(med.) to congest.
_s’_=engorger=, _v.r._, to be obstructed, choked up; (med.) to be
congested.
=engoué=, =-e=, _adj._, infatuated with; wrapped up in; obstructed,
choked.
=engouement= _or_ =engoûment= (ān-goo-mān), _n.m._, infatuation; (med.
vet.) obstruction. _On ne saurait le faire revenir de son —_; it is
impossible to cure him of his infatuation.
=engouer=, _v.a._, to obstruct the throat; to infatuate.
_s’_=engouer=, _v.r._, to obstruct one’s throat; to be obstructed; to be
infatuated. _S’— d’une femme_; to be wrapped up in a woman.
=engouffrer=, _v.a._, to ingulf, to swallow up.
_s’_=engouffrer=, _v.r._, to be ingulfed; to blow hard; to rush (of
the wind in a narrow passage); to run into. _Le vent s’engouffre dans
la cheminée_; the wind rushes into the chimney. _Que de fortunes se
sont engouffrées dans cette entreprise!_ how many fortunes have been
swallowed up in that enterprise!
=engoulé=, =-e=, _adj._, gobbled up; (her.) engoulee.
=engouler=, _v.a._, to swallow up, to gobble up.
=engoulevent= (ān-gool-vān), _n.m._, (orni.) fern-owl; goat-sucker.
=engourdi=, =-e=, _adj._, torpid, benumbed, dull.
=engourdir=, _v.a._, to benumb, to make torpid; to dull, to make languid,
to enervate. _Le froid engourdit les mains_; cold benumbs one’s hands.
_L’oisiveté engourdit l’esprit_; idleness benumbs the mind.
_s’_=engourdir=, _v.r._, to get benumbed; to become torpid, enervated,
enfeebled.
=engourdissement= (ān-goor-dis-mān), _n.m._, numbness, torpor,
enervation. _Avoir un — au bras_; to have a numbness in the arm. _Tirer
quelqu’un de son —_; to rouse any one from his torpor.
=engrainer=, _v.a._, to feed with grain; to fill the mill-hopper.
=engrais=, _n.m._, rich pasture; fatting; manure, soil. _Mettre des bœufs
à l’—_; to put oxen to fatten.
=engraissement= (ān-grès-mān), _n.m._, fattening; corpulence.
=engraisser=, _v.a._, to fatten, to cram (poultry); to manure. _— des
bestiaux_; to fatten cattle.
=engraisser=, _v.n._, to become corpulent; to fatten; to thrive.
_s’_=engraisser=, _v.r._, to fatten, to grow fat, stout; to grow rich;
to grow thick or ropy. _S’— des misères publiques_; to fatten on public
misery.
=engranger=, _v.a._, (agri.) to get in, to house, to store.
=engravement= (ān-grav-mān), _n.m._, (nav.) stranding.
=engraver=, _v.a._, to run aground, to strand; (nav.) to place, to hide,
things in the ballast.
=engraver=, _v.n._, _s’—_, _v.r._, (nav.) to get embedded in the sand.
=engrêlé=, =-e=, _adj._, (of lace) purled; (her.) engrailed.
=engrêler=, _v.a._, (her.) to engrail; to purl.
=engrêlure=, _n.f._, purl; (her.) engrailing.
=engrenage=, _n.m._, gear, gearing (mec.). _À —_; serrated. _Roue d’—_;
brake-wheel.
=engrener=, _v.a._, to put corn (in the mill-hopper); to feed with corn;
to throw into gear, to engage (mec.).
_s’_=engrener=, _v.r._, to work into each other (of toothed wheels); to
be put in gear. _Ces roues s’engrènent bien_; these wheels work well into
each other.
=engrener=, _v.n._, to put corn (into the mill-hopper); to work into each
other (of toothed wheels); to begin. _Il a bien engrené_; he has begun
well.
=engrenure=, _n.f._, toothing, cogging.
=engrosser=, _v.a._, (l.ex.) to make pregnant, to get with child. _v.n._,
to be with child.
_s’_=engrumeler=, _v.r._, to clot, to coagulate.
*=enguenillé=, =-e= (āng-), _part._, tattered.
*=engueniller=, _v.a._, to clothe in tatters.
*_s’_=engueniller=, _v.r._, to be clothed in tatters.
=enhardir=, _v.a._, to embolden, to encourage. _Ce succès l’avait
enhardi_; that success had emboldened him.
_s’_=enhardir=, _v.r._, to make bold, to grow bold. _Il s’est enhardi à
parler en public_; he made bold to speak in public.
=enharmonique=, _adj._, (mus.) enharmonic.
=enharnachement=, _n.m._, harnessing, trappings.
=enharnacher=, _v.a._, to harness; to rig out, to deck out, to accoutre.
_Vous voilà plaisamment enharnaché_; you are oddly accoutred.
=enherber=, _v.a._, to turn into pasture land.
=énieller=, _v.a._, to clear of corn-cockles.
=énigmatique=, _adj._, enigmatical.
=énigmatiquement= (-tik-mān), _adv._, enigmatically.
=énigme=, _n.f._, enigma, riddle. _Deviner une —_; to guess a riddle.
_Vous parlez par —s_; you speak in riddles. _Proposer une —_; to put a
riddle. _Mot d’une —_; answer to a riddle.
=enivrant=, =-e=, _adj._, intoxicating.
=enivré=, =-e=, _part._, intoxicated.
=enivrement=, _n.m._, intoxication.
=enivrer=, _v.a._, to inebriate, to intoxicate; to elate. _La bière
enivre comme le vin_; beer intoxicates as well as wine. _La prospérité
nous enivre_; prosperity elates us.
_s’_=enivrer=, _v.r._, to get intoxicated; to be elated (with). _Il s’est
enivré à ce repas_; he got intoxicated at that diner. _S’— d’espérance_;
to be elated with hope. _S’— de son vin_; to drink alone and to excess;
to have too good an opinion of one’s self.
=enjabler=, _v.a._, to bottom _or_ head (a cask).
=enjaler=, _v.a._, (nav.) to stock (an anchor).
=enjambée=, _n.f._, stride. _Faire de grandes —s_; to take long strides.
=enjambement= (ān-jān-bmān), _n.m._, (poet.) running of the sense into
the next line; overlapping; encroaching.
=enjamber=, _v.n._, to stride; to project, to encroach upon; (poet.) to
overlap, to encroach.
=enjamber=, _v.a._, to stride over, to skip _or_ leap over.
=enjaveler= (ān-ja-vlé), _v.a._, (agri.) to sheaf.
=enjeu=, _n.m._, stake (at play). _Retirer son —_; to withdraw one’s
stake; to declare off.
=enjoindre=, _v.a._, to enjoin, to charge, to direct, to command, to
prescribe. _Dieu nous enjoint d’observer ses lois_; God commands us to
observe his laws. _Il lui est enjoint de_; he is directed to.
=enjôlement=, _n.m._, wheedling, coaxing, inveigling.
=enjôler=, _v.a._, to coax, to wheedle, to inveigle.
=enjôleu-r=, _n.m._, =-se=, _n.f._, wheedler, coaxer.
=enjolivement= (-liv-mān), _n.m._, embellishment, decoration, ornament,
set-off, flourish.
=enjoliver=, _v.a._, to embellish, to adorn, to set off, to ornament, to
beautify.
=enjoliveur=, _n.m._, (b.s.) embellisher.
=enjolivure=, _n.f._, set-off, ornament, embellishment.
=enjoué=, =-e=, _adj._, playful, sprightly; lively, sportive. _Il a
l’humeur —e_; he is of a playful disposition. _Il écrit d’un style —_; he
writes in a sportive style.
=enjouement= _or_ =enjoûment= (ān-joo-mān), _n.m._, playfulness,
sportiveness, sprightliness, liveliness, humor. _Avec —_; playfully.
=enkysté=, =-e=, _adj._, (med.) encysted.
_s’_=enkyster=, _v.r._, to become encysted.
=enlacement= (ān-las-mān), _n.m._, lacing, entwining; interweaving,
entanglement.
=enlacer=, _v.a._, to lace; to entwine; to twist; to interlace; to clasp;
to interweave. _— quelqu’un dans ses bras_; to clasp in one’s arms.
_s’_=enlacer=, _v.r._, to entwine; to twist; to be interlaced.
=enlaidir=, _v.a._, to make ugly, to disfigure.
=enlaidir=, _v.n._, to grow ugly, to be disfigured.
=enlaidissement= (-dis-mān), _n.m._, ugliness; disfigurement.
=enlèvement= (ān-lèv-mān), _n.m._, carrying off; removal; carrying off
forcibly, kidnaping; abduction; translation (to heaven); buying up,
monopoly. _L’— des Sabines_; the rape of the Sabines.
=enlever=, _v.a._, to lift, to raise; to carry, to carry off; to carry
away; to rescue; to pick out; to carry away forcibly, to kidnap; to take
off, to clear away, to remove; to sweep off; to charm, to delight, to
burn (the mouth). _On lui a enlevé sa femme_; his wife has been carried
off. _On lui a enlevé ses meubles_; his furniture has been removed.
_Enlevez cela de dessus la table_; take that off the table. _— une
place_; (milit.) to carry a town. _— la peau_; to flay the skin. _La mort
l’a enlevé à la fleur de son âge_; death carried him off in his prime. _—
des taches_; to take out stains. _— tous les prix_; to carry off all the
prizes. _Cela enlève la bouche_; that burns the mouth. _Enlevé!_ carried!
done! _Se faire — par_; to elope with.
_s’_=enlever=, _v.r._, to rise, to be lifted; to come off, to peel off;
to come out; to go off (of goods on sale); to get into a passion.
=enleveur=, _n.m._, kidnaper, abductor, ravisher.
=enlier=, _v.a._, (mas.) to bond, to bind (stones).
=enlisement=, _n.m._, ingulfing, swallowing up (in sand).
_s’_=enliser=, _v.r._, to be ingulfed, swallowed up.
=enluminer=, _v.a._, to color, to illuminate, to flush (the complexion);
(lit.) to overload with ornaments. _Visage enluminé_; flushed _or_ red
face.
_s’_=enluminer=, _v.r._, to rouge, to paint. _S’— la trogne_ (triv.); to
get a red nose (from drinking).
=enlumineu-r=, _n.m._, =-se=, _n.f._, map _or_ print colorer; illuminator.
=enluminure=, _n.f._, coloring; colored print; tinsel.
=ennéagone= (è-n-né-), _n.m._, (geom.) enneagon.
=ennéagonal=, _adj._, nonagon, enneagonal.
=ennéandrie= (è-n-né-), _n.f._, (bot.) enneandria.
=ennemi=, _n.m._, =-e=, _n.f._, (è-n-mi), enemy, foe; thing prejudicial.
_— déclaré_; open _or_ avowed enemy. _C’est autant de pris sur l’—_; it
is so much gained from the enemy. _Il n’y a pas de petit —_; every enemy
is to be feared.
=ennemi=, =-e=, _adj._, hostile, inimical; injurious; adverse, contrary,
hurtful, prejudicial; (paint.) unfriendly. _La fortune —e_; adverse
fortune. _L’armée —e_; the enemy.
=ennoblir=, _v.a._, to ennoble, to dignify, to exalt.
_s’_=ennoblir=, _v.r._, to be ennobled, exalted. _S’— de_; to be proud
of, to rejoice at.
=ennui=, _n.m._, tediousness, weariness; tedium, spleen, vexation,
boredom; tiresome thing; nuisance. _Quel —!_ what a nuisance!
=ennuyant=, =-e=, _adj._, annoying, tedious, irksome, tiresome. _Cela est
fort —_; that is very tiresome. _Temps —_; trying weather.
=ennuyer=, _v.a._, to tire, to weary, to be tiresome, to be tedious, to
tease, to annoy, to bother, to vex, to bore. _Cela m’ennuie_; that annoys
me. _Cela m’ennuie à la mort_; that bores me to death.
_s’_=ennuyer=, _v.r._, to be wearied, to have a bad time of it, to tire
one’s self, to feel dull, to be bored. _Il s’ennuie de tout_; he wearies
of everything.
=ennuyeusement= (ān-nui-ieûz-mān), _adv._, tediously, irksomely.
=ennuyeu-x=, =-se=, _n._ and _adj._, tiresome person, bore; tedious,
wearisome, dull, tiresome; annoying, provoking, vexing. _Livre —_; dull,
tedious book.
=énoncé=, _n.m._, statement; (geom.) enunciation, assertion, déclaration,
terms.
=énoncer=, _v.a._, to state, to express, to declare, to utter, to word,
to enunciate.
_s’_=énoncer=, _v.r._, to express one’s self; to be expressed. _Il
s’énonce bien_; he expresses himself well. _Il n’a pas le don de s’—_; he
has not the gift of expressing himself clearly.
=énonciati-f=, =-ve=, _adj._, enunciative, enunciatory.
=énonciation=, _n.f._, enunciation, delivery, utterance; statement;
expression, wording.
*=enorgueillir= (ān-nor-ghĕ-yir), _v.a._, to make proud, to elevate, to
puff up.
*_s’_=enorgueillir= (ān-nor-ghĕ-yir), _v.r._, to be, to grow proud of, to
be puffed up, to become elated, to glory in, to pride one’s self upon.
=énorme=, _adj._, enormous, huge, atrocious, heinous. _Crime —_; heinous
crime.
=énormément=, _adv._, enormously, hugely, immensely, beyond measure.
=énormité=, _n.f._, enormousness, hugeness, vastness; enormity, atrocity,
heinousness.
=énouage=, _n.m._, burling, picking.
=énouer=, _v.a._, to pick cloth; to burl.
☉=enquérant=, =-e=, _adj._, inquisitive, prying.
_s’_=enquérir= (s’enquérant, enquis), _v.r._, to inquire, to ask, to make
inquiries. _Il faut s’— de la vérité du fait_; we must inquire into the
truth of the matter.
=enquête=, _n.f._, inquiry, inquest; investigation, examination,
commission. _— en matière criminelle_; criminal investigation. _Ordonner
une —_; to direct an inquiry to be made; to appoint a commission of
inquiry.
☉_s’_=enquêter=, _v.r._, to inquire, to care for.
=enraciné=, =-e=, _adj._, rooted, inveterate, deep seated.
=enraciner=, _v.a._, to root, to implant. _Des préjugés enracinés_;
inveterate prejudices.
_s’_=enraciner=, _v.r._, to take root, to become rooted. _Il ne faut pas
laisser s’— les maux_; evils must not be allowed to take root.
=enragé=, =-e=, _part._, mad, rabid, desperate, raging, enraged;
obstinate, determined. _Manger de la vache —e_; to know hard times; to
undergo great hardships. _Un chien —_; a mad dog.
=enragé=, _n.m._, madman.
=enrageant=, =-e= (-jān, -t), _adj._, vexing, maddening.
=enrager=, _v.n._, to be mad, to run mad, to go mad, to be enraged, to
fume; to stamp with rage. _Faire —_; to madden. _— contre quelqu’un_; to
be enraged against any one. _Il n’enrage pas pour mentir_; he makes light
of telling lies.
=enraiement= _or_ =enrayement=, _n.m._, putting on the drag, skidding;
locking.
=enrayer=, _v.a._, to put spokes to; to skid (a wheel), to put on the
drag; to apply the brake; (agri.) to plow the first furrow; (fig.) to
stop; to keep down, to moderate, to stem.
=enrayer=, _v.n._, to put on the drag, to skid (of a wheel); (fig.) to
keep down, to moderate, to check.
=enrayure=, _n.f._, drag, skid; lock-chain.
=enrégimenter=, _v.a._, to embody, to form into regiments; to enroll.
=enregistrable=, _adj._, registrable.
=enregistré=, =-e=, _adj._, registered, recorded.
=enregistrement=, _n.m._, registering, registry, entry, enrollment.
_Faire l’—_; to register.
=enregistrer=, _v.a._, to register, to enter in a register, to enroll, to
record.
=enregistreur=, _n.m._, registrar.
=enrêner=, _v.a._, to rein in, to tie by the reins.
=enrênoire=, _n.f._, peg for tying reins.
=enrhumer=, _v.a._, to give a cold to any one. _Je suis enrhumé_; I have
a cold. _Être enrhumé du cerveau_; to have a cold in the head.
_s’_=enrhumer=, _v.r._, to catch cold.
=enrichi=, _n.m._, =-e=, _n.f._, upstart.
=enrichir=, _v.a._, to enrich, to make rich; to adorn, to embellish; to
store. _— son esprit_; to enrich one’s mind.
_s’_=enrichir=, _v.r._, to enrich one’s self with, to grow rich, to
thrive; to be stored. _S’— des dépouilles d’autrui_; to thrive on the
spoils of others.
=enrichissement= (-shis-mān), _n.m._, enriching, embellishment, adornment.
=enrôlement= (ān-rôl-măn), _n.m._, enlisting, enlistment, enrollment.
=enrôler=, _v.a._, to enlist, to enroll.
_s’_=enrôler=, _v.r._, to enroll one’s self, to enlist.
=enroué=, =-e=, _adj._, hoarse, husky.
=enrouement= _or_ =enroûment= (ān-roo-mān), _n.m._, hoarseness,
huskiness.
=enrouer=, _v.a._, to make hoarse.
_s’_=enrouer=, _v.r._, to become, to get, hoarse, husky.
*=enrouiller=, _v.a._, to rust, to make rusty. _L’humidité enrouille le
fer_; damp rusts iron.
_s’_=enrouiller=, _v.r._, to grow, to get rusty.
=enroulement= (ān-rool-mān), _n.m._, rolling up; (arch.) scroll.
=enrouler=, _v.a._, to roll, to roll up, to twist, to coil.
_s’_=enrouler=, _v.r._, to roll one’s self up; to roll up; to twist round.
=enrubanner=, _v.a._, to deck out with ribbons.
_s’_=enrubanner=, _v.r._, to deck one’s self out with ribbons; to adorn
one’s self too much.
