The above quotation is from a “complainte” on the murder of the Archbishop of Paris, Monseigneur Sibour, in the church Sainte-Geneviève, by a priest named Verger. A complainte is a kind of carol, or dirge, which has for a theme the account of a murder or execution. (Familiar) Crever l’œil au diable, _to succeed in spite of envious people_. Tu t’en ferais ----, _expressive of ironical refusal_. It may be translated by, “don’t you wish you may get it?” Se ----, _to eat to excess_, “to scorf.” CREVER À (printers’), _to stop composing at such and such a line_. CREVETTE, _f._ (popular), _prostitute_, “mot.” CRIBLAGE, CRIBLEMENT, _m._ (thieves’), _outcry, uproar_. CRIBLER (thieves’), _to cry out_; ---- à la grive, _to give a warning call_; _to call out_ “shoe-leather!” _to call out “police! thieves!“_ “to give hot beef.” On la crible à la grive, Je m’ la donne et m’esquive, Elle est pommée maron. =VIDOCQ.= CRIBLEUR, _m._ (thieves’), de frusques, _clothier_; ---- de lance, _water-carrier_; ---- de malades, _man whose functions are to call prisoners to a room where they may speak to visitors_; ---- de verdouze, a _fruiterer_. CRIC, or CRICQUE, _m._ (popular), _brandy_, called “French cream” in English slang. Faire ----, _to run away_, “to guy.” See PATATROT. CRIC! (military), _call given by a soldier about to spin a yarn to an auditory, who reply by a_ “crac!” _thus showing they are still awake_. After the preliminary cric! crac! has been bawled out, the auditory repeat all together as an introduction to the yarn: Cuiller à pot! Sous-pieds de guêtres! Pour l’enfant à naître! On pendra la crémaillère! Chez la meilleure cantinière! &c., &c. CRIC-CROC! (thieves’), _your health!_ CRIE, or CRIGNE, _f._ (thieves’), _meat_, “carnish.” CRIN, _m._ (familiar), être comme un ----, _to be irritable or irritated, to be_ “cranky,” or “chumpish.” CRINOLINE, _f._ (players’), _queen of cards_. CRIOLLE, _f._ (thieves’), _meat_, “carnish.” Morfiler de la ----, _to eat meat_. CRIOLLIER, _m._ (thieves’), _butcher_. CRIQUE, _m. and f._ (popular), _brandy_; _an ejaculation_. Je veux bien que la ---- me croque si je bois une goutte en plus de quatre litres par jour! _may I be_ “jiggered” _if I drink more than four litres a day!_ CRIQUER (popular), se ----, _to run away_, “to slope.” See PATATROT. CRIS DE MERLUCHE, _m. pl._ (popular), _frightful howling_; _loud complaints_. CRISTALLISER (students’), _to idle about in a sunny place_. CROC, abbreviation of escroc, _swindler_. CROCHE, _f._ (thieves’), _hand_, “famble,” or “daddle.” CROCHER (thieves’), _to ring_; _to pick a lock_, “to screw.” (Popular) Se ----, _to fight_. CROCODILE, _m._ (familiar), _creditor, or dun_; _usurer_; _foreign student at the military school of Saint-Cyr_. CROCQUE, _m._ (popular), _sou_. CROCS, _m. pl._ (popular), _teeth_, “grinders.” CROIRE (familiar), que c’est arrivé, _to believe too implicitly that a thing exists_; _to have too good an opinion of oneself_.