=remploi=, _n.m._, (jur.) re-investment, re-employment.
=remployer=, _v.a._, to use again, to re-invest.
=remplumer=, _v.a._, to feather again; (mus.) to quill anew.
_se_ =remplumer=, _v.r._, to get new feathers; to retrieve one’s losses;
to get stout again; to pick up again.
=rempocher=, _v.a._, to pocket again.
=rempoigner=, _v.a._, to catch hold of again, to seize again, to
recapture.
=rempoisonner= (rān-poa-zo-né), _v.a._, to poison again.
=rempoissonnement= (rām-poa-so-n-mān), _n.m._, re-stocking with fish.
=rempoissonner= (rān-poa-so-né), _v.a._, to re-stock with fish.
=remporter=, _v.a._, to carry, _or_ take, back; to carry away _or_ off,
to take away _or_ off; to get, to obtain; to bear off; to win. _— un
prix_; to carry off a prize. _— la victoire_; to win the victory.
=rempotage=, _n.m._, (gard.) re-potting.
=rempoter=, _v.a._, (gard.) to re-pot.
=remprisonnement=, _n.m._, reimprisonment.
=remprisonner=, _v.a._, to reimprison.
=remprunter=, _v.a._, to borrow again.
=remuable=, _adj._, movable.
=remuage=, _n.m._, moving, stirring.
=remuant=, =-e=, _adj._, restless, stirring; unquiet; bustling, busy;
turbulent, seditious.
=remue-ménage=, _n.m._, (_—_) stir, rummage; disturbance, bustle,
confusion.
=remuement= _or_ =remûment=, _n.m._, stirring; moving, commotion,
disturbance.
=remue-queue=, _n.m._, (_—_). _V._ =hochequeue=.
=remuer=, _v.a._, to move, to stir; to rouse; to turn up; to disturb, to
handle; to affect, to shake, to wag; to shuffle (of dominoes); to change
the linen (of a baby). _— la tête_; to shake one’s head. _— des meubles_;
to rummage, _or_ move, furniture. _— la queue_; to wag its tail (of a
dog). _— ciel et terre_; to leave no stone unturned, to move heaven and
earth.
_se_ =remuer=, _v.r._, to stir, to move; to bestir one’s self, to bustle
about; to fidget.
=remuer=, _v.n._, to stir, to move; to make a disturbance; to fidget.
=remueu-r=, _n.m._, =-se=, _n.f._, mover, stirrer.
=remueuse=, _n.f._, nurse-maid.
☉=remugle=, _n.m._ _V._ =renfermé=.
=rémunérateur=, _n.m._, rewarder, remunerator, requiter.
=rémunérat-eur=, =-rice=, _adj._, remunerative.
☉=rémunérati-f=, =-ve=, _adj._, remunerative.
=rémunération=, _n.f._, remuneration, reward.
=rémunératoire=, _adj._, remuneratory.
=rémunérer=, _v.a._, to remunerate, to reward.
=renâcler=, _v.n._, (pop.) to snuff, to snort (in anger); to turn up
one’s nose; to be unwilling, to be reluctant, to hang back, to demur.
=renaissance=, _n.f._, regeneration, new birth, revival, renewal;
renaissance, renascence. _— des lettres_; revival of letters.
=renaissant=, =-e=, _adj._, springing up again, growing up again,
reviving, returning, renascent, recurring.
=renaître=, _v.n._, to be born again; to grow again, to come up again; to
appear again, to spring up again, to rise again; to revive, to reappear,
to recur. _Toute la nature renaît_; all nature revives. _Le jour renaît_;
day reappears. _— à la vie_; to return to life. _— au bonheur_; to be
restored to happiness.
=rénal=, =-e=, _adj._, (anat.) renal.
=renard=, _n.m._, (mam.) fox; (mam.) dog-fox; fox, cunning dog,
sly fellow; (astron.) Fox; (engineering) leak; (pop.) vomit, spew.
_— américain_; raccoon. _Queue-de-—_, (_—s-—_) fox’s brush; (bot.)
prince’s-feather. _— marin_; sea-ape. _Fin —_; cunning dog, sly fox.
_Se confesser au —_; to tell one’s secret to an enemy. _Le — prêche
aux poules_; the devil rebukes sin. _Prendre marte pour —_; to mistake
one person for another. _Compère le —_, _maître —_; Reynard the fox
(Lafontaine).
=renarde=, _n.f._, (mam.) she-fox; (fig.) catamaran.
=renardeau=, _n.m._, fox’s cub.
=renarder=, _v.n._, to play the fox; (pop.) to vomit; to shoot the cat.
=renardier=, _n.m._, fox-catcher.
=renardière=, _n.f._, fox’s burrow.
☉=renasquer=, _v.n._ _V._ =renâcler=.
=rencaissage= _or_ =rencaissement=, _n.m._, (hort.) putting again into
wooden boxes; (fin.) re-encashing.
=rencaisser=, _v.a._, to put again into boxes; (fin.) to pay again into
the bank, to re-encash; to get in money.
=renchéri=, =-e=, _adj._, risen in price, higher-priced; over-particular,
over-nice (of a person).
=renchéri=, _n.m._, =-e=, _n.f._, particular person, nice person. _Faire
le —_, _faire la —e_; to be mighty particular, to give one’s self airs.
=renchérir=, _v.a._ and _n._, to raise the price of; to get dearer; to
rise. _— sur_; to improve upon; to go beyond, to outstrip.
=renchérissement= (-ris-mān), _n.m._, rise in price.
=renclouer=, _v.a._, (milit.) to spike again.
*=rencogner=, _v.a._, (fam.) to draw back, to drive, _or_ to get, into a
corner.
_se_ *=rencogner=, _v.r._, to hide _or_ crouch in a corner.
=rencontre=, _n.f._, meeting; encounter, accidental meeting; accident,
chance; collision; accidental fight; duel; opportunity, occurrence, case;
juncture; coincidence; collision. _Aller_, _venir_, _à la — de quelqu’un_;
to go to meet, _or_ to come to meet, any one. _De —_; second-hand.
_Marchandise de —_; second-hand goods. _Roue de — d’une horloge_;
balance-wheel of a clock. _Vaisseaux de —_; (chem.) vessels fitting into
each other. _Une mauvaise —_; an unpleasant encounter.
=rencontre=, _n.m._, (her.) rencounter.
=rencontrer=, _v.a._, to meet, to meet with, to fall in with; to light
upon; to find, to encounter; to meet, to encounter (in a hostile manner).
_se_ =rencontrer=, _v.r._, to meet, to meet each other, to meet with each
other, to be met with; to be seen; to agree, to coincide; to meet, to
encounter (in a duel). _Nos idées se rencontrent_; our ideas coincide,
_or_ tally. _Cela ne se rencontre pas tous les jours_; that does not
happen, that is not to be met with, every day. _Les beaux esprits se
rencontrent_; great wits jump together.
=rencontrer=, _v.n._, to have good _or_ ill luck, to be fortunate _or_
unfortunate; to guess; to speak to the purpose, to make a hit. _Vous avez
bien rencontré_; you have hit the right nail on the head. _Le limier
rencontre_; the blood-hound is on the scent.
=rencorser=, _v.a._, to put a new body (to).
=rendage=, _n.m._, (tech.) product of raw materials; daily product of a
lime-kiln; yield, output.
=rendement= (rand-mān), _n.m._, produce, yield, output.
_se_ =rendetter=, _v.r._, to run, _or_ get, into debt again.
=rendeu-r=, _n.m._, =-se=, _n.f._, one who renders, restorer.
=rendez-vous=, _n.m._, (_—_) rendezvous, meeting, appointment; place
of meeting, place of resort. _Donner un — à quelqu’un_; to make an
appointment with any one. _Prendre —_; to make an appointment. _Se
donner —_; to make an appointment; to agree to meet; to resort.
=rendonnée=, _n.f._ _V._ =randonnée=.
=rendormir=, _v.a._, to lull to sleep again, to send to sleep again.
_se_ =rendormir=, _v.r._, to fall, _or_ go, to sleep again.
=rendoubler=, _v.a._, to turn in, to turn down; to fold up, to double up.
=rendre=, _v.a._, to render, to return, to restore, to give back, to give
again; to pay back, to repay, to refund, to pay again; to deliver up, to
yield, to yield up, to give up, to render up, to surrender; to carry,
to convey, to transport, to take; to cast up, to cast out, to eject, to
void, to throw up, to throw off one’s stomach; to do, to pay, to give;
to make; to produce, to bear, to bring in; to translate; to reward; to
express, to convey, to represent; to issue; to exhale, to emit, to send
forth, to give out; (jur.) to remit; (jur.) to surrender; (jur.) to
return, to find, to bring in; to give in; to give (verdict). _Rendez-moi
mon reste_; give me my change. _— de l’ouvrage_; to take work home. _— le
salut_; to return a salute. _— hommage_; to render homage. _Je vous rends
grâce_; I return you thanks. _— ses respects_, _ses devoirs à quelqu’un_;
to pay one’s respects, one’s duty, to any one. _— compte_; to give an
account. _— visite_; to pay a visit. _— à quelqu’un sa visite_; to
return any one his call. _— justice à quelqu’un_; to do any one justice.
_— la justice_; to administer, _or_ to dispense, justice. _— service à
quelqu’un_; to do any one a service. _— la pareille_; to return like for
like. _— le bien pour le mal_; to return good for evil. _— avec usure_;
to return with interest. _Dieu vous le rende!_ may God reward you! _—
la santé_; to restore health. _— un prisonnier à la liberté_; to set a
prisoner at liberty. _L’expérience l’a rendu sage_; experience has made
him wise, has taught him wisdom. _— une place_; (milit.) to surrender a
town. _— les armes_; to lay down one’s arms. _— une médecine_; to throw
up a dose of physic. _— gorge_; to refund; to disgorge. _— raison_; to
account for, to give a reason. _Rendez-moi raison de votre conduite_;
explain your conduct to me. _— raison à quelqu’un_; to give any one
satisfaction, to fight a duel. _— un arrêt_; to issue a decree. _—
témoignage_; to bear witness. _— à quelqu’un sa parole_; to release any
one from his promise. _— l’âme_; to give up the ghost. _— le pain bénit_;
(c.rel.) to make the bread-offering. _— un paquet_, _— une lettre_; to
take a parcel, a letter, to its destination. _— des marchandises en un
lieu_; to take, to carry, to convey goods to a place. _Montez dans ma
voiture, en deux heures je vous rendrai là_; get into my carriage, in two
hours I will take you there. _Ce fermier rend tant de sa ferme_; that
farmer pays so much for his farm.
_se_ =rendre=, _v.r._, to make one’s self, to render one’s self; to
become, to turn; to go, to repair, to proceed, to resort; to wait upon
any one; to flow; to yield, to surrender, to surrender one’s self, to
give one’s self up; to be worn out, to be tired out, to be exhausted.
_Se — partie contre quelqu’un_; to declare against any one. _Se — à son
devoir_; to go where duty calls. _Le sang se rend au cœur_; the blood
flows to the heart. _Se — prisonnier_; to surrender one’s self prisoner,
to give one’s self up. _Je me rends_; I am tired out; I give up.
=rendre=, _v.n._, to lead (to) (of roads); to evacuate, to void; to run
(of wounds).
=rendre=, _n.m._, repayment, refunding, returning.
=rendu=, =-e=, _part._, arrived; rendered, delivered; exhausted, tired
out, knocked up, spent (of a horse). _Je suis —_; I am quite exhausted,
fagged out, done up. _Un cheval qui est —_; a spent horse.
=rendu=, _n.m._, return, tit for tat.
=renduire=, _v.a._, to plaster anew; to daub over again; to give a new
coating (to).
=rendurcir=, _v.a._, to make harder.
_se_ =rendurcir=, _v.r._, to become harder; to become hardened.
=rêne=, _n.f._, rein. _Prendre les —s_; to take the reins.
=renégat=, _n.m._, =-e=, _n.f._, renegade.
=reneiger=, _v.n._, to snow again.
=rêner=, _v.a._, to bridle, to bridle (in) (a horse).
=rénette=, _n.f._, green frog; (vet.) paring knife; marking tool.
=rénetter=, _v.a._, (vet.) to furrow, to mark, to groove.
=renettoyer=, _v.a._, to clean again.
=renfaîtage=, _n.m._, repairing the top of a roof, new-ridging.
=renfaîter=, _v.a._, to new-ridge, to mend the top of a roof.
=renfermé=, _n.m._, fustiness; musty, _or_ close, _or_ confined, air.
_Sentir le —_; to smell close _or_ fusty.
=renfermer=, _v.a._, to shut up, to confine; to comprehend, to include,
to contain; to conceal, to hide.
_se_ =renfermer=, _v.r._, to shut one’s self up, to confine one’s self.
_Se — en soi-même_; to retire within one’s self, to commune with one’s
self.
=renfiler=, _v.a._, to thread again, to new-string.
=renflammer=, _v.a._, to rekindle.
_se_ =renflammer=, _v.r._, to be rekindled.
=renflé=, =-e=, _adj._, swollen, swelling; (bot.) inflated, puffed out;
risen (of dough); bossed.
=renflement=, _n.m._, swelling, enlargement; (bot.) struma.
=renfler=, _v.n._, _se_ =renfler=, _v.r._, to swell, to swell out; to
rise.
=renflouage=, _n.m._, (nav.) getting a ship afloat again, refloating,
raising.
=renflouer=, _v.a._, (nav.) to refloat, to raise.
=renfoncement= (-fons-mān), _n.m._, cavity; hollow, recess; (of a door)
doorway; (print.) indentation; (arch.) break; (paint.) background.
=renfoncer=, _v.a._, to drive further in, to drive deeper, to pull
further on; to pull over one’s eyes; (print.) to indent; (of a cask) to
new bottom.
