BABILLE, _f._ See BABILLARDE. BABILLER (thieves’), _to read_. Properly _to prattle_, _to chatter_. BABINES, _f. pl._ (popular), _mouth_, “muzzle.” S’en donner par les ----, _to eat voraciously_, “to scorf.” S’en lécher les ----, _to enjoy in imagination any kind of pleasure, past or in store_. BABOUINE, _f._ (popular), _mouth_, “rattle-trap,” “kisser,” “dubber,” or “maw.” See PLOMB. BABOUINER (popular), _to eat_. BAC, for baccarat or baccalauréat. Ce serait bien le diable s’il parvenait à organiser de petits bacs à la raffinerie.--=VAST-RICOUARD=, _Le Tripot_. BACCHANTES (thieves’), _the beard_; but more especially _the whiskers_. From a play on the word bâche, _an awning_, _covering_. BACCON, _m._ (thieves’), _pig_, or “sow’s baby;” _pork_, or “sawney.” BACHASSE, _f._ (thieves’), _hard labour_; _convict settlement_. BÂCHE, _f._ (thieves’ and cads’), _cap_, or “tile;” _stakes_; _bed_, or “doss.” Se mettre dans la ----, _to go to bed_. Bâche, properly _a cart tilt_ or _an awning_. BACHELIÈRE, _f._, _female associate of students at the Quartier Latin, the headquarters of the University of France_. Herein are situated the Sorbonne, Collège de France, Ecole de Médecine, Ecole de Droit, &c. BÂCHER, PAGNOTTER, or PERCHER (thieves’ and popular). Se ----, _to go to bed_. BACHOT, _m._ (students’), _baccalauréat_, _or examination for the degree of bachelor of arts or science conferred by the University of France_. Etre ----, _to be a bachelor_. Faire son ----, _to read for that examination_. BACHOTIER, _m._ (students’), _tutor who prepares candidates for the baccalauréat_, a “coach,” or a “crammer.” BACHOTTER (sharpers’), _to swindle at billiards_. BACHOTTEUR, _m._ (sharpers’), _a confederate of blacklegs at a four game of billiards_. The “bachotteur” arranges the game, holds the stakes, &c., pretending meanwhile to be much interested in the victim, or “pigeon.” His associates are “l’emporteur,” or “buttoner,” whose functions consist in entering into conversation with the intended victim and enticing him into playing, and “la bête,” who feigns to be a loser at the outset, so as to encourage the pigeon. BÂCLER, BOUCLER (thieves’), _to shut_, _to arrest_. Bâclez la lourde! _shut the door!_ “dub the jigger.” (Popular) Bâcler, _to put_, _to place_. Bâclez-vous là! _place yourself there!_ BACREUSE, _f._ (popular), _pocket_. From creuse, _deep_. BADAUDIÈRE, _f._, _the tribe of badauds_, _people whose interest is awakened by the most trifling events or things, and who stop to gape wonderingly at such events or things_. Parmi tous les badauds de la grande badaudière parisienne, qui est le pays du monde où l’on en trouve le plus, parmi tous les flâneurs, gâcheurs de temps ... bayeurs aux grues.--=RICHEPIN=, _Le Pavé_. BADIGEON, _m._ (popular), _painting of the face_; _paint for the face_, “slap.” Se coller du ----, _to paint one’s face_, “to stick on slap.”