at the expense of a new patient, who, being sent at the conclusion of a meal to request another patient to furnish him with the customary dessert, gets bolstered for his pains_; ---- où le roi va à pied, _to go to the latrines_, or “chapel of ease;” (printers’) ---- en galilée, or ---- en germanie (a play on the words “Je remanie,” I overrun), _to do some overrunning in a piece of composition_; (soldiers’) ---- à l’astic, _to clean one’s equipment_; (sporting) ---- pour l’argent, _to back one’s own horse_; (musicians’) ---- au carreau, _to seek an engagement_. An allusion to “la Rue du Petit-Carreau,” a meeting-place for musicians of the lowest class, and musical conductors. (Thieves’) Aller à comberge, _to go to confession with a priest_; ---- à la retape, _to waylay in order to murder_; ---- chez Fualdès, _to share the booty_, “to nap the regulars.” Fualdès was a rich banker, who was murdered in circumstances of peculiar atrocity. ALLEZ DONC (familiar), et ----, _a kind of flourish at the end of a sentence to emphasize an assertion_. Allez donc vous laver (popular), _be off_, go to “pot;” ---- vous asseoir, “shut up!” ALLIANCES, _f. pl._ (thieves’), _handcuffs_, “bracelets.” Properly _wedding-rings_. ALLONGER (familiar), _to pay_, to “fork out;” ---- les radis, _to pay_, “to shell out;” (military) ---- la ficelle or la courroie, _to make an addition to a penalty_. S’----, _to fall_, to “come down a cropper.” ALLUME, _m._, _confederate who makes sham bids at auctions_, a “button.” ALLUMÉ (thieves’), _stared at_. Sur la placarde de Vergne Il nous faudrait gambiller, Allumés de toutes ces largues Et du trèpe rassemblé. _Mémoires de Vidocq._ ALLUMER (thieves’), _to look_, “to stag,” _to see_, or “to pipe;” _to keep a sharp look-out_, _to watch_, “to nark.” Si le Squelette avait eu tantôt une largue comme moi pour allumer, il n’aurait pas été mouché le surin dans l’avaloir du grinche.--=E. SUE=, _Mystères de Paris_. Allumer le miston, _to scan one’s features_; ---- ses clairs, _to look attentively_, “to stag;” (prostitutes’) ---- son pétrole, son gaz, _to get highly excited_. (Theatrical) Allumer, _to awake interest or enthusiasm among an audience_; (popular) _to allure purchasers at fair stalls, or the public at theatrical booths or_ “gaffs” _by glowing accounts_. In coachmens’ parlance, _to whip_, “to flush.” (Familiar) S’----, _to be slightly intoxicated_, “fresh;” _excited by women’s allurements_; _brought to the proper pitch of interest by card-sharpers or salesmen_. Un autre compère gagne encore un coup de dix francs cette fois. La galerie s’allume de plus en plus.--=RICHEPIN=, _Le Pavé_. ALLUMETTE, f. (popular), avoir son ----, _to be tipsy_, “screwed.” The successive stages of this degree of intoxication are expressed by the qualifying terms, “ronde,” “de marchand de vin,” “de campagne.” ALLUMETTES, _f. pl._ (popular), _arms_, “benders.”