Richepin, La Chanson des Gueux.
Aquilin (popular), faire son ——, to pout, or “to hang one’s latch-pan;” to turn up one’s nose.
Arabe, m. (popular), savage, unrelenting fellow, or “tartar.”
Araignée, f. (popular), bicycle with a large fly-wheel; —— de bastringue, female habituée of low dancing halls; —— de comptoir, counter jumper, or “knight of the yard;” —— de trottoir, dealer at a stall, or in the open air. Avoir une —— dans le plafond, to be cracked, to have “a bee in one’s bonnet.” See [Avoir].
Arbalète, f. (thieves’), neck-cross; —— d’antonne, de chique, de priante, church-cross.
Arbi, arbico, m. (army), Arab.
Arbif, m. (thieves’), violent man.
Arcasien, arcasineur, m. (thieves’), thief who employs the arcat ([which see]); a beggar who calls on people; cunning man.
[Arcat], m. (thieves’), monter un ——, to write a letter from prison to a person asking for an advance in cash on a supposed buried treasure which, later on, is to be pointed out to the donor. From arcane, mystery, hidden thing.