=méat=, _n.m._, (anat.) meatus, duct, passage.
=mécanicien= (-in), _n.m._, mechanician; machinist, mechanic;
engine-maker; engine-man; engine-driver. _Ingénieur —_; mechanical
engineer. _Serruries —_; manufacturing locksmith.
=mécanique=, _n.f._, mechanics; mechanism; machine, machinery, piece of
machinery; brake. _Serrer la —_; to put on the brake.
=mécanique=, _adj._, mechanic, mechanical, machine-made.
=mécaniquement= (-ni-kmān), _adv._, mechanically.
=mécaniser=, _v.a._, to use as a machine; (pop.) to tease, to plague. _—
les hommes_; to use men as mere machines.
=mécanisme=, _n.m._, mechanism, machinery; structure; mechanical parts.
=mécène=, _n.m._, Mæcenas (a protector of science, art, and literature).
=méchamment= (mé-sha-mān), _adv._, wickedly, spitefully, maliciously,
ill-naturedly.
=méchanceté= (mé-shans-té), _n.f._, wickedness, spitefulness,
mischievousness; crossness, naughtiness, ill-nature; ill-natured thing,
ill-natured remark, reflection, slander.
=méchant=, =-e=, _adj._, bad, wretched, worthless; wicked, dishonest;
sorry, paltry; wicked, ill-natured, mischievous, malicious; wayward,
naughty, unkind; (of a horse) vicious. _— homme_; wicked man. _Il a la
mine —e_; he has an ill-natured look. _Un — poète_; a sorry, wretched
poet.
=méchant=, _n.m._, =-e=, _n.f._, wicked person; evil doer, reprobate;
naughty child. _Faire le —_; to be fractious (of a child).
=mèche=, _n.f._, wick (of a lamp _or_ candle); tinder; match; screw,
bit, auger; worm (of cork-screws, wimbles); (surg.) tent; center-bit;
whip-lash, lock (of hair). _— anglaise_; center-bit. _Découvrir_,
_éventer_, _la —_; (milit.) to discover the enemy’s match by means of a
countermine; to find out the secret of a plot. _— de cheveux_; lock of
hair. _Il n’y a pas —_; it’s no go; it can’t be done. _S’il y a —_; if it
can be managed.
☉=méchef=, _n.m._, mischief, mischance; harm.
=mécher=, _v.a._, to fumigate with brimstone, to sulphur.
=mécompte= (mé-kont), _n.m._, miscalculation; mistake, error;
disappointment, drawback. _Il a trouvé bien du —_; he has experienced
great disappointment.
=mécompter=, _v.n._, to strike wrong (of clocks).
_se_ =mécompter= (mé-kon-tè), _v.r._, to miscalculate; to be
disappointed; to be out in one’s reckoning. _Il s’est mécompté dans son
raisonnement_; he is out in his reasoning.
=méconium= (-om) _n.m._, (med.) meconium.
=méconnaissable=, _adj._, not to be recognized; unrecognizable.
=méconnaissance=, _n.f._, unthankfulness, ungratefulness, ingratitude.
=méconnaissant=, =-e=, _adj._, thankless, ungrateful, unmindful.
=méconnaître=, _v.a._, not to know again, not to recognize; to disown,
to disregard, not to know; to ignore, to slight, not to appreciate. _Il
méconnaît ses parents_; he disowns his relations.
_se_ =méconnaître=, _v.r._, to forget one’s self.
=méconnu=, =-e=, _part._, unacknowledged; unrecognized; ignored,
disowned, disregarded.
=mécontent=, =-e=, _adj._, dissatisfied, displeased, discontented. _Il
est — de vous_; he is displeased with you. _Vous êtes — de tout_; you are
discontented with everything.
=mécontent=, _n.m._, =-e=, _n.f._, dissatisfied person; malcontent.
_C’est un —_; he is a discontented man.
=mécontentement= (-tan-tmān), _n.m._, discontent, discontentedness,
dissatisfaction, displeasure. _Donner du — à_; to displease.
=mécontenter=, _v.a._, to discontent, to dissatisfy, to displease.
=mécréance=, _n.f._, infidelity, unbelief, irreligion.
=mécréant=, _n.m._, unbeliever, infidel.
=mécroire=, _v.n._, to disbelieve.
=médaille=, _n.f._, medal; (arch.) medallion; (of porters) badge, ticket;
license. _— d’honneur_; prize-medal. _Chaque — a son revers_; everything
has its bright and its dark side. _Le revers de la —_; the dark side of
the picture. _Tourner la —_; to turn the tables. _La — est renversée_;
the tables are turned.
*=médaillé=, =-e=, _n.m.f._ and _adj._, with a medal as a reward; (of
porters) licensed. _n._, medalist, prize-winner.
=médailleur=, _n.m._, die-sinker.
*=médaillier=, _n.m._, cabinet of medals.
*=médailliste=, _n.m.f._, medalist.
*=médaillon=, _n.m._, medallion; locket.
=médecin= (mé-dsin), _n.m._, physician, doctor. _Faire venir le —_; to
send for the doctor. _Il est abandonné des —s_; the doctors have given
him up. _Docteur médecin_; doctor of medicine. _Un — d’eau douce_; a
water-gruel doctor. _— chirurgien_; general practitioner. _— empirique_;
quack doctor. _Le temps est un grand —_; time cures all ills _or_ time is
the great healer.
=médecine= (mé-dsi-n), _n.f._, medicine, physic. _Etudiant en —_; medical
student. _— légale_; forensic medicine. _— noire_; black draught.
=médeciner= (mé-dsi-né), _v.a._, to physic, to doctor.
_se_ =médeciner=, _v.r._, to physic, to doctor one’s self.
=médial=, =-e=, _adj._, (gram.) medial.
=médian=, =-e=, _adj._, (anat.) mesial, middle.
=médianoche=, _n.m._, meat-supper (after midnight).
=médiante=, _n.f._, (mus.) mediant.
=médiastin=, _n.m._, (anat.) mediastine.
=médiat=, =-e=, _adj._, mediate.
=médiatement= (mé-dia-tmān), _adv._, mediately.
=médiat-eur=, _n.m._, =-rice=, _n.f._, mediator, mediatrix. _adj._,
mediatory.
=médiation=, _n.f._, mediation.
=médiatisation=, _n.f._, mediatization.
=médiatiser=, _v.a._, to mediatize.
=médical=, =-e=, _adj._, medical. _Matière —e_; materia medica.
=médicament=, _n.m._, medicament.
=médicamentaire=, _adj._, concerning medicines.
=médicamentation=, _n.f._, doctoring, physicking.
=médicamenter=, _v.a._, to physic, to doctor.
_se_ =médicamenter=, _v.r._, to physic, to doctor one’s self.
=médicamenteu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, medicamental.
=médication=, _n.f._, medication.
=médicinal=, =-e=, _adj._, medicinal.
=médimne=, _n.m._, (antiq.) medimnus.
=médiocre=, _adj._, mediocre, middling, ordinary, moderate, passable,
indifferent.
=médiocre=, _n.m._, mediocrity.
=médiocrement=, _adv._, middlingly, indifferently, tolerably; poorly,
hardly, barely.
=médiocrité=, _n.f._, mediocrity; moderate competence, moderate fortune,
very ordinary performance.
=médique=, _adj._, Median.
=médionner=, _v.a._, to average; to take the average.
=médire=, _v.n._, to slander, to speak ill of, to backbite, to traduce.
_— de son prochain_; to speak ill of one’s neighbor.
=médisance=, _n.f._, slander, scandal, backbiting; piece of slander.
=médisant=, =-e=, _adj._ and _n._, slanderous, scandalous; slanderer. _Il
ne faut pas croire les —s_; slanderers are not to be believed.
=méditati-f=, =-ve=, _adj._ and _n._, meditative; meditative person.
=méditation=, _n.f._, meditation, thought.
=méditer=, _v.a._, to meditate, to think over, to consider, to reflect;
to contemplate, to plan. _— la ruine de quelqu’un_; to plot any one’s
ruin.
=méditer=, _v.n._, to contemplate. _Passer sa vie à —_; to spend one’s
life in meditation.
=méditerrané=, =-e=, _adj._, mediterranean, midland, inland. _La mer —e_;
the Mediterranean Sea.
=méditerranéen=, =-ne=, _adj._, mediterranean.
=médium= (-om), _n.m._, (_—s_) medium; middle.
=médius=, _n.m._, middle-finger.
=médullaire= (mé-dul-ler), _adj._, medullary, medullar; (bot.) pithy.
=méduse=, _n.f._, (zoöl.) medusa, sea-nettle, jellyfish.
=meeting=, _n.m._, (_—s_) meeting.
=méfaire=, _v.n._, to do evil, to do harm, wrong.
=méfait=, _n.m._, misdeed; crime.
=méfiance=, _n.f._, mistrust, distrust, suspicion, caution. _La — est
mère de la sûreté_; safe bind, safe find.
=méfiant=, =-e=, _adj._, mistrustful, distrustful, suspicious; cautious.
_se_ =méfier= (=de=), _v.r._, to mistrust, to distrust, to suspect; to
beware, to mind; to be on one’s guard (against).
=mégalosaure= _or_ =mégalosaurus=, _n.m._, (foss.) megalosaurus.
=mégapode=, _n.m._, jungle-fowl.
=mégarde=, _n.f._, inadvertence. _Par —_; inadvertently.
=mégathérium=, _n.m._, (_—s_) (foss.) megatherium.
=mégère=, _n.f._, (myth.) Megæra; shrew, vixen, termagant.
=mégie=, _n.f._, tawing, leather-dressing.
=mégisser=, _v.a._, to taw.
=mégisserie= (mé-gi-srî), _n.f._, tawing, leather-dressing.
=mégissier=, _n.m._, tawer, leather-dresser.
*=meilleur=, =-e=, _adj._, better, preferable, more comfortable, best.
_Le —_; the best.
*=meilleur=, _n.m._, best; best wine. _Le — du conte_ or _de l’histoire_;
the best of the story. _Le — n’en vaut rien_; the bad is the best.
=meistre= _or_ =mestre=, _n.m._, (nav.) mast, main mast. _Mât de —_; main
mast (of ships with lateen sails).
=méjuger=, _v.a._, to misjudge.
_se_ =méjuger=, _v.r._, to overreach one’s self.
=mélampyre=, _n.m._, (bot.) cow-wheat.
=mélancolie=, _n.f._, melancholy, sadness, melancholia. _Chasser la —_;
to drive away the spleen. _Il n’engendre point la —_; he is a merry
fellow.
=mélancolique=, _adj._, melancholy, dismal, gloomy; sad, dull; stern.
_Séjour —_; dismal abode.
=mélancoliquement= (-lik-mān), _adv._, sadly, gloomily, sorrowfully,
mournfully.
=mélange=, _n.m._, mixture, mingling, crossing; medley; mash (for
brewing). _pl._, miscellaneous works, miscellanea. _Un bonheur sans —_;
unalloyed happiness. _Sans —_; unmixed, unblended; (fig.) pure, unalloyed.
=mélanger=, _v.a._, to mix, to mingle, to blend; to cross; to mash, to
intermix, to dash.
_se_ =mélanger=, _v.r._, to mix, to mingle, to blend, to temper; to be
mashed.
=mélasse=, _n.f._, molasses, treacle.
=mêlé=, =-e=, _part._, mixed; miscellaneous; medley (of verses);
irregular; (of rhymes) mixed.
=mêlée=, _n.f._, conflict; fray, fight, scramble, squabble; thick of the
fight; altercation, dispute, clash.
=mêler=, _v.a._, to mingle, to mix, to mix up; to blend; to intersperse,
to temper; to put in; to jumble; to bring in, to implicate, to involve;
to shuffle (cards); to entangle. _— du fil_; to entangle thread. _— les
cartes_; to shuffle the cards. _— une serrure_; to force a lock. _Il est
mêlé dans une mauvaise affaire_; he is mixed up in a bad business.
_se_ =mêler=, _v.r._, to mingle, to be mingled, to be mixed; to tamper;
to blend; to trouble one’s self about; to intermeddle; to interfere
(with, in); to take upon one’s self, to presume; to take part in; to
dabble in; to set one’s self to do; to engage in. _Se — dans la foule_;
to mingle with the crowd. _Se — de_; to meddle with, to intermeddle.
_Mêlez-vous de vos affaires_; mind your own business. _De quoi vous
mêlez-vous?_ what business is that of yours? _Se — ensemble_; to
commingle.
=mélèze=, _n.m._, (bot.) larch, larch-tree.
=mélianthe=, _n.m._, (bot.) honey-flower.
=mélilot=, _n.m._, (bot.) melilot, sweet-trefoil.
=méli-mélo=, _n.m._, (_—_) (fam.) medley, jumble.
=mélinet=, _n.m._, (bot.) honeywort.
=mélique=, _n.f._, _adj._, (bot.) melic grass. _Poésie —_; melic poetry.
=mélisse=, _n.f._, (bot.) balm-mint, garden-balm. _Eau de —_ or _eau des
Carmes_; melissa water.
=mellifère=, _adj._, melliferous.
=mellifères=, _n.m.pl._, melliferous insects.
=mellification=, _n.f._, mellification.
=melliflu=, =-e=, _adj._, mellifluous, honeyed, sweet.
=meillifluité=, _n.f._, mellifluence.
=mellithe=, _n.f._, honey-stone, mellite.
=mélodie=, _n.f._, melody, melodiousness, sweetness, harmony.
=mélodieusement= (-eûz-mān), _adv._, melodiously, musically, sweetly.
=mélodieu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, melodious, musical, tuneful.
=mélodique=, _adj._, (mus.) melodious.
=mélodramatique=, _adj._, melodramatic.
=mélodramaturge=, _n.m._, melodramatist.
=mélodrame=, _n.m._, melodrama.
=mélomane=, _n.m._, melomaniac, person music-mad.
=mélomanie=, _n.f._, melomania.
=melon=, _n.m._, melon; (fig.) jockey-cap, hunting-cap; (of persons)
simpleton, muff, flat. _— musqué_; musk-melon. _— d’eau_; watermelon.
=meloné=, =-e=, _adj._, melon-shaped.
=melongène= _or_ =mélongène=, _n.f._, mad-apple, egg-plant.
=melonnière=, _n.f._, melon-pit; melon-bed.
=mélopée=, _n.f._, (mus.) melopœia.
=méloplaste=, _n.m._, (mus.) sounding-board; meloplast.
=mémarchure=, _n.f._, sprain (in a horse’s leg).
=membrane=, _n.f._, (anat.) membrane, film; (orni.) web.
=membraneu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, membranous, filmy.
=membre=, _n.m._, member; limb; (nav.) ribtimber.
=membré=, =-e=, _adj._, limbed. _Bien —_; having well-made and
well-proportioned limbs.
=membru=, =-e=, _adj._, large-limbed, stout-limbed.
=membrure=, _n.f._, limbs, frame; cord (to measure fire-wood); ribs,
timbers (of a ship); (carp.) split-board.
=même=, _adj._, same; self; very own. _Une seule et — origine_; one and
the same origin. _C’est la — chose_; it is all one. _Moi-même_; myself.
_Eux-—s_; themselves. _C’est la bonté —_; she is goodness itself. _La —
chose_; the same thing. _La chose —_; the very thing.
=même=, _adv._, even, also, likewise. _Il lui a tout donné, — ses
habits_; he has given him everything, even to his clothes. _Les plus
sages — le font_; even the wisest do it. _Quand — il me l’aurait dit_;
even though he had said it me. _À — de_; in a position to, able to.
_Mettre à —_; to enable. _Boire à — la bouteille_; to drink out of the
bottle itself. _Vous êtes à — de rendre service à cet homme_; you are in
a position to do that man a service. _Il vous a mis à — de le faire_; he
has enabled you to do it. _De —_; the same; so; like. _Faites de —_; do
the same. _Tout de —_; all the same, in the same manner. _De — que_; in
the same manner as, so as, as.
=même=, _n.m._, same, same thing. _Cela revient au —_; it comes to the
same thing _or_ it is all the same. _Faire au —_; (at billiards) to
pocket straight. _Faire_ or _refaire au —_; to take in, to cheat; to
give like for like; to pay back in his own coin; to give (any one) as
good as he brings.
=mêmement=, _adv._, also, even, likewise.
=mémento= (-min-), _n.m._, (_—s_) memento, reminder, hint.
=mémoire=, _n.f._, memory, recollection, remembrance; commemoration;
fame. _Avoir une — de lièvre_; to have a very short memory. _— fidèle_;
retentive memory. _Je n’en ai pas la moindre —_; I have not the slightest
recollection of it. _De — d’homme on n’a vu telle chose_; such a thing
has not been seen within the memory of man. _Des choses dignes de
—_; things worthy of commemoration. _Remettre dans la —_, _conserver
la — de_; to remind, to remember. _Rappeler quelque chose à la — de
quelqu’un_; to bring anything to any one’s recollection, to remind any
one of anything. _En — de_; in memory of. _Réhabiliter la — d’un défunt_;
to restore the fair fame of any one. _À la — de_; in memory of. _Si j’ai
bonne —_; if I remember rightly.
=mémoire=, _n.m._, memorial; memorandum; bill, account. _Dresser un —_;
to draw up a memorial. _— acquitté_; bill receipted. _— d’apothicaire_;
exorbitant bill.
=mémorable=, _adj._, memorable.
=mémorandum= (-dom), _n.m._, memorandum; memorandum-book; memorial.
=mémorati-f=, =-ve=, _adj._, (fam.) mindful; recollecting. _Être — de
quelque chose_; to remember anything.
=mémorial=, _n.m._, memorial; (com.) waste-book.
=mémorialiste=, _n.m._, memorialist.
=menaçant=, =-e=, _adj._, menacing, threatening. D’une manière —e;
threateningly.
=menace=, _n.f._, menace, threat. _— en l’air_; empty threat. _Paroles de
—_; threatening words.
=menacer=, _v.a._, to threat, to threaten, to menace; to forebode, to
portend; to impend. _— de la main_; to threaten to strike (any one).
_L’air nous menace d’un orage_; the air presages a storm _or_ there is
thunder in the air. _— ruine_, _— de tomber_; to totter, to be on the
point of ruin, to decay, to threaten to fall.