=enrue=, _n.f._, large furrow.
=ensablement=, _n.m._, sand-bank; ballasting.
=ensabler=, _v.a._, to run aground, to strand; to cover with sand; to
ballast.
_s’_=ensabler=, _v.r._, to run aground; to sink in sand; to be blocked up
with sand.
=ensacher=, _v.a._, to bag.
=ensaisinement=, _n.m._, (feudal law) acknowledging a purchaser of land
as a tenant.
=ensaisiner=, _v.a._, to put in possession of property; (feudal law) to
acknowledge a purchaser of land as a tenant.
=ensanglanter=, _v.a._, to make bloody, to stain with blood.
=enseignable=, _adj._, teachable.
*=enseignant=, =-e=, _adj._, teaching. _Corps —_; university; body of
teachers; staff.
*=enseigne=, _n.f._, mark, sign, sign-board; ensign (flag); ☉ensigncy;
streamer (flag). _n.m._, ensign (officer), standard-bearer. _— de
vaisseau_; sub-lieutenant. _À bonnes —s_; deservedly; on sure grounds.
_Être logé à même —_; to be in the same predicament. _À telles —s que_;
so much so that; as proof. _À bon vin point d’—_; good wine needs no bush.
*=enseignement= (ān-sègn-mān), _n.m._, precept, instruction, teaching,
teaching profession; tuition; lesson. ☉_pl._, (jur.) proof. _Il est dans
l’—_; he is a teacher, a master.
*=enseigner=, _v.a._, to teach, to teach how to, to instruct; to show,
to inform, to direct to. _Enseignez-nous le chemin_; show us the way.
_Enseignez-nous la maison_; direct us to the house.
=ensellé=, =-e=, _adj._, saddle-backed.
=ensemble=, _adv._, together, conjointly, at the same time. _Mêler —_; to
mix together. _Ils ne sont pas bien —_; they are not friends.
=ensemble=, _n.m._, whole, general effect; mass; uniformity; harmony.
_Tout cela forme un assez bel —_; all that forms a respectable whole.
_Morceau d’—_; a concerted piece of music; part music. _Le tout —_; the
whole, the general effect. _Mouvement d’—_; combined movement.
=ensemencement= (āns-māns-mān), _n.m._, (agri.) sowing.
=ensemencer=, _v.a._, to sow. _S’—_; to be sowed.
=enserrer=, _v.a._, ☉to contain, to inclose; to lock up; to encompass, to
hem in; (gard.) to put into a greenhouse.
=ensevelir= (ān-sĕ-vlir), _v.a._, to shroud, to put in a shroud; to
bury; to swallow up, to entomb, to ingulf; to engross; to absorb. _— les
morts_; to bury the dead. _Être enseveli dans le chagrin_; to be absorbed
in grief.
_s’_=ensevelir=, _v.r._, to be buried; to bury one’s self.
=ensevelissement= (ān-sĕ-vlis-mān), _n.m._, putting in a shroud; burying,
burial.
=ensevelisseu-r=, _n.m._, =-se=, _n.f._, layer-out.
=ensiforme=, _adj._, ensiform, sword-shaped.
=ensoleillé=, =-e=, _adj._, sunny, bathed in sunshine.
=ensorceler=, _v.a._, to bewitch. _Cette femme l’a ensorcelé_; that woman
has bewitched him.
=ensorceleu-r=, _n.m._, =-se=, _n.f._, bewitcher. _adj._, bewitching.
=ensorcellement= (-sèl-mān), _n.m._, bewitchment.
=ensoufrer=, _v.a._, to dip in brimstone.
=ensuite=, _adv._, after, afterwards, then; in the next place; what
then? what next? what of that! well! _Vous irez là —_; you will go there
afterwards. _— il me dit_; then he told me. _Et —?_ what then?
=ensuite=, _prep._, after (old). _— de cela_; after that. _— de quoi_;
after which.
☉=ensuivant=, _adj._, following. _V._ =suivant=.
_s’_=ensuivre=, _v.r._, to follow, to result, to ensue, to spring, to
proceed. _Il s’ensuit que vous avez tort_; it follows that you are in the
wrong. _Il ne s’ensuit pas que j’aie tort_; it does not follow that I am
wrong. _De grands malheurs s’ensuivirent_; great misfortunes resulted
from it. [This verb is only used in the third person, singular and
plural.]
=entablement=, _n.m._, (arch.) entablature; entablement; tablet.
_s’_=entabler=, _v.r._, (man.) to entable.
=entacher=, _v.a._, to taint, to infect; to sully, to tarnish.
*=entaille=, _n.f._, notch, gash; (carp.) mortise; groove.
*=entailler=, _v.a._, to notch; to cut away.
*=entaillure=, _n.f._, notch.
=entame=, _n.f._, first cut, first _or_ outside slice (of a loaf).
=entamer=, _v.a._, to make an incision, to cut, to make the first cut;
to broach, to begin; to break into; (milit.) to break through; (b.s.)
to encroach, upon; (b.s.) to impair; to injure; to prevail upon. _— la
peau_; to cut the skin. _— un pain_; to begin a loaf. _— d’un coup de
dent_; to bite into. _— une matière_, _un sujet_; to begin, to broach a
subject. _— la réputation de quelqu’un_; to injure any one’s reputation.
=entamure=, _n.f._, cut; first cut; incision; grazing; opening, beginning.
=entassement= (ān-tas-mān), _n.m._, heap, accumulation, pile; crowding.
=entasser=, _v.a._, to heap, to heap up, to pile up; to hoard, to hoard
up; to accumulate; to cram; to huddle, to pack together. _— des écus_; to
hoard up money. _Personne entassée_; thick-set person.
=entasseur=, _n.m._, hoarder, heaper.
=ente=, _n.f._, graft, block, tree bearing a graft; (paint.) handle (of a
brush).
=entement=, _n.m._, grafting; joining.
=entendement= (ān-tand-mān), _n.m._, understanding; judgment, head, sense.
=entendeur=, _n.m._, hearer, understander. _A bon — demi-mot suffit_ or
_a bon — salut_; a word to the wise is sufficient.
=entendre=, _v.a._, to hear; to understand; to know; to expect, to
require, to intend; to mean, to think proper. _À vous —_; according
to you. _J’ai entendu dire_; I heard some people say. _Il n’est pire
sourd que celui qui ne veut pas —_; none so deaf as those who won’t
hear. _— les témoins_; to hear the witnesses. _Il entend un peu
l’anglais_; he understands English a little. _— mal_; to misunderstand.
_Entendons-nous_; let us come to a right understanding. _— à demi-mot_;
to take the hint. _Donner à —_; to intimate, to hint. _Ne pas — malice_;
to mean no harm. _Il a fait allusion à votre disgrâce, mais sans y —
malice_; he alluded to your mishap, but he did not mean any harm. _—
raison_; to listen to reason. _— raillerie_; to take a joke. _Il n’entend
pas raillerie_; he cannot take a joke. _Il n’entend pas la raillerie_;
he is no hand at jokes. _— la messe_, _— les vêpres_; to attend mass,
vespers. _Il entend bien son métier_; he knows his trade very well. _Cet
homme n’entend rien aux affaires_; that man knows nothing about business.
_Qu’entendez-vous par là?_ what do you mean by that? _Chacun fait comme
il l’entend_; everybody does as he thinks proper.
_s’_=entendre=, _v.r._, to hear one another; to understand one another;
to be heard; to be understood; to act in concert with, to have a secret
understanding with; to come to an arrangement with; to come to terms
with; to agree with, to be on good terms with; to be skillful in; to
be a judge of. _Le bruit est si grand qu’on ne s’entend pas_; there
is so much noise that we cannot hear one another speak. _Le canon de
Waterloo s’entendait à dix lieues du champ de bataille_; the cannon
of Waterloo were heard at a distance of ten leagues from the field of
battle. _On l’accuse de s’— avec l’ennemi_; he is accused of acting in
concert with the enemy. _S’— à une chose_; to be skillful in a thing.
_Il ne s’entend pas mal à cela_; he is pretty well up in that. _S’— en
une chose_; to understand how to do a thing. _Il s’entend en musique_;
he understands music. _Je m’entends bien_; I know very well what I mean.
_Ils s’entendent pour me nuire_; they have laid their heads together to
injure me. _Ils s’entendent comme larrons en foire_; they are as thick as
thieves. _Cela s’entend_ or _cela s’entend bien_; let it be understood;
of course, as a matter of course, to be sure.
=entendre=, _v.n._, to hear, to hear of; to approve of, to consent
to; to listen to. _— dur_; _— de corne_; to be hard of hearing; to
misunderstand. _— clair_; to be quick of hearing. _Ne savoir auquel —_;
not to know whom to listen to, which to attend to first. _Il n’entend pas
de cette oreille-là_; he is deaf on that side, _or_ he does not see it in
that light. _J’entends que vous restiez avec moi_; I expect you to remain
with me.
=entendu=, =-e=, _adj._, heard; understood; agreed; arranged; managed;
intelligent, skillful. _Un homme bien — aux affaires_; a man well up in
business matters. _Faire l’—_; to put on a knowing look. _—!_ all right,
agreed. _C’est —_; that’s a bargain, that’s settled.
=enténébrer=, _v.a._, to involve in darkness; to wrap in darkness, in
night.
=entente=, _n.f._, meaning; skill, judgment, understanding, agreement;
harmony. _Mots à double —_; ambiguous words, with a double meaning. _L’—
est au diseur_; everybody understands his own meaning best. _L’— du
coloris_; skill in coloring.
=enter=, _v.a._, to graft, to ingraft. _— de nouveau_; to regraft. _— en
écusson_; to bud, to ineye.
=entérinement= (-ri-n-mān), _n.m._, judicial ratification, confirmation.
=entériner=, _v.a._, to ratify, to confirm.
=entérique=, _adj._, (med.) enteric.
=entérite=, _n.f._, (med.) enteritis.
=enterrement= (ān-tèr-mān), _n.m._, burial, funeral, interment. _Billet
d’—_; invitation to a funeral. _Être prié à un —_; to be invited to a
funeral.
=enterrer=, _v.a._, to bury, to inter, to inhume; to survive, to eclipse,
to surpass; to end, to terminate; to sink (of money). _— son secret_; to
bury one’s secret. _Molière a enterré tous ses devanciers_; Molière threw
all his predecessors into the shade. _— la synagogue avec honneur_; to
terminate an affair with honor.
_s’_=enterrer=, _v.r._, to bury one’s self; to see no company; to go with
his head to the ground (of a horse).
=enterreur=, _n.m._, burier; (_zoöl._) sexton-beetle.
=en-tête=, _n.m._, (_—-—s_) heading; head; headline. _— de facture_;
bill-head.
=entêté=, =-e=, _n.m.f._ and _adj._, stubborn person; obstinate, wayward,
self-willed, stubborn; infatuated. _— comme un âne_; as stubborn as a
mule. _Il est — de cette femme_; he is infatuated with that woman.
=entêtement= (ān-tê-tmān), _n.m._, stubbornness, waywardness; obstinacy;
infatuation. _Son — le perdra_; his stubbornness will be his ruin.
=entêter=, _v.a._, to affect the head, to make giddy, to intoxicate;
to prepossess, to infatuate, to render vain; to head (pins). _Vin qui
entête_; heady wine. _Les louanges nous entêtent_; praises are apt to
make us conceited.
_s’_=entêter=, _v.r._, to become stubborn, wayward, obstinate; to be
infatuated with, to take a strong fancy to, to be bent upon; to do a
thing at any price.
=entêteu-r=, _n.m._, =-se=, _n.f._, header (of pins).
=enthousiasme=, _n.m._, enthusiasm, rapture, ecstasy.
=enthousiasmer=, _v.a._, to enrapture, to render enthusiastic. _Il est
enthousiasmé de cette musique_; he is in raptures with that music.
_s’_=enthousiasmer=, _v.r._, to become enthusiastic; to be in raptures.
=enthousiaste=, _n.m.f._, enthusiast.
=enthousiaste=, _adj._, enthusiastic.
=enthymème=, _n.m._, (log.) enthymeme.
=entiché=, =-e=, _part._, (l.u.) infected (fruit); tainted, marred;
infatuated with, wedded to; overfond of, overpartial to. _Fruit —_;
spoiled fruit.
=enticher=, _v.a._, to taint, to infect; to infatuate. _Vous l’avez
entiché de ce système_; you have infatuated him with that system.
_s’_=enticher=, _v.r._, to become infected; infatuated with; wedded to.
_Il s’est entiché de cette femme_; that woman has bewitched him.
=enti-er=, =-ère= (-tié, -tiè-r), _adj._, entire, whole, complete, total;
obstinate, positive, self-willed; (arith.) integral. _Une —e soumission_;
complete submission. _Cheval —_; stone-horse, stallion, entire horse.
_Pain —_; whole loaf. _Nombre —_; (arith.) integer. _Il est très —_; he
is very self-willed _or_ obstinate.
=entier= (-tié), _n.m._, entireness; (arith.) integral. _En son —_; at
full length; in full, bodily, wholly.
=entièrement= (ān-tièr-mān), _adv._, entirely, wholly. _— ruiné_; utterly
ruined.
=entité=, _n.f._, (philos.) entity.
=entoilage=, _n.m._, lining; pasting _or_ mounting on canvas.
=entoiler=, _v.a._, to line; to mount upon canvas.
=entoir=, _n.m._, (hort.) grafting-knife.
=entomologie=, _n.f._, entomology.
=entomologique=, _adj._, entomological.
=entomologiste=, _n.m._, entomologist.
=entonnement= (ān-to-n-mān), _n.m._, tunning, barreling, casking.
_s’_=entonner=, _v.r._, (of the wind) to rush into, to blow down. _Le
vent s’entonne dans la cheminée_; the wind blows down the chimney.
=entonner=, _v.a._, to tun, to barrel, to put into casks; (mus.) to begin
to sing; to intonate, to strike up; to celebrate, to quaff. _Il entonne
bien_; (pop.) he drinks hard. _— une chanson à boire_; to strike up a
drinking song.
=entonnerie=, _n.f._, place where beer is barreled.
=entonnoir=, _n.m._, funnel; (anat.) funnel. _Fleurs en —_; funnel-shaped
flowers; (fig. and pop.) tippler, hard-drinker, toper.
=entorse=, _n.f._, sprain; strain, twist, shock. _Il s’est donné une — au
pied_; he has sprained his foot.
*=entortillage=, _n.m._, entanglement, intricacy, obscurity; subterfuge;
circumlocution, equivocation; involved _or_ obscure discourse.
*=entortillé=, =-e=, _part._, twined, wound about; twisted; (of style)
involved, obscure.
*=entortillement=, _n.m._, winding, twining, twisting, entanglement;
intricacy, obscurity. _L’— d’un serpent_; the twisting of a serpent.
*=entortiller=, _v.a._, to wrap, to roll round, to wind, to coil; to
twist, to distort; to get round, to get the better of. _Laissez-moi
tranquille, vous m’entortillez_; (pop.) leave me alone, you bother me.
_s’_=entortiller=, _v.r._, to twist round, to wind round; to twine.
=entour=, _n.m._, [always employed in the plural, save in the adverbial
expression: _À l’—_; around]. _—s_; environs, adjacent parts; persons
around one. _Prendre les —s_; to gain over to one’s interest the persons
around any one.
=entourage=, _n.m._, frame; setting, mounting, (of jewelry); confidants,
advisers, friends, servants, relations, circle, attendants.
=entourer=, _v.a._, to inclose, to surround, to encompass; to hem round.
_— une ville de murailles_; to encompass a town with walls. _Entouré de
terre_; land-locked. _— quelqu’un de soins_; to lavish attentions upon
any one.
=entournure=, _n.f._, arm-hole; sloping (of sleeves).
=en-tout-cas=, _n.m._, (_—_) sun-shade.
_s’_=entr’accorder=, _v.r._, to agree together.
_s’_=entr’accuser=, _v.r._, to accuse one another.
=entr’acte=, _n.m._, (_—-—s_) (thea.) interval (between the acts);
interlude, intermede. _Dans l’—_; between the acts. _Faire de longs —s_;
to have long intervals, waits.
_s’_=entr’admirer=, _v.r._, to admire one another.
_s’_=entr’aider=, _v.r._, to help, to aid, one another.
*=entrailles=, _n.f.pl._, entrails, bowels, intestines, inward parts;
feelings, tenderness, heart; pity. _Elle a pour moi des — de mère_; she
has a motherly affection for me. _Cet acteur a des —s_; this actor has
feeling.
_s’_=entr’aimer=, _v.r._, to love one another.
=entrain=, _n.m._, warmth; heartiness; spirit, spirits; animation; life;
go.
=entraînant=, =-e=, _adj._, that carries away, captivating, inspiriting,
seductive. _Un style —_; a captivating style. _Eloquence —e_; winning
eloquence.
=entraînement= (ān-trè-n-mān), _n.m._, impulse, sway, prevalence;
rapture, enthusiasm; temptation, allurement; training (of horses for
races).
=entraîner=, _v.a._, to carry away, to sweep off; to hurry away, to
hurry along; to draw, to drag after, to bring, to win, to gain, over;
to drag away, along; to entail, to involve; to train (race-horses). _—
les cœurs_; to win all hearts. _— quelqu’un dans l’erreur_; to lead any
one into error. _La guerre entraîne après elle bien des maux_; war drags
after it many evils.
=entraîneur=, _n.m._, horse-trainer.
=entrait=, _n.m._, (carp.) tie-beam.
=entrant=, =-e=, _adj._, ingoing, incoming, insinuating; entering office.
_Les conseillers —s_; the newly appointed councilors.
=entrant=, _n._, person coming in. _Les —s et les sortants_; the outgoers
and incomers.
_s’_=entr’appeler=, _v.r._, to call one another.
=entrave=, _n.f._, clog, hindrance, obstacle, impediment, shackle,
fetter. _pl._, horse-lock; trammels, fetters.
