ENFILER (popular), _to take red-handed_; _to have connection_; ---- des briques, _to be fasting_, _to be_ “bandied;” ---- des perles. See PERLES. Se faire ----, _to be caught in the act of stealing_. ENFLAMMÉS, _m. pl._ (military), _soldiers under arrest whose fondness for the fair sex has caused them to delay their attendance at barracks more than is consistent with their military duties, and has brought them into trouble_. ENFLANELLER (popular), s’----, _to take a grog_, “a nightcap.” ENFLAQUER (thieves’), _to seize_; _to apprehend_, “to smug.” See PIPER. J’ai enflaqué le bogue et le morningue du pante, _I laid hands on the_ “cove’s” _watch and purse_. J’ai manqué d’être enflaqué sur le boulevard du Temple.--=VIDOCQ.= S’----, _to be ruining oneself_. ENFLÉE, _f._ (thieves’), _bladder_; _skin which contains brandy or wine_. ENFLER (popular), _to drink_, “to lush.” See RINCER. ENFONCÉ, _adj._ (familiar), _ruined_; _outwitted_, “done brown.” ENFONCER (familiar), _to outwit one_, “to do one.” ENFONCEUR, _m._ (familiar), _a business man or financier who makes dupes_; _harsh critic_; (thieves’) _swindler_, or “shark;” ---- de flancheurs de gadin, _rogue who robs of their halfpence players at the game called_ “bouchon” (_played with a cork and halfpence_). He treads on one of the coins, which, by a skilful motion of the foot, remains in the interstices of his worn-out shoe. The “business” is, of course, not a very profitable one. ENFOURAILLER (thieves’), _to apprehend_, “to smug;” _to imprison_, “to give the clinch.” See PIPER. ENFOURNER (popular), _to imprison_, “to give the clinch.” See PIPER. ENFRIMER (thieves’), _to peer into one’s face_. ENGAGÉ, _adj._ (gamblers’), être ----, _to have lost heavily at some game_. ENGAGER (sporting), _to enter a horse for a race_. ENGAMÉ, _adj._ (thieves’), _enraged_; _rabid_. ENGANTER (thieves’), _to seize_; _to steal_, “to nick.” En être enganté, _to be in love with_. J’ai fait par comblance Gironde larguecapé,... Un jour à la Courtille, J’m’en étais enganté. =VIDOCQ.= ENGERBER (thieves’), _to apprehend_, “to smug.” From gerbe, _a sheaf of corn_. See PIPER. ENGLUER (thieves’), la chevêche, _to arrest a gang of rogues_. ENGOURDI, _m._ (thieves’), _corpse_, or “cold meat.” ENGRAILLER (thieves’), _to catch_, _to seize_; ---- l’ornie, _to catch a fowl, generally by means of a baited hook_ (old cant). Je sais bien aquiger les luques, engrailler l’ornie.--_Le Jargon de l’Argot._ (_I know how to prepare pictures, to catch a fowl._) ENGRAINER (popular), _to arrive_, “to crop up.” ENGRAISSER (thieves’), un poupart, _to make preparations for a theft or murder_. Literally _to fatten a child_. ENGROUILLER (popular), s’----, _to stick fast_; _to be inert, without energy_. ENGUEULADE, ENGUEULAGE, synonymous of ENGUEULEMENT.