=ménade=, _n.f._ _V._ =bacchante=.
=ménage=, _n.m._, housekeeping, household; housewifery, house; household
goods; family; husbandry, economy, saving. _Toile de —_; home-spun linen.
_Liqueurs de —_; home-made wines. _Tenir —_, _être en —_; to keep house,
to be a house-keeper. _Entrer en —_; to begin housekeeping. _Rompre son
—_; to leave off housekeeping. _Dépense de —_; household expenses. _—
de garçon_; bachelor’s household. _Faire bon —_; to live well together.
_Pain de —_; household bread. _Toile de —_; homespun cloth. _Femme de —_;
charwoman. _Elle entend bien le —_; she is a good house-wife. _Vivre de
—_; to live sparingly. _Faire le —_; to do the housework. _Mettre en —_;
to settle any one.
=ménagement= (-na-jmān), _n.m._, regard, respect, consideration;
circumspection, caution, discretion; management, conduct.
=ménager=, _v.a._, to husband, to manage, to spare, to be sparing,
to save, to be saving; to take care of, to be careful of, to conduct
carefully; to treat with caution, to treat gently, to treat kindly, to
treat with respect, to humor, to bring about; to reserve; to procure; to
contrive; to dispose, to arrange, to prepare; to help to. _— son bien_;
to husband one’s fortune. _— quelqu’un_; to treat any one with respect,
consideration. _Je n’ai rien à —_; I have no measures to keep. _Pour —
notre faiblesse_; out of compassion for our weakness. _— les termes_;
to weigh what one says. _— l’occasion_; to improve the opportunity. _—
ses forces_; to spare one’s strength. _— ses amis_; to forbear being
troublesome to one’s friends. _— son crédit_; to make the most of one’s
credit. _Je lui ai ménagé une place_; I helped him to get a situation.
_— ses ressources_; to husband one’s resources. _— une agréable surprise
à_; to prepare, to procure, an agreeable surprise for. _— une étoffe_; to
make the most of a stuff. _— un escalier dans un bâtiment_; to contrive
a staircase in a house. _— la chèvre et le chou_; to hold with the hare
and run with the hounds. _Qui vaut aller loin ménage sa monture_; he who
wishes to live long avoids excess.
_se_ =ménager=, _v.r._, to take care of one’s self; to spare one’s self;
to behave with care, with caution, to conduct one’s self cautiously. _Se
— avec quelqu’un_; to keep in, to keep on good terms, with any one. _Se —
entre deux partis contraires_; to steer a successful course between two
adverse parties, and remain friendly with both.
=ménager=, _v.n._, to save, to save up. _Il ménage pour ses enfants_; he
is saving up for his children.
=ménag-er=, =-ère=, _adj._, thrifty, saving, sparing, provident, frugal.
=ménager=, _n.m._, economist; thrifty, saving, frugal, sparing man. _Être
bon — du temps_; to husband one’s time well.
=ménagère=, _n.f._, economical housewife; thrifty, saving, frugal,
sparing woman; housewife; housekeeper; (of things) cruet-frame,
cruet-stand.
=ménagerie= (-na-jrî), _n.f._, menagerie.
=mendiant=, =-e=, _n._ and _adj._, beggar, mendicant; beggar-woman;
(c.rel.) mendicant-friar, mendicant. _Les quatre —s_; the four orders of
mendicant friars; raisins, figs, almonds, and nuts (at dessert).
=mendicité=, _n.f._, beggary, mendicity; beggars; vagrancy. _La — est
interdite_; begging is forbidden, _or_ no begging allowed.
=mendier=, _v.a._ and _n._, to beg; to beg for; (b.s.) to solicit meanly,
to implore. _Il mendie son pain_; he begs his bread. _— sa vie_; to live
by begging.
=mené=, =-e=, _part._ _adj._, led. _— par sa femme_; henpecked.
=meneau=, _n.m._, (arch.) mullion.
=menée=, _n.f._, underhand dealing, secret practice, plot, conspiracy;
track. _Suivre la —_; (hunt.) to follow the track.
=mener=, _v.a._, to carry, to conduct, to lead, to drive (a carriage), to
bring; to direct, to head, to command, to guide, to sway, to influence;
to introduce, to take, to take along with; to amuse; to lead about, to
manage, to steer; to handle; to humbug, to bamboozle. _— les bêtes aux
champs_; to drive the cattle to the fields. _— paître les vaches_; to
take, to drive, cows to pasture. _— quelqu’un en prison_; to convey
any one to jail. _— un enfant par la lisière_; to have a child in
leading-strings. _— quelqu’un à la baguette_; to rule any one with a
tight hand. _— tambour battant_; to carry it with a high hand over. _—
un grand train_; to make a great show. _— le branle_; to take the lead.
_Menez-moi chez le ministre_; introduce me to the minister. _— de front_;
to have several things on hand. _— bien sa barque_; to manage one’s
affairs well.
=mener=, _v.n._, to drive; to lead, to conduct, to go. _Ce chemin mène à
la ville_; this road leads to the town. _Cela ne mène à rien_; that leads
to nothing, that is of no use.
=ménestrel=, _n.m._, minstrel.
=ménétrier=, _n.m._, village fiddler.
=meneur=, _n.m._, driver; agent for wet-nurses; leading man, ringleader.
=meneuse=, _n.f._, female agent for wet-nurses, baby-farmer.
=menhir=, _n.m._, (_—s_) (archæology) druidical-stone; menhir
(standing-stone).
=méniane=, _n.f._, (arch.) verandah, balcony (in Italy).
=ménianthe=, _n.m._, (bot.) bog-bean, marsh-trefoil.
=menin=, _n.m._, young nobleman attached to the person of the Dauphin,
minion, favorite (French hist.).
=méninge=, _n.f._, (anat.) meninges.
=méningite=, _n.f._, (med.) meningitis.
=ménippée=, _adj._ and _n.f._, of satires in the style of those of the
philosopher Menippus. _Satire —_, _la —_; a satire which appeared in 1593
against the party of the Ligue (French hist.).
=ménisperme=, _n.m._, (bot.) menispermum, moon-seed.
=ménisque=, _n.m._, (opt.) meniscus.
=ménologe=, _n.m._, menology.
=menotte=, _n.f._, (fam.) little hand (of a child). _pl._, handcuffs,
manacles. _Mettre les —s à_; to handcuff.
=mense=, _n.f._, (of abbeys) income, revenue, stock; ☉table, board (food).
=mensole=, _n.f._, (archit.) keystone.
=mensonge=, _n.m._, lie, falsehood, untruth, story; error, illusion,
vanity. _Débiter des —s_; to tell lies. _Tout petit —_, _— de rien_, _—
de marchand_; white lie.
=mensong-er=, =-ère=, _adj._, lying, untrue, deceitful, false,
counterfeit, illusory.
=mensongèrement=, _adv._, falsely, deceitfully, untruely; illusively.
=menstrue=, _n.m._, (chem.) menstruum.
=menstruel=, =-le=, _adj._, (med.) menstrual. _Flux —_; menses, catamenia.
=menstrues=, _n.f._, (physiology) menses, catamenia.
=mensuel=, =-le=, _adj._, monthly.
=mensuellement=, _adv._, monthly.
=mensurabilité=, _n.f._, mensurability.
=mensurable=, _adj._, mensurable.
=mental=, =-e=, _adj._, mental.
=mentalement= (-tal-mān), _adv._, mentally.
=menterie= (man-trî), _n.f._, story, fib, falsehood, untruth.
=menteu-r=, =-se=, _adj._, lying, false, deceitful.
=menteu-r=, _n.m._, =-se=, _n.f._, liar, story-teller, fibber. _Un — de
profession_; a confirmed liar.
=menthe=, _n.f._, (bot.) mint. _— aquatique_; water-mint. _— verte_;
spearmint. _— poivrée_; peppermint.
=mention=, _n.f._, mention, mentioning, naming.
=mentionner=, _v.a._, to mention, to make mention of, to name.
=mentir= (mentant, menti), _v.n._, to lie, to tell a lie, a story, a
falsehood, an untruth; to fib, to speak false. _Gardez-vous bien de —_;
beware of lying. _Il en a menti_; he is a liar. _Il n’enrage pas pour
—_; he does not stick at a lie. _Se — à soi-même_; to belie one’s self.
_À beau — qui vient de loin_; (prov.) travelers tell fine tales _or_ lie
with impunity. _Sans —_, _à ne point —_; to tell the truth, in fact,
indeed, candidly, really.
=menton=, _n.m._, chin. _— en galoche_; turned-up chin. _— à double
étage_; double chin. _— qui avance_; prominent chin. _Avoir deux —s_; to
be double-chinned.
=mentonnet=, _n.m._, (mec.) ear, tipper; catch.
=mentonni-er=, =-ère=, _adj._, (anat.) of the chin.
=mentonnière=, _n.f._, chin-piece, chin-band, chin-strap; bandage for the
chin.
=mentor= (min-), _n.m._, mentor, guide, tutor.
=menu=, =-e=, _adj._, small, slender, spare, thin, inconsiderable,
petty, minor. _Le — peuple_; the common people, the lower classes. _—
plomb_; small shot. _— gibier_; small game. _— bétail_; small cattle. _—s
plaisirs_; pocket-money.
=menu=, _n.m._, minute detail, particulars. _Le — d’un repas_; the bill
of fare. _Un paquet de —_; a bundle of small linen. _Par le —_; minutely,
in detail.
=menu=, _adv._, small, fine; minutely; with quick and short steps. _Il
pleuvait dru et —_; the rain fell fine and fast. _Marcher_, _trotter_,
_dru et —_; to walk with short and quick steps.
*=menuaille=, _n.f._, small money; fry, small fish; trash.
=menuet=, _n.m._, minuet.
=menuiser=, _v.a._ and _n._, to do carpenter’s work.
=menuiserie= (-nui-zrî), _n.f._, joinery, joiner’s work; carpentry.
=menuisier=, _n.m._, joiner, carpenter and joiner. _— en bâtiments_;
house-carpenter.
=menuisière=, _n.f._, carpenter’s wife.
=menuisière=, _adj.f._, (ent.) carpenter. _Abeille —_; carpenter-bee.
=ménure=, _n.f._, lyre-bird; lyre-pheasant.
=méphitique=, _adj._, mephitic.
=méphitisme=, _n.m._, mephitis, mephitism.
=méplat=, _n.m._, (paint.) flat, flat part, flattish curve.
=méplat=, =-e=, _adj._, (carp., paint.) flat, flatwise.
_se_ =méprendre=, _v.r._, to mistake; to make a mistake; to be mistaken;
to be under a mistake; to misapprehend; (fig.) to forget one’s self, to
be wanting in respect. _Vous vous méprenez_; you mistake; you forget
yourself. _C’est à ne pas s’y —_; you cannot make a mistake. _C’est son
père, à s’y —_; you would easily take him for his father; he is the
dead-spit of his father.
=mépris=, _n.m._, contempt, scorn, contumely. _pl._, contumelious
language, contemptuous treatment. _Avoir du — pour quelqu’un_; to
feel contempt for any one. _Au — des lois_; in defiance of the laws.
_Témoigner du — pour_; to evince contempt for. _Tomber dans le —_; to
fall into contempt. _La familiarité engendre le —_; familiarity breeds
contempt.
=méprisable=, _adj._, contemptible, despicable.
=méprisablement=, _adv._, despicably.
=méprisant=, =-e=, _adj._, contemptuous, scornful.
=méprise=, _n.f._, mistake, oversight, misunderstanding; misapprehension;
error. _Lourde —_; gross mistake. _Faire une grande —_; to make a great
mistake.
=mépriser=, _v.a._, to contemn, to despise, to scorn; to slight; to set
at naught; to undervalue; to disregard.
=mer= (mèr), _n.f._, sea, deep, ocean, main; tide, water; jar (frequently
replenished). _La haute —_; main sea; high sea; high water. _— basse_;
shallow sea, low water. _Port de —_; sea-port. _Un coup de —_; (nav.) a
sea. _Homme de —_; seafaring man. _Loup de —_; expert seaman, Jack Tar;
old salt. _D’outre-—_; beyond the seas. _En pleine —_; on the open sea,
on the high seas. _Chercher quelqu’un par — et par terre_; to look for
any one high and low. _C’est la — à boire_; it is an endless task, an
impossibility. _Porter de l’eau à la —_; to carry coals to Newcastle. _La
— est belle_; the sea is smooth. _Tenir la —_; to keep at sea. _Tenir
bien la —_; to be a good sea-boat. _Jeter_, _tomber_, _à la —_; to throw,
to fall, overboard. _Embarquer un coup de —_; to ship a sea. _Gros coup
de —_; heavy sea. _Mettre à la —_; to put to sea. _Pouvoir tenir la —_;
(nav.) to be seaworthy (of a ship). _En —_; at sea. _Prendre la —_; to go
to sea. _Mal de —_; seasickness. _Il y avait beaucoup_ or _pas mal de —_;
there was a good sea on. _Ecumeur de —_; sea-rover. _Entouré par la —_;
sea-girt. _Apporté par —_; sea-borne.
=mercadet=, _n.m._, jobber.
=mercantile=, _adj._, mercantile, commercial; (fig.) grasping, sordid.
*=mercantille=, _n.f._, (l.u.) petty trading; hucksterage.
=mercenaire=, _adj._, mercenary, venal.
=mercenaire=, _n.m._, mercenary, hireling.
=mercenairement= (-nèr-mān), _adv._, mercenarily.
=mercerie=, _n.f._, mercery, haberdashery.
=merci=, _n.f._ (_n.p._), mercy, discretion, will, pleasure. _Crier —_;
to cry for mercy. _Don d’amoureuse —_; lady’s favors. _Se mettre_, or
_être_, _à la — de quelqu’un_; to be, to place one’s self, at any one’s
mercy, discretion.
=merci=, _n.m._, thanks; thank you. _Dieu —_; thank God! _Grand —!_ much
obliged! _Sa —_; (old) thanks to him.
=merci=, _adv._, thank you, I have had quite enough, I’d rather not.
=merci-er=, _n.m._, =-ère=, _n.f._, mercer, haberdasher. _Petit —_;
haberdasher.
=mercredi=, _n.m._, Wednesday. _— des Cendres_; Ash-Wednesday.
=mercure=, _n.m._, (astron.) Mercury; quick-silver.
=mercuriale=, _n.f._, harangue, lecture, reprimand, curtain lecture,
censure, rebuke; rating; averages, average prices of grain; (bot.)
mercurialis.
=mercuriel=, =-le=, _adj._, mercurial. _Onguent —_; mercurial ointment.
=merde=, _n.f._, dirt, dung; excrements (of man and animals). _—!_ you be
blowed!
=mère=, _n.f._, mother; (of animals) dam; (fig.) cause, source, reason.
_Belle-—_, (_—s-—s_) mother-in-law; step-mother. _Grand’—_, (_— —s_),
(pop.) _—-grand_, (_—s-—_) grandmother. _Dure-—_, (_n.p._) dura mater.
_Pie-—_, (_n.p._) pia mater. _Eau —_; mother water. _L’oisiveté est la —
de tous les vices_; idleness is the mother of all vices. _— nourrice_;
foster-mother. _La — patrie_; the mother-country. _Notre — commune_; our
mother-earth.
=mère=, _adj._, mother; chief, primitive. _— goutte_; unpressed wine. _—
laine_; fine wool.
=méreau=, _n.m._, counter, ticket, check.
=mérelle=, _n.f._ _V._ =marelle=.
=méridien= (-in), _n.m._, meridian.
=méridien=, =-ne=, _adj._, meridian.
=méridienne= (-di-è-n), _n.f._, siesta, afternoon nap; meridian line.
_Faire la —_; to take an afternoon nap.
=méridional=, =-e=, _adj._, meridional, southern.
=méringue= (-ringh), _n.f._, meringue (cake).
=mérinos= (-nôs), _n.m._, merino sheep; merino (stuff).
=merise=, _n.f._, wild cherry.
=merisier=, _n.m._, wild cherry-tree.
=méritant=, =-e=, _adj._, meritorious, worthy, deserving.
=mérite=, _n.m._, merit, worth; desert, talent, attainments. _Il sera
traité selon ses —s_; he shall be dealt with according to his deserts.
_Se donner le — de quelque chose_; to assume the merit of anything. _Se
faire un — de_; to make a merit of. _Remplir son —_; to act up to one’s
reputation.
=mériter=, _v.a._ and _n._, to deserve, to merit; to earn; to procure,
to gain; to need, to require. _Il mérite d’être récompensé_; he deserves
to be rewarded. _Cette nouvelle mérite confirmation_; that news requires
confirmation. _Cela ne mérite pas qu’on en parle_; that is not worth
mentioning.
=mérithalle=, _n.m._, (bot.) internode.
=méritoire=, _adj._, meritorious.
=méritoirement= (-toâr-mān), _adv._, meritoriously.
=merlan=, _n.m._, (ich.) whiting; (b.s.) journeyman hair-dresser.
=merle=, _n.m._, (orni.) blackbird. _— aquatique_; water-ouzel. _C’est un
fin —_; he is a cunning blade _or_ fellow. _Dénicheur de —s_; person not
to be trusted. _On ne prend pas les vieux —s à la pipée_; old birds are
not to be caught with chaff.
=merlette=, _n.f._, (her.) martlet, hen blackbird.
=merlin=, _n.m._, (nav.) marline; cudgel; cleaver, chopper, pole-ax
(tool).
=merlon=, _n.m._, (fort.) merlon.
=merluche=, _n.f._, (ich.) dried haddock; stockfish; salt-cod.
=merlus=, _n.m._, hake; haddock.
=merrain=, _n.m._, broad lath, planks, stave-wood, (hunt.) horn (of
deer); (cooperage) clap-board.
*=merveille=, _n.f._, wonder, marvel, miracle, prodigy. _À —_; admirably
done, wonderfully well, capitally. _Faire des —s_; to perform wonders.
_Promettre monts et —s_; to promise wonders. _Mes affaires vont à —_; my
affairs are going on admirably, swimmingly. _Se porter à —_; to be in
splendid health, to be very fit.