=entraver=, _v.a._, to shackle, to clog; to fetter, to trammel; to
hinder, to impede, to thwart. _— un cheval_; to shackle a horse.
=entravon=, _n.m._, cutting-boot (on a horse’s fetlock).
_s’_=entr’avertir=, _v.r._, to give one another notice, to warn one
another.
=entre=, _prep._, between, betwixt; among, amongst, with; in, of, into.
_— le ciel et la terre_; between heaven and earth. _Regarder quelqu’un —
les deux yeux_; to stare at any one. _Être — deux vins_; to be half seas
over. _— chien et loup_; between lights, at dusk. _Ils résolurent — eux_;
they resolved among themselves. _— autres_; among others. _Je le mettrai
— vos mains_; I will deliver it into your hands. _Cela soit dit — nous_;
that is between ourselves.
=entre-bâillé=, =-e=, _adj._, ajar, half open.
*=entre-bâillement=, _n.m._, part-opening.
*=entre-bâiller=, _v.a._, to half open.
_s’_=entre-baiser=, _v.r._, to kiss one another.
_s’_=entre-battre=, _v.r._, to beat one another, to fight together.
_s’_=entre-blesser=, _v.r._, to wound one another.
=entrechat=, _n.m._, (dancing) caper, entrechat.
_s’_=entre-chercher=, _v.r._, to seek one another, to look for one
another.
=entrechoquement=, _n.m._, clash; clashing; conflict.
_s’_=entre-choquer=, _v.r._, to knock, to clash, to beat, to dash,
against one another; to interfere, to thwart each other.
_s’_=entre-clore=, _v.r._, to half-close.
=entre-colonne=, _n.f._, (_—-—s_) _or_ =entre-colonnement=, _n.m._,
(_—-—s_) (arch.) intercolumniation.
_s’_=entre-connaître=, _v.r._, to know each other.
=entrecôte=, _n.m._, (cook.) piece off the ribs.
_s’_=entrecouder=, _v.r._, to elbow one another.
=entre-coupe=, _n.f._, (_—-—s_), (arch.) turning-space.
=entrecoupement=, _n.m._, intersection; cutting; crossing; faltering.
=entrecoupé=, =-e=, _part._, broken (of words).
=entrecouper=, _v.a._, to traverse, to cross, to intersect; to stop, to
interrupt, to break off.
_s’_=entrecouper=, _v.r._, to cut _or_ cross one another; to interrupt
one another; to intersect; (vet.) to hit _or_ chafe one leg against the
other.
=entrecroisement=, _n.m._, intersection, crossing.
_s’_=entre-croiser=, _v.r._, to cross one another, to intersect.
_s’_=entre-déchirer=, _v.r._, to tear one another to pieces.
_s’_=entre-défaire=, _v.r._, to defeat one another.
_s’_=entre-détruire=, _v.r._, to destroy one another.
=entre-deux=, _n.m._, (_—_) intermediate space; partition; cut; (cook.)
middle pier-piece (of a cod); insertion (lace); (nav.) trough of the sea.
=entre-deux=, _adv._, (l.u.) betwixt and between.
_s’_=entre-dévorer=, _v.r._, to devour one another; to ruin one another.
_s’_=entre-dire=, _v.r._, to tell one another. _S’— des injures_; to call
one another names.
_s’_=entre-donner=, _v.r._, to give one another.
=entrée=, _n.f._, entry, entrance; mouth; entering, coming in; reception;
beginning; introduction, inlet; (cook.) first-course, side-dish;
admission-money, entrance-money; custom-duty; entrée (dancing). _L’— d’un
port_; the mouth of a harbor. _— et sortie d’un acteur_; entrance and
exit of an actor. _Avoir ses —s_; to have free admission _or_ access to,
to be on the free-list of a theatre. _Droit d’—_; custom-duty. _Payer
l’—_; to pay a town-due; (custom-house) to pay duty. _Tuyau d’—_; (tech.)
inlet-pipe. ☉_D’—_; at first, at the first.
_s’_=entre-fâcher=, _v.r._, to anger one another.
=entrefaites=, _n.f.pl._, interval, meantime. _Dans ces —_, _Sur ces —_;
meanwhile.
=entre-filet=, _n.m._, a short paragraph, note.
_s’_=entre-fouetter=, _v.r._, to whip _or_ lash one another.
_s’_=entre-frapper=, _v.r._, to strike one another.
=entregent=, _n.m._, (fam.) shrewdness, address, tact. _Cet homme fera
son chemin, il a de l’—_; that man will get on, he possesses tact.
_s’_=entr’égorger=, _v.r._, to cut each other’s throat; to kill one
another.
_s’_=entre-haïr=, _v.r._, to hate each other.
_s’_=entre-heurter=, _v.r._, to knock _or_ beat one against the other.
=entre-jambes=, _n.m._, fork; knee-hole.
=entrelacement= (-las-mān), _n.m._, interweaving, wreathing, blending,
intertwining.
=entrelacer=, _v.a._, to interlace, to intertwine, to interweave,
to wreathe, to weave, to braid; to plash; to wattle. _Des branches
entrelacées_; interwoven branches.
_s’_=entrelacer=, _v.r._, to entwine, to twist, to wreathe.
=entrelacs= (-lâ), _n.m._, ciphers; flourishes; interlaced ornaments;
(arch., paint.) twine.
=entrelardé=, =-e=, _part._, interlarded, streaky.
=entrelarder=, _v.a._, to interlard; to insert between.
=entre-large=, _adj._, (com.) of middle width.
*=entre-ligne=, _n.m._, (_—-—s_) space between lines, interlineation;
(print.) space-line, lead.
_s’_=entre-louer=, _v.r._, to praise one another, to laud one another.
=entre-luire=, _v.n._, to glimmer.
_s’_=entremanger=, _v.r._, to eat one another.
=entremêlement=, _n.m._, intermixing; intermixture.
=entremêler=, _v.a._, to intermingle, to intermix.
_s’_=entremêler=, _v.r._, to intermingle, to intermix; to meddle. _Des
nuances qui s’entremêlent_; shades (of color) which are blended together.
_s’_=entre-mesurer=, _v.r._, to measure each other.
=entremets= (-mè), _n.m._, (cook.) side-dish, entremets.
=entremetteu-r=, _n.m._, =-se=, _n.f._, go-between, manager, mediator;
procurer; procuress.
_s’_=entremettre=, _v.r._, to interpose, to interfere, to intermeddle, to
meddle.
=entremise=, _n.f._, interposition, mediation, intervention,
interference; medium, agency; (nav.) carling. _Par l’— de la presse_;
through the medium of the press. _Par son —_; thanks to him.
_s’_=entre-mordre=, _v.r._, to bite one another.
_s’_=entr’empêcher=, _v.r._, to hinder, to thwart, one another.
=entre-nœud=, _n.m._, (_—-—s_) (bot.) internode.
=entrenouer=, _v.a._, to interknot.
_s’_=entre-nuire=, _v.r._, to hurt one another, to injure each other.
_s’_=entre-pardonner=, _v.r._, to pardon one another.
_s’_=entre-parler=, _v.r._, to speak to one another, to talk together.
=entrepas=, _n.m._, (man.) amble, ambling pace.
_s’_=entre-percer=, _v.r._, to run each other through, to pierce each
other.
*_s’_=entre-piller=, _v.r._, to plunder one another.
*=entre-pointillé=, =-e=, _adj._, (engr.) composed of line and dotted
engraving.
=entrepont=, _n.m._, (nav.) between decks, orlop deck. _Dans les —_;
between decks.
=entreposage=, _n.m._, bonding, warehousing.
=entreposer=, _v.a._, to bond, to put in bond; to store, to warehouse.
=entreposeur=, _n.m._, bonded-warehouse-keeper; warehouse-keeper.
=entrepositaire=, _n.m._, bonder.
=entrepôt=, _n.m._, mart, free port, emporium; bond; bonded warehouse;
store. _— fictif_; town warehouse. _— réel_; king’s warehouse, queen’s
warehouse, bonded warehouse. _Mutation d’—_; removal to another
warehouse; removal of bonded goods. _Port à l’—_; bonded port;
warehousing port. _En —_; in bond. _Faire une mutation d’—_; to remove
goods to another warehouse. _Mettre en —_; to bond. _Réintégrer dans
l’—_; to rewarehouse.
_s’_=entre-pousser=, _v.r._, to push each other.
=entreprenable=, _adj._, undertakable.
=entreprenant=, =-e=, _adj._, enterprising, adventurous, venturesome;
daring, bold, pushing, encroaching.
=entreprendre=, _v.a._, to undertake, to attempt, to take in hand, to
take upon one’s self; to contract for, to contract to; to adventure, to
offer, to venture; to trouble. _— quelqu’un_; to set on any one, to fall
foul of any one, to banter _or_ jeer any one.
=entreprendre=, _v.n._, to encroach on, to infringe upon; to undertake.
=entrepreneur=, _n.m._, master-builder; contractor. _— de diligences_;
coach proprietor. _— de maçonnerie_; master-mason. _— de pompes
funèbres_; undertaker.
=entrepreneuse=, _n.f._, maker.
=entrepris=, =-e=, _adj._, crippled, impotent; disconcerted. _Il est —
d’un bras_; he has lost the use of an arm.
=entreprise=, _n.f._, enterprise, undertaking, attempt, venture;
usurpation, violence; contract; (com.) concern, establishment, company.
_À —_; by contract. _Par —_; by contract. _Ouvrage à l’—_; work by
contract. _— par masse de travaux_; contract by the lump. _Il échoue dans
ses —s_; he fails in his undertakings. _— générale des messageries_;
general coach and conveyance office. _Tenter l’—_; to make the attempt.
_s’_=entre-produire=, _v.r._, to produce each other.
_s’_=entre-quereller=, _v.r._, to quarrel with each other.
=entrer=, _v.n._, to enter, to come in, to go in, to get in, to walk in,
to march in, to drop in, to step in; to pierce, to run into; (astron.)
to house; (nav.) to let in; to enter (book-keeping). _— bien avant_; to
penetrate far. _— une seconde fois_; to re-enter. _Faire —_; to show in,
to usher in, to send in. _Faire — un vaisseau dans un bassin_; to dock a
ship. _— dans le monde_; to go out into the world _or_ into society. _—
en possession_; to take possession. _— au service de quelqu’un_; to enter
any one’s service. _— en maison_; to go into service. _— en religion_; to
become a monk _or_ a nun. _— dans sa vingtième année_; to enter on one’s
twentieth year. _— en jeu_; to come into play. _Vous n’entrez pas dans ma
pensée_; you mistake my meaning. _— dans les intérêts de quelqu’un_; to
side with any one. _— dans les goûts_; to be of any one’s taste. _— en
danse_; to begin to dance. _Faire — quelque chose dans un discours_; to
introduce something into a speech. _Il y entre pour un cinquième_; he has
a fifth share in the enterprise. _Cet article n’entre pour rien dans mes
demandes_; this article has nothing to do with my demands. _On ne saurait
lui rien faire — dans la tête_; there is no driving anything into his
head. _On n’entre pas ici_; no admittance here.
=entre-rails=, _n.m._, (rail.) gauge, four-foot way.
_s’_=entre-regarder=, _v.r._, to look at, to stare at one another.
_s’_=entre-regretter=, _v.r._, to regret each other.
_s’_=entre-répondre=, _v.r._, to answer one another.
=entre-sabords=, _n.m._, (nav.) between ports.
_s’_=entre-saluer=, _v.r._, to salute one another.
_s’_=entre-secourir=, _v.a._, to help, to succor, one another.
=entresol=, _n.m._, mezzanine, entresol (suite of low rooms between the
ground floor and the first floor).
=entre-sourcils=, _n.m._, (_—_) space between the eyebrows.
_s’_=entre-soutenir=, _v.r._, to support one another.
_s’_=entre-souvenir=, _v.r._, to half remember.
_s’_=entre-suivre=, _v.r._, to follow each other, to succeed each other.
*=entretaille=, _n.f._, (engr.) interline; (dancing) change of foot.
*_s’_=entre-tailler=. _V._ _s’_=entrecouper= (vet.).
*=entretaillure=, _n.f._, (vet.) cutting, crepance.
_s’_=entre-talonner=, _v.r._, to tread on each other’s heels; to follow
each other closely.
=entre-temps=, _n.m._, (_—_) interval. _Dans l’—_; meanwhile.
=entretenir= (ān-trè-tnir), _v.a._, to hold, to hold together, to keep
up; to keep in repair, to keep in good order; to keep, to preserve, to
maintain, to support, to feed; to cherish; to converse, to talk with; to
entertain. _— les chemins_; to keep the roads in repair. _— la paix_; to
maintain peace.
_s’_=entretenir=, _v.r._, to hold together, to keep up; to be sustained,
to be maintained, to be supported, to be kept up; to maintain, to keep,
to support one’s self; to subsist; to converse with, to discourse with,
to commune with, to talk to. _S’— avec quelqu’un_; to talk with any one.
_S’— par lettres_; to converse by letters. _S’— de quelqu’un_; to speak
of any one. _Il s’entretient du jeu_; he lives by gambling. _S’— avec
soi-même_; to meditate, to reflect.
=entretenu=, =-e=, _part._ of entretenir. _Femme —e_; kept woman,
mistress.
=entretien= (-ti-in), _n.m._, maintenance, keeping, living, livelihood;
keeping in repair; conversation, discourse, talk; communication,
conference. _Faire l’— du public_; to be the talk of the parish. _Un
homme d’un agréable —_; a man of agreeable conversation.
=entre-tisser=, _v.a._, to interweave.
=entre-tissu=, =-e=, _adj._, interwoven.
=entretoile=, _n.f._, insertion; open-work.
=entretoise=, _n.f._, (carp.) tie-beam, cross-bar; cross-piece; transom.
_s’_=entre-toucher=, _v.r._, to touch one another.
_s’_=entre-tuer=, _v.r._, to kill each other.
_s’_=entre-vendre=, _v.r._, to sell to each other; to sell each other, to
betray each other.
=entre-voie=, _n.f._, (_—-—s_) (rail.) the six-foot way.
=entrevoir=, _v.a._, to have _or_ catch a glimpse of, to only just see,
to discover a little of; to have an imperfect notion of, to foresee.
_— quelqu’un_; to have a glimpse of any one. _J’entrevois de grands
obstacles_; I foresee great difficulties. _Laisser —_; to show, to
discover, to disclose.
_s’_=entrevoir=, _v.r._, to have a meeting, interview, conference; to
see, to visit, each other.
=entrevous=, _n.m._, (carp.) interjoist.
=entrevoûter=, _v.a._, to plaster between joists.
=entrevue=, _n.f._, interview, meeting.
*=entr’paillé=, =-e=, _adj._, (l.ex.) big-bellied.
_s’_=entr’obliger=, _v.r._, to oblige each other.
=entr’ouïr=, _v.a._, (l.u.) to hear imperfectly.
=entr’ouvert=, =-e=, _part._, partly open, ajar; gaping, yawning; (man.)
strained shoulder.
=entr’ouverture=, _n.f._, (vet.) shoulder strain.
=entr’ouvrir=, _v.a._, to open a little, to half-open. _— une porte_; to
half-open; to set a door ajar.
_s’_=entr’ouvrir=, _v.r._, to open, to gape, to yawn; to be ajar.
_s’_=entr’user=, _v.r._, to wear each other out.
=enture=, _n.f._, (gard.) incision, cut (for grafting).
=énumérateur=, _n.m._, enumerator.
=énumérati-f=, =-ve=, _adj._, enumerative.
=énumération=, _n.f._, enumeration.
=énumérer=, _v.a._, to enumerate, to count, to reckon.
=envahir=, _v.a._, to invade, to overrun, to spread over, to overgrow; to
encroach upon, to usurp.
=envahissant=, =-e=, _adj._, invading, encroaching.
=envahissement= (-is-mān), _n.m._, overrunning, invasion, encroachment,
usurpation.
=envahisseur=, _n.m._, invader. _adj._, invading, encroaching; silting
(of sand).
=envaser=, _v.a._, to fill up, to choke with mud.
_s’_=envaser=, _v.r._, (nav.) to stick fast in the mud; to become filled
up and choked with mud; to silt up (of sand, etc.).
=enveloppe= (ān-vlop), _n.f._, wrapper, cover, covering; envelope;
exterior; disguise; (anat.) coat; casing (of cylinders); tunic (of the
eye); (fort.) envelope; (mec.) case, casing; (tech.) cage; (metal.) mold.
_— de voyage_, hold-all. _Ecrire sous l’— de quelqu’un_; to write under
another person’s cover.
=enveloppé=, =-e=, _part._, enveloped, surrounded; ambiguous, equivocal;
confused; muddled. _Être — dans un désastre_; to be involved in a
misfortune.
=enveloppement= (ānv-lop-mān), _n.m._, enveloping, surrounding; wrapping
up, envelopment.
=envelopper=, _v.a._, to envelop, to wrap up, to cover, to fold up, to do
up, to put up; to muffle; to beset, to inclose, to environ, to hem in,
to surround; to involve, to implicate; to disguise. _— quelque chose de
papier_; to wrap anything up in paper. _— l’ennemi_; to hem in the enemy.
_s’_=envelopper=, _v.r._, to cover _or_ wrap one’s self up, to envelop
one’s self, to muffle one’s self up; to involve one’s self.
=envenimer=, _v.a._, to poison, to envenom, to irritate, to inflame, to
exasperate. _— une plaie_; to irritate a wound. _Il l’a envenimé contre
moi_; he has exasperated him against me.
_s’_=envenimer=, _v.r._, to be envenomed; to fester, to rankle.
=enverger=, _v.a._, to garnish with little willow branches.
=enverguer= (-ghé), _v.a._, (nav.) to bend a sail to the yards.
=envergure=, _n.f._, unfolding; (nav.) extent of sail upon the yards;
length of a yard; spread of a bird’s wings when extended. _D’—_; from tip
to tip.
