Part 12

*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.