=RICHEPIN=, _La Chanson des Gueux_. AQUILIN (popular), faire son ----, _to pout_, or “to hang one’s latch-pan;” _to turn up one’s nose_. ARABE, _m._ (popular), _savage_, _unrelenting fellow_, or “tartar.” ARAIGNÉE, _f._ (popular), _bicycle with a large fly-wheel_; ---- de bastringue, _female habituée of low dancing halls_; ---- de comptoir, _counter jumper_, or “knight of the yard;” ---- de trottoir, _dealer at a stall, or in the open air_. Avoir une ---- dans le plafond, _to be cracked_, _to have_ “a bee in one’s bonnet.” See AVOIR. ARBALÈTE, _f._ (thieves’), _neck-cross_; ---- d’antonne, de chique, de priante, _church-cross_. ARBI, ARBICO, _m._ (army), _Arab_. ARBIF, _m._ (thieves’), _violent man_. ARCASIEN, ARCASINEUR, _m._ (thieves’), _thief who employs the arcat_ (which see); _a beggar who calls on people_; _cunning man_. ARCAT, _m._ (thieves’), monter un ----, _to write a letter from prison to a person asking for an advance in cash on a supposed buried treasure which, later on, is to be pointed out to the donor_. From arcane, _mystery_, _hidden thing_. ARCAVOT, _m._ (Jew traders’), _falsehood_. ARCHE, _f._ (popular), aller à l’----, _to fetch money_. Fendre l’----, _to weary_, “to bore.” ARCHICUBE, _m._, _student who has completed his three years’ course of study at the Ecole Normale_, an institution where professors are trained for university professorships, and which holds the first rank among special schools in France. ARCHIPOINTU, _m._ (thieves’), _an archbishop_. ARCHISUPPÔT DE L’ARGOT (old cant), _learned thief_, _arch-thief_, “gonnof.” Les archisuppôts de l’argot sont les plus savants, les plus habiles marpeaux de toutime l’argot, qui sont des écoliers débauchés, et quelques ratichons, de ces coureurs qui enseignent le jargon à rouscailler bigorne.--_Le Jargon de l’Argot._ ARCHITECTE DE L’UNIVERS (freemasons’), _the Deity_. ARÇON (thieves’), _sign of recognition made by passing the thumb down the right cheek and spitting at the same time_. Si c’étaient des amis de Pantin, je pourrais me faire reconnaître mais des pantres nouvellement affranchis (des paysans qui font leurs premières armes), j’aurais beau faire l’arçon.--=VIDOCQ.= ARÇONNER (thieves’), _to make one speak out_; _to speak_, or “to patter.” ARCPINCER, ARQUEPINCER (thieves’ and popular), _to take_, or “to collar;” _to seize_, or “to grab;” ---- l’omnibus, _to catch the ’bus_. Veuillez ---- mon anse, _pray take my arm_. J’ai promis de reconobrer tous les grinchisseurs et de les faire arquepincer.--=VIDOCQ.= ARDENT, _m._ (thieves’), _candle_, or “glim.” Fauche-ardents, _snuffers_. ARDENTS, _m._ _pl._ (thieves’), _eyes_, or “glaziers.” See QUINQUETS. ARDOISE, _f._ (popular), _head_, or “tibby;” _hat_, or “tile.” Avoir l’----, _to have credit_, or “jawbone.” An allusion to the slate used for drawing up the reckoning. ARGA, _m._ (thieves’), _share of booty_, or “snaps.”