BATTERIE, _f._ (popular), _action of lying, of deceiving_, “cram;” _the teeth, throat, and tongue_; ---- douce, _joke_. (Freemasons’) Batterie, _applause_. BATTEUR, _m._ (popular and thieves’), _liar, deceiver_; ---- d’antif, _thief who informs another of a likely_ “job;” ---- de beurre, _stockbroker_; ---- de dig dig, _thief who feigns to be seized with an apoplectic fit in a shop so as to facilitate a confederate’s operations by drawing the attention to himself_; (popular) ---- de flemme, _idler_. BATTOIR, _m._ (popular), _hand_, “flipper;” _large hand_, “mutton fist.” BATTRE (thieves’), _to dissemble_; _to deceive_; _to make believe_. Ne t inquiète pas, je battrai si bien que je défie le plus malin de ne pas me croire emballé pour de bon.--=VIDOCQ.= Battre à la Parisienne, _to cheat_, “to do;” ---- à mort, _to deny_; ---- comtois, _to play the simpleton_; _to act in confederacy_; ---- de l’œil, _to be dying_; ---- entifle, _to be a confederate_, or “stallsman;” ---- Job, _to dissemble_; ---- l’antif, _to walk_, “to pad the hoof;” _to play the spy_, “to nark;” ---- morasse, _to call out_ “_Stop thief!_” “to give hot beef;” ---- en ruine, _to visit_. Drilles ou narquois sont des soldats qui ... battent en ruine les entiffes et tous les creux des vergnes.--_Le Jargon de l’Argot._ (Popular) Battre la muraille, _to be so drunk as_ “not to be able to see a hole in a ladder,” _or not to be able_ “to lie down without holding on;” ---- la semelle, _to play the vagrant_; ---- le beurre, _to speculate on ’Change_; _to be_ “fast;” _to dissemble_; ---- le briquet, _to be knock-kneed_; ---- sa flème, or flemme, _to be idle_, _to be_ “niggling;” ---- son quart _is said of prostitutes who walk the streets_. Des yeux qui se battent en duel, _squinting eyes_, or “swivel-eyes.” S’en battre l’œil, la paupière, or les fesses, _not to care a straw_. (Familiar) Battre son plein, _to be in all the bloom of beauty or talent_, “in full blast;” (military) ---- la couverte, _to sleep_; (sailors’) ---- un quart, _to invent some plausible story_; (printers’) ---- le briquet, _to knock the type against the composing-stick when in the act of placing it in_. BATTURE. See BATTERIE. BAUCE, BAUSSE, _m._ (popular), _master, employer_, “boss;” (thieves’) _rich citizen_, “rag-splawger;” ---- fondu, _bankrupt employer_, “brosier.” BAUCERESSE, _f._ (popular), _female employer_. BAUCHER (thieves’), se ----, _to deride; to make fun of_. BAUCOTER (thieves’), _to teaze_. BAUDE, _f._ (thieves’), _venereal disease_. BAUDROUILLARD, _m._ (thieves’), _fugitive_. BAUDROUILLER (thieves’), _to decamp_, “to make beef.” See PATATROT. BAUDROUILLER, or BAUDRU, _m._ (thieves’), _whip_. BAUGE, _f._ (thieves’), _box_, _chest_, or “peter;” _belly_, “tripes.” BAUME, _m._ (popular), d’acier, _surgeons’ and dentists’ instruments_; ---- de porte-en-terre, _poison_. BAUSSER (popular), _to work_, “to graft.”