CONDITION, _f._ (thieves’), _house_, “diggings,” or “hangs out.” Faire une ----, _to break into a house_, “to crack a crib.” Filer une ----, _to watch a house in view of an intended burglary_. (Popular) Acheter une ----, _to lead a new mode of life_, _to turn over a new leaf_. CONDUITE, _f._ (popular), faire la ----, _to drive away and thrash_. Faire la ---- de Grenoble, _to put one out of doors_. CONE, _f._ (thieves’), _death_. CONFIRMER (popular), _to box one’s ears_, “to warm the wax of one’s ears.” CONFITURE, _f._ (popular), _excrement_. CONFITURIER, _m._ (popular), _scavenger_, “rake-kennel.” CONFORTABLE, _m._ (popular), _glass of beer_. CONFRÈRE, _m._ (popular), de la lune, _injured husband_. CONI, _adj._ (thieves’), _dead_. CONILLER (popular), _to seek to escape_. Conil, _rabbit_. CONIR (thieves’), _to conceal_; _to kill_; “to cook one’s gruel.” See REFROIDIR. CONNAIS (popular), je la ----, _no news for me_; _do you see any green in my eye?_ _you don’t take an old bird with chaff_. CONNAISSANCE, _f._ (popular), ma ----, _my mistress_, _or sweetheart_, _my_ “young woman.” CONNAÎTRE (popular), le journal, _to be well informed_; _to know beforehand the menu of a dinner_; ---- le numéro, _to possess experience_; ---- le numéro de quelqu’un, _to be acquainted with one’s secrets, one’s habits_. La ---- dans les coins, _to be knowing_, _to know what’s o’clock_. An allusion to a horse clever at turning the corners in the riding school. Regardez-le partir, le gavroche qui la connaît dans les coins.--=RICHEPIN.= CONNERIE, _f._ (popular), _foolish action or thing_. From an obscene word which has the slang signification of _fool_. CONOBLER (thieves’), _to recognize_. CONOBRER (thieves’), _to know_. CONSCIENCE, _f._ (printers’), homme de ----, _typographer paid by the day or by the hour_. CONSCRAR, CONSCRIT, _m._, _first-term student at the “Ecole Normale,” a higher training-school for university professors_. CONSERVATOIRE, _m._ (popular), _pawnshop_. Elève du ---- de la Villette, _wretched singer_. La Villette is the reverse of a fashionable quarter. CONSERVES, _f._ (theatrical), _old plays_. Also _fragments of human flesh which have been thrown into the sewers or river by murderers, and which, when found, are taken to the “Morgue,” or Paris dead-house_. Je viens de préparer pour lui les conserves (les morceaux de chair humaine), l’os de l’égout Jacob et la cuisse des Saints-Pères (l’os retrouvé dans l’égout de la Rue Jacob et la cuisse repêchée au pont des Saints-Pères).--=MACÉ=, _Mon Premier Crime_. CONSIGNE, _f._ (military), à gros grains, _imprisonment in the cells_. CONSOLATION, _f._ (popular), _brandy_; _swindling game played by card-sharpers, by means of a green cloth chalked into small numbered spaces, and dice_. CONSOLE, _f._ (thieves’), _game played by card-sharpers or_ “broadsmen” _at races and fairs_. CONSOLER (popular), son café, _to add brandy to one’s coffee_.