Oh! c’est alors qu’il faut plaindre... les malheureux qu’un travail sédentaire courbe sur un bureau.... c’est alors qu’il convient de se lamenter sur le sort des assis.--=RICHEPIN=, _Le Pavé_. ASSISTER (thieves’), _to bring victuals to a prisoner from outside_. ASSOCIÉE, _f._ (printers’), mon ----, _my wife_, _my_ “old woman.” ASSOMMOIR, _m._ (familiar), _name of a wine-shop at Belleville, and which is now common to all low drinking-shops_. From assommer, _to knock over the head_. ASTEC, _m._ (familiar), _stunted and weakly person_, or “barber’s cat;” (literary) _a weak, despicable adversary_. An allusion to the Mexican dwarfs. ASTIC, _m._ (thieves’), _steel_, _sword_, or “poker” (from the German stich); (soldiers’) _a mixture of pipe-clay for the furbishing of the brass fixtures of equipment_. Aller à l’----, _to clean one’s equipment_. ASTICOT, _m._ (popular), _vermicelli_; _mistress of a bully or thief_, “mollisher;” ---- de cercueil, _glass of beer_ (a play on the words “ver” and “bière,” asticot being a _flesh-worm_). ASTIQUAGE or ASTIQUE, _m._ (military), _cleaning the equipments_. ASTIQUER (popular), _to beat_, or “to towel;” _to tease_. Literally _to clean_, _to furbish_. S’----, _to have angry words, as a prelude to a set to_; _to fight_. Literally _to make oneself neat_, or “smug.” AS-TU FINI, or AS-TU FINI TES MANIÈRES! _words implying that a person’s endeavours to convince or to deceive another have failed_. The expression corresponds in some degree to “Walker!” “No go!” “What next?” A TABLE (thieves’), se mettre ----, or, casser du sucre, _to confess a crime_. ATELIER (freemasons’), _place of meeting_. ATIGÉ, _adj._ (thieves’ and popular), _ill_, or “laid up;” _stricken_, _ruined_, or “cracked up.” ATIGER (thieves’ and popular), _to wound, to strike_, “to clump.” ATÔMES CROCHUS, _m. pl._ (familiar), _mysterious elements of mutual sympathy_. ATOUSER (convicts’), _to encourage_, _to urge_, “to kid on.” ATOUT, _m._ (thieves’ and popular), _courage_, or “wool;” _self-possession_; _a blow_, or “wipe;” _stomach_; _money_, or “rhino;” _ability_. Proper meaning _trumps_. Avoir de l’----, _to have pluck_, or “spunk;” _to have a strong arm_. Tu m’as donné la bonne mesure, tu es un cadet qui a de l’atout.--=E. SUE.= (_You gave me a good thrashing, you are a strong chap._) Le plus d’----, _a kind of swindling game played at low cafés_. ATOUT! (popular), _exclamation to denote that a blow has taken effect_. ATTACHE, _f._, _love tie_. ATTACHER (thieves’), un bidon, _to inform against one_, “to blow the gaff.” ATTACHES, _f. pl._, (thieves’), _buckles_; ---- brillantes, _diamond buckles_; ---- de gratousse, _lace shirt-frill_; ---- de cés, _breeches buckles_. J’ai fait suer un chêne, Son auberg j’ai enganté. Son auberg et sa toquante, Et ses attach’s de cés. =V. HUGO=, _Le Dernier Jour d’un Condamné_.