Case des machabées, _cemetery_. Le clou des machabées, the “_Morgue” or Paris dead-house_. Mannequin à machabées, _hearse_. (Thieves’) Machabée, _traitor_, or “snitcher.” Literally _a corpse_, the informer in a prison, when detected, being generally murdered by those he has betrayed by means of the punishment termed “accolade,” which consists in crushing him against a wall. MACHABER (popular), _to die_, “to kick the bucket.” See PIPE. Machaber quelqu’un, _to drown one_. Se ----, _to drink_. Je me suis machabé d’un litre, _I have treated myself to a litre bottle of wine_. MACHICOT, _m._ (popular), _bad, mean player, or one who plays a_ “tinpot game.” In the _Contes d’Eutrapel_, a French officer at the siege of Chatillon is ridiculously spoken of as Captain Tin-pot--Capitaine du Pot d’Etain. Tin-pot as generally used means worthless. MACHIN, _m._ (general), _expression used when one cannot recollect the name of a person_, “thingumbob, or what’s name.” MACHINE, _f._ (literary, artists’, theatrical), _production_. Cela m’est bien égal! Il n’est pas le seul à me dévisager. Je lui chanterai sa “machine” et il me laissera tranquille.--=J. SERMET=, _Une Cabotine_. Grande ----, _drama_. Molière uses the word to describe an important affair or undertaking:-- J’ai des ressors tout prêts pour diverses machines.--_L’Etourdi._ (Popular) Machine à moulures, _breech_, or “bum,” see VASISTAS; ---- à lisserpem, _urinal_; lisserpem being the word pisser disguised. MÂCHOIRE, _f._ (familiar and popular), _blockhead_. (Literary) Vieille ----, _dull, old-fashioned writer_; _ignorant man_. L’on arrivait par la filière d’épithètes qui suivent: ci-devant, faux toupet, aile de pigeon, perruque, étrusque, mâchoire, ganache, au dernier degré de décrépitude, à l’épithète la plus infamante, académicien et membre de l’Institut.--=TH. GAUTIER.= MACMAHON, _m._ (dragoons’), _head of a Medusa at top of helmet_. MACMAHONNAT, _m._, _period of Marshal MacMahon’s sway as President of the Republic_. Everybody recollects the famous “J’y suis, j’y reste!” of the Marshal, and Gambetta’s reply, “Il faut se soumettre ou se démettre.” MAÇON, _m._ (popular), _four-pound loaf_; (freemasons’) ---- de pratique, _mason_; ---- de théorie, _freemason_; (familiar) _disparaging epithet applied to any clumsy worker_. MACQUE, MACQUET. See MAC. MACQUECÉE. See MACA. MACROTAGE, or MAQUEREAUTAGE, _m._ (familiar and popular), _living at a woman’s expense_; used also figuratively to denote agency in some fishy business. MACROTER (familiar and popular), _to live at a woman’s expense_, ---- une affaire, _to be the agent in some fishy business_. MACROTIN, _m._ (familiar and popular), _one living at a woman’s expense_, “pensioner” _with an unmentionable prefix_, _young bully_, _young_ “ponce.” See POISSON. MACULATURE, _f._ (printers’), attraper une ----, _to get drunk_, _to get_ “tight.” See SCULPTER.