*=merveilleuse=, _n.f._, affected lady.
*=merveilleusement= (-eûz-mān), _adv._, wonderfully, admirably;
wonderfully well.
*=merveilleu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, wonderful, wondrous, marvelous;
remarkable.
*=merveilleux=, _n.m._, wonderful, marvelous part; marvelous, exquisite;
coxcomb, swell, dandy, beau.
=mes= (mè), _adj.m.f.pl._, my.
=mésadvenir= _or_ =mésavenir=, _v.imp._, (l.u.) to come to any harm, to
turn out ill.
=mésair= _or_ =mézair=, _n.m._, (man.) prancing.
=mesaise=, _n.m._, uncomfortableness, uneasiness.
=mésalliance=, _n.f._, misalliance, disparagement, bad match.
=mésallier=, _v.a._, to disparage; to marry (beneath one); (fig.) to
lower, to degrade.
_se_ =mésallier=, _v.a._, to disparage one’s self; to lower _or_ degrade
one’s self; to contract a misalliance; to marry beneath one.
=mésange=, _n.f._, titmouse, tomtit, tit.
=mésangette=, _n.f._, bird trap.
=mésarriver= _or_ =mésavenir=, _v.imp._, to come to any harm, to happen
unluckily, to turn out ill.
=mésaventure=, _n.f._, mischance, mishap, misadventure.
=mésembryanthème=, _n.m._, (bot.) fig-marigold.
=mésentère=, _n.m._, (anat.) mesentery.
=mésentérique=, _adj._, (anat.) mesenteric.
=mésestime=, _n.f._, bad opinion, disesteem; disfavor, discredit,
disrepute.
=mésestimer=, _v.a._, to disesteem, to undervalue, to depreciate, to
despise.
=mésintelligence=, _n.f._, misunderstanding, variance, disagreement.
=mésinterprétation=, _n.f._, misinterpretation, misconstruction.
=mésinterpréter=, _v.a._, to misinterpret, to misconstrue.
=mesmérisme=, _n.m._, mesmerism.
=mésoffrir=, _v.n._, to underbid.
=mesquin=, =-e=, _adj._, mean, shabby; paltry, poor, pitiful; niggardly,
illiberal.
=mesquinement= (-ki-n-mān), _adv._, shabbily, meanly.
=mesquinerie= (-ki-n-rî), _n.f._, meanness, shabbiness; mean _or_ paltry
thing; stinginess, paltriness.
=mess=, _n.f._, (_—_) (milit.) mess, officers’ table.
=message=, _n.m._, message; errand.
=messag-er=, _n.m._, =-ère=, _n.f._, messenger, fore-runner, harbinger;
carrier. _Les hirondelles sont les —ères du printemps_; swallows are the
fore-runners _or_ harbingers of spring.
=messagerie= (mé-sa-jri), _n.f._, stage-coach office; stage-coach, coach,
stage; carriage of goods; goods traffic, goods department. _—s liners_;
steam packets.
=messaline=, _n.f._, dissolute woman, strumpet.
=messe=, _n.f._, (c.rel.) mass. _— haute_, _grand’—_ (_—-—s_); high
mass, grand mass. _Petite —_, _— basse_; low mass. _— des morts_, _— de
requiem_; mass for the dead. _— de minuit_; midnight service. _— du Saint
Esprit_; invocation. _Livre des —_; prayer-book, church-service. _Près du
moutier a — le dernier_; the nearer the church, the farther from God.
=messéance=, _n.f._, unseemliness, unbecomingness.
=messéant=, =-e=, _adj._, unseemly, unbecoming.
=messeigneurs=, _n.m.pl._, my lords.
=messeoir= (mé-soâr), _v.n._, to be unbecoming; not to befit, to
ill-become.
=messidor=, _n.m._, Messidor, the tenth month of the calendar of the
first French republic, from June 19th to July 18th.
=messie=, _n.m._, Messiah.
=messier=, _n.m._, keeper of standing crops, of vineyards.
=messieurs= (mè-sieû), _n.m.pl._, gentlemen, Messrs.
=messin=, =-e=, _adj._, native of Metz.
=messire jean=, _n.m._, (_—s-—s_) a variety of pear.
=mestre=, _n.m._ (nav.). _V._ =meistre=.
☉=mestre de camp=, _n.m._, colonel (of a horse or infantry regiment). _—
général_; brigadier-general.
☉=mestre de camp=, _n.f._, the first company of a regiment.
=mesurable=, _adj._, measurable.
=mesurage=, _n.m._, measurement, measuring; gauging, surveying, metage.
=mesure=, _n.f._, measure, gauge, standard; dimension; (mus.) measure,
bar; (fenc.) proper distance; (poet.) meter, measure; bound; extent,
limit, compass; moderation, prudence; precaution; decorum; calculation,
reckoning; propriety. _Il a comblé la —_; he has heaped up the measure.
_Au fur et à — que_; in proportion as; according to. _Observer la —_; to
keep time. _Battre la —_; to beat time. _Chanter_, or _aller_, _en —_;
to keep time in singing. _Ne point garder de — avec une personne_; to
have no regard, no consideration, for a person. _Cette idée passe la —
de son esprit_; that idea is beyond the compass of his intellect. _Outre
—_; excessively, beyond measure. _À — que_; in proportion as. _À —_; in
proportion, accordingly. _À la —_; by measure, on draught. _A — que l’un
avançait, l’autre reculait_; as one advanced, the other retired. _Vous
n’avez qu’à travailler, et on vous paiera à —_; you need only work, and
you’ll be paid accordingly. _Sans —_; beyond all measure, immeasurably,
unguardedly. _Se mettre en — de_; to prepare to do anything, to get
ready, to arrange. _Prendre ses —s_; to take one’s precautions.
=mesuré=, =-e=, _part._, measured, regular; cautious; circumspect,
guarded, prudent. _Il est très — dans ses discours_; he is very guarded
in what he says.
=mesurer=, _v.a._, to measure, to gauge; to proportion, to survey, to
compare, to consider, to weigh, to examine. _— les autres à son aune_;
to measure other people’s corn by one’s own bushel. _À brebis tondue
Dieu mesure le vent_; God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb. _— ses
discours_; to be cautious in what one says.
_se_ =mesurer=, _v.r._, to measure one’s self; to be measured; to vie, to
contend, to cope with; to try one’s strength; to measure swords.
=mesureur=, _n.m._, measurer, meter, gauger.
=mésusage=, _n.m._, misuse, abuse.
=mésuser=, _v.n._, to misuse, to abuse.
=métabole=, _n.f._, (rhet.) metabola.
=métacarpe=, _n.m._, (anat.) metacarpus.
=métacarpien=, =-ne=, _adj._, metacarpal.
=métacentre=, _n.m._, (geom. nav.) metacenter.
=métachronisme= (-kro-), _n.m._, metachronism.
=métacisme=, _n.m._, metacism.
=métairie=, _n.f._, land (held on condition that the landlord shall
receive half the produce); small farm, dairy-farm; farmhouse.
=métal=, _n.m._, metal, ore. _— vierge_; native ore. _— blanc anglais_;
Britannia metal. _— blanc d’Alger_; nickel silver, German silver. _—
appliqué sur un autre_; charge. _— précieux_; precious metal.
=métalepse=, _n.f._, (rhet.) metalepsis.
=métallifère= (-tal-li-), _adj._, metalliferous.
=métallique= (-tal-lik), _adj._, metallic.
☉=métallique=, _n.f._ _V._ =métallurgie=.
=métallisation= (-tal-li-), _n.f._, (chem.) metallization.
=métalliser= (-tal-li-), _v.a._, (chem.) to metallize.
=métallographie= (-tal-lo-), _n.f._, metallography.
=métalloïde=, _n.m._, (chem.) metalloid.
=métallurgie= (-tal-lur-), _n.f._, metallurgy.
=métallurgique= (-tal-lur-), _adj._, metallurgic.
=métallurgiste= (-tal-lur-), _n.m._, metallurgist.
=métamorphique=, _adj._, metamorphic.
=métamorphisme=, _n.m._, metamorphism.
=métamorphose=, _n.f._, metamorphosis, transformation.
=métamorphoser=, _v.a._, to metamorphose, to transform.
_se_ =métamorphoser=, _v.r._, to metamorphose one’s self; to be, _or_
become, metamorphosed; to change, to alter; to become changed.
=métaphore=, _n.f._, (rhet.) metaphor.
=métaphorique=, _adj._, metaphorical.
=métaphoriquement= (-rik-mān), _adv._, metaphorically.
=métaphrase=, _n.f._, metaphrase.
=métaphraste=, _n.m._, metaphrast.
=métaphysicien= (-in), _n.m._, metaphysician.
=métaphysique=, _n.f._, metaphysics.
=métaphysique=, _adj._, metaphysical.
=métaphysiquement= (-zik-mān), _adv._, metaphysically.
=métaphysiquer=, _v.n._, (fam.) to subtilize.
=métaplasme=, _n.m._, (gram.) metaplasm.
=métastase=, _n.f._, (med.) metastasis.
=métatarse=, _n.m._, (anat.) metatarsus.
=métathèse=, _n.f._, (gram.) metathesis.
=métayage=, _n.m._, leasing of farms (on condition of giving to the owner
half the produce).
=métay-er=, _n.m._, =-ère=, _n.f._, metayer, farmer; small farmer, dairy
farmer; (_f._) farmer’s wife.
*=méteil=, _n.m._, meslin, maslin (mixture of wheat and rye). _Passe-—_;
wheat-rye.
*=méteil=, _adj._, of wheat mixed with rye.
=métempsycose=, _n.f._, metempsychosis, transmigration of souls.
=métempsycosiste=, _n.m.f._, one who believes in metempsychosis.
=métemptose=, _n.f._, (astron.) metemptosis.
=météore=, _n.m._, meteor, fire-ball.
=météorique=, _adj._, meteoric.
=météorisation=, _n.f._, (vet.) wind, flatulence.
=météorisé=, =-e=, _adj._, (med.) flatulent, distended.
=météorolithe=, _n.m._, meteorite, aerolite.
=météorologie=, _n.f._, meteorology.
=météorologique=, _adj._, meteorological.
=méthode=, _n.f._, method, system; custom, way. _Cet homme a une étrange
—_; that man has a strange way with him.
=méthodique=, _adj._, methodical, systematical.
=méthodiquement= (-dik-mān), _adv._, methodically, systematically.
=méthodisme=, _n.m._, methodism.
=méthodiste=, _n.m.f._, methodist.
=méticuleusement=, _adv._, fastidiously, minutely, nicely.
=méticuleu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, over-scrupulous, fastidious, nice.
=métier= (-tié), _n.m._, trade, handicraft, business, calling, craft,
profession; loom, frame; framework. _— à bas_; stocking-frame. _— à
tisser_; power frame. _— à broder_; tambour-frame. _— à la main_;
hand-loom. _De son —_; by trade, by profession. _Homme de —_; mechanic,
handicraftsman. _Avoir le cœur au —_; to have one’s heart in anything.
_Il n’a pas le cœur au —_; his heart is not in it. _Le — des armes_; the
profession of arms. _Il est du —_; he is in the same trade, he belongs
to the same fraternity; he is of the craft. _C’est un tour de son —_;
that’s a trick of his. _Jouer_, or _servir_, _un tour de son —_; to play
a trick. _Chacun son —, et les vaches sont bien gardées_; every one to
his trade. _Faire — de_; to make a trade of. _Faire au —_; to work on a
frame. _Corps de —_; corporation, guild. _Sur le —_; (fig.) on the stocks.
=méti-f=, =-ve=, _adj._ _V._ =métis=.
=métis= (-tîs), =-se=, _n._ and _adj._, creole, mongrel; of mongrel
breed, half-bred, cross-bred; hybrid; mixed. _Toile —se_; union cloth.
_Se tenir —_; (fig.) to trim one’s sails; to steer a middle course
(Montaigne).
=métissage=, _n.m._, cross-breeding.
=métisser=, _v.a._, to cross (animals).
=métonomasie=, _n.f._, metonomasy.
=métonymie=, _n.f._, (rhet.) metonymy.
=métope=, _n.f._, (arch.) metope.
=métoposcopie=, _n.f._, metoposcopy.
=métoposcopique=, _adj._, metoposcopical.
=mètre=, _n.m._, meter (1.093633 yards); (poet.) meter.
=métrer=, _v.a._, to measure (by the meter).
=métreur=, _n.m._, (arch.) measurer; appraiser, valuer.
=métrique=, _n.f._, scansion, versification.
=métrique=, _adj._, metrical.
=métrologie=, _n.f._, metrology.
=métromane=, _n.m.f._, metromaniac.
=métromanie=, _n.f._, metromania.
=métropole=, _n.f._, mother country, metropolis, capital, metropolitan
see.
=métropolitain=, =-e=, _adj._, metropolitan. _Eglise —e_; mother-church.
=métropolitain=, _n.m._, metropolitan, bishop, archbishop; underground
railway (in Paris).
=métrorrhagie=, _n.f._, (med.) metrorrhagia, uterine hemorrhage.
=mets= (mê), _n.m._, dish, food, viands.
=mettable=, _adj._, fit to be worn, wearable.
=metteur=, _n.m._, putter, layer. _— en œuvre_; setter, mounter (of
jewels). _— en pages_; (print.) maker-up, clicker. _— en scène_; getter
up (of plays); stage manager. _— au point_; carver.
=mettre= (mettant, mis), _v.a._, to put, to put out, to put in, to
invest (money); to put on, to wear; to place, to lay, to set; to bring;
to reduce, to carry; to employ; to contribute, to devote, to give; to
stake, to bid. _— au jour_; to bring to light; to give birth to. _— à
jour_; to bring up to date. _— en ordre_; to set in order. _— la charrue
devant les bœufs_; to put the cart before the horse. _— des paroles en
musique_; to set words to music. _— de la prose en vers_; to turn prose
into verse. _— du fard_, _du rouge_; to paint one’s face. _— par écrit_;
to put _or_ set down in writing. _— une chose au net_; to make a fair
copy. _— un habit_; to put on a coat. _— le couvert_; to lay the cloth.
_— un officier aux arrêts_; to put an officer under arrest. _— quelqu’un
en état de_; to enable any one to. _— une chose en tête à quelqu’un_; to
persuade any one to do a thing, to suggest the doing of anything. _— un
livre au jour_; to publish a book. _— un vaisseau à l’eau_; to launch
a ship. _— quelqu’un à la besace_; to reduce any one to beggary. _— un
arrêt à exécution_; to execute a decree. _— bas_; to bring forth, to
litter. _— quelqu’un dehors_; to turn any one out of doors. _— quelqu’un
au fait_; to inform any one of a thing, of what is going on, of the state
of matters. _— quelqu’un à l’amende_; to fine any one. _— quelqu’un à la
raison_; to bring any one to reason. _— deux personnes mal ensemble_;
to set two persons by the ears. _— une affaire en compromis_; to submit
a thing to arbitration. _— quelqu’un en peine_; to make any one uneasy.
_— quelqu’un en colère_; to put any one into a passion. _— quelqu’un au
désespoir_; to drive any one to despair. _— ordre à ses affaires_; to put
one’s affairs in order. _Il met son nez partout_; he thrusts his nose
everywhere. _— en pages_; (print.) to make up, to click. _— du sien_; to
contribute something; to invest some money; to make concessions; to meet
half way; to give a helping hand. _Mettez cinq cents francs_; make it a
hundred dollars.
_se_ =mettre=, _v.r._, to put _or_ place one’s self; to sit down; to
stand, to lie down; to dress; to begin; to set about; to take to, to
apply one’s self to, to get into; to spread, to break out. _Se — à
table_; to sit down to table. _Se — à la fenêtre_; to place one’s self at
the window. _Se — en danger_; to get into danger. _Se — en colère_; to
get into a passion. _Se — sur son quant-à-soi_; to give one’s self airs.
_Se — dans le commerce_; to turn tradesman; to take to trade. _Se — à son
aise_; to take one’s ease. _Se — sur les rangs pour une charge_; to enter
as a candidate for a place. _Se — en voyage_; to set out upon a journey.
_Se — en route_, _en chemin_, _en marche_; to start, to go forward, to
make a move. _Se — bien_; to dress well. _Se — mal avec quelqu’un_; to
fall out with any one. _Se — en tête_; to take it into one’s head. _Se —
bien avec_; to get on good terms with. _Se — mal avec_; to quarrel with,
to fall out with. _La peste se mit dans l’armée_; the plague broke out
in the army. _Il se met à tout_; he turns his hand to everything. _Se —
à parler_; to begin to speak. _S’y —_; to set about it, to turn to, to
buckle to.
=mettre=, _v.n._, to set, to put. _— en mer_; to put to sea.
=meublant=, =-e=, _adj._, serving to furnish; fit for furniture. _Meubles
—s_; movables, house-hold goods.
=meuble=, _n.m._, piece of furniture; utensil. _pl._, furniture,
household goods, belongings. _— de famille_; heirloom. _— à demeure
fixe_; fixture. _Se mettre dans ses —s_; to furnish apartments of one’s
own, to set up a house.
=meuble=, _adj._, movable; personal. _Biens —s et immeubles_; personal
property. _Terre —_; light mellow land.
=meublé=, =-e=, _part._, furnished. _Être bien —_; to have one’s house,
one’s rooms, well furnished. _Avoir la bouche bien —e_; to have a fine
set of teeth.
=meubler=, _v.a._, to furnish, to stock, to store. _— sa mémoire_; to
store one’s memory. _— une maison_; to furnish a house. _— une ferme_; to
stock a farm.
_se_ =meubler=, _v.r._, to get furniture of one’s own.
=meubler=, _v.n._, to look well, to be ornamental.
=meuglement=, _n.m._ _V._ =beuglement=.
=meugler=, _v.n._ _V._ =beugler=.
=meulard=, _n.m._, large millstone; grindstone.
=meule=, _n.f._, millstone; grindstone; burr; base (of a deer’s head);
(agri.) cock, stack, rick; (ich.) sun-fish. _— inférieure_, _— gisante_;
nether millstone, bedder. _— supérieure_; upper millstone, runner.
_Pierre à —s_; burrstone. _— de fromage_; round flat cheese.
=meulerie=, _n.f._, millstone _or_ grindstone yard.
=meulier=, _n.m._, millstone _or_ grindstone maker.
=meulière=, _n.f._ and _adj._, millstone, burrstone, millstone-quarry.
_Pierre —_; millstone.
=meulon=, _n.m._, stubble-stack _or_ rick; cock (of hay); haulm-stack;
shock _or_ stock (of corn).
=meunerie= (meû-n-rî), _n.f._, miller’s trade; flour mill.
=meunier=, _n.m._, miller; (ich.) chub. _Se faire d’évêque —_; (fig.) to
come down in the world.
=meunière=, _n.f._, miller’s wife; (orni.) long-tailed titmouse.
=meurt de faim=, _n.m._, (_—_) half-starved wretch.
=meurt de soif=, _n.m.f._, drunkard.
=meurtre=, _n.m._, murder, manslaughter, homicide; sin, great shame,
great pity. _Crier au —_; to cry murder; to complain bitterly. _Au —!_
murder!
=meurtri=, =-e=, _part._, bruised, black and blue, contused. _Il est
tout — de coups_; he is covered with bruises.
=meurtri-er=, =-ère=, _n._ and _adj._, assassin, murderer; murderess;
murdering, murderous, deadly; bloody; killing, homicidal.
=meurtrière=, _n.f._, (fort.) loophole.
=meurtrir=, _v.a._, to bruise, to contuse, to make black and blue; (fig.)
to supple (leather); to soften (colors).
=meurtrissure=, _n.f._, bruise, contusion.
=meute=, _n.f._, pack (of hounds). _Chef de —_; whipper-in, leader of the
band.
☉=mévendre=, _v.a._, to undersell.
=mévente=, _n.f._, ☉underselling; (com.) not selling, lack of sale.
=mézair=, _n.m._ _V._ =mésair=.
=mézéréon=, _n.m._, (bot.) mezereon.
=mezzanine=, _n.f._, (arch.) mezzanine.
=mezzo-termine=, _n.m._, (_—_) medium, middle course; mean.
=mezzotinto=, _n.m._, (_—_) mezzotint.
=mgr.=, (ab. of _Monseigneur_) my lord.
=mi=, _invariable particle_, mid, middle, half. Joined to the names
of the months, or to the word _carême_, it forms with them _feminine_
compound nouns which require the article; _la mi-carême_; Mid-Lent;
_la mi-août_; the middle of August. It may also be joined to the nouns
_corps_, _jambe_, _chemin_, _mur_, _côte_, _terme_, _sucre_, when the
compound words thus formed require the preposition _à_ and do not
admit of the article: _à mi-côte_; half-way up the hill. _À —-chemin_;
half-way. _À —-mât_; half-mast high. _À —-jambe_; half-way up the leg;
past the knees. _A mi-corps_; up to the waist. _V._ =mi-parti=.
=mi=, _n.m._, (mus.) E, mi.
=miasmatique=, _adj._, miasmatic, malarious.
=miasme=, _n.m._, miasma, miasm, noxious exhalation.
=miaulement= (miôl-mān), _n.m._, mewing.
=miauler=, _v.n._, to mew.
=mica=, _n.m._, (min.) mica, glimmer, glist, Muscovy glass.
=micacé=, =-e=, _adj._, micaceous.
=micaschiste=, _n.m._, (min.) mica-schist, mica-slate.
=miche=, _n.f._, round loaf; small loaf, hunch, lump.
=michel=, _n.m._, Michael. _La Saint —_, (_n.f._) Michaelmas. _— Morin_;
Jack of all trades.
=micmac=, _n.m._, secret practice, underhand trick _or_ dealing,
intrigue; jobbery, foul-play.
=micocoulier=, _n.m._, (bot.) nettle-tree.
=microcosme=, _n.m._, microcosm.
=micrographie=, _n.f._, micrography.
=micromètre=, _n.m._, (astron.) micrometer.
=microscope=, _n.m._, microscope; magnifying-glass. _Voir tout avec un
—_; to exaggerate everything.
=microscopique=, _adj._, microscopic, microscopical.
=microzoaire=, _n.m._, (zoöl.) microscopic animalcule, infusory.
=miction=, =micturition=, _n.f._, (med.) micturition.
=midi=, _n.m._, noon, noonday, noontide, mid-day, twelve o’clock (in the
day); meridian; south; southern aspect, southern railway. _À —_; at noon,
at twelve o’clock. _Le — de la vie_; the meridian of life. _À l’heure de
—_; at the hour of twelve. _Sur le coup de —_; on the stroke of twelve.
_— est sonné_; it has struck twelve. _Chercher — à quatorze heures_; to
look for knots in a bulrush, to create difficulties where there are none.
_— vrai_; true meridian. _— moyen_; mean meridian. _Les régions du —_;
the regions of the south.
=mie=, _n.f._, crum, crumb; (very little bit).
=mie=, _adv._, (l.u.) not, not a jot, not at all, not in the least.
=mie=, _n.f._, (ab. of _amie_) dear, sweet, love; nurse. _Ma —_; my
darling, my sweet, sweetheart, my love. _Il appelle sa —_; he is calling
his nurse.
=miel=, _n.m._, honey. _Mouche à —_; honey-bee. _Rayon de —_; honey-comb.
_Ruche à —_; bee-hive. ☉_— aérien_; manna. _On prend plus de mouches avec
du — qu’avec du vinaigre_; fair means go farther than foul. _La lune de
—_; the honey-moon.
=miélaison=, _n.f._, honey-time.
=miellat=, _n.m._, (bot.) honey-dew.
=miellé=, =-e=, _adj._, honey-colored; honeyed, sweet, bland; covered
with honey.
=mielleusement= (-eûz-mān), _adv._, sweetly, blandly, honey-like.
=mielleu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, honeyed, fair-spoken; sweet, bland; mawkish.
_Paroles —ses_; honeyed words.
=mien=, =-ne= (mi-in, mi-è-n), _adj._, (l.u.) mine. _Un — frère_; a
brother of mine. _Le —_, _la —ne_, _les —s_, _les —nes_, (_pron._) mine,
my own. _Je ne demande que le —_; I only ask for my own. _Les —s_; my
friends, my relations. _Faire des miennes_; to play tricks, pranks, _or_
follies. [Used as adjective in the singular _only_, and _always_ with the
indefinite article _un_, _une_.]
=miette=, _n.f._, crumb, bit, particle, morsel. _Ramasser les —s_; to
pick up the crumbs. _Mettre en —s_; to crumble.
=mieux=, _adv._, better; rather, best, more, more correctly, more
properly, more comfortable. _J’aimerais —_; I had rather. _En —_; for the
better. _De — en —_; better and better. _Je me porte le — du monde_; I am
as well as can be. _Le — que je pourrai_; as well as I can. _Il a fait
du — qu’il a pu_; he has done his best. _À qui — —_; in emulation of one
another, in eager rivalry. _C’est on ne peut —_; it cannot be better _or_
cannot be improved upon. _Disons —_; or rather, to speak more correctly.
_Vous feriez —_; you had better. _Valoir —_; to be better, to be worth
more. _Faute de —_; for want of something better. _Avoir — que cela_; to
have much better _or_ dearer than that. _Tant —_; so much the better. _Je
ne demande pas —_; nothing would give me greater pleasure.
=mieux=, _n.m._, better; best, best thing, best plan; improvement. _Le —
est l’ennemi du bien_; let well alone. _Il y a du — dans son état_; he
is better. _Faire de son —_, _faire du — qu’on peut_; to do one’s best, to
do the best one can. _Au —_; at best; for the best. _Pour le —_; for the
best.
=mieux=, _adj._, better. _Il n’y a rien de —_; there is nothing better.
=mieux-disant=, =-e=, _adj._, better _or_ best spoken; more _or_ most
eloquent.
=mieux-être=, _n.m._, better _or_ best condition; improvement in one’s
condition; increase of comfort.
=mieux-faisant=, =-e=, _adj._, best-acting, most kind, most generous;
(hist.) the (best) horse in a tournament.
=mièvre=, _adj._, (fam.) arch, roguish; quaint, affected style of writing.
=mièvrerie= _or_ =mièvreté=, _n.f._, (fam.) roguishness, archness; piece
of roguery, prank; affectedness, quaintness in writing.
*=mignard=, =-e=, _adj._, delicate, pretty; mincing. _Manières —es_;
mincing manners.
*=mignardement=, _adv._, delicately, daintily, mincingly.
*=mignarder=, _v.a._, to cocker, to fondle, to cuddle, to indulge. _— un
enfant_; to cocker a child. _— son style_; to be over nice in writing.
_Se —_; to take great care of one’s self.
*=mignardise=, _n.f._, delicacy, delicateness; mincing over nicety;
fondling, cockering, cuddling; (bot.) feathered pink.
*=mignon=, =-ne=, _adj._, delicate, pretty, neat, tiny. _Bouche —ne_;
pretty, small mouth. _Pied —_; neat foot. _Argent —_; spare money,
pocket-money.
*=mignon=, _n.m._, darling, pet, favorite; minion.
*=mignonne=, _n.f._, darling, fondling, favorite; a kind of pear;
(print.) emerald, minion.
*=mignonnement=, _adv._, delicately, finely, nicely.
*=mignonnette=, _n.f._, mignonette (sort of lace); ground pepper; (bot.)
feathered pink.
☉*=mignoter=, _v.a._, (fam.) to fondle; to cocker; to cuddle.
☉*_se_ =mignoter=, _v.r._, (fam.) to cocker one’s self, to nurse one’s
self.
☉*=mignotise=, _n.f._, (fam.) blandishment, endearment; caress.
=migraine=, _n.f._, sick- _or_ nervous-headache.
=migrat-eur=, =-rice=, _adj._, migrating, migratory.
=migration=, _n.f._, migration.
=migratoire=, _adj._, migratory.
=mijaurée=, _n.f._, (fam.) affected, finical woman; humbug.
=mijoter=, _v.a._, (cook.) to cause to simmer; (fam.) to fondle, to
cocker; (fig.) to contrive, to plot, to brew.
_se_ =mijoter=, _v.r._, (fam.) to cocker one’s self, to nurse one’s self;
(cook.) to boil gently, to simmer.
=mikado=, _n.m._, (_—s_) Mikado.
=mil=, _adj._, one thousand. [Used for the _first_ thousand in dates
of the Christian era only.] _L’an — huit cent cinquante_; the year one
thousand eight hundred and fifty.
=mil=, _n.m._, (bot.) millet.
=milady= (-lè-), _n.f._ (_miladies_), my lady.
=milan=, _n.m._, (orni.) kite.
=milandre=, _n.m._, (ich.) tope.
=milaneau=, _n.m._, young kite.
=milésiaque=, _adj._, Milesian.
=miliaire=, _n.f._ and _adj._, (med., anat.) miliaria; miliary. _Fièvre
—_; miliaria, miliary fever.
=miliasse=, _n.f._, hominy, hasty-pudding.
=milice=, _n.f._, militia; soldiery, soldiers; ☉war, warfare. _Soldat de
la —_; militiaman. _Tirer pour la —_; to ballot for the militia.
=milicien= (-si-in), _n.m._, militiaman.
=milieu=, _n.m._, middle, midst, heart, center; expedient, medium, mean,
way, expedient, second course; sphere, society, company. _Au — de la
foule_; in the midst of the crowd. _Au beau —_; in the very middle. _Au —
des hommes_; among men. _L’air est le — dans lequel nous vivons_; the air
is the medium in which we live. _Il faut savoir garder le juste —_; we
must know how to observe the golden mean. _— de salon_; center ottoman.
=milieu=, _adj._, middle. [Only used in the expression _le point —_; the
middle point.]
=militaire=, _n.m._ and _adj._, military man, soldier, military,
soldiery; soldierly, soldierlike, warlike, military. _L’art_, _la
discipline_, _—_; military art, discipline.
=militairement= (-tèr-mān), _adv._, militarily.
=militant=, =-e=, _adj._, (theol.) militant. _L’église —e_; the church
militant.
=militer=, _v.n._, to militate, to make (for _or_ against). _Cette raison
milite pour moi_; that reason militates in my favor.
=mille=, _n.m._ and _adj._, thousand, a thousand, one thousand. _Les
— et une nuits_; the thousand and one nights. _On a dit cela — et —
fois_; that has been said thousands of times. _Le premier —_; the first
thousand. _L’an —_; the year one thousand.
=mille=, _n.m._, mile (= 1,608 mètres).
*=mille-feuille=, _n.f._, (_—_) (bot.) milfoil, yarrow.
=mille-fleurs=, _n.f._, (_—_) all-flower. _Eau de —_; extract of all
flowers; (_med._) cow-water (taken as a remedy). _Huile de —_; oil of
cow-dung. _Rossolis de —_; all-flower cordial.
=millénaire= (mil-lé-), _adj._, millenary.
=millénaire=, _n.m._, millennium; millenarian.
=millénarisme=, _n.m._, millenarianism.
☉=millepède=, _n.m._ _V._ =mille-pieds=.
=mille-pertuis=, _n.m._, (_—_) (bot.) St.-John’s-wort.
=mille-pieds=, _n.m._, (_—_) (ent.) milliped.
=millépore=, _n.m._, millepore.
=millésime= (mil-lé-zi-m), _n.m._, date, year (of a medal, coin,
monument).
*=millet=, _n.m._, (bot.) millet grass, millet.
=milliaire=, _n.m._ and _adj._, milestone; miliary. _Borne —_, _pierre
—_; milestone. _— doré_; (_milliarum aureum_) the milestone set up by
Augustus in the Forum.
=milliard=, _n.m._, one thousand millions.
=milliasse=, _n.f._, (fam.) thousands, swarms (vast number).
=millième=, _n.m._ and _adj._, thousandth.
=millier=, _n.m._, thousand, thousand-weight. _— de fer_; thousand-weight
of iron. _Un — d’arbres_; a thousand trees. _Des — d’arbres_; thousands
of trees. _On en trouve par —s_; they are to be found in thousands.
=milligramme=, _n.m._, milligram (French weight; ·0154 grain).
=millilitre=, _n.m._, milliliter (French measure; ·06103 cubic inch).
=millimètre=, _n.m._, millimeter (French measure; ·03937 inch).
=million=, _n.m._, million.
=millionième=, _n.m._ and _adj._, millionth.
=millionnaire=, _n.m.f._ and _adj._, millionaire; person extremely rich;
worth millions. _C’est un —_, _il est —_; he is a millionaire, he is
worth millions.
=millouin= _or_ =milouin=, _n.m._, (orni.) pochard, canvas-back duck.
=milord= (-lor), _n.m._, (_milords_) lord, my lord; your lordship
(French); cab, phaeton (private); (pop.) rich man. _C’est un —_; he is a
nabob.
=milréis= (-is), _n.m._, milreis (Portuguese coin).
=mime=, _n.m._ and _adj._, (antiq.) mime; mimer; mimic; mimical.
=mimer=, _v.a._, to mimic.
=mimi=, _n.m.f._, darling, puss, pet, sweetheart.
=mimique=, _n.f._ and _adj._, art of imitating, mimicry; mimic, mimical.
=mimosa=, _n.f._, (bot.) mimosa (the sensitive-plant). [In botanical
language this and all other names of plants ending in _a_ are masculine.]
=mimule=, _n.m._, (bot.) monkey-flower.
=minable=, _adj._, (fam.) pitiful, wretched-looking; seedy, shabby.
=minage=, _n.m._, (feudalism) toll-dues, corn-duty.
=minaret=, _n.m._, minaret; (mining) shaft.
=minauder=, _v.n._, to mince, to simper, to smirk, to be lackadaisical.
=minauderie= (mi-nô-drî), _n.f._, affected, lackadaisical manners;
lackadaisicalness, simpering, smirking.
=minaudi-er=, =-ère=, _adj._ and _n._, affected, lackadaisical; affected,
lackadaisical person.
=mince=, _adj._, thin, slender, puny, shallow, poor, slight, scanty;
trivial, vulgar. _Esprit —_; shallow wit. _C’est un homme bien —_; he is
but a shallow man. _Taille —_; slim _or_ slender waist. _Il est d’un —_;
he is as shallow as you like, _or_ as they make them.
=mine=, _n.f._, look, aspect, mien, appearance; show; air, figure, style.
_Il a la — trompeuse_; he has a deceitful look. _— fière_; proud look.
_Il ne faut pas juger des gens à la —_; people should not be judged by
their looks. _Homme de bonne —_; good-looking man. _De mauvaise —_;
ill-looking. _Avoir bonne —_; to look well. _Avoir mauvaise —_; to look
ill. _Il a la — d’être riche_; he looks like a rich man. _J’ai bien la
— de payer vos folies_; it seems as if I shall have to pay for your
follies. _Faire — d’être fâché_; to pretend to be angry. _Faire bonne
— à quelqu’un_; to greet any one pleasantly. _Faire mauvaise — à_; to
receive coldly, to look daggers at. _Faire bonne — à mauvais jeu_; to put
a good face on matters. _Faire la — à quelqu’un_; to pout at any one.
_Faire la —_; to look displeased. _Payer de —_; to be all outside show.
=mine=, _n.f._, mine; ore; source, store; plot, secret; mine (French
measure, 78 liters); (Grec. antiq.) mina. _— d’or_; gold-mine. _— de
charbon de terre_; coal-pit. _Le puits de la —_; the shaft of the mine.
_— de plomb_; lead-mine; plumbago, black-lead pencil. _— d’argent
cornée_; soft silver-ore. _— d’argent rouge_; silver-ore (mixed with
arsenic and sulphur). _— à bocarder_; ore rough from the mine. _—
élevée_; upright mine. _— profonde_; mine with downward lodes. _— sèche_;
hard ore. _—s vives_; rich mines. _Faire jouer une —_; (milit.) to spring
a mine. _Eventer la —_; (milit.) to discover and destroy the enemy’s
mine; (fig.) to discover the plot; to baffle any one’s designs.
=miner=, _v.a._, to mine, to undermine, to sap; to hollow, to waste, to
wear away; to consume, to waste by slow degrees, to impair, to prey upon.
_— un bastion_; (milit.) to mine a bastion. _L’eau mine la pierre_; water
wears away stone. _Cette maladie le mine_; that disease is wearing him
away. _Se —_; to become undermined.
=mineral=, _n.m._, ore. _— lavé_; buddled ore. _Extraire le —_; to dig
out ore. _— brut_; raw ore.
=minéral=, _n.m._, mineral.
=minéral=, =-e=, _adj._, mineral.
=minéralisateur=, _n.m._, (chem., min.) mineralizer.
=minéralisat-eur=, =-rice=, _adj._, (chem., min.) mineralizing.
=minéralisation=, _n.f._, (chem., min.) mineralization.
=minéraliser=, _v.a._, (chem., min.) to mineralize.
=minéralogie=, _n.f._, mineralogy.
=minéralogique=, _adj._, mineralogical, mineralogic.
=minéralogiste=, _n.m._, mineralogist.
☉=minéralogue= (-log), _n.m._ _V._ =minéralogiste=.
=minerve=, _n.f._, (myth.) Minerva; (fam.) head, brain, brains, reason.
_Tirer quelque chose de sa —_; (fam.) to draw, to get, anything from
one’s head, from one’s brains. _Arbre de —_; (poet.) olive-tree. _Oiseau
de —_; (poet.) the owl.
=minet=, _n.m._, =-te=, _n.f._, puss, kitten.
=mineur=, _n.m._, miner, underminer, pitman.
=mineur=, =-e=, _adj._, minor, under age; minor, less, lesser; (mus.)
minor. _Frère —_; Minorite, Franciscan.
=mineur=, _n.m._, =-e=, _n.f._, minor; (jur.) infant.
=mineur=, _n.m._, (mus.) minor mode; (in convents) minor.
=mineure=, _n.f._, (log.) minor.
=miniature=, _n.f._, miniature. _Portrait en —_; miniature-portrait.
_Peintre en —_; miniature-painter.
=miniaturiste=, _n.m.f._, miniature-painter.
=mini-er=, =-ère=, _adj._, pertaining to mines.
=minière=, _n.f._, ore; pit.
_à_ =minimâ=, _adv._ _Appel à —_; (jur.) appeal by the crown when a
sentence is too lenient.
=minime=, _adj._, very small, very slender, very trifling, trifling,
inconsiderable.
=minime=, _n.m._, Minim (monk).
☉=minime=, _n.f._, (mus.) minim.
=minimum= (-mom), _n.m._, (_—s_) (math.) (_minima_), minimum, lowest.
=ministère=, _n.m._, ministry, agency; services; administration,
department, functions; minister’s office; ministration. _Le — public_;
public authorities; magistrates. _Cela n’est pas de mon —_; that does not
belong to my office. _Le — des affaires étrangères_, _de l’intérieur_,
_de la guerre_; the foreign, the home, the war, office.
=ministériel=, =-le=, _adj._, ministerial.
=ministériellement= (-rièl-mān), _adv._, ministerially.
=ministre=, _n.m._, minister; clergyman, rector, vicar; servant. _Le
premier —_; the prime minister, the premier. _— d’état_; minister of
state. _— du commerce_; president of the board of trade. _Les —s de
l’autel_; the priests. _— de la Marine_; first Lord of the Admiralty.
_— de l’Intérieur_; the Home Minister. _— des Affaires Etrangères_; the
Foreign Minister.
=minium= (-om), _n.m._, (_n.p._) (min.) minium, red lead.
=minois=, _n.m._, pretty face, looks, air, appearance.
=minon=, _n.m._, puss; kitten.
=minoratif=, _n.m._, (med.) laxative, gentle aperient.
=minorati-f=, =-ve=, _adj._, laxative.
=minorité=, _n.f._, minority, nonage; (jur.) infancy.
=minot=, _n.m._, ☉minot (French measure, 39 liters); (nav.) bumkin.
=minotaure=, _n.m._, (myth.) minotaur.
=minoterie=, _n.f._, flour export trade; flour mill, flour store.
=minotier=, _n.m._, miller, flour dealer; flour-exporter.
=minuit=, _n.m._, midnight, twelve o’clock at night. _En plein —_; at the
dead of night, in the middle of the night.
=minuscule=, _adj._, (of letters) small, very small.
=minuscule=, _n.f._, (print.) small letter.
=minute=, _n.f._, minute (of time); moment, instant; small hand
(writing); first draught, rough draught, minute, copy; draught; (astron.,
arch., geom.) minute. _Homme à la —_; punctual man. _Vous êtes toujours à
la —_; you are always punctual. _Faire la — de_; to make a rough draught
of; to take the minutes of. _Sablier de —_; minute-glass. _—!_ stop a bit!
=minuter=, _v.a._, to draw up, to make a rough draught; to minute down;
(l.u.) to design, to intend, to purpose.
=minuterie= (mi-nu-trî), _n.f._, (horl.) minute wheel-work;
minute-wheels; minutes marked on a dial.
=minutie= (-ci), _n.f._, trifle, minutiæ.
=minutieusement= (-ci-eûz-mān), _adv._, minutely.
=minutieu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, minute; circumstantial.
=mioche=, _n.m.f._, (fam.) brat, urchin.
=mi-parti=, =-e=, _adj._, bipartite, divided into two equal but different
parts; half and half. _Les avis ont été —s_; the votes were equally
divided.
=miquelet= (mi-klè), _n.m._, soldier; Spanish bandit.
☉=miquelot= (mi-klô), _n.m._, begging-pilgrim. _Faire le —_; to put on a
sanctified, a sanctimonious, air.
=mirabelle=, _n.f._, (bot.) mirabelle (plum).
=miracle=, _n.m._, miracle, wonder. _À —_; miraculously, extremely well,
wonderfully well. _Faiseur de —s_; miracle-monger. _Crier —_; to cry out
wonderful! _Crier au —_; to declare a thing a miracle. _Opérer des —s_;
to work miracles. _C’est un — de beauté_; she _or_ it is wonderfully
beautiful. _C’est un — de vous voir_; it is a wonder to see you. _Le beau
—!_ not so wonderful after all; _or_ why, is that all!
=miraculeusement= (-leûz-mān), _adv._, miraculously, wonderfully.
=miraculeu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, miraculous, wonderful, marvelous.
=mirage=, _n.m._, mirage; looming; (fig.) shadow, outline, delusion.
=mirauder=, _v.a._ _V._ =mirer=.
=mire=, _n.f._, (artil.) aim; (of firearms) sight, foresight. _Prendre
sa —_; to take aim. _Point de —_; aim, point aimed at; object, end, in
view.
=miré=, _adj._, (hunt.) with tusks curved inwards (of boars).
=mirer=, _v.a._, to aim, to take aim, to aim at, to have in view; to look
at; to examine; to candle (eggs). _— une place_; to aim at a situation.
_— des œufs_; to try eggs (by holding them up to the light).
_se_ =mirer=, _v.r._, to look at one’s self in a glass; to admire one’s
self; (of things) to be reflected. _Se — dans ses plumes_; to take pride
in one’s beauty and dress.
=mirer=, _v.n._, (nav.) to loom, to appear indistinctly; (of precious
stones) to have but few angles, few facets; to take aim.
=mirette=, _n.f._, (bot.) Venus’s looking-glass. _V._ =miroir=.
=mirifique=, _adj._, wonderful, marvelous; admirable, splendid.
=mirliflore=, _n.m._, exquisite, fop, dandy, coxcomb, spark, beau.
=mirlirot=, _n.m._, corruption of =mélilot=, _q.v._
=mirliton=, _n.m._, reed-pipe; bag-wig; tol-de-rol-lol.
=mirmidon= _or_ =myrmidon=, _n.m._, (hist.) Myrmidon; shrimp, pygmy
(pers.).
=mirobolant=, =-e=, _adj._, prodigious, wonderful, stupendous.
=miroder=, _v.a._ _V._ =mirauder= and =mirer=.
=miroir=, _n.m._, mirror, looking-glass, glass; (opt.) mirror, speculum.
_Etamer un —_; to foliate a looking-glass. _— ardent_; burning-mirror.
_Des œufs au —_; fried eggs. _— de Vénus_; (_bot._) Venus’s looking-glass.
=miroitant=, =-e=, _adj._, reflecting (like a mirror), glistening,
glittering, shimmering.
=miroité=, =-e=, _adj._, shot, shiny, glittering, glistening; shimmered;
reflected; (of horses) dapple-bay.
=miroitement=, _n.m._, reflection of the light by polished surfaces;
flashing, shine, glittering, brilliancy, radiance.
=miroiter=, _v.n._, to reflect light, to flash, to shine, to glisten, to
glitter, to shimmer; to radiate. _v.a._, to reflect, to mirror.
=miroiterie= (mi-roa-trî), _n.f._, looking-glass trade _or_ business,
mirror-trade.
=miroiterie=, _n.f._, mirror trade; looking-glass manufactory.
=miroitier= (-tié), _n.m._, looking-glass maker.
=miroton=, _n.m._, (cook.) miroton, beef collope (with onions); (of
fruits) stewed.
=mise=, _part._ _adj._, put; dressed, clad, attired.
=misaine=, _n.f._, (nav.) foresail. _Mât de —_; foremast. _Voile de —_;
foresail.
=misanthrope=, _n.m._, misanthrope, misanthropist, man-hater, hater of
mankind.
=misanthropie=, _n.f._, misanthropy.
=misanthropique=, _adj._, misanthropic; misanthropical.
=miscellanées=, _n.m.pl._, miscellanea, miscellany.
=mischna=, _n.f._ (_n.p._), mischna, mishna.
=miscibilité=, _n.f._, miscibility.
=miscible=, _adj._, miscible; mixable.
=mise=, _n.f._, laying, placing; dress, manner of dressing; deposit,
investment, outlay, disbursement; stake; bidding (at auctions); capital,
share of capital; (l.u.) circulation (of coin). _— à l’eau_; launch (of
a ship). _— hors_; (com.) outlay. _Cet homme est de —_; that man is
presentable. _Cette raison n’est pas de —_; that reason will not pass
_or_ will not hold water. _Cette étoffe n’est pas de —_; that stuff is
not worn, is not in fashion, not fashionable. _Avoir une — simple_; to
dress plainly. _Sa — était de cinq francs_; he had staked five francs.
_— en possession_; taking possession. _— en accusation_; impeachment,
indictment. _— en arrestation_; arrest, apprehension. _— à exécution_;
carrying out. _— en jugement_; trial. _— en musique_; setting to music.
_— en perce_; tapping (of a cask). _— à prix_; upset price. _— en
prévention_; (jur.) commitment. _— en pot_; potting. _— en justice_;
bringing into court. _— à terre_; setting _or_ putting down. _— en
terre_; burial, interment. _— en vigueur_; putting into force. _— en
liberté_; enlargement, release, discharge. _— en scène_; (thea.) getting
up of a dramatic piece. _— en vente_; putting up for sale. _— en œuvre_;
working up (of anything); preparation; employing, using, setting. _— en
pages_; (print.) clicking, making-up. _— en train_; setting to work,
starting; (print.) making ready. _— en vigueur_; enforcement, putting
into force. _De —_; acceptable, admissible.
=miser=, _v.n._, (local ex.) to bid (at auctions).
=misérable=, _adj._, miserable, wretched; wicked; sorry, worthless.
=misérable=, _n.m.f._, wretch, miserable wretch, miscreant. _C’est un —_;
he is a villain, a miscreant. _C’est une —_; she is a wretch. _Les —s_;
the wretched, the outcasts.
=misérablement=, _adv._, miserably, wretchedly; worthlessly, wickedly.
=misère=, _n.f._, misery, wretchedness, distress, want; trouble, plague,
grievous thing, helplessness; trifle, trifling thing. _Il est mort de
faim et de —_; he died of starvation and want. _Prendre le collier de —_;
to make one’s self a drudge. _La — des membres_; the helplessness of the
limbs.
=miséréré=, _n.m._, (med.) iliac passion; (c.rel.) miserere (51st psalm).
=miséricorde=, _n.f._, mercy, tenderness, mercifulness; pardon, quarter,
grace, forgiveness, pitifulness; small seat. _Crier —_; to cry for mercy.
_Il ne mérite point de —_; he deserves no mercy. _Faire —_; to show
mercy. _À tout péché —_; all offenses should be forgiven. _—! il va se
tuer_; mercy upon me! he will kill himself.
=miséricordieusement= (-eûz-mān), _adv._, mercifully, compassionately.
=miséricordieu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, merciful, compassionate, forgiving,
pitiful.
=miss=, _n.f._, (_—_) miss, young lady.
=missel=, _n.m._, missal; mass-book, prayer-book.
=mission=, _n.f._, mission. _Envoyer en —_; to send on a mission.
_Remplir une —_; to perform a mission.
=missionnaire=, _n.m._, missionary.
=missive=, _n.f._ and _adj._, missive.
=mistigri=, _n.m._, pam, loo (card game).
=mistral= _or_ =maëstral=, _n.m._, (local ex.) north-west wind (in
southern France).
=mistress=, _n.f._, (_n.p._) Mrs.
=mitaine=, _n.f._, mitten; (fig.) caution.
=mite=, _n.f._, (ent.) mite; maggot; moth; tick.
=mité=, =-e=, _adj._, moth-eaten, mity.
☉=mithridate=, _n.m._, (pharm.) mithridate. _Vendeur de —_; quack;
braggadocio.
=mitigation=, _n.f._, mitigation.
=mitigé=, =-e=, _part._, mitigated. _Peine —e_; modified penalty.
=mitiger=, _v.a._, to mitigate, to soften, to make less severe, to
modify, to temper, to allay, to assuage, to abate; to qualify.
=miton=, _n.m._, woman’s long mitten.
=mitonnage=, _n.m._, simmering.
=mitonner=, _v.n._, to lie soaking _or_ stewing; to soak, to stew, to
simmer.
=mitonner=, _v.a._, to cocker, to fondle, to cuddle. _— quelqu’un_; to
humor any one. _— une affaire_; to prepare an affair gradually. _Il aime
qu’on le mitonne_; he likes to be cockered.
_se_ =mitonner=, _v.r._, to nurse one’s self, to cocker one’s self;
(cook.) to simmer.
=mitoyen=, =-ne= (mi-toa-yin, -iè-n), _adj._, middle; intermediate;
midway; joint property. _Mur —_; party-wall. _Cloison —ne_; partition
wall between two rooms.
=mitoyenneté= (-toa-ie-n-té), _n.f._, joint property; claims of two
neighbors to a wall, hedge, _or_ ditch; party-right.
*=mitraillade=, _n.f._, discharge, fire of grape-shot.
*=mitraille=, _n.f._, ☉old iron, scrap-iron, scrap-metal; grapeshot;
case-shot, canister-shot, canister; small change, coppers; (nav.)
langrage, langrel-shot. _Charge à —_; case-shot.
=mitrailler=, _v.a._ and _n._, to fire grapeshot, to riddle with
grapeshot.
=mitrailleuse=, _n.f._, (artil.) mitrailleuse, machine gun; Gatling gun.
=mitre=, _n.f._, miter; chimney-pot (shaped like a miter).
=mitré=, =-e=, _adj._, mitered.
=mitron=, _n.m._, journeyman baker; paper cap.
=mitte=, _n.f._, cesspool exhalation; stench; eye-sore from ditto.
=mixte=, _adj._, mixed; mixt; (bot.) common (of buds).
=mixte=, _n.m._, mixed body, compound.
*=mixtiligne=, _adj._, (geom.) mixtilineal, mixtilinear.
=mixtion= (miks-ti-on), _n.f._, (pharm.) mixture.
=mixtionner= (miks-tio-né), _v.a._, to mix, to mingle.
=mixture=, _n.f._, (pharm.) mixture.
=mlle.= ab. of _Mademoiselle_.
=mm.= ab. of _Messieurs_.
=mme.= ab. of _Madame_.
=mnémonique=, _adj._, mnemonic, mnemonical.
=mnémonique= _or_ =mnémotechnie=, _n.f._, mnemonics, mnemotechny.
=mobile=, _adj._, movable; changeable, unsteady, variable; quick, lively,
mobile.
=mobile=, _n.m._, mover, spring, motive power; a soldier of the militia.
_Premier —_; prime mover; _primum mobile_; ringleader. _L’intérêt est le
plus grand — des hommes_; interest is the prime mover in human actions.
=mobile=, _n.f._, militia.
=mobiliaire=, _adj._, movable, personal.
=mobili-er=, =-ère=, _adj._, movable; personal, of personal property.
_Succession —ère_; inheritance of personal property.
=mobilier=, _n.m._, ☉movables; furniture.
=mobilisable=, _adj._, (milit.) that can be mobilized.
=mobilisation=, _n.f._, act of making movable; conversion into movables;
(milit.) mobilization.
=mobiliser=, _v.a._, to convert into movables; (milit.) to draft for
active service, to mobilize.
=mobilité=, _n.f._, mobility, variableness, inconstancy, unsteadiness,
unfixedness, instability, fickleness. _— de caractère_; versatility of
disposition.
=mocassin=, _n.m._, moccasin (shoe).
=modale=, _n.f._ and _adj._, (log.) modal.
=modalité=, _n.f._, (log.) modality.
=mode=, _n.f._, mode, fashion, vogue; way, custom, manner. _pl._,
millinery. _C’est la dernière —_; it is the newest fashion. _Un habit à
la —_; a fashionable coat. _Se mettre à la —_; to dress in the fashion.
_Être à la —_; to be in fashion. _Du bœuf à la —_; a-la-mode beef.
_Marchande de —s_; milliner. _Tante à la — de Bretagne_; father _or_
mother’s first cousin; cousin once removed. _Nièce à la — de Bretagne_;
daughter of first cousin.
=mode=, _n.m._, (gram., log., mus.) mode, way, manner, mood.
=modelage= (mo-dlaj), _n.m._, modeling.
=modelé= (mo-dlé), _n.m._, (sculp.) model (imitation). _adj._, modeled.
=modèle=, _n.m._, model, copy, pattern, sample, design. _— d’écriture_;
copy-slip. _Conformez-vous au —_; keep to the pattern. _Faire le métier
de —_; to serve as a model. _— parfait_; perfect model, paragon.
=modeler= (mo-dlé), _v.a._, to model, to form, to shape, to mold.
_se_ =modeler=, _v.r._, to take for one’s pattern, to take pattern by
_or_ upon. _Il se modèle sur son frère_; he takes pattern by his brother.
=modeler=, _v.a._, to model.
=modeleur= (mo-dleur), _n.m._, modeler.
=modénature=, _n.f._, (arch.) proportion, profile and sweep of a cornice
molding.
=modérat-eur=, _n.m._, =-rice=, _n.f._, moderator, moderatrix.
=modération=, _n.f._, moderation; abatement, diminution; mitigation.
=modéré=, =-e=, _adj._, moderate, reasonable, temperate.
=modérément=, _adv._, moderately, in moderation.
=modérer=, _v.a._, to moderate, to abate; to restrain, to restrict; to
lessen, to reduce. _— ses passions_; to curb one’s passions. _— le zèle
de quelqu’un_; to restrain any one’s zeal.
_se_ =modérer=, _v.r._, to moderate, to moderate one’s self, to keep
one’s temper; to restrain one’s self. _Le temps s’est modéré_; the
weather has become calmer.
=moderne=, _adj._, modern. _À la —_; in the modern style.
=moderne=, _n.m._, modern, modern style.
=moderner=, _v.a._, (arch., l.u.) to modernize.
=moderniser=, _v.a._, to modernize.
=moderniste=, _n.m._, modernist.
=modeste=, _adj._, modest, unassuming, unpretending, quiet, simple,
plain, moderate, poor.
=modestement=, _adv._, modestly, quietly, simply, plainly.
=modestie=, _n.f._, modesty, coyness, simplicity, plainness; moderation.
=modicité=, _n.f._, smallness, lowness, moderateness, reasonableness.
=modificati-f=, =-ve=, _adj._, modifying.
=modificatif=, _n.m._, (gram.) modifying word.
=modification=, _n.f._, modification.
=modifier=, _v.a._, to modify, to change, to alter.
_se_ =modifier=, _v.r._, to become modified.
*=modillon=, _n.m._, (arch.) modillion.
=modique=, _adj._, moderate, small.
=modiquement= (-dik-mān), _adv._, moderately.
=modiste=, _n.m.f._, man-milliner; milliner.
=modulat-eur=, =-rice=, _n._ and _adj._, modulating; modulator.
=modulation=, _n.f._, modulation.
=module=, _n.m._, (arch.) module; (alg.) modulus; diameter (of medals).
=moduler=, _v.a._ and _n._, to modulate.
=moelle=, _n.f._, marrow, pith; (of the land) fat; medulla. _Os à —_;
marrow-bone. _— d’arbre_; pith of a tree. _— épinière_; spinal marrow.
=moelleusement=, _adv._, softly, easily, with softness; (paint.) with
mellowness.
=moelleux=, _n.m._, (paint.) mellowness; softness.
=moelleu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, full of marrow, marrowy; pithy; soft; mellow.
_Voix —se_; mellow voice. _Vin —_; mellow vine (full of body and flavor).
_Discours —_; pithy discourse.
=moellon=, _n.m._, ashlar; rough-stone, ragstone. _— brut_; rubble,
sandstone (for grinding mirrors). _Maçonnerie de —_; ashlar-work.
=mœurs=, _n.f.pl._, manners, morals, morality; habits, inclinations,
ways; customs. _Avoir des —_; to be a man of morals. _N’avoir pas de —_;
to be immoral, dissolute. _Un homme sans —_; an unprincipled man. _Les —
des animaux_; the habits of animals.
=mofette= _or_ =moufette=, _n.f._, (l.u.) fire-damp (mines); ☉(chem.) any
poisonous gas; (mam.) mephitic weasel. _— atmosphérique_; azote, azotic
gas.
=mogol=, _n.m._, Mogul.
=mohair=, _n.m._, mohair, stuff.
=mohican=, _n.m._, Mohican.
=moi=, _personal pron._, I, me, to me. _—! trahir le meilleur de mes
amis!_ what! I betray my best friend! _C’est —_; it is I. _Venez à —_;
come to me. _Quant à —_; as for me. _—-même_; myself. _À —!_ help! help!
here! here! _Parlez-—_; speak to me. _Donnez-le-—_; give it me. _De vous
à —_; between you and me; from you to me.
=moi=, _n.m._, self, ego.
=moïdore=, _n.m._, moidore (Portuguese coin).
=moignet=, _n.m._, long-tailed tit.
*=moignon=, _n.m._, stump (of limbs, tree).
*=moinaille=, _n.f._, (b.s.) monkish crew.
=moindre=, _adj._, less, least, shorter, lower, inferior. _Le —_; least,
shortest, smallest, lowest; meanest, slightest. _La — chose_; the least
thing. _Je n’en ai pas le — souvenir_; I have not the least recollection
of it.
=moindrement=, _adv._, (old) less, least. _Le — du monde_; in the
slightest degree. _Pas le — du monde_; not in the least bit.
=moine=, _n.m._, monk, friar; warming-pan, bed-warmer; (print.) friar. _—
lai_; lay-monk. _Gras comme un —_; as fat as a pig. _L’habit ne fait pas
le —_; it is not the cowl that makes the friar.
=moineau=, _n.m._, sparrow. _adj._, (of horses) cropped. _— franc_;
house-sparrow. _Tirer sa poudre aux —x_; to waste one’s powder and shot.
=moinerie= (moa-n-rî), _n.f._, monkhood, monks.
=moinesse=, _n.f._, (jest.) nun.
*=moinillon=, _n.m._, petty monk _or_ friar.
=moinotin=, _n.m._, (ornith.) coal-tit.
=moins=, _adv._, less, under, wanting, to; minus. _Parlez —_; speak less.
_En — de_; in less than. _De — en —_; less and less, fewer and fewer.
_Rien —_; much less. _Du —_; at least, at any rate, at all events, at
the very least. _C’est — que rien_; it is next to nothing. _Ni plus
ni —_; neither more nor less. _Il ne s’agit de rien — que de sa vie_;
nothing less than his life is at stake. _Il n’est rien — que sage_; he
is anything but prudent. _Il n’y a rien de — vrai que cette nouvelle_;
no news can be further from the truth than this. _Il est une heure — un
quart_; it wants a quarter to one. _A —_; for less. _Vous ne l’aurez pas
à —_; you shall not have it for less. _À — de_; for less than; unless. _À
— que_; unless. _—-value_, (_—-—s_) inferior value.
=moins=, _n.m._, least, less; (alg.) minus. _C’est le — que vous puissiez
faire_; it is the least you can do. _Pas le — du monde_; not in the
least. _Au —_; at least. _Pour le —_; at least, at the least. _Tout
au —_; at the very least. _C’est pour ce soir, au moins!_ it is for
to-night, mind!
=moirage=, _n.m._, (manu.) watering (stuffs), mottling.
=moire=, _n.f._, (manu.) watering; moire antique; watered silk.
=moiré=, =-e=, _adj._, (manu.) waved, watered, mottled. _n.m._, watering.
_— de soie_; watered silk. _— de laine_; moreen.
=moirer=, _v.a._, (manu.) to water (stuffs), to mottle, to wave. _Se —_;
to be watered.
=mois=, _n.m._, month; monthly allowance; month’s pay. _Au —_; by the
month. _Au — de_; in the month of. _Par —_; monthly, so much a month.
=moise=, _n.f._, (carp.) couple, brace, binding piece.
=moiser=, _v.a._, (carp.) to bridge over, to bind, to couple.
=moisi=, _n.m._, moldiness, mustiness.
=moisi=, =-e=, _part._, moldy, musty.
=moisir=, _v.a._, to mold, to make moldy, to make musty.
_se_ =moisir=, _v.r._, to grow moldy, to grow musty.
=moisir=, _v.n._, to grow moldy, musty.
=moisissure=, _n.f._, moldiness, mustiness.
=moissine=, _n.f._, a bundle of vine-branches with the grapes hanging to
them.
=moisson=, _n.f._, harvest; harvest-time; (poet.) year. _Fête de la —_;
harvest home. _Faire la —_; to cut the corn, to gather in the harvest.
=moissonner=, _v.a._, to reap, to cut down, to crop, to mow. _— un
champ_; to reap a field. _Se —_; to be reaped.
=moissonneu-r=, _n.m._, =-se=, _n.f._, reaper, harvestman, harvest-woman.
=moissonneuse=, _n.f._, (agri.) reaping machine.
=moite=, _adj._, moist, damp, clammy.
=moiteur=, _n.f._, moisture, dampness.
=moitié= (-tié), _n.f._, moiety, half; (fam.) better half, wife. _C’est
trop cher de —_; it is too dear by half. _Je l’ai laissé à — chemin_; I
left him half way. _Être_, or _se mettre_, _de — avec quelqu’un_; to go
halves with any one.
=moitié=, =de moitié=, =à moitié=, _adv._, half, by half.
=moka=, _n.m._, mocha. _Du café —_; mocha coffee.
=mol=, _adj.m._ _V._ =mou=.
=molaire=, _n.f._ and _adj._, molar-tooth, mill-tooth, jaw-tooth; molar.
=môle=, _n.m._, mole, jetty-head; pier.
=môle=, _n.f._, (med.) mole.
=moléculaire=, _adj._, molecular.
=molécule=, _n.f._, molecule, particle.
=molène=, _n.f._, (bot.) mullen, mullein.
=molestation=, _n.f._, molestation, annoyance.
=molester=, _v.a._, to molest, to trouble, to vex, to annoy.
=molette=, _n.f._, rowel (of a spur); (vet.) wind-gall; muller (for
colors); (of hair) feather; (rope-making) whirl; (hort.) turf-knife,
turfing-iron.
=molinisme=, _n.m._, molinism.
=moliniste=, _n.m._, molinist.
=molinosisme=, _n.m._, quietism, Molinos’ system.
=mollah=, _n.m._ (_—s_), mollah.
=mollasse=, _adj._, flabby, flimsy, sodden.
=molle=, _n.f._, (ich.) sun-fish.
=molle=, _adj.f._ _V._ =mou=.
=mollement= (mol-mān), _adv._, softly, slackly; feebly; indolently,
effeminately. _Vivre —_; to lead an effeminate life.
=mollesse=, _n.f._, softness, laxity, slackness, tameness, weakness,
indolence; effeminacy. _Vivre dans la —_; to live in effeminacy.
=mollet=, =-te=, _adj._, soft; light (of bread). _Des œufs —s_;
soft-boiled eggs. _Lit —_; soft bed. _Pain —_; light bread.
=mollet=, _n.m._, calf (of the leg).
=molletière=, _n.f._, legging.
=molleton= (mol-ton), _n.m._, swan-skin.
=mollification=, _n.f._, mollification, softening.
=mollifier=, _v.a._, to mollify, to soften. _Se —_; to become soft.
=mollir=, _v.n._, to soften, to grow soft; to mellow (of fruit); to
slacken, to flag, to abate, to faint, to yield, to give way. _Le vent
mollit_; the wind is going down. _v.a._, (nav.) to ease.
=mollusque=, _n.m._, mollusk.
=molosse=, _n.m._, American bat; watch-dog; (ants) molossus.
=moly=, _n.m._, wild garlic.
=molybdène=, _n.m._, (min.) molybden, molybdena.
=môme=, _n.m._, brat, urchin.
=moment=, _n.m._, moment, instant; proper time; occasion, point,
interval; (mec.) momentum. _Attendez un —_; stop a moment. _Il a des —s
de bonté_; he has fits of kindness. _Voici le — de se décider_; now is
the time for decision. _Un —, j’ai à vous parler_; one moment, I want to
speak to you. _Au — de_; on the point of, just as. _Au — où_, _au — que_;
the instant that, just as. _Du — que_; as soon as, since; the moment
that. _Du — que vous le voulez_; since you will have it so. _Je l’attends
d’un — à l’autre_; I expect him every moment. _Dans le —_; in a moment,
in a minute. _En ce —_; at this moment. _À tout —_, _à tous —s_; every
instant, at every turn. _Par —s_; at times, at intervals.
=momentané=, =-e=, _adj._, momentary.
=momentanément=, _adv._, momentarily, for the moment, temporarily, for
the time being.
=momerie= (mô-mrî), _n.f._, mummery.
=momie= (mô-), _n.f._, mummy; dark thin person; old fogy.
=momification=, _n.f._, mummification.
=momifier=, _v.a._, to mummify. _Se —_; to become mummified; to get very
thin.
=mon=, _possessive adj._ _m._, =ma=, _f._, =mes=, _pl.m.f._, my. _Mon
père, ma mère et mes enfants_; my father, mother, and children. _Mon
âme_; my soul. _Mon unique ressource_; my only resource. _Mon bon et
digne ami_; my good and worthy friend. [_Mon_ is used instead of _ma_
(in the feminine) before a vowel or silent _h_.]
=monacal=, =-e=, _adj._, monachal, monkish.
=monacalement= (-kal-mān), _adv._, like a monk.
=monachisme= (-shism), _n.m._, monachism.
=monade=, _n.f._, monad.
=monadelphie=, _n.f._, (bot.) monadelphia.
=monandrie=, _n.f._, (bot.) monandria.
=monarchie= (-shi), _n.f._, monarchy.
=monarchique= (-shik), _adj._, monarchical, monarchic.
=monarchiquement= (-shik-mān), _adv._, monarchically.
=monarchiser= (-shi-zé), _v.a._, to monarchize.
=monarchiste= (-shist), _n.m._, monarchist.
=monarque=, _n.m._, monarch, lord.
=monastère=, _n.m._, monastery, convent.
=monastique=, _adj._, monastic, monastical.
=monaut=, _adj.m._, one-eared (of animals).
=monbin=, _n.m._, (bot.) hog-plum.
=monceau=, _n.m._, heap, pile; drift, mass; lot.
=mondain=, =-e=, _n._ and _adj._, worldling; worldly, worldly-minded;
mundane; earthly.
=mondainement= (-dè-n-mān), _adv._, mundanely, in a worldly way.
=mondanité=, _n.f._, worldliness, worldly vanities.
=monde=, _n.m._, world, universe; mankind, men; people; company, society,
set; servants, retinue, attendants; customers. _Faire le tour du —_;
to go round the world. _L’autre —_; the next world. _Dans l’autre —_;
hereafter. _Il n’est plus du —_; he is dead. _L’an du —_; in the year
of the world. _Il voit beaucoup de —_; he sees a great deal of company.
_Peu de —_, _pas grand —_; few people, not many people. _Avoir du —_; to
have company, visitors; to entertain. _Connaître son —_; to know whom one
has to deal with. _Le mieux du —_; the best in the world. _Pour tout au
—_; for all the world; for anything. _Le beau —_; people of fashion, the
fashionable world. _Le petit —_; little people. _Ainsi va le —_; such
is the world. _Tout votre — est-il arrivé?_ has all your party arrived?
_Venir au —_; to come into the world. _C’est vieux comme le —_; it is as
old as the hills. _Il y a un — fou_; there is a great crush. _Se moquer
du —_; to make fun of people. _C’est le bout du —_; it is the utmost you
will get. _Tout le — et son père_; all the world and his wife. _Savoir
son —_; to know how to behave.
=monde=, _adj._, (rel.) clean.
=mondé=, =-e=, _part._, cleansed. _De l’orge —_; hulled _or_ husked
barley.
=monder=, _v.a._, to cleanse; to hull, to husk (barley).
=mondificati-f=, =-ve=, _adj._, (med.) cleansing.
=mondifier=, _v.a._, (med.) to cleanse, to wash.
=mondor=, _n.m._, man made of money, rolling in money.
=mondrain=, _n.m._, sand-hill, sand-mound.
=monétaire=, _adj._, monetary.
=monétisation=, _n.f._, making and stamping of money, minting,
monetization.
=monétiser=, _v.a._, to give currency to paper-money, to monetize.
=mongol=, =-e=, _adj._, mongolian, mogul.
=moniteur=, _n.m._, monitor, adviser, prefect (at school); Gazette.
=monition=, _n.f._, (ecc.) monition.
=monitoire=, _n.m._, _adj._, (ecc.) monitory.
=monitor=, _n.m._, (nav.) monitor.
=monitorial=, =-e=, _adj._, (ecc.) monitory.
=monnaie=, _n.f._, coin, money; change; mint; coinage; currency. _Hôtel
de la —_; the mint. _Fausse —_; counterfeit coin. _Battre —_; to coin
money; to raise money. _Papier —_; paper money. _— de compte_; nominal
money. _— courante_; current money, currency. _— faible_; light money.
_— légale_; legal tender. _— de singe_; sham coin; soft sawder, blarney.
_Petite —_; small change. _Donnez-moi la — d’un franc_; give me change
for a franc. _Payer en — de singe_; to laugh at one’s creditors, instead
of paying them. _Rappeler la —_; to call in money. _Donner_, or _rendre_,
_à quelqu’un la — de sa pièce_; to pay any one back in his own coin.
=monnayage=, _n.m._, coining, minting. _Droit de —_; mintage.
=monnayer=, _v.a._, to coin, to mint, to stamp.
=monnayeur=, _n.m._, coiner, minter. _Faux —_; coiner of base money;
forger.
=mono=, a prefix from Gr. μόνος.
=monocéros=, _n.m._, monoceros, unicorn, narwhal.
=monochrome=, _n.m._ and _adj._, monochrome.
=monocle=, _n.m._, (single) eye-glass.
=monocorde=, _n.m._, monochord.
=monocotylédone=, _n.f._ and _adj._, (bot.) monocotyledon, endogen;
monocotyle, monocotyledonous, endogenous.
=monodie=, _n.f._, monody.
=monœcie= (-nè-sî), _n.f._, (bot.) monœcia.
=monogame=, _n.m.f._ and _adj._, monogamist; monogamous.
=monogamie=, _n.f._, monogamy.
=monogrammatique=, _adj._, monogrammatic, monogrammic.
=monogramme=, _n.m._, monogram.
=monographie=, _n.f._, monography.
=monoïque=, _adj._, (bot.) monœcious, monœcian.
=monolithe=, _n.m._ and _adj._, monolith; monolithic, monolithal.
=monologue= (-log), _n.m._, monologue; soliloquy.
=monomane=, _n.m.f._ and _adj._, monomaniac; monomaniacal.
=monomanie=, _n.f._, monomania.
=monôme=, _n.m._, (alg.) monomial.
=monomètre=, _n.m._, monometer.
=monopétale=, _adj._, (bot.) monopetalous.
=monophylle=, _adj._, (bot.) monophyllous.
=monopole=, _n.m._, monopoly.
=monopoleur=, _n.m._, monopolist.
=monopolisa-teur=, =-trice=, _n._ and _adj._, monopolizing; monopolizer.
=monopolisation=, _n.f._, monopolization.
=monopoliser=, _v.a._, to monopolize.
=monoptère=, _adj._, (arch.) monopteral.
=monorime=, _adj._, (poet.) with but one rhyme, being a monorhyme.
=monosépale=, _adj._, (bot.) monosepalous.
=monosperme=, _adj._, (bot.) monospermous.
=monostique=, _n.m._, monostich.
=monosyllabe=, _n.m._ and _adj._, (gram.) monosyllable; monosyllabic.
=monosyllabique=, _adj._, monosyllabic.
=monothéisme=, _n.m._, monotheism.
=monothéiste=, _n.m._ and _adj._, monotheist; monotheistic.
=monotone=, _adj._, monotonous.
=monotonie=, _n.f._, monotony, sameness.
=monotriglyphe=, _n.m._, (arch.) monotriglyph.
=mons.=, _n.m._, ab. of _Monsieur_, sir; master so and so (used in
contempt).
*=monseigneur=, _n.m._ (_messeigneurs_, _nosseigneurs_), my lord; your
Grace; sir; your Royal or Imperial Highness; (in thieves’ slang) jemmy,
crowbar.
=monseigneuriser=, _v.a._, (jest.) to style my lord; to break open, to
jemmy.
=monsieur= (meu-sieu), _n.m._, sir, gentleman; this gentleman, the
gentleman; the king of France’s eldest brother. _— A._; Mr. A. _Non,
—_; no, sir. _— dit_; the gentleman says; this gentleman says; Mr.
(so-and-so) says. _Ce —_; that gentleman; (ironically) that man, that
fellow. _— le Président_; Mr. President. _— le maire_; Mr. Mayor. _Faire
le —_; to play the fine gentleman. _C’est un vilain —_; he is a nasty
fellow. _— veut-il déjeuner?_ would you like breakfast, sir? _— votre
père_; your father.
=monstre=, _n.m._, monster.
=monstrueusement= (-eûz-mān), _adv._, monstrously, prodigiously.
=monstrueu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, monstrous, prodigious.
=monstruosité=, _n.f._, monstrosity, anomaly.
=mont=, _n.m._, mount, mountain. _Le — Etna_; mount Etna. _Aller par
—s et par vaux_; to go up hill and down dale. _—-de-piété_ (_—s-—_);
mont-de-piété, pawn-shop, lombard-house. _Commissionnaire au —-de-piété_;
pawnbroker. _Mettre au —-de-piété_; to pawn. _—s et merveilles_;
wonderful things, wonderful tales, wonders.
=montage=, _n.m._, carrying up; taking up; (arts) mounting, setting,
putting together.
*=montagnard=, =-e=, _adj._, mountain, highland.
*=montagnard=, _n.m._, =-e=, _n.f._, mountaineer, highlander; democrat of
the Convention and of the National Assembly of France, 1793.
*=montagne=, _n.f._, mountain; party of the democrats in the Convention
and in the National Assembly of France, 1793. _Chaîne de —s_; range,
ridge, of mountains. _Pays de —s_; mountainous, hilly country. _La — a
enfanté une souris_; the mountain has brought forth a mouse.
*=montagneu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, mountainous, hilly.
=montanisme=, _n.m._, montanism.
=montaniste=, _n.m._, montanist.
=montant=, _n.m._, (of a ladder, etc.) upright; amount, sum total; coming
in _or_ rising tide; ☉next for promotion; (carp.) upright, door-post;
high flavor, pungency; energy, smartness.
=montant=, =-e=, _adj._, ascending, rising; flowing, coming in;
high-necked (of dresses); (milit.) relieving. _Un chemin —_; a hilly
road. _La marée —e_; the flowing tide. _Une robe —e_; a high-necked
dress. _La garde —e_; (milit.) the relieving guard. _En —_; upward,
up-hill. _Aller en —_; to rise; to go up hill.
=monte=, _n.f._, (of animals) serving, covering season.
=montée=, _n.f._, stair, staircase, pair of stairs; flight; acclivity,
ascent; rise, slope; (arch.) height.
=monter=, _v.n._, to go up, to come up, to get up, to ascend, to mount,
to ride; to rise; to boil up (of liquids); to come in; to grow up, to
shoot, to increase; to amount. _— et descendre_; to go up and down.
_— sur un arbre_; to climb up a tree. _— à sa chambre_; to go up to
one’s room. _— à cheval_; to ride. _— en chaire_; to mount the pulpit.
_Montez!_ come up! up with you! _— sur le Parnasse_; to turn poet. _La
marée monte_; the tide is coming in.
=monter=, _v.a._, to mount, to carry up, to lift up; to make up; to
raise, to prepare; to wind up; to equip, to furnish, to stock; to mount,
to ride; to put together; to furnish, to supply. _— une montre_; to wind
up a watch. _— un diamant_; to set a diamond. _— sa lyre_; to tune one’s
lyre. _— le gouvernail_; to hang the rudder. _— un vaisseau_; to have the
command of a vessel. _— un canot_; to man a boat. _— la garde_; to mount
guard. _— un cheval_; to mount a horse; to train a horse. _Faire —_; to
send up, to store up; to take up, to bring up.
_se_ =monter=, _v.r._, to amount; to rise; to be _or_ to get excited; to
supply one’s self, to take in a stock, a supply (of).
=monteur=, _n.m._, setter, mounter (of jewels).
=montfaucon=, _n.m._, (near Paris) the gibbet, the gallows.
=montgolfière=, _n.f._, fire-balloon.
=monticule=, _n.m._, hillock, knoll.
=montie= (-tî), _n.f._, (bot.). _V._ =mouron=.
=mont-joie=, _n.f._, (_—s-—_) title of the first king at arms in France;
ancient war-cry of the French.
☉=mont-joie=, _n.f._, (_—s-—_) cairn.
=montoir=, _n.m._, mounting, riding; horse-block; near side. _Côté du —_;
near side. _Côté hors —_; off-side. _Difficile_, _doux au —_; difficult,
easy to mount _or_ ride.
=montrable=, _adj._, showable, presentable.
=montre=, _n.f._, watch; sample; show, pattern, parade; show-case,
show-window, exhibition. _— à réveil_; alarum-watch. _— marine_;
chronometer. _— à répétition_; repeating-watch, repeater. _— à double
boîte_; double-cased watch. _— à savonnette_; hunting-watch. _—
détraquée_; watch out of order. _Boîte de —_; watch-case. _Il est une
heure à ma —_; it is one o’clock by my watch. _Faire — de son esprit_; to
show off one’s wit. _En —_; prominently; (com.) in the window. _Affiche
de —_; show-card.
=montrer=, _v.a._, to show, to exhibit, to point out; to teach; to set
forth, to intimate. _— une chose au doigt_; to point out a thing. _— la
porte à quelqu’un_; to show any one the door. _— quelqu’un du doigt_; to
point one’s finger at any one. _Se faire — du doigt_; to get pointed at.
_Cela montre la corde_; that is threadbare.
_se_ =montrer=, _v.r._, to show one’s self; to appear; to prove one’s
self to be; to look; to turn out.
=montreur=, _n.m._, shower, showman.
=montueu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, hilly, mountainous.
=monture=, _n.f._, animal for riding; nag; mounting, setting (of gems);
head-stall (of a bridle). _— d’un fusil_; stock of a gun. _— d’éperon_;
spur leather. _Qui veut aller loin ménage sa —_; (prov.) he who wishes to
live long, avoids excess.
=monument=, _n.m._, monument; tomb; memorial.
=monumental=, =-e=, _adj._, monumental.
=moquable=, _adj._, laughable, ridiculous.
=moque=, _n.f._, (local) mug; (nav.) dead-eye, dead-block. _— à un trou_;
heart. _— de civadière de trélingage_; sprit-sail sheet-block.
_se_ =moquer=, _v.r._, to mock, to jeer, to deride, to make game of,
to make fun of, to make a fool of, to ridicule, to laugh at; to set at
defiance, to disregard; to jest; to scoff at. _On s’est moqué de lui_;
they laughed at him. _Se faire — de soi_; to get laughed at. _Je m’en
moque_; what do I care. _Je ne m’en moque pas mal_; I don’t care a straw.
_Vous vous moquez, je pense_; you are in jest, I suppose.
=moquerie= (mo-krî), _n.f._, mockery, scoff, scorn, jeer, derision, jest.
=moquette=, _n.f._, Wilton carpet; velvet pile; decoy-bird.
=moqueu-r=, =-se=, _adj._, mocking, sneering, scornful, jeering, deriding.
=moqueu-r=, _n.m._, =-se=, _n.f._, derider, mocker, scoffer, quiz, wag.
_— d’Amérique_; mocking-bird.
*=morailles=, _n.f.pl._, horse-twitchers.
*=moraillon=, _n.m._, hasp, clasp.
=moraine=, _n.f._, (geol.) moraine.
=moral=, =-e=, _adj._, moral, mental.
=moral=, _n.m._, mental faculties, mind; spirit, morale, spirits (of
troops, etc.). _Il faut vous remonter le —_; you must cheer up _or_ shake
off your depression of spirits.
=morale=, _n.f._, ethics; morals, moral philosophy, morality; rebuke,
lecture. _Il faut lui faire une bonne —_; you must give him a good
lecture. _Faire de la —_; to moralize, to lecture.
=moralement= (-ral-mān), _adv._, morally.
=moralisation=, _n.f._, moralization.
=moraliser=, _v.n._, to moralize.
=moraliseur=, _n.m._, (b.s.) moralizer.
=moraliste=, _n.m._, moralist, moralizer.
=moralité=, _n.f._, morality, morals; moral reflection; moral sense _or_
responsibility.
=moraves=, _adj._, Moravian brethren. _V._ =hernutes=.
=morbide=, _adj._, (paint., sculpt.) soft, delicate; (med.) morbid.
=morbidesse=, _n.f._, (paint.) morbidezza; suppleness, ease, elegance of
attitude, manners, gait; softness, delicacy.
=morbifique=, _adj._, morbific.
=morbleu!= _int._, zounds!
=morce=, _n.f._, curb-stone, binding-stone.
=morceau=, _n.m._, bit, piece, morsel, fragment, snack, mouthful. _—
délicat_ or _bon —_; tit-bit. _Aimer les bons —x_; to love good things.
_Il a ses —x taillés_; he has just enough to live on _or_ he must not
go beyond his orders. _Manger un —_; to eat a morsel, a mouthful. _—
d’ensemble_; (mus.) concerted piece. _Mettre en —x_; to tear to pieces.
=morceler=, _v.a._, to parcel, to parcel out, to partition, to cut up; to
mangle.
_se_ =morceler=, _v.r._, to be parceled out.
=morcellement= (-sèl-man), _n.m._, dividing into parcels, parceling out,
partition, subdivision.
=mordache=, _n.f._, rice-chops, tongs; gag.
=mordacité=, _n.f._, mordacity, corrosiveness; virulency, bitterness,
sarcasm, causticity.
=mordant=, =-e=, _adj._, biting; cutting, sarcastic, keen, sharp;
poignant. _Style —_; sarcastic, cutting style.
=mordant=, _n.m._, (dy. gilding) mordant; sarcasm, keenness, point.
=mordicant=, =-e=, _adj._, mordant, corrosive; biting, acrid, pungent.
=mordicus= (-kus), _adv._, tenaciously, stoutly, doggedly.
☉=mordienne= (-di-èn), _n.f._, only used in the phrase _À la grosse —_;
unceremoniously, bluntly.
=mordieu=, _int._, zounds! s’death!
*=mordiller=, _v.a._, to nibble, to bite at, to gnaw.
=mordoré=, =-e=, _adj._, reddish brown.
=mordorure=, _n.f._, reddish brown (color).
=mordre=, _v.a._, to bite, to nibble; to corrode, to gnaw; to carp at, to
find fault with. _— la poussière_; to bite the dust. _Chien qui aboie ne
mord pas_; barking dogs do not bite.
_se_ =mordre=, _v.r._, to bite one’s self. _Se — la langue_, _les
lèvres_; to bite one’s tongue, one’s lip; (fig.) to repent, to be
annoyed. _S’en — les doigts_; to repent of anything.
=mordre=, _v.n._, to bite, to nibble; to eat away; to hold fast, to take
effect, to take to, to like; to get on with, to come at; to criticize;
to censure; (print.) to cover. _Je n’ai jamais pu — au Latin_; I was
never able to take to Latin. _Il ne saurait y —_; it is beyond his reach;
he will never attain to it. _— à l’hameçon_; to take, to snap at, _or_
swallow, the bait.
=mordu=, =-e=, _adj._, (bot.) premorse (ending abruptly, as if bitten
off).
=more=, _n.m._, Moor; blackamoor.
☉=moreau=, _adj._, extremely black. _Cheval —_; jet-black horse.
=morelle=, _n.f._, (bot.) nightshade.
=morène=, _n.f._, (bot.) frogbit.
=moresque=, _adj._, Moorish, moresque.
=moresque=, _n.f._, morris-dance; (paint.) moresque.
=moret= _or_ =mouret=, _n.m._, (bot.) whortleberry.
=morfil=, _n.m._, wire edge (of knives, of razors); elephant’s tusks,
(unwrought) ivory.
=morfondre=, _v.a._, to chill.
_se_ =morfondre=, _v.r._, to catch cold, to be chilled; to wait in vain,
to dance attendance; (vet.) to morfounder. _La pâte se morfond_; the
dough is losing its heat. _Il s’y est morfondu_; he wasted much time over
it.
=morfondu=, =-e=, _adj._, chilled, frozen; disappointed, downcast; kept
waiting.
=morfondure=, _n.f._, (vet.) morfoundering; (old) cold, chill, catarrh.
=morganatique=, _adj._, morganatic; left-handed (of marriages).
=morgeline=, _n.f._, (bot.) chickweed.
=morgue= (morg.), _n.f._, haughty look, haughtiness; arrogance,
self-sufficiency, conceit; inspection room (of a prison); morgue,
dead-house.
☉=morguer= (ghé), _v.a._, to dare, to brave, to defy, to beard.
=moribond=, =-e=, _adj._ and _n._, moribund, dying, in a dying state;
person in a dying state.
=moricaud=, =-e=, _n._ and _adj._, blackamoor; blackish; nigger.
=morigéner=, _v.a._, to school, to reprimand; to form the morals of, to
educate.
*=morille=, _n.f._, (bot.) moril (mushroom).
*=morillon=, _n.m._, black grape; (orni.) tufted duck; rough emerald.
=morio=, _n.m._, (zoöl.) Camberwell beauty, white-edged butterfly.
=morion=, _n.m._, morion.
=morne=, _n.m._, hill, hillock (West Indies).
=morne=, _adj._, dull, gloomy, mournful, dejected, depressed; dreary,
dismal, dull.
=morné=, =-e=, _adj._, blunted (of arms).
=mornifle=, _n.f._, slap in the face.
=morose=, _adj._, morose, sullen, sour, surly, peevish.
=morosité=, _n.f._, moroseness, sullenness, surliness.
=morphée=, _n.m._, Morpheus. _Être dans les bras de —_; (fig.) to be
asleep. _Les pavots de —_; sleep.
=morphine=, _n.f._, morphia.
=morpion=, _n.m._, (l.ex.) crab-louse; (pers. pop.) vermin, dirty fellow.
=mors=, _n.m._, bit (of a bridle); curb, check, restraint. _Les chevaux
prirent le — aux dents_; the horses ran away. _Prendre le — aux dents_;
to take fright; to run headlong into pleasure; to fly into a passion; to
buckle to, to work in good earnest.
=morse=, _n.m._, morse, sea-horse, walrus.
=morsure=, _n.f._, bite, biting; sting.
=mort=, _n.f._, death, decease; (hunt.) mort. _Avoir la — sur les
lèvres_; to look like death. _Avoir la — dans l’âme_; to be sick at
heart, to be in despair; to be intensely grieved. _Être à l’article de la
—_; to be at the point of death, at death’s door. _Mourir de sa belle —_;
to die a natural death. _Mourir de — violente_; to die a violent death.
_Mettre à —_; to put to death, to slay, to kill. _Il a la — entre les
dents_; he has one foot in the grave. _À —_; mortally, to the death. _Les
affres de la —_; the terrors of death. _À la vie, à la —_; forever; in
life and death. _La peine de —_; capital punishment.
=mort=, =-e=, _part._, dead, defunct; lifeless, insensible; dormant;
stagnant; still, inanimate. _Un enfant —-né_ (_—-—s_); a still-born
child. _Une fille —-née_ (_—-—s_); a still-born girl. _Le feu est —_;
the fire is out. _Argent —_; money lying dead, idle. _Couleur —e_; faint
color. _—e-saison_, (_—s-—s_) slack season. _—e-eau_; neap tide. _Tête
—e_; (chem.) _caput mortuum_. _Il n’y a pas de main —e_; he strikes hard
(_i.e._ like a blacksmith). _—e la bête, — le venin_; dead men do not
bite. _Mort-bois_; _V._ =bois=. _Morte-eau_; _eau morte_; _V._ =eau=.
_Morte-paye_; _V._ =paye=. _Œuvres —es_; (nav.) upper works.
=mort=, _n.m._, =-e=, _n.f._, dead person, deceased; dead body, corpse.
_Enterrer les —s_; to bury the dead. _Le jour des —s_; All Souls’-day.
_Faire le —_; to pretend to be dead. _Faire un —_ or _faire une partie du
—_; (at cards) to play dummy whist. _Prendre le —_; to take dummy.
=mortadelle=, _n.f._, (Italian) sausage.
*=mortaillable=, _adj._, (feudalism) in bondage.
=mortaisage=, _n.m._, mortising.
=mortaise=, _n.f._, mortise.
=mortaiser=, _v.r._, to mortise.
=mortalité=, _n.f._, mortality.
=mortel=, =-le=, _adj._, mortal, deadly; grievous, extreme, excessive;
long, tedious.
=mortel=, _n.m._, =-le=, _n.f._, mortal.
=mortellement= (-tèl-mān), _adv._, mortally, deadly, grievously,
dreadfully.
=mortellerie=, _n.f._, stone-breaking.
=mortellier=, _n.m._, stone-breaker.
=mortier= (-tié), _n.m._, (artil., mas.) mortar; mortier (cap of the
president of a court of justice); mortar (vessel). _Président à —_; chief
justice.
=mortifère=, _adj._, mortiferous, deadly.
=mortifiant=, =-e=, _adj._, mortifying, humiliating.
=mortification=, _n.f._, mortification, humiliation.
=mortifier=, _v.a._, to mortify, to vex, to humiliate, to humble, to
subdue. _— de la viande_; to make meat tender.
_se_ =mortifier=, _v.r._, to mortify one’s self; to grow tender (of meat).
=mort-ivre=, _adj._ _V._ =ivre mort=.
=mortuaire=, _adj._, mortuary. _Drap —_; pall. _Registre —_; death
register. _Extrait —_; certificate of death. _Droit —_; burial fee.
=morue=, _n.f._, cod, codfish.
=morve=, _n.f._, snot, mucus; (vet.) glanders.
=morveau=, _n.m._, (l.ex.) thick mucus.
=morveu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, snotty; (vet.) glandered. _Cheval —_; horse
that has the glanders. _Qui se sent —se mouche_; (prov.) if the cap fits,
wear it.
=morveu-x=, _n.m._, =-se=, _n.f._, (in contempt) child, brat, urchin;
despicable, mean fellow. _Petit — va!_ you little scamp, you!
=morvolant=, _n.m._, silk mixed with floss.
=mosaïque=, _adj._, Mosaic, of, from Moses.
=mosaïque=, _n.f._, mosaic, mosaic-work, tessellated pavement.
=mosaïste=, _n.m._, mosaist, worker in mosaics.
=mosarabe=, _n.m._ _V._ =mozarabe=.
=moscouade=, _n.f._, muscovado (unrefined sugar).
=mosquée=, _n.f._, mosque.
=mot=, _n.m._, word; expression; saying, sentence; motto; note, line,
memorandum; answer (to a riddle); cue, hint, intimation; (mil.) parole,
watchword. _À bon entendeur, demi-— suffit_; a word to the wise is
sufficient. _— usité_, _— inusité_; word in use, obsolete word. _— à
double entente_; ambiguous word, bearing a double interpretation. _Jeu
de —s_; play upon words. _— forgé_; coined word. _Gros —s_; high words.
_— d’ordre_; watch-word, pass-word. _— de passe_; pass-word. _Trancher
le —_; to speak out, to speak one’s mind, not to mince matters. _Tenir
le —_; to take the bet. _Ne dire —_, _ne pas souffler —_; not to utter,
not to breathe, a word. _Qui ne dit — consent_; silence gives consent.
_Donner le — à quelqu’un_; to give any one the word, the cue. _Bon —_;
witticism. _— pour rire_; jest, joke. _Il lui a dit un — à l’oreille_; he
whispered a word in his ear. _Prendre quelqu’un au —_; to take any one
at his word. _Ils se sont donné le —_; they understand one another, they
have passed the word round. _— à —_, _— pour —_; word for word. _En un
—_; in a word, in short. _À ces —s_; at those words, so saying. _Avoir le
— pour rire_; to be ready with a joke; to be full of fun. _Au bas —_; at
the least. _Entendre à demi —_; to take a hint. _C’est mon dernier —_;
it is the last concession I can make; I will take nothing less. _Savoir
le fin —_; to understand the upshot of anything. _Si c’est là le fin —_;
if that is the upshot of, _or_ the last word. _Je vous enverrai un —_;
I shall send you word, _or_ a reminder. _Envoyez-moi un —_; let me know
_or_ send me a line.
=motacille=, _n.f._, wag-tail.
*=motelle=, _n.f._, (ich.) burbot, rockling.
=motet=, _n.m._, (mus.) motet.
=moteur=, _n.m._, mover, author; motive power, propeller, contriver;
(anat.) motor.
=mot-eur=, =-rice=, _adj._, motive, propelling, driving.
=motif=, _n.m._, motive, incentive, incitement; ground, cause; (mus.)
subject; (paint.) design, pattern. _Pour quel —?_ on what ground? on what
score? _Faire valoir les —s_; (jur.) to show cause.
=motion=, _n.f._, motion. _Faire appuyer_, _faire adopter_, _une —_; to
make, to support, to carry, a motion.
=motiver=, _v.a._, to allege, to assign, as a motive; to be the cause of,
to justify, to bring about; to lead to. _Se —_, _v.r._, to be founded
_or_ justified.
=motte=, _n.f._, clod; ball of earth; turf (fuel); lump, roll (of butter).
_se_ =motter=, _v.r._, (hunt.) to lurk behind a clod.
=motteux=, _n.m._, (orni.) fallow-finch; wheatear.
=motu proprio=, _adv._, on one’s own impulse, spontaneously, of one’s own
accord.
=motus!= (-tûs), _int._, mum! silence! not a word!
=mou=, =mol=, _adj.m._, =molle=, _f._, soft, mellow; weak; slack, feeble,
nerveless, flabby; inactive; sluggish; tame, effeminate, careless,
luxurious. _Cire molle_; soft wax. _Poires molles_; mellow pears. _Style
mou_; nerveless style. _Mer molle_; (nav.) slack water. [_Mol_ is used in
the masc. before a vowel or _h_ mute.]
=mou=, _n.m._, soft; slack (of a rope); lights (of animals).
=mouchage=, _n.m._, snuffing (of candles).
=mouchard=, _n.m._, _or_ =mouche=, (l.u.) _n.f._, spy, police-spy,
informer.
=moucharder=, _v.a._, to inform, to spy, to spy upon.
=mouche=, _n.f._, fly; patch (on the face); beauty-spot; button (of a
foil); (astron.) musca; (of a target) bull’s-eye; (nav.) fen-boat; loo
(at cards). _Prendre la —_; to take offense easily, to be touchy. _Gober
les —s_; to stand gaping. _Faire d’une — un éléphant_; to make a mountain
of a molehill. _Quelle — vous a piqué?_ why, what’s the matter with you?
what ails you? what whim have you got into your head? _Des pieds de —s_;
scrawl (writing). _—s volantes_; (med.) motes in the eyes. _Faire des
pieds de —s_; to write an illegible scrawl. _C’est une fine —_; he, she
is a sly dog. _Chiures de —s_; fly-blows. _—-guêpe_, (_—s-—s_) (ent.)
wasp-fly. _— bleue_; blue-bottle. _— à feu_; fire-fly. _— abeille_;
drone. _— à miel_; honey-bee. _On prend plus de —s avec du miel qu’avec
du vinaigre_; more is done by kindness than by harshness.
=moucher=, _v.a._, to wipe the nose of; to snuff; ☉(fam.) to spy, to dog.
_Mouchez cet enfant_; wipe that child’s nose. _— une chandelle_; to snuff
a candle.
_se_ =moucher=, _v.r._, to blow one’s nose. _Mouchez-vous_; blow your
nose. _Ne pas se — du pied_ or _du coude_; to be up to snuff; to be no
fool; to do things in grand style.
=moucher=, _v.n._, to clear one’s nose.
=moucherolle=, _n.m._, (orni.) fly-catcher.
=moucheron=, _n.m._, gnat, midge, very small fly; snuff (of a candle).
=mouchet=, _n.m._, (orni.) bog-rush.
=moucheté=, =-e=, _adj._, spotted, speckled, flecked. _Cheval —_;
dappled, spotted horse. _Fleuret —_; capped foil.
=moucheter=, _v.a._, to spot, to speckle, to fleck; to cap (of foils).
=mouchettes=, _n.f.pl._, snuffers.
=moucheture=, _n.f._, spot, speck, speckle; (surg.) scarification;
spottedness, speckledness.
=moucheur=, _n.m._, candle-snuffer; nose-blower.
=mouchoir=, _n.m._, handkerchief. _— de cou_; neckerchief. _— de poche_;
pocket handkerchief. _Jeter le —_; to throw the handkerchief (game).
_Elle a réfusé le —_; (fig.) she would have nothing to say to him.
=mouchure=, _n.f._, snuff (of a candle).
=mouçon=, _n.f._ _V._ =mousson=.
=moudre= (moulant, moulu), _v.a._, to grind, to mill, to crush. _— du
blé_; to grind corn. _— de coups_; to beat soundly. _J’ai le corps tout
moulu_; I am bruised all over. _Il viendra — à notre moulin_; he will
want us some day.
=moue=, _n.f._, pout, pouting; wry face, grimace. _Faire la — à
quelqu’un_; to make a wry face at any one. _Faire la —_; to pout.
=mouée=, _n.f._, (hunt.) reward, hound’s fee.
=mouette=, _n.f._, (orni.) gull, sea-mew.
=moufette=, _n.f._ _V._ =mofette=.
=mouflard=, _n.m._, =-e=, _n.f._, (pop.) bloated face.
=moufle=, _n.f._, (mec.) tackle; tackle-block; fingerless glove, mitten.
=mouflé=, =-e=, _adj._, used only in _poulie —e_; single pulley connected
with others in a tackle-block.
=moufle=, _n.m._, (chem.) muffle.
=mouflon=, _n.m._, (zoöl.) moufflon, wild sheep.
=mouillade=, _n.f._, wetting.
*=mouillage=, _n.m._, anchorage, roadstead, soaking, wetting, watering.
_Être au —_; to be at anchor; to lie _or_ ride at anchor. _Droits de —_;
harbor dues; keelage.
*=mouillé=, =-e=, _part._, wet, watery; (of the letter l) liquid; (of
ships) moored, anchored. _Poule —e_; milksop (pers.).
*=mouille-bouche=, _n.f._, (_—_ or _—-—s_) a kind of pear.
*=mouiller=, _v.a._, to wet, to moisten, to steep; to moor (a ship). _—
l’ancre_; (nav.) to let go the anchor.
*=mouiller=, _v.n._, (nav.) to anchor, to cast anchor.
*=mouillette=, _n.f._, sippet (to eat with boiled eggs).
*=mouilloir=, _n.m._, water-can (in which women dip their fingers when
they spin).
*=mouillure=, _n.f._, wetting, watering, sprinkling.
=moujik=, _n.m._, (_—s_) moujik, Russian peasant.
=moulage=, _n.m._, molding; grinding, milling; mill-work, machinery of a
mill, mill-stone spindle; ☉measuring (of wood).
=moulard=, _n.m._, moularde, _n.f._, grindstone-dust.
=moule=, _n.m._, matrix, mold, cast; netting, pin. _— à beurre_;
butter-print. _Faire un —_; to take a cast. _Jeter en —_; to cast in a
mold. _Cela ne se jette pas en —_; (prov.) that cannot be done easily.
_Fait au —_; (fig.) beautifully shaped.
=moule=, _n.f._, (conch.) mussel.
=moulé=, =-e=, _part._, _adj._, molded; cast; printed, shaped, formed.
_Lettre —e_; printed letter. _Chandelle —e_; molded candle.
=moulé=, _n.m._, (pop.) print, printed letters, type.
=mouler=, _v.a._, to cast, to mold, to shape, to form, to print.
_se_ =mouler=, _v.r._, to mold one’s self. _— sur un autre_; to take
another for one’s model.
=mouleur=, _n.m._, molder.
=moulin=, _n.m._, mill. _— à blé_; corn-mill. _— à vent_; wind-mill. _—
à bras_; hand-mill. _— à eau_; water-mill. _— à vapeur_; steam-mill.
_— à café_; coffee-mill. _C’est un — à paroles_; she is a chatterbox.
_Faire venir l’eau au —_; to bring grist to the mill. _Jeter son bonnet
par dessus les —s_; to throw off all restraint, to be regardless of
consequences.
=moulinage=, _n.m._, (manu.) grinding, milling; silk-throwing.
=mouliner=, _v.a._, to eat away wood (of worms); to throw (silk).
=moulinet=, _n.m._, small windlass, capstan; small mill. _Faire le — avec
une épée_; to twirl a sword about.
=moulineur= _or_ =moulinier=, _n.m._, silk-thrower.
☉=moult= (moo), _adv._, much, very much.
=moulu=, =-e=, _part._, ground; bruised.
=moulure=, _n.f._, (arch.) molding.
=mourant=, =-e=, _n._ and _adj._, dying person; dying, expiring; fading,
going down gradually.
=mouret=, _n.m._ _V._ =moret=.
=mourine=, _n.f._, (ich.) eagle-ray.
=mourir= (mourant, mort), _v.n._, to die, to depart this life; to perish,
to drop off, to go off, to expire, to stop; to go out (of fire); to be
out (at play). _Être mort au monde_; to be dead to the world. _— de
faim_; to die of starvation; to starve. _— de soif_; to be dying with
thirst. _— de froid_; to perish from cold. _— d’envie_; to long for. _—
de chagrin_; to die of a broken heart. _Il la fera — de chagrin_; he will
break her heart. _— de rire_; to die with laughter. _C’est un meurt de
faim_; he is a pauper, a starveling.
_se_ =mourir=, _v.r._, to be dying; to be dying out (of fire). _Cet
homme se meurt_; this man is dying. [Only used in present and imperfect
indicative.]
=mouron=, _n.m._, (bot.) pimpernel; chickweed; (ent.) eft.
=mourre=, _n.f._, (game) mora; Buck-buck, how many fingers do I hold up?
=mousquet=, _n.m._, musket, match-lock.
☉=mousquetade=, _n.f._, musket-shot, volley of musketry.
☉=mousquetaire=, _n.m._, musketeer.
=mousqueterie= (-kè-trî), _n.f._, musketry, volley of musketry.
=mousqueton=, _n.m._, musketoon, carbine; pendant (of a watch-chain).
=mousse=, _n.f._, moss; froth, foam; lather, effervescence. _Pierre qui
roule n’amasse pas de —_; a rolling stone gathers no moss.
=mousse=, _n.m._, cabin-boy, ship-boy.
☉=mousse=, _adj._, blunt, dull (of tools).
=mousseline= (moos-li-n), _n.f._, muslin.
=mousser=, _v.n._, to froth, to foam, to effervesce, to lather. _Faire
—_; to froth; to puff.
=mousseron= (moos-ron), _n.m._, mushroom.
=mousseu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, foaming, frothy; (of wine) sparkling. _Rose
—se_; moss-rose.
=moussoir=, _n.m._, chocolate-stick.
=mousson=, _n.f._, monsoon.
=moussu=, =-e=, _adj._, mossy, moss-grown.
=moustache=, _n.f._, moustache, mustachio; whisker (of animals). _Relever
sa —_; to twirl up one’s moustache. _Brûler la — à quelqu’un_; to fire a
pistol in any one’s face. _Donner sur la — à quelqu’un_; to hit any one
in the face. _Vieille —_; veteran; old gray-beard.
=moustiquaire=, _n.f._, musquito-net.
=moustique=, _n.m._, musquito.
=moût=, _n.m._, must (wine not fermented); wort.
=moutard=, _n.m._, (pop.) brat, youngster.
=moutarde=, _n.f._, mustard. _Graine de —_; mustard-seed. _S’amuser à la
—_; to trifle one’s time away. _Il m’a fait monter la — au nez_; he made
me lose my temper. _C’est de la — après dîner_; it is a day after the
fair.
=moutardier=, _n.m._, mustard-pot; mustard-maker; (orni.) black-martin,
swift.
☉=moutier=, _n.m._, convent, monastery.
=mouton=, _n.m._, sheep; mutton; sheep-leather; rammer; beetle, monkey
(rammer); (pers.) lamb, ninny, decoy, prison-spy. _pl._, (of the sea)
white horses, white-crested waves. _Un troupeau de —s_; a flock of sheep.
_Revenons à nos —s_; let us return to our subject.
☉*=moutonnaille=, _n.f._, flock of sheep.
=moutonné=, =-e=, _adj._, fleecy, curled; (of the sea) white with foam.
=moutonner=, _v.a._ and _n._, to make woolly, fleecy; to curl to
frizzle; (nav.) to foam; (of a crowd) to rear their heads; to worm
anything out of any one; to spy upon, to denounce.
=moutonneu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, woolly; foamy, rough (of waves).
=moutonni-er=, =-ère=, _adj._, fleecy, woolly; sheep-like, silly.
=mouture=, _n.f._, grinding; charge for grinding; meslin of wheat, rye,
and barley. _Tirer d’un sac deux —s_; to get a double profit on anything.
=mouvance=, _n.f._, (feudalism) tenure.
=mouvant=, =-e=, _adj._, moving, shifting, unstable; (jur.) depending on;
(her.) issuant; animated, busy. _Sable —_; quicksand.
=mouvement= (moov-mān), _n.m._, movement, motion, progress, advance,
march; move, manœuvre; fluctuation; (mus.) time; (paint.) animation,
life, bustle, stir; spirit; impulse, emotion, disturbance, commotion;
(horl.) works; animation, sparkle (of style); bursts (of eloquence). _Se
donner du —_; to bestir one’s self. _— naturel_; natural impulse. _Faire
une chose de son propre —_; to do a thing of one’s own accord. _Se mettre
en —_; to stir, to start; (mil.) to move forward, to advance.
=mouver=, _v.a._, (gard.) to loosen, to stir.
=mouvoir= (mouvant, mu), _v.a._, to move, to stir; to prompt, to stir up,
to actuate; to excite.
_se_ =mouvoir=, _v.r._, to move, to stir, to be moved. _Faire se —_; to
set in motion.
=moxa=, _n.m._, (surg.) moxa.
=moye= (moa), _n.f._, soft part (of stone).