BOUILLON, _m._ (familiar and popular), _rain_; _unsold numbers of a book or newspaper_; _financial or business losses_; ---- aveugle, _thin broth_; ---- de canard, _water_; ---- de veau, _mild literature_; ---- d’onze heures, _poison_; _drowning_; ---- gras, _sulphuric acid_ (an allusion to a case of vitriol-throwing by a woman named Gras); ---- pointu, _bayonet thrust_; _clyster_; ---- qui chauffe, _rain-cloud_. Boire le ----, _to die_. (Fishermens’) Bouillon de harengs, _shoal of herrings_. BOUILLONNER (popular), _to suffer pecuniary losses consequent on the failure of an undertaking_; _to have a bad sale_; _to eat at a bouillon restaurant_. BOUILLONNEUSE, _f._, _female who prepares bouillon at restaurants_. BOUILLOTE, _f._ (popular), vieille ----, _old fool_, “doddering old sheep’s head.” BOUIS, _m._ (thieves’), _whip_. BOUISER, _to whip_, “to flush.” BOULAGE, _m._ (popular), _refusal_; _snub_. BOULANGE, _f._, for boulangerie. BOULANGER, _m._ (thieves’), _charcoal dealer_; _the devil_, “old scratch,” or “Ruffin.” Le ---- qui met les damnés au four, _the devil_. Remercier son ----, _to die_. BOULANGERS, _m. pl._ (military), _formerly military convicts_ (an allusion to their light-coloured vestments). BOULE, _f._ (popular), _head_, “block.” Avoir la ---- détraquée, à l’envers, _to be crazy_, “wrong in the upper storey.” Boule de jardin, _bald pate_, “bladder of lard;” ---- de Siam, _grotesque head_; ---- de singe, _ugly face_. Bonne ----, _queer face_, “rum phiz.” Perdre la ----, _to lose one’s head_. Boule de neige, _negro_; ---- rouge, _gay girl of the Quartier de la Boule Rouge, Faubourg Montmartre_. Yeux en ---- de loto, _goggle eyes_. (Military) Boule de son, _loaf, bread_. (Thieves’) Boule, _a fair_; _prison loaf_; ---- de son étamé, _white bread_; ---- jaune, _pumpkin_. BOULEAU, _m._ See BÛCHERIE. BOULE-MICHE, _m._, abbreviation of _Boulevard Saint-Michel_. BOULENDOS, _m._ (boule en dos), (popular), _humpback_, or “lord.” BOULER (popular), _to thrash_, “to whop;” _to beat at a game, to deceive, to take in_. Envoyer ----, _to send to the deuce_ (old word bouler, _to roll along_). BOULET, _m._ (popular), _bore_; ---- à côtes, à queue, _melon_; ---- jaune, _pumpkin_. BOULETTE, _f._ (popular), de poivrot, _bunch of grapes_ (poivrot, slang term for _drunkard_). BOULEUR, _m._, BOULEUSE, _f._ (theatrical), _actor or actress who takes the part of absentees in the performance_. BOULEUX, _m._ (popular), _skittle player_. BOULEVARDER, _to be a frequenter of the Boulevards_. BOULEVARDIER, _m._, _one who frequents the Boulevards_; _journalist who is a frequenter of the Boulevard cafés_. Esprit ----, _kind of wit peculiar to the Boulevardiers_. BOULEVARDIÈRE, _f._ (familiar), _prostitute of a better class who walks the Boulevards_. Depuis cinq heures du soir la Boulevardière va du grand Hôtel à Brébant avec la régularité implacable d’un balancier de pendule.--=PAUL MAHALIN.=