=envers= (ān-vèr), _prep._, towards, to. _Je vous défendrai — et contre
tous_; I will defend you against all men _or_ against the whole world.
=envers=, _n.m._, wrong side, reverse side, back. _À l’—_; on the
wrong side; inside out. _Il a l’esprit à l’—_; he is wrong-headed,
crack-brained, beside himself.
_à l’_=envi=, _adv._, in emulation of one another, emulously vying with
one another. _À l’— l’un de l’autre_; in emulation of one another. _Ils
travaillent à l’— l’un de l’autre_; they vie with each other as to who
shall work most.
=enviable=, _adj._, enviable, to be envied.
=envie=, _n.f._, envy, enviousness; wish, desire, longing, hankering,
inclination; birth-mark; hangnail. _L’— le dévore_; he is eaten up with
envy. _Sécher d’—_; to pine away with envy. _Faire —_; to be tempting.
_Porter — à quelqu’un_; to envy any one. _Avoir — de_; to have a mind to.
_J’ai grande — d’aller la voir_; I have a great mind to go and see her.
_— de dormir_; sleepiness, drowsiness. _On lui en a donné —_; they have
set him all agog upon it. _L’— lui en est passée_; his longing is over.
_Il m’en a ôté l’—_; he has put me out of conceit with it. _Passer son —
de quelque chose_; to satisfy one’s longing for anything. _Il a une — au
visage_; he has a birth-mark on his face. _Il ne fait — à personne_; no
one envies him.
=envié=, =-e=, _part._, envied. _Il est — de tout le monde_; he is envied
by everybody.
☉*=envieilli=, =-e=, _adj._, inveterate, long-established, old, of long
standing; hardened. _V._ =endurci=, =invétéré=.
☉*=envieillir=, _v.a._, to make one look old. _V._ =vieillir=.
=envier=, _v.a._, to envy, to be envious of, to grudge; to desire, to
long for, to wish for. _Je ne lui envie point sa bonne fortune_; I do not
envy him his good fortune.
=envieu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, envious, jealous. _Se faire des —_; to excite
envy.
=enviné=, =-e=, _adj._, smelling of wine. _Ce baril est —_; that cask
smells of wine.
=environ=, _adv._, about, nearly, thereabouts.
=environnant=, =-e=, _adj._, surrounding.
=environner=, _v.a._, to surround; to stand round; to encompass, to
beset; to environ; to encircle, to inclose. _— d’une balustrade_; to
inclose with a rail. _Les gardes qui environnaient le prince_; the guards
who stood round the prince. _L’éclat qui l’environne_; the splendor which
surrounds him.
=environs=, _n.m.pl._, environs; vicinity, neighborhood; country round.
=envisager=, _v.a._, to look, to stare, in the face, to eye, to face; to
consider, to view, to look upon, to look at. _— de sang froid le péril_;
to look danger in the face.
=envoi=, _n.m._, sending; thing sent, present, packet, parcel, package,
goods forwarded; goods to be forwarded; (lit.) envoy; (nav.) order to put
the helm alee. _Compléter un —_; to make up a parcel. _Faire un —_; to
send off a parcel _or_ package. _Lettre d’—_; letter of advice.
_s’_=envoiler=, _v.r._, (metal.) to warp, to bend.
=envoisiné=, =-e=, _adj._, surrounded by neighbors.
=envoisiner=, _v.a._, to surround with neighbors.
_s’_=envoler=, _v.r._, to fly away, to take wing; to be carried off (by
the wind); to disappear, to vanish. _L’oiseau s’est envolé_; the bird has
flown.
=envoûtement=, _n.m._, magical charm.
=envoûter=, _v.a._, to cast a spell on any one.
=envoyé=, _n.m._, envoy; deputy, delegate; messenger. _L’— de Dieu_; the
messenger of God.
=envoyer=, _v.a._, to send, to forward, to dispatch; to transmit. _Je
vous envoie mon domestique_; I send you my servant. _— chercher_; to
send for. _— au diable_, _— à tous les diables_; to send to the devil.
_— paître_, _— promener_; to send off, to send about one’s business; to
send any one off with a flea in his ear. _— dire_; to send word. _— en
prison_; to commit to prison. _Envoie!_ (nav.) bout-ship! _S’—_; to send
to each other; to be sent.
=envoyeur=, _n.m._, sender. _adj.m._, (post-office) dispatching. _Bureau
—_; dispatching office.
=éolien=, =-ne=, (-li-in, -liè-n), _adj._, Eolian, Eolic. _Harpe —ne_;
Eolian harp.
=éolien=, _n.m._, Eolic (dialect).
=éolipyle=, _n.m._, (phys.) æolipile (smoke-driving apparatus).
=éolique=, _adj._, Eolic, Eolian.
=épacte=, _n.f._, (astron.) epact.
*=épagneul=, _n.m._, =-e=, _n.f._, spaniel.
=épais=, =-se=, _adj._, thick, big; heavy, dull, gross. _Mur — de deux
pieds_; wall two feet thick. _Brouillard —_; thick fog. _Ignorance —se_;
gross ignorance. _Un homme —_; a blockhead. _Avoir la langue —se_; to
speak thick. _Des cheveux —_; thick hair.
=épais=, _n.m._, thickness; thick part.
=épais=, _adv._, thick, thickly. _Semer —_; to sow thick.
=épaisseur=, _n.f._, thickness; depth; density; dullness.
=épaissir=, _v.a._, to thicken, to make thick.
_s’_=épaissir=, _v.r._, to become thick, to get thick, to grow thick;
to become big, to grow large; to become heavy _or_ dull. _Sa langue
s’épaissit_; he is beginning to speak thick.
=épaissir=, _v.n._, to thicken, to become thick; to get stout, to grow
stout, to become stout.
=épaississement= (-sis-mān), _n.m._, thickening, thickness.
=épamprage= _or_ =épamprement=, _n.m._, lopping off; pruning; feeding off
(of a corn-field).
=épamprer=, _v.a._, to lop off, _or_ to prune, a vine; to feed off.
=épanchement= (é-pānsh-mān), _n.m._, pouring out, shedding; overflowing,
effusion. _— de cœur_; opening of one’s heart.
=épancher=, _v.a._, to pour out, to spill; to shed; to open. _— son
cœur_; to open one’s heart.
_s’_=épancher=, _v.r._, to be discharged, poured out, to escape; to open
one’s heart, to unbosom one’s self.
=épanchoir=, _n.m._, outlet, drain.
=épandre=, _v.a._, to pour out, to scatter, to strew, to throw here and
there. _V._ =répandre=.
_s’_=épandre=, _v.r._, to spread out, to be scattered, to flow.
=épanorthose=, _n.f._, (rhet.) epanorthosis.
=épanoui=, =-e=, _adj._, blown, full-blown; cheerful, jolly, beaming.
=épanouir=, _v.a._, to expand, to smooth, to brighten up, to gladden. _—
la rate_; to make merry, to drive away the spleen.
_s’_=épanouir=, _v.r._, (of flowers) to blow, to expand, to open; to
brighten up. _Son visage s’épanouit_; his face brightened up.
=épanouissement= (-noo-is-mān), _n.m._, blowing, opening (of flowers);
(bot.) expansion.
=éparcet=, _n.m._ _V._ =esparcet=, =esparcette=.
_s’_=éparer=, _v.r._, (man.) to jerk, to fling out; to kick. _V._ =ruer=.
*=épargnant=, =-e=, _adj._, sparing, saving, economical; parsimonious.
*=épargne=, _n.f._, economy, saving, thrift, sparingness; ☉treasury.
_— mesquine_; shabby saving. _Avec —_; sparingly. _Aller à l’—_, _user
d’—_; to save, to be saving. _Il vit de ses —s_; he lives on his savings.
_Aller à l’— des mots_; to be sparing of words. _Caisse d’—_ or _caisse
d’— et de prévoyance_; savings-bank. _Tailler_, or _graver_, _en —_;
(engr.) to reserve.
*=épargner=, _v.a._, to save, to lay up, to lay by, to spare, to husband,
to economize; to spare (any one). _— son bien_; to save one’s wealth.
_On ne lui épargne pas l’argent_; they allow him plenty of money. _Ne
m’épargnez pas_; do not spare me.
_s’_*=épargner=, _v.r._, to spare one’s self; to spare one another.
*=épargner=, _v.n._, to economize, to be saving, to be sparing. _— sur sa
toilette_; to save in dress.
*=éparpillement=, _n.m._, scattering, dispersing, dispersion.
*=éparpiller=, _v.a._, to scatter, to strew about, to spread, to throw
here and there, to disperse; to fritter away, to squander. _— ses
troupes_; to scatter one’s troops.
=épars=, =-e=, _adj._, scattered, dispersed, straggling, sparse; (of
hair) disheveled; thin (of plants).
=éparvin= _or_ =épervin=, _n.m._, (vet.) spavin. _— osseux_, _— sec_;
blood-spavin; string-halt.
=épaté=, =-e=, _adj._, broad-footed; wide; with the foot broken off (of
glasses); flat (of noses); (pop.) amazed, dumfounded.
=épatement=, _n.m._, amazement.
=épater=, _v.a._, to break the foot off (a glass); to flatten; to widen;
(pop.) to amaze, to dumfound.
_s’_=épater=, _v.r._, to sprawl; to get broken (of glass).
=épaulard=, _n.m._, (ich.) grampus, ork.
=épaule=, _n.f._, shoulder; start (of wheels). _Des —s larges_; broad
shoulders. _Hausser les —s_; to shrug one’s shoulders. _Faire hausser les
—s à quelqu’un_; to make any one shrug his shoulders. _Plier les —s_; to
put up with. _Prêter l’— à quelqu’un_; to back up any one. _Donner un
coup d’— à_; to help any one; to give any one a lift. _Faire une chose
par-dessus l’—_; to leave a thing undone; to do a thing over the left.
_Porter sur les —s_; (fig.) to be heartily sick of. _Marcher des —s_; to
slouch. _L’— d’un bastion_; the flank of a bastion. _—s d’un vaisseau_;
bows of a ship.
=épaulée=, _n.f._, push (with the shoulders); (cook.) fore-quarter of
mutton without the shoulder. _—s_; shouldering. _Faire une chose par —s_;
to do a thing by fits and starts.
=épaulement= (é-pôl-mān), _n.m._, a shoulder-piece, covert; shoulder;
(fort.) epaulement, demi-bastion, breastwork.
=épauler=, _v.a._, to break the shoulder, to splay; to help, to back, to
countenance, to bring to the shoulder, to prop; to press to the shoulder
(of rifles). _— des troupes_; to cover troops. _Bête épaulée_; animal
with a sprained shoulder; (fig., fam.) a perfect fool; a dishonored
woman.
=épaulette=, _n.f._, shoulder-strap; shoulder-piece; epaulet. _— à gros
grains_, _— à graine d’épinards_; (milit.) epaulet with large bullion
worn by field and general officers.
=épave=, _adj._, (jur.) stray, strayed.
=épave=, _n.f._, wreck; (jur.) waif; stray; estray. _—s maritimes_, _—s
de mer_; wreck, wreckage.
=épeautre=, _n.m.f._, spelt, great barley; wheat.
=épée=, _n.f._, sword; (fig.) brand, steel; swordsman. _Charger l’— à la
main_; to charge sword in hand. _Un homme d’—_; a swordsman, a soldier.
_Mettre l’— à la main_; to draw one’s sword. _Se battre à l’—_; to fight
with swords. _Passer l’— au travers du corps_; to run a man through the
body. _Presser quelqu’un l’— dans les reins_; to press any one close,
hard. _Une — vierge_; a sword that has never been fleshed _or_ drawn.
_N’avoir que la cape et l’—_; to have nothing but one’s nobility; to have
no other fortune but one’s sword. _Il est brave comme l’— qu’il porte_;
he is true to the backbone. _L’— use le fourreau_; the sword wears out
the scabbard. _C’est un coup d’— dans l’eau_; it is beating the air.
_Passer au fil de l’—_; to put to the edge of the sword, to put to the
sword. _Être_, _en être_, _aux —s et aux couteaux_; to be at daggers
drawn. _Jouer de l’— à deux talons_; to take to one’s heels. _Son — est
trop courte_; his arm is not long enough. _C’est son — de chevet_; he is
his bosom friend, his constant companion; (fig.) his favorite theme; his
hobby. _— de mer_; (ich.) sword-fish.
=épeiche=, _n.f._, (orni.) golden oriole, witwall.
=épeler= (é-plé), _v.a._, to spell. _Epelez ce mot_; spell that word. _—
mal_; to misspell.
=épellation=, _n.f._, naming the letters of a word, spelling.
=épenthèse=, _n.f._, (gram.) epenthesis.
=épenthétique=, _adj._, (gram.) epenthetical.
=éperdu=, =-e=, _adj._, distracted, bewildered, aghast. _Tout — d’amour_;
quite distraught with love.
=éperdument=, _adv._, distractedly, passionately, desperately.
=éperlan=, _n.m._, (ich.) smelt, sparling.
=éperon= (épron), _n.m._, spur; wrinkle, crow’s foot; gaffle (of game
cocks); (arch.) buttress, counterfort; (nav.) head of a ship; cutwater,
ram; (fort.) spur. _Donner de l’— à un cheval_; to clap spurs to a horse.
_Chausser les —s_; to put on spurs. _Cheval qui n’a ni bouche ni —_;
horse that obeys neither rein nor spur. _Il a besoin d’—s_; he wants
spurring on. _Chausser les — à quelqu’un_; to put spurs on any one.
=éperonné=, =-e= (é-pro-né), _adj._, spurred; wrinkled. _Elle a les yeux
—s_; she has wrinkles about her eyes.
=éperonner=, _v.a._, to spur; to spur on; to urge forward; to wrinkle.
=éperonnerie=, _n.f._, spur-making, spur-trade.
=éperonnier=, _n.m._, spur-maker; Indian peacock.
=éperonnière=, _n.f._, spur-leather; (bot.) larkspur.
=épervier=, _n.m._, (orni.) hawk, sparrow-hawk; cast-net.
=épervière=, _n.f._, (bot.) hawkweed.
=épervin=, _n.m._ _V._ =éparvin=.
=éphèdre=, _n.f._, shrubby horse-tail, sea-grass.
=éphélide=, _n.f._, (med.) sun-burn; freckle.
=éphémère=, _adj._, ephemeral.
=éphémère=, _n.f._, ephemera, day-fly.
=éphémérides=, _n.f.pl._, ephemerides.
=éphod= (é-fod), _n.m._, (Jewish antiq.) ephod.
=éphore=, _n.m._, (Grec. antiq.) ephor.
=épi=, _n.m._, ear of corn; awn. _— bien garni_; well-filled ear. _— de
cheveux_; tuft of hair, topknot. _— de diamants_; cluster of diamonds.
_— d’eau_; pond-weed. _— de faîte_; (arch.) top of the crown-post.
_Assembler en —_; to scarf.
=épice=, _n.f._, spice. _pl._, ☉judges’ fees. _Pain d’—_; gingerbread.
_Fine —_; sharp fellow, knowing blade. _Dans les petits sacs sont les
bonnes —s_; little and good, _or_ small parcels hold fine wares (pers.).
_Herbe aux —s_; allspice.
=épicé=, =-e=, _adj._, spiced, spicy; hot, seasoned.
=épicène=, _adj._, (gram.) epicene.
=épicer=, _v.a._, to spice; ☉(of judges) to charge too high fees.
=épicerie= (é-pi-srî), _n.f._, spices, grocery; grocery-business. _Petite
—_; chandlery.
=épichérème= (-ké-), _n.m._, (log.) epichirema.
=épici-er=, _n.m._, =-ère=, _n.f._, grocer; vulgar fellow. _Il faut
envoyer ce livre à l’—_; this book must go to the butter-shop.
=épicrâne=, _n.m._, (anat.) epicranium.
=épicurien=, =-ne= (-i-in, -iè-n), _n._ and _adj._, epicure; epicurean.
=épicurisme=, _n.m._, epicureanism, epicurism.
=épicycle=, _n.m._, (astron.) epicycle.
=épicycloïde=, _n.f._, (geom.) epicycloid.
=épidémie=, _n.f._, epidemic.
=épidémique=, _adj._, epidemic, epidemical.
=épidendre=, _n.m._, (bot.) epidendrum.
=épiderme=, _n.m._, epidermis, cuticle, scarfskin.
=épidermique=, _adj._, (anat.) epidermic, epidermical.
=épididyme=, _n.m._, (anat.) epididymis.
=épié=, =-e=, _part._, eared, awny, awned.
=épier=, _v.n._, to ear, to shoot into ears.
=épier=, _v.a._, to watch, to be a spy upon, to pry into. _Il épie ce que
vous faites_; he is a spy upon your actions. _On épie vos démarches_;
your steps are being dogged. _S’—_; to watch one another.
=épierrement=, _n.m._, clearing land of stones.
=épierrer=, _v.a._, to clear away stones.
=épieu=, _n.m._, boar-spear, javelin, stake.
=épieu-r=, =-se=, _n.m.f._, watcher, spier, eavesdropper; Paul Pry.
=épigastre=, _n.m._, (anat.) epigastrium.
=épigastrique=, _adj._, (anat.) epigastric.
=épiglotte=, _n.f._, (anat.) epiglottis.
=épigrammatique=, _adj._, epigrammatic, epigrammatical.
=épigrammatiquement=, _adv._, epigrammatically.
=épigrammatiser=, _v.n._, to write epigrams.
=épigrammatiste=, _n.m._, epigrammatist.
=épigramme=, _n.f._, epigram.
=épigraphe=, _n.f._, epigraph.
=épigraphie=, _n.f._, epigraphics, epigraphy.
=épigraphique=, _adj._, pertaining to epigraphy.
=épigyne=, _adj._, (bot.) epigynous.
=épilatoire=, _adj._, depilatory.
