CASQUE, _m._ (popular), _hat_, “tile.” See TUBARD. Casque à auvent, _cap with a peak_; ---- à mèche, _cotton nightcap_. Avoir du ----, _to have a spirited, persuasive delivery_; _to speak with a quack’s coolness and facility_. An allusion to Mangin, a celebrated quack in warrior’s attire, with a large helmet and plumes. This man, who was always attended by an assistant who went by the name of Vert-de-gris, made a fortune by selling pencils. Avoir le ----, _to have a headache caused by potations_; _to have a fancy for a man_. Avoir son ----, _to be completely tipsy_. See POMPETTE. CASQUER (popular), _to pay_, or “to fork out;” _to fall blindly into a snare_; _to mistake_. CASQUETTE, _f._ (familiar and popular), _money lost at some game at a Café_. Une ---- à trois ponts, _a prostitute’s bully_, or “ponce,” thus termed on account of the tall silk cap sported by that worthy. See POISSON. Etre ----, _to be intoxicated_. See POMPETTE. (Familiar) Etre ----, _to have vulgar manners_, _to be a boor_, “roly-poly.” CASQUEUR, _m._ (theatrical), _spectator who is not on the free list_. CASSANT, _m._ (thieves’), _walnut tree_; (sailors’) _biscuit_. CASSANTES, _f. pl._ (thieves’), _teeth_, or “head-rails;” _nuts_; _walnuts_. CASSE, _f._ (popular), _chippings of pastry sold cheap_. Je t’en ----, _that’s not for you_. CASSE-GUEULE, _m._ (popular), _suburban dancing-hall; strong spirits_, or “kill devil.” CASSEMENT, _m._ (thieves’), de porte, _housebreaking_, “cracking a Crib.” CASSER, (thieves’), _to eat_, “to grub;” ---- du sucre, or se mettre à table, _to confess_; ---- du sucre, or ---- du sucre à la rousse, _to peach_, “to blow the gaff;” ---- la hane, _to steal a purse_, “to buz a skin;” ---- sa canne, _to sleep_, or “to doss;” _to be very ill_; _as a ticket-of-leave man, to break bounds_; _to die_; ---- sa ficelle, _to escape from the convict settlement_; (popular) ---- un mot, _to talk_; ---- du bec, _to have an offensive breath_; ---- du grain, _to do nothing of what is required_; ---- du sucre sur la tête de quelqu’un, _to talk ill of one in his absence, to backbite_; ---- la croustille, _to eat_, “to grub;” ---- la gueule à une négresse, _to drink a bottle of wine_; ---- la gueule à un enfant de chœur, _to drink a bottle of wine_ (red-capped like a chorister); ---- la marmite, _to quarrel with one’s bread and cheese_; ---- le cou à un chat, _to eat a rabbit stew_; ---- le cou à une négresse, _to discuss a bottle of wine_; ---- sa pipe, son câble, son crachoir, or son fouet, _to die_, “to kick the bucket,” “to croak.” See PIPE. Casser son œuf, _to have a miscarriage_; ---- son pif, _to sleep_, “to have a dose of balmy;” ---- son lacet, _to break off one’s connection with a mistress_, “to bury a moll;” ---- une roue de derrière, _to spend part of a five-franc piece_. Se la ----, _to get away_, _to move off_, “to hook it.” See PATATROT. N’avoir pas cassé la patte à coco, _to be dull-witted_, or “soft.” (Familiar)