passer par les armes, to exécute, shoot

Page 62. — i. prennent à témoin, appealto ; lit., " take for witness."

2. litote. This figure of speech consists in saying less than is really meant.

3. brave à trois i^ilSy Jîre-eater, a figure probably taken from velours à trois poils, velvet woven with three silk threads.

Page 53. — i . faisait feu de tous les journaux, worked the papers for ail they were worth ; lit., " fired ofï ail the papers."

Page 64. — i. Machiavel. The name of Machiavelli, the Italian statesman and historian, and author of the celebrated book on diplomatie conduct entitled Le Prince, has become somewhat unjustly the patronymic for ail uncnipulously cunning men, because of the principles of despotism and expediency laid down in that work. Machiavelli was born in Florence in 1469 and died in the same city in 1527.

Page 60. — I * malins, knowing ones.

Page 61. — I. bouchon, a favorite game among soldiers, consisting in knocking pennies oif a cork, at a distance of a f ew paces, ^ith a heavy coin. Piquet, a scientific card-game for two.

Page 62. — i . coryza, cold in the head.

Page 64. — i . faites Pappel nominal, call the rolL