GREFFIQUE, _f._ (roughs’), _the magistracy and lawyers_. GREFIER (Breton cant), _cat_. GRÊLE, _m. and f._ (popular), _master_, or “boss;” _master tailor_. Ils ne nous exploiteront plus en maîtres, ces grêles.--=MACÉ.= (Thieves’) Grêle, _row or fight_, “shindy.” Il va y avoir de la grêle, c’est un raille.--=E. SUE.= (Popular) Grêle, _pockmarks_. Ne pas s’être assuré contre la ----, _to be pockmarked_, or “to be cribbage-faced.” GRÊLESSE, _f._ (popular), _mistress of an establishment_. GRELOT, _m._ (popular), _voice_. C’est bien le son du grelot, si ce n’est pas la frimousse.--=BALZAC.= GRELOT, _tongue_, or “red rag.” Il en a un ----! _how he does jaw away_. Faire péter son ----, _to talk_, “to wag the red rag.” Mettre une sourdine à son ----, _to keep silent_, “to be mum.” Mets une sourdine à ton ----, _don’t talk so much_, “don’t shoot off your mouth” (Americanism). GRELU, or GRENU, _m._ (thieves’), _corn_. GRELUCHONNER (popular), _to be a_ “greluchon,” _that is, the lover of a married woman, or of a girl kept by another; or one who lives at the expense of a woman_. Voltaire has used the word greluchon with the first meaning. GRENADIER, _m._ (popular), _louse_, “grey” or “grey-backed un.” GRENAFE, GRENASSE, _f._ (thieves’), _barn_. GRENIER, _m._ (popular), à coups de poing, _drunkard’s wife_; ---- à coups de sabre, _soldier’s woman_; ---- à lentilles, _pockmarked face_, or “cribbage face;” ---- à sel, _head_, “tibby,” or “canister.” See TRONCHE. GRENOBLE. See CONDUITE. GRENOUILLARD, _m._ (popular), _one fond of the water for the inside or outside_. (Artists’) Faire ----, _to paint in a bold, dashing style_, after the manner of Delacroix. GRENOUILLE, _f._ (popular), _woman_. An insulting epithet; (military) _cash-box_. (General) Emporter la ----, _to abscond with the cash-box_. Manger la ----, _to spend for ones own purposes the contents of the cash-box, or funds entrusted to one’s keeping_. (Popular) Sirop de ----, _water_, “Adam’s ale.” GRENOUILLER (popular), _to drink water_. Had formerly the signification of _to frequent wine-shops_. GRENOUILLÈRE, _f._ (general), _swimming bath_. La Grenouillère is the name of a well-known swimming establishment on the bank of the Seine at Chatou, a place much patronized by “mashers” and more than fast ladies. GRENU, or GRELU, _m._ (thieves’), _corn_. GRENUCHE, _f._ (thieves’), _oats_. GRENUE, GRENUSE, _f._ (thieves’), _flour_. GRÈS, _m._ (thieves’), _horse_, or “prad.” Termed also “gail.” GRÉSILLONNER (popular), _to ask for credit_, “tick,” “jawbone,” or “day.” GRESSIER (thieves’), _to steal_, “to nick.” See GRINCHIR. GRÈVE, _f._ (thieves’), hirondelle de ----, _gendarme_. Executions formerly took place at the Place de Grève in front of the Hôtel de Ville, hence the expression. Des anges de ---- (obsolete), _porters_. GRÉVISTE, _m._ (popular), _workman on strike_. From grève, _strike_.