=épilepsie=, _n.f._, (med.) epilepsy. _Attaque d’—_; epileptic fit, fit
of epilepsy.
=épileptique=, _n.m.f._ and _adj._, epileptic; epileptical.
=épiler=, _v.a._, to depilate.
_s’_=épiler=, _v.r._, to pluck out one’s gray hairs.
=épileu-r=, _n.m._, =-se=, _n.f._, depilator (pers.).
*=épillet=, _n.m._, (bot.) spikelet.
=épilobe=, _n.m._, (bot.) willow-herb.
=épilogue= (-log), _n.m._, epilogue.
=épiloguer= (-ghé), _v.n._, to carp at, to censure, to criticise, to find
fault with, to split hairs. _Il épilogue sur tout_; he finds fault with
everything.
=épiloguer=, _v.a._, to criticise, to find fault with, to carp at.
=épilogueur= (-gheur), _n.m._, critic, fault-finder, carper. _adj._,
fault-finding, carping.
=épiloir=, _n.m._, tweezers.
=épinaie=, _n.f._, brake, thicket, thorn-bush.
=épinard= (-nār), _n.m._, (bot.) spinach. _pl._, (cook.) spinach greens.
_—-fraise_; strawberry blite, strawberry-spinach. _— sauvage_; all-good.
_Epaulettes à graine d’—s_; epaulets with large bullion.
=épine=, _n.f._, thorn; prickle; spine; rub, obstacle, difficulty;
bristling point (metal.). _— blanche_; hawthorn; barberry. _— dorsale_,
_du dos_; spine; backbone. _Noble —_; hawthorn. _— noire_; German acacia;
blackthorn, sloe. _Avoir une — au pied_; to have a thorn in one’s side.
_Tirer à quelqu’un une — du pied_; to get some one over a difficulty.
_Être sur les —s_, _sur des —s_; to be on pins and needles, _or_ on
thorns. _Il n’y a pas de roses sans —s_; no rose without a thorn, no
joy without alloy. _Les —s de la chicane_; the thorny points of the law.
=épines=, _n.f.pl._, (metal.) bristling points.
=épinette=, _n.f._, (mus.) spinet; (bot.) North American fir-tree.
=épineu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, thorny, prickly; knotty, ticklish, intricate.
_Arbres —_; thorny trees. _Pomme —se_; (bot.) stramony, thorn-apple.
_Question —se_; ticklish question.
=épine-vinette=, _n.f._, berberry, barberry.
=épingle=, _n.f._, pin, scarf-pin, breast-pin. _—s_; pin-money, gratuity,
douceur. _Attacher avec une —_; to pin. _Il est toujours tiré à quatre
—s_; he is always as neat as hands can make him; he always looks as if he
had just stepped out of a bandbox, _or_ is always dressed up to the nine.
_Tirer son — du jeu_; to get out of a scrape, to back out of anything. _À
coups d’—s_; inch by inch; by pin-pricks. _— à cheveux_; hairpin. _Oter
les —s_; to unpin.
=épingle=, _adj._, pinned; corded, terry. _Velours —_; light terry velvet.
=épingler=, _v.a._, to pin, to prick, to clean.
=épinglette=, _n.f._, (artil.) priming-iron; priming-wire; (mining)
piercer; (tech.) pricker.
=épingli-er=, _n.m._, =-ère=, _n.f._, pin-maker.
=épinière=, _adj.f._, (anat.) spinal. _Moelle —_; spinal marrow.
=épiniers=, _n.m.pl._, (hunt.) brake, thicket.
=épinoche=, _n.f.m._, (com.) best coffee. _f._, (ich.) stickleback.
=épiphanie=, _n.f._, Epiphany.
=épiphonème=, _n.m._, (rhet.) epiphonema.
=épiphora=, _n.m._, (med.) epiphora, watery eye.
=épiphyse=, _n.f._, (anat.) epiphysis.
=épiploon=, _n.m._, (anat.) epiploon.
=épique=, _adj._, epic.
=épiscopal=, =-e=, _adj._, episcopal.
=épiscopal=, _n.m._, episcopalian.
=épiscopalement=, _adv._, episcopally.
=épiscopat=, _n.m._, episcopate, episcopacy.
=épiscopaux=, _n.m.pl._, Episcopalians.
=épisode=, _n.m._, episode.
=épisodique=, _adj._, episodical.
=épispastique=, _n.m._, _adj._, (med.) epispastic.
=épisperme=, _n.m._, (bot.) seed-coat, episperm, aril, arillus.
=épisser=, _v.a._, (nav.) to splice.
=épissoir=, _n.m._, (nav.) fid, splicing-fid; marlinspike.
=épissure=, _n.f._, (nav.) splice.
=épistolaire=, _adj._, epistolary.
=épistolaire=, _n.m._, letter-writer.
=épistoli-er=, _n.m._, =-ère=, _n.f._, letter-writer; (c.rel.) lectionary.
=épistolographe=, _n.m._, Greek _or_ Latin letter-writer.
=épistyle=, _n.m._, (arch.) epistyle.
=épitaphe=, _n.f._, epitaph.
=épitase=, _n.f._, (dramatic lit.) epitasis.
=épithalame=, _n.m._, epithalamium, nuptial song.
=épithème=, _n.m._, (pharm.) epithem.
=épithète=, _n.f._, epithet.
=épitoge=, _n.f._, hood; shoulder-knot; cassock.
=épitomé=, _n.m._, epitome; compendium; abridgment.
=épître=, _n.f._, epistle, letter, missive. _— dédicatoire_; dedicatory
epistle. _Le côté de l’—_; the right-hand side of the altar.
=épitrope=, _n.f._, (rhet.) epitrope.
=épizootie= (-tî), _n.f._, epizooty.
=épizootique=, _adj._, epizootic. _Maladie —_; epizootic distemper.
*=éplaigner=, _v.a._, (manu.) to raise the nap of the cloth, to tease, to
teasel.
=éplaigneur=, _n.m._, cloth-dresser, teaseler.
=éploré=, =-e=, _adj._, in tears, weeping, disconsolate, distressed.
=éployé=, =-e=, _adj._, (her.) spread (of the eagle).
=épluchage=, _n.m._, (manu.) picking.
=épluchement= (é-plush-mān), _n.m._, cleaning, picking.
=éplucher=, _v.a._, to pick, to clean, to sift; to examine minutely. _—
la vie de quelqu’un_; to examine minutely into any one’s life. _— un
ouvrage_; to examine a work minutely, _or_ to pick any work to pieces.
_s’_=éplucher=, _v.r._, to clean itself (of certain animals); (fig.) to
examine one’s self.
=éplucheu-r=, _n.m._, =-se=, _n.f._, picker; fault-finder; hair-splitter.
=éplucheuse=, _n.f._, picker (instrument).
=épluchoir=, _n.m._, paring-knife.
=épluchures=, _n.f.pl._, parings, pickings, orts, refuse.
=épode=, _n.f._, epode.
=épointé=, =-e=, _adj._, without a point, blunt-topped; (of a dog) with a
broken thigh; (of a horse) hip-shot.
=épointement=, _n.m._, bluntness.
=épointer=, _v.a._, to break off the point, to blunt.
_s’_=épointer=, _v.r._, to have its point broken off.
*=épointillage=, _n.m._, (tech.) burling.
*=épointiller=, _v.a._, (tech.) to burl (cloth).
=épointure=, _n.f._, (of horses, etc.) hip-shot.
=épois=, _n.m.pl._, trochings (of a deer).
=éponge=, _n.f._, sponge. _Passer l’— sur quelque action_; to say no more
about, _or_ to forget, an action. _Presser l’—_; to squeeze the sponge;
to exact too much. _Il boit comme une —_; he drinks like a fish.
=éponger=, _v.a._, to sponge; to sponge up; to mop.
=épongier=, _n.m._, (l.u.) spongeman.
*=épontille=, _n.f._, (nav.) stanchion, prop.
*=épontiller=, _v.a._, to prop, to shore.
=éponyme=, _n.m._ and _adj._, (antiq.) eponym; eponymous.
=épopée=, _n.f._, epopee; epic poem.
=époque=, _n.f._, epoch; period, time, date; era. _Faire —_; to mark an
era. _Dès cette —_; from that time. _À l’— de_; at the time of.
=époucé=, =-e=, _adj._, thumbless.
=époudrer=, _v.a._, (l.u.) to dust. _V._ =épousseter=.
=épouffé=, =-e=, _adj._, (fam.) out of breath.
_s’_=épouffer=, _v.r._, to steal away, to scamper off; to get out of
breath from laughing. _V._ =pouffer=.
*=épouiller=, _v.a._, (l.ex.) to louse; to clean of lice.
*_s’_=épouiller=, _v.r._, (l.ex.) to louse one’s self.
=époularder=, _v.a._, to pick, to clean (tobacco).
=époullin=, =espolin=, _or_ =espoulin=, _n.m._, (manu.) small shuttle,
spool.
=époumoner=, _v.a._, to tire the lungs of; to exhaust.
_s’_=époumoner=, _v.r._, to tire one’s lungs; (fig.) to vociferate, to
shout one’s self hoarse.
*=épousailles=, _n.f.pl._, espousals, nuptials.
=épouse=, _n.f._, spouse, bride, wife, consort.
=épousé=, =-e=, _part._, married, wedded.
=épousée=, _n.f._, bride, wife.
=épouser=, _v.a._, to marry, to take in marriage, to wed, to espouse,
to embrace, to take up. _— une héritière_; to marry an heiress. _— les
intérêts d’autrui_; to espouse the interests of others.
_s’_=épouser=, _v.r._, to marry each other.
=épouseur=, _n.m._, marrying man; intended husband.
=époussetage=, _n.m._, dusting.
=épousseter= (é-pous-té), _v.a._, to dust, to wipe off the dust; to beat
the dust out of; to leather, to dust (beat). _— quelqu’un_; to dust any
one’s jacket for him.
_s’_=épousseter=, _v.r._, to wipe the dust off one’s self.
=époussette=, _n.f._, dusting-rag, duster.
=épouti=, _n.m._, orts (in cloth).
=époutieuse= (-tieuz), _n.f._, picker, cleaner, burler (of cloth).
=époutir=, _v.a._, to pick, to clean (cloth).
=épouvantable=, _adj._, frightful, dreadful, tremendous, shocking,
horrible; appalling. _À un degré —_; to a frightful degree.
=épouvantablement=, _adv._, frightfully, dreadfully, tremendously.
*=épouvantail=, _n.m._, scare-crow; bugbear; (orni.) sea-swallow. _C’est
un — de chenevière_; she is a perfect scarecrow.
=épouvante=, _n.f._, terror, dismay, affright. _Porter l’— dans le pays
ennemi_; to spread terror in the enemy’s country. _L’— les a pris_; they
were seized with dismay. _Frapper d’—_; to dismay, to affright.
=épouvantement=, _n.m._, terror, affright.
=épouvanter=, _v.a._, to terrify, to frighten, to appall, to scare.
_s’_=épouvanter=, _v.r._, to be frightened _or_ terrified; to take fright.
=époux=, _n.m._, spouse, husband, bridegroom. _pl._, husband and wife.
_Futur —_; intended husband.
=épreindre= (épreignant, épreint), _v.a._, to squeeze out, to press, to
express.
=épreinte=, _n.f._, tenesmus; straining; (fig.) pressure (chiefly used in
_pl._).
_s’_=éprendre=, _v.r._, to become enamored of; to fall in love with.
=épreuve=, _n.f._, trial, proof, test, ordeal, examination; (print.)
proof, revise. _J’en ai fait l’—_; I have tried it, made a trial of it.
_Passer par de rudes —s_; to go through hard trials. _Mettre à l’—_;
to make a trial of, to put to the test. _À l’— du feu_; fire-proof. _A
l’— des balles_; ball-proof. _À l’— de l’eau_; waterproof. _À toute —_;
trusty, well-tried, faithful, devoted. _Courage à toute —_; courage proof
against everything. _— judiciaire_; ordeal. _Temps d’—_; probation. _—
chargée_; (print.) foul proof. _— peu chargée_; (print.) clean proof.
_Corriger une —_; (print.) to correct a proof. _Première — d’auteur_;
(print.) reader’s proof. _Seconde — d’auteur_; (print.) revise.
_Troisième — d’auteur_; (print.) second revise. _— avant la lettre_;
(engr.) proof before letters. _Tirer une —_; (print.) to pull a proof.
=épris=, =-e=, _adj._, in love, taken with, smitten, charmed with. _Il en
est —_; he is smitten with her.
=éprouver=, _v.a._, to try, to prove; to put to the proof; to feel, to
experience, to meet with; to go through. _— la fidélité de quelqu’un_;
to try any one’s fidelity. _— une douleur_; to feel a pain. _— des
malheurs_; to meet with misfortunes. _— un canon_; to test a cannon. _S’—
à_; to try one’s hand at.
=éprouvette=, _n.f._, gauge; steam-gauge; test-glass; eprouvette (for
testing gunpowder).
_sel d’_=epsom=, _n.m._, Epsom salts.
=eptacorde=, _n.m._ _V._ =heptacorde=.
=eptagone=, _n.m._ _V._ =heptagone=.
=épucer=, _v.a._, to catch the fleas of; to clear of fleas.
_s’_=épucer=, _v.r._, to catch one’s fleas.
=épuisable=, _adj._, exhaustible.
=épuisé=, =-e=, _part._, exhausted; drained; spent; worn out; used
up; threadbare; out of print; done up. _Terre —e_; exhausted ground.
_L’édition est épuisée_; the book is out of print.
=épuisement= (é-puiz-mān), _n.m._, draining; draining off; exhaustion.
_L’— des finances_; the low state of the finances. _Tuyau d’—_;
exhausting-pipe.
=épuiser=, _v.a._, to exhaust, to spend, to drain, to use up; to eat up,
to consume. _— une matière_; to exhaust a subject. _Leurs ressources
étaient épuisées_; their resources were exhausted.
_s’_=épuiser=, _v.r._, to be exhausted, to waste, to wear out, to exhaust
one’s self; to sell off, to get out of print.
=épuisette=, _n.f._, scoop, hand-net, landing-net.
=épulide= _or_ =épulie=, _n.f._, (surg.) epulis.
=épulons=, _n.m.pl._, (antiq.) epulones.
=épulotique=, _n.m._ and _adj._, (pharm.) epulotic.
☉=épurati-f=, =-ve=, _adj._, depurating; purifying; refining.
=épuration=, _n.f._, purification, purifying, refining, refinement. _— du
sang_; purifying of the blood.
=épuratoire=, _adj._, purifying.
=épure=, _n.f._, (arch.) diagram, draught, working-drawing (of a
building).
=épurement=, _n.m._, purifying.
=épurer=, _v.a._, to purify, to clear, to clarify, to refine; to purge.
_— de l’eau bourbeuse_; to clear muddy water. _— de l’or_; to refine gold.
_s’_=épurer=, _v.r._, to be purified, to grow finer, more refined (of
style, language).
=épurge=, _n.f._, (bot.) caper-spurge.
=équarrir=, _v.a._, (tech.) to square; to cut up.
=équarrissage=, _n.m._, (carp.) squareness; squaring; scantling; flaying
and cutting up (horses). _Dix pouces d’—_; ten inches square. _Bois d’—_;
squared timber. _Clos d’—_; knacker’s yard.
=équarrissement=, _n.m._, (tech.) squaring.
=équarrisseur=, _n.m._, knacker.
=équarrissoir=, _n.m._, rimer; knacker’s knife.
=équateur= (é-koua-), _n.m._, equator, equinoctial line; (country)
Ecuador.
=équation= (é-koua-), _n.f._, (alg.) equation. _— du premier degré_;
(alg.) simple equation. _Poser une —_; to state an equation. _Montre à
—_; chronometer.
=équatorial=, =-e= (é-koua-), _adj._, equatorial. _n.m._, equatorial
telescope (instrument).
=équerre=, _n.f._, set square; square rule. _Dresser à l’—_; to square.
_À fausse —_; out of square; bevel. _Courbe à —_; (nav.) square knee.
=équerrer=, _v.a._, to square, to bevel.
=équestre= (é-kuèstr) _adj._, equestrian.
=équiangle= (é-kui-) _adj._, (geom.) equiangular.
=équidifférent=, =-e= (é-kui-), _adj._, equidifferent.
=équidistant=, =-e= (é-kui-), _adj._, (geom.) equidistant.
=équilatéral=, =-e= (é-kui-), _adj._, (geom.) equilateral.
=équilatère= (é-kui-), _adj._, (l.u.) (geom.) equilateral.
=équilboquet=, _n.m._, mortise-gauge.
=équilibre=, _n.m._, equilibrium, equipoise, poise, balance. _Mettre en
—_; to poise. _Faire l’—_; to make things equal. _Perdre l’—_; to lose
one’s equilibrium, one’s balance.
=équilibrer=, _v.a._, to poise; to place in equilibrium. _S’—_; to
balance (of things).
=équilibriste=, _n.m.f._, acrobat.
=équille=, _n.f._, (pisc.) sand-eel.
=équinoxe=, _n.m._, equinox. _Vents d’—_; equinoctial wind.
=équinoxial=, =-e=, _adj._, equinoctial. _Ligne —e_; equinoctial line.
=équipage=, _n.m._, equipage, carriage; turnout; equipment; dress; gear,
tackle, implements; plight; crew. _Avoir son —_, _rouler —_; to keep
one’s carriage. _Être dans un triste —_; to be badly equipped. _Être
en triste —_; to be in a sad plight. _— de Jean de Paris_; brilliant
equipage. _— de Bohème_; sorry equipage. _Maître d’—_; (nav.) boatswain.
=équipe=, _n.f._, (nav.) train of boats; manning; set, gang (of workmen).
_Chef d’—_; foreman. _Homme d’—_; boatman, oarsman, porter. _Faire l’—_;
to manage; to man (a boat).
=équipée=, _n.f._, prank; freak, frolic.
