BELLE, _f._ (popular and familiar), attendre sa ----, _to wait one’s opportunity_. Jouer la ----, _to play a third and decisive game_. La perdre ----, _to lose a game which was considered as good as won_; _to lose an opportunity_. (Thieves’) Etre servi de ----, _to be imprisoned through mistaken identity_; _to be the victim of a false accusation_. (Popular) Belle à la chandelle, _f._, _ugly_; ---- de nuit, _female habituée of balls and cafés_; (familiar) ---- petite, _a young lady of the demi-monde_, a “pretty horse-breaker.” BÉNARD, _m._ (popular), _breeches_, “kicks,” or “sit-upons.” BÉNEF, _m._, for bénéfice, _profit_. BÉNÉVOLE, _m._ (popular), _young doctor in hospitals_. BÉNI-COCO (military), être de la tribu des ----, _to be a fool_. BÉNI-MOUFFETARD (popular), _dweller of the Quartier Mouffetard_, _the abode of rag-pickers_. BÉNIR (popular), bas, _to kick one in the lower part of the back_, “to toe one’s bum,” “to root,” or “to land a kick;” (popular and thieves’) ---- des pieds, _to be hanged_, “to cut caper-sauce,” or “to be scragged.” BÉNISSEUR, _m._ (familiar), _one who puts on a dignified and solemn air, as if about to give his blessing, and who delivers platitudes on virtue, &c._; _one who makes fine but empty promises_; _political man who professes to believe, and seeks to make others believe, that everything is for the best_. An historical illustration of this is General Changarnier thus addressing the House on the very eve of the Coup d’Etat which was to throw most of its members into prison, “Représentants du peuple, délibérez en paix!” BENOÎT, _m._ (popular), _woman’s bully_, “ponce.” See POISSON. La vrai’ vérité, C’est qu’ les Benoîts toujours lichent Et s’graissent les balots. Vive eul’ bataillon d’ la guiche, C’est nous qu’est les dos. =RICHEPIN=, _Chanson des Gueux_. BENOÎTON, _m._, BENOÎTONNE, _f._, _people eccentric in their ways and style of dress_. From a play of Sardou’s, _La Famille Benoîton_. BENOÎTONNER, _to live and dress after the style of the Benoîtons_ (which see). BENOÎTONNERIE, _f._, _style and ways of the Benoîtons_. BEQ, _m._ (engravers’), _work_. BÉQUET, _m._ (shoemakers’), _patch of leather sewn on a boot_; (wood engravers’) _small block_; (printers’) _a composition of a few lines_; _paper prop placed under a forme_. BÉQUETER (popular), _to eat_, “to peck,” or “to grub.” BÉQUILLARD, _m._ (popular), _old man_, _old_ “codger;” (thieves’) _executioner_. BÉQUILLARDE, _f._ (thieves’), _guillotine_. BÉQUILLE, _f._ (thieves’), _gallows_, “scrag.” Properly _crutch_. BÉQUILLÉ, _m._ (thieves’), _hanged person_, _one who has_ “cut caper sauce.” BÉQUILLER (popular), _to hang_; _to eat_, “to grub.” BÉQUILLEUR, _m._ (thieves’), _executioner_; _man who eats_. BERCE. Cheval qui se ----, _horse which rocks from side to side when trotting, which_ “wobbles.” BERDOUILLARD (popular), _man with a fat paunch_, “forty guts.”