=renforçage=, _n.m._, strengthening.
=renforcé=, =-e=, _adj._, strong, thick; substantial; wealthy; stout;
thick-set, downright, regular. _Des vers —s de pensées_; verses very rich
in thought. _C’est un bourgeois —_; he is a substantial, purse-proud
citizen. _Un bidet —_; a strong thick-set nag. _Une étoffe —e_; a thick
strong stuff. _Sottise —e_; downright stupidity.
=renforcement=, _n.m._, reënforcing, strengthening.
=renforcer=, _v.a._, to reënforce; to strengthen; to augment, to
increase. _— le son d’un instrument_; to increase the sound of an
instrument.
_se_ =renforcer=, _v.r._, to gather strength; to increase, to grow
stronger; (milit.) to be reënforced.
=renformir=, _v.a._, (mas.) to re-plaster, to mend (a wall, etc.).
=renformis=, _n.m._, (mas.) pargeting, plastering, new coat; repairing (of
a wall).
=renfort=, _n.m._, reënforcement, supply, relief, addition, increase;
strengthening piece. _À grand — de_; with the help of, by dint of, with
any amount of tugging (at) _or_ plying (of). _De —_; extra, additional,
fresh.
*=renfrogné=, =renfrognement=, _se_ =renfrogner=. _V._ =refrogné=,
=refrognement=, _se_ =refrogner=.
=rengagement= (-gaj-mān), _n.m._, re-engagement; (milit.) re-enlistment;
pledging, pawning again.
=rengager=, _v.a._, to engage again, to re-engage; (milit.) to re-enlist;
to pledge, to pawn again. _— un domaine_; to mortgage a domain. _— son
cœur_; to engage one’s heart again.
_se_ =rengager=, _v.r._, to engage again, to re-engage, to begin afresh;
(milit.) to re-enlist.
=rengaîne=, _n.m._, (pop.) refusal. _Il a un furieux —_; there is no
making him accept; there is no conciliating him.
=rengaine=, _n.f._, (pop.) threadbare, common-place story; hackneyed
expression; harping on; worn-out expedient. _C’est toujours la même —_;
it’s the same old story.
=rengaîner=, _v.a._, to sheath, to put up; to suppress, to withdraw,
to stop, to reserve. _— une épée_; to put up a sword. _Rengaînez votre
compliment_; pocket, _or_ withhold, your compliment (_i.e._, keep it to
yourself).
=rengaîner=, _v.n._, to sheath one’s sword, to put up one’s sword.
_Rengaînez, messieurs!_ put up, gentlemen.
=rengorgement=, _n.m._, bridling up, carrying one’s head high; airs (of
importance).
_se_ =rengorger=, _v.r._, to carry it with a high hand, to carry one’s
head high, to bridle up, to give one’s self airs.
=rengraisser=, _v.a._, to fatten again.
_se_ =rengraisser=, _v.r._, to grow fat, _or_ stout, again; to become fat
again, to fatten again.
=rengraisser=, _v.n._, to grow fat, to become fat, _or_ stout, again.
=rengrènement= (-grè-n-mān), _n.m._, (coin.) re-coinage, re-coining,
re-stamping.
=rengréner=, _v.a._, to grind corn again; (coin.) to coin again, to
re-coin, to re-stamp; (mec.) to throw into gear again, to engage again.
=renhardir=, _v.a._, to embolden; to encourage again.
=reniable=, _adj._, deniable.
=reniement= _or_ =renîment=, _n.m._, denying, disowning; denial of St.
Peter.
=renier=, _v.a._, to deny, to disown; to disavow, to abjure, to disclaim,
to renounce, to forswear. _— sa religion_; to abjure one’s religion.
=reniflement=, _n.m._, sniffing; snuffing up (of horses).
=renifler=, _v.n._, to sniff; to turn up one’s nose (at); to manifest
unwillingness, to demur, to hang back. _Ce cheval renifle sur l’avoine_;
this horse is off his feed.
=reniflerie=, _n.f._, sniffing.
=renifleu-r=, _n.m._, =-se=, _n.f._, sniffer.
=réniforce=, _adj._, kidney-shaped.
=rénitence=, _n.f._, (med.) renitency.
=rénitent=, =-e=, _adj._, (med.) renitent.
=reniveler=, _v.a._, to level again.
=renivellement=, _n.m._, new-leveling.
=renjamber=, _v.a._, to jump, _or_ step, over again.
=renne= (rè-n), _n.m._, reindeer.
=renom= (-non), _n.m._, renown, fame, reputation, report, note, name.
_Être en —_; to be popular.
=renommé=, =-e=, _adj._, renowned, famous, noted, celebrated, famed.
=renommée=, _n.f._, renown, fame, name, reputation, celebrity; report,
repute; rumor; (myth.) Fame. _Bonne — vaut mieux que ceinture dorée_; a
good name is better than riches.
=renommer=, _v.a._, to name again, to re-elect; to render renowned, to
render famous, to make renowned, to make famous. _Se faire —_; to spread
one’s fame; to acquire fame; to make one’s self famous; to have one’s
self re-elected.
_se_ =renommer=, _v.r._, to make use of the name of any one. _V._ _se_
=réclamer= (=de=).
=renonce=, _n.f._, renounce, revoke (at cards).
=renoncement= (-nōns-mān), _n.m._, renouncing, renouncement. _— à
soi-même_; self-denial, abnegation.
=renoncer=, _v.n._, to renounce, to give up, to surrender; to forego,
to relinquish, to lay down, to disclaim, to waive; to revoke, to
renounce (at cards). _— à la couronne_; to renounce the crown. _— à une
succession_; to give up an inheritance. _— à sa foi_; to renounce one’s
faith.
=renoncer=, _v.a._, to renounce, to disclaim, to disown, to deny, to
disavow.
=renonciat-eur=, _n.m._, =-rice=, _n.f._, (jur.) renouncer, relessor.
=renonciation=, _n.f._, renunciation, renouncement; self-denial.
=renonculacées=, _n.f.pl._, (bot.) ranunculaceæ.
=renoncule=, _n.f._, (bot.) ranunculus, buttercup, crowfoot, spearwort.
=renouée=, _n.f._, (bot.) polygonum, knot-berry, knot-grass.
☉=renouement= _or_ =renoûment=, _n.m._, renewing, renewal.
=renouer=, _v.a._, to knot again, to tie again; to tie up; to put
together; to resume, to renew. _— amitié_; to be friends again. _—
l’amitié de parents_; to reconcile relations. _— une affaire_; to resume
business. _— connaissance_; to renew acquaintance with.
=renouer=, _v.n._, to resume one’s relations, to resume one’s connection.
=renoueu-r=, _n.m._, =-se=, _n.f._ _V._ =rebouteur=.
☉=renouveau=, _n.m._, (fam. poet.) spring, spring-time.
=renouvelable=, _adj._, renewable.
=renouveler= (-noo-vlé), _v.a._, to renew, to renovate, to revive, to
resuscitate; to refresh; to repeat, to do again. _— un usage_; to revive
a custom.
_se_ =renouveler=, _v.r._, to be renewed, to be revived, to succeed each
other; to happen, _or_ occur, again.
=renouveler=, _v.n._, to renew, to redouble, to increase. _— de jambes_;
to walk briskly again with renewed strength. _— d’appétit_; to eat again
with a fresh appetite. _— d’attention_; to redouble one’s attention, to
be doubly attentive. _— d’ardeur_; to show more eagerness.
=renouvellement= (-vèl-mān), _n.m._, renewing, renewal, reviving;
reiteration, repetition; recurrence; increase, redoubling.
=rénovat-eur=, =-rice=, _adj._, renovating.
=rénovation=, _n.f._, renovation, renewal.
*=renseignement=, _n.m._, information, intelligence; account; indication,
direction, inquiry. _pl._, references, information. _Prendre des —s_; to
make inquiries, to gather information. _Aller aux —s_; to make inquiries.
_Bureau de —s_; intelligence-office, inquiry-office.
*=renseigner=, _v.a._, to teach again, to instruct again; to inform,
to give information, to show, to tell, to direct. _Se —_; to get
information; to make inquiries; to inform one’s self.
=rensemencement=, _n.m._, (agri.) re-sowing.
=rensemencer=, _v.a._, (agri.) to sow again, to re-sow.
=rentamer=, _v.a._, to cut again, to begin again; to resume. _— un
discours_; to resume a speech.
=rentassé=, =-e=, _adj._, thick-set.
=rentasser=, _v.a._, to heap up again.
=rente=, _n.f._, yearly income, revenue; rent, annuity; stock, funds;
pension. _— foncière_; ground-rent. _— viagère_ or _à fonds perdu_;
life-annuity. _Le taux de la —_; the price of stocks. _—s sur l’Etat_;
government-stock. _La — hausse_; the stocks are rising. _Acheter des
—s_; to buy stock, to invest in the funds. _Faire une — à_; to allow a
pension to, to make an allowance to. _Vivre de ses —s_; to do nothing;
to be independent; to live on one’s income, to be a gentleman at large.
_Racheter une —_; to redeem an annuity. _Avoir des —s_; to have an
independent income; to have money invested. _Il lui fait une —_; he
allows him, _or_ her, a pension.
=renté=, =-e=, _adj._, who has an income; endowed (of public
establishments). _Bien —_; rich, wealthy.
=renter=, _v.a._, to allow a yearly income to; to endow (public
establishments).
=renti-er=, _n.m._, =-ère=, _n.f._, stockholder, fund-holder, annuitant;
independent gentleman; independent lady; gentleman at large.
=rentoilage=, _n.m._, new-lining, re-lining, re-canvassing. _— d’un
tableau_; stretching a picture upon new cloth.
=rentoiler=, _v.a._, to put new cloth (to a thing); to reline. _— un
tableau_; to stretch, to paste, an old painting on new canvas.
=rentrage=, _n.m._, bringing in, taking in, housing.
=rentraîner=, _v.a._, to carry away again, to lead away again, to draw
on, in, again.
=rentraire= (rentrayant, rentrait), _v.a._, to fine-draw, to darn, to
renter.
=rentraiture=, _n.f._, fine-drawing, rentering, darn, darning; joining on.
=rentrant=, _adj._, re-entering, returning; (geom., fort.) re-entering.
=rentrant=, _n.m._, new player. _On demande un —_; a new player is wanted.
=rentrayeu-r=, _n.m._, =-se=, _n.f._, fine-drawer.
=rentré=, =-e=, _part._, returned, re-entered; (med.) suppressed, driven
in. _Sueur —e_; checked perspiration.
=rentrée=, _n.f._, re-entrance; re-opening; re-appearance; taking in,
housing, ingathering (of crops); (com.) incoming, receipt, payment,
collection, getting-in of taxes; returns; (hunt.) return. _À la — des
classes_; at the beginning of term. _Cet acteur a fait sa —_; (thea.)
that actor has made his re-appearance. _— des impôts_; getting in of the
taxes. _Ce revenu est d’une — difficile_; this revenue is slow in coming
in. _Frais de —_; collection expenses.
=rentrer=, _v.n._, to enter again, to return, to come in again, to
go in again, to get in again; to re-enter, to join again; to become
again, to get again; to recover; to re-open (of courts of law, schools,
colleges); to make one’s reappearance, to reappear (of an actor); to
return to, to resume; (med.) to be suppressed, to be driven in; (engr.)
to retouch; to be got in, to come in (of money); to buy in (at cards). _—
en possession_; to regain possession. _— en son bien_; to recover one’s
property. _— en grâce_; to come into favor again. _— en soi-même_; to
examine one’s self, to commune with one’s self. _— en son bon sens_; to
come to one’s senses again. _— en charge_; to return to one’s post. _—
en condition_; to go in service again. _— en fonctions_; to resume one’s
duties. _— en fureur_; to fly into a passion again, to get into a passion
again. _Faire —_; to drive in. _Il m’est rentré beau jeu_; I have secured
good cards. _— dans la ville_; to return to town. _Cet acteur rentre ce
soir_; that actor makes his reappearance this evening.
=rentrer=, _v.a._, to take in, to bring in, to put in, to get in, to
house; to suppress, to check, to stifle; (med.) to drive in; (nav.) to
bowse in; to house guns; (print.) to indent. _Voici le moment de — les
foins_; now is the season for getting in the hay. _— une ligne_; (print.)
to indent a line.
=renvahir=, _v.a._, to invade again.
=renvelopper= (ran-vlo-pé), _v.a._, to wrap up again.
=renverger=, _v.a._, to edge (baskets).
=renverguer=, _v.a._, (nav.) to bend a sail again (to the yards).
=renversable=, _adj._, reversible, liable to be overthrown.
=renversant=, =-e=, _adj._, (fam.) astounding, stupendous, amazing,
extraordinary; stunning. _Un coup —_; a stunning, knock-down blow.
_à la_ =renverse=, _adv._, backwards, upon one’s back. _Tomber à la —_;
to fall backwards.
=renversé=, =-e=, _part._, thrown down, thrown back, pliant; (her.)
inverted. _Il a l’esprit —_; his brain is turning. _C’est le monde —_; it
is the world turned upside down (_i.e._ it is preposterous).
=renversement=, _n.m._, reversing, overturning, throwing down, throwing
over, overthrowing; turning upside down; confusion, disorder; turning,
alienation (of the brain); subversion, destruction; (surg.) retroversion,
prolapse; (mus.) inversion, revert, reversing; (arith.) inversion; (nav.)
☉transshipment, _V._ =transbordement=. _— d’un état_; overthrow of a
state. _— des lois_; subversion of the laws. _— de la paupière_; (med.)
eversion of the eyelid.
