Avoir les ---- canailles, _to have coarse, plebeian hands and feet_, or “beetle crushers and mutton fists.” Numérote tes ----, _I’ll break every bone in your body_. ABAT-JOUR, _m._ (popular), _peak of a cap_; ---- des quinquets, _eyelid_. ABAT-RELUIT (thieves’), _shade for the eyes_. ABATTAGE, _m._ (popular), _much work done_; _work quickly done_; _severe scolding_, or “bully-ragging;” _action of throwing down one’s cards at baccarat when eight or nine are scored_. Vente à l’----, _sale of wares spread out on the pavement_. ABATTOIR, _m._ (thieves’), _cell at the prison of La Roquette occupied by prisoners under sentence of death_; corresponds to the Newgate “salt-box.” It has also the meaning of _gaming-house_, or “punting-shop.” Properly a _slaughter-house_. ABATTRE (familiar), en ----, _to do much work_, or to “sweat.” ABBAYE, _f._ (thieves’), _kiln in which thieves and vagrants seek a refuge at night_; ---- ruffante, _warm kiln_; ---- de Monte-à-regret, _the scaffold_. Mon père a épousé la veuve, moi je me retire à l’Abbaye de Monte-à-regret.--=VICTOR HUGO=, _Le dernier Jour d’un Condamné_. Termed formerly “l’abbaye de Monte-à-rebours;” (popular) ---- de Saint-Pierre, _the scaffold_, a play on the words “cinq-pierres,” the guillotine being erected on five flagstones in front of La Roquette; ---- de sots bougres (obsolete), _a prison_; ---- des s’offre à tous, _house of ill-fame_, or “nanny-shop.” ABBESSE, _f._ (popular), _mistress of a house of ill-fame_, “abbess.” ABCÈS, _m._ (popular), _the possessor of a bloated face_. ABÉLARDISER, _to mutilate a man as Chanoine Fulbert mutilated Abélard, the lover of his daughter or niece Héloïse_. The operation is termed by horse-trainers “adding one to the list.” ABÉQUER (popular), _to feed_. Literally _to give a billful_. ABÉQUEUSE, _f._ (popular), _wet nurse_; _landlady of an hotel_. ABLOQUER, ABLOQUIR (thieves’), _to buy_; _to acquire_. ABONNÉ (familiar), être ---- au guignon, _to experience a run of ill-luck_. Literally _to be a subscriber to ill-luck_. ABORGNER (popular), s’----, _to scrutinize_. Literally _to make oneself blind of one eye by closing or_ “cocking” _it_. ABOTÉ (popular), _clumsily adjusted or fitted_, “wobbly.” ABOULAGE, ACRÉ, _m._ (popular), _plenty_. ABOULÉE (popular), _in childbed_, “in the straw.” ABOULEMENT, _m._ (popular), _accouchement_. ABOULER (popular), _to be in childbed_, “to be in the straw;” _to give_, _to hand over_, to “dub.” Pègres et barbots aboulez des pépettes... Aboulez tous des ronds ou des liquettes Des vieux grimpants, bricheton ou arlequins. _Le Cri du Peuple_, Feb., 1886. _To come_, “to crop up.” Et si tézig tient à sa boule, Fonce ta largue, et qu’elle aboule Sans limace nous cambrouser. =RICHEPIN=, _La Chanson des Gueux_. ABOUR, _m._ (thieves’), _sieve_.