BARBOTER (thieves’), _to search on the person_, “to turn over;” _to steal_, “to clift;” _to purloin goods and sell them_; ---- les poches, _to pick pockets_, “to buz;” (familiar) ---- la caisse, _to appropriate the contents of a cashbox_. BARBOTEUR, _m._ (thieves’), de campagne, _night thief_. BARBOTIER, _m._, _searcher at prisons_. BARBOTIN, _m._ (thieves’), _theft_; _proceeds of sale of stolen goods_, “swag.” Après mon dernier barbotin, J’ai flasqué du poivre à la rousse. =RICHEPIN.= BARBUE, _f._ (thieves), _pen_. BAR-DE-TIRE, _m._ (thieves’), _hose_. BARIL DE MOUTARDE (cads’), _breech_. See VASISTAS. BARKA (military), _enough_ (from the Arabic). BARON, _m._ (popular), de la crasse, _man ill at ease in garments which are not suited to his station in life, and which in consequence give him an awkward appearance_. BARRE, _f._ (thieves’), _needle_; (popular) compter à la ----, _primitive mode of reckoning by making dashes on a slate_. BARRÉ, _adj._ (popular), _dull-witted_, “cabbage-head.” BARRER (popular), _to leave off work_; _to relinquish an undertaking_; _to scold_. Se ----, _to make off_, “to mizzle;” _to conceal oneself_. BARRES, _f. pl._ (popular), _jaws_. Se rafraîchir les ----, _to drink_, “to wet or whet one’s whistle.” BARRIQUE, _f._ (freemasons’), _decanter or bottle_. BAS (popular), de buffet, _a person or thing of no consequence_; ---- de plafond, ---- du cul, _short person_. Vieux ---- de buffet, _old coquette_. BASANE, or BAZANE, _f._ (popular), _skin_, or “buff.” Tanner la ----, _to thrash_, “to tan.” (Military) Tailler une ----, _is to make a certain contemptuous gesture the nature of which may best be described as follows_:-- Un tel, quatre jours de salle de police, ordre du sous-officier X... a répondu à ce sous-officier en lui taillant une bazane; la main appliquée sur la braguette du pantalon, et lui faisant décrire une conversion à gauche, avec le pouce pour pivot.--_Quoted by_ =L. MERLIN=, _La Langue Verte du Troupier_. BAS-BLEUISME, _m._ (literary), _mania for writing_. Used in reference to those of the fair sex. BASCULE, _f._ (popular), _guillotine_. BASCULER (popular), _to guillotine_. BAS-OFF, _m._ (Polytechnic School), _under-officer_. BASOURDIR (thieves’), _to knock down_; _to stun_; _to kill_, “to give one his gruel.” See REFROIDIR. BASSE, _f._ (thieves’), _the earth_. BASSIN, _m._, BASSINOIRE, _f._ (familiar), _superlatively dull person_, _a bore_. BASSINANT, _adj._ (familiar), _dull_, _annoying_, _boring_. BASSINER (familiar), _to annoy_, _to bore_. BASSINOIRE, _f._, _large watch_, “turnip.” See BASSIN. BASTA (popular), _enough_; _no more_. From the Spanish. BASTIMAGE (thieves’), _work_, “graft.” BASTRINGUE, _m._ (popular), _low dancing-hall_; _noise_, _disturbance_, “rumpus;” (prisoners’) _a fine steel saw used by prisoners for cutting through iron bars_. BASTRINGUEUSE, _f._ (popular), _female habituée of_ bastringues, _or low dancing-saloons_.