=équipement= (é-kip-mān), _n.m._, outfit, fitting out, equipment,
accoutrement; manning. _Petit —_; kit.
=équiper=, _v.a._, to equip, to fit out, to stock, to furnish, to man; to
ill-treat, to pay out. _— une flotte_; to fit out a fleet.
_s’_=équiper=, _v.r._, to fit one’s self out; to dress up; to titivate
one’s self; to rig one’s self out.
=équipet=, _n.m._, (nav.) locker.
=équipollence=, _n.f._, (l.u.) equipollence.
☉=équipollent=, _n.m._, equipollent, equivalent. _À l’—_; in proportion.
=équipollent=, =-e=, _adj._, equipollent, equivalent.
☉=équipoller=, _v.a._, to be equivalent, to be of the like value; to
balance.
=équipondérance= (é-kui-), _n.f._, equiponderance.
=équitable=, _adj._, equitable, upright, just, fair.
=équitablement=, _adv._, equitably, justly, fairly.
=équitant=, =-e= (é-kui-), _adj._, (bot.) (of leaves) equitant.
=équitation= (é-kui-), _n.f._, equitation, riding, horsemanship.
=équité=, _n.f._, equity, justice.
=équivalemment= (-la-mān), _adv._, (l.u.) equivalently.
=équivalence=, _n.f._, equivalence.
=équivalent=, =-e=, _adj._, equivalent.
=équivalent=, _n.m._, equivalent.
=équivaloir=, _v.n._, to be equivalent, to be tantamount to.
=équivalve=, _adj._, (conch.) equivalve.
=équivoque=, _adj._, equivocal, ambiguous, doubtful, uncertain. _Un homme
—_; a man of doubtful character.
=équivoque=, _n.f._, equivocation; ambiguity; evasion, shuffling;
(paint.) defect, fault. _User d’—s_; to equivocate.
=équivoquer=, _v.n._, to equivocate, to speak ambiguously, to quibble, to
shuffle.
_s’_=équivoquer=, _v.r._, to use one word for another, to make a slip, to
be mistaken.
=érable=, _n.m._, maple, maple-tree. _— blanc_; sycamore. _— à sucre_;
sugar-maple. _— moucheté_; birds’-eye maple.
=éradicati-f=, =-ve=, _adj._, eradicative.
=éradication=, _n.f._, eradication.
=érafler=, _v.a._, to scratch slightly, to graze.
=éraflure=, _n.f._, slight scratch, graze.
*=éraillé=, =-e=, _part._, frayed, fretted; bloodshot (of the eyes);
(nav.) (of cables and ropes) chafed, galled; (of the voice) rough,
hoarse, husky.
*=éraillement=, _n.m._, (med.) eversion of the eyelids; fraying,
fretting, unweaving; huskiness, hoarseness.
*=érailler=, _v.a._, to fray, to fret, to unweave.
*_s’_=érailler=, _v.r._, to fray; (nav.) to chafe; to become bloodshot
(of the eyes); to become husky, hoarse (of the voice). _La gaze est
sujette à s’—_; gauze is apt to fray.
*=éraillure=, _n.f._, fret, fraying; chafing, gall.
=ératé=, =-e=, _part._, spleened; sprightly, lively, gay, arch, shrewd.
_Un petit garçon —_; a sprightly little boy.
=érater=, _v.a._, to pull out the spleen; to spleen.
_s’_=érater=, _v.r._, to run one’s self out of breath, to lose one’s
breath through running.
=ère=, _n.f._, era, epoch.
=érèbe=, _n.m._, (myth.) Erebus.
=érecteur=, _n.m._ and _adj._, (anat.) erector (muscle).
=érectile=, _adj._, (anat.) erectile.
=érection=, _n.f._, erection, erecting; establishment, raising.
=éreinter=, _v.a._, to break any one’s back; to tire out, to knock up,
to do up; to beat unmercifully (fig.); to cut to pieces; to lash with
satire; to slay.
_s’_=éreinter=, _v.r._, to break one’s back, to tire one’s self out, to
be knocked up; to drudge, to toil and moil.
=érémitique=, _adj._, hermitical, eremitical.
=érésipélateu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, (med.) erysipelatous.
=érésipèle=, _n.m._, (med.) erysipelas, St. Anthony’s fire; (vet.)
wild-fire.
=éréthisme=, _n.m._, (med.) erethismus.
=ergastule=, _n.f._, (Rom. antiq.) slaves’ prison.
=ergo=, _conj._, (log.) ergo; then, therefore. _—-glu_, _—-gluc_; (fam.,
jest.) ergo, nothing at all; and what then.
=ergot=, _n.m._, spur (of certain birds); (agri.) ergot, spur; (pharm.)
ergota, horn-seed; (nav.) taggle; dew-claw (of a dog); (vet.) ergot.
_Monter sur ses —s_; to ride the high horse. _Être sur ses —s_; to keep
one’s distance; to be stand-offish. _— de coq_; cock’s-spur.
=ergotage=, _n.m._ _V._ =ergoterie=.
=ergoté=, =-e=, _adj._, spurred, having a dew-claw (of a dog). _Un coq
bien —_; a well-spurred cock. _Seigle —_; spurred rye.
=ergoter=, _v.n._, to cavil, to wrangle, to chop logic. _Il ergote sur
tout_; he finds fault with everything.
=ergoterie= (èr-go-trî), _n.f._, caviling; quibbling, quibble.
=ergoteu-r=, _n.m._, =-se=, _n.f._, caviler, quibbler.
=ergotisme=, _n.m._, caviling, quibbling, quibble; (med.) ergotism.
=éridan=, _n.m._, (astron.) Eridanus.
=ériger=, _v.a._, to erect, to raise, to rear, to set up, to institute.
_s’_=ériger=, _v.r._, to erect one’s self into; to set up for, to pose
as, to pretend to be; to be erected, raised, built. _S’— en censeur
public_; to set up for a public censor.
*=érigne= _or_ =érine=, _n.f._, (surg.) hook.
=érigone=, _n.f._, (astron.) Virgo.
=ermin=, _n.m._, customs duty (in the Levant).
=erminette= _or_ =herminette=, _n.f._, (carp.) adz.
=ermitage=, _n.m._, hermitage.
=ermite=, _n.m._, hermit, recluse. _Pâtes d’—_; dry walnuts.
=érodé=, =-e=, _adj._, (tech.) eroded, gnawed.
=érosi-f=, =-ve=, _adj._, erosive.
=érosion=, _n.f._, erosion.
=érotique=, _adj._, erotic.
=érotomanie=, _n.f._, erotomania, nymphomania.
=erpétologie=, _n.f._, erpetology.
=errant=, =-e= (èr-rān, -t), _adj._, wandering; lost, fugitive, roving,
errant; rambling. _Chevalier —_; knight-errant. _Le juif —_; the
wandering Jew.
=errant=, _n.m._, lost sheep.
=errata= (èr-ra-ta), _n.m._, (_—_) errata.
=erratique=, _adj._, (med., astron.) erratic.
=erratum=, _n.m._, (_—_) erratum. _V._ =errata=.
=erre=, _n.f._, course, way; (nav.) way (of a ship). _pl._, track (of
a stag). _Aller grand’—_; to go very fast. _Marcher sur les —s de
quelqu’un_; to tread in any one’s footsteps.
=errements= (èr-mān), _n.m.pl._, traces, track, manner, way, proceedings;
vagaries, follies. _Reprendre les anciens — d’une affaire_ or _suivre les
vieux —_; to fall into the old track again.
=errer= (èr-ré), _v.n._, to wander, to ramble, to stray, to range, to
rove, to stroll, to roll; to err, to mistake, to be mistaken, to go
astray. _— partout_; to ramble about. _— çà et là_; to ramble about, to
stroll up and down, to wander to and fro. _Aller errant_; to wander up
and down.
=erreur= (èr-reur), _n.f._, error, illusion, mistake, blunder. _Sauf —_;
errors excepted. _Être dans l’—_; to be mistaken. _Tirer quelqu’un de son
—_; to convince any one of his error. _—!_ not a bit of it! _— n’est pas
compte_; misreckoning is no payment.
=errhin=, _n.m._, (med.) errhine.
=errhin=, =-e=, _adj._, (med.) errhine.
=erroné=, =-e= (èr-ro-né), _adj._, erroneous, mistaken, false, unsound,
untrue.
=erronément=, _adv._, erroneously.
=ers= (èr), _n.m._, tare, vetch, lentil.
=erse=, _n.f._, (nav.) iron cringle. _—s de poulies_; block-strops.
=erse=, _adj._, Erse (Gaelic, Irish, Scotch).
=erseau=, _n.m._, cringle.
=érubescent=, =-e=, _adj._, erubescent, reddening.
=érucage=, =érucago=, _or_ =érucague= (-kag), _n.f._, (bot.) rocket.
=éructation=, _n.f._, eructation, belching.
=éructer=, _v.a._, (l.u.) to eructate, to belch.
=érudit=, =-e=, _adj._, erudite, learned.
=érudit=, _n.m._, scholar, learned man.
=érudition=, _n.f._, learning, erudition, scholarship.
=érugineu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, eruginous.
=erupti-f=, =-ve=, _n.f._, (med.) eruptive.
=éruption=, _n.f._, act of breaking forth, eruption; cutting (of teeth).
=érysipélateu-x=, =-se=, _adj._ _V._ =érésipélateux=.
=érysipèle=, _n.m._ _V._ =érésipèle=.
=ès=, _art._, (contraction of _en les_), in, of; (before certain names of
towns), _Saint-Germain — Laye_. _Maître — arts_; master of arts.
=escabeau=, _n.m._, stool.
=escabelle=, _n.f._, stool. _Déranger les —s à_; (fig.) to upset (any
one’s) calculations; to baffle _or_ foil (any one).
=escache=, _n.f._, scatch, bit (for horses).
=escadre=, _n.f._, (nav.) squadron, fleet. _Chef d’—_; commodore;
flag-officer.
*=escadrille=, _n.f._, (nav.) small squadron, flotilla.
=escadron=, _n.m._, (milit.) squadron (of horse). _Chef d’—_; major.
=escadronner=, _v.n._, to manœuvre (of cavalry).
=escalade=, _n.f._, scaling (a wall); (milit.) escalade.
=escalader=, _v.a._, to scale, to climb over; (milit.) to escalade.
_S’—_; to be scaled.
=escale=, _n.f._, (nav.) putting in, calling. _Faire — dans un port_; to
put into a port, to touch at, to call at (a port).
=escalier=, _n.m._, staircase, stairs, flight of stairs, steps. _—
en limaçon_; winding staircase. _— dérobé_; private staircase. _— de
commandement_; (nav.) companion-ladder.
=escalin=, _n.m._, Dutch (sixpenny piece).
=escalope=, _n.f._, split-bean; (pisc.) scallop; (cook.) a kind of stew.
=escamotage=, _n.m._, juggling, sleight of hand; legerdemain; prigging,
filching.
=escamote=, _n.f._, juggler’s ball.
=escamoter=, _v.a._, to juggle, to juggle away; to pilfer, to shuffle
out of, to ease of. _On lui a escamoté sa bourse_; they eased him of his
purse.
=escamoteur=, _n.m._, juggler, conjurer; fleecer, pilferer; pickpocket.
=escamper=, _v.n._, to scamper away.
=escampette=, _n.f._, scampering. _Il a pris de la poudre d’—_; he has
scampered away.
=escapade=, _n.f._, prank, freak, spree, frolic, lark. _Faire une —_; to
have a lark.
=escape=, _n.f._, (arch.) scape.
*=escarbille=, _n.f._, coal cinder, clinker.
=escarbot=, _n.m._, (ent.) horn-beetle.
=escarboucle=, _n.f._, (min.) carbuncle.
=escarcelle=, _n.f._, (jest.) purse, money-bag. _Il a rempli son —_; he
has filled his purse.
=escargot=, _n.m._, snail, edible snail.
=escarmouche=, _n.f._, skirmish; brush. _— de route_; (milit.) running
fight. _Aller à l’—_; to go out skirmishing; (fig.) caviling, bickering.
=escarmoucher=, _v.n._, to skirmish; (fig.) to cavil, to bicker.
=escarmoucheur=, _n.m._, skirmisher; caviler.
=escarole=, _n.f._, (bot.) endive.
=escarotique=, _n.m._ and _adj._, (med.) escharotic, caustic.
=escarpe=, _n.f._, (fort.) scarp, escarp.
=escarpé=, =-e=, _adj._, steep, precipitous, rugged, cragged; (nav.)
bluffy.
=escarpement=, _n.m._, (fort.) escarpment, steepness.
=escarper=, _v.a._, to cut steep _or_ vertically; (milit.) to escarp;
(fig.) to do for.
=escarpin=, _n.m._, pump (shoe). _Jouer de l’—_; to run away, to take to
one’s heels, to bolt.
=escarpolette=, _n.f._, swing, see-saw. _Il a la tête à l’—_; he is a
hare-brained fellow.
=escarre=, _n.f._, (med.) eschar; slough; ☉(fig.) gap.
=escaveçade=, _n.f._, (man.) jerk (with the cavesson).
=escient=, _n.m._, (l.u.) knowledge. _À son —_; to his knowledge,
wittingly. _À bon —_; in good earnest; wittingly, knowingly.
=esclaire=, _n.m._, (hawking) bird of prey.
=esclandre=, _n.m._, fracas, uproar; scandal, exposure, scene. _Faire —_;
to make a scene, to cause an uproar.
=esclavage=, _n.m._, slavery; bondage; thralldom; inthrallment; drudgery.
_Réduire à l’—_; to enslave, to reduce to slavery.
=esclave=, _n.m.f._, slave; bondman; drudge. _Commandeur d’—s_;
slave-driver. _Propriétaire d’—s_; slave-owner. _On est — dans cette
maison_; one is a very drudge in that house (_i.e._ the work is endless
in).
=esclave=, _adj._, slavish. _Avoir une âme —_; to have a slavish, base
disposition.
=escobard=, _n.m._, equivocator, shuffler.
=escobarder=, _v.n._, to equivocate, to prevaricate, to shuffle.
=escobarderie=, _n.f._, prevarication, shuffling, subterfuge.
☉=escoffion=, _n.m._, cap, hair-net.
=escogriffe=, _n.m._, sharper, shark, sponger; tall, lank, ungainly
fellow.
=escompte= (ès-cont), _n.m._, discount. _À —_; at a discount. _Faire
l’—_; to discount.
=escompter= (ès-conté), _v.a._, to discount, to cash; (fig.) to
anticipate, to forestall. _— un billet_, _un effet_; to cash a bill.
=escompteur= (ès-kon-teur), _n.m._, (com.) discounter.
=escope=, _n.f._ _V._ =écope=.
=escopette=, _n.f._, carbine.
=escopetterie=, _n.f._, volley of carbines, etc.
=escopettier=, _n.m._, rifleman.
=escorte=, _n.f._, escort; (nav.) convoy (fig.); retinue, train,
attendants. _Servir d’— à_; to serve as an escort to, to guard. _Bâtiment
d’—_; convoy-ship.
=escorter=, _v.n._, to escort; to accompany, to attend. _— la caisse
militaire_; to escort the military chest.
=escot=, _n.m._, kind of serge; (nav.) skeet.
=escouade=, _n.f._, (milit.) squad; gang.
=escourgée=, _n.f._, scourge; lash; lashing.
=escourgeon= (-jon), _n.m._, winter-barley.
=escousse=, _n.f._, (l.u.) spring, run, start. _Prendre son —_; to take
one’s spring.
=escrime=, _n.f._, fencing. _Salle d’—_; fencing-school. _Être hors d’—_;
to be put off one’s guard; to be at one’s wits’ end.
=escrimer=, _v.n._, to fence; to spar; to have a trial of skill.
_s’_=escrimer=, _v.r._, to strive; to try; to dabble in; to have some
knowledge of. _Il s’escrime toujours, mais rien n’y fait_; he keeps on
pegging away, but nothing comes of it.
=escrimeur=, _n.m._, fencer.
=escroc= (ès-krô), _n.m._, sharper, swindler, blackleg.
=escroquer=, _v.a._, to swindle, to cheat.
=escroquerie= (ès-kro-krî), _n.f._, swindling, swindle, cheating.
=escroqueu-r=, _n.m._, =-se=, _n.f._, cheat, swindler.
=escubac=. _V._ =scubac=.
=esculape=, _n.m._, (_—s_) Æsculapius; (fam.) a clever physician.
=esculent=, =-e=, _adj._, (l.u.) edible, eatable, esculent.
=escurial=, _n.m._, Escurial.
=ésope=, _n.m._, (_—s_) Æsop; (fam.) hunchback. _C’est un —_; he is a
hunchback.
=ésotérique=, _adj._, esoteric.
=espace=, _n.m._, space, room, place, volume. _—s imaginaires_; imaginary
space. _Court — de temps_; short space of time.
=espace=, _n.f._, (print.) space.
=espacement= (ès-pas-mān), _n.m._, (arch.) interval, interspace, spread;
(print.) spacing.
=espacer=, _v.a._, to leave a space between; to separate, to place apart;
to plant at regular intervals; (print.) to space.
=espade=, _n.f._, tewing-beetle (for hemp).
=espader=, _v.a._, to tew hemp.
=espadeur=, _n.m._, hemp-beater.
=espadon=, _n.m._, espadon, broadsword; two-handed sword; (ich.)
swordfish.
=espadonner=, _v.n._, to fight with the broadsword.
=espadot=, _n.m._, boat-hook.
=espadrille=, _n.f._, bathing shoe, sandal.
*=espagnol=, =-e=, _n._ and _adj._, Spaniard; Spanish. _La langue —e_;
the Spanish tongue.
*=espagnol=, _n.m._, Spanish (language).
*=espagnolette=, _n.f._, baize; French window fastening.
=espalier=, _n.m._, (hort.) espalier; fruit-wall; (nav.) stroke-oar.
_Venir en —_; to grow on an espalier.
=espalmer=, _v.a._, (nav.) to grave.
=esparcet=, _n.m._, =esparcette=, _n.f._, French honeysuckle; esparcet;
sainfoin.
=espargoute=, _n.f._ _V._ =spergule=.
=espars=, _n.m.pl._, (nav.) spars.
=espèce=, _n.f._, species, kind, sort; nature; breed; case at issue, case
in point, (jur.) case. _pl._, specie, ready money, hard cash; (theol.)
element. _L’— humaine_; mankind. _Payer en —s_; to pay in cash. _—s
sonnantes_; hard cash, cash down.
=espérance=, _n.f._, hope, confidence, trust, expectation. _Dans l’—_; in
expectation. _Se nourrir d’—_; to feed on hope. _Vivre d’—_; to live on
hope. _Répondre à ses —s_; to answer one’s expectations.
=espérer=, _v.a._, to hope, to hope for, to expect; to trust. _Il espère
une meilleure fortune_; he hopes for a better fortune. _Je n’espère plus
rien_; I have no further hopes.
=espérer=, _v.n._, to hope, to hope for, to be hopeful of; to put one’s
trust in. _J’espère bien_; I hope so indeed. _En voilà une, j’espère_;
that’s one, if you like.
=espiègle=, _n.m.f._ and _adj._, frolicsome child; frolicsome, waggish,
arch, roguish.
=espièglerie=, _n.f._, frolic, roguish _or_ playful trick, waggishness.
=espingole=, _n.f._, blunderbuss.
=espion=, _n.m._, =-ne=, _n.f._, spy; (at races) touter.
=espionnage=, _n.m._, espionage; spy system, spying.
=espionner=, _v.a._, to spy, to pry into.
=esplanade=, _n.f._, esplanade, parade.
=espoir=, _n.m._, hope, expectance. _Avoir l’— de_; to be in hopes of.
_Mettre son — dans_; to set one’s hopes on. _Sans —_; hopeless.
=espolin=, _n.m._ _V._ =époullin=.
=esponton=, _n.m._, spontoon, half-pike.
=espouleur=, _n.m._ _V._ =époulleur=.
=espoulin=, _n.f._ _V._ =époullin=.
=espringale=, _n.f._, springal (a kind of sling).
=esprit=, _n.m._, spirit, soul, ghost, shade; mind, sense, understanding,
wit, intellect; humor, disposition, temper, character; meaning; spirit,
spirituous liquor; (gram.) breathing. _— malin_; evil spirit, fiend.
_— follet_; goblin. _Dieu est un —_; God is a spirit. _Le Saint-—_,
_l’—-Saint_; the Holy Ghost. _— doux_; (Grec. gram.) soft breathing.
_— rude_; (Grec. gram.) hard breathing. _— borné_, _étroit_; narrow
intellect. _— dérangé_; disordered mind. _— de corps_; fellow-feeling,
brotherhood. _— d’ordre_; orderliness, management. _— de suite_;
consistency. _— de parti_; party spirit. _Cultiver l’—_; to cultivate
the mind. _Un homme d’—_; a man of parts, a sensible man, a man of wit.
_Un ouvrage d’—_; a work of talent. _Un bel —_; a wit. _Un — fort_; a
free-thinker. _— présent_; ready wit. _S’alambiquer l’—_; to puzzle one’s
brains. _Un homme à l’— étroit_; a narrow-minded man. _Aliéner l’— de
quelqu’un_; to drive any one mad. _Avoir l’— sain_; to be of sound mind.
_Avoir de l’—_; to be intelligent, to be witty, to be sensible. _Avoir
l’— aux talons_; to shine at the wrong end, to go a wool-gathering.
_Avoir l’— bien fait_; to be good-tempered. _Faire de l’—_; to play the
wit. _Faire revenir l’— à quelqu’un_; to bring any one to his senses.
_Faire revenir quelqu’un à l’— de_; to recall to any one, _or_ remind
any one of. _Où avait-il l’— quand?_ where were his wits when? what was
he thinking of, when? _Vous n’avez pas saisi l’— de cet auteur_; you have
not understood the meaning of that author. _Reprendre ses —s_; to recover
one’s senses; to come to one’s self. _Ne pas avoir l’— tranquille_; to be
uneasy in one’s mind. _Remettre les —s_; to quiet people’s minds. _Rendre
l’—_; to give up the ghost. _Venir dans l’—_; to come into one’s mind.
_Passer pour un homme d’—_; to pass for a wit. _Les grands —s se
rencontrent_; great wits jump together (_i.e._, when two people say
the same thing together). _—s animaux_; animal spirits. _L’— court les
rues_; wit is a drug in the market.
=esprité=, =-e=, _adj._, intelligent, clever, witty.
=esprot=, _n.m._, sprat.
=esquicher=, _v.n._, _s’—_, _v.r._, (reversis) to play a low card in
order not to win a trick. _S’—_; (fig.) to answer evasively, to back out
of.
=esquif=, _n.m._, skiff.
*=esquille=, _n.f._, splinter (of a bone).
=esquinancie=, _n.f._, quinsy.
=esquine=, _n.f._, (man.) horse’s loins; (bot.) China-root. _Un cheval
fort d’—_; a horse strong in his loins. (bot.) _V._ =squine=.
=esquipot=, _n.m._, (fam.) money-box.
=esquisse=, _n.f._, sketch, outline, rough drawing; rough-draft; plan.
_Cahier d’—s_; sketch-book. _Faire l’— de_; to make a sketch of. _L’—
d’un poème_; the sketch of a poem.
=esquisser=, _v.a._, (paint.) to sketch, to outline.
=esquiver=, _v.a._, to shun, to avoid, to elude.
_s’_=esquiver=, _v.r._, to escape, to slip away, to steal away, to give
the slip, to make off.
=esquiver=, _v.n._, to slip away, to make off; to avoid.
=essai=, _n.m._, trial, essay, attempt, endeavor; sample; experiment;
testing, assaying (metal.). _Donner_, _prendre_, _à l’—_; to give, to
take, on trial. _Faire son coup d’—_; to make one’s first attempt.
_Faire l’— de_; to make a trial of. _— sur la peinture_; essay on
painting. _Faire l’— de l’or_; to assay gold. _Pour —_; by way of trial.
=essaim= (è-sin), _n.m._, swarm; bevy, host.
=essaimer=, _v.n._, to swarm. _Cette ruche a essaimé_; that hive has
swarmed.
=essanger=, _v.a._, to soak, to scour (dirty linen).
=essarder=, _v.a._, (nav.) to mop, to swab.
=essartement=, _n.m._, grubbing, clearing (of lands).
=essarter=, _v.a._, to clear, to grub; to assart.
=essaver=, _v.a._, to drain.
=essayage=, _n.m._, trying-on (of clothes).
=essayer=, _v.a._, to try; to essay, to attempt, to make a trial of; to
assay. _— de l’or_; to assay gold. _— une chose_; to try a thing.
_s’_=essayer=, _v.r._, to try one’s strength _or_ one’s skill, to make
attempts, to try one’s hand. _Il s’est essayé à peindre_; he has tried
his hand at painting.
=essayer=, _v.n._, to try, to attempt, to make a trial. _Essayez de le
persuader_; try to persuade him. _— de marcher_; to try to walk.
=essayerie=, _n.f._, assay-office (of the mint).
=essayeur=, _n.m._, assayer.
=essayiste=, _n.m.f._, essayist.
=esse=, _n.f._, S; linch-pin (of the axle-tree of a coach); fore-lock (of
a gun-carriage).
=esseigler=, _v.a._, to clear of rye.
=esselier=, _n.m._, (man.) brace.
=esséminer=, _v.a._, (l.u.) to disperse; to scatter.
=essence=, _n.f._, essence; substance; species (of trees); benzene; (of
roses) otto, attar. _— de romarin_; essence of rosemary. _— de la vie_;
heart’s blood.
=essénien=, _n.m._, Essene.
=essentiel=, =-le= (-cièl), _adj._, essential, material. _C’est là le
point —_; that is the main point.
=essentiel= (-cièl), _n.m._, essential, essential point, main point, main
thing.
=essentiellement= (-sièl-mān), _adv._, essentially, materially.
=essette=, _n.f._, hammer-axe.
=esseulé=, =-e=, _adj._, (fam., l.u.) solitary, abandoned.
=essieu=, _n.m._, axle-tree; pin (of a block), _écartement des —x_; wheel
base (motor).
=essor=, _n.m._, flight; soaring, soar; strain; swing, play, scope,
impulse, impulsion. _Donner l’— à_; to give wings to, to give scope to.
_L’— du génie_; the soaring of genius. _Prendre son —_; to take one’s
flight.
=essorant=, =-e=, _adj._, (her.) soaring. _Un oiseau —_; (her.) a soaring
bird.
=essorer=, _v.a._, to hang in the air in order to dry.
_s’_=essorer=, _v.r._, to soar aloft.
=essoreu-r=, =-se=, _n.m.f._, dryer. _n.f._, drying machine.
*=essoriller=, _v.a._, to cut the ears (of a dog); to crop short (hair);
to crop a dog.
=essoufflé=, =-e=, _part._, breathless; out of breath. _Être tout —_; to
be quite out of breath.
=essoufflement=, _n.m._, panting, breathlessness.
=essouffler=, _v.a._, to put out of breath; to wind (horses). _S’—_,
_v.r._, to put one’s self out of breath; to get or be out of breath.
=essui=, _n.m._, drying-closet, drying-house.
=essuie-main=, _n.m._, (_—_, _or_ _—-—s_) towel.
=essuie-pieds=, _n.m._, mat, door-mat.
=essaie-plume=, _n.m._, (_—_, _or_ _—-—s_) pen-wiper.
=essuyage=, _n.m._, wiping.
=essuyer=, _v.a._, to wipe, to wipe off, to wipe away, to wipe dry; to
sustain, to support, to bear, to endure, to go through, to undergo. _—
les larmes de quelqu’un_; to console any one. _— des affronts_; to endure
affronts. _— un refus_ or _un revers_; to meet with a refusal _or_ a
check.
_s’_=essuyer=, _v.r._, to dry one’s self. _S’— les mains_, _la figure_; to
wipe one’s hands, one’s face.
=est= (èst), _n.m._, east. _D’—_; eastern, easterly. _Un vent d’—_; an
easterly wind. _À l’—_; to the east, eastward. _Vers l’—_; eastward.
=estacade=, _n.f._, stockade; boom (of a harbor).
=estafette=, _n.f._, courier, express messenger; (milit.) estafette.
=estafier=, _n.m._, (b.s.) tall footman, flunkey, livery servant; lanky
Jack; hector, bully.
=estafilade=, _n.f._, cut (in the face), gash, slash; rent (in clothes).
=estafilader=, _v.a._, to slash, to cut, to gash.
=estagnon=, _n.m._, a copper bottle.
=estame=, _n.f._, worsted, knitted worsted.
=estamet=, _n.m._, coarse, woolen fabric.
=estaminet=, _n.m._, coffee-house; smoking divan; shades; tap-room.
=estampage=, _n.m._, stamping (metal.).
=estampe=, _n.f._, print, engraving, cut; stamp. _Magasin d’—s_;
print-shop; (tech.) stamping-machine, punch.
=estamper=, _v.a._, to stamp; to punch, to brand.
=estampeur=, _n.m._, stamper. _adj._, stamping.
=estampillage=, _n.m._, stamping, marking.
*=estampille=, _n.f._, stamp, mark, trade-mark.
*=estampiller=, _v.a._, to stamp, to mark.
=estanc=, _adj.m._, (nav.) water-tight, well-found. _Un navire —_; (nav.)
a well-found ship.
=estance=, _n.f._, (nav.) stanchion.
=ester=, _v.n._, (jur.) to appear in court, to plead (before justice).
=estère=, _n.f._, straw mat; creek, cove.
=esteuble=, _n.f._, stubble. _V._ =éteule=.
=esthétique=, _n.f._, æsthetics.
=esthétique=, _adj._, æsthetical.
=estimable=, _adj._, estimable.
=estimateur=, _n.m._, appraiser, appreciator, valuer.
=estimatif=, _adj._, estimative. _Etat —_; estimate.
=estimation=, _n.f._, estimation, appraising, valuation, estimate. _Faire
une — de_; to appraise, to estimate.
=estime=, _n.f._, esteem, regard, estimation; (nav.) reckoning. _Avoir de
l’— pour_; to hold in esteem. _Être perdu d’— et de réputation_; to have
lost one’s reputation, and the esteem of every one.
=estimer=, _v.a._, to estimate, to value; to rate, to assess; to esteem,
to regard, to prize, to consider, to deem, to account. _— des meubles_;
to value furniture. _— trop_; to overrate.
_s’_=estimer=, _v.r._, to esteem, _or_ to prize, one’s self; to set a
value on one’s self; to consider one’s self; to esteem one another.
=estival=, =-e=, _adj._, estival, summer.
=estivation=, _n.f._, (bot.) estivation; (zoöl.) torpor.
=estive=, _n.f._, (nav.) trimming, stowing (cargo).
=estiver=, _v.a._, (nav.) to stow, to trim, to press the cargo down; to
turn cattle out to grass during summer.
=estoc=, _n.m._, tuck (sword); point of a sword; trunk, stock (of trees);
(nav.) ledge, rock, shelf. _Frapper d’— et de taille_; to cut and thrust,
or to lay about (recklessly). _Parler d’— et de taille_; to talk at
random. _Dites-vous cela de votre —?_ do you say that of yourself? is it
original? _Être réduit à blanc —_; to be done up _or_ reduced to nothing.
_À blanc —_; (agri.) to the root.
=estocade=, _n.f._, (fenc.) stoccado, stoccade, thrust, lunge; unexpected
attack.
=estocader=, _v.n._, (fenc.) to thrust, to make passes, to lunge.
=estomac= (-ma), _n.m._, stomach; breast; chest. _Avoir mal à l’—_; to
have a stomach-ache. _Ardeur d’—_; heartburn. _Soulever l’—_; to turn the
stomach. _Tiraillements d’—_; twitching pains in the stomach. _Le creux
de l’—_; the pit of the stomach.
_s’_=estomaquer=, _v.r._, (fam.) to take offense; not to be able to brook
anything; to exhaust one’s self by speaking. _Il s’est estomaqué_; he is
put out.
=estompage=, _n.m._, (draw.) stumping.
=estompe=, _n.f._, stump. _Dessin à l’—_; stump-drawing.
=estomper=, _v.a._, to stump; to shade off.
=estouffade=, _n.f._ _V._ =étouffée=.
=estrade=, _n.f._, platform, stand, stage. ☉_Battre l’—_; to scout; to
be on the tramp. _Batteurs d’—_; ☉scouts; (fam.) strollers, trampers,
vagrants.
=estragon=, _n.m._, (bot.) tarragon.
☉=estramaçon=, _n.m._, two-edged sword. _Coup d’—_; cut with the edge of
a sword.
=estramaçonner=, _v.r._, (jest., l.u.) to strike with the edge of a
sword, to cut, to slash.
=estrapade=, _n.f._, strappado; gibbet used for the strappado; (man.)
estrapade. _Se donner l’—_; to torture one’s brains.
=estrapader=, _v.a._, to give the strappado, to torture.
=estrapasser=, _v.a._, (man.) to overwork, to override.
=estraper=, _v.a._, to mow (stubble).
=estrope=, _n.f._, (nav.) strop.
=estroper=, _v.a._, (nav.) to strop.
=estropiat=, _n.m._, (fam.) cripple; beggar.
=estropié=, _n.m._, =-e=, _n.f._, cripple.
=estropié=, =-e=, _part._, crippled, lame; disabled. _Être — d’un bras_;
to have an arm disabled. _Passage —_; mutilated passage.
=estropier=, _v.a._, to cripple, to lame, to maim, to disable; to mangle,
to murder, to spoil, to mutilate. _— un passage_; to mutilate a passage.
_— un rôle_; (theat.) to murder a part.
=estuaire=, _n.m._, (geog.) estuary.
=esturgeon= (-jon), _n.m._, (ich.) sturgeon.
=esule=, _n.f._, (bot.) esula.
=et= (é), _conj._, and. — ... —; both ... and; then, thereupon. _— vous —
moi_; both you and I. [The final _t_ of _et_ is never pronounced.]
=établage=, _n.m._, stabling.
=étable=, _n.f._, stable (for oxen, sheep, goats); stall; cattle-shed;
cattle-house; pig-sty, hog-sty, sty. _S’aborder de franche —_; (nav.) to
run right into one another, to run foul of one another.
=établer=, _v.a._, to put in a stable, to stable.
=établi=, _n.m._, bench (joiner’s); shop-board, counter (tailor’s).
=établi=, =-e=, _part._, established; settled, laid down.
=établir=, _v.a._, to establish, to set, to fix, to erect, to set up,
to set up in business; to institute, to found, to aver, to make good,
to lay down (statements); to assert; to prove, to make out, to show; to
induct; to strike (balance); to impose (a tax). _— sa fille_; to settle
one’s daughter. _— un fait_; to state a fact; to make it good. _— par des
exemples_; to prove, to make good, by examples.
_s’_=établir=, _v.r._, to establish one’s self, to fix one’s residence,
to take up one’s residence; to settle down, to settle (marry); to set up
shop; to set up in business, to set up for one’s self, to set up. _Il est
venu s’— en France_; he came to settle in France. _Il songe à s’—_; he is
thinking of settling down.
=établissement= (-blis-mān), _n.m._, establishment, establishing,
settlement; setting up, fixing, placing, erecting; proving, making
out, showing; imposition (of taxes); settling; setting up in business;
(nav.) tide-table. _L’— d’un fait_; the stating, proving of a fact.
_Les hôpitaux sont des —s très-utiles_; hospitals are highly useful
institutions. _L’— de ses enfants_; the settling of one’s children.
_Frais de premier —_; first expenses. _Dans l’—_; on the premises.
