~High and dry~, an epithet applied to the _soi-disant_ "orthodox" clergy of the last century, for whom, while ill-paid curates did the work, the comforts of the Establishment were its greatest charms.
"Wherein are various ranks, and due degrees, The Bench for honour, and the Stall for ease."
Though often confounded with, they are utterly dissimilar to, the modern High Church or Anglo-Catholic party, who now receive the title at times; while their opponents receive the corresponding appellation of "Low and Slow," and the so-called "Broad Church" is defined with equal felicity as the "Broad and Shallow." Humourists have divided these three portions of one Church into Attitudinarians, Platitudinarians, and Latitudinarians.
~High Church~, term used in contradistinction from "Low Church."
~Highfalutin'~, showy, affected, tinselled, affecting certain pompous or fashionable airs, stuck up; "come, none of yer HIGHFALUTIN' games," _i.e._, you must not show off or imitate the swell here.--_American_ slang, now common in Liverpool and the East-end of London. From the _Dutch_, VERLOOTEN. Used generally now in the sense of fustian, high-sounding, unmeaning eloquence, bombast.
~High-flier~, anything above the common order. Apt students, fast coaches, and special trains are sufficient instances of the extreme openness of the qualification.
~High-fly~, "ON THE HIGH-FLY," on the genteel or letter-bearing begging system.
~High-flyer~, a genteel beggar or swindler. A begging-letter impostor.
~High-flyer~, a large swing, in frames, at fairs and races. The first fast coaches were called high-flyers on account of their desperate speed.
~High jinks~, "ON THE HIGH JINKS," taking up an arrogant position, assuming an undue superiority. Scott explains this game in _Guy Mannering_. Nowadays HIGH JINKS is often used to mean a jollification.
~High-lows~, laced boots reaching a trifle higher than ankle-jacks.
~High-strikes~, corruption of _Hysterics_.
~Hipped~, bored, offended, crossed, low-spirited, &c. This may have been originally hypped, and have had some connexion with hypochondriacal affections.
~Hitched~, an Americanism for married. From the word HITCH, used in America in the sense of to harness.
~Hittite~, a facetious sporting term for a prize-fighter. Derived from the Bible.