ARGANEAU, _m._ (thieves’), _a link connecting two convicts’ irons_. ARGOT, _m._ (thieves’), _animal_; _fool_, or “go along;” _thieves’ brotherhood_, or “family men.” ARGOTÉ (thieves’), _one who lays claim to being witty_. ARGOTIER, _m._ (thieves’), _one of the brotherhood of thieves_, or “family man.” ARGOUSIN, _m._ (popular), _foreman_, or “boss.” ARGUCHE, _m._ (thieves’), _cant_, or “flash;” _a fool_, _dunce_, or “go-along.” ARGUEMINE, _f._ (thieves’), _hand_, or “famm.” ARICOTEUR, _m._ (thieves’), _executioner_. ARISTO, _m._ for _aristocrat_ (popular), _a man in comfortable circumstances_. ARISTOCRATE, _m._, _an appellation given by prisoners to one of their number whose means allow him to obtain victuals from the canteen_. ARLEQUIN (popular), _broken victuals of every description mixed up and retailed to poor people_. The word has passed into the language. Autrefois chez Paul Niquet Fumait un vaste baquet Sur la devanture. Pour un ou deux sous, je crois, On y plongeait les deux doigts Deux, à l’aventure. Les mets les plus différents Etaient là, mêlés, errants, Sans couleur, sans forme, Et l’on pêchait sans fouiller, Aussi bien un vieux soulier Qu’une truffe énorme. =RICHEPIN=, _La Chanson des Gueux_. ARME, _f._ (military), passer l’---- à gauche, _to die_, “to lose the number of one’s mess.” See PIPE. ARMÉE ROULANTE, _f._ (thieves’), formerly _gang of convicts chained together which used to make its way by road to the hulks_. ARMOIRE, _f._ (popular), à glace, _the four of any card_; _head_; (military) ---- à poils, _soldiers’ knapsack_, or “scran bag.” An allusion to the hairy skin that covers or covered soldiers’ knapsacks. ARNAC, _m._ (thieves’), à l’----, _with premeditation_. ARNACHE, _f._ (popular), _deceit_; _treachery_. Etre à l’----, _to be cunning_, _wide-awake_, a “deep one;” _to deceive, and not allow oneself to be deceived_. ARNACQ, ARNACHE, _m._ (thieves’), _detective_, _informer_, “nark.” ARNAUD, _m._ (popular), avoir son ----, être ----, _to be in a bad humour_, to be “nasty.” ARNAUDER (popular), _to grumble_. ARNELLE (thieves’), _the town of Rouen_. From La Renelle, a small river. ARNELLERIE, _f._ (thieves’), _rouennerie_, _printed cotton_. ARNIF, _m._ (thieves’), _policeman or detective_. Also denominated “bec de gaz, bourrique, cierge, flique, laune, peste, vache.” In English cant or slang “crusher, pig, copper, cossack, nark.” ARPAGAR, _m._ (thieves’), _the town of Arpagon, near Paris_. ARPETTE, _m._ (popular), _apprentice_. ARPION, _m._ (thieves’ and popular), _foot_, “trotter;” _toe_. Moi, d’marcher ça n’me fout pas l’trac. J’ai l’arpion plus dur que des clous. =RICHEPIN=, _Chanson des Gueux_. ARPIONS, _m._ _pl._ (thieves’ and popular), _toes_. ARQUEPINCER. See ARCPINCER. ARQUER (popular), s’----, _to be bent down through age_.