ENFRIMER (thieves’), _to peer into one’s face_.
ENGAGÉ, _adj._ (gamblers’), être ----, _to have lost heavily at some game_.
ENGAGER (sporting), _to enter a horse for a race_.
ENGAMÉ, _adj._ (thieves’), _enraged_; _rabid_.
ENGANTER (thieves’), _to seize_; _to steal_, “to nick.” En être enganté, _to be in love with_.
J’ai fait par comblance Gironde larguecapé,... Un jour à la Courtille, J’m’en étais enganté.
ENGERBER (thieves’), _to apprehend_, “to smug.” From gerbe, _a sheaf of corn_. See PIPER.
ENGLUER (thieves’), la chevêche, _to arrest a gang of rogues_.
ENGOURDI, _m._ (thieves’), _corpse_, or “cold meat.”
ENGRAILLER (thieves’), _to catch_, _to seize_; ---- l’ornie, _to catch a fowl, generally by means of a baited hook_ (old cant).
Je sais bien aquiger les luques, engrailler l’ornie.--_Le Jargon de l’Argot._ (_I know how to prepare pictures, to catch a fowl._)
ENGRAINER (popular), _to arrive_, “to crop up.”
ENGRAISSER (thieves’), un poupart, _to make preparations for a theft or murder_. Literally _to fatten a child_.
ENGROUILLER (popular), s’----, _to stick fast_; _to be inert, without energy_.
ENGUEULADE, ENGUEULAGE, synonymous of ENGUEULEMENT.
ENGUEULEMENT, _m._ (popular), _abuse in any but choice language_. Also _insults by an abusive and scurrilous journalist who runs down public or literary men in expressions strongly savouring of the gutter_. Fair specimens of this coarse kind of pen warfare may be found daily in at least one notorious Radical print, which would be thought very tame by its habitual readers if it had not a ready stock of abuse at its disposal, the most ordinary being voleur, bandit, maquereau, scélérat, porc, traître, vendu, ventru, ventripotent, jouisseur, idiot, crétin, gâteux, &c., &c.
ENLEVÉ, _adj._ (familiar), _spirited_. Un article ----, un discours ----, _spirited article or speech_.
ENLEVER (theatrical), _to play with spirit_; (general) ---- le ballon à quelqu’un, _to kick one_, “to root,” or “to land a kick.” (Thieves’) S’----, _to be famished_.
ENLEVEUR (theatrical), _actor who plays in dashing, spirited style_.
ENLUMINER (popular), s’----, _to be in the first stage of intoxication_, or “elevated.” See SCULPTER.
ENLUMINURE, _f._ (popular), _state of slight intoxication_. See POMPETTE.