=renverser=, _v.a._, to reverse, to turn upside-down, to turn
topsy-turvy; to throw down, to upset, to tumble down, to overthrow, to
overturn; to spill; to turn (the brain); to disorder, to confuse; to
destroy, to ruin; to astound, to stupefy, to overwhelm; to transpose;
(milit.) to put to flight, to rout, to put to the rout; to invert;
(surg.) to retrovert; (nav.) ☉to transship, _V._ =transborder=. _— à
coups de canon_; to batter down. _— la table_; to upset the table. _—
un bataillon_; to break, to overthrow, a battalion. _— un état_; to
overthrow a state. _Ceci lui renversera l’esprit_; this will turn his
brain. _— l’encre_; to spill the ink, to knock the ink over. _— la
vapeur_; (rail.) to reverse the engine. _— une voiture_; to upset a
carriage.
_se_ =renverser=, _v.r._, to fall down, to turn upside down, to upset, to
be upset, to be thrown down, to overset, to be overset, to capsize; to
be capsized, to be spilt; to throw one’s self back, to fall back, to lie
on one’s back; (milit.) to be thrown into disorder, to be thrown back;
(surg.) to be retroverted.
=renverseur=, _n.m._, overthrower; subverter; inverter, destroyer;
transposer.
=renvi=, _n.m._, revy, additional stake.
=renvidage=, _n.m._, winding up, winding (in spinning).
=renvier=, _v.n._, to revy, to lay above the stakes, (at cards).
=renvoi=, _n.m._, sending back, returning, return, sending away,
dismissal, discharge; referring, sending; (jur.) adjournment; caret,
reference (in books, writings); reflection, reverberation; (jur.)
reference to another judge. _pl._, (med.) rising of the stomach. _De —_;
returnable. _— du son_; reverberation of sound. _Chevaux de —_; return
horses. _— de troupes_; dismissal of troops. _— de la cause à huitaine_;
adjournment of the case for a week.
=renvoyer=, _v.a._, to send again; to send back again, to return; to
send away, to dismiss; to discharge; to refer; to put off, to postpone,
to adjourn, to delay; to drive back; to throw back; to reflect (light or
heat); to repeat, to reverberate (sound). _— un ministre_; to dismiss a
minister. _— un domestique_; to discharge a servant. _— une femme_; to
repudiate a wife. _On a renvoyé l’affaire à huitaine_; the case has been
adjourned for a week. _— la balle à quelqu’un_; to give one as good as he
sends, to return the compliment. _— un accusé_; to acquit a prisoner. _—
un plaideur de sa demande_; to nonsuit a plaintiff. _— le lecteur à une
note_; to refer the reader to a note.
_se_ =renvoyer=, _v.r._, to be sent back _or_ returned; to send from one
to another. _Se — la balle_; to bandy compliments, to retort.
=réoccupation=, _n.f._, reoccupation.
=réoccuper=, _v.a._, to occupy again, to reoccupy.
=réopiner=, _v.n._, to deliver one’s opinion again.
=réorchestration=, _n.f._, new-scoring.
=réorchestrer=, _v.a._, (mus.) to compose a new score.
=réordination=, _n.f._, re-ordination.
=réordonner=, _v.a._, to ordain again, to re-ordain, to re-order.
=réorganisation=, _n.f._, re-organization.
=réorganiser=, _v.a._, to re-organize.
_se_ =réorganiser=, _v.r._, to be re-organized.
=réouverture=, _n.f._, re-opening. _La — d’un théâtre_; the re-opening of
a theater. _La — d’un magasin_; the re-opening of a shop.
=repaire=, _n.m._, haunt, den, lair, hole; (hunt.) dung of hares, wolves,
etc.; (tech.) _V._ =repère=. _— de voleurs_; den of thieves, haunt of
thieves.
=répaissir=, _v.a._ and _n._, to thicken again. _Se —_; to become, _or_
get, thick again.
=repaître=, _v.n._, (l.u.) to feed, to take refreshment; to bait.
=repaître=, _v.a._, (l.u.) to feed, to nourish. _Il faut — ces animaux_;
these animals must be fed. _— quelqu’un d’espérances_; to feed any one
with hopes.
_se_ =repaître=, _v.r._, to feed on; to feast on; to delight in, to
indulge in, to gloat over. _Il se repaît d’espérances vaines_; he feeds
on vain hopes.
=répandre=, _v.a._ and _n._, to spill, to shed, to diffuse, to scatter,
to distribute, to bestow, to give out, to spread, to pour out, to exhale,
to spread abroad, to propagate, to circulate. _— des larmes_; to shed
tears. _— des bienfaits_; to bestow benefits. _— un bruit_; to spread a
report. _— son sang_; to shed one’s blood. _— des aumônes_; to distribute
alms. _— l’alarme_; to spread alarm. _— son cœur_; to open one’s heart.
_se_ =répandre=, _v.r._, to be spilt, to be shed, to be diffused, to
be spread, to be scattered, to be distributed, to be bestowed, to be
given out, to be poured out, to be exhaled, to be spread abroad, to be
propagated, to be circulated; to be current; to flow, to spread, to go
abroad, to get abroad; to burst out, to break out, to launch out, to
indulge in, to fly out; to frequent society, to go into society. _La
lumière se répand beaucoup plus vite que le son_; light travels much
more quickly than sound. _La nouvelle de la victoire se répandit en un
instant_; the news of the victory was spread abroad in an instant. _Se —
en compliments_; to break out, to launch out, into compliments. _Se — en
invectives_; to launch out into abuse. _Se — dans le monde_; to go out
into society.
=répandu=, =-e=, _part._, spilt, shed. _Être fort — dans le monde_; to go
out into society, to go out a great deal; to be in great request. _Être
fort —_; to be very well known.
=réparable=, _adj._, reparable, mendable.
=reparaître=, _v.n._, to reappear, to appear again, to appear anew, to
make one’s reappearance, to enter again, to come back.
=réparat-eur=, =-rice=, _n._ and _adj._, restorer, repairer; restorative,
reparative, refreshing.
=réparation=, _n.f._, repairing, mending; reparation, amends,
satisfaction, apology, excuse. _pl._, repair, repairs; (jur.) damages,
indemnity, relief. _Faire — à quelqu’un_; to make amends to any one. _En
—_; under repair.
=réparatoire=, _adj._, reparative.
=réparer=, _v.a._, to repair, to mend; to make amends for, to atone for,
to redeem; to indemnify; to make up for; to re-establish, to recover,
to recruit. _— ses forces_; to recruit one’s strength. _— son honneur_;
to retrieve one’s honor. _— sa faute_; to make amends for one’s faults.
_— ses pertes_; to retrieve one’s losses. _— des torts_; to redress
grievances. _— le temps perdu_; to make up for lost time.
=répareur=, _n.m._, (tech.) repairer.
=réparition=, _n.f._, (astron.) reappearance (of a star after an
eclipse). _V._ =réapparition=.
=reparler=, _v.n._, to speak again.
=repartie= (-tî), _n.f._, repartee, retort, rejoinder, reply. _Avoir la —
prompte_, _être prompt à la —_; to be quick at repartee. _Faire une —_;
to make a repartee.
=repartir=, _v.n._, to set out again, to set off again.
=repartir=, _v.a._ and _n._, to reply, to answer, to retort.
=répartir=, _v.a._, to divide, to distribute; to portion out; to assess.
_— les contributions_; to assess taxes.
=répartiteur=, _n._ and _adj._ _m._, assessor; assessing (of taxes).
=répartition=, _n.f._, division, distribution; assessment.
=repas=, _n.m._, meal, repast. _— de noces_; wedding breakfast. _— en
gras_; meat dinner; meat breakfast. _— en maigre_; fish dinner; fish
breakfast. _Faire un —_; to make a meal. _Faire ses —_, _prendre ses —_;
to take one’s meals.
=repassage=, _n.m._, ironing (of linen); dressing, doing up (of a hat);
grinding, setting, honing, whetting, grinding (of cutlery); (agri.)
raking.
=repasser=, _v.n._, to pass again; to pass by again; to call again, to
look in again. _— chez quelqu’un_; to call again on any one, to look in
again.
=repasser=, _v.a._, to pass again, to repass; to cross again, to carry
over again; to iron, to iron out; to grind, to set, to hone, to whet;
to turn over, to think over, to revolve; to go over, to look over; to
repeat; (dy.) to dye again; to curry a second time (leather); (fig.,
pop.) to beat; to find fault with, to abuse, to scold. _— une leçon_;
to look over a lesson. _— du linge_; to iron linen. _— la lime sur_; to
repolish. _— quelque chose dans son esprit_; to revolve anything in one’s
mind. _— quelqu’un_; to beat, to abuse, any one. _— sur un cuir_; to
strop. _— sur la pierre_; to set, to whet. _— sur la meule_; to grind.
_se_ =repasser=, _v.r._, to be ironed; to be ground, sharpened, whetted.
=repasseur=, _n.m._, pointer (of pins); grinder. _— de couteaux_;
knife-grinder.
=repasseuse=, _n.f._, ironer.
=repassoir=, _n.m._, grinding-stone. _— à crayon_; pencil-pointer.
=repavage=, _n.m._, repaving.
=repaver=, _v.a._, to pave anew, to repave.
=repayer=, _v.a._, to pay again.
=repêcher=, _v.a._, to fish up again; to take out of the water; to take
out again, to take up again, to recover, to catch again.
=repeindre=, _v.a._, to paint again; to retouch, to touch up.
=repeint=, _n.m._, (paint.) re-painted, _or_ restored, part of a picture.
=repenser=, _v.n._, to think of again, to reconsider, to revolve.
=repentance=, _n.f._, repentance, contrition.
=repentant=, =-e=, _adj._, repentant, penitent.
=repentie= (-tî), _adj._ and _n.f._, penitent. _Les filles —s_; female
penitentiary.
_se_ =repentir= (se repentant, se repenti), _v.r._, to repent, to rue.
_Se — de ses fautes_; to repent one’s faults. _Il s’en repentira_; he
will rue it.
=repentir=, _n.m._, repentance, contrition, compunction, penitence,
regret; ringlet. _Elle porte des —s_; she wears curls; (paint.)
pentamento, correction.
=repercer=, _v.a._, to pierce again, to bore again; to tap again; to
punch.
=répercussi-f=, =-ve=, _adj._, (med.) repellent.
=répercussif=, _n.m._, (med.) repellent, repercussive.
=répercussion=, _n.f._, repercussion; reverberation.
=répercuter=, _v.a._, to repercuss, to drive back; to reverberate, to
echo; to reflect; (med.) to repel, to drive in.
=reperdre=, _v.a._, to lose again.
=repère=, _n.m._, mark, land-mark; (arts) bench-mark; joining-mark;
(mec.) datum. _Point de —_; land-mark, indication, direction.
=répertoire=, _n.m._, table, list, catalogue; repertory; (com.) alphabet,
alphabetical index. _Pièce qui fait partie du —_, _pièce restée au —_;
(thea.) stock-piece. _Être un —_; (pers.) to be a living chronicle.
_Pièce de —_; stock-piece.
=répétailler=, _v.a._, to repeat over and over again, to keep on
repeating.
=répéter=, _v.a._, to repeat; to say again, to tell again; to recite; to
reflect; (jur.) to claim again, to demand again; to give private lessons
to, to be private tutor to; (thea.) to rehearse. _Faire — à quelqu’un
sa leçon_; to hear any one say his lesson. _Il répète ces deux élèves_;
(at school) he is private tutor to these two boys. _— une comédie_; to
rehearse a comedy. _— une chose contre quelqu’un_; (jur.) to claim (a
thing) from any one, to redemand.
_se_ =répéter=, _v.r._, to be repeated; to copy one’s self; to be
renewed, to occur again; always to say the same thing.
=répétiteur=, _n.m._, tutor, private master; assistant professor (of
certain schools); (nav.) repeater, repeating-ship; call-boy.
=répétition=, _n.f._, repetition; action for; (jur.) renewal,
reproduction; replica, duplicate; recovery of money; private tuition;
(thea.) rehearsal. _Pièce en —_; play in rehearsal. _Montre à —_;
repeating-watch, repeater. _Donner des —s_; to give private tuition, to
give private lessons.
=repétrir=, _v.a._, to knead again; to form again.
=repeuplement=, _n.m._, repeopling, re-stocking. _— d’un étang_;
re-stocking of a pond.
=repeupler=, _v.a._, to repeople; to re-stock. _— un étang_; to re-stock
a pond.
_se_ =repeupler=, _v.r._, to be repeopled; to be re-stocked.
=repic=, _n.m._, repique (piquet). _Faire quelqu’un — et capot_; (fig.,
fam.) to nonplus any one.
=repiquage=, _n.m._, (agri., gard.) transplantation, pricking again;
picking up.
=repiquer=, _v.a._, to prick again; (hort.) to prick; (agri.) to
transplant; (engineering) to pick up.
=repiquer=, _v.n._, to pick up; to recover; to pluck up courage. _— à la
vie_; to pick up one’s crumbs. _— sur le rôti_; to cut and come again.
=répit=, _n.m._, respite, reprieve, delay; rest, breathing-time.
=replacement= (-plas-mān), _n.m._, replacing, putting again, setting
again; placing (servants) in a situation again; reinvestment (of funds).
=replacer=, _v.a._, to replace, to put in place again; to reinvest
(funds).
=replaider=, _v.a._, (jur.) to replead, to plead again.
=replanchéier=, _v.a._, to new-floor.
=replanir=, _v.a._, to plane down.
=replant=, _n.m._, young plant.
=replantation=, _n.f._, replantation.
=replanter=, _v.a._, to replant.
=replâtrage=, _n.m._, re-plastering; plastering, plastering up; botching
up, patching up; patched up quarrel.
