LIMOUSIN, or LIMOUSINANT, _m._ (popular), _mason_. It must be mentioned that most of the Paris masons hail from Limousin. LIMOUSINE, _f._ (thieves’), _sheet lead on roofs_, or “flap.” Termed also “saucisson, gras-double.” LIMOUSINEUR, _m._ (thieves’), _thief who steals sheet-lead roofing_. Called also “voleur au gras-double,” a “bluey faker,” or one who “flies the blue pigeon.” See GRINCHE. LINGE, _m._ (familiar and popular), faire des effets de ----, _to display one’s body linen with affectation_. Un bock sans ----, or sans faux-col, _a glass of beer without any head_. A request for such a thing is often made in the Paris cafés, where the microscopic “bocks” or “choppes” are topped by gigantic heads. Se payer un ---- convenable, _to have a stylish mistress_, an “out-and-out tart.” (Popular) Un ---- à règles, _a dirty, slatternly woman_. Resserrer son ----, _to die_. (Thieves’) Avoir son ---- lavé, _to be caught_, _apprehended_, or “smugged.” LINGÉ, _adj._ (popular), être ----, _to have plenty of fine linen_. LINGRE, or LINGUE, _m._ (thieves’), _knife_, or “chive.” From Langres, a manufacturing town. The synonyms are “linve, trente-deux, vingt-deux, chourin or surin, scion, coupe-sifflet, pliant.” Jouer du ----, _to stab_, “to stick, or to chive.” LINGRER, or LINGUER (thieves’), _to stab_, “to stick, or to chive.” LINGRIOT, _m._ (thieves’), _penknife_. LINGUARDE, _f._ (popular), _woman with a soft tongue_. LINGUE, _m._ (thieves’), _knife_, or “chive.” LINSPRÉ, _m._ (thieves’), _prince_. See LIMONADE. LINVÉ, _m._ (popular), loussem, _twenty sous_. The words “vingt sous” distorted. Un ----, _a franc_: “un lenquetré” _being one franc and fifty centimes, or thirty sous_, and “un larantqué,” _two francs, or forty sous_. These expressions are respectively the words un, trente, quarante, disguised. LION, _m._ (familiar), _dandy of 1840_. Fosse aux lions, _box at the opera occupied by men of fashion_. For synonymous terms see GOMMEUX. LIONNERIE, _f._ (familiar), _fashionable world_. LIPÈTE, _f._ (popular), _prostitute_, “mot,” or “common Jack.” See GADOUE. LIPETTE, _f._ (popular), _mason_. Termed also ligorgniot. LIPPER (popular), _to visit several wine-shops in succession_. LIQUETTE, or LIMACE, _f._ (thieves’), _shirt_, in old English cant “commission.” Décarrer le centre d’une ----, _to obliterate the marking of a shirt_. LIQUEUR, _f._ (popular), cache-bonbon à ----, _dandy’s stick-up collar_. A malevolent allusion to scrofula abcesses on the neck. LIRE (familiar), aux astres, _to muse_, “to go wool-gathering;” (familiar and popular) ---- le journal, _to go without a dinner_; ---- le Moniteur, _to wait patiently_. (Printers’) Lire, _to note proposed alterations in a proof_; ---- en première, _to correct the first proof_; ---- en seconde, or en bon, _to correct a second proof on which the author has written “for press.”_ (Thieves’) Savoir ----, _to have one’s wits about one_, “to know what’s o’clock.”