CARNE, _f._ (popular), _worthless horse_, or “screw;” _opprobrious epithet applied to a woman, strumpet_; _woman of disreputable character_, “bed-fagot,” or “shake.” Etre ----, _to be lazy_. CAROTTAGE, _m._ (popular), _chouse_. CAROTTE, _f._ (military), _medical inspection_; ---- d’épaisseur, _great chouse_. (Familiar) Tirer une ---- de longueur, _to concoct a far-fetched story for the purpose of obtaining something from one, as money, leave of absence, &c._ (Theatrical) Avoir une ---- dans le plomb, _to sing out of tune, or with a cracked voice_; (popular) _to have an offensive breath_. Avoir ses carottes cuites, _to be dead_. (Thieves’) Tirer la ----, _to elicit secrets from one_, “to pump” one. Il s’agit de te faire arrêter pour être conduit au dépôt où tu tireras la carotte à un grinche que nous allons emballer ce soir.--=VIDOCQ.= CAROTTER (familiar), l’existence, _to live a wretched, poverty-stricken life_; ---- à la Bourse, _to speculate in a small way at the Stock Exchange_; (military) ---- le service, _to shirk one’s military duties_. CAROUBLAGE, _m._ (thieves’), _picking of a lock_. CAROUBLE, _f._ (thieves’), _skeleton key_, “betty,” or “twirl.” CAROUBLEUR, _m._ (thieves’), _thief who uses a picklock_, or “screwsman;” ---- à la flan, _thief of this description who operates at haphazard_; ---- au fric-frac, _housebreaker_, “panny-man,” “buster,” or “cracksman.” CARQUOIS, _m._ (popular), d’osier, _rag-picker’s basket_. CARRE, _f._ (thieves’), du paquelin, _the Banque de France_. Mettre à la ----, _to conceal_. CARRÉ, _m._ (students’), _second-year student in higher mathematics_; (thieves’) _room, or lodgings_, “diggings;” ---- des petites gerbes, _police court_; ---- du rebectage, _court of cassation_, a tribunal which revises cases already tried, and which has power to quash a judgment. CARREAU, _m._ (popular), de vitre, _monocular eyeglass_. Aller au ----, see ALLER. (Thieves’ and cads’) Carreau, _eye_, or “glazier;” ---- brouillé, _squinting eye_, or “boss-eye;” ---- à la manque, _blind eye_. Affranchir le ----, _to open one’s eye_. CARREAUX BROUILLÉS, _m. pl._ (popular), _house of ill-fame_, or “nanny-shop.” Such establishments which are under the surveillance of the police authorities have whitewashed window-panes and a number of vast dimensions over the street entrance. CARRÉE, _f._ (popular), _room_, “crib.” CARREFOUR, _m._ (popular), des écrasés, _a crossing of the Faubourg Montmartre_, a dangerous one on account of the great traffic. CARRER (popular and thieves’), se ----, _to conceal oneself_; _to run away_, “to brush;” ---- de la débine, to _improve one’s circumstances_. CARREUR, _m._ (thieves’), _receiver of stolen goods_, “fence.” Termed also “fourgue.” CARTAUDE, _f._ (thieves’), _printer’s shop_. CARTAUDÉ (thieves’), _printed_. CARTAUDER (thieves’), _to print_. CARTAUDIER (thieves’), _printer_.