=replâtrer=, _v.a._, to replaster; to plaster, to plaster up, to botch,
to botch up, to patch up, to bolster up.
=repl-et=, =-ète=, _adj._, obese, bulky, corpulent, stout, lusty, portly.
=réplétion=, _n.f._, repletion, stoutness, fatness, surfeit.
=repleuvoir=, _v.i._, to rain again.
=repli=, _n.m._, fold; plait; crease; recess; winding, sinuosity;
turning; coil. _Les —s du serpent_; the coils of the serpent. _Les plis
et les —s du cœur humain_; the inmost, or innermost, recesses of the
human heart.
=repliement= _or_ =reploiement=, _n.m._, (milit.) falling back.
=replier=, _v.a._, to fold again, to fold up again; to wind, to twist, to
writhe, to coil; (milit.) to force back; to draw back.
_se_ =replier=, _v.r._, to twist one’s self, to wind one’s self, to fold
one’s self, to writhe; to turn, to turn up; to bend up; to wind, to coil;
(milit.) to fall back, to retreat. _Se — sur soi-même_; to turn one’s
thoughts inwardly, to retire within one’s self; to meditate, to commune
with one’s self; (man.) to turn suddenly round.
=réplique=, _n.f._, reply, answer; rejoinder; (mus.) repeat; (thea.) cue.
_Donner la —_; to give a person his cue. _Avoir la —_; to have the last
say.
=répliquer=, _v.a._ and _n._, to reply, to answer; to rejoin, to return,
to retort; (jur.) to reply, to rejoin, to put in a rejoinder.
=reploiement=, _n.m._ _V._ =repliement=.
=replonger=, _v.a._, to plunge again, to dip again, to duck again, to
re-immerse, to immerse again.
_se_ =replonger=, _v.r._, to plunge anew, to plunge one’s self again, to
dive into again.
=replonger=, _v.n._, to dive again, to dive anew.
=reployer=, _v.a._, _se_ =reployer=, _v.r._ _V._ =replier=, _se_
=replier=.
=repolir=, _v.a._, to repolish, to polish again, to polish anew.
=repolissage=, _n.m._, re-polishing.
=répondant=, _n.m._, bail, surety, security; reference; (in schools)
respondent; lay-clerk.
=repondre=, _v.a.n._, to lay (eggs) again.
=répondre=, _v.a._, to answer, to reply, to write back; to make the
responses (to).
=répondre=, _v.n._, to answer, to reply; to write back; to lead (to) (of
roads); to reach, to be heard (of sound); to make a suitable return; to
correspond, to respond, to agree, to come up, to satisfy, to answer; to
be answerable (for), to be accountable (to _or_ for); to be responsible
(for); to be security (for); (man.) to obey, to answer; to maintain a
thesis. _— à ceux qui appellent_; to answer those who call. _— ad rem_;
to give a direct answer, to answer to the point. _— en Normand_; to
answer equivocally, to give a shuffling answer. _Pour — à_; in answer
to, in reply to. _Ces allées répondent au canal_; these walks lead to
the canal. _— à l’attente publique_; to answer, to come up to public
expectation. _Ne pas — à l’attente publique_; not to come up to, to fall
short of public expectation. _Tout répond à nos vœux_; everything falls
in with our wishes. _Qui pourrait — de l’événement?_ who could answer for
the event? _Je ne vous réponds que de moi_; I only answer for myself. _Je
vous en réponds_; I’ll be bound it is so!; I’ll warrant you; I should
think so, indeed!; I can tell you! _En — de_; to answer for (with).
_se_ =répondre=, _v.r._, to answer one’s self; to answer each other; to
correspond, to suit, to agree; to sympathize. _Nos cœurs se répondent_;
our hearts are in sympathy.
=répons=, _n.m._, response (church and print.).
=réponse=, _n.f._, answer, reply; response; (jur.) rejoinder. _— à une
réplique_; (jur.) rejoinder. _À sotte demande point de —_; a foolish
question deserves no answer. _— de Normand_; equivocal, _or_ shuffling,
answer. _Faire —_; to answer, to make answer. _Faire une —_; to give an
answer. _— s’il vous plaît_; an answer will oblige.
=report=, _n.m._, (book-keeping) carrying over, carrying forward,
bringing forward; sum carried over, amount brought forward; continuation,
prolongation. _Faire un —_; to bring forward; (exchange) to carry over.
=reportage=, _n.m._, reporting.
=reporter= (-teur), _n.m._, (_—s_) (in newspapers) reporter.
=reporter=, _v.a._, to carry back again, to carry back, to take back; to
trace back, to trace; (book-keeping) to carry forward, to carry over.
_se_ =reporter=, _v.r._, to go back (to); to return; to be carried back;
to look back (upon).
=reporter=, _v.n._, to carry over.
=repos=, _n.m._, rest; stillness; repose, ease, quiet, peace,
tranquillity; pause; resting-place; (carp.) quarter-pace. _En —_; at
rest. _Se tenir en —_; to keep quiet. _Être en —_; to be at ease.
_Laissez-moi en —_; let me alone. _Lit de —_; couch. _Mettre un fusil
dans son —_, _au —_; to half-cock a gun. _Echappement à —_; (horl.) stop;
dead beat. _—!_ (milit.) stand at ease!
=reposé=, =-e=, _part._ _adj._, rested, refreshed; quiet, calm, cool,
fresh. _À tête —e_; coolly, deliberately, at leisure. _Vin —_; wine that
has settled.
=reposée=, _n.f._, (hunt.) lair. _À —s_; with intervals of rest.
=repose-pied=, _n.m._, foot-rest.
=reposer=, _v.a._, to place again, to lay again, to set again; to rest
(on anything); to lay; to repose, to settle; to refresh; (milit.) to
ground arms. _Cela repose la vue_; that is restful to the eye. _— la
tête_; to refresh the head.
_se_ =reposer=, _v.r._, to rest one’s self, to rest, to repose, to lay
one’s self down, to lie down; to rely on, to confide in; to settle, to
settle down; to pause; to light (of birds). _Se — après le travail_; to
rest after labor. _Il faut que l’esprit se repose_; the mind has need of
rest. _Se — sur_; to depend upon, to rely on. _Se — sur quelqu’un_; to
rely on, to depend upon, any one.
=reposer=, _v.n._, to rest, to lie; to repose; to lay one’s self down,
to lie down, to lie fallow, to settle. _Laisser —_; (agri.) to let lie
fallow.
=reposoir=, _n.m._, street altar (procession of the _Fête-Dieu_);
resting-place; pause.
=repoussant=, =-e=, _adj._, repulsive, forbidding, repelling, loathsome,
shocking.
=repoussement= (-poos-mān), _n.m._, repulsion; recoil (of fire-arms).
_V._ =recul=, which is more frequently used. _J’éprouve un certain — pour
cet homme_; I feel a sort of aversion to this man.
=repousser=, _v.a._, to repel; to drive back; to beat back, to force
back, to push back; to thrust back, to thrust away; to reflect, to spurn;
to repulse, to repel (an argument); to resent; to rebuff; to shoot
out again (of plants); (print.) to prick in. _— l’ennemi_; to repulse
the enemy. _— la force par la force_; to repel force by force. _— la
tentation_; to repel temptation. _— une demande_; to reject a demand.
=repousser=, _v.n._, to be repulsive; to recoil; to kick (of fire-arms);
to spring up, to come up again, to shoot up (of plants); to grow again
(of the hair).
=repoussoir=, _n.m._, driving-bolt; starting-bolt; punch (of a dentist);
(paint.) set-off, contrast.
=répréhensible=, _adj._, reprehensible, reprovable.
=répréhensiblement=, _adv._, reprehensibly.
=répréhensi-f=, =-ve=, _adj._, reprehensive.
=répréhension=, _n.f._, reprehension, reproof.
=reprendre=, _v.a._, to take again; to take back; to take up again; to
take to again; to catch again; (of diseases) to return; to recover; to
resume, to begin again; to rebuke; to take up, to reprove; to find fault
with; (arch.) to underpin. _— connaissance_; to recover consciousness. _—
une ville_; to re-take a town. _— ses habits d’hiver_; to take to one’s
winter clothing again. _On ne m’y reprendra plus_; I will not be caught
napping again. _— ses forces_; to recover one’s strength. _— courage_;
to take courage again. _— ses esprits_; to recover one’s senses. _—
haleine_; to recover one’s breath, to breathe again; to take breath.
_— le dessus_; to get the upper hand again. _— un mur sous œuvre_, _en
sous-œuvre_, _par-dessous œuvre_; to underpin a wall. _— aigrement_; to
reprove, _or_ to take up, sharply.
_se_ =reprendre=, _v.r._, to correct one’s self, to take one’s self up;
to be caught again; (of wounds) to close up again, to heal.
=reprendre=, _v.n._, to take root again; (of wounds) to close up again;
to begin to recover; to begin again; to reply, to answer; to return;
(man.) to change its pace; to freeze again (of rivers); to return (of
diseases). _Cet arbre a bien repris_; this tree has taken root very well.
_Le froid a repris_; the cold has set in again. _Cette mode a repris_;
this fashion has come in again.
=repreneu-r=, _n.m._, =-se=, _n.f._, carper, fault-finder, snarling
critic. _adj._, censuring.
*=représaille=, _n.f._, reprisal, retaliation. _User de —s_; to make
reprisals, to retaliate; (fig.) to retaliate, to return like for like; to
give tit for tat. _Lettres de —s_; letters of marque and reprisal.
=représentant=, _n.m._, representative.
=représentati-f=, =-ve=, _adj._, representative.
=représentation=, _n.f._, representation, exhibition, production,
performance; display, show; appearance, mien; air; (empty) catafalque;
remonstrance; (jur.) succession. _Il a une belle —_; he has a stately
appearance, a noble deportment. _Faire des —s à_; to remonstrate (with).
=représenter=, _v.a._, to represent, to present again; to show; to show
again; to exhibit; to lay before; to produce; to reflect; to depict; to
describe; to look like, to resemble; to perform, to act (a play); to
be the representative of; to stand in the place of. _Il se fit — les
registres_; he had the registers laid before him. _Cela est représenté au
naturel_; that is depicted to the life.
_se_ =représenter=, _v.r._, to present one’s self again; to appear again;
to make one’s appearance again; to fancy, to imagine, to picture to one’s
self; to occur; to present itself again (of a thing).
=représenter=, _v.n._, to represent, to set forth; to maintain, to keep,
one’s dignity; to have an imposing appearance.
=répressible=, _adj._, repressible.
=répressi-f=, =-ve=, _adj._, repressive.
=répression=, _n.f._, repression.
=reprêter=, _v.a._, to lend again.
=reprier=, _v.a._, to pray, _or_ beg, again; to re-invite.
=réprimable=, _adj._, repressible.
=réprimande=, _n.f._, reprimand, reproof, rebuke. _Faire une — à
quelqu’un_; to reprimand any one.
=réprimander=, _v.a._, to reprimand, to reprove, to rebuke, to upbraid;
to lecture.
=réprimant=, =-e=, _adj._, repressive.
=réprimer=, _v.a._, to repress, to restrain, to curb, to quell, to keep
down, to check. _— le vice_; to put down vice. _— l’orgueil_; to check
pride. _— ses désirs_; to check one’s desires. _— les abus_; to repress
abuses. _— ses passions_; to curb one’s passions.
=repris=, =-e=, _part._, retaken, resumed, taken up again; reset (of a
bone).
=repris de justice=, _n._ and _adj._ _m._, liberated convict, old
offender.
=reprise=, _n.f._, resumption; retaking; taking back; recovery;
reconquest; revival; renewal; darn; (mus.) repetition, mark of
repetition; (arch.) underpropping, underpinning; (man.) lesson; recapture
(of a ship). _À plusieurs —s_, _à différentes —_, _à diverses —s_;
several times, repeatedly. _À deux —s_; twice. _La — d’un procès_; the
renewal of a lawsuit. _Faire des —s_; to darn. _Faire des —s perdues_; to
fine-draw.
=repriser=, _v.a._, to darn.
=réprobat-eur=, =-rice=, _adj._, reproving, censuring.
=réprobation=, _n.f._, reprobation.
=reprochable=, _adj._, reproachable.
=reproche=, _n.m._, reproach; expostulation. _pl._, (jur.) exception,
objection. _Un homme sans —_; a man free from reproach. _Faire un — à
quelqu’un de quelque chose_; to reproach any one with anything. _Faire
des —s amers à_; to reproach bitterly. _S’attirer des —s_; to incur
reproach.
=reprocher=, _v.a._, to reproach, to expostulate, to upbraid, to rebuke,
to taunt, to twit, to cast in the teeth of. _— à une personne quelque
chose_; to reproach a person with anything. _Il lui a reproché ses
défauts_; he reproached him with his faults. _Il me l’a reproché_; he
cast it in my teeth; he twitted me with it. _— les morceaux à quelqu’un_;
to grudge any one the very food he eats. _— des témoins_; (jur.) to
object (to), _or_ to challenge, witnesses.
_se_ =reprocher=, _v.r._, to reproach, to upbraid one’s self; to grudge
one’s self; to be reproached.
=reproduct-eur=, =-rice=, _adj._, reproductive.
=reproductibilité=, _n.f._, reproducibility.
=reproductible=, _adj._, reproducible.
=reproducti-f=, =-ve=, _adj._, reproductive.
=reproduction=, _n.f._, reproduction; reprinting, republication;
recurrence.
=reproduire=, _v.a._, to produce again, to reproduce; to reprint, to
republish.
_se_ =reproduire=, _v.r._, to come again; to be reproduced; to show one’s
self again; to occur, to happen again, to recur.
=repromettre=, _v.a._, to promise again.
=réprouvable=, _adj._, censurable, reprehensible, blamable.
