(Thieves’) Vermicelles, or vermichels, blood-vessels.
Par le meg des fanandels, tu es sans raisiné dans les vermichels (sans sang dans les veines).—Balzac.
Vermillon, m. (thieves’), an Englishman, supposed to invariably sport a red coat.
Verminard, vermineux, m. (students’), contemptible man, “skunk.”
Vermine, f. (thieves’), lawyer, “land-shark.”
Vermois, m. (thieves’), blood, “claret.”
Vermoisé, adj. (thieves’), of a red colour.
Véronique, f. (rag-pickers’), lantern.
[Verre], m. (popular), de montre, the behind. Casser le —— de sa montre, to fall on one’s behind. (Gambling cheats’) Montrer le verre, more correctly le vert (tapis vert), en fleurs, one of two confederates engaged in a game of cards shows such a good array of trumps that lookers-on are induced to stake.
Verseuse, f. (familiar), waitress at certain cafés.