FRAIS, _adj. and m._ (familiar and popular), ironical, _good_; _fine_. Vous voilà ----, _here you are in a sorry plight, in a fix, in a_ “hole.” C’est là l’ouvrage? il est ----! _Is that the work? a fine piece of work!_ Arrêter les ----, _to stop doing a thing_. From an expression used at billiard rooms, to stop the expenses for the use of the table. Mettre quelqu’un au ----, _to imprison_. Literally _to put in a cool place_. FRALIN, _m._, FRALINE, _f._ (thieves’), _brother_; _sister_; _chum_, “Ben cull.” FRANC, _adj. and m._ (thieves’), _accomplice_, or “stallsman;” _low_; _frequented by thieves_; _faithful_. C’est Jean-Louis, un bon enfant; sois tranquille, il est franc.--=VIDOCQ.= Un ---- de maison, _receiver of stolen property_, or “fence;” _landlord of a thieves’ lodging-house_, or “flash ken.” Un ---- mijou, or mitou, _a vagabond suffering, or pretending to suffer, from some ailment, and who makes capital of such ailment_. Messière ----, _bourgeois or citizen_. En faisant nos gambades, Un grand messière franc Voulant faire parade Serre un bogue d’orient. =VIDOCQ.= (Military) C’est ----, _well and good_; _that’s all right_. FRANC-CARREAU, _m._ (prisoners’), _punishment which consists in being compelled to sleep on the bare floor of the cell_. FRANCFILER (familiar and popular), _was said of those who left Paris during the war, and sought a place of safety in foreign countries_. Il n’avait pas voulu francfiler pendant le siège. --=E. MONTEIL=, _Cornebois_. FRANC-FILEUR, _m._ (familiar), _opprobrious epithet applied to those who left France during the war_. FRANCHIR (thieves’), _to kiss_. FRANCILLON, _m._, FRANCILLONNE, _f._ (thieves’), _Frenchman_; _Frenchwoman_; _friendly_. Le barbaudier de castu est-il francillon? _Is the hospital director friendly?_ FRANC-MITOU, _m._ (thieves’). See FRANC. FRANCO (cads’ and thieves’), c’est ----, _it is all right_; _all safe_. Gaffine lago, c’est ----, y a pas de trèpe, _look there, it is all safe, there’s nobody_. FRANÇOIS (thieves’), la faire au père ----, _to rob a man by securing a strap round his neck, and lifting him half-strangled on one’s shoulders, while an accomplice rifles his pockets_. FRANGIN, _m._ (popular and thieves’), _brother_; _term of friendship_; ---- dab, _uncle_. Mon vieux ----, _old fellow!_ “old ribstone!” FRANGINE, _f._ (thieves’ and popular), _sister_; ---- dabuche, _aunt_. On la connaît, la vache qui nous a fait traire! C’est la vierge de Saint-Lazare, la frangine du meg!... Il est trop à la coule, le frangin! C’est au tour de la frangine maintenant à avoir son atout.--_Mémoires de Monsieur Claude._ FRANGIR (thieves’), _to break_. FRANGUETTIER, _m._ (thieves’), _card-sharper_, or “broadsman.” FRAONVAL (Breton), _to escape_. FRAPOUILLE. See FRIPOUILLE. FRAPPART, _m._ (thieves’), père ----, _a hammer_. FRAPPE, _f._ (popular), _a worthless fellow_; _a scamp_.