=réprouvé=, _n.m._, (theol.) reprobate. _Il a un visage de —_; he has a
sinister-looking face.
=reprouver=, _v.a._, to prove again.
=réprouver=, _v.a._, to disapprove of, to disapprove, to reprobate, to
condemn, to reject.
=reps= (rèps), _n.m._, rep (silk or woolen fabric).
=reptation=, _n.f._, reptation, creeping.
=reptile=, _n.m._ and _adj._, reptile; creeping, crawling. _C’est un —_;
he is a crawling wretch, a reptile.
=républicain=, =-e=, _n._ and _adj._, republican.
=républicaniser=, _v.a._, to republicanize.
=républicanisme=, _n.m._, republicanism.
=republication=, _n.f._, republication, re-issue.
=republier=, _v.a._, to republish, to re-issue.
=république=, _n.f._, republic; commonwealth. _La — des lettres_; the
republic of letters.
=répudiation=, _n.f._, repudiation, renunciation; rejection.
=répudier=, _v.a._, to repudiate, to put away; to renounce, to reject.
*=répugnance=, _n.f._, repugnance, dislike; reluctance, unwillingness.
_J’ai de la — à le faire_; I am reluctant, _or_ loath, to do it. _Avec
—_; with reluctance, reluctantly, repugnantly.
*=répugnant=, =-e=, _adj._, repugnant.
*=répugner=, _v.n._, to be repugnant, to be contrary, to clash with; to
feel repugnance at; to feel reluctant; to feel loath. _Cela répugne au
sens commun_; that is contrary to common sense. _Cet homme me répugne_;
that man is my aversion. _Cela me répugne_; I am loath to do it. _Il me
répugne de vous entretenir d’un pareil sujet_; it is repugnant to me to
talk to you on such a subject.
=repulluler=, _v.n._, to repullulate; to abound, to swarm; to increase
fast.
=répulsi-f=, =-ve=, _adj._, (phys.) repulsive, repelling.
=répulsion=, _n.f._, (phys.) repulsion; (fig.) aversion, disgust.
=repurger=, _v.a._, to purge again.
=réputation=, _n.f._, reputation, character, repute, fame. _Avoir la —
de_; to have the reputation of, to pass for. _Je ne vous connaissais que
de —_; I only knew you by report. _En —_; in repute, in request. _Se
faire une —_; to get one’s self a reputation. _Se mettre en —_; to get
into repute. _Avoir de la —_; to have reputation, to have a name. _Perdre
quelqu’un de —_; to ruin any one’s reputation, character.
=réputer=, _v.a._, to repute, to account, to reckon, to deem; to hold.
=requérable=, _adj._, (jur.) demandable.
=requérant=, =-e=, _n._ and _adj._, (jur.) plaintiff, applicant;
petitioner.
=requérir= (requérant, requis), _v.a._, to request, to beg; to require,
to demand; to claim, to summon. _C’est lui qui m’en a requis_; it was he
who requested me to do it.
=requête=, _n.f._, request, petition, demand, application; (hunt.) new
cast, new search. _Faire une —_; to make a request, a demand. _On accorda
sa —_; his demand was granted.
=requêter=, _v.a._, (hunt.) to search again (for).
=requiem= (-kui-èm), _n.m._, requiem.
=requin=, _n.m._, (ich.) shark.
=requinqué=, =-e=, _adj._, (fam., iron.) spruce, dressed out.
_se_ =requinquer=, _v.r._, (fam., iron.) to deck one’s self out.
=requis=, =-e=, _part._, requested, required, requisite, proper; due. _Il
a l’âge —_; he has the proper, the required age.
=réquisition=, _n.f._, requisition, application; motion; call, summons,
order, levy. _À la — de_; on the application of.
=réquisitionnement=, _n.m._, requisitioning.
=réquisitionner=, _v.a._, to requisition; to impound.
=réquisitoire=, _n.m._, (jur.) speech for the crown.
=resaluer=, _v.a._, to salute, to bow to, again.
=rescellement=, _n.m._, resealing, refastening.
=resceller=, _v.a._, to seal again.
=rescif= (rè-cif), _n.m._ _V._ =récif=.
=rescindant=, _n.m._, (jur., ant.) motion to annul, _or_ set aside.
=rescinder=, _v.a._, (jur.) to annul, to rescind.
=rescision= (rès-si-zi-on), _n.f._, (jur.) annulment, rescission.
=rescisoire= (rès-si-zoar), _n.m._, (jur.) ground for annulment. _adj._,
rescissory.
☉=rescontre=, _n.m._, (com.) bill-book.
=rescousse=, _n.f._, recapture; help, rescue. _A la —_; help! help!
=rescription=, _n.f._, money order; check; scrip, bond, debenture.
=rescrit=, _n.m._, rescript; bull.
=réseau=, _n.m._, net, net-work; (rail.) system, section; (anat.) plexus;
(arch.) tracery; (geom.) chain (of triangles).
=résection= (ré-cèk-si-on), _n.f._, (surg.) resection (amputation).
=réséda=, _n.m._, (bot.) reseda, mignonette.
=réséquer= (ré-cé-), _v.a._, (surg.) to resect.
=réservation=, _n.f._, reserve, reservation.
=réserve=, _n.f._, reserve, reservation, caution; modesty; stock, stores;
preserve (for game). _Se tenir sur la —_; to be reserved, to act with
circumspection. _À la — de_; with the reservation of. _En —_; in reserve,
in store. _Mettre en —_; to reserve, to lay by. _Sans —_; without
reserve, unreservedly.
=réservé=, =-e=, _adj._, reserved, cautious, wary, circumspect, shy;
guarded, coy.
=réserver=, _v.a._, to reserve, to save, to set apart, to lay by, to lay
up.
_se_ =réserver=, _v.r._, to reserve, to reserve to one’s self; to mean,
to intend, to purpose; to wait for an opportunity; to be kept; to reserve
to one’s self the right. _Se — la réplique_; to reserve the right of
replying. _Je me réserve de faire cela_; I am waiting for an opportunity
to do that.
=réserviste=, _n.m._, (milit.) reserve-man, reservist.
=réservoir=, _n.m._, reservoir, tank; fish-pond, cistern, well; (anat.)
receptacle.
=résidant=, =-e=, _adj._, resident, residing.
=résidence=, _n.f._, residence, place of abode, dwelling, living.
_Etablir sa — à_; to take up one’s abode (at).
=résident=, _n.m._, resident, minister at a foreign court.
=résider=, _v.n._, to reside, to dwell, to live; to lie (in), to rest.
=résidu=, _n.m._, settlement (of liquids); residue; (arith.) remainder;
(chem.) residuum.
=résignant=, _n.m._, resigner.
*=résignataire=, _n.m._, resignee.
*=résignation=, _n.f._, resignation.
=résigner=, _v.a._, to sign again.
*=résigner=, _v.a._, to resign, to give up.
*_se_ =résigner=, _v.r._, to resign one’s self (to), to submit; to be
reconciled (to); to put up (with).
=résiliation=, _n.f._, canceling, annulling.
=résiliement= _or_ =résilîment=, _n.m._ _V._ =résiliation=.
=résilier=, _v.a._, to cancel, to annul.
=résille=, _n.f._, hair-net.
=résine=, _n.f._, resin, rosin; colophony. _Un pain de —_; a cake of
resin.
=résineu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, resinous.
=résinifère=, _adj._, yielding resin, resiniferous.
=résipiscence= (-zi-), _n.f._, resipiscence, repentance. _Venir à —_; to
repent; to amend.
=résistance=, _n.f._, resistance, opposition, obstacle; (med.) obstinacy.
_Pièce de —_; (cook.) solid joint. _Sans —_; unresistingly. _Faire de la
—_; to offer resistance, to resist.
=résistant=, _adj._, tough, firm, unyielding.
=résister=, _v.n._, to resist, to oppose, to withstand; to endure,
to last. _— à l’ennemi_; to resist the enemy. _— à la tentation_; to
withstand temptation. _Je n’y saurais plus —_; I can endure it no longer.
=résistible=, _adj._, resistible.
=résolu=, =-e=, _part._, resolved on, decided, determined on, settled,
fixed.
=résolu=, =-e=, _adj._, resolute, bold, determined, stout-hearted,
undaunted.
=résolubilité=, _n.f._, resolvability.
=résoluble=, _adj._, solvable, resolvable.
=résolument=, _adv._, resolutely, boldly, stoutly.
=résoluti-f=, =-ve=, _adj._, (med.) resolutive; resolvent; discutient.
=résolutif=, _n.m._, (med.) resolutive, resolvent.
=résolution=, _n.f._, resolution, solution, decision, determination;
resolve; (jur.) canceling, annulment. _Avec —_; resolutely, stoutly.
_Changer de —_; to alter one’s mind. _— d’un contrat_; (jur.) canceling
of a contract.
=résolutoire=, _adj._, (jur.) resolutive, canceling.
=résolvant=, =-e=, _adj._, _n.m._, (med.) resolvent.
=résonance=, _n.f._, resonance.
=résonnant=, =-e=, _adj._, resonant; sounding, sonorous. _Voix claire et
—e_; clear and sonorous voice. _Un violon bien —_; a well-sounding violin.
=résonnement= (-zo-n-mān), _n.m._, resounding, clanking, echoing,
rattling, rattle.
=résonner=, _v.n._, to resound; to clank, to echo, to reverberate.
=résorber= (-zor-), _v.a._, (med.) to reabsorb.
_se_ =résorber= (-zor-), _v.r._, (med.) to be reabsorbed.
=résorption= (-zor-), _n.f._, reabsorption.
=résoudre= (résolvant, résolu _and_ résous), _v.a._, to resolve; to
dissolve, to melt; to solve; to decide, to settle; (jur.) to cancel, to
make void; to resolve on, to determine on, to decide upon (a thing); to
determine; to decide on; to persuade. _— une tumeur_; (med.) to resolve a
tumor. _— un problème_; to solve a problem. _— une question_; to settle
a question. _— un bail_; to cancel a lease. _A-t-on résolu la paix ou la
guerre?_ has peace or war been decided upon? _or_ is it to be peace or
war?
_se_ =résoudre=, _v.r._, to resolve, to be resolved, to be solved; to
dissolve, to be dissolved; to determine; to be prevailed upon; to make
up one’s mind. _L’eau se résout en vapeur_; water is resolved into
vapor. _Se — à_; to resolve upon; to bring one’s self to. _À quoi vous
résolvez-vous?_ what resolution have you come to? _Je ne saurais m’y
résoudre_; I cannot make up my mind to do it.
=résous=, _part._, resolved, dissolved, melted; changed into. [_Résous_
has no feminine.]
=respect= (rès-pè), _n.m._, respect, regard, reverence, awe, deference,
dutifulness. _Porter — à quelqu’un_; to show respect to any one. _Manquer
de — envers quelqu’un_; to be wanting in respect towards any one.
_Présenter ses —s à quelqu’un_; to pay one’s respects to any one, to give
one’s kind regards to. _Se faire porter —_; to make one’s self respected.
_Imprimer_, or _imposer_, _le — à_; to impress any one with respect, to
awe any one. _Tenir en —_; to keep in awe or in respect. _Sauf votre —_;
saving your presence. _Sauf le — que je vous dois_; with due deference to
you.
=respectabilité=, _n.f._, respectability.
=respectable= (rès-pèk-), _adj._, respectable, venerable.
=respectablement=, _adv._, respectably.
=respecter= (rès-pèk-), _v.a._, to respect, to reverence, to revere; to
spare. _— la vieillesse_; to respect old age. _Respectez ses sentiments_;
spare his feelings. _Le temps n’a pas respecté ces monuments_; time has
not spared those monuments. _Se faire —_; to command respect.
_se_ =respecter= (rès-pèk-té), _v.r._, to respect one’s self; to respect
each other.
=respecti-f=, =-ve= (rès-pèk-), _adj._, respective.
=respectivement= (rès-pèk-tiv-mān), _adv._, respectively.
=respectueusement= (rès-pèk-tu-eûz-mān), _adv._, respectfully,
reverentially, dutifully, deferentially.
=respectueu-x=, =-se= (rès-pèk-), _adj._, respectful, reverential,
dutiful, deferential.
=respirable= (rès-), _adj._, respirable, breathable.
=respirateur=, _adj._, respiratory. _n.m._, respirator.
=respiration= (rès-), _n.f._, respiration, breathing. _Difficulté de
—_; shortness of breath. _Avoir la — coupée_; to be unable to get one’s
breath.
=respiratoire= (rès-pi-ra-toar), _adj._, respiratory.
=respirer= (rès-pi-ré), _v.n._, to breathe, to respire; to take breath,
to draw breath, to rest; to long for. _Il a de la peine à —_; he can
scarcely breathe. _— après quelque chose_; to long for anything, to
desire anything ardently.
=respirer= (rès-), _v.a._, to breathe, to inhale; to thirst after, to
long for; to bespeak, to betoken, to express. _Son visage respire la
douceur_; his face betokens gentleness. _Il ne respire que la vengeance_;
he thirsts after vengeance.
=resplendir= (rès-plān-), _v.n._, to shine brightly; to be resplendent,
to glitter.
=resplendissant=, =-e= (rès-plān-), _adj._, resplendent, bright,
glittering.
=resplendissement= (rès-plān-dis-mān), _n.m._, resplendence.
=responsabilité= (rès-), _n.f._, responsibility, liability.
=responsable= (rès-), _adj._, responsible, answerable, liable,
accountable.
=responsi-f=, =-ve= (rès-), _adj._, (jur.) responsory.
=ressac= (rĕ-sak), _n.m._, (nav.) surf.
*=ressaigner= (rĕ-sè-), _v.a._ and _n._, to bleed again.
