HARPIONS, _m. pl._ (popular and thieves’), _feet_, or “dew-beaters;” _hands_, or “dukes.” From the old word harpier, concerning which the _Dictionnaire Comique_ says:-- Harpier. Pour voler ou friponner impunément, prendre ou enlever par force, comme les harpies. HARPONNER (popular), _to seize_, “to grab;” ---- tocquardement, _to lay rough hands on_; _to give one a shaking_. HASARD! or H! (printers’), ironical exclamation meaning _that happens by chance, of course!_ HAÜS, or AÜS, _m._ (shopmens’), _appellation applied by shopmen to a person who, after much bargaining, leaves without purchasing anything_. HAUSSE-COL, _m._ (military), _cartridge-box_. The expression has become obsolete. HAUSSIER, _m._ (familiar), a “bull,” that is, _one who agrees to purchase stock at a future day, at a stated price, but who simply speculates for a rise in public securities to render the transaction a profitable one_. Should stocks fall, the “bull” is then called upon to pay the difference. The “bear” is the opposite of the “bull,” the former selling, the latter purchasing--the one operating for a _fall_, the other for a _rise_. They are respectively called “liebhaler” in Berlin, and “contremine” in Vienna. HAUSSMANNISATION, _f._ See below. HAUSSMANNISER (familiar), _to pull down houses wholesale_, after the fashion of M. Haussmann, a Prefect of the Seine under the Third Empire, who laid low many of the old houses of Paris, and opened some broad passages in the city. Corresponds in some degree to “boycott.” HAUT-DE-TIRE, _m._ (thieves’), _breeches_, “hams, kicks, sit-upons.” HAUTE, _f. and adj._ (general), for haute société, _the higher class of any social stratum_, “pink.” Il y a lorette et lorette. Mademoiselle de Saint-Pharamond était de la haute.--=P. FÉVAL.= La ---- bicherie, _higher class of cocottes_, _the world of_ “demi-reps.” Un escarpe de la ----, _a swindler moving in good society_. La ---- pègre, _swell mob_, and, used ironically, _good society_. Un restaurant de la ----, _a fashionable restaurant_, _a_ “swell” _restaurant_. Si nous ne soupons pas dans la haute, je ne sais guère où nous irons à cette heure-ci.--=G. DE NERVAL.= HAUTOCHER (thieves’), _to ascend_; _to rise_. HAUT-TEMPS, _m._ (thieves’), for autan, _loft_. HAVRE, or GRAND HAVRE, _m._ (thieves’), _God_. Literally _the harbour_, _great harbour_. Le ---- garde mézière, _God protect me_. HEOL AR BLEI (Breton cant), _the moon_. HERBE, _f._ (popular), à grimper, _fine bosoms or shoulders_. This phrase is obsolete; ---- à la vache, _clubs of cards_. Quinte mangeuse portant son point dans l’herbe à la vache.--=ZOLA=, _L’Assommoir_. Herbe sainte, _absinthe_. To all appearance this is a corruption of absinthe. HERPLIS, _m._ (thieves’), _farthing_. Sans un herplis dans ma fouillouse, _without a farthing in my pocket_. HERR, _m._ (general), a man of importance, one of position or talent, a “swell.”