stifle, to suppress; to hush up; to deaden (sound). _Les mauvaises herbes
étouffent le blé_; weeds choke the corn. _— une affaire_; to hush up an
affair. _— une révolte_; to suppress a revolt. _— la voix_; to drown the
voice.
=étouffer=, _v.n._, to be choking, to be choked; to be suffocated; to
swelter. _On étouffe ici_; there is no breathing here. _— de rire_; to
choke with laughter.
=étouffoir=, _n.m._, cinder-pail; extinguisher (for charcoal); damper
(piano).
=étoupe=, _n.f._, tow, oakum. _Mettre le feu aux —s_; to add fuel to the
flame; to fan. _— goudronnée_; tarred oakum.
=étoupement=, _n.m._, stopping, stuffing; (nav.) calking.
=étouper=, _v.a._, to stop (with tow _or_ oakum); (nav.) to calk. _S’—
les oreilles_; to stop one’s ears with cotton-wool.
=étoupi-er=, =-ère=, _n.m.f._, oakum-picker.
*=étoupille=, _n.f._, (artil.) quick-match; tube.
*=étoupiller=, _v.a._, (artil.) to prime.
*=étoupillon=, _n.m._, (artil.) toppin.
=étoupin=, _n.m._, wad, wadding.
=étourdeau=, _n.m._, young capon.
=étourderie=, _n.f._, giddiness, heedlessness, thoughtlessness, giddy
act, blunder. _Il fait toujours des —s_; he is always committing some
thoughtless act or other.
=étourdi=, =-e=, _adj._, stunned; giddy, dizzy, thoughtless, heedless;
giddy-headed.
=étourdi=, _n.m._, =-e=, _n.f._, rattle-head, mad-cap, romp. _C’est une
—e_; she is a giddy creature. _À l’—e_; giddily, heedlessly, rashly.
_Jeter à l’—e_; to blurt out.
=étourdiment=, _adv._, inconsiderately, heedlessly, thoughtlessly.
=étourdir=, _v.a._, to stun, to deafen, to make dizzy, to make giddy; to
astound; to din; to assuage (pain); to parboil. _— la grosse faim_; to
take the edge off one’s appetite. _— de la viande_; to partly cook meat.
_— de l’eau_; to take the chill off of the water.
_s’_=étourdir=, _v.r._, to divert one’s thoughts; to be preoccupied; to
try to forget. _Il s’étourdit sur son chagrin_; he tries to forget his
grief.
=étourdissant=, =-e=, _adj._, stunning, deafening, astounding.
=étourdissement= (-dis-mān), _n.m._, stunning, dizziness, giddiness;
amazement; stupefaction; stupor; shock. _Il a des —s_; he is subject to
attacks of giddiness. _Le premier — passé_; when the first shock was
over.
=étourneau=, _n.m._, (orni.) starling; giddy fellow; flea-bitten horse.
=étourneau=, _adj._, flea-bitten (of horses).
=étrange=, _adj._, strange, odd, queer, novel; uncouth. _Chose —!_
strange! strange to say! _C’est une personne bien —_; she is a very queer
sort of a person.
=étrangement= (é-tranj-mān), _adv._, strangely, queerly; terribly.
=étrang-er=, =-ère=, _adj._, strange; foreign; unknown; irrelevant;
outlandish. _Ministre des affaires —ères_; minister for foreign affairs.
_Être — à une science_; to be unacquainted with a science. _Un fait — à
la cause_; a fact unconnected with _or_ foreign to the case. _Corps —_;
extraneous body. _Une langue —e_; a foreign language.
=étrang-er=, _n.m._, =-ère=, _n.f._, foreigner, stranger, alien,
outsider; foreign parts. _C’est un —_; he is a foreigner. _À l’—_;
abroad. _Passer à l’—_; to go abroad.
☉=étranger=, _v.a._, to estrange, to drive away.
_s’_=étranger=, _v.r._, (hunt.) to desert a country, to disappear from
(of game).
=étrangeté= (é-tranj-té), _n.f._, strangeness; oddness, queerness.
☉=étranglant=, =-e=, _adj._, strangling; overwhelming, amazing; decisive.
=étranglé=, =-e=, _part._, scanty, too narrow. _Discours —_; speech too
much compressed.
=étrangle-loup=, _n.m._, (_—_) (bot.) true-love.
=étranglement=, _n.m._, strangling; garotting; (med.) strangulation;
stricture.
=étrangler=, _v.a._, to strangle, to throttle, to choke, to stifle; to
make too little, too narrow, to make scanty, to compress, to confine, to
scant, to slur over. _Cet habit est étranglé_; that coat is too scanty.
_— une affaire_; to slur over a business.
_s’_=étrangler=, _v.r._, to strangle one’s self.
=étrangler=, _v.n._, to be choked, to be strangled.
=étrangleu-r=, =-se=, _n.m.f._, garotter, strangler.
*=étranguillon= (-ghi-ion), _n.m._, (vet.) strangles. _Poire d’—_;
choke-pear.
=étrape=, _n.f._, small sickle (for stubble).
=étraper=, _v.a._, to cut stubble.
=étraquer=, _v.n._, (hunt.) to track (on the snow).
=étrave=, _n.f._, (nav.) stem.
=être= (étant, été), _v.n._, to be, to exist; to belong; to have; to
stand; to take part in; to come; to go; to lie; to prove to be; to turn
out to be. _— en bonne santé_; to be in good health. _— fatigué_; to be
tired. _— à quelque chose_; to be doing anything. _Y —_; to be at home;
to have hit it. _En — là_; to have come to that. _J’y suis_; I have it.
_Je suis des vôtres_; I shall join your party. _Je n’en suis plus_; I
cry off. _Il n’en est rien_; such is not the case, it is nothing of the
sort. _— sage_; (of children) to be good. _— bien avec quelqu’un_; to be
on good terms with any one. _— mal avec quelqu’un_; to be on bad terms
with any one. _— de moitié_; to go halves. _Hé bien, soit_; well, let
it be so. _Ainsi soit-il_; so be it. _Ce tableau est du Poussin_; this
picture is by Poussin. _Il est de Paris_; he is a native of Paris. _Cet
enfant est à moi_; that child belongs to me. _Cela n’est pas_; it is not
so. _C’est que_; the fact is, the truth is. _Si ce n’est que_; except
that. _N’eût été que_; had it not been for. _Il en sera de nous comme
des autres_; it will be with us as with others. _Ce sont eux qui_; it is
they who. _Je suis à vous dans un moment_; I shall be at your service,
with you, in a moment. _Cette fois ça y est_; now for it! Done this
time, and no mistake! _Qu’est-ce que c’est?_ what is it? _C’est à vous
de parler_; it is for you to speak. _C’est à vous à parler_; it is your
turn to speak. _Où en êtes-vous?_ where are you? how far have you got?
_Je ne sais pas où j’en suis_; I do not know how I am situated, I do
not know what I am about. _Il est à présumer_; it is to be presumed.
_Il n’est pas en moi de l’éviter_; it does not depend upon me to avoid
it. _En êtes-vous encore là?_ do you still believe that? _Il en sera ce
qu’il plaira à Dieu_; it will be as God pleases. _J’en serai de moitié_;
I will go halves in it. _J’y suis pour un tiers_; I am in for a third
share. _Je n’en suis plus_; I have declared off. _Je n’y suis pour rien_;
I have no hand in the matter. _C’en est fait du lui_; it is all over
with him. _Voilà où nous en sommes_; such is our present situation. _Il
ne sait où il en est_; he does not know where he is. _Que sera-ce de?_
what will become of? _Vous y êtes_; you have hit it. _Cela n’en est pas_;
that does not belong to it. _Je suis tout à vous_; I am entirely at your
service. _Si j’étais de_ or _Si j’étais que de vous_; (fam.) were I in
your place. _Je n’y suis pour personne_; I am at home to no one. _Madame
n’y est pas_; my mistress is not at home. _Quoi qu’il en soit_; at all
events, be that as it may. _En — pour son argent_; to lose one’s money
over anything. _J’en suis pour mes frais_; I have lost my time and money.
_En — pour vingt francs_; to be in for it to the tune of twenty francs.
_— à l’étroit_; to be cramped for room. _On ne peut pas — et avoir été_;
you can’t have your cake and eat it.
=être=, _n.m._, being, existence; trunk (of a tree). _Les —s d’une
maison_; the parts, ins and outs of a house. _Non —_; nonentity.
_Bien-—_; welfare, comforts of life. _Il sait tous les —s de cette
maison_; he knows all the ways of that house. _Couper à blanc —_; (of
trees) to cut down to the root.
=étrécir=, _v.a._ _V._ =rétrécir=.
_s’_=étrécir=, _v.r._ _V._ _se_ =rétrécir=.
=étrécissement= (-sis-mān), _n.m._ _V._ =rétrécissement=.
=étrécissure=, _n.f._ _V._ =rétrécissure=.
=étreindre= (étreignant, étreint), _v.a._, to bind, to tie, to tie up; to
press, to clasp.
=étreinte=, _n.f._, knot; clasping, pressing; embrace. _De douces —s_;
sweet embraces.
=étrenne= (é-trè-n), _n.f._, handsel. _pl._, New Year’s gift.
=étrenner= (é-trè-né), _v.a._, to give a New Year’s gift, to give a
Christmas-box; to handsel; to try _or_ put on for the first time; to buy
the first lot.
*=étrésillon=, _n.m._, prop, stay, support.
*=étrésillonner=, _v.a._, to prop, to stay.
=étrier=, _n.m._, stirrup; iron-hook; (surg.) stirrup-bandage; strap. _Il
est ferme sur ses —s_; he has a firm seat in the saddle. _Vin_ or _coup
de l’—_; stirrup-cup. _Il a toujours le pied à l’—_; he is never out of
the saddle. _Courir à franc —_; to ride full speed. _Faire perdre les —s
à quelqu’un_; to put any one out of countenance. _Tenir l’— à_; to give a
lift to.
=étrière=, _n.f._, stirrup-bar; spring-bar.
*=étrille=, _n.f._, curry-comb.
*=étriller=, _v.a._, to curry, to comb (a horse); to fleece; to give a
thrashing to; to drub.
=étriper=, _v.a._, to gut (animal). _Aller à — cheval_; to ride a horse
at breakneck speed.
=étriqué=, =-e=, _adj._, scanty; narrow; curtailed. _Habits —s_; scanty
clothes, coat.
=étrivière=, _n.f._, stirrup-leather. _Donner les —s à quelqu’un_; to
give any one a thrashing. _Allonger l’—_; to raise fresh difficulties; to
cause further delay.
=étroit=, =-e=, _adj._, narrow, tight, strait, close; intimate; limited,
confined; scanty, small. _Habit —_; tight coat. _Esprit —_; narrow mind.
_Être dans une —e amitié avec quelqu’un_; to be on the most intimate
terms with any one. _A l’—_; narrowly. _Être à l’—_; to be pinched, to be
poor, to be badly off for room. _Vivre à l’—_; to live sparingly.
=étroitement= (é-troat-mān), _adv._, closely, tightly, narrowly;
intimately, sparingly. _— uni_; closely united.
=étroitesse=, _n.f._, narrowness; straitness; tightness, closeness. _—
d’esprit_; narrow-mindedness.
=étronçonner=, _v.a._, to lop off.
=étrusque=, _adj._, Etruscan.
=étude=, _n.f._, study; (in colleges) school-room, time of study;
examination; survey; rehearsal; (paint.) academy figure; office,
chambers, practice (of attorneys); disguise, art, affectation. _pl._,
education. _Cabinet d’—_; study. _Maître d’—_; usher. _Avoir de l’—_;
to be a man of attainment. _Je me fais une — de_; I make it a study to.
_Il a fait ses —s_; he has finished his education. _Il a fait de bonnes
—s_; he has had a good education. _Être sans —_; to have no education.
_À l’—_; (of plans) being considered, under consideration; (of plays) in
rehearsal.
=étudiant=, _n.m._, student, undergraduate. _— en droit_; law student. _—
en médecine_; medical student.
=étudié=, =-e=, _part._, studied, affected, far-fetched. _Langage —_;
studied language. _Tableau fort —_; elaborate piece of painting.
=étudier=, _v.n._, to study; to learn; to practise (music); to examine;
to survey.
=étudier=, _v.a._, to study; to practise (music). _— la nature_; to study
nature. _— son rôle_; to study one’s part. _— un discours_; to study a
speech.
_s’_=étudier=, _v.r._, to study, to make it one’s study, to school one’s
self.
=étudiole=, _n.f._, paper-case.
=étui=, _n.m._, case, box; sheath, wing-sheath; needle-case. _— de
chapeau_; hat-box.
=étuve=, _n.f._, sweating-room; (manu.) stove, drying stove.
=étuvée=, _n.f._, stewed meat.
=étuvement= (é-tuv-mān), _n.m._, bathing, fomenting (of a wound).
=étuver=, _v.a._, to bathe, to foment; (cook.) to stew.
☉=étuviste=, _n.m._, bath-keeper.
=étymologie=, _n.f._, etymology.
=étymologique=, _adj._, etymological.
=étymologiquement=, _adv._, etymologically.
=étymologiser=, _v.n._, to etymologize.
=étymologiste=, _n.m._, etymologist.
=eubages=, _n.m.pl._, Gaulish Druids.
=eucharistie= (eu-ka-ris-tî), _n.f._, Eucharist.
=eucharistique=, _adj._, eucharistical.
=eucologe=, _n.m._, euchology.
=eucraisie=, _n.f._, (med.) eucrasy.
=eudiomètre=, _n.m._, eudiometer.
=eudiométrie=, _n.f._, eudiometry.
=eudiométrique=, _adj._, eudiometric.
=eufraise=, _n.f._, (bot.) euphrasy, eyebright.
=euh=, _int._, aha! oh! Euh! Euh! so, so.
=eulogie=, _n.f._, ☉(rel.) consecrated bread. _pl._, (Grec. rel.) broken
remnants of the host.
=euménide=, _n.f._, (myth.) Fury.
=eunuque=, _n.m._, eunuch.
=eupatoire=, _n.f._, (bot.) eupatory.
=euphémique=, _adj._, euphemistic.
=euphémisme=, _n.m._, euphemism.
=euphonie=, _n.f._, euphony.
=euphonique=, _adj._, euphonical.
=euphorbe=, _n.m._, (bot.) euphorbia, spurge, (pharm.) euphorbium.
=euphorbiacées=, _n.f.pl._, (bot.) euphorbiaceæ.
=européen=, =-ne= (-in, è-n), _n._ and _adj._, European.
=eurythmie=, _n.f._, eurythmy.
=eustache=, _n.m._, cheap clasp-knife, whittle.
=eustyle=, _n.m._, (arch.) eustyle.
=eutychéen= _or_ =eutychien=, _n.m._, eutychian.
=eux=, _pron._ _m.pl._, they; them. _—-mêmes_; themselves. _Entre —_;
between them.
=évacuant=, =-e=, _adj._, (med.) evacuant.
=évacuant=, _n.m._, (med.) evacuant.
=évacuati-f=, =-ve=, _adj._, (med., l.u.) evacuant.
=évacuation=, _n.f._, evacuation; ejection. _L’— d’une place_; the
evacuation of a fortress _or_ town.
=évacuer=, _v.a._, to evacuate; to throw off, to eject, to clear. _— les
humeurs_; to throw off the humours. _Faites — la salle_; clear the room.
_— une place_; to evacuate a place.
_s’_=évader=, _v.r._, to make one’s escape, to escape, to break loose; to
get away.
=évagation=, _n.f._, evagation.
=évaluable=, _adj._, ratable, appraisable.
=évaluation=, _n.f._, valuation, estimate. _L’— d’une perte_; the
estimate of a loss.
=évaluer=, _v.a._, to value, to estimate, to rate.
=évangélique=, _adj._, evangelical.
=évangéliquement= (-lik-mān), _adv._, evangelically.
=évangéliser=, _v.a._, to evangelize, to preach the Gospel to.
=évangéliser=, _v.n._, to evangelize, to preach the Gospel.
=évangéliste=, _n.m._, Evangelist.
=évangile=, _n.m._, Gospel. _Côté de l’—_; left-hand side of the altar.
_Prêcher l’—_; to preach the Gospel. _Il croit cela comme l’—_; he takes
that for Gospel. _Prendre tout pour paroles d’—_; to take all for Gospel.
_L’— du jour_; the current news; (rel.) the gospel for the day.
=évanoui=, =-e=, _adj._, in a swoon; insensible, unconscious, senseless;
vanished, dispelled, gone.
_s’_=évanouir=, _v.r._, to faint, to swoon, to swoon away; to vanish, to
disappear, to fade away. _Cette nouvelle l’a fait s’—_; that news made
her swoon.
=évanouissement= (-noo-is-mān), _n.m._, swoon, swooning away, fainting
fit, syncope, disappearance. _Revenir d’un —_; to recover from a swoon.
=évaporable=, _adj._, evaporable.
=évaporati-f=, =-ve=, _adj._, causing evaporation.
=évaporation=, _n.f._, evaporation; giddiness, thoughtlessness.
=évaporatoire=, _adj._, evaporating.
=évaporé=, =-e=, _n._ and _adj._, giddy, thoughtless person; evaporate,
evaporated. _Un jeune homme —_; a giddy-brained youth.
=évaporer=, _v.a._, to evaporate, to give vent, to pour out in words. _—
son chagrin_; to give vent to one’s grief.
_s’_=évaporer=, _v.r._, to evaporate; to get giddy, heedless. _Il
commence à s’—_; his conduct is becoming irregular.
=évasé=, _part._, widened; bell-shaped; bell-mouthed. _Nez —_; nose with
wide nostrils.
=évasement= (é-vâz-mān), _n.m._, width, widening (at the mouth of a vase,
etc.); (arch.) splay.
=évaser=, _v.a._, to widen (an opening); to spread, to extend; (arch.)
to splay. _— un tuyau_; to widen a pipe. _— un arbre_; to extend a tree.
_S’—_; to be widened; to extend, to spread.
=évasi-f=, =-ve=, _adj._, evasive.
=évasion=, _n.f._, escape, flight, elopement.
=évasivement=, _adv._, evasively.
=évasure=, _n.f._, opening; splay.
=évêché=, _n.m._, bishopric; episcopate, see; bishop’s palace.
=évection=, _n.f._, (astron.) evection.
*=éveil=, _n.m._, (l.u.) awakening; (fig.) warning, hint, alert; alarm;
suspicion; awaking, rousing. _En —_; on one’s guard; on the watch.
_Donner l’—_; to warn.
*=éveillé=, =-e=, _adj._, awake, brisk, lively, sprightly; sharp, smart,
intelligent. _Elle est fort —e_; she is very sprightly.
*=éveiller=, _v.a._, to awake, to awaken, to wake, to rouse, to excite,
to enliven. _— les soupçons_; to arouse suspicion.
*_s’_=éveiller=, _v.r._, to awake, to wake up; to get animated. _Elle
s’est éveillée en sursaut_; she awoke with a start.
=éveilleu-r=, =-se=, _n.m.f._, awakener; rouser.
=événement= (é-vé-n-mān), _n.m._, event, occurrence; emergency; issue,
end, result. _À tout —_; at all events; to provide for emergencies. _En
cas d’—_; upon an emergency.
=évent=, _n.m._, flatness, vapidness, deadness; open air; vent-hole;
air-hole; (artil.) windage. _Sentir l’—_; to smell vapid. _Avoir la tête
à l’—_; to be thoughtless, hare-brained, scatter-brained.
=éventable=, _adj._, liable to go flat.
*=éventail=, _n.m._, fan. _Fenêtre en —_; fan-light.
*=éventailliste=, _n.m.f._, fan-maker.
=éventaire=, _n.m._, flat basket.
=éventé=, =-e=, _part._, fanned, aired, flat, dead; giddy, thoughtless.
_Vin —_; dead, flat wine. _Un homme —_; a giddy, scatter-brained man.
=éventer=, _v.a._, to fan, to winnow (corn); to air; to deaden; to let
(wine) get flat; to injure by exposure to the air; to discover (a mine);
to divulge, to get wind of; to let out (a secret); to discover.
_s’_=éventer=, _v.r._, to fan one’s self, to evaporate, to pall, to
become flat; to be divulged; to get abroad; to get wind.
=éventoir=, _n.m._, fire-fan.
=éventrer=, _v.a._, to embowel, to disembowel, to eviscerate, to gut
(fish); to rip up, to break open; to open (a pie).
_s’_=éventrer=, _v.r._, to rip open one’s bowels.
=éventualité=, _n.f._, uncertainty, contingency, eventuality.
=éventuel=, =-le=, _adj._, eventual, contingent, uncertain.
=éventuel=, _n.m._, extra-grant, capitation-fee.
=éventuellement= (-tuèl-mān), _adv._, eventually, contingently.
=éventure=, _n.f._, crack, flaw.
=évêque=, _n.m._, bishop. _— in partibus_; bishop in partibus. _Devenir
d’— meunier_; to descend from peer to peasant. _Un chien regarde bien un
—_; a cat may look at a king.
=éversi-f=, =-ve=, _adj._, eversive; subversive.
=éversion=, _n.f._, eversion, overthrow.
_s’_=évertuer=, _v.r._, to struggle, to strive, to exert _or_ bestir
one’s self; to move heaven and earth. _Je m’évertue à le faire_; I do all
I can to accomplish it.
=éviction=, _n.f._, (jur.) eviction, ejectment.
=évidement=, _n.m._, scooping out, hollowing; groove, hollow.
=évidemment= (-da-mān), _adv._, evidently, obviously, plainly, clearly.
=évidence=, _n.f._, evidence, obviousness, plainness, clearness. _Mettre
en —_; to make conspicuous, to make prominent. _Être en —_; to be
conspicuous. _Se rendre à l’—_; to be convinced; to submit to.
=évident=, =-e=, _adj._, evident, plain, clear, obvious.
=évider=, _v.a._, to hollow, to groove, to scoop out; to stamp, to pink;
to unstarch.
=évidoir=, _n.m._, hollowing-bit, borer.
=évidure=, _n.f._, (tech.). _V._ =évidement=.
=évier=, _n.m._, sink, sink-stone.
=évincer=, _v.a._, to evict, to eject; to oust. _Il a été évincé_; he was
turned out.
=évitable=, _adj._, avoidable; evitable.
=évitage=, _n.m._, (nav.) swinging; swinging-room.
=évitée=, _n.f._, (nav.) swinging berth, swinging-room. _Le vaisseau fait
son —_; the ship is swinging round _or_ to. _Avoir son —_; to have a wide
berth.
=évitement= (é-vit-mān), _n.m._, (railways) siding, shunting. _Gare_,
_voie_, _d’—_; siding.
=éviter=, _v.a._, to shun, to avoid, to evade, to eschew; to elude, to
escape; to save. _— les périls_; to avoid dangers. _— les mauvaises
compagnies_; to shun bad company. _— la peine_; to save trouble.
_s’_=éviter=, _v.r._, to avoid each other; to spare one’s self; (of
things) to be avoided.
=éviter=, _v.n._, (nav.) to swing. _— au vent_; to stem the wind. _— à la
marée_; to stem the tide.
=évocable=, _adj._, (jur.) removable.
=évocation=, _n.f._, evocation, raising up; (jur.) removal.
=évocatoire=, _adj._, (jur.) for removal (from one court to another).
=évoluer=, _v.n._, (nav., milit.) (l.u.) to perform evolutions; to
evolve, to revolve.
=évolution=, _n.f._, evolution.
=évolutionnaire=, _adj._, (milit., nav.) evolutionary.
=évoquer=, _v.a._, to evoke, to raise up, to conjure up; to call up. _— à
un tribunal supérieur_; (jur.) to remove to a superior court.
=évulsion=, _n.f._, (tech.) evulsion.
=ex= (èks), (prefix) ex.
=ex abrupto=, _adv._, suddenly, unexpectedly.
=exacerbation=, _n.f._, (med.) exacerbation.
=exact=, =-e= (èg-zakt), _adj._, exact, accurate, correct, precise,
punctual; close. _—e analyse_; close analysis. _Les sciences —es_; the
exact sciences. _— à_; exact in.
=exactement=, _adv._, exactly, punctually, accurately; correctly,
precisely.
=exacteur=, _n.m._, exactor, extortioner.
=exaction=, _n.f._, exaction, extortion.
=exactitude=, _n.f._, exactness, punctuality, exactitude; correctness,
accuracy, precision, closeness. _Agir avec —_; to be punctual.
=exaèdre=, _n.m._ and _adj._ _V._ =hexaèdre=.
=exagérat-eur=, _n.m._, =-rice=, _n.f._, exaggerator; given to
exaggeration.
=exagérati-f=, =-ve=, _adj._, exaggeratory.
=exagération=, _n.f._, exaggeration, amplification; overrating;
aggravation.
=exagérer=, _v.a._, to exaggerate, to magnify.
=exagone=, _n.m._ and _adj._ _V._ =hexagone=.
=exaltation=, _n.f._, exaltation, exalting.
=exalté=, =-e=, _n._ and _part._, enthusiast, fanatic; person
over-excited; exalted, elated; over-excited, heated, feverish.
=exalter=, _v.a._, to exalt, to extol, to magnify, to glorify, to cry up;
to excite, to elate, to inflame, to over-excite; (chem.) to exalt, to
purify.
_s’_=exalter=, _v.r._, to become excited, elated, to rise, to be exalted;
to be over-excited; to extol, to magnify; to cry up one another.
=examen= (-min), _n.m._, examination, investigation, survey; inspection,
scrutiny. _— préliminaire_; little-go. _Jury d’—_; board of examiners.
_Faire l’— d’un livre_; to examine a book. _Après mûr —_; after mature
examination. _— de conscience_; self-examination. _Se préparer à un —_;
to prepare for an examination. _Libre —_; free thinking.
=examinat-eur=, _n.m._, =-rice=, _n.f._, examiner. _— supérieur pour les
mathématiques_; (universities) moderator. _— adjoint_; assistant-examiner.
=examiné=, =-e=, _part._, examined.
=examiner=, _v.a._, to examine, to inquire into, to inspect, to survey,
to look at; to weigh, to discuss, to consider, to explore. _— à fond_; to
sift thoroughly. _— rapidement_; to glance over, to run over.
_s’_=examiner=, _v.r._, to examine, to search one’s self; to examine
one’s own conscience; to examine, _or_ to observe, one another
attentively.
=exanthémateu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, (med.) exanthematous.
=exanthémathique=, _adj._, (med.) exanthematic.
=exanthème=, _n.m._, (med.) exanthema.
=exarchat= (-ka), _n.m._, exarchate.
=exarque=, _n.m._, exarch.
=exaspérant=, =-e=, _adj._, exasperating, aggravating.
=exaspération=, _n.f._, exasperation, aggravation; acme.
=exaspéré=, =-e=, _part._, exasperated, enraged, incensed.
=exaspérer=, _v.a._, to exasperate, to enrage, to incense, to inflame.
_s’_=exaspérer=, _v.r._, to become, _or_ get, _or_ grow exasperated,
enraged, incensed.
=exaucement= (ég-zôs-mān), _n.m._, granting, hearing (of prayers).
=exaucer=, _v.a._, to hearken to, to hear favorably; to grant. _Dieu
exauce les prières des humbles_; God gives an ear to the prayers of the
humble.
=excavateur=, _n.m._, excavator.
=excavation=, _n.f._, excavation, excavating.
=excaver=, _v.a._, to excavate, to hollow out.
=excédant=, =-e=, _adj._, exceeding; tiresome, unbearable.
=excédent=, _n.m._, overplus; surplus; overweight; (arith.) excess,
difference.
=excéder=, _v.a._, to exceed, to go beyond; to wear out, to tire out. _Il
a excédé son pouvoir_; he has exceeded his power. _— quelqu’un de coups_;
to beat and bruise any one unmercifully.
_s’_=excéder=, _v.r._, to be worn out; to wear out; to weary, to
tire, one’s self out. _S’— de débauches_; to wear one’s self out with
debauchery. _S’— de travail_; to overwork one’s self; to work too hard.
=excellemment= (èk-sè-la-mān), _adv._, excellently, surpassingly.
=excellence=, _n.f._, excellence, excellency. _Par —_; preeminently,
above all. _Votre —_; your Excellency. _Donner de l’—_; (fam.) to call
any one Excellency.
=excellent=, =-e=, _adj._, excellent; delightful; delicious.
=excellentissime=, _adj._, most excellent.
=exceller=, _v.n._, to excel, to be eminent, to transcend, to be
transcendent, to surpass.
=excentricité=, _n.f._, eccentricity.
=excentrique=, _adj._, eccentric, odd.
=excentrique=, _n.m._, (mec.) eccentric-wheel.
=excepté=, _prep._, except, excepting, save, but. _— que_; except that.
=excepter=, _v.a._, to except. _S’—_; to be excepted.
=exception=, _n.f._, exception; (jur.) exception; (jur.) plea; (jur.)
bar. _— déclinatoire_; (jur.) plea against the jurisdiction. _—
péremptoire_; (jur.) demurrer. _— d’incompétence_; (jur.) foreign plea.
_— tirée de l’aveu_ or _des actes de la partie_; estoppel. _À l’— de_;
with the exception of, except, excepting. _D’—_; exceptional.
=exceptionnel=, =-le=, _adj._, exceptional.
=excès=, _n.m._, excess, abuse, waste; intemperance, riot, debauchery;
(jur.) ill-usage, outrage, violence; (geom., arith.) excess, difference.
_A l’—_, _avec —_, _jusqu’à l’—_; to excess, excessively, immoderately.
_Faire des —_; to commit excesses, to be guilty of excesses.
=excessi-f=, =-ve=, _adj._, excessive, extreme, extravagant; exorbitant;
intemperate.
=excessivement= (-siv-mān), _adv._, excessively, to excess.
=exciper=, _v.n._, (jur.) to plead _or_ to allege an exception.
=excipient=, _n.m._, (pharm.) excipient.
=excise=, _n.f._, excise; excise-office.
=exciser=, _v.a._, (surg.) to amputate, to cut off.
=excision=, _n.f._, (surg.) excision, cutting off.
=excitabilité=, _n.f._, excitability.
=excitable=, _adj._, excitable.
=excitant=, =-e=, _adj._, (med.) exciting.
=excitant=, _n.m._, (med.) excitant.
=excitat-eur=, _n.m._, =-rice=, _n.f._, exciter.
=excitati-f=, =-ve=, _adj._, excitative.
=excitation=, _n.f._, exciting, excitation, excitement, inciting.
=excitement= (èk-sit-mān), _n.m._, (med.) excitement.
=exciter=, _v.a._, to excite, to provoke, to stir up, to cause, to
inspire, to arouse, to rouse; to urge, to stimulate, to encourage, to
inspirit, to animate, to quicken, to instigate, to prompt, to spur; to
inflame, to irritate. _— un chien contre quelqu’un_; to set a dog at any
one.
_s’_=exciter=, _v.r._, to excite, to animate, to encourage one’s self; to
animate, to encourage one another; to be excited.
=exclamati-f=, =-ve=, _adj._, exclamative; (gram.) of exclamation.
=exclamation=, _n.f._, exclamation. _Point d’—_; note of exclamation.
_s’_=exclamer=, _v.r._, to exclaim, to cry out, to clamor; to protest.
=exclure=, _v.a._, to exclude, to debar, to shut out, to keep from, to
bar, to leave out.
=exclusi-f=, =-ve=, _adj._, exclusive.
=exclusion=, _n.f._, exclusion.
=exclusivement= (-ziv-mān), _adv._, exclusively.
=excommunicateur=, _n.m._, excommunicator. _adj._, excommunicating.
=excommunication=, _n.f._, excommunication.
=excommunié=, _n.m._, =-e=, _n.f._, excommunicated. _Avoir un visage
d’—_; to look pale and wretched.
=excommunier=, _v.a._, to excommunicate.
=excoriation=, _n.f._, (surg.) excoriation, barking.
=excorier=, _v.a._, (surg.) to excoriate.
=excrément=, _n.m._, excrement. _— de la terre_; scum of the earth.
=excrémenteu-x=, =-se=, _or_ =excrémentiel=, =-le=, _or_
=excrémentitiel=, =-le=, _adj._, excrementitious, excremental,
excrementitial.
=excréteur= _or_ =excrétoire=, _adj.m._, (physiology) excretory,
excretive.
=excrétion=, _n.f._, (physiology) excretion.
=excroissance=, _n.f._, excrescence, excrescency; fungus.
=excursion=, _n.f._, excursion, inroad; digression, ramble; trip. _En —_;
for an outing. _Faire une —_; to make an excursion, to take a trip.
=excursionniste=, _n.m.f._, excursionist, tourist.
=excusable=, _adj._, excusable, pardonable, venial; (jur.) by
misadventure (homicide).
☉=excusation=, _n.f._, (jur.) excusation, plea.
=excuse=, _n.f._, excuse, apology; (jur.) plea, excusation. _Faire des
—s_; to apologize. _Faites —!_ excuse me! I beg your pardon! _Je vous
fais —_; I beg your pardon.
=excuser=, _v.a._, to excuse, to exculpate, to pardon; to bear with; to
apologize for. _Il l’a excusé auprès du roi_; he has apologized for him
to the king. _On doit — les fautes de la jeunesse_; one must bear with
the errors of youth.
_s’_=excuser=, _v.r._, to excuse, to exculpate one’s self; to throw the
blame on; to decline; to apologize, to make an apology. _Le capitaine
s’est excusé sur son lieutenant_; the captain cast the blame upon his
lieutenant. _S’— de faire une chose_; to decline doing a thing. _Qui
s’excuse, s’accuse_; a guilty conscience needs no accuser.
=exeat= (èg-zé-at), _n.m._, exeat; pass, leave (to go out of one diocese
into another). _Donner à quelqu’un son —_; to send off, to discard, to
dismiss, any one. _Donner un — à_; to give any one leave to go out.
=exécrable=, _adj._, execrable, deplorable.
=exécrablement=, _adv._, execrably, deplorably.
=exécration=, _n.f._, execration. _Il est en — à tout le monde_; he is
held in abhorrence by everybody.
=exécratoire=, _adj._, execratory.
=exécrer=, _v.a._, to execrate, to hold in execration _or_ in detestation.
=exécutable=, _adj._, feasible, practicable.
=exécutant=, _n.m._, (mus.) performer, player.
=exécuter=, _v.a._, to execute, to perform; to accomplish, to carry
out, to achieve, to fulfill; (jur.) to distrain; (jur.) to serve; to
put to death. _J’exécuterai ce que j’ai promis_; I shall perform what I
promised. _— un arrêt_; to carry out a sentence.
_s’_=exécuter=, _v.r._, to be performed, to be done, to take place; to
sell off (one’s property for the benefit of creditors); to sacrifice
one’s self; to yield, to comply, to submit. _Allons, exécutez-vous_;
come, do the needful.
=exécut-eur=, _n.m._, =-rice=, _n.f._, executor, executrix; executioner,
hangman. _— testamentaire_; executor, executrix. _Livrer à l’—_; to
deliver over to the executioner.
=exécuti-f=, =-ve=, _adj._, executive. _n.m._, the Executive.
=exécution=, _n.f._, execution, accomplishment, performance, achievement,
fulfillment. _Mettre des ordres à —_; to execute orders. _Mettre à —_; to
carry out. _L’— de ce travail ne répond pas au plan_; the execution of
this work does not come up to the plan. _L’— d’un morceau de musique_;
the performance of a piece of music. _Homme d’—_; resolute, bold,
enterprising, practical man. _Ordre d’—_; (of a criminal) death-warrant,
warrant for execution. _Procéder à l’—_; to carry out an execution.
=exécutoire=, _n.m._ and _adj._, (jur.) writ of execution; executory.
=exèdre=, _n.m._, (arch.) exedra.
=exégèse=, _n.f._, exegesis.
=exégétique=, _adj._, exegetical.
=exemplaire=, _adj._, exemplary.
=exemplaire=, _n.m._, model, pattern; copy (of printed books,
engravings); specimen. _J’ai trois —s de ce livre-là_; I have three
copies of that book. _J’ai un bel — de cette médaille_; I have a fine
copy of that medal.
=exemplairement= (-plèr-mān), _adv._, exemplarily, in an exemplary manner.
=exemple=, _n.m._, example, pattern; precedent, parallel, instance; copy,
copy-slip. _Proposer un —_; to offer an example. _Ne vous réglez pas sur
son —_; do not follow in his footsteps. _Faire un — de quelqu’un_; to
make an example of any one. _Prendre — sur quelqu’un_; to be guided by
any one. _Il n’y en a point d’—_; there is no precedent for it, there
is no example of such a thing. _Donnez-m’en un —_; give me an instance.
_Citer un —_; to quote an instance. _Prêcher d’—_; to practice what
one preaches. _Un dictionnaire sans —s est un squelette_; a dictionary
without examples is a mere skeleton. _À l’— de_; in imitation of. _Par
—_; for instance, for example; indeed! bless me! upon my word! upon my
honor! only fancy! the idea! _Par —, voilà qui est fort!_ well now, I
like that! _Sans —_; extraordinary, unexampled, unparalleled.
=exempt=, =-e= (èg-zān, -t), _adj._, exempt, exempted, free from.
=exempt=, _n.m._, ecclesiastic exempted from the jurisdiction of the
ordinary. _— de police_; police officer; constable.
=exempter= (èg-zān-té), _v.a._, to exempt, to free; to dispense, to
excuse, to exonerate.
_s’_=exempter=, _v.r._, to exempt one’s self from, to dispense with.
=exemption= (èg-zānp-sion), _n.f._, exemption, exoneration, immunity;
dispensation. _Lettre d’— des droits de douane_; (com.) bill of
sufferance.
=exequatur= (-koua-), _n.m._, (_—_) exequatur.
=exercer=, _v.a._, to exercise, to train up; to perform, to practice,
to exert; to fill an office; to follow, to carry on (a trade _or_
profession); (milit.) to drill. _— des soldats_; to drill soldiers. _— sa
mémoire_; to exercise one’s memory. _— la patience de quelqu’un_; to try
any one’s patience. _— l’hospitalité_; to practice hospitality. _— la
médecine_; to practice medicine.
_s’_=exercer=, _v.r._, to exercise, to practice; to exercise, to train
one’s self; to exert one’s self; to try one’s hand at.
=exercer=, _v.n._, to practice; to visit (manufacturers and others who
sell excisable articles). _Avocat qui n’exerce plus_; retired barrister.
=exercice=, _n.m._, exercise, practice, use; work, labor; trouble,
fatigue; inspection (of an officer of the indirect taxes);
(administration) receipts and expenditure during a certain time; (milit.)
drill; drilling. _Entrer en —_; to commence one’s duties. _Sortir d’—_;
to finish one’s term of service. _L’— d’une profession_; the exercise
of a profession. _Faire l’—_; to exercise, to drill. _Faire l’— à des
soldats_; to drill, to train, soldiers. _Subir l’—_; to be drilled.
_Prendre de l’—_; to take exercise. _Se tenir en —_; to keep one’s self
in practice. _— à jeu_; rifle, carbine exercise. _— de piété_; practice
of piety.
=exérèse=, _n.f._, (surg.) extraction, amputation, cutting off.
=exergue= (èg-zèrg), _n.m._, exergue.
=exfoliati-f=, =-ve=, _adj._, (surg., pharm.) exfoliative.
=exfoliation=, _n.f._, (surg.) exfoliation.
_s’_=exfolier=, _v.r._, to exfoliate.
=exfumer=, _v.a._, (paint.) to soften.
=exhalaison=, _n.f._, exhalation, effluvium.
=exhalant=, _n.m._ and _adj._, (anat.) exhaling vessel; exhaling.
=exhalation=, _n.f._, exhalation.
=exhalatoire=, _adj._, evaporating. _n.m._, evaporating-vessel.
=exhaler=, _v.a._, to send forth, to exhale; to give forth, to breathe;
to vent; to give vent to; to emit. _Ces fleurs exhalent une douce odeur_;
these flowers emit a sweet smell. _— sa colère_; to give vent to one’s
anger.
_s’_=exhaler=, _v.r._, to be emitted, to be exhaled; to give vent to, to
indulge in. _S’— en plaintes_, _en menaces_; to give vent to complaints,
to indulge in threats.
=exhaussement= (èg-zôs-mān), _n.m._, (arch.) height; raising up, mound.
=exhausser=, _v.a._, (arch.) to raise, to raise up, to run up, to make
higher. _S’—_; to be raised; to raise one’s self.
=exhérédation=, _n.f._, (jur.) disinheriting, exheredation,
disinheritance.
=exhéréder=, _v.a._, (jur.) to exheredate, to disinherit.
=exhiber=, _v.a._, to exhibit, to produce, to show. _— ses papiers_, _son
passeport_; to produce one’s papers, one’s passport.
=exhibition=, _n.f._, (jur.) exhibition, producing, exhibiting.
=exhibitoire=, _adj._, exhibitory, prohibitive.
=exhilarant=, =-e=, _adj._, exhilarating.
=exhortati-f=, =-ve=, _adj._, exhortative.
=exhortation=, _n.f._, exhortation.
=exhortatoire=, _adj._, exhortatory.
=exhorter=, _v.a._, to exhort, to admonish.
=exhumation=, _n.f._, exhumation, disinterment.
=exhumer=, _v.a._, to exhume, to dig out; to disinter; to bring to light;
to rake up.
=exigeant=, =-e= (-jān-t), _adj._, unreasonable, over-particular, too
exacting; troublesome, hard to please.
=exigence=, _n.f._, unreasonableness; unreasonable claim _or_ demand;
exigency, exigence. _Selon l’— du cas_; as occasion shall require.
=exiger=, _v.a._, to exact, to require, to demand, to enforce. _— des
égards_; to enforce respect. _— le payement d’une dette_; to exact the
payment of a debt.
=exigibilité=, _n.f._, exigibility.
=exigible=, _adj._, exigible, demandable.
=exigu=, =-ë=, _adj._, scanty, slender, slight, small.
=exiguïté=, _n.f._, scantiness, slenderness, slightness, smallness.
=exil=, _n.m._, exile, banishment. _Envoyer en —_; to banish.
=exilé=, _n.m._, =-e=, _n.f._, exile, refugee.
=exiler=, _v.a._, to exile, to banish.
_s’_=exiler=, _v.r._, to exile one’s self; to withdraw, to seclude, one’s
self. _Il s’est exilé du monde_; he has withdrawn from the world.
=exinanition=, _n.f._, exhaustion.
=existant=, =-e=, _adj._, existing, in being, existent, extant; in force.
=existence=, _n.f._, existence, being, subsistence; living. _pl._,
(com.) stock on hand. _Mettre un terme à son —_; to put an end to one’s
existence.
=exister=, _v.n._, to exist; to be in existence, to live; to be extant;
to subsist. _Cette dette n’existe plus_; this debt is extinct. _Les
ouvrages qui existent_; the works which are extant.
=exocet=, _n.m._, (ich.) exocœtus, flying fish.
=exode=, _n.m._, Exodus; exode.
=exomphale=, _n.f._, (surg.) exomphalos.
=exonération=, _n.f._, exoneration; freedom from blame.
=exonérer=, _v.a._, to exonerate, to discharge, to free from.
=exophtalmie=, _n.f._, exophthalmia.
=exophtalmique=, _adj._, exophthalmic.
=exorable=, _adj._, exorable.
=exorbitamment= (-ta-mān), _adv._, exorbitantly, excessively,
extravagantly.
=exorbitant=, =-e=, _adj._, extravagant, exorbitant, excessive.
=exorciser=, _v.a._, to exorcise, to put out (devils); to conjure.
=exorcisme=, _n.m._, exorcism.
=exorciste=, _n.m._, exorcist, exorciser.
=exorde=, _n.m._, exordium, commencement; beginning.
=exosmose=, _n.f._, (phys.) exosmose, exosmosis.
=exostose=, _n.f._, (med., bot.) exostosis.
_s’_=exostoser=, _v.r._, (surg.) to form in exostosis.
=exotérique=, _adj._, exoteric; vulgar.
=exotique=, _adj._, exotic, foreign; outlandish.
=expansibilité=, _n.f._, expansibility.
=expansible=, _adj._, expansible, expansive.
=expansi-f=, =-ve=, _adj._, expansive; unreserved, open-hearted,
overflowing.
=expansion=, _n.f._, expansion, unreservedness; opening out. _Avoir de
l’—_; to be open, unreserved, communicative.
=expatriation=, _n.f._, expatriation; self-banishment.
=expatrier=, _v.a._, to expatriate; to send into banishment.
_s’_=expatrier=, _v.r._, to expatriate one’s self; to leave one’s native
country.
=expectance=, _n.f._, expectancy.
=expectant=, =-e=, _adj._, expectant.
=expectant=, _n.m._, (med.) expectant.
=expectati-f=, =-ve=, _adj._, expectant.
=expectative=, _n.f._, expectation, hopes, prospect; (jur.) expectancy.
_Il est dans l’—_; he is in expectation. _Avoir l’— de quelque chose_; to
look forward to the possession of anything.
=expectorant=, =-e=, _adj._, expectorant.
=expectorant=, _n.m._, expectorant.
=expectoration=, _n.f._, expectoration; sputa.
=expectorer=, _v.a._, to expectorate, to spit.
=expédient=, _n.m._, expedient; shift; ☉(jur.) compromise. _Homme d’—s_;
man full of expedients, _or_ full of resource. _En être aux —s_; to be
reduced to expedients _or_ to shifts. _Son dernier —_; one’s last shift.
=expédient=, _adj.m._, expedient, fit, meet, proper, advisable.
=expédier=, _v.a._, to dispatch, to perform, to send off; to forward; to
knock off, to clear off; to clear (at the custom-house); to draw up. _—
des marchandises_; to forward goods. _— un acte_; to draw up a deed. _—
des troupes_; to send off troops.
=expéditeur=, _n.m._, sender, commission-agent; (nav.) shipper.
=expéditi-f=, =-ve=, _adj._, expeditious, quick.
=expédition=, _n.f._, expedition, dispatch; sending, shipment; copy (of
a deed); clearance (at the custom-house). _pl._, dispatches. _Faire l’—
de_; (com.) to forward. _Le courrier attend ses —s_; the courier is
waiting for his dispatches. _Homme d’—_; sharp man of business.
=expéditionnaire=, _adj._, expeditionary.
=expéditionnaire=, _n.m._, sender, shipper; commission-agent,
copying-clerk, forwarding-clerk.
=expérience=, _n.f._, experience; trial, experiment. _Faire une —_; to
make an experiment. _Des —s de chimie_; experiments in chemistry. _Je
sais cela par —_; I know that by experience. _Parler par —_; to speak
from experience.
=expérimental=, =-e=, _adj._, experimental.
=expérimentateur=, _n.m._, experimentalist.
=expérimenté=, =-e=, _adj._, experienced.
=expérimenter=, _v.a._, to experiment, to try by use, to test; to
experience.
=expert=, =-e=, _adj._, expert, skillful, well versed in.
=expert=, _n.m._, appraiser, valuer; surveyor; expert.
=expertement=, _adv._, expertly, skillfully.
=expertise=, _n.f._, survey, valuation, assessment (of specially
appointed surveyors); report (of survey), appraisement, arbitration.
_Faire une —_; to make a survey.
=expertiser=, _v.a._, to make a survey; to appraise, to value, to assess.
=expiation=, _n.f._, expiation, atonement, satisfaction. _En — de_; as an
atonement for. _Faire — de_; to make an atonement for.
=expiatoire=, _adj._, expiatory. _Sacrifice —_; sin-offering.
=expier=, _v.a._, to expiate, to atone for; to make reparation for.
=expirant=, =-e=, _adj._, expiring, dying; faint, inaudible.
=expirateur=, _adj.m._, (anat.) expiratory.
=expiration=, _n.f._, expiration.
=expirer=, _v.n._, to expire; to breathe one’s last; to die away; to
come to an end, to run out. _Mon bail a expiré hier_; my lease was up
yesterday.
=expirer=, _v.a._, to breathe out; to exhale, to expire.
=expléti-f=, =-ve=, _adj._, (gram.) expletive.
=explétif=, _n.m._, (gram.) expletive.
=explicable=, _adj._, explicable, explainable.
=explicateur=, _n.m._, explainer, cicerone, guide.
=explicati-f=, =-ve=, _adj._, explicative, explanatory.
=explication=, _n.f._, explanation, explication, interpretation;
construing; meaning. _Avoir une — avec_; to have an explanation with.
_Cela demande —_; that requires an explanation.
=explicite=, _adj._, explicit, clear; express.
=explicitement= (-cit-mān), _adv._, explicitly; clearly.
=expliquer=, _v.a._, to explain, to express, to declare, to account for,
to teach, to expound; to construe, to illustrate. _Expliquez-moi ce que
cela signifie_; explain to me what that means. _— une énigme_; to solve a
riddle. _— une doctrine_; to expound a doctrine.
_s’_=expliquer=, _v.r._, to explain one’s self; to have an explanation;
to be explained; to be accounted for; to be made manifest.
=expliqueur=, _n.m._, explainer.
=exploit=, _n.m._, exploit, achievement, feat, deed; (jur.) writ,
process. _Dresser un —_; to draw up a writ. _Signifier un —_; to serve a
writ.
=exploitabilité=, _n.f._, workableness.
=exploitable=, _adj._, workable, that may be turned to account;
improvable; (jur.) distrainable. _Cette mine est encore —_; that mine may
still be worked.
=exploitant=, _n.m._, worker (of mines); farmer, grower. _adj._,
_huissier —_; (jur.) process server.
=exploitation=, _n.f._, working; improving (lands); cultivation (of
wood); employing, using; taking advantage of, cheating. _— d’un champ_;
(agri.) cultivation of a field. _— par compartiments_; (mining)
panel-work. _— par grande taille_; long-work. _— rurale_; farming.
_Matériel d’—_; working-stock. _En —_; being worked; in activity. _Mettre
en —_; to work. _— de l’homme par l’homme_; profiting by the labor of
others; sweating system.
=exploiter=, _v.a._, to work; to improve; to cultivate for sale; to use;
to make the most of. _— une mine_; to work a mine; to take advantage of,
to impose upon. _— un bois_; to cultivate a wood for sale. _— une place_;
to make the most of a situation. _— la curiosité publique_; to speculate
upon public curiosity. _Cet homme m’a exploité_; that man has cheated
_or_ taken advantage of me.
☉=exploiter=, _v.n._, to serve writs.
_s’_=exploiter=, _v.r._, to be worked, to take advantage one of the other.
=exploiteur=, _n.m._, (b.s.) person who takes advantage (of others), who
works, who uses (others); sweater.
=explorable=, _adj._, explorable.
=explorateur=, _n.m._, explorer.
=explorat-eur=, =-rice=, _adj._, exploratory.
=exploration=, _n.f._, exploration.
=explorer=, _v.a._, to explore. _S’—_; to be explored.
=explosible=, _adj._, explosive.
=explosi-f=, =-ve=, _adj._, explosive.
=explosion=, _n.f._, explosion; bursting, blowing up; outbreak, outburst.
_Faire —_; to explode; to burst out, to break out.
=exponentiel=, =-le=, _adj._, (alg.) exponential.
=exportateur=, _n.m._, exporter.
=exportation=, _n.f._, exportation, export.
=exporter=, _v.a._, to export. _S’—_; to be exported.
=exposant=, _n.m._, =-e=, _n.f._, exhibitor; (jur.) petitioner; (math.)
exponent, index.
=exposé=, _n.m._, statement; account, outline; (jur.) recital. _Faire un
—_; to draw up a statement. _— des motifs_; explanatory statement.
=exposé=, =-e=, _part._ and _adj._, exposed, on view; situated; having a
certain aspect; uncovered; liable; abandoned.
=exposer=, _v.a._, to expose, to expose to view, to show, to exhibit; to
endanger, to hazard, to venture, to render liable, to make liable, to
lay open; to state, to set forth; to expound, to explain, to abandon.
_— en vente_; to expose for sale. _— sa vie_; to venture one’s life. _—
ses sentiments_; to state one’s sentiments. _— un système_; to unfold a
system. _— un corps mort sur un lit de parade_; to lay out a dead body in
state.
_s’_=exposer=, _v.r._, to expose one’s self; to be exposed, to be liable,
to lay one’s self open, to lie open. _Il s’expose à la risée de tout le
monde_; he makes himself the laughing-stock of everybody.
=exposer=, _v.n._, to explain; to exhibit. _Je ne connais personne qui
expose mieux_; I know no one who can explain a thing better. _Ce peintre
n’a pas encore exposé_; that painter has not yet exhibited.
=exposition=, _n.f._, exhibition, exposing; exposure; lying-in-state (of
dead bodies); situation; aspect, statement, explanation. _La grande —_;
the Great Exhibition. _Maison dans une — agréable_; house with a pleasant
aspect. _Faire une fidèle — de toutes ses raisons_; to give a faithful
account of all one’s reasons.
=exprès=, =-se=, _adj._, express, positive; plain, clear, distinct. _La
loi est —se sur ce point_; the law is positive on that point.
=exprès=, _n.m._, express (messenger).
=exprès=, _adv._, expressly, purposely, on purpose. _Il semble fait —
pour cela_; he seems to be cut out for it. _C’est un fait —_; it is done
on purpose.
=express=, _n.m._ and _adj._, (railways) express, express train. _Le
train —_; the express train.
=expressément=, _adv._, expressly, positively; clearly, distinctly.
=expressi-f=, =-ve=, _adj._, expressive.
=expression=, _n.f._, expression, expressiveness, utterance. _Son regard
est plein d’—_; his look is full of expression. _— imaginaire_; (alg.)
imaginary, impossible, binomial. _La plus simple —_; (math.) the lowest
terms. _Réduire à la plus simple —_; to reduce to the lowest terms.
=exprimable=, _adj._, expressible.
=exprimer=, _v.a._, to express, to press out, to squeeze out; to be
expressive of; to declare, to utter, to tell; to word. _— le suc d’une
plante_; to squeeze the juice out of a plant.
_s’_=exprimer=, _v.r._, to express one’s self; to be expressed.
=ex professo=, _adv._, ex professo.
=expropriation=, _n.f._, (jur.) expropriation, dispossession. _— forcée_;
compulsory dispossession. _Jury d’—_; (jur.) valuation jury.
=exproprier=, _v.a._, (jur.) to dispossess; to expropriate.
=expulser=, _v.a._, to expel, to thrust out, to turn out, to eject, to
drive out, to put out.
=expulseur=, _adj._, expelling.
=expulsi-f=, =-ve=, _adj._, (med.) expulsive.
=expulsion=, _n.f._, expulsion, extrusion; (jur.) ejection; ejectment.
=expurgatoire=, _adj._, expurgatory. _Index —_; expurgatory index.
=expurger=, _v.a._, to expurgate, to remove, to cancel, to amend.
=exquis=, =-e=, _adj._, exquisite, nice, refined; choice, select. _Vin
—_; delicious wine. _Avoir un goût —_; to have an exquisite taste.
=exquis=, _n.m._, exquisiteness.
=exquisement= (-kiz-mān), _adv._, exquisitely.
=exsangue=, =exsanguin=, =-e=, _adj._, bloodless, anæmic; weak, feeble,
spiritless.
=exsiccation=, _n.f._, (chem.) exsiccation; dryness.
=exsuccion=, _n.f._, exsuction.
=exsudation=, _n.f._, exsudation, exudation; sweat; oozing out;
perspiration.
=exsuder=, _v.n._, to exude, to perspire; to ooze out.
☉=extant=, =-e=, _adj._, (jur.) existing.
=extase=, _n.f._, ecstasy, trance; rapture. _Tomber en —_; to be
entranced; to fall into ecstacy _or_ in a trance.
_s’_=extasier=, _v.r._, to be enraptured, to go into raptures; to be
struck with admiration.
=extatique=, _adj._, ecstatic, rapturous.
=extenseur=, _n.m._ and _adj._, (anat.) extensor.
=extensibilité=, _n.f._, extensibility, expansion.
=extensible=, _adj._, extensible, tensible; tensile.
=extensi-f=, =-ve=, _adj._, extending, expanding.
=extension=, _n.f._, extension; tension, strain; extent; span.
_in_ =extenso=, _adv._ _V._ =in extenso=.
=exténuation=, _n.f._, extenuation, exhaustion, debility.
=exténuer=, _v.n._, to extenuate, to enfeeble, to weaken, to debilitate.
_Sa maladie l’a fort exténué_; his illness has weakened him very much.
=extérieur=, =-e=, _adj._, exterior, external, outward, outer, outside;
foreign.
=extérieur=, _n.m._, exterior, outside appearance; foreign countries,
abroad. _Les nouvelles de l’—_; news from abroad. _À l’intérieur et à
l’—_; at home and abroad.
=extérieurement= (-eur-mān), _adv._, externally, outwardly.
=exterminat-eur=, =-rice=, _n._ and _adj._, destroyer, exterminator;
exterminating, destroying.
=exterminati-f=, =-ve=, _adj._, exterminating.
=extermination=, _n.f._, extermination.
=exterminer=, _v.a._, to exterminate, to destroy, to annihilate.
=externat=, _n.m._, day-school.
=externe=, _adj._, external, exterior, outward, outdoor.
=externe=, _n.m._, day-scholar; (of hospitals) dresser.
=extinction=, _n.f._, extinction, extinguishment; destruction; abolition;
appeasement; redemption (of annuities); liquidation, settlement (of
debts); quelling, suppression (of disturbances); extermination;
quenching; slaking (of lime). _— des racines_; (alg., arith.) evolution.
_— de voix_; loss of voice. _À l’— des feux_, _des bougies_; (at
auctions) by inch of candle. _Jusqu’à — de chaleur naturelle_; till one
is exhausted.
=extinguible=, _adv._, extinguishable.
=extirpateur=, _n.m._, extirpator, destroyer; (agri.) weeder;
weeding-tool, spud.
=extirpation=, _n.f._, excision, extirpation; uprooting, destruction,
weeding up.
=extirper=, _v.a._, to extirpate, to root out, to pull up, to
exterminate, to cut off. _— un cancer_; to cut out a cancer.
=extorquer=, _v.a._, to extort, to wrest, to worm out of.
=extorqueu-r=, =-se=, _n.m.f._, extortioner.
=extorsion=, _n.f._, extortion.
=extra=, _n.m._, (_—_) extra, something extra. _C’était ma fête et nous
avons fait un —_, _un peu d’—_; it was my birthday, so we had something
extra, something out of the common. _Plat d’—_; extra dish.
=extractible=, _adj._, extractible.
=extractif=, _n.m._, (chem.) extractive, extract.
=extracti-f=, =-ve=, _adj._, extractive.
=extraction=, _n.f._, extraction; origin, descent, lineage. _L’— d’une
dent_; the drawing of a tooth. _De basse —_; of low birth, of humble
parentage.
=extrader=, _v.a._, to extradite; to surrender.
=extradition=, _n.f._, extradition.
=extrados=, _n.m._, (arch.) extrados.
=extradossé=, =-e=, _adj._, (arch.) extra-dossed.
=extraire= (extrayant, extrait), _v.a._, to extract, to draw, to take
out; to make extracts from; to select; to abridge; to take from one
prison to another. _— un livre_; to make an abridgment of a book.
=extrait=, _n.m._, extract; selection; epitome; spirit; abstract; docket.
_— de naissance_, _de baptême_, _de mariage_; certificate of birth,
baptism, marriage. _— mortuaire_; certificate of death. _— authentique_;
certified copy of a document.
=extrajudiciaire=, _adj._, extrajudicial.
=extrajudiciairement=, _adv._, extrajudicially.
=extra-muros= (-rôs), _adv._, outside the walls (of a city, assembly).
=extraordinaire=, _adj._, extraordinary, unusual; uncommon, out of the
way; singular, odd, queer; enormous. _Il n’y a rien d’— à cela_; there is
nothing extraordinary in that. _Question —_; rack (torture). _Visage —_;
odd face.
=extraordinaire=, _n.m._, extraordinariness, extraordinary thing,
uncommon thing. _L’— c’est que ..._; the extraordinary part of it is ...
=extraordinairement= (-nèr-mān), _adv._, extraordinarily, unusually;
oddly, enormously. _Procéder — contre quelqu’un_; (jur.) to prosecute any
one criminally.
=extrapassé=, =-e=, _part._, (paint.) beyond natural limits. _V._
=strapassé=.
=extrapasser=, _v.a._, (paint.). _V._ =strapasser=.
=extravagamment= (-ga-mān), _adv._, extravagantly, unreasonably.
=extravagance=, _n.f._, extravagance, folly, wildness; mad action.
_J’ai pitié de son —_; I pity his folly. _Il a dit mille —s_; he said a
thousand extravagant things.
=extravagant=, =-e=, _n._ and _adj._, extravagant, wild person;
extravagant, wild. _C’est un —_; he is a mad fellow.
=extravagante=, _n.f._, (c.rel.) extravagant, papal constitution. _Les
—s_; the decretals.
=extravaguer= (-ghé), _v.n._, to talk wildly, to rave, to talk like a
madman.
=extravasation= _or_ =extravasion=, _n.f._, (med.) extravasation;
effusion (of blood).
=extravasé=, =-e=, _adj._, extravasated; let out. _Sang —_; extravasated
blood.
_s’_=extravaser=, _v.r._, to be extravasated.
=extrême=, _adj._, extreme, utmost, excessive.
=extrême=, _n.m._, extreme, utmost, point. _Jusqu’à l’—_, _à l’—_; to an
extreme. _Il se jette dans les —s_; he runs into extremes. _Les —s se
touchent_; extremes meet.
=extrêmement= (èks-trêm-mān), _adv._, extremely; immensely, enormously;
exceedingly.
=extrême-onction=, _n.f._, (_n.p._) (c.rel.) extreme unction.
_in_ =extremis= (i-nèks-tré-mîs), _adv._, (jur.) at the point of death.
=extrémité=, _n.f._, extremity, extreme; excess; last moment; end, tip;
verge, border, brink. _A l’—_; to extremity, at a push; without resource;
dying. _Passer d’une — à l’autre_; to pass from one extreme to another.
_Pousser à la dernière —_; to drive to extremities. _À toute —_; at the
worst.
=extrinsèque=, _adj._, extrinsic. _Valeur — des monnaies_; value assigned
to coins independently of their actual weight.
=exubérance=, _n.f._, exuberance, luxuriance.
=exubérant=, =-e=, _adj._, exuberant, luxuriant.
=exubérer=, _v.n._, to exuberate; to abound; to luxuriate.
=exulcérati-f=, =-ve=, _adj._, (med.) producing ulcers; exulcerative.
=exulcération=, _n.f._, (med.) exulceration.
=exulcérer=, _v.a._, (med.) to exulcerate.
=exultation=, _n.f._, exultation, rapture, great joy.
=exutoire=, _n.m._, (med.) exutory, issue.
=ex-voto=, _n.m._, (_—_) votive offering.
F
=f=, _n.m.f._, the sixth letter of the alphabet, f. _Les F et les B_;
oaths, swearing.
=fa=, _n.m._, (mus.) fa; F. _Clef de —_; bass, bass-clef.
=fabagelle=, _n.f._, =fabago=, _n.m._, (bot.) fabago, bean-caper.
=fable=, _n.f._, fable, story; untruth; tale; mythology; laughing-stock,
by-word. _Être la — de tout le monde_; to be the laughing-stock _or_
byword of everybody.
=fabliau=, _n.m._, ancient tale in verse.
=fablier=, _n.m._, fabulist; book of fables.
=fabricant=, _n.m._, manufacturer, maker.
=fabricateur=, _n.m._, (b.s.) fabricator, maker; coiner, forger. _— de
fausse monnaie_; coiner of base money. _— de nouvelles_; forger of news.
=fabrication=, _n.f._, fabrication, manufacture, making, make; forgery;
coining. _La — d’un faux acte_; the forging of a deed.
=fabricien= (-si-in) _or_ =fabricier=, _n.m._, vestry-man.
=fabrique=, _n.f._, building (of churches); vestry-board; making,
fabrication; (manu.) works; manufactory; factory; forging. _Marchandises
de —_; goods of inferior quality. _Prix de —_; cost, _or_ manufacturer’s,
price. _Marque de —_; trademark. _C’est de sa —_; (fig.) that is pure
invention on his part.
=fabriquer=, _v.a._, to manufacture; to fabricate; to coin (money); to
forge. _Se —_; to be manufactured.
=fabuleusement= (-leûz-mān), _adv._, fabulously; incredibly.
=fabuleu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, fabulous, fictitious, extraordinary;
incredible.
=fabuliste=, _n.m._, fabulist.
=façade=, _n.f._, front, face (of an edifice); frontage; façade.
=face=, _n.f._, front; fore-part (of a building); face; state; aspect,
appearance; countenance; surface; turn (of affairs). _Une — réjouie_; a
jolly face. _Faire — à_; to face; to fulfill; to meet. _A la — de_; in
the presence of; before. _En — de_; in the face of; opposite. _De —_; in
front; abreast of; full face. _Vu de —_; seen in front; taking a front
view; seen from the front. _Donner sur la — à quelqu’un_; to give any
one a slap in the face. _— de réprouvé_; sinister-looking countenance.
_— de carême_; pale face. _Faire volte-—_; to face about. _Faire — à
ses affaires_; to meet one’s engagements. _Les affaires ont bien changé
de —_; things have taken quite another turn. _— à —_; face to face. _De
prime —_; at first. _Jouer à pile ou —_; to play pitch and toss; at heads
or tails.
=facé=, =-e=, _adj._, (l.u.) faced. _Un homme bien —_; a full- _or_
good-faced man.
=facétie= (-ci), _n.f._, facetiousness, jest, joke, witty saying.
_Recueil de —s_; facetiæ.
=facétieusement= (-sieûz-mān), _adv._, facetiously, jestingly; jocosely.
=facétieu-x=, =-se= (-ci-), _adj._, facetious, jocular, humorous. _n.m._,
jester, joker.
=facette=, _n.f._, facet, face. _Diamant taillé à —s_; diamond cut
facet-wise.
=facetté=, =-e=, _part._, faceted.
=facetter=, _v.a._, to cut with facets.
=fâché=, =-e=, _adj._, (contre) angry, displeased; (de) sorry, vexed. _Il
est — de vous avoir offensé_; he is sorry he has offended you. _Être —
contre quelqu’un_; to be angry with any one. _Être — d’un malheur_; to be
sorry for a misfortune. _Être — avec_; to be on bad terms with.
=fâcher=, _v.a._, to anger, to make angry, to offend, to vex, to
displease. (_imp._ l.u.). _Il me fâche d’être forcé de vous dire_; I am
sorry to be obliged to tell you. _Soit dit sans vous —_; with all due
deference.
_se_ =fâcher=, _v.r._, to be _or_ get angry, to get into a passion, to be
offended. _Ne vous fâchez pas_; do not take offence.
=fâcherie= (fâ-shri), _n.f._, angry feeling, disagreement, quarrel,
vexation.
=fâcheusement=, _adv._, unpleasantly, inopportunely, disagreeably;
grievously, sadly; awkwardly.
=fâcheu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, grievous, sad, troublesome, vexatious;
difficult; cross, peevish. _C’est un — personnage_; he is a troublesome
personage. _Il est — que vous n’ayez pas été averti à temps_; it is a
pity that you were not told in time.
=fâcheux=, _n.m._, troublesome, unkind person, _or_ fellow, pesterer,
intruder, bore. _Le — de l’affaire_; the worst of the matter.
=facial=, =-e=, _adj._, (anat.) facial. _Angle —_; facial angle.
=facies= (fa-siès), _n.m._, (med.) facial expression.
=facile=, _adj._, facile, easy; yielding, complying; voluble; weak;
flowing, fluent, ready. _Un homme de — accès_; a man easy of access.
_Style —_; easy, fluent style. _Un homme —_; a man of an easy temper.
_Tout cela est plus — à dire qu’à faire_; all that is easier said than
done.
=facilement= (fa-sil-mān), _adv._, easily, readily, yieldingly; fluently.
=facilité=, _n.f._, facility, ease, easiness, readiness; fluency;
quickness; (com.) accommodation. _pl._, (com.) easy terms. _Il a une
grande — à parler_; he has great fluency of speech.
=faciliter=, _v.a._, to facilitate, to make easy.
=façon=, _n.f._, make; making, workmanship; shape, fashion; (agri.)
dressing; way, manner; look, appearance, mien; compliment; affectation;
ceremony; attention. _pl._, ceremony. _A la — de_; after the manner of.
_De cette —_; in this manner. _La — d’un habit_; the make, the cut, of
a coat. _Prendre à —_; to make up ladies’, gentlemen’s, own materials.
_Tailleur à —_; tailor who makes up your own materials. _Donner à —_; to
put out to make. _C’est sa — de penser_; it is his way of thinking. _De
— ou d’autre_; somehow or other, somehow. _En aucune —_; by no means, in
no wise. _De quelque — que ce soit_; anyhow. _De toute —_; at any rate.
_Un homme de bonne —_; a good-looking man. _Cela n’a ni mine ni —_; that
has neither grace nor shape. _En donner de la bonne — à quelqu’un_; to
give a good hiding or talking to. _S’en donner de la bonne —_; to go
on at a fine rate; to refuse one’s self nothing. _Faire des —s_; to be
ceremonious. _Un homme plein de —s_; a ceremonious man. _Point de —s_; no
ceremony. _Sans —s_; without ceremony. _Pourquoi faites-vous tant de —s?_
why do you stand so much on ceremony? _De — que_; in such a way as, so
that. _Payer la —_; to pay the piper. _De sa —_; of his own invention.
=faconde=, _n.f._, (fam.) talkativeness, loquacity; fluency. _Avoir de la
—_; to have the gift of the gab, eloquence.
=façonné=, =-e=, _part._, figured (of stuffs); wrought.
=façonnage= _or_ =façonnement=, _n.m._, fashioning, shaping, making.
=façonner=, _v.a._, to make, to make up, to fashion, to figure, to form,
to adorn, to embellish, to work, to polish; to accustom, to use.
_se_ =façonner=, _v.r._, to become used or accustomed to; to become
polished.
=façonner=, _v.n._, (fam.) to be ceremonious; to stand on ceremony.
=façonnerie= (fa-so-n-rî), _n.f._, figuring (of stuffs).
=façonni-er=, =-ère=, _adj._, ceremonious, precise, formal, affected.
=fac-similaire=, _adj._, fac-similar, exactly copied.
=fac-similé=, _n.m._, facsimile.
=fac-similé=, _part._, copied exactly.
=fac-similer=, _v.a._, to facsimile; to copy exactly.
=factage=, _n.m._, porterage, carriage; goods _or_ parcels delivery.
=facteur=, _n.m._, maker; agent, assistant; (arith., com.) factor;
postman, letter-carrier; railway porter; (fig.) factor, element, agent.
_— de pianos_; pianoforte-maker. _— d’orgues_; organ-builder.
=factice=, _adj._, factitious, artificial, unnatural, forced, got up; (of
words) unauthorized.
=facticement= (-tis-mān), _adv._, factitiously, in a factitious manner.
=factieu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, factious, mutinous, seditious.
=factieux=, _n.m._, factionist, rebel; sedition-monger.
=faction=, _n.f._, faction; sentry, watch, duty of a sentinel. _Être en
—_, _faire —_; to be on duty. _Entrer en —_; to go on duty. _Relever de
—_; to relieve sentry.
=factionnaire=, _n.m._, sentinel, sentry.
=factorage=, _n.m._, (com.) factorage.
=factorerie= (-tor-rî), _n.f._, (com.) factory.
=factotum=, _n.m._, (_—s_) factotum; do-all.
=factrice=, _n.f._, (com.) female agent, factor.
=factum= (-tom), _n.m._, (_—s_) (jur.) statement (of a cause).
=facture=, _n.f._, composition, workmanship (of music, verse); (com.)
bill of parcels; invoice, bill; (of organs) building. _Tête de —_;
bill-head. _Livre de —s_; invoice-book. _Faire une —_; to make out an
invoice.
=facturer=, _v.a._, to invoice.
=facturier=, _n.m._, invoice-book; invoice-clerk.
=facule=, _n.f._, (astron.) facula.
=facultati-f=, =-ve=, _adj._, optional, discretionary; (com.) blank (of
credit). _Bref —_; pope’s license.
=faculté=, _n.f._, faculty, ability, propriety, power, virtue,
quality; talent; option; right. _pl._, faculties, means, property. _—s
intellectuelles_; mind, intellectual faculties. _Il a la — de parler en
public_; he has a talent for public speaking. _Les —s de l’esprit_; the
powers of the mind.
=fadaise=, _n.f._, trifle, stuff, fiddle-faddle, silliness, silly thing;
nonsense, twaddle. _—s que tout cela!_ Tom-foolery!
=fadasse=, _adj._, insipid, dull; mawkish, sickening; pale, insignificant.
=fade=, _adj._, insipid, unsavory, tasteless, heavy, dull; pointless,
tame; flat, stale.
=fadement=, _adv._, heavily, dully, spiritlessly, insipidly; mawkishly;
tastelessly.
=fadeur=, _n.f._, insipidity, insipidness, unsavoriness, tastelessness;
silliness; pointlessness; tameness.
=fagot=, _n.m._, fagot, bundle; idle story; former convict; ticket of
leave. _Ame d’un —_; small sticks of a fagot. _Bois de —_; bavin. _Il y a
—s et —s_; there are men and men; _or_ all men _or_ things are not alike.
_Sentir le —_; to be suspected of heresy. _Conter des —s_; to tell idle
stories. _Prendre un air de —_; to warm one’s self. _Être habillé comme
un —_; to be dressed in a slovenly, slatternly, manner.
=fagotage=, _n.m._, fagot-making, fagot-wood, chatwood; brushwood.
=fagoté=, =-e=, _part._, dressed in a slovenly manner. _Comme le voilà
—_; how slovenly dressed he is, _or_ what a fright he looks.
=fagoter=, _v.a._, to fagot, to make into fagots; to jumble together; to
dress in a slovenly manner, to dress like a fright. _Peut-on — ainsi un
enfant?_ how can people make such a fright of a child?
_se_ =fagoter=, _v.r._, to dress one’s self in a slovenly manner, to
dress like a fright. _Cette femme semble prendre à tâche de se —_; that
woman seems to do her best to make a fright of herself.
=fagoteur=, _n.m._, fagot-maker; bungler; scribbler.
=fagotin=, _n.m._, small fagot; monkey dressed up (in man’s clothes);
clown, merry-andrew, sorry-jester (of a quack).
=fagoue=, _n.f._, pancreas; sweetbread (of veal).
☉=faguenas= (fag-nā), _n.m._, rank smell.
=faible=, _adj._, weak, feeble, faint, deficient; helpless; backward;
light (coin.); small (of number); (mus.) thin. _Homme —_; weak man. _—
de corps et d’esprit_; weak in body and mind. _Le plus — est toujours
écrasé_; the weakest goes to the wall. _Le côté — d’une chose_; the weak
side of a thing.
=faible=, _n.m._, weak person; weak side, weak part, weakness; backward
boy _or_ girl; blind side, foible; failing; partiality. _Avoir du —
pour_; to have a partiality for. _Je le tiens par son —_; I have got him
by his blind _or_ weak side.
=faiblement=, _adv._, weakly, faintly, feebly; slenderly, poorly;
helplessly.
=faiblesse=, _n.f._, weakness, feebleness, faintness, fainting fit,
swoon; slenderness, deficiency, backwardness; thinness, poorness; defect;
foible, partiality; lightness (coin.); invalidity. _Avoir de la — pour
quelqu’un_; to be partial to any one. _Sentir de la —_; to feel faint.
_Tomber en —_; to swoon away, to be seized with a fainting fit. _Il
lui a pris une —_; she, he, was seized with a fainting fit. _Avoir de
fréquentes —s_; to be subject to fainting fits. _Une femme qui a eu une
—_; a woman that has made a slip, a mistake.
=faiblir=, _v.n._, to become weak; to abate; to slacken, to flag, to give
way, to yield, to relax.
=faïence=, _n.f._, crockery; earthenware; crockery-ware; faïence;
delft-ware. _— anglaise_; blue, yellow, crockery-ware; earthenware. _—
fine_; china.
=faïencé=, =-e=, _adj._, cracked. _V._ =fêlé —=, _n.m._, imitation ware.
=faïencerie= (fa-ian-srî), _n.f._, crockery-ware factory; earthenware
factory; crockery-ware.
=faïenci-er=, _n.m._, =-ère=, _n.f._, dealer in crockery-ware,
crockery-ware man _or_ woman.
*=faille=, _n.f._, (geol.) out-throw, excavation; fault, Flemish gros
grain silk; female head-dress used in Flanders.
*=failli=, _n.m._, =-e=, _n.f._, bankrupt; insolvent.
*=faillibilité=, _n.f._, liability to err, fallibility.
*=faillible=, _adj._, liable to err, fallible.
*=faillir=, _v.n._, to err, to miss; to fail; to trespass; to transgress;
to mistake, to be mistaken; to be extinct; to be on the point of, to be
well nigh; to be near, on the point of; to be a bankrupt. _Il a failli_;
he missed his aim. _Les plus doctes sont sujets à —_; the most learned
are liable to be mistaken. _Jouer à coup faillant_; to take the place of
him who misses. _Le cœur me faut_; I am ready to faint. _J’irai sans —_;
I will go without fail. _Il a failli tomber_; he was near falling. _Il
s’en faut beaucoup_, _il s’en faut de beaucoup_; very far from it; a long
way out. _Peu s’en faut_; very near. _Tant s’en faut_; far from it. _V._
=falloir=.
*=faillite=, _n.f._, bankruptcy, failure, insolvency. _Être en —_; to
be a bankrupt. _Faire —_; to fail, to become bankrupt. _Actif d’une —_;
assets in a bankruptcy. _— frauduleuse_; fraudulent bankruptcy. _Syndicat
de —_; commission in bankruptcy. _Déclaration de —_; declaration of
insolvency.
=faim= (fin), _n.f._, hunger, appetite; (fig.) thirst. _Avoir —_; to
be hungry. _Mourir de —_; to be starving, to be dying with hunger. _—
canine_; rabid hunger. _Apaiser la — de quelqu’un_; to stay any one’s
hunger. _Etourdir la —_; to take the edge off one’s appetite. _Un
meurt-de-—_; a starveling. _Faire mourir de —_; to starve out. _Réduire
par la —_; to starve out. _Se laisser mourir de —_; to starve one’s self
to death. _La — chasse le loup hors du bois_; hunger will break through
stone walls. _— insatiable des richesses_; insatiable thirst for riches.
=faim-valle=, _n.f._, (_n.p._) (vet.) hungry-evil (in horses).
=faîne=, _n.f._, (bot.) beech-mast, beechnut.
=fainéant=, =-e=, _n._ and _adj._, sluggard, loiterer, skulker; idle,
lazy, slothful, sluggish.
=fainéanter=, _v.n._, to be idle, to be indolent, to loaf.
=fainéantise=, _n.f._, idleness, laziness, slothfulness, sloth; loafing.
=faire= (faisant, fait), _v.a._, to make, to do; to create, to bear,
to exert; to construct, to frame; to coin; to counterfeit; to work, to
effect, to perform; to celebrate; to hold (festivals); to play (a game);
to play off (tricks); to prosecute (studies); to raise (troops); to have
(children); (nav.) to make for, to set (sail); to receive, to take in (a
supply); to build (nests); to offer up (prayers); to carry on (a trade);
to compose (books); to take (a ride, a walk); to follow (profession);
to inflict (injuries); to pay (attention); to oblige; to practice,
to transact, to commit, to perpetrate; to exercise, to discharge; to
fashion, to form, to improve; to use, to accustom, to inure, to train up;
to act, to personate, to affect, to set up for, to sham, to counterfeit;
to wage; to lay (eggs); to charge for, to sell; to be; to render; to give
out, to tell; to cause; to get; to bring; to bid to order. _À —_; to be
done. _Avoir beaucoup à —_, _avoir fort à —_; to have a great deal to do.
_Donner fort à — à quelqu’un_; to give any one a great deal of trouble.
_Cela fera tout aussi bien_; that will do just as well. _Se laisser —_;
to offer no resistance, to submit to anything. _N’avoir rien à —_; to
have nothing to do. _Faites ce que vous voudrez, c’est le moindre de mes
soucis_; do your worst, I care not. _Qu’y —?_ what is to be done? _— des
enfants_; to have children. _— et dire sont deux_; saying and doing are
different things. _Cet écolier a-t-il fait son thème?_ has that boy done
his exercise? _— sa besogne_; to do one’s work. _— tous ses efforts_,
_tout son possible_; to do one’s utmost. _À tout —_; fit for everything;
of all work. _Bonne à tout —_; maid of all work. _Être à tout —_; to be
fit for anything. _— du bien_, _du mal_; to do good, harm. _— une bonne
œuvre_; to do a good work. _— la charité_; to give alms, to do good. _—
l’aumône_; to give alms. _— un mauvais coup_; to do a bad action. _— une
sottise_; to do a foolish thing. _— des bassesses_; to behave meanly.
_— son devoir_; to do one’s duty. _— son apprentissage_; to serve one’s
apprenticeship. _— un tour de jardin_; to take a turn in the garden.
_— le tour du jardin_; to walk round the garden. _— une promenade_; to
take a walk. _— une lieue à pied_; to walk a league. _Il fait bien ses
affaires_; he is getting on well. _— une chambre_; to clean a room. _—
la couverture_; to turn down the bed. _— les foins_; to make hay. _— la
moisson_; to get in the harvest. _Que ferez vous de votre fils?_ what
will you do with your son? _Il est fait au chaud et au froid_; he is
used to heat and cold. _Les affaires font les hommes_; business makes
men. _Que faites-vous aujourd’hui?_ what are you going to do to-day? _Je
n’ai rien à faire_; I have nothing to do. _Je n’ai que — de lui_; I do
not want him. _Je n’ai que — de lui ni de ses visites_; I want neither
him nor his visits. _— la revue d’une armée_; to review an army. _— des
recrues_; to recruit. _— la médecine_; to practice medicine. _— des
armes_; to fence. _— de grandes affaires_; to carry on a large trade. _—
la cuisine_; to dress meat, to cook. _— un métier_; to carry on a trade.
_Il ne sait pas — son métier_; he does not know his trade. _— le roi_; to
personate the king. _— l’amant_; to act the lover. _— le savant_; to set
up for a learned man. _Elle ne fait œuvre de ses dix doigts_; she never
does a thing. _— le malade_; to sham illness. _— la sourde oreille_; to
pretend to be deaf, to turn a deaf ear. _— mine de_, _— semblant de_;
to feign, to pretend. _Il faisait semblant de n’en rien savoir_; he
pretended to know nothing about it. _Que voulez-vous que j’y fasse?_ what
can I do, how can I help it? _Ce petit garçon fait le mutin_; that little
boy is refractory. _Cela fait toutes mes délices_; that is my greatest
delight. _On le faisait mort_; they made him out to be dead. _Faites-le
entrer_; bid him come in, show him in. _Il le fit mettre à mort_; he had
him put to death. _Je le lui ai fait avoir_; I have procured it for him.
_— bâtir_; to have built. _— aller une machine_; to set a machine going.
_— venir_; to send for. _— dire une leçon à quelqu’un_; to hear any one
say his lesson. _Cela fait beaucoup_; that makes a great difference.
_Cela ne fait rien_; that makes no différence. _— entendre à quelqu’un_;
to give any one to understand, to hint to any one. _— voir_; to show.
_— connaître_; to make known. _— savoir_; to inform. _Faites-moi savoir
de vos nouvelles_; let me hear from you. _— accueil_; to welcome. _—
affront_; to insult. _— attention_; to pay attention, to mind, to heed.
_— banqueroute_; to go bankrupt. _— bonne chère_; to live well. _— bonne
mine à quelque chose_; to put a good face on anything. _— carême_; to
keep Lent. _— cas de_; to value, to have a good opinion of. _— peu de
cas de_; to make light of. _Ne — cas que de l’argent_; to value nothing
but money. _— compassion_; to raise compassion. _— une confidence à
quelqu’un_; to intrust a secret to any one. _— conscience_; to scruple.
_— don_; to make a donation, a present of. _— envie_; to raise envy,
to make envious. _— feu_; to fire. _— front_; to face. _— montre de_;
to make a show of. _— de l’eau_; (nav.) to take in fresh water. _— du
bois_, _du biscuit_; (nav.) to furnish with wood, with biscuit. _— eau_;
(nav.) to make water, to leak. _— force de voiles_; to crowd all sail. _—
voile_; (nav.) to make for, to set sail. _Je ne ferai rien de la sorte_;
I shall do nothing of the kind. _Je ne puis qu’y —_; I cannot help it.
_On ne saurait qu’y —_; it cannot be helped. _Si — se peut_; if possible.
_— son chemin_; to get on (in life). _Ne — qu’un_; to be hand and glove
together. _— la saint lundi_; to do no work on Mondays. _— des siennes_;
to be at one’s old tricks. _N’en — rien_; to do nothing of the sort. _— à
sa guise_; to do as one likes. _Pour bien —_; by rights, properly.
_se_ =faire=, _v.r._, to be done, to be made; to happen; to take place;
to be; to grow; to become; to be used to, to accustom one’s self to; to
give one’s self out as; to set up for; to pretend. _Quelle idée vous
faites-vous de cet homme-là?_ what is your idea of that man? _Si cela
peut se —_; if that can be done. _Je me suis fait au bruit de la rue_;
I have got accustomed to the noise of the street. _Se — à la fatigue_;
to inure one’s self to fatigue. _Se — à tout_; to accustom one’s self to
everything. _Se — médecin_; to become a doctor. _Il se fait plus riche
qu’il ne l’est_; he gives himself out for being richer than he is. _Se —
des amis_; to make one’s self friends. _Se — aimer_; to make one’s self
beloved. _Se — voir_; to show one’s self. _Se — saigner_; to get one’s
self bled. _Se — mal_; to hurt one’s self. _Comment cela se fait-il?_ how
is that? _Il peut se — que_; it is possible that. _Il pourrait se — que_;
it might happen that. _Se — un devoir de_; to make it a duty _or_ a point
to. _Il se fait tard_; it is getting late. _Paris ne s’est pas fait en
un jour_; Rome was not built in a day. _Se — la main_; to get one’s hand
in. _Se — vieux_, _vieille_; to be getting old, to age. _Se — jour_; to
force one’s way through. _Se — une tête_; to alter one’s features. _Cela
se fait maintenant_; that is the fashion now. _Cela ne se fait pas_; that
is not done; that is not the custom.
=faire=, _v.n._, to do, to make; to act; to mean, to signify; to look;
to deal (at cards); to be; to fit; to arrange, to manage. _— pour
quelqu’un_; to supply any one’s place, to act for any one. _— bien_; to
do right. _— mal_; to do wrong. _Il n’en veut — qu’à sa tête_; he will
only do as he pleases. _C’est à — à vous_; you are well able to do it.
_C’est bien à — à vous de_; does it become you to? _C’est à — à moi de
lui parler_; it is my business to speak to him. _Il ne fait que sortir et
rentrer_; he does nothing but go out and in. _Il ne fait que de sortir_;
he has only just gone out. _Qu’est-ce que cela fait là?_ what does that
do there? _Qu’est-ce que cela fait?_ what does that matter? _Qu’est-ce
que cela vous fait?_ what is that to you? _Cela ne me fait rien_; that
is nothing to me. _Ces deux choses font fort bien ensemble_; these
two things go very well together. _L’or fait bien avec le vert_; gold
looks very well upon green. _Faites qu’il soit content_; see that he is
satisfied. _Faites en sorte que je vous voie_; manage so that I may see
you; contrive to let me see you. _Rien n’y faisait_; nothing would do.
_Il fait chaud_; it is hot. _Il fait froid_; it is cold. _Il fait beau_;
it is fine. _Quel temps fait-il?_ what sort of weather is it? _Quel
temps il fait!_ what weather, to be sure! _Il fait cher vivre à Londres_;
living is dear in London. _Il fait bon ici_; it is comfortable, nice,
pleasant here. _À qui à —?_ whose deal is it? _Je viens de —_; I have
just dealt.
=faire=, _n.m._, doing, making, execution; (fine arts) manner, style;
(com.) goods, articles.
=faisable=, _adj._, practicable, allowable, feasible.
=faisan=, _n.m._, =faisane=, _n.f._, pheasant. _Une poule —e_; a
hen-pheasant. _Coq —_; cock-pheasant. _— noir_, _de montagne_; black-cock.
=faisances=, _n.f.pl._, dues over and above the rent. _— valoir_; farm
cultivation, land under cultivation.
=faisandeau=, _n.m._, young pheasant.
=faisandé=, =-e=, _part._, gamy, high.
=faisander=, _v.a._, to keep game till it is high.
_se_ =faisander=, _v.r._, to get gamy, or high.
=faisanderie= (-drî), _n.f._, pheasantry.
=faisandier=, _n.m._, pheasant-breeder.
=faisant=, =-e=, _adj._, acting, doing. _n.m._, doer.
=faisceau=, _n.m._, bundle; sheaf (of arrows); (anat.) fasciculus; pile
(of arms); (arch.) cluster; (opt.) pencil; (fig.) union, alliance,
number. _pl._, (antiq.) fasces. _— d’armes_; pile of arms. _Mettre les
armes en —x_; to pile arms. _En —_; in a bundle or bundles; (arch.)
clustered. _— de rayons_; (opt.) pencil of rays.
=faiseu-r=, _n.m._, =-se=, _n.f._, maker; (b.s.) swindler; monger, doer.
_— de vers_; versifier, poetaster. _— de systèmes_; system-monger.
_Mangez de ce pâté, c’est d’un bon —_; try a piece of this pie, it is
made by a first-rate hand. _Les grands diseurs ne sont pas les —s_; great
talkers are little doers. _— d’affaires_; promoter, jobber. _— de tours_;
mountebank. _— d’embarras_; fussy person.
=fait=, _n.m._, fact, act, deed, doing; case; matter, business; event,
occurrence; point, point in question; what suits; share. _C’est un —
bien constaté_; it is a well-known fact. _Par le — seul_; by the mere
fact. _Par le seul —_; by the simple fact, ipso facto. _Prendre quelqu’un
sur le —_; to catch any one in the very act. _Prendre — et cause pour
quelqu’un_; to take any one’s part, to side with any one. _Voies de —_;
violence, assault. _Pour venir au —_; to come to the point. _Au —_; in
fact, in point of fact. _Être au — de_; to be acquainted with; to be
aware of. _Il est au — de cette affaire_; he is well acquainted with that
affair. _C’est un — à part_; that is another matter. _De —_; indeed,
certainly. _Il est de — que_; it is a fact that, _or_ it is notorious
that. _Les hauts —s d’un guerrier_; the exploits of a warrior. _Voilà mon
—_; that is just what I want. _Mettre en —_; to lay down as a fact. _Être
sûr de son —_; to be sure of anything, to be sure of what one states.
_C’est votre —_; that just suits you. _Dire à quelqu’un son —_; to tell
any one what you think of him. _Au — et au prendre_; at a scratch or
pinch, when it comes to the scratch. _—s et dits_; doings and sayings.
_En venir au — et au prendre_; to come to the scratch. _Se mettre au —
de_; to acquaint one’s self with. _Trouver le — de quelqu’un_; to find
what any one wants. _Donner son — à quelqu’un_; to pay any one out.
_Mettre quelqu’un au —_; to acquaint any one with the point in question.
_Tout à —_; entirely, completely, quite. _Si —_; yes, yes indeed, _or_
yes, though. _Vous n’y êtes pas allé. Si —_; you did not go there. Yes, I
did; yes, indeed I did. _— à part_; exceptional case.
=fait=, =-e=, _part._, made, done, shaped; organized; fit, qualified;
calculated, intended, settled, ended, over; accustomed to, grown, full
grown, grown up. _Ce qui est —, est —_; what is done, cannot be undone.
_Un homme —_; a grown-up man. _De compte —_; upon computation. _Comme le
voilà —!_ how ill he looks! _Tenez cela pour —_; consider it done. _Cela
vaut —_; that is as good as done. _C’est — de lui_; he is undone. _C’en
est — de_; it is all over _or_ up with. _Ce qui est — n’est pas à faire_;
what is done is done. _Aussitôt dit, aussitôt —_; no sooner said than
done. _Tout —_; ready made, cut and dry. _C’est bien —_; it serves him,
her, you, them, right. _Est-ce —?_ have you done? is it done? _C’est un
grand pas de —_; it is a great step forward. _C’est comme un — exprès_;
it seems done on purpose. _Cela est — pour moi_, _cela semble — pour
moi_; _cela n’est — que pour moi_; such things happen to me alone, such
is my luck. _Travailler à prix —_; to work by the piece.
=faîtage=, _n.m._, ridge-piece; roofing.
=faîte=, _n.m._, top, summit, pinnacle; zenith; height; ridge, coping
(of building). _Le — des grandeurs_; the pinnacle of greatness. _— de
cheminée_; chimney-top.
=fait exprès=, _n.m._, thing done on purpose _or_ intentionally.
=faîtière= (-tièr), _adj._, of the ridge. _Tuile —_; ridge-tile, pantile.
_Lucarnes —s_; sky-lights.
=faîtière=, _n.f._, ridge-tile, pantile.
=faix= (fê), _n.m._, weight, burden, load. _Plier sous le —_; to sink
under the weight _or_ burden.
=fakir=, _n.m._, fakir (Mahommedan friar).
=falaise=, _n.f._, cliff. _Les blanches —s d’Albion_; the white cliffs of
England.
=falaiser=, _v.n._, to dash against the cliffs (of waves).
=falbala=, _n.m._, furbelow, flounce; finery.
=falcade=, _n.f._, (man.) falcade.
=falciforme=, _adj._, (bot.) falcate, falcated.
=fale=, _n.f._, crop (of a bird).
=fallacieusement= (fal-la-sieuz-mān), _adv._, fallaciously, falsely.
=fallacieu-x=, =-se= (fal-la-), _adj._, fallacious, false.
=falloir=, _v.imp._, must, should, ought; to be necessary, requisite; to
be obliged; to need, to stand in need of, to want. _Ce qu’il faut_; what
is wanted or necessary. _Il faut le faire_; it must be done. _Il faut que
je fasse cela_; I must do that. _Il faut que j’y aille_; I must go there.
_Il fallait venir plus tôt_; you ought to have come sooner. _Il faudra le
satisfaire_; you will have to satisfy him. _Il aurait fallu s’y prendre
ainsi_; you should have gone to work in this way. _Faut-il le demander?_
need you ask? _Il fallait voir comme il était content_; you should have
seen how pleased he was. _Je ne sais ce qu’il lui faut_; I do not know
what he wants. _Il me le faut_; I must have it. _Il me faut de l’argent_;
I must have some money. _J’en ai plus qu’il ne m’en faut_; I have more
than I want. _Combien vous en faut-il?_ how much do you want? _Que lui
faut-il pour sa peine?_ how much must he have for his trouble? _Faites
cela comme il faut_; do that properly, well. _Il fait ce qu’il faut_; he
does what is requisite. _Des gens comme il faut_; well-bred people. _Un
homme comme il faut_; a gentlemanly man. _C’est l’homme qu’il faut_; he
is the very man for the place _or_ for the work. _Il se vante de ne pas
me craindre, il faudra voir!_ he boasts that he does not fear me, but
wait a bit! _Il me menace d’un procès, c’est ce qu’il faudra voir!_ he
threatens me with an action, but we shall see about it!
_s’en_ =falloir=, _v.r._, to be wanting; to be far; to fall short; to be
near, to be on the point. _Il s’en fallut de peu que je ne fusse écrasé_;
I was near being run over. _Peu s’en est fallu que je ne mourusse_; I
was near dying _or_ within an ace of dying. _Il s’en faut de beaucoup
que la somme y soit_; the sum is far from being complete. _Il s’en faut
de beaucoup que l’un ait autant de mérite que l’autre_; the one is far
from possessing as much merit as the other. _Il s’en faut de beaucoup_;
very far from it. _Vous croyez m’avoir tout payé; mais il s’en faut de
beaucoup_; you imagine you have squared with me; but you are a long way
out. _Il s’en faut de peu qu’il ne soit aussi grand que son frère_; he
is nearly as tall as his brother. _Tant s’en faut que_; so far from, far
from it. _Tant s’en faut qu’il consente qu’au contraire il fera tout
pour l’empêcher_; he is so far from consenting that he will, on the
contrary, do all he can to prevent it. _Tant s’en faut qu’au contraire_;
(fam., jest.) on the contrary, quite the reverse. [When _s’en falloir_ is
preceded by a negative, or accompanied by a word having a negative sense,
as _peu_, _guère_, _presque_, _rien_, or if the phrase implies doubt, or
has an interrogative meaning, the dependent clause is accompanied by the
negation _ne_; but when _s’en falloir_ is neither preceded by a negative,
nor accompanied by any of the above words, the dependent clause does not
take the negative particle.]
=falot=, _n.m._, lantern, torch; fire-pot, cresset.
=falot=, =-e=, _adj._, comical, droll, laughable, funny, queer.
=falotement=, _adv._, comically, amusingly, ludicrously, grotesquely.
=falourde=, _n.f._, bundle of fire-wood; (orni.) sea-swallow.
=falquer=, _v.n._, (man.) to make falcades.
=falques=, _n.f.pl._, (man.) falcade; (nav.) wash-board; weather-board.
=falsifiable=, _adj._, falsifiable; adulterable.
=falsificateur=, _n.m._, falsifier; debaser.
=falsification=, _n.f._, falsification, adulteration, debasement.
=falsifié=, =-e=, _adj._, adulterated, falsified.
=falsifier=, _v.a._, to falsify, to alter (texts); to adulterate, to
debase. _— les métaux_; to adulterate metals. _— de la monnaie_; to
debase coin.
=falun=, _n.m._, falun, shell-marl.
=faluner=, _v.a._, to manure with shell-marl.
=falunière=, _n.f._, falun pit, shell-marl pit.
=famé=, =-e=, _adj._, famed. _Bien —_; of good repute. _Homme mal —_; man
of ill-repute.
=famélique=, _n.m.f._ and _adj._, starveling; starving, famishing.
_Auteur —_; starving author. _Il a bien l’air d’un —_; he looks like a
poor starving wretch.
=fameu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, famous, famed, celebrated, renowned, notorious,
first-rate, capital; (iron.) precious. _— imbécile_; precious fool. _—
voleur_; notorious thief.
=familiariser=, _v.a._, to accustom to, to familiarize.
_se_ =familiariser= (avec), _v.r._, to familiarize one’s self with; to
make one’s self familiar with, to grow familiar; to accustom one’s self
to; to grow tame.
=familiarité=, _n.f._, familiarity, familiar terms; intimacy. _pl._,
liberties. _Vivre sur le pied de la plus grande —_; to be on the most
familiar terms.
=famili-er=, =-ère=, _adj._, familiar, free, intimate, unconstrained,
homely; tame.
=famili-er=, _n.m._, =-ère=, _n.f._, familiar. _C’est un des —s du
prince_; he is one of the prince’s favorite companions.
=familièrement= (-mān), _adv._, familiarly.
*=famille=, _n.f._, family, kindred, kin; race, tribe, parentage. _Être
chargé de —_; to have a large family. _Il a un air de —_; there is a
family likeness about him. _Affaires de —_; domestic concerns. _Chef de
—_; head of a family. _En —_; at home. _Fils de —_; gentleman’s son.
=famine=, _n.f._, famine, dearth. _Crier — sur un tas de blé_; to plead
poverty though rolling in riches. _Prendre par la —_; to starve out, to
reduce by famine.
=fanage=, _n.m._, (agri.) tossing, tedding of hay; haymaker’s pay; leaves
of a plant.
=fanaison=, _n.f._ _V._ =fenaison=.
=fanal=, _n.m._, lantern of a ship; signal-light, watch-light, beacon.
=fanariote=, _n.m.f._ _V._ =phanariote=.
=fanatique=, _n.m.f._ and _adj._, fanatic, bigot, enthusiast; fanatical,
bigoted.
=fanatiser=, _v.a._, to fanaticize.
=fanatisme=, _n.m._, fanaticism, bigotry.
=fanchon=, _n.m._, kerchief (for the head).
=fandango=, _n.m._, fandango (Spanish dance).
=fane=, _n.f._, leaf-top; envelope (of a flower). _—s_, _pl._, fallen
leaves; dead leaves.
=fané=, =-e=, _adj._, faded, withered.
=faner=, _v.a._, to toss, to ted hay; to make fade, to tarnish.
_se_ =faner=, _v.r._, to fade, to fade away, to droop, to wither, to
tarnish. _Cette femme commence à se —_; that woman begins to fall off.
=faneu-r=, _n.m._, =-se=, _n.f._, haymaker.
=faneuse=, _n.f._, hay-making machine.
=fanfan=, _n.m.f._, darling, duck, ducky (child).
=fanfare=, _n.f._, flourish, flourish of trumpets, brass-band. _Sonner
une —_; to strike up a flourish.
=fanfaron=, _adj.m._, blustering, swaggering, bragging, boasting.
=fanfaron=, _n.m._, blusterer; swaggerer; boaster, braggart. _Faire le
—_; to play the braggart.
=fanfaronnade=, _n.f._, blustering, bragging, boasting.
=fanfaronnerie= (-ro-n-rî), _n.f._, blustering, swaggering, bragging,
boasting.
=fanfreluche=, _n.f._, bauble, gewgaw, tinsel.
=fange=, _n.f._, mire, mud, dirt; vileness; degradation; debasement.
=fangeu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, miry, muddy, dirty.
=fanion=, _n.m._, (milit.). _V._ =fanon=.
=fanon=, _n.m._, dewlap (of oxen); fetlock (of horses); fin (of whales);
(c.rel.) pendant (of a bishop’s miter); (milit.) pennon.
=fanons=, _n.m.pl._, (surg.) bandages.
=fantaisie=, _n.f._, imagination; fancy; whim, caprice, crotchet, odd
fancy; conceit; liking; (mus.) fantasia. _Il a eu la — d’aller voyager_;
he has taken it into his head to travel. _Vivre à sa —_; to live as one
likes. _Cela est-il à votre —?_ is that to your liking? _Il lui prit —
d’aller le voir_; she suddenly made up her mind to pay him a visit. _Par
—_; out of pure whim. _Objets de —_; fancy articles. _Avoir une —_; to
fancy. _Avoir des —s_; to be fanciful.
=fantaisiste=, _n.m.f._, whimsical painter _or_ writer; humorist.
=fantasmagorie=, _n.f._, phantasmagoria, dissolving view.
=fantasmagorique=, _adj._, phantasmagorical.
=fantasmagoriquement=, _adv._, phantasmagorically.
=fantasque=, _adj._, fantastic, fantastical, fanciful, whimsical, queer;
strange, odd.
=fantasquement=, _adv._, (l.u.) fantastically, fancifully, whimsically,
oddly.
=fantassin=, _n.m._, foot-soldier.
=fantastique=, _adj._, fantastic, fantastical, fanciful, chimerical.
=fantastiquement= (-tik-mān), _adv._, fantastically.
=fantoccini= (fān-tot-shee-nee), _n.m.pl._, fantoccini (puppets).
=fantoche=, _n.m._, puppet. _adj._, odd, queer.
=fantôme=, _n.m._, phantom, specter, ghost.
=fanum= (fa-nom), _n.m._, (_—_) (antiq.) fane.
=faon= (fān), _n.m._, doe, fawn.
=faonner= (fa-né), _v.n._, to fawn (as a deer).
=faquin=, _n.m._, scoundrel, mean rascal, puppy.
=faquinerie= (fa-ki-n-rî), _n.f._, rascally action, rascally meanness;
scoundrelism.
=faquir=, _n.m._ _V._ =fakir=.
=farandole=, _n.f._, farandole (Provençal dance).
=faraud=, _n.m._, a vulgar fop; snob, swell.
=farce=, _n.f._, (cook.) stuffing, forced meat; farce (thea.); drollery;
tomfoolery; practical joke; waggish trick, prank. _Tirez le rideau, la
— est jouée_; let down the curtain, the farce is ended. _Faire une — à
quelqu’un_; to play any one a trick. _Faire ses —s_; to sow one’s wild
oats.
=farceur=, _n.m._, farce player; droll person; dog (pers.), rogue,
practical joker; humbug. _Faire le —_; to play the fool.
=farci=, =-e=, _adj._, _part._, stuffed; crammed, filled with.
=farcin=, _n.m._, (vet.) farcin, farcy.
=farcineu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, affected with farcy.
=farcir=, _v.a._, to stuff, to cram, to fill.
_se_ =farcir=, _v.r._, to stuff, to cram, to be filled.
=farcissure=, _n.f._, (cook.) stuffing.
=fard=, _n.m._, paint, rouge; varnish; disguise, dissimulation.
_Parlez-moi sans —_; speak to me without disguise. _Se mettre du — à la
figure_; to paint, to rouge one’s face. _Sans —_; plainly, frankly.
=fardage=, _n.m._, (nav.) dunnage.
=fardé=, =-e=, _part._, painted.
=fardeau=, _n.m._, burden, load, weight; mash (for brewing); mass
(mining). _Imposer un — à quelqu’un_; to put a burden upon any one.
_S’imposer un —_; to take a burden upon one’s self.
=farder=, _v.a._, to paint (the face); (fig.) to varnish, to gloss over.
_se_ =farder=, _v.r._, to paint one’s face, to paint.
=farder=, _v.n._, to sink, to give way; (nav.) to swell out (of sails).
_Ce mur commence à —_; this wall is beginning to sink.
=fardier=, _n.m._, truck, trolley; dray (for stones).
=farfadet=, _n.m._, goblin, elf; (fig.) trifler.
*=farfouiller=, _v.a._ and _n._, to rummage.
=faribole=, _n.f._, idle story, trifle.
=farinacé=, =-e=, _adj._, farinaceous.
=farine=, _n.f._, flour, meal; farina. _Fleur de —_; flour. _Folle —_;
mill-dust. _Marchand de —_; flour-dealer. _Gens de même —_; birds of a
feather. _Donner dans la —_; (paint.) to paint in a wishy-washy manner.
_D’un sac à charbon il ne saurait sortir de blanche —_; (prov.) what can
you expect from a pig but a grunt? _or_ you can’t make a silk purse out
of a sow’s ear.
=fariner=, _v.a._, to flour, to meal.
=farinet=, _n.m._, one-faced die.
=farineu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, white with flour; mealy, farinaceous.
=farinier=, _n.m._, flour-dealer.
=farinière=, _n.f._, meal-tub, flour-bin.
=farlouse=, _n.f._, (orni.) titlark, titling.
=far-niente=, _n.m._, (_n.p._) far-niente, doing nothing, pleasant
idleness, repose.
=faro=, _n.m._, faro (Belgian beer).
=farouch= _or_ =farouche=, _n.m._, (agri.) clover, clover grass.
=farouche=, _adj._, wild; fierce; sullen; unsociable; shy. _Regard —_;
fierce look. _Cette femme est bien —_; that woman is very shy.
=farrago=, _n.m._, farrago.
=fasce=, _n.f._, (her.) fesse.
=fascé=, =-e=, _adj._, (her.) fessy.
=fascia=, _n.m._, (anat.) fascia.
=fasciculaire=, _adj._, (bot.) fascicular.
=fascicule=, _n.m._, (bot.) fascicle, small bundle (of plants, herbs);
part (number of a work).
=fasciculé=, =-e=, _adj._, (bot.) fasciculate, fasciculated.
=fascié=, =-e=, _adj._, fasciated.
=fascinage=, _n.m._, (fort.) fascine work; the making of fascines.
=fascinat-eur=, =-rice=, _adj._, fascinating.
=fascination=, _n.f._, fascination.
=fascine=, _n.f._, (fort.) fascine; fagot, hurdle, bavin.
=fasciner=, _v.a._, to fascinate.
=faséole=, _n.f._, phasel, kidney-bean.
=fashion=, _n.f._, fashion; fashionable world.
=fashionable=, _n.m.f._ and _adj._, fashionable; beau, belle; swell.
=fasier=, _v.n._, (nav.) (of sails) to shiver. _Mettre à —_; (nav.) to
spill.
=faste=, _n.m._, (_n.p._) pomp, ostentation, display, vain show,
pageantry.
=fastes=, _n.m.pl._, fasti, annals; records.
=fastidieusement= (-eûz-mān), _adv._, tediously, irksomely.
=fastidieu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, irksome, tedious, wearisome, tiresome, dull.
=fastigié=, =-e=, _adj._, fastigiate, fastigiated.
=fastueusement= (-eûz-mān), _adv._, magnificently, ostentatiously,
pompously, splendidly, gorgeously.
=fastueu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, ostentatious, pompous, gorgeous, showy;
sumptuous; stately.
=fat= (fat), _n._ and _adj._ _m._, fop, coxcomb; foppish. _En —_;
foppishly. _C’est un —_; he is a coxcomb.
=fatal=, =-e=, _adj._, fatal; inevitable. _Terme —_; (jur.) expiration of
a delay. _Ces remèdes ont été —s au malade_; those remedies proved fatal
to the patient.
=fatalement= (fa-tal-mān), _adv._, fatally; inevitably.
=fatalisme=, _n.m._, fatalism.
=fataliste=, _n.m.f._, fatalist.
=fatalité=, _n.f._, fatality.
=fatidique=, _adj._, fatidical.
=fatigant=, =-e=, _adj._, fatiguing, toilsome, irksome, wearisome,
tiresome, tedious.
=fatigue=, _n.f._, fatigue, toil, hardship, weariness. _Excéder de —_;
to wear out with fatigue, to tire out. _Un homme de —_; a man capable of
resisting fatigue. _Supporter la —_; to stand fatigue. _Rompre à la —_;
to accustom to fatigue. _Tomber de —_; to be worn out with fatigue.
=fatigué=, =-e=, _part._, fatigued, jaded; (paint.) overworked. _Des
chevaux —s_; jaded horses.
=fatiguer= (-ghé), _v.a._, to fatigue, to tire, to weary, to harass,
to tease; (paint.) to overwork. _La lecture fatigue la vue_; reading
fatigues the sight. _— un champ_; to impoverish a field. _— une salade_;
to mix a salad.
_se_ =fatiguer=, _v.r._, to fatigue one’s self; to tire one’s self out;
to be jaded; to tire.
=fatiguer=, _v.n._, to tire; to be fatiguing; (nav.) to work. _— à
l’ancre_; (nav.) to ride hard. _Ne pas — à l’ancre_; (nav.) to ride easy.
_Ne pas — à cheval_; (man.) to ride easy.
=fatras=, _n.m._, rubbish, trash, stuff, medley, litter, confusion;
balderdash.
=fatrassier=, _n.m._, untidy person.
=fatuité=, _n.f._, fatuity, self-conceit, foppishness. _Quelle —!_ what a
piece of impertinence!
=faubert=, _n.m._, (nav.) swab, mop.
=fauberter=, _v.a._, (nav.) to swab, to mop.
=fauberteur=, _n.m._, (nav.) swabber.
=faubourg= (fô-boor), _n.m._, outskirt, suburb, slums. _Le —
Saint-Germain ne l’entendait pas ainsi_; the old French aristocracy did
not see it in that light.
=faubourien=, =-ne= (-iin, -è-n), _adj._, suburban; low.
=faubourien=, _n.m._, dweller in a suburb.
=fauchage=, _n.m._, mowing.
=fauchaison=, _n.f._, mowing-time.
=fauchard=, _n.m._, sickle.
=fauche=, _n.f._, mowing; mowing-time.
=fauchée=, _n.f._, day’s mowing.
=faucher=, _v.a._, to reap, to mow, to cut down.
=faucher=, _v.n._, (man.) to throw the fore-legs sideways in walking (of
a horse).
=fauchet=, _n.m._, hay-rake.
=fauchette=, _n.f._, (gard.) small hedge-knife, border-shears.
=faucheur=, _n.m._, mower, reaper; field-spider.
=faucheur= _or_ =faucheux=, _n.m._, field-spider.
*=faucille=, _n.f._, sickle, reaping-hook.
=faucillon=, _n.m._, bill-hook.
=faucon=, _n.m._, (orni.) falcon; hawk.
=fauconneau=, _n.m._, ☉(artil.) falconet; (orni.) young hawk.
=fauconnerie= (fô-co-n-rî), _n.f._, falconry, hawking.
=fauconnier=, _n.m._, falconer. _Monter à cheval en —_; to mount a horse
on the off-side.
=fauconnière=, _n.f._, hawking-pouch, saddle-bag.
=faufiler=, _v.a._, to tack, to baste (needlework).
_se_ =faufiler=, _v.r._, to insinuate one’s self, to ingratiate one’s
self; to intrude one’s self; to curry favor with. _Il se faufile
partout_; he intrudes himself everywhere.
=faulx=, _n.f._ _V._ =faux=.
=faune=, _n.m._, (myth.) faun.
=faune=, _n.f._, (zoöl.) fauna.
=faussaire=, _n.m.f._, forger. _Poursuivre comme —_; to prosecute for
forgery.
=faussement= (fôs-mān), _adv._, falsely, erroneously, wrongfully, untruly.
=fausser=, _v.a._, to bend; to warp; to strain; to falsify; to pervert;
to violate, to break; (mus.) to put out of tune; to strain (a lock, a
key). _— une cuirasse_; to indent a cuirass. _— sa parole_; to violate
one’s word. _— compagnie à quelqu’un_; to give any one the slip.
_se_ =fausser=, _v.r._, to bend; to be warped _or_ perverted.
=fausset=, _n.m._, spigot, peg; (mus.) falsetto. _Chanter en —_; to sing
in falsetto. _Trou de —_; vent-hole.
=fausseté= (fôs-té), _n.f._, falsity, falseness, falsehood, duplicity,
insincerity, deceitfulness, treachery.
=faute=, _n.f._, fault, mistake, error; want, scarcity, dearth. _A —
de_; (jur.) in default of. _Faire une —_; to make a mistake. _Ne pas
se faire — de_; not to be sparing of; to deny one’s self nothing.
_Relever une —_; to point out a mistake. _Surprendre quelqu’un en —_;
to find any one at fault. _À qui la —?_ whose fault is it? _— de_; for
want of. _— d’orthographe_; wrong spelling. _— d’inattention_; slip. _—
d’impression_; misprint. _Ne vous en faites pas —_; do not spare it. _Il
est mort — de secours_; he died for want of help. _Sans —_; without
fail. _— de mieux_; for want of something better. _Rien ne vous fera —_;
you will want for nothing.
*=fauteuil=, _n.m._, arm-chair; chair (speaker’s, president’s seat);
academic chair (of the French Academy). _— à la Voltaire_; reclining
arm-chair. _Occuper le —_; to fill the chair.
=faut-eur=, _n.m._, =-rice=, _n.f._, abettor, favorer, fomentor. _Être —
de_; to abet. _Les —s d’un crime_; the abettors of a crime.
=fauti-f=, =-ve=, _adj._, faulty; at fault; defective, incorrect.
=fauve=, _adj._, fawn-colored, tawny. _Bêtes —s_; fallow-deer, stag,
etc.; wild beasts.
=fauve=, _n.m.sing._, (hunt.) deer, fallow-deer. _Chasser le —_; to hunt
wild animals.
=fauveau=, _n.m._, fawn-colored ox.
=fauvette=, _n.f._, (orni.) warbler. _Petite —_; garden-warbler, redwing.
_— babillarde_; white-throat. _— à tête noire_; blackcap.
=faux= (fô), _n.f._, scythe; (anat.) falx.
=fau-x=, =-sse=, _adj._, false, untrue, erroneous, wrong; spurious;
unsound; base, counterfeit; artificial, imitation; fictitious, mock,
sham, pretended; insincere, double, treacherous, deceitful; (mus.) out of
tune; forged. _Acte —_; (jur.) forgery. _— témoin_; false witness. _Chose
—sse_; untruth. _—sse doctrine_; erroneous doctrine. _—sse monnaie_;
counterfeit money. _— brave_; braggadocio, swaggerer. _—sse démarche_;
wrong step. _Voix —sse_; voice out of tune. _— brillant_; tinsel. _—sse
équerre_; bevel. _—sse fenêtre_; blank or sham window. _— comme un
jeton_; false as Judas. _Faire — bond_; not to keep an engagement. _Faire
—sse route_; to take the wrong road; to be on the wrong track. _Faire un
— pas_; to stumble; (fig.) to make a slip.
=faux=, _n.m._, falsehood, forgery; false. _Discerner le vrai d’avec le
—_; to discern truth from falsehood. _Crime de —_; crime of forgery. _Un
—_; a forgery. _Commettre un —_; to commit a forgery. _Poursuivre pour
—_; to prosecute for forgery. _Arguer de —_; to accuse, to tax, as false.
_S’inscrire en — contre une chose_; to deny the truth of an assertion.
=faux=, _adv._, erroneously, falsely, wrongfully; (mus.) out of tune.
_Il chante —_; he sings out of tune. _À —_; falsely, unjustly. _Être
accusé à —_; to be accused unjustly. _Porter à —_; (arch.) to be out of
perpendicular, not to be upright. _Cette poutre porte à —_; that post is
out of the perpendicular.
=faux-fuyant=, _n.m._, (_—-—s_) by-place; subterfuge, evasion, creep-hole.
=favelotte=, _n.f._, horse-bean.
=faveur=, _n.f._, favor, boon; interest; vogue; grace; ribbon. _À la —
de_; by favor of, under cover of. _En — de_; in behalf of, in favor of.
_Être en —_; to be in favor, in vogue. _Prendre —_; to get _or_ come into
favor, into vogue. _Mettre en —_; to bring into favor, into vogue.
=favonette=, _n.f._, everlasting pea.
=favorable=, _adj._, favorable, propitious; fair. _Le ciel vous soit —!_
heaven befriend you!
=favorablement=, _adv._, favorably, propitiously.
=favori=, =-te=, _n._ and _adj._, favorite.
=favori=, _n.m._, whisker.
=favoriser=, _v.a._, to favor, to befriend, to countenance; to aid, to
assist; to endow; to protect; to promote, to further, to facilitate.
=favoritisme=, _n.m._, favoritism.
=fayard= (fa-iar), _n.m._, (bot.) (pop.) beech.
=fayence=, etc. _V._ =faïence=, etc.
☉=féage=, _n.m._, feoffment.
☉=féal=, =-e=, _adj._, trusty, faithful.
☉=féal=, _n.m._, trusty, faithful friend. _À nos amis et féaux_; to our
trusty and well-beloved friends.
☉=féauté=, _n.f._, fealty.
=fébricitant=, =-e=, _n._ and _adj._, (med.) feverish; fever-patient.
=fébrifuge=, _n.m._ and _adj._, antifebrile.
=fébrile=, _adj._, febrile, feverish.
=fécal=, =-e=, _adj._, fecal. _Matière —_; feces, excrement.
=fèces=, _n.f.pl._, (pharm.) sediment; (med.) feces.
=fécial=, _n.m._ and _adj._, (Rom. antiq.) fecial.
=fécond=, =-e=, _adj._, fecund, fruitful, prolific; copious, abundant,
fertile, rich, teeming, voluminous. _Mine —e_; rich mine. _Avoir l’esprit
—_; to have a fertile imagination. _Être — en_; to teem with.
=fécondant=, =-e=, _adj._, fertilizing, genial.
=fécondation=, _n.f._, fecundation, impregnation; fructification;
fertilization.
=féconder=, _v.a._, to fecundate, to impregnate; to make fruitful, to
fertilize.
=fécondité=, _n.f._, fecundity, fruitfulness, fertility.
=fécule=, _n.f._, fecula.
=féculence=, _n.f._, feculency.
=féculent=, =-e=, _adj._, feculent.
=féculerie=, _n.f._, manufactory of fecula.
=fédéral=, =-e=, _adj._, federal.
=fédéraliser=, _v.a._, (neologism) to make federate. _Se —_, _v.r._, to
federalize.
=fédéralisme=, _n.m._, federalism.
=fédéraliste=, _n.m._, federalist.
=fédérati-f=, =-ve=, _adj._, federate, federative. _Alliance —ve_;
federative alliance.
=fédération=, _n.f._, federation, alliance.
=fédéré=, =-e=, _n._ and _adj._, federate, ally.
_se_ =fédérer=, _v.r._, to federate; to combine; to band together; to
take united action.
=fée=, _n.f._, fairy; fay. _Comme une —_; fairy-like. _C’est la —
Carabosse_; she’s an old hag.
=féerie=, _n.f._, fairy scene, enchantment; fairy-land.
=féerique=, _adj._, fairy-like; enchanting, wonderful, marvelous, magical.
=feindre= (feignant, feint), _v.a._, to feign, to dissemble, to disguise,
to pretend, to imagine, to sham. _— une maladie_; to sham illness.
=feindre=, _v.n._, to feign, to sham. _Il possède l’art de —_; he is an
adept in the art of dissembling.
=feint=, =-e=, _part._, feigned, make-believe, pretended, sham. _Amitié
—e_; pretended friendship.
=feinte=, _n.f._, feint; pretense, dissimulation; artifice; invention;
(mus.) accidental; (print.) friar; (pisc.) shad. _User de —_; to
dissemble. _Il fit une —_; (fenc.) he made a feint. _Sans —_; frankly.
=feintier=, _n.m._, shad-net.
☉=feintise=, _n.f._, feint, pretense, sham.
=feld-maréchal=, _n.m._, field-marshal.
=feldspath=, _n.m._, (min.) feldspar, feldspath.
=feldspathique=, _adj._, (min.) feldspathic.
=fêlé=, =-e=, _part._, cracked (of glass); (pers.) crack-brained;
delicate (of the chest). _C’est un cerveau —_; he is a hare-brained
fellow. _Les pots —s sont ceux qui durent le plus_; threatened men live
longest.
=fêler=, _v.a._, to crack (glass).
_se_ =fêler=, _v.r._, to crack _or_ get cracked (of glass).
=félicitation=, _n.f._, felicitation, congratulation. _Lettre de —_;
letter of congratulation.
=félicité=, _n.f._, felicity, bliss, happiness.
=féliciter=, _v.a._, to congratulate, to felicitate, to wish joy.
_se_ =féliciter=, _v.r._, to congratulate one’s self, to be pleased _or_
satisfied.
=félin=, =-e=, _adj._, feline.
=fellah=, _n.m._, (_—s_) fellah (Egyptian peasant).
=félon=, =-ne=, _n._ and _adj._, (l.u.) traitor; felon; felonious.
=félonie=, _n.f._, (feudalism) felony, disloyalty, treason.
=felouque=, _n.f._, (nav.) felucca (boat).
=fêlure=, _n.f._, crack, chink, fissure.
=femelle=, _n.f._ and _adj._, female; she, hen. [Applied _only_ to
animals except in a bad sense.] (pers.) loose woman, creature.
=féminin=, =-e=, _adj._, feminine, female, womanish, woman-like,
effeminate. _Genre —_; feminine gender. _Sexe —e_; female sex.
=féminin=, _n.m._, (gram.) feminine.
=féminiser=, _v.a._, (gram.) to make feminine, to render effeminate.
=femme= (famme), _n.f._, woman; wife, married woman, attendant; lady.
_Une — auteur_; an authoress. _Mari et —_; man and wife. _Une — sage_;
a well-conducted woman. _Une sage-—_; a midwife. _— de chambre_;
waiting-woman, lady’s maid. _— de charge_; housekeeper. _— de journée_,
_— de ménage_; char-woman. _— en puissance de mari_ or _— couverte_;
(jur.) feme-covert. _Avoir —_; to have a wife. _Avoir — et enfants_; to
have a wife and children. _Prendre —_; to take a wife. _Bonne —_; good,
obliging woman; old woman; simple, superstitious woman.
=femmelette= (fa-mlèt), _n.f._, silly, weak woman; effeminate man.
=fémoral=, =-e=, _adj._, (anat.) femoral.
=fémur=, _n.m._, (anat.) femur, thigh-bone; (vet.) hurl-bone. _Tête du
—_; head _or_ apophysis of the femur.
=fenaison=, _n.f._, hay-time, hay-harvest; hay-making.
=fendage=, _n.m._, splitting, cleaving.
=fendant=, _n.m._, hector, bully. _Faire le —_; to play the bully.
=fenderie= (fan-drî), _n.f._, slitting (of iron into rods); slitting-mill.
=fendeur=, _n.m._, cleaver, slitter, splitter. _— de roues_; wheel-cutter.
*_se_ fendiller, _v.r._, to slit; to chink; to crack.
=fendoir=, _n.m._, cleaver; chopper.
=fendre=, _v.a._, to cleave, to split, to rive, to crack, to cut open, to
rend, to rip; to break; to burst. _— du bois_; to cleave wood. _Un navire
qui fend l’eau_; a ship that plows the sea. _— les airs_; to cleave the
air. _— la presse_; to break through the crowd.
_se_ =fendre=, _v.r._, to cleave, to burst asunder, to split, to slit; to
chap, to chink, to rive, to gape; (fenc.) to lunge.
=fendre=, _v.n._, to be ready to split; to break, to burst. _La tête me
fend_; my head is ready to split.
=fendu=, =-e=, _part._, cleft, split, cloven. _Bien —_; long-legged. _Des
yeux bien —s_; large, well-shaped eyes.
=fêne=, _n.f._ _V._ =faîne=.
=fenestré=, =-e=, _adj._ _V._ =fenêtré=.
=fenêtrage=, _n.m._, fenestration, windows, lights.
=fenêtre=, _n.f._, window, casement; (anat.) aperture. _— à châssis_;
sash-window. _— en baie_, _en saillie_; bay, bow, window; (Gothic arch.)
oriel-window, oriel. _— à coulisse_, _en guillotine_; sash-window. _— en
éventail_; fan-light. _— en ogive_; (arch.) Gothic window. _Condamner une
—_; to block up a window. _Fausse —_; sham _or_ blind window. _Regarder
par la —_; to look out of the window. _Jeter par la —_; to throw out of
the window, to be a spendthrift, to squander one’s money.
=fenêtré=, =-e=, _adj._, windowed; fenestrated.
*=fenil=, _n.m._, hayloft.
*=fenouil=, _n.m._, fennel; fennel-seed. _— puant_; anet. _— de mer_;
sea-samphire. _— de porc_; sulphur-wort, hog’s-fennel.
*=fenouillet=, _n.m._, (bot.) fennel-apple.
*=fenouillette=, _n.f._, fennel-apple; fennel-water.
=fente=, _n.f._, slit, chink, cleft, chap, flaw; gap, cranny, crevice;
(min.) rent; cleavage; (nav.) spring; (dress) placket hole.
=fenton=, _n.m._, iron-cramp, iron-tie.
=fenugrec=, _n.m._, (bot.) fenugreek.
=féodal=, =-e=, _adj._, feudal.
=féodalement=, _adv._, feudally.
=féodalité=, _n.f._, feudality, feudalism.
=fer= (fèr), _n.m._, iron; head, point; sword, brand, steel; tag;
(nav.) spindle (of vanes). _pl._, iron-work; irons, chains, fetters.
_— battu_; wrought-iron. _— fondu_; cast-iron. _— impur_; iron-ore. _—
doux_; soft iron. _— aigre_; brittle iron. _— laminé_; rolled iron. _—
oligiste_, _spéculaire_; (min.) iron-glance. _— rouverin_; red-scar iron.
_— de carillon_; bar-iron. _Le — d’une pique_; the head of a pike. _—
de lacet_, _— d’aiguillette_; tag of a lace. _Le — et le feu_; fire
and sword. _— en barres_; bar-iron. _— à cheval_; horse-shoe; (fort.)
horse-shoe; (man.) horse-shoe bat. _— à marquer_; marking-iron. _— dur_;
hard iron. _— à cheval cramponné_, _— à cheval relevé_; horse-shoe
with calkins. _— de fenderie_; slit iron. _— de fonte_; cast iron. _—
à glace_; frost shoe. _— de lance_; (arch.) stanchion. _— à repasser_;
iron, box-iron, flat-iron. _— à souder_; soldering-iron. _Bande_,
_pièce_, _de —_; (tech.) strap. _Bois de —_; iron-wood. _Fil de —_; wire,
iron-wire. _Fonte de —_; cast iron. _Limaille de —_; iron dust, iron
filings. _Marchand de —_; dealer in iron, ironmonger. _Mine de —_;
(min.) iron-ore. _Minerai de —_; iron-ore; iron-stone. _Ouvrage en —_;
iron-work. _Scorie de —_; iron-dross. _Usine de —_; iron-works. _À tête
de —_; strong-headed, resolute, determined. _— d’arc-boutant_; (nav.)
goose-neck of a boom. _— de gaffe_; (nav.) boat-hook. _— à calfat_,
_— de calfat_; calker’s iron, calking-iron. _Petits —s_; punches
(book-bind.). _Avoir toujours quelque — qui cloche_; to have always some
screw loose. _Il y a quelque — qui cloche_; there’s a hitch somewhere.
_Battre le —_; to fence, to tilt. _Battre le — pendant qu’il est chaud_;
to strike the iron while it is hot, to make hay while the sun shines.
_Être aux —s_, _être dans les —s_; to be fettered, bound, to be in
chains; to be in prison, in captivity. _Être condamné à cinq ans de —s_;
(milit.) to be condemned to five years’ imprisonment. _Employer le — et
le feu_; to use the knife and cautery; to employ violent means. _Être
un corps de —_; to be made of iron. _Mettre les —s au feu_; to put the
irons into the fire, to fall to work. _Porter le — et la flamme dans_; to
ravage with fire and sword. _Tomber les quatre —s en l’air_; to fall upon
one’s back, to be struck all of a heap. _Ne tenir ni à — ni à clou_; to
be badly fastened, badly arranged. _Cela ne vaut pas les quatre —s d’un
chien_; that is not worth a fig, a straw, a rap. _Cet enfant userait du
—_; that child would wear out nails. _Être sur le —_; (nav.) to be at
anchor. _Notre navire était depuis trois jours sur le —_; our ship had
been lying at anchor for three days.
=fer= (cheptel de), _n.m._ _V._ =cheptel=.
=fer-blanc=, _n.m._, (_—s-—s_) tin, tin-plate, latten.
=ferblanterie=, _n.f._, tin-ware.
=ferblantier= (-tié), _n.m._, tinman.
=fer-chaud=, _n.m._, (_n.p._) (med.) cardialgia, heartburn, pyrosis.
=féret=, _n.m._, (min.) hematite.
=férial=, =-e=, _adj._, (ecc.) ferial (of the days).
=férie=, _n.f._, day of rest, holiday; (antiq.) (_pl._) feriæ; (ecc.)
feria.
=férié=, =-e=, _adj._, of holidays. _Jour —_; holiday, general holiday.
☉=férir=, _v.a._, to strike. _Sans coup —_; without striking a blow [only
_now_ used in this expression].
=ferlage=, _n.m._, (nav.) furling.
=ferler=, _v.a._, (nav.) to furl.
=fermage=, _n.m._, rent (of a farm); farming, leasing; rent; (jur.)
rent-charge. _Refus de payer le —_; denial of rent.
=fermant=, =-e=, _adj._, closing (with lock and key).
=ferme=, _n.f._, farm, farm-house, homestead; farming; letting out on
lease. _— école_; agricultural college; (carp.) trussed girder; main
couple; truss; (carp.) rib (of centerings, roofs); (thea.) set-piece. _—
triangulaire_; (carp.) truss. _Emplacement de —_; farmstead. _Régisseur
de —_; farm-bailiff. _Maîtresses —s_; (carp.) principal rafters bearing
on the girders. _—s de remplage_; (carp.) middle rafters. _Prendre à —_;
to farm. _Donner_, _bailler_, _à —_; to let, to farm, to farm out.
_Monter une —_; to stock a farm. _Bail à —_; lease of ground.
=ferme=, _adj._, firm, steady, fast; fixed, steadfast; strong, stout;
stiff; unshaken, constant, resolute. _Être — à cheval_; to sit firm in
the saddle. _D’un ton —_; in a decided tone. _Avoir le poignet —_; to
have a strong wrist.
=ferme=, _adv._, firmly, fast, hard. _Frapper —_; to strike hard. _Tenir
—_; to hold fast.
=ferme!= _int._, cheer up! courage! go it!
=fermement=, _adv._, firmly, steadily, fixedly, steadfastly, strongly,
stoutly.
=ferment=, _n.m._, ferment; leaven; yeast.
=fermentable=, _adj._, fermentable.
=fermentati-f=, =-ve=, _adj._, fermentative.
=fermentation=, _n.f._, fermentation, working; (fig.) ferment.
=fermenter=, _v.a._, to ferment, to rise, to work. _La pâte fermente_;
the dough is rising.
=fermentescible=, _adj._, fermentable.
=fermer=, _v.a._, to shut, to shut up, to fasten, to close, to close
up; to encompass; to inclose. _— la porte au nez de quelqu’un_; to shut
the door in any one’s face. _— la porte à clef_; to lock the door. _— la
porte à double tour_; to double-lock the door. _— la porte au verrou_; to
bolt the door. _— un robinet_; to stop a cock. _— la marche_; to bring up
the rear. _— de haies_; to hedge in. _— de palissades_; to rail in, fence
in. _— de murs_; to wall in. _— les yeux sur quelque chose_; to wink at
anything. _— les yeux à la lumière_; to shut one’s eyes to the truth. _—
l’oreille aux médisances_; to ignore slander. _— la bouche à quelqu’un_;
to stop any one’s mouth. _— boutique_; to shut up shop. _— les yeux à_
or _de quelqu’un_; to close the eyes of any one (in death). _— l’écurie
quand les chevaux sont partis_; (prov.) to shut the stable when the steed
is out.
_se_ =fermer=, _v.r._, to shut, to shut up, to close, to be closed, to be
inclosed, to be encompassed. _Cette plaie se fermera bientôt_; that wound
will soon close up.
=fermer=, _v.n._, to shut, to be shut.
=fermeté=, _n.f._, firmness; constancy, steadiness, stability; vigor,
resolution.
=fermeture=, _n.f._, closing, shutting; (carp., locksmith) fastening. _À
la — des chambres_; at the end of the session (parliament).
=fermeur=, _n.m._, (anat.) closer.
=fermier=, _n.m._, husbandman, farmer; tenant. _— général_;
farmer-general (of revenues). _— à bail_; tenant-farmer.
=fermière=, _n.f._, farmer’s wife.
=fermoir=, _n.m._, clasp, snap.
=fermure=, _n.f._ _V._ =fermeture= (nav.).
=féroce=, _adj._, ferocious, fierce, savage. _Bête —_; wild beast.
=férocement=, _adv._, ferociously.
=férocité=, _n.f._, ferocity, fierceness.
*=ferraille=, _n.f._, old iron, scrap iron.
*=ferrailler=, _v.n._, to forge, to hammer; to dabble in fencing; to
fence badly; (b.s.) to fight (with swords); to wrangle.
*=ferrailleur=, _n.m._, dealer in old iron; fighter (with a sword);
wrangler.
=ferrandinier=, _n.m._, silk-weaver.
=ferrant=, _adj._ _Maréchal —_; farrier; shoe-smith.
=ferré=, =-e=, _part._, shod; metaled; stoned; ferruginous; chalybeate
(of water); skilled, versed in, thoroughly up in. _Chemin —_; metaled
road. _Eau —e_; chalybeate water. _— à glace_; rough-shod; skilled in.
_Voie —e_; railroad.
=ferrement= (fèr-mān), _n.m._, iron tool; ironing; putting the irons on
(convicts). _pl._, iron-work, iron fitting.
=ferrer=, _v.a._, to bind, to hoop, with iron. _— une canne_; to put a
ferrule on, to tip, a cane. _— un lacet_; to tag a lace. _— un cheval_;
to shoe a horse. _— à glace_; to rough-shoe.
=ferret=, _n.m._, tag (of a lace). _Je ne voudrais pas en donner un —
d’aiguillette_; I would not give a fig, a rush, for it.
=ferreur=, _n.m._, tagger (of laces).
=ferrière=, _n.f._, tool-bag (of farriers).
=ferrifère=, _adj._, ferriferous.
=ferron=, _n.m._, dealer in bar-iron.
=ferronnerie= (fé-ro-n-ri), _n.f._, iron-store; iron-foundry; ironmongery.
=ferronni-er=, _n.m._, =-ère=, _n.f._, ironmonger.
=ferronnière=, _n.f._, coronet; lady’s head-dress.
=ferrugineux=, _n.m._, (pharm.) iron, steel.
=ferrugineu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, ferruginous. _Eau —se_; chalybeate water.
=ferrure=, _n.f._, iron-work; iron binding; shoeing (animal); pelt,
pelting (of boots).
=fertile=, _adj._, fertile, fruitful, teeming.
=fertilement= (-til-mān), _adv._, fertilely, abundantly, fruitfully,
plenteously.
=fertilisable=, _adj._, that can be fertilized.
=fertilisant=, =-e=, _adj._, fertilizing.
=fertilisation=, _n.f._, fertilization.
=fertiliser=, _v.a._, to fertilize, to manure.
=fertilité=, _n.f._, fertility, fruitfulness.
=féru=, =-e=, _part._, smitten; stung to the quick.
=férule=, _n.f._, ferule, rod; stroke, cut; (bot.) ferula, giant-fennel.
=fervemment= (-va-mān), _adv._, fervently.
=fervent=, =-e=, _adj._, fervent.
=ferveur=, _n.f._, fervor, fervency.
=fescennin=, =-e=, _adj._, (antiq.) Fescennine.
=fesse=, _n.f._, buttock, breech, rump, bottom. _—s_; rump, bottom;
(nav.) tuck.
=fesse-cahier=, _n.m._, (_—_ or _—-—s_) quill driver; literary hack.
=fessée=, _n.f._, whipping, flogging.
=fesse-mathieu=, _n.m._, (_—-—x_) miser, old hunks, skinflint,
close-fist, pinch-fist.
=fesser=, _v.a._, to whip; to flog, to spank. _— le cahier_; to drive the
quill, to be a literary hack.
=fesseu-r=, _n.m._, =-se=, _n.f._, whipper, flogger.
=fessier=, _n.m._, breech, bottom; (anat.) gluteal.
=fessi-er=, =-ère=, _adj._, (anat.) gluteal.
=fessu=, =-e=, _adj._, (pop.) large-breeched.
=festin=, _n.m._, feast, banquet, entertainment. _Faire —_, _faire un —_;
to feast, to banquet. _Salle de —_; banqueting hall. _Pour tout —_; as
only fare.
=festiner=, _v.a._, (jest.) to feast, to entertain.
=festiner=, _v.n._, (jest.) to banquet, to feast, to make merry.
=festival=, _n.m._, festival (musical).
=feston=, _n.m._, festoon; scallop.
=festonner=, _v.a._, to festoon; to scallop.
=festoyer=, _v.a._, to entertain; to feast.
=fête=, _n.f._, holiday, festival; saint’s day; festivity; feast,
merry-making. _— carillonnée_; high jinks; great holiday. _— patronale_;
patron saint’s day. _Jour de sa —_; one’s saint’s day; one’s birthday.
_Un jour de —_; a holiday. _—s mobiles_; moveable feasts. _— légale_;
bank holiday. _Troubler la —_; to mar the pleasure (of the company).
_Trouble —_; mar- _or_ kill-joy, wet blanket. _Faire — à quelqu’un_; to
make any one welcome. _Se faire de —_; to intermeddle. _Se faire une —
de_, _se faire — de_; to look forward with pleasure to. _Payer sa —_; to
keep one’s birthday _or_ saint’s day. _Ce n’est pas tous les jours —_;
Christmas comes but once a year.
=fête-dieu=, _n.f._, (_n.p._) Corpus Christi.
=fêter=, _v.a._, to keep holiday, to keep, to celebrate, to observe, as a
holiday; to entertain, to feast. _— quelqu’un_; to receive any one with
open arms; to make any one very welcome. _C’est un saint qu’on ne fête
pas_; he is a person without credit _or_ authority.
=fetfa=, _n.m._, fetwah (decision of a mufti).
=fétiche=, _n.m._, fetich.
=fétichisme=, _n.m._, feticism, fetichism.
=fétide=, _adj._, fetid, rank, offensive.
=fétidité=, _n.f._, fetidness, offensiveness.
=fêtoyer=, _v.a._ _V._ =festoyer=.
=fétu=, _n.m._, straw, wisp; (fig.) pin; rap. _Tirer au court —_; to draw
lots, to draw cuts. _Cela ne vaut pas un —_; that is not worth a fig _or_
rap. _Un cogne-—_; a fussy person.
=fétu-en-cul=, _n.m._, (_—_). _V._ =paille-en-queue=.
=fétus=, _n.m._ _V._ =fœtus=.
=feu=, _n.m._, fire, burning, conflagration, combustion; fire-place;
chimney; set of fire-irons; family, household, house; light,
signal-light, torch-light; brunt (of fire-arms); brilliancy, luster;
heat, ardor, flame, passion; vivacity, spirit; animation, mettle;
liveliness, sprightliness; (feudalism) hearth; (milit.) firing; (vet.)
fire; (theat.) extra pay. _— follet_; ignis fatuus, Jack-o’-lantern,
will-o’-the-wisp. _— grisou_; fire-damp. _— de joie_; bonfire. _Mettre
le — à une chose_; to set a thing on fire. _Prendre l’air du —_; to warm
one’s self. _Se tenir au coin du —_; to keep in the chimney-corner.
_Mettre le pot au —_; to set the dinner going. _Couleur de —_;
flame-color. _— grégeois_; Greek fire. _— Saint-Elme_; corposant, Castor
and Pollux. _— Saint-Antoine_; St. Anthony’s fire. _Il n’a jamais vu le
—_; he has never smelt gunpowder. _Mettre tout à — et à sang_; to put
everything to fire and sword. _Brûler un homme à petit —_; to kill a man
by inches. _C’est le — et l’eau_; they are as opposite as fire and water.
_J’en mettrais ma main au —_; I would stake my life upon it. _Il n’y a
point de — sans fumée_; there is no smoke without fire. _Se jeter dans
le — pour éviter la fumée_; to jump from the frying-pan into the fire.
_Il y a tant de —x dans ce village_; there are so many chimneys, so many
families, in this village. _Garniture de —_; set of fire-irons. _N’avoir
ni — ni lieu_; to have neither house nor home. _Le — dont il brûle_; the
flame that consumes him. _Ce vin a trop de —_; that wine is too fiery.
_Il prend — aisément_; he takes fire easily. _Il jette — et flamme_; he
frets and fumes. _Il a jeté tout son —_; he has spent all his fire. _—
bien nourri_, _— bien servi_; (milit.) galling, well-sustained fire. _—
rasant_; (milit.) flank fire. _— coulant_; (milit.) running-fire. _Triste
—_, _— triste_; dull fire. _— vif_; (milit.) brisk fire. _— d’artifice_;
fireworks. _—x de Bengale_; blue-lights. _— de cheminée_; chimney on
fire. _— d’enfer_; scorching, scathing fire. _Boîte à —_; coal-box
(locomotive). _Bouche à —_; piece of ordnance. _Coffre à —_; (nav.)
fire-chest. _Coup de —_; shot; shot-wound. _Fer à donner le —_, _fer à
mettre le —_; cauterizing iron. _Lance à —_; match. _À l’épreuve du —_;
fire-proof. _Sous le — de_; upon the spur of. _Activer le —_; to stir
the fire. _Attiser le —_; to poke the fire. _Cesser le —_; (milit.) to
leave off firing _or_ to cease fire. _Condamner au —_; to condemn to the
stake. _Crier au —_; to cry fire! _Donner le — à_; (vet.) to sear. _Faire
—_; (milit.) to fire. _Faire du —_; to make a fire. _Courir comme au —_;
to run after eagerly. _Faire — qui dure_; to husband one’s property; to
take care of one’s health. _Faux —_; flash in the pan. _Faire faux —_;
to miss fire, to flash in the pan. _Faire long —_; to hang fire; to be
protracted; to miscarry. _Faire — des quatre pieds_; to strain every
nerve. _Jeter ses premiers —x_; to sow one’s wild oats. _Jeter de l’huile
sur le —_; to add fuel to the flame. _Se jeter dans le — pour quelqu’un_,
_se mettre au — pour quelqu’un_; to go through fire and water for any
one. _Jouer avec le —_; to play with edged tools. _Mettre le — au four_;
to heat the oven. _Mettre le — sous le ventre à quelqu’un_; to urge any
one to do a thing. _Donner le — trop chaud_, _trop ardent_, _à la viande_;
to roast meat before too fierce a fire. _Montrer une chose au —_; to dry
anything by the fire; to warm anything through by the fire. _Soutenir le
—_; (milit.) to stand fire. _Soutenir un —_; (milit.) to keep up a fire.
_Ne voir que du — à quelque chose_; to be dazzled by anything, not to
make it out. _Le — a pris à la maison_; the house has caught fire. _Le
— lui sort par les yeux_; his eyes flash fire. Feu! (milit.) fire! _Il
n’est — que de bois vert_; none are so active as the young. _Il ne faut
pas jouer avec le —_; one should not play with edged tools.
=feu=, =-e=, _adj._, late, the late deceased, defunct. _Le — roi_; the
late king. _La —e reine_, _— la reine_; the late queen. _— les princes_,
_les —s princes_; the late princes.
=feudataire=, _n.m.f._, _adj._, feudatory.
=feudiste=, _n.m._ and _adj._, feodist.
*=feuillage=, _n.m._, foliage, leaves, leafage; (bot.) frond;
frondescence.
*=feuillaison=, _n.f._, (bot.) foliation.
*=feuillant=, _n.m._, feuillant, monk.
*=feuillantine=, _n.f._, feuillantine (nun); (cook.) a kind of
puff-paste.
=feuillard=, _n.m._, hoop-wood.
*=feuille=, _n.f._, leaf; sheet (of paper, metal); paper, newspaper,
journal; foil (of mirrors); way-bill (of public coaches, etc.); list;
veneer (cabinet-making). _pl._, (arch.) foils; foliation; feathering.
_L’aisselle d’une —_; the axil of a leaf. _Trembler comme la —_; to
shake like an aspen-leaf. _Vin de deux —s_; wine two years old. _— de
papier_; sheet of paper. _— volante_; loose sheet; flying sheet. _— de
décharge_, _— de rebut_; (print.) waste-sheet. _— à plaquer_; veneer. _—
morte_; sere leaf. _— hebdomadaire_; weekly paper. _— quotidienne_; daily
newspaper. _— de route_; way-bill; (milit.) route of the road.
*=feuillé=, =-e=, _adj._, (her.) leafy; (bot.) foliate.
*=feuillé=, _n.m._, (paint.) foliage, leafage.
*=feuillée=, _n.f._, bower, green arbor, foliage.
*=feuille-morte=, _n.m._, feuillemort.
*=feuille-morte=, _adj. invariable_, feuillemort (of a yellow brown
color).
*=feuiller=, _v.n._, to come into leaf; (paint.) to paint the foliage of
a picture.
*=feuilleret=, _n.m._, fillister, fillister-plane.
*=feuillet=, _n.m._, leaf (two pages of a book); (com.) folio; (mam.)
fech; (min.) thin plate; (bot.) gill, gills. _— à poing_; hand-saw.
_Tournez le —_; turn over the leaf. _— refait_; (print.) cancel. _Faire
une corne à un —_; to turn down a leaf.
*=feuilletage= (feu-î-taj), _n.m._, puff-paste, flaky paste.
*=feuilleté=, =-e=, _part._, (min.) foliated. _Gâteau —_; flaky-puff;
buttered-roll.
*=feuilleter= (feu-i-té), _v.a._, to turn over, to peruse, to run over;
to thumb.
*_se_ =feuilleter=, _v.r._, (min.) to split into thin plates; to be
thumbed (of books).
*=feuilletis=, _n.m._, the cutting edge (of diamonds).
*=feuilleton= (feu-i-ton), _n.m._, feuilleton (the bottom part of
journals devoted to literary articles, critiques, etc.); fly-sheet;
(parl.) list (of petitions).
*=feuilletoniste=, _n.m.f._, writer of feuilletons.
*=feuillette=, _n.f._, quarter-cask.
*=feuillu=, =-e=, _adj._, leafy; (bot.) folious.
*=feuillure=, _n.f._, (carp.) cheek (of a door), rabbet.
=feurre=, _n.m._, straw (for chair bottoms).
=feutier=, _n.m._, fire-attendant.
=feutrabilité=, _n.f._, felting quality.
=feutrage=, _n.m._, felting.
=feutre=, _n.m._, felt; hat; tile; (saddlery) packing.
=feutrer=, _v.a._, to felt; to pad; to pack.
=feutrier=, _n.m._, felt-maker.
=feutrière=, _n.f._, felt-cloth.
=fève=, _n.f._, bean; broad bean; berry; chrysalis (of silk-worms);
(vet.) lampas. _—s de haricot_; kidney-beans. _—s de marais_; broad
beans. _— de Tonka_; Tonquin bean. _Roi de la —_; twelfth-night king.
_Rendre — pour pois_; to give tit for tat. _Donner un pois pour avoir une
—_; to give a sprat to catch a herring. _Trouver la — au gâteau_; to hit
the mark; to make a lucky discovery.
=féverole= (fèv-rol), _n.f._, horse-bean; dried kidney-bean; bean.
=févier=, _n.m._, (bot.) three-horned acacia, honey-locust, etc., genus
gleditchia.
=février=, _n.m._, February.
=fez=, _n.m._, (_—_) fez (worn by Turks).
=fi!= _int._, fie! fie. _— donc_; fie! for shame. _Faire — d’une chose_;
to turn up one’s nose at anything.
=fiacre=, _n.m._, hackney-coach; cab. _Place de —s_; cab-stand. _Cocher
de —_; cabman.
*=fiançailles=, _n.f.pl._, betrothal, engagement.
=fiancé=, _n.m._, =-e=, _n.f._, betrothed.
=fiancer=, _v.a._, to betroth, to affiance. _Se —_; to become engaged.
=fibre=, _n.f._, fiber, filament; (fig.) feeling.
=fibreu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, fibrous, fibrose; stringy.
*=fibrille=, _n.f._, (anat.) fibril.
*=fibrilleu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, fibrillous.
=fibrine=, _n.f._, (chem.) fibrine.
=fic=, _n.m._, (med.) ficus; tumor.