ENCAISSER (popular), un soufflet, _to receive a smack in the face_, or “buck-horse.” ENCARRADE, _f._ (thieves’), _entrance_. Lourde d’----, _street door_. ENCARRER (thieves’), _to enter_, “to prat.” ENCASQUER (thieves’), to enter, or “to prat.” Pour gonfler ses valades Encasque dans un rade, Sert des sigues à foison. =VIDOCQ.= ENCEINTRER (popular), _to make a woman big with child_. Abbreviation of enceinturer, an expression used in the eighteenth century. ENCHETIBER (thieves’), _to apprehend_, “to smug.” See PIPER. ENCIBLE (thieves’), _together_. For ensemble. ENCLOUÉ, _m._ (popular), _Sodomist_; _man without any energy_. A term expressive of utter contempt, and an euphemism for a very coarse word. The literal English rendering may be heard from the mouths of English workmen at least a dozen times in a lapse of as many minutes. The French expression might be rendered in less offensive language by “a snide bally fool.” Qu’est-ce qu’il a à m’emmoutarder cet encloué de singe? cria Bec-Salé.--=ZOLA=, _L’Assommoir_. ENCLOUER (popular), _to take some article to the pawnshop_, “to put in lug,” “to blue,” or “to lumber.” ENCOLIFLUCHETER (popular), s’----, _to feel out of sorts_; _to have the_ “blue devils.” ENCRE, _f._ (familiar), buveur d’----, _clerk_, or “quill-driver.” ENCROTTER (popular), _to bury_. Crotte, _mud_, _muck_. ENDÉCHER (popular), _to get one into debt_. S’----, _to run into debt_. ENDORMAGE, _m._ (thieves’), vol à l’----, _robbing a person who has been made unconscious by means of a narcotic_. The rogue who has recourse to this mode of despoiling his victim is termed in English slang “a drummer.” ENDORMEUR, _m._, thief. See ENDORMAGE. ENDORMI, _m._ (popular), _judge_, or “beak.” ENDORMIR (thieves’), _to kill_, “to give one his gruel,” “to cook his goose.” See REFROIDIR. ENDOS, _m._ (popular), _the back_. ENDOSSE, or ANDOSSE, _f._ (thieves’), _shoulder_; _back_. Raboter l’----, _to beat black and blue_. See VOIE. Tapis d’----, _shawl_. ENDROGUER (thieves’), _is said of a rogue who goes about seeking for a_ “job,” quærens quem devoret. ENFANT, _m._ (thieves’), _short crowbar used by housebreakers_. Termed also “Jacques, sucre de pomme, rigolo, biribi, dauphin;” and by English rogues, “the stick, James, jemmy;” _strong box_, or “peter;” ---- de la matte, _one of the confraternity of thieves_, or “family-man.” (Popular) Un ---- de chœur, _sugar loaf_. Un ---- de giberne, _soldier’s child_. Un ---- de trente-six pères, _a prostitute’s offspring_. (Familiar) Un ---- de la balle, _an actor’s child, or one who follows the same calling as his father_. ENFIFRÉ, _m._ (popular), _Sodomist_, _slow man_, or “slow coach.” ENFIGNEUR, _m._ (popular and thieves’), _Sodomist_. See GOUSSE. ENFILAGE, _m._ (thieves’), _arrest_.