ARTIE, ARTIF, ARTIFFE, LARTIE, LARTON, _m._ (thieves’), _bread_; ---- de Meulan, _white bread_; ---- du gros Guillaume, _brown bread_; ---- de guinaut, _mouldy bread_. Ecoutez marques et mions, J’aime la croûte de parfond, J’aime l’artie, j’aime la crie, J’aime la croûte de parfond. _Chanson de l’Argot_. ARTILLEUR (popular), _drunkard_; _one skilful in working the_ “canon,” _or glass of wine at wine-shops_; ---- à genoux, or de la pièce humide, _a military hospital orderly_; ---- à l’aiguille, _tailor_; ---- de la pièce humide, _a fireman_; also, _one who is voiding urine_, or “lagging.” ARTIS, _m._ (thieves’), langage de l’----, _cant_, or “flash.” ARTISTE, _m._ (popular), _veterinary surgeon_, “vet;” _spendthrift leading a careless life_; _sweeper_; _comrade_, or “pal.” ARTON. See ARTIE. ARTOUPAN, _m._ (thieves’), _guard or warder at a penal servitude depôt_, or “screw.” ART ROYAL (freemasons’), _freemasonry_. AS, _m._ (popular), être à l’----, _to be short of cash_, “hard up;” _at a restaurant or café_, _to be at table, or in private room No. 1_. Un ---- de carreau, _soldier’s knapsack_, thus called from its shape; _a town adjutant_, an allusion to the red facings of his uniform. (Thieves’) As de carreau, _the ribbon of the Legion of Honour, which is red_. (Familiar) Fichu comme l’---- de pique, _with a clumsily built form_, _badly dressed_. As de pique meant formerly a man of no consequence, of no intellectual worth. ASINVER (thieves’), _to make stupid_. ASPERGE MONTÉE, _f._ (popular), _very tall_, _lanky person_; “sky-scraper,” or “lamp-post.” ASPHALTE, _m._ (familiar), polir l’----, _to lounge on the Boulevards_. ASPHYXIÉ, _adj._ (popular), _dead-drunk_, or “sewed-up.” ASPHYXIER (popular), _to drink_; ---- le perroquet, _to drink a glass of absinthe_, green, like a parrot; ---- un pierrot, _to drink a glass of white wine_. Pierrot, a pantomimic character, with face painted white, and costume to match. ASPIC, _m._ (popular), _a slanderer_, an allusion to “aspic,” a _viper_; (thieves’) _a miser_, or “hunks.” ASPIQUERIE, _f._ (popular), _calumny_. ASSEOIR (popular), s’----, _to fall_. Envoyer quelqu’un s’----, _to throw one down_, _to silence, get rid of one_. Allez vous ----, _shut up_, _go to_ “pot” (an allusion to the customary intimation of the judge to a witness whose examination is concluded). S’---- sur le bouchon, _to sit on mother earth_. S’---- sur quelqu’un, _to silence one_, _sit upon him_. S’---- sur quelquechose, _to attach but slight importance to a thing_. ASSESSEUR (gamesters’), _player_. ASSEYEZ-VOUS DESSUS ET QU’ ÇA FINISSE! (familiar), _silence him! sit upon him!_ ASSIETTE, _f._ (popular), avoir l’---- au beurre, _to be lucky_, _fortunate in life_. ASSIS, _m._ (literary), _clerks_, or “quill drivers.”