=étage=, _n.m._, story, floor; flight (of stairs); (geol., mining) layer,
stratum. _Il demeure au troisième —_; he lives on the third floor. _Il y
a des hommes d’esprit de tout —_; there are wits of every degree. _C’est
un sot à triple —_; he is a consummate fool. _Avoir un menton à double
—_; to have a double chin. _De bas —_; of low degree; low birth.
=étagé=, =-e=, _part._, _adj._, rising tier upon tier; tapered, tapering.
=étager=, _v.a._, to taper; to dispose in tiers. _S’—_; to rise tier upon
tier; to taper.
=étagère=, _n.f._, what-not, shelves.
=étague= (é-tag), _n.f._, (nav.) hoisting the yards.
=étai=, _n.m._, stay, shore; prop, strut. _— de misaine_; (nav.)
fore-stay. _— d’artimon_; (nav.) mizzen-stay. _— du grand mât_; (nav.)
main-stay.
=étaie=, _n.f._, (her.) chevronel.
☉=étaiement=, _n.m._, propping, staying, shoring, supporting, bearing up.
_V._ =étayement=.
=étaim= (è-tin), _n.m._, fine carded wool.
=étain=, _n.m._, tin; pewter. _— fin_; pure tin. _— commun_; block
tin. _— métallique_; white tin. _— oxydé_; tin-stone. _— en feuilles_;
tin-foil. _— de glace_; tin-glass.
=étal=, _n.m._, stall; butcher’s stall; butcher’s shop.
=étalage=, _n.m._, laying out, exposing of goods for sale; goods exposed
for sale; shop-window; window; stallage; finery, fine clothes; showing
off, ostentatious display, show. _Cela n’est bon qu’à servir d’—_; that
will only serve for show. _Faire — de son esprit_; to parade one’s wit.
_Faire de l’—_; to make a show, to show off.
=étalagiste=, _n.m._, stall-keeper, window-dresser.
=étale=, _adj._, (nav.) still; slack (of the water); settled, steady (of
the wind). _Mer —_; slack water, tide.
=étalé=, =-e=, _part._, spread out, unfolded, displayed.
=étaler=, _v.a._, to expose for sale; to put in the shop-window; to
spread, to spread out; to show, to set forth, to display, to parade, to
make a show _or_ parade of, to show off.
_s’_=étaler=, _v.r._, to be exposed for sale; to be hung up in the
window; to be displayed, to be spread out; to stretch one’s self out,
to sprawl; to show one’s self off, to show off. _S’— sur l’herbe_; to
stretch one’s self at full length on the grass.
=étalier=, _n.m._, journeyman-butcher.
=étalinguer= (-ghé), _v.a._, (nav.) to clinch.
=étalingure=, _n.f._, (nav.) clinch, bend (of a cable).
=étalon=, _n.m._, stallion; standard (of weight and measures). _D’—_;
standard. _— de haras_; stud-horse.
=étalonnage= _or_ =étalonnement=, _n.m._, stamping (of weights, etc.);
gauging.
=étalonner=, _v.a._, to stamp; to gauge.
=étalonneur=, _n.m._, inspector of weights and measures.
=étamage=, _n.m._, tinning; quicksilvering, silvering; plating.
=étambot= (_formerly_ étambord), _n.m._, (nav.) stern-post.
=étambrai=, _n.m._, (nav.) partner (of a mast, etc.).
=étamer=, _v.a._, to tin; to plate (glass); to foliate, to quicksilver.
=étameur=, _n.m._, tinman; silverer.
=étamine=, _n.f._, stamin; tammy; sieve; strainer, colander;
bolting-cloth; bolter; bunting; (bot.) stamen, male organ, thrum. _Passer
par l’—_; to sift. _Il a passé par l’—_; he has been strictly examined.
=étaminé=, =-e=, _adj._, (bot.) stamened.
=étamineuse=, _adj.f._, (bot.) having stamina, but no petals or leaves.
=étaminier=, _n.m._, stamin-maker.
=étamper=, _v.a._, to punch (horse-shoes).
=étampure=, _n.f._, the holes of a horse-shoe.
=étamure=, _n.f._, melted tin, tinning, material for tinning.
=étanche=, _adj._, water-tight; air-tight; steam-tight.
=étanché=, _part._, stopped (of a leak).
=étanchement= (é-tānsh-mān), _n.m._, stanching; stopping; quenching;
slaking. _L’— du sang_; the stopping of blood.
=étancher=, _v.a._, to stanch; to stop; to slake, to quench. _— le sang_;
to stop the blood. _— la soif_; to quench the thirst. _— un vaisseau_;
(nav.) to free a ship of water.
=étançon=, _n.m._, prop, stay, supporter, shore; (nav.) stanchion.
=étançonner=, _v.a._, to prop, to underprop, to stay, to support, to
shore.
=étanfiche=, _n.f._, quarry-stratum.
=étang=, _n.m._, pond, fish-pond; pool. _Peupler un —_; to stock a pond.
_Pêcher un —_; to drag a pond.
=étape=, _n.f._, store-house; rations; forage; halting place; stage.
_Brûler l’—_; to pass through without stopping.
=étapier=, _n.m._, (milit.) distributor of rations.
=état=, _n.m._, state; commonweal, commonwealth; case, condition;
position, circumstance, plight, predicament, account, statement,
return; list, register, inventory, estimate; establishment; calling,
profession, station; office. _pl._, dominions; (med.) acme; (milit.)
list, muster-roll. _Mettre hors d’— de_; to put it out of any one’s power
to. _Il est en — de payer_; he is able to pay, he is in a position to
pay. _En quelque — que soit l’affaire_; however the matter may stand.
_De son —_; by profession, by trade. _Se mettre en — de défense_; to put
one’s self in a state of defense. _Mettre en —_; to enable, to prepare
for. _Tenir une chose en —_; to keep a thing ready; to keep a thing in
its place. _Tenir en —_; to keep in suspense. _Faire peu d’— de_; to have
a poor opinion of. _L’—-major_; (_—s-—s_) (milit.) staff, staff-office,
—s-généraux; states-general. _— de comptes_; statement of accounts.
_Tenir un grand —_; to keep a large establishment. _Ministre_,
_secrétaire_, _d’—_; minister, secretary, of state. _Coup d’—_; stroke
of state policy. _Homme d’—_; statesman. _Affaires d’—_; state affairs.
_Raison d’—_; state policy. _Les —s-Unis d’Amérique_; the United States
of North America. _Remettre en —_; to set right again.
=étau=, _n.m._, vice. _Les mâchoires de l’—_; the chops of the vice. _— à
main_; hand-vice.
=étayement= (-tê-mān), _n.m._, staying, shoring, bearing up, propping,
supporting.
=étayer=, _v.a._, to stay, to prop, to bear up, to support, to shore.
=etc.=, _conj._, (ab. of _et cætera_) etc.
=et cætera=, _conj._, _et cætera_.
=été=, _n.m._, summer; prime (of life). _— chaud_, _brûlant_; warm,
scorching, summer. _Au milieu de l’—_; in the middle of summer. _Être
dans son —_; to be in one’s prime.
*=éteigneu-r=, _n.m._, =-se=, _n.f._, (pers.) extinguisher.
*=éteignoir=, _n.m._, extinguisher (instrument).
=éteindre= (*éteignant, éteint), _v.a._, to put out, to extinguish, to
quench, to appease; to exterminate, to destroy, to obliterate; to soften
(colors); to wear out; to liquidate (a debt); to strike out. _Eteignez
la chandelle_; put out the candle. _— de la chaux_; to slake lime. _—
la soif_; to quench the thirst. _— une pension_; to buy up, to redeem,
an annuity. _— une obligation_; to cancel an obligation. _— le souvenir
de_; to obliterate the recollection of. _— une couleur_; to soften down a
color.
_s’_=éteindre=, _v.r._, to be extinguished, to be put out, quenched;
to go out, to die away, to die out; to decrease, to diminish, to be
diminished; to be slaked (of lime). _Le feu s’éteint_; the fire is going
out. _Cette maison va s’—_; that family will soon die out, will soon be
extinct.
=éteint=, =-e=, _part._, put out, extinguished, out, extinct. _Mon feu
est —_; my fire is out. _Elle a la voix —e_; her voice is scarcely
audible. _Des yeux —s_; dull eyes.
=étendage=, _n.m._, lines to hang things to dry upon; drying-room.
=étendard=, _n.m._, standard, colors, banner, flag. _Arborer_,
_déployer_, _planter_, _un —_; to hoist, to display, to plant, a
standard. _Lever l’— de la révolte_; to raise the standard of rebellion.
=étendeuse=, _n.f._, (spinning) stretcher.
=étendoir=, _n.m._, drying-room; (print.) peel.
=étendre=, _v.a._, to spread, to stretch, to expand, to distend; to lay
out; to lengthen, to prolong, to draw out; to lay dead, to kill one
on the spot; to enlarge, to extend, to widen; to wire-draw; to lay on
(colors); to overthrow, to throw down. _— du beurre sur du pain_; to
spread butter upon bread. _— son armée_; to extend one’s army. _— du
linge_; to lay out linen. _— le bras_; to stretch out one’s arm. _— les
ailes_; to spread the wings. _— son commerce_; to extend one’s trade.
_s’_=étendre=, _v.r._, to stretch one’s self out, to sprawl; to reach, to
extend; to expatiate, to dwell; to lengthen, to grow out; to draw out,
to launch. _Il s’étendit tout de son long sur l’herbe_; he laid himself
at full length upon the grass. _Aussi loin que la vue peut s’—_; as far
as the eye can reach. _S’— sur un sujet_; to expatiate, to dwell, upon a
subject.
=étendu=, =-e=, _part._, stretched, spread, extended. _Du linge — sur
l’herbe_; linen laid out on the grass. _Un empire fort —_; a widely
extended empire. _La vue est ici fort —e_; the view here is very
extensive. _Des connaissances —es_; extensive knowledge. _Il a une voix
très —e_; he has great compass of voice. _C’est un esprit fort —_; he is
a man of vast intellect.
=étendue=, _n.f._, extent, extensiveness, expanse; compass, length. _Dans
toute son —_; to the full. _La vaste — des mers_; the wide expanse of
ocean. _Grande — de voix_; great compass of voice.
=éternel=, =-le=, _adj._, eternal, everlasting, ever-enduring, endless,
ever-living. _Le Père —_; God Almighty.
=éternel=, _n.m._, Eternal, God; Everlasting.
=éternelle=, _n.f._ _V._ =immortelle=.
=éternellement= (-nèl-mān), _adv._, eternally, to all eternity,
everlastingly; forever, perpetually; incessantly, continually, for
evermore.
=éterniser=, _v.a._, to perpetuate. _— son nom_; to immortalize one’s
name.
_s’_=éterniser=, _v.r._, to be perpetuated, to be rendered eternal.
=éternité=, _n.f._, eternity, everlastingness. _De toute —_; from all
eternity.
=éternue=, _n.f._, (bot.) florin, sneezewort.
=éternuement= _or_ =éternûment=, _n.m._, sneezing, sneeze.
=éternuer=, _v.n._, to sneeze.
=éternueu-r=, _n.m._, =-se=, _n.f._, sneezer.
=étésien=, _adj._, etesian.
=étêtement= (é-têt-mān), _n.m._, pollarding, topping.
=étêter=, _v.a._, (hort.) to top, to pollard; to take off the heads (of
nails, pins).
☉=éteuf= (é-teu), _n.m._, ball (at tennis).
=éteule= _or_ =esteuble=, _n.f._, stubble.
=éther= (é-tèr), _n.m._, ether.
=éthéré=, =-e=, _adj._, ethereal.
=éthérifier=, _v.a._, to etherealize; to etherize.
_s’_=éthérifier=, _v.r._, to become etherized.
=éthérisation=, _n.f._, (chem.) etherification.
=éthériser=, _v.a._, (chem.) to etherealize; (med.) to produce
insensibility by means of ether.
=éthiopien=, _n.m._, =-ne=, _n.f._, Ethiopian.
=éthique=, _n.f._, ethics, morals.
=éthique=, _adj._, ethic, ethical.
=ethmoïdal=, =-e=, _adj._, (anat.) ethmoidal. _L’os —_; ethmoidal bone.
=ethmoïde=, _n.m._, (anat.) ethmoid.
=ethnarchie=, _n.f._, ethnarchy.
=ethnarque=, _n.m._, ethnarch.
=ethnique=, _adj._, ethnic, ethnical.
=ethnographe=, _n.m._, ethnologist.
=ethnographie=, _n.f._, ethnography.
=ethnographique=, _adj._, ethnographical.
=ethnologie=, _n.f._, ethnology, ethnography.
=ethnologue=, _n.m._, ethnologist, ethnographer.
=ethnologique=, _adj._, ethnologie, ethnological.
=éthologie=, _n.f._, ethology.
=éthologique=, _adj._, ethologic.
=éthopée=, _n.f._, description of human passions and manners.
=étiage= (é-tiaj), _n.m._, low-water mark.
=étier= (é-tié), _n.m._, ditch (for conveying sea-water to a salt-marsh).
=étincelant=, =-e= (é-tin-slān, -t), _adj._, sparkling, glittering,
flashing, twinkling, glistening.
=étinceler= (é-tin-slé), _v.n._, to sparkle, to flash, to gleam, to
twinkle, to glitter. _Les yeux lui étincellent de colère_; his eyes are
flashing with anger. _Cet ouvrage étincelle d’esprit_; that work sparkles
with wit.
=étincelette=, _n.f._, little spark.
=étincelle=, _n.f._, spark, flash of fire. _Jeter des —s_; to throw out
sparks. _Il n’a pas une — de bon sens_; he is utterly devoid of good
sense.
=étincellement= (-sèl-mān), _n.m._, sparkling, twinkling, glistening,
scintillation.
=étiolement= (é-tiol-mān), _n.m._, etiolation, branching; sickliness (of
plants); (med.) chlorosis; paleness, emaciation.
=étiolé=, =-e=, _adj._, _part._, etiolated; pale, wan, emaciated; sickly.
=étioler=, _v.a._, to etiolate (plants).
_s’_=étioler=, _v.r._, to etiolate, to blanch; (pers.) to be weakened, to
grow enfeebled; (of plants) to waste away; to wither.
=étiologie=, _n.f._, (med.) etiology.
=étique=, _adj._, hectic; consumptive; lean, lank, emaciated.
=étiqueter= (é-tik-té), _v.a._, to label, to ticket.
=étiquette=, _n.f._, ticket, label; etiquette. _Condamner sur l’— du
sac_; to condemn without examining, _or_ to condemn on appearances.
_Tenir à l’—_; to be particular; to stand on ceremony.
=étirage=, _n.m._, stretching; wire-drawing.
=étire=, _n.f._, stretching-iron (of curriers).
=étirer=, _v.a._, to stretch; (tech.) to lengthen, to wire-draw.
_s’_=étirer=, _v.r._, to stretch out one’s limbs.
=étisie=, _n.f._, consumption, decline.
=étoffe=, _n.f._, stuff; cloth, material; condition, quality, worth.
_pl._, stuffs; (print.) wear and tear, plant. _— drapée_; woolen cloth.
_Il y a de l’— chez lui_; he has got some stuff in him.
=étoffé=, =-e=, _adj._, stuffed, lined; upholstered (of furniture);
comfortably off; stout, full-bodied; substantial. _Discours bien —_;
well-arranged speech; speech full of capital things. _Maison bien —e_;
well-furnished house. _Homme bien —_; man in good circumstances.
=étoffer=, _v.a._, to stuff, to line, to furnish with materials; to
upholster.
=étoile=, _n.f._, star; (man.) blaze; center (of walks in parks);
star-wheel, fate, destiny; asterisk; (print., fort.) star. _À la lumière
des —s_; by starlight. _— polaire_; polar-star. _— tombante_, _filante_;
shooting star. _— de mer_; starfish. _Coucher à la belle —_; to sleep in
the open air. _Né sous une mauvaise —_; born under an unlucky star. _Voir
des —s en plein midi_; to “see stars.”
=étoilé=, =-e=, _adj._, starry; full of stars, studded. _La voûte —e_;
the spangled vault. _Bouteille —e_; starred bottle (cracked).
=étoiler=, _v.a._, to star, to stud with stars; to crack; to blaze; to
mark with a star.
_s’_=étoiler=, _v.r._, to star, to crack; to become studded with stars.
=étole=, _n.f._, (c.rel.) stole.
=étonnamment= (é-to-na-mān), _adv._, astonishingly, wonderfully,
amazingly.
=étonnant=, =-e=, _adj._, astonishing, surprising, wonderful, marvelous,
amazing.
=étonné=, =-e=, _part._, astonished. _Être — de_; to be astonished at.
_Faire_, _jouer l’—_; to feign astonishment.
=étonnement= (é-ton-mān), _n.m._, astonishment, amazement; admiration,
wonder; fright, terror; ☉shock. _Frapper d’—_; to strike with amazement.
_Remplir d’—_; to fill with astonishment. _Je ne reviens pas de mon —_;
I cannot recover from my astonishment. _Tout le monde est dans l’—_;
every body is amazed. _À l’— de tout le monde_; to the astonishment of
everybody.
=étonner=, _v.a._, to astonish, to amaze, to startle, to stagger; to
astound, to stun. _Je suis étonné qu’il ne m’en ait rien dit_; I wonder
he said nothing about it to me.
_s’_=étonner=, _v.r._, to be astonished, to be amazed, to wonder. _Il ne
s’étonne de rien_; he is astonished at nothing.
=étouffade=, _n.f._ _V._ =étouffée=.
=étouffant=, =-e=, _adj._, suffocating; sultry, close, sweltering.
_Chaleur —e_; sweltering heat.
=étouffé=, =-e=, _part._, suffocated, stifled; suppressed; concealed;
stamped out.
=étouffée=, _n.f._, (cook.) estoufade.
=étouffement= (é-toof-mān), _n.m._, suffocation, stifling.