=ressaisir= (rĕ-sè-zir), _v.a._, to seize again, to take again, to
recover possession of.
_se_ =ressaisir= (rĕ-sè-zir), _v.r._, to seize again, to recover
possession of.
=ressaler=, _v.a._, to salt again.
=ressasser= (rĕ-sa-sé), _v.a._, to sift again; to examine minutely; to
scrutinize.
=ressasseu-r=, =-se=, _n.m.f._, tiresome repeater.
=ressaut= (rĕ-sô), _n.m._, (arch.) ressault, projection; abrupt fall, dip.
=ressauter= (rĕ-sô-té), _v.a.n._, to leap again; (arch.) to project.
=ressécher= (rĕ-sé-), _v.a._, to dry again.
=resseller= (rĕ-sè-lé), _v.a._, to saddle again.
=ressemblance= (rĕ-sān-), _n.f._, resemblance, likeness, similarity. _Se
tromper à la —_; to be deceived by the likeness.
=ressemblant=, =-e= (rĕ-sān-), _adj._, resembling, like, similar. _C’est
très —_; it is a striking likeness.
=ressembler= (rĕ-sān-), _v.n._, to resemble, to be like, to take after.
_Le fils ressemble à son père_; the son resembles his father. _Ce
portrait vous ressemble peu_; this portrait is not much like you.
_se_ =ressembler= (rĕ-sān-), _v.r._, to resemble one another, to be
like each other, to be alike; to be uniform. _Ils se ressemblent comme
deux gouttes d’eau_; they are as like as two peas. _Qui se ressemble_,
_s’assemble_; birds of a feather flock together.
=ressemelage= (rĕ-sĕ-mlaj), _n.m._, resoling (of boots); new footing (of
stockings).
=ressemeler= (rĕ-sĕ-mlé), _v.a._, to sole anew (boots or shoes); to foot
anew (stockings).
=ressemer= (rĕ-sĕ-mé), _v.a._, to sow again.
=ressenti=, =-e= (rĕ-sān-), _part._, felt; (paint.) strongly expressed,
or marked; full of expression.
=ressentiment= (rĕ-sān-), _n.m._, slight return, attack, touch (of
disease, pain); desire of vengeance, resentment. _Avec —_; resentingly.
_Plein de —_; resentful.
=ressentir= (rĕ-sān-), _v.a._, to feel, to experience; to manifest, to
show; to have a sense of. _— du malaise_; to feel uncomfortable. _Elle
ressent vivement cette injure_; she feels that insult keenly.
_se_ =ressentir= (rĕ-sān-), _v.r._, to feel the effects of, to perceive,
to resent; to feel (disease, pain); to feel the effects of. _Il se
ressent encore de ses pertes_; he still feels the effects of his losses.
_— d’une injure_; to resent an injury.
=resserrement= (rĕ-sèr-mān), _n.m._, contraction, closing, tightening;
restriction, oppression; (med.) stricture, contraction, costiveness.
=resserrer= (rĕ-sè-ré), _v.a._, to tie again; to tie tighter, to draw
closer, to bind tighter, to confine, to compress, to contract, to
straighten; to rivet; to put by, away again; to keep more closely; to
restrain, to confine; (print.) to lock up again; (nav.) to take in sails
again; (milit.) to close again. _— une rivière dans son lit_; to confine
a river to its bed. _Le froid resserre les pores_; cold contracts the
pores. _— les liens de l’amitié_; to draw closer the bonds of friendship.
_se_ =resserrer= (rĕ-sè-ré), _v.r._, to contract, to be contracted; to
be narrower, closer; to confine one’s self, to be compressed; to become
tighter; to become colder (of the weather); to retrench one’s expenses;
to be restricted in circulation (of money). _Le temps se resserre_; the
weather is getting colder.
=ressif= (rè-sif), _n.m._ _V._ =récif=.
=ressort= (rĕ-sor), _n.m._, spring; elasticity; energy; activity, force,
strength; means. _À —_; with a spring. _Faire —_; to fly back. _Il n’agit
que par —_; he acts only at the instigation of others. _Faire jouer tous
ses —s_; to use every effort.
=ressort= (rĕ-sor), _n.m._, extent of jurisdiction; department, province,
line; (jur.) resort. _En dernier —_; (jur.) in the last resort; without
appeal. _Cela n’est pas de mon —_; that is not within my province, or not
in my line.
=ressortir= (rĕ-sor-), _v.n._, (_pres. part._ ressortant) to go out
again; to be set off, to stand out (of a thing); to arise (from), to
proceed (from), to result (from); to follow. _Faire —_; to bring forward,
to show off, to set forth, to bring out in relief.
=ressortir= (rĕ-sor-), _v.n._, (_pres. part._ ressortissant), (jur.) to
be under the jurisdiction of, to depend (on); to be dependent (on); to
refer (to).
=ressortissant=, =-e= (rĕ-sor-), _adj._, (jur.) appealable (to), amenable
(to), under the jurisdiction (of), dependent (on).
=ressouder= (rĕ-soo-), _v.a._, to solder again.
=ressoudure=, _n.f._, re-soldering.
=ressource= (rĕ-soors), _n.f._, resource, expedient, shift. _pl._,
resources. _Faire —_; to procure resources; to raise the wind; to
finance. _C’est ma dernière —_; that is my last shift. _— désespérée_;
desperate expedient, shift. _Un malheur sans —_; an irreparable
misfortune. _Je suis perdu_, _ruiné_, _sans —_; I am irretrievably ruined.
_Il n’y a point de —_; there’s no help for it. _C’est un homme de —_; he
is a man fertile in expedients, a man of resource.
☉=ressouvenance= (rĕ-soo-vnans), _n.f._, remembrance.
=ressouvenir= (rĕ-soo-vnir), _n.m._, remembrance, recollection;
reminiscence, memento; twinge, return (of pain).
_se_ =ressouvenir= (rĕ-soo-vnir), _v.r._, to recollect, to remember.
_Faire ressouvenir_; to put in mind. _Vous en ressouvient-il?_ do you
remember it?
=ressuage= (rĕ-), _n.m._, (tech.) sweating; (metal.) eliquation.
=ressuer= (rĕ-), _v.n._, (metal.) to eliquate; (tech.) to sweat.
=ressui= (rè-), _n.m._, lair (where animals dry themselves).
=ressuiement=, _n.m._, drying.
=ressuscitation=, _n.f._, _or_ =ressuscitement=, _n.m._, resuscitation,
revival, renewal.
=ressuscitatoire=, _adj._, reviving.
=ressusciter= (rè-), _v.a._, to resuscitate, to raise from the dead, to
bring to life again, to revive.
=ressusciter= (rè-), _v.n._, to rise from the dead, to come to life
again, to be resuscitated.
=ressuyer= (rè-), _v.n._, to wipe, to dry, again.
_se_ =ressuyer= (rè-), _v.r._, to dry; to air (of linen).
=restant=, =-e= (rès-), _adj._, remaining, left. _Poste —e_; till called
for.
=restant= (rès-), _n.m._, remainder, rest.
☉=restaur= (rès-), _n.m._, (com.). _V._ =ristourne=.
=restaurant=, =-e= (rès-), _adj._, restorative.
=restaurant= (rès-), _n.m._, restorative; eating-house, dining-rooms,
luncheon-rooms.
=restaurat-eur=, _n.m._, =-rice= (rès-), _n.f._, restorer.
=restaurateur= (rès-), _n.m._, eating-house keeper.
=restaurati-f=, =-ve= (rès-), _adj._, (med.) restorative.
=restauration= (rès-), _n.f._, restoration, repairing, re-establishment.
=restaurer= (rès-), _v.a._, to restore; to re-establish, to repair; to
put in thorough repair; to revive, to refresh. _— ses forces_; to restore
one’s strength.
_se_ =restaurer= (rès-), _v.r._, to take refreshment, to refresh one’s
self; to recover one’s strength.
=reste=, _n.m._, rest, remainder, remnant, remains, residue, scrap,
relic, leavings. _pl._, mortal remains. _Avoir de —_; to have something
left and to spare, to have remaining. _De —_; left, remaining, enough and
more than enough. _Et le —_; and the rest of it, and so forth, et cætera.
_Faire son —_; to stake all the money one has left. _Jouer de son —_;
to play one’s last stake. _Donner son — à quelqu’un_; to give it to, to
abuse, to beat any one. _Il ne demanda pas son —_; he did not wait for
anything more, he sneaked off. _Être en —_; to be behindhand, to be in
arrears. _Il n’y a rien de —_; there is nothing left. _J’en ai de —_; I
have more than enough. _Du —_; however, moreover, nevertheless. _Au —_;
besides. _N’être pas de — avec_; not to be beholden to.
=rester=, _v.n._, to remain, to be left; to stay, to stop, to continue,
to keep; (mus.) to hold; (nav.) to bear. _C’est tout ce qui me reste_;
that is all I have left. _Il reste quelque argent_; there is some money
left. _Que me reste-t-il à faire?_ what am I to do now? _Il me reste
à vous dire_; I have still to tell you. _Il resta à Rome après notre
départ_; he stayed at Rome after our departure. _Il est resté stupéfait_;
he remained thunderstruck. _Restez tranquille_; keep quiet, keep still.
_— chez soi_; to stay at home. _Où en sommes-nous restés?_ where did we
leave off? _En — à_; to leave off, to stop. _Restons-en là_; let us stop
there; let us say no more about it.
=restituable= (rès-), _adj._, repayable, returnable, to be refunded.
=restituer= (rès-), _v.a._, to restore, to return, to give back again, to
refund. _— un passage d’un livre_; to restore a passage in a book.
=restituteur= (rès-), _n.m._, restorer (of the texts of authors).
=restitution= (rès-), _n.f._, restitution, restoration; (jur.) relief,
release.
=restreindre= (rès-), (restreignant, restreint), _v.a._, to restrict, to
restrain, to limit, to confine, to stint.
_se_ =restreindre= (rès-), _v.r._, to restrain one’s self, to limit one’s
self (to), to be restricted.
=restricti-f=, =-ve= (rès-), _adj._, restrictive.
=restriction= (rès-), _n.f._, restriction, restraint; reserve. _—
mentale_; mental reservation.
=restringent=, =-e= (rès-), _adj._, (med.) (l.u.) astringent.
=restringent=, _n.m._, (med.) (l.u.) astringent.
=résultant=, =-e=, _adj._, resulting, arising; resultant.
=résultante=, _n.f._, (med.) resultant.
=résultat=, _n.m._, result. _En —_; finally, ultimately, eventually.
=résulter=, _v.n._, to result, to follow (from); to be the consequence
(of). _Que résulte-t-il de là?_ what follows from that? _Qu’en peut-il
—?_ what can be the consequences?
=résumé=, _n.m._, recapitulation, summary; abridgment; epitome; short
account; (jur.) summing up of a judge. _Au —_, _en —_; upon the whole,
after all, to sum up.
=résumer=, _v.a._, to recapitulate, to sum up, to give a summary. _— un
discours_; to give a summary of a speech.
_se_ =résumer=, _v.r._, to recapitulate, to sum up; to embody, to be
comprised; to be summed up.
=résurrecti-f=, =-ve=, _adj._, life-giving, life-restoring.
=résurrection=, _n.f._, resurrection, rising.
=résurrectionniste=, _n.m._, resurrectionist.
=retable=, _n.m._, (arch.) altar screen, reredos.
=rétablir=, _v.a._, to re-establish, to restore, to repair; to recover;
to re-install; to set up again; to retrieve; to revive. _— son honneur_;
to retrieve one’s honor. _— sa santé_; to recover one’s health. _—
quelqu’un_; to set any one up again.
_se_ =rétablir=, _v.r._, to recover one’s health; to get well again;
to be re-established, restored, repaired. _Le crédit commence à se —_;
credit is gradually being restored.
=rétablissement= (-blis-mān), _n.m._, re-establishment, restoration,
repairing, recovery, re-instatement, revival, recovery of health. _Sans
espoir de —_; past recovery. _— dans les bonnes grâces de quelqu’un_;
restoration to any one’s good graces. _— du commerce_; revival of
commerce.
*=retaille=, _n.f._, (manu.) piece cut off; shred, paring.
*=retailler=, _v.a._, to cut, to mend again (pens, pencils); to prune
again.
=rétamage=, _n.m._, tinning over again; re-silvering.
=rétamer=, _v.a._, to tin over again; to re-silver.
=rétameur=, _n.m._, tinker.
=retapé=, =-e=, _adj._, done up (of hats); (pop.) spruce, natty, smart.
=retaper=, _v.a._, ☉to cock (a hat); to do up (a hat); to curl and powder
(a wig). _— les cheveux_; to turn up the hair.
_se_ =retaper=, _v.r._, to be done up (of hats); (pop.) to dress one’s
self out.
=retard=, _n.m._, delay; (mus.) retardation; slowness (of a clock).
_Apporter du —_; to cause delay. _Eprouver du —_; to suffer delay. _Être
en —_; to be late; to be in arrears; to be backward, to be behind time.
_Votre montre est en — de deux minutes_; your watch is two minutes slow.
_Nous avons dix minutes de —_; (of railways) the train is ten minutes
late. _Avoir une patte en —_; to walk lame.
=retardataire=, _n.m._ and _adj._, in arrears; defaulter, loiterer,
lagger; in arrears; late, behindhand.
=retardat-eur=, =-rice=, _adj._, (phys.) retarding.
=retardation=, _n.f._, (phys.) retardation.
=retardement=, _n.m._, delay, retardment, putting off; (com., nav.)
over-time, demurrage.
=retarder=, _v.a._, to retard, to delay, to defer, to put off; to hinder;
to put back (clocks and watches). _— une horloge_; to put a clock back.
=retarder=, _v.n._, to lose, to go too slow (of clocks and watches); to
come later. _Ma montre retarde_; my watch loses. _Sa fièvre retarde tous
les jours d’environ une heure_; his fit of ague comes on one hour later
every day.
=retâter=, _v.a._, to touch and feel again; to taste again; to grope
about again; to try, to begin again, to alter, to mend, to correct.
=reteindre=, _v.a._, to dye again.
=retendre=, _v.a._, to bend again; to pull again, to stretch again, to
spread again.
=retenir= (rĕ-tnir), _v.a._, to get again; to get hold of again; to
retain, to keep, to withhold, to keep back; to reserve; to curb; to
bespeak, to hire; to secure, to engage; to detain, to keep, to confine;
to hold back, to hinder; to restrain, to keep from; to remember; (arith.)
to carry. _Posez sept et retenez deux_; (arith.) put down seven and carry
two. _— une chambre_; to secure a room. _— une place à la diligence_; to
bespeak a place in the coach. _— une place_; to keep, or secure, a place.
_— un domestique_; to engage a servant. _Il ne saurait — sa langue_;
he cannot restrain his tongue. _— sa colère_; to restrain one’s anger.
_Qu’est-ce qui vous retient?_ what hinders you? _Je ne sais ce qui me
retient_; I don’t know what hinders me. _— une poutre_; (carp.) to secure
a beam. _— quelqu’un_; to detain any one. _Je ne vous retiendrai pas_; I
won’t keep you a minute.
_se_ =retenir=, _v.r._, to keep back, to forbear; to control one’s self;
to stop; to seize hold, to catch hold of, to clutch, to cling to; (man.)
to hold back.
=retenir=, _v.n._, to hold back (of horses); to breed (of mares).
=retenter=, _v.a._, to re-attempt.
=rétenti-f=, =-ve=, _adj._, retentive.
=rétention=, _n.f._, reservation, reserve, retention; (jur.) retaining.
=rétentionnaire=, _n.m.f._, (jur.) detainer. _adj._, detaining.
=retentir=, _v.n._, to resound, to ring, to re-echo, to clank, to rattle.
=retentissant=, =-e=, _adj._, resounding, ringing, echoing, sonorous,
loud; famous. _Voûte —e_; echoing vault.
=retentissement= (-tis-mān), _n.m._, resounding, echo, re-echoing,
clanking, rattling, ringing; fame, celebrity. _Avoir du —_; to make a
great noise; to be spread abroad.
=retentum= (ré-tin-tom), _n.m._, mental reserve; (jur.) ☉tacit clause,
proviso.
=retenu=, =-e= (rĕ-tnu), _adj._, circumspect, reserved, cautious, timid,
discreet, wary; prudent, coy, shy.
=retenue=, _n.f._, reserve, discretion, circumspection, caution,
prudence; keeping in, detention; (fin.) stoppage. _Il faut avoir de
la —_; one must keep within bounds. _Être en —_; to be in detention;
(school) to be kept in. _Sans —_; unreservedly. _Palan de —_; relieving
tackle.
=reterçage= _or_ =retersage=, _n.m._, second dressing (of vines).
=retercer= _or_ =reterser=, _v.a._, to dress vines again.
=rétiaire= (-ci-èr), _n.m._, (antiq.) net-fighter.
=réticence=, _n.f._, reserve, concealment; (rhet.) reticence.
=réticulaire=, _adj._, (anat.) reticular.
=réticule=, _n.f._, reticule, reticle (of a telescope); bag; hair-net.
=réticulé=, =-e=, _adj._, (arch., bot.) reticulated.
=réti-f=, =-ve=, _n._ and _adj._, restive; stubborn, mulish.
=rétiforme=, _adj._, retiform.
=rétine=, _n.f._, (anat.) retina (of the eye).
=retirable=, _adj._, withdrawable.
☉=retirade=, _n.f._, (fort.) retirade.
=retiration=, _n.f._, (print.) working off the outer form.
=retiré=, =-e=, _adj._, retired, lonely, solitary, secluded; shrunk,
contracted.
=retirement= (-tir-mān), _n.m._, (surg.) contraction, shrinking of the
nerves and muscles.
=retirer=, _v.a._, to draw again; to draw back; to withdraw; to draw out;
to take away; to redeem, to recover; to retract, to claim, to withdraw;
to reap, to get, to derive; to receive; to lodge, to shelter, to harbor;
to fire off again, to let off again (fireworks); to remove (from school,
prison); to derive (profit). _— sa parole_; to call back one’s word. _—
quelqu’un de prison_; to remove any one from prison. _— des choses qui
étaient en gage_; to take things out of pawn. _— son enjeu_; to withdraw
one’s stakes. _— du danger_; to rescue from danger.
_se_ =retirer=, _v.r._, to retire, to withdraw, to go away; (of water) to
subside, to recede, to ebb; to retire from, to leave; to quit; to shrink,
to contract, to recoup _or_ retrieve one’s self, to be drawn back _or_
withdrawn. _Retirez-vous_; leave the room; be off; (jur.) stand down (to
witnesses). _Il s’est retiré du service_; he has quitted the service.
_Se — du commerce_; to retire from business. _Se — en lieu de sûreté_;
to retire to a place of safety. _Il se retire de bonne heure_; he keeps
good hours. _Ils se retirèrent chacun chez eux_; they retired to their
respective homes.
=retirer=, _v.n._, to withdraw, to ebb, to go down (of the tide).
=retisser=, _v.a._, to weave again.
=retombée=, _n.f._, (arch.) springing (of an arch).
=retomber=, _v.n._, to fall again; to relapse, to fall down again; to
fall. _— malade_; to fall ill again. _— dans la même faute_; to relapse
into the same fault.
=retondre=, _v.a._, to shear again; (arch.) to clean off, to cut away
useless ornaments.
=retoquer=, _v.a._, to pluck, to plow again (at exam.).
=retordage=, _n.m._, (manu.) twisting.
=retordement=, _n.m._, (manu.) twisting.
=retordeur=, _n.m._, twister, throwster.
=retordre=, _v.a._, to wring again, to twist again; to twist (silk,
thread). _Donner du fil à — à quelqu’un_; to cut out work for any one, to
give any one a great deal of trouble. _Se —_; to be twisted.
=rétorquer=, _v.a._, to retort.
=retors=, _-e_, _adj._, twisted; artful, deep, cunning, shrewd, crafty.
_Un homme —_; a cunning, crafty man.
=rétorsion=, _n.f._, act of retorting, retortion.
=retorte=, _n.f._, (chem.) retort. _V._ =cornue=.
*=retortiller=, _v.a._, to twist again.
=retouche=, _n.f._, (paint.) retouching.
=retoucher=, _v.n._, to touch again, to retouch; to touch up, to improve.
=retoucher=, _v.a._, to retouch, to touch up, to improve; to correct, to
alter. _Se —_; to be retouched.
=retour=, _n.m._, return, coming back; turning; winding; recurrence,
conversion; (jur.) reversion; (arch.) return; thing given in to boot,
into the bargain; acknowledgment; decline of life; wane; artifice, trick;
change, reciprocity, caprice, whim; vicissitude; (nav.) homeward voyage.
_Le — du printemps_; the return of spring. _À mon —_; on my return.
_Sans —_; forever, irreparably, irrecoverably, irretrievably. _Être de
—_; to have returned. _Par — du courier_; by return of post. _Être sur
son —_; to be upon the point of returning. _Être sur le —_; to be upon
the decline of life, to be going downhill, to be on the wane; to be past
middle age. _Avoir de fâcheux —s_; to be odd, whimsical. _Il n’y a point
de — avec lui_; there is no peace to be made with him; there is no end
to his resentment. _Amour qui n’est pas payé de —_; unrequited love. _À
beau jeu, beau —_; one good turn deserves another. _La fortune a ses —s_;
fortune has its vicissitudes. _Être perdu sans —_; to be past all hope.
_— de chasse_; luncheon (after shooting). _Quel — me donnerez-vous?_ what
will you give me to boot? _Faire un — sur soi-même_; to examine one’s
self. _En — de_; in return for. _Je serai de — à midi_; I shall be back
at twelve. _Billet de —_; return ticket. _Sans esprit de —_; without
thinking of returning. _Payer de —_; to requite (hate, love, etc.).
_Faire — à_; to return to, to revert. _— d’âge_; change of life.
=retourne=, _n.f._, turn-up card, trump-card, trumps.
=retourner=, _v.n._, to return, to go again, to go back, to go back
again; to turn up (at cards). _— sur ses pas_; to retrace one’s steps. _—
en arrière_; to turn back. _— à son travail_; to return to one’s work.
_N’y retournez pas_; don’t do it again. _Il retourne cœur_; hearts are
trumps. _Voyons de quoi il retourne_; (pop.) let us see what’s going on,
or how matters stand.
=retourner=, _v.a._, to turn, to turn up; to revolve, to turn over,
round, about, up, back; to turn (clothes); to mix (a salad). _— un
habit_; to turn a coat. _— du foin_; to turn hay. _— une carte_; to turn
up a card. _— une salade_; to mix a salad.
_se_ =retourner=, _v.r._, to turn, to turn round; to turn one’s self, to
be turned. _S’en retourner_; to return home, to go back again, to turn
back.
=retracement=, _n.m._, retracing; description, relation.
=retracer=, _v.a._, to trace again; to retrace, to trace; to recount, to
relate.
_se_ =retracer=, _v.r._, to retrace, to recall to mind, to remember; to
return, to recur, to be traced again.
=rétractation=, _n.f._, retractation, recantation.
=rétracter=, _v.a._, to retract, to recall, to recant.
_se_ =rétracter=, _v.r._, to retract; to make a retraction; to recant.
=rétractile=, _adj._, retractile.
=rétractilité=, _n.f._, retractility.
=rétraction=, _n.f._, (med.) retraction; contraction.
=retraduire=, _v.a._, to translate again.
=retraire=, _v.a._, (jur.) to redeem an estate; to milk again.
=retrait=, =-e=, _adj._, lean, shrunk (grain); shrunk (of wood); (jur.)
withdrawn, redeemed.
=retrait=, _n.m._, closet, private room; (jur.) redemption, regaining
possession; withdrawal (of a bill in parliament, of money from a
bank); (arch.) off-set; shrinking, contraction (of clay, metals). _—
conventionnel_; (jur.) re-emption. _Le — d’un projet de loi_; the
withdrawal of a bill in parliament. _— d’emploi_; (milit.) being
unattached (of officers).
=retraite=, _n.f._, retreat; retiring; retirement; refuge, hiding-place,
haunt, lurking-place; retiring pension, pension; shrinking, contraction
(of clay, of metals); (arch.) offset; nail (in the foot of a horse);
(milit.) tattoo; (com.) redraft. _Battre en —_; to retreat, to draw
off, to beat a retreat. _Sonner la —_; (hunt.) to call off the hounds;
(milit.) to sound a retreat. _Donner — à quelqu’un_; to shelter any one,
to harbour any one. _— de voleurs_; resort, den, of thieves. _Donner à
quelqu’un sa —_; to pension any one off. _Mettre à la —_; to pension off,
to superannuate. _Prendre sa —_; to retire on a pension, to retire from
the service. _Battre la —_; (milit.) to beat the tattoo. _Officier en —_;
retired, _or_ half-pay, officer.
=retraité=, =-e=, _n._ and _adj._, one who is pensioned off,
superannuated; on the retired list. _Officier —_; officer on the retired
list. _Un —_; one who is pensioned off, a pensioner.
=retranchement= (-trānsh-mān), _n.m._, retrenchment, abridging,
suppression; curtailment; (milit.) retrenchment, intrenchment. _Forcer
quelqu’un dans ses —s_; to storm any one in his stronghold.
=retrancher=, _v.a._, to retrench, to curtail, to cut short; to cut off,
to strike off, to erase; (arith.) to subtract; to take away, to abridge;
to suppress; to deduct; to take away (from); (milit.) to intrench. _— un
camp_; to intrench a camp.
_se_ =retrancher=, _v.r._, to restrain one’s self; to confine one’s self;
to retrench, to curtail one’s expenses; (milit.) to intrench one’s self;
to fall back upon, to urge, to plead, to put forward.
=retranscrire=, _v.a._, to copy out again.
*=retravailler=, _v.a._, to work again, to do over again.
=retraverser=, _v.a._, to cross, to traverse again.
=retrayant=, _n.m._, =-e=, _n.f._, (jur.) repurchaser; re-emptor.
=rêtre=, _n.m._ _V._ =reître=.
=rétréci=, =-e=, _adj._, narrow, cramped, contracted, confined.
=rétrécir=, _v.a._, to take in, to straiten, to make narrower, to
contract; to narrow, to cramp; to shrink; to limit.
_se_ =rétrécir=, _v.r._, to become narrow, to grow strait; to shrink, to
contract; to be cramped, contracted, straitened.
=rétrécir=, _v.n._, to narrow, to shrink up.
=rétrécissement= (-sis-mān), _n.m._, narrowing, shrinking, cramping;
contracting; narrowness, contraction; (med.) stricture.
=rétreindre=, _v.a._, to hammer out (metal).
=rétreinte=, _n.f._, hammering out.
=retremper=, _v.a._, to temper again (metal); to give renewed force to,
to strengthen.
_se_ =retremper=, _v.r._, to acquire renewed strength; to recruit one’s
strength, to be strengthened, invigorated.
=rétribué=, =-e=, _adj._, remunerated, rewarded.
=rétribuer=, _v.a._, to remunerate, to requite, to reward; to give a
salary, a fee, to.
=rétribution=, _n.f._, retribution, reward.
=rétroacti-f=, =-ve=, _adj._, retroactive.
=rétroaction=, _n.f._, retroaction.
=rétroactivement= (-tiv-mān), _adv._, retroactively.
=rétroactivité=, _n.f._, retroactive effect.
=rétroagir=, _v.n._, to have a retroactive effect.
=rétrocéder=, _v.a._, to give back again, to cede back; (jur.) to
reconvey; to reassign.
=rétrocessi-f=, =-ve=, _adj._, retroceding, retrocedent.
=rétrocession=, _n.f._, (jur.) retrocession, redemise, reconveyance.
=rétrogradation=, _n.f._, (astron.) retrogradation, retrogression,
retrocession.
=rétrograde=, _adj._, retrograde.
=rétrograder=, _v.n._, to retrograde, to go backward; to go back.
=rétrogressi-f=, =-ve=, _adj._, retrogressive.
=rétrogression=, _n.f._, retrogression.
=rétrospecti-f=, =-ve=, _adj._, retrospective.
=retroussé=, =-e=, _part._, turned up, tucked up, cocked up. _Nez —_;
snub nose, turned-up nose. _Avoir le bras —_; to have one’s sleeves
tucked up.
=retroussement= (-troos-mān), _n.m._, turning up, tucking up, cocking up,
curling up.
=retrousser=, _v.a._, to turn up, to tuck up, to cock; to tie up; (nav.)
to truss up sails. _— sa robe_; to tuck up one’s gown. _— sa moustache_;
to turn up one’s moustache.
_se_ =retrousser=, _v.r._, to turn up, to cock up; to tie up; to tuck up
one’s gown.
=retroussis=, _n.m._, cock, flap (of a hat); boot-top, top (of a boot);
facing (of a uniform, livery).
=retrouver=, _v.a._, to find again, to recover; to recognize; to meet
again. _Je le retrouverai bien_; he will not escape me.
_se_ =retrouver=, _v.r._, to find one another again; to find one’s self
again; to be found again; to be met with again; to find one’s way.
=rets= (ré), _n.m._, net, netting, snare, toils.
=réunion=, _n.f._, reunion, union, junction; meeting, assembly;
company; concourse, gathering; party, soirée, reception. _Salle de —_;
assembly-room. _Maison de —_; meeting-house.
=réunir=, _v.a._, to reunite, to join again, to bring together again,
to reannex; to unite, to join, to bring together, to annex; to collect,
to assemble, to muster; to call together, to combine; to reconcile, to
unite. _— des faits_; to collect facts.
_se_ =réunir=, _v.r._, to reunite, to unite, to join, to join again, to
unite again; to be united, to be joined, to be collected; to meet (at an
appointed place); to gather, to collect, to come together, to assemble,
to muster, to club together, to combine, to blend, to be blended.
=réussi=, =-e=, _adj._, successful, brilliant, well executed _or_ carried
out. _Bien —_; well done; a success, well-performed. _Mal —_; badly done;
spoilt, badly performed; not a success.
=réussir=, _v.n._, to succeed, to prosper, to thrive, to be successful,
to have success. _— à faire quelque chose_; to succeed in doing anything.
_Il a mal réussi_; he was unsuccessful. _Ce projet n’a pas réussi_; the
plan did not succeed. _Tout ce qu’il entreprend lui réussit_; everything
he undertakes succeeds. _Les pommiers réussissent dans ce terrain_;
apple-trees thrive in this soil. _Cela m’a bien réussi_; that answered my
purpose admirably.
=réussir=, _v.a._, to carry out well, to execute well, to accomplish, to
perform.
=réussite=, _n.f._, success; issue, event, result.
=revacciner=, _v.a._, to revaccinate.
=revalidation=, _n.f._, (jur.) rendering valid again.
=revaloir=, _v.a._, to return like for like; to be even with, to pay
back. _Il me le revaudra_; he shall pay for it, I will be even with him
(for it).
=revanche=, _n.f._, revenge, retaliation; return; return-match (at play).
_Avoir sa —_; to have one’s revenge; to have one’s turn. _Prendre sa —_;
to take one’s revenge; to return like for like; to play the return-match.
_En —_; by way of retaliation; in return.
=revancher=, _v.a._, (fam.) to defend; to revenge; to return like for
like.
_se_ =revancher=, _v.r._, (fam.) to defend one’s self; to be revenged,
to revenge; to return like for like; to have one’s turn. _Se — d’un
bienfait_; to return a benefit.
=revancheur=, _n.m._, (l.u.) defender.
=rêvasser=, _v.n._, to have troubled dreams, to dream, to keep dreaming;
to muse. _— à une affaire_; to muse over, _or_ ponder over, any matter.
=rêvasserie= (-va-srî), _n.f._, unconnected, broken dreams; musing,
dreaming.
=rêvasseur=, _n.m._, dreamer, muser.
=rêve=, _n.m._, dream; idle fancy, day-dream, vision, illusion.
=revêche=, _adj._, sharp, harsh, rough; stubborn, unruly, cross,
untractable, ill-natured, dogged, cross-grained, crabbed, cantankerous.
_Diamant —_; diamond not polishable in all its parts.
=rêve-creux=, _n.m._, (_—_) dreamer.
*=réveil=, _n.m._, waking, awaking; waking-time; (horl.) alarum, alarm;
alarm-watch, alarm-clock; (milit.) reveille. _À mon —_; on my awaking.
*=réveille-matin=, _n.m._, (_—_) alarm-clock, alarum; chanticleer, cock;
(bot.) wartwort, spurge.
*=réveiller=, _v.a._, to awake, to wake, to rouse, to rouse up, to call
up; to stir up, to quicken, to revive, to recall, to evoke, to rake up.
_— des souvenirs fâcheux_; to recall disagreeable recollections.
*_se_ =réveiller=, _v.r._, to wake, to awake, to wake up, to awaken;
to revive; to be aroused, to be renewed, to be awakened. _Sa haine se
réveilla_; his hatred was aroused. _Se — de son assoupissement_; to awake
from one’s lethargy. _Se — en sursaut_; to start up out of one’s sleep.
=réveilleu-r=, =-se=, _n.m.f._, waker, awakener, caller.
*=réveillon=, _n.m._, midnight repast; Christmas-eve revel; (paint.)
strong touch of light.
=révélat-eur=, _n.m._, =-rice=, _n.f._, informer, revealer, discoverer,
detector. _adj._, revealing, tell-tale. _— d’un complot_; revealer of a
plot. _Être le — de ses complices_; to inform against one’s accomplices;
(jur.) to turn king’s, queen’s, evidence.
=révélation=, _n.f._, revelation; discovery, disclosure; (jur.)
information.
=révéler=, _v.a._, to reveal, to discover, to lay open, to disclose, to
detect; to betray; to inform against; (fam., pop.) to blab.
=revenant=, =-e=, _adj._, pleasing, prepossessing. _Physionomie —e_;
pleasing physiognomy.
=revenant= (rĕ-vnān), _n.m._, ghost, spirit. _Il y a des —s dans cette
maison_; that house is haunted.
=revenant-bon=, _n.m._, (_—s-—s_) perquisite; bonus; emolument; windfall,
godsend.
=revendage=, _n.m._, huckstering.
=revendeu-r=, _n.m._, =-se=, _n.f._, retail dealer, retailer; dealer in
old clothes; regrater. _—se à la toilette_; wardrobe dealer, dealer in
cast clothes.
=revendicable=, _adj._, claimable.
=revendication=, _n.f._, (jur.) claim; claiming, demand. _Action en —_;
(jur.) action in pursuit of a claim.
=revendiquer=, _v.a._, to claim, to demand.
=revendre=, _v.a._, to sell again; to re-sell. _Il en a à —_; he has
enough of it, and to spare. _En — à quelqu’un_; to be deeper than any
one, to be more than a match for any one; to outdo.
=revenir= (rĕ-vnir), _v.n._, to come again, to come back, to come back
again, to return, to recover, to recover one’s self; to get over, to
come to one’s self, to come to; to be restored; to occur, to recur, to
present one’s self; to resume, to reconsider; to alter one’s mind, to
change one’s opinion, to recant, to retract; to be undeceived; to come
over to, to adopt, to embrace; to retrieve; to be reconciled, to be
appeased, to be pacified; to cost, to stand in; to amount, to come to;
to be tantamount to; to please, to suit, to match; to arise, to accrue,
to result, to proceed; to appear, to haunt, to walk; (jur.) to claim on
a guarantee; (of food) to rise (in the stomach). _Faire — quelqu’un_;
to call any one back. _Son nom ne me revient pas_; I do not recollect
his name. _Revenons à notre propos_; let us resume, let us return to our
business. _J’en reviens toujours là que_; I still persist in thinking
that. _En — toujours là_; to be always harping on the same string. _—
à la charge_; to return to the charge. _— à ses moutons_; to return to
one’s subject. _— sur une matière_; to return to a subject. _— d’une
maladie_; to recover from an attack of illness. _Il revient à vue d’œil_;
he is recovering visibly. _— à soi_; to recover one’s senses, to come to
one’s self again, to come to, to revive; to resume one’s serenity; to
reform, to be reformed, to be reclaimed, to return to the right path. _—
d’une frayeur_; to recover from a fright. _— en santé_; to recover one’s
health. _— de loin_; to escape great danger, to have a narrow escape; to
recover from a dangerous illness. _— sur l’eau_; to get afloat again,
to recover one’s losses. _N’en pas —_; to wonder at, to be lost in
astonishment. _En — d’une belle_; to have had a narrow escape. _Revenir
à l’avis de_; to come over to the opinion of, to fall in with any one’s
views. _Je n’en reviens pas_; I cannot recover from my astonishment, I
cannot get over it; I cannot make it out; (fam.) it caps me. _— de ses
préjugés_; to shake off one’s prejudices. _— de ses folies_; to leave off
one’s old pranks. _Je suis revenu de ces amusements-là_; I do not care
for those amusements any more _or_ these amusements pall upon me now.
_— sur le compte de quelqu’un_; to have a better (_or_ a worse) opinion
of any one (as the case may be). _Quand on m’a fait de ces tours, je ne
reviens pas_; when people play me such tricks as those I never forgive
them. _Son humeur ne me revient pas_; his humor does not please me. _Les
deux choses reviennent au même_; the two things amount to the same, come
to the same, are tantamount to the same. _Cet habit revient à tant_;
that coat costs so much. _Il me revient que_; I hear, I am told, _or_ I
understand that. _Il ne m’en revient rien_; I get nothing by it. _De la
viande qui revient_; meat that rises in one’s stomach. _Le vin fait — le
cœur_; wine cheers the heart. _Faire — de la viande_; (cook.) to parboil,
to half-cook meat.
=revente=, _n.f._, resale; selling again, reselling; regrating. _De —_;
second-hand. _Lit de —_; second-hand bed.
=reventer=, _v.a._, (nav.) to fill a sail again.
=revenu= (rĕ-vnu), _n.m._, revenue, income, rent, profit. _Etat des —s_;
rental. _—s casuels_; perquisites.
=revenue=, _n.f._, young wood (of a coppice).
=rêver=, _v.n._, to dream, to be in a dream; to rave, to be light-headed;
to talk idly; to have a wandering mind, to muse; to think, to reflect,
to consider. _Il rêve tout éveillé_; he indulges in day-dreams. _J’ai
rêvé longtemps sur cette affaire_; I have pondered long over that affair.
_Je regagnai mon hôtellerie en rêvant_; I trudged back to my inn in a
thoughtful mood.
=rêver=, _v.a._, to dream, to long for, to desire ardently, to dream of.
_Il ne rêve que fortune_; he thinks of nothing but riches.
=réverbérant=, =-e=, _adj._, reverberating.
=réverbération=, _n.f._, reverberation; reverberation, repercussion (of
sound). _La — des rayons du soleil_; the reverberation of the solar rays.
=réverbère=, _n.m._, reflector, street lamp. _Feu de —_; (chem.)
reverberated fire.
=réverbérer=, _v.a._ and _n._, to reverberate.
=reverdie=, _n.m._, (nav.) return of the high tide.
=reverdir=, _v.a._ and _n._, to paint green again; to become green again;
to grow young again; to reblossom; (fig.) to grow influential, powerful
again. _Planter là quelqu’un pour —_; to leave any one in the lurch; to
give any one the slip. _Il faut — ces barreaux_; these iron bars must be
painted green again. _Faire —_; to make green; to revive.
=reverdissement= (-dis-mān), _n.m._, growing green again.
=révéremment= (-ra-mān), _adv._, reverently.
=révérence=, _n.f._, reverence, veneration; bow, curtsey. _Avec —_;
reverently. _Faire une profonde —_; to make a low bow, a low curtsey.
_Tirer sa — à quelqu’un_; (jest.) to bow to any one.
=révérencielle=, _adj._, reverential.
=révérencieusement= (-eûz-mān), _adv._, reverentially.
=révérencieu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, reverential; bowing and scraping,
obsequious.
=révérend=, =-e=, _adj._, reverend. _Très —_; right reverend. [Sometimes
used as a noun in the masculine.]
=révérendissime=, _adj._, most reverend.
=révérer=, _v.a._, to revere, to reverence, to venerate, to hold in
veneration.
=rêverie= (rê-vrî), _n.f._, reverie, musing; dream; raving, delirium.
_Tomber en —_; to fall to musing.
=revernir=, _v.a._, to glaze again, to varnish over again.
☉=reverquier=, _n.m._ _V._ =revertier=.
=revers= (-vèr), _n.m._, back, reverse; facing (of clothes); lapel (of a
coat); back stroke; top (of boots); reverse, change for the worse. _Coup
de —_; back-handed stroke. _Donner un —_; to hit a back stroke. _Le — de
la médaille_; the reverse side of the medal; (fig.) the dark side of the
picture. _Le — de la tranchée_; (fort.) the reverse of the trench. