied them.]

*Land of Promises*, _subs. phr._ (University).—_See_ quot.

1823. GROSE, _Vulg. Tongue_, s.v. LAND OF PROMISES. The fair
expectation cherished by a steady novice at Oxford.

*Land of Sheepishness*, _subs. phr._ (old University).—_See_
quot.

1823. GROSE, _Vulg. Tongue_, s.v. LAND OF SHEEPISHNESS. Schoolboy’s
bondage.

*Largitate*, _subs._ (The Leys).—Apple-pie. [From the College
grace.]

*Lash*, _verb_ (Christ’s Hospital).—To envy. Generally in
imperative as a taunt.

1890. _The Blue_, Oct., “The Queen in the City.” Our lips LASH on
learning that the “general bill of fare” contained 200 tureens of
turtle, 200 bottles of sherbot (what is this?), 50 boiled turkeys, and
oysters.

*Late-play*, _subs._ (Westminster).—A half-holiday or holiday
beginning at noon. _See_ EARLY PLAY.

*Launch*, _verb_ (general).—_See_ quots.

_c._ 1840. MANSFIELD, _School-Life at Winchester_ (1866), 218.
LAUNCH—To drag a boy out of bed, mattress, bed-clothes, and all.

1865. G. J. BERKELEY, _My Life_, &c., i. 129. I had [at Sandhurst
about 1815] to undergo the usual torments of being LAUNCHED, that is,
having my bed reversed while I was asleep; of being thrown on the
floor on my face, with the mattress on my back, and all my friends or
foes dancing on my prostrate body.

*Lawful Time*, _subs._ (Winchester).—Recess; playtime.

*Leave*, _subs._ (general).—Leave of absence from school; a
holiday.

*Leaving-money*, _subs._ (Eton). _See_ quot.

1865. _Etoniana_, p. 70. The restrictions [_temp._ Eliz.] by which the
masters were forbidden to take any fees (even from oppidans) was
probably evaded, almost from the first, by the system then universal
in all transactions of giving presents, under which heading the sons
of wealthy parents soon began to pay pretty highly for their
education. Traces of this arrangement remain in the custom still
prevailing—not at all to the credit of the school—of presenting a sum
as LEAVING-MONEY to the head-master and the private tutor. At what
time assistant-masters were first appointed does not appear; but they
were no doubt paid, up to a comparatively late date, entirely from
such fees as the parents of those under their tuition chose to give
them.

*Lecker*, _subs._ 1. (Oxford).—A lecture.

2. (Harrow).—The electric light.

*Legion of Honour*, _subs._ (Cambridge).—The last twelve in the
mathematical TRIPOS (_q.v._).

1785. GROSE, _Vulg. Tongue_, s.v. PLUCK.... These unfortunate fellows
are designated by many opprobrious appellations, such as the Twelve
Apostles, the LEGION OF HONOUR, Wise Men of the East, &c.

*Lemonade*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—A day of high festival, coming
twice a year, at Shrove-tide and at Easter.

*Lemon Peel Fight*, _subs. phr._ (Charterhouse: obsolete).—_See_
quot.

1900. TOD, _Charterhouse_, 80. On Shrove-Tuesday, according to a
custom dating from 1850 or probably earlier, every boy used to receive
half a lemon with his pancake at dinner. This he reserved to use as a
missile in the fight which was to take place directly afterwards. At
Old Charterhouse, gownboys used to stand against the rest of the
school, and the fight consisted in each side pelting the other with
the half lemons. It lasted for fifteen or twenty minutes, and was
begun and ended by a house bell being rung. During these twenty
minutes a good many bruises and black eyes could be received, for
combatants fought at quite close quarters; and unpopular monitors were
sometimes badly damaged. At New Charterhouse the sides were at first
Old Charterhouse _v._ New. In 1877 they were changed again to
Out-houses _v._ The Rest. This was the last fight. Grave abuses had
crept in. The lemons were no longer simple lemons, but a sort of
bomb-shell, loaded with pebbles or ink, and several boys were badly
hurt. So the Sixth Form in 1878 “totally abolished LEMON PEEL as a
barbarous and obsolete practice.” It required a strong Sixth Form to
do this, for the fight was popular, and their action is one of the
best things that the school has done for itself. Its abolition differs
from the abolition of fighting; the latter became obsolete through the
action of public opinion; LEMON PEEL was abolished by an ukase almost
in defiance of public opinion.

*Lent Suppers.* _See_ PUBLIC-SUPPING.

*Let.* TO LET IN, _verb. phr._ (Oxford).—To associate with.

1861. HUGHES, _Tom Brown at Oxford_, i. He has also been good enough
to recommend to me many tradesmen, ... but, with the highest respect
for friend Perkins (my scout) and his obliging friends, I shall make
some inquiries before LETTING IN with any of them.

*Let-out*, _subs._ (Tonbridge).—Any less extensive holiday than
a half holiday.

*Levite*, _subs._ (Tonbridge).—A boy leaving the school.

*Levy*, _subs._ (Rugby).—_See_ quot.

1856. HUGHES, _Tom Brown’s School-days_, viii. In fact, the solemn
assembly, a LEVY of the school, had been held, at which the captain of
the school had got up, and, after premising that several instances had
occurred of matters having been reported to the masters; that this was
against public morality and School tradition; that a LEVY of the sixth
had been held on the subject, and they had resolved that the practice
must be stopped at once.

*Lib*, _subs._ (Charterhouse).—The Library. Whence LIB. COLL. =
a collection of library books.

*Licet*, _adj._ and _adv._ (Winchester).—Allowed; permissible;
befitting a Wykehamist.

*Lick.* TO LICK OFF THE FIELD, _verb. phr._ (Harrow).—To get
five BASES (_q.v._) before the other side scores one, in a
FOOTER (_q.v._) House-match: this closes the game.

*Lie.* TO LIE IN, _verb. phr._ (Royal Military Academy).—To keep
one’s room when supposed to be out on leave.

*Lincoln Devil* (The), _subs._ (Oxford).—A curious gilded
deformed image (copied from a figure in Lincoln Cathedral)
which decorates the bows of the Lincoln boat. Replicas are
honoured by, and found in the rooms of, most Lincoln men.

*Lines*, _subs._ (general).—The usual punishment—the copying out
of so many lines of Greek or Latin. Hence TO BE PUT ON LINES
(Harrow) = to have to show up so many lines each half-hour
for a certain number of half-holidays, for being late for
chapel, &c.

*Links*, _subs._ (Loretto).—A short run or walk before
breakfast: about half a mile. [Formerly always across
Musselburgh Links: now there are various LINKS according to
circumstances.]

*Lion*, _subs._ (old University).—_See_ quot.

1785. GROSE, _Vulg. Tongue_, s.v. LION.... Also the name given by the
gownsmen of Oxford to inhabitants or visitors.

*Lions, The* (Stonyhurst).—The two pillars in front of the
College.

*Little Figures*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst: obsolete).—The old name
for the class of ELEMENTS (_q.v._).