LIGNARD, _m._ (familiar and popular), _foot-soldier of the line_; _journalist_; (printers’) _compositor who has to deal only with the body part of a composition_; (artists’) _artist who devotes his attention more to the perfection of the outline than to that of colour_; (popular) _rodfisher_. LIGNE, _f._ (artists’), avoir la ----, _to have a fine profile_. (Literary) Pêcher à la ----, or tirer à la ----, _is said of a journalist who seeks to make an article as lengthy as possible_. (Popular) Pêcher à la ---- d’argent _is said of an angler who catches fish by means of a money bait, at the fishmonger’s_. (Printers’) Ligne à voleur, _line containing only a syllable, or a very short word, which might have been composed into the preceding line_. Les lignes à voleur sont faciles à reconnaître, et elles n’échappent guère à l’œil d’un correcteur exercé, qui les casse d’ordinaire impitoyablement.--=BOUTMY.= LIGORE, _f._ (thieves’), _assize court_. LIGORNIAU, _m._ (popular), _hodman_. LIGOT. See LIGOTANTE. LIGOTAGE, _m._ (police), _binding a prisoner’s hands by means of a rope or strap_. LIGOTANTE, or LIGOTTE, _f._ (thieves’), _rope, or strap_; _bonds_; ---- de rifle, or riflarde, _strait waistcoat_. LIGOTER (police and thieves’), _to bind a prisoner’s hands by means of ropes or straps_. Nul mieux que lui ne savait prendre un malfaiteur sans l’abîmer, ni lui mettre les poucettes sans douleur ou le ligoter sans effort.--_Mémoires de Monsieur Claude._ LIGOTTE, _f._ (thieves’), _rope_; _string_; _strap_. LILLANGE (thieves’), _town of Lille_. LILLOIS, _m._ (thieves’), _thread_. LIMACE, _f._ (popular), _low prostitute_, or “draggle-tail;” _soldier’s wench_, or “barrack-hack,” see GADOUE; (thieves’) _shirt_, “flesh-bag, or commission.” From the Romany “lima,” according to Michel. LIMACIER, _m._, LIMACIÈRE, _f._, (thieves’), _shirt-maker_. From limace, _a shirt_. LIMANDE, _f._ (popular), _man made of poor stuff_; _one who fawns_. From limande, _a kind of sole_ (fish). LIME, _f._ (thieves’), for limace, _shirt_, or “commission” in old English cant; ---- sourde, _sly, underhand man_. The expression is old, and is used by Rabelais:-- Mais, qui pis est, les oultragearent grandement, les appellants trop-diteux, breschedents, plaidants rousseaulx, galliers, chie-en-licts, averlans, limes sourdes.--_Gargantua._ LIMER (familiar and popular), _to talk with difficulty_; _to do a thing slowly_. Literally _to file_. LIMOGÈRE, _f._ (thieves’), _chambermaid_. LIMONADE, _f._ (popular), _water_, or “Adam’s ale;” _the trade of a_ “limonadier,” _or proprietor of a small café_. Tomber, or se plaquer dans la ----, _to fall into the water_; _to be ruined_, or “gone a mucker.” (Thieves’) Limonade, _flannel vest_; ---- de linspré, _champagne_. “Linspré” is the word “prince” disguised. LIMONADIER DE POSTÉRIEURS, _m._ (popular), _apothecary_. Formerly apothecaries performed the “clysterium donare” of Molière’s _Malade Imaginaire_.