Baume, m. (popular), d’acier, surgeons’ and dentists’ instruments; —— de porte-en-terre, poison.
Bausser (popular), to work, “to graft.”
Bavard, m. (popular), barrister, lawyer, “green bag;” (military) punishment leaf in a soldier’s book.
Bavarde, f. (thieves’), mouth, “muns,” or “bone box.”
Une main autour de son colas et l’autre dans sa bavarde pour lui arquepincer le chiffon ronge.—E. Sue.
Baver (popular), to talk, “to jaw;” —— des clignots, to weep, “to nap a bib;” —— sur quelqu’un, to speak ill of one, to backbite. Baver, also to chat. The expression is old.
Venez-y, varletz, chamberières,
Qui sçavez si bien les manières,
En disant mainte bonne bave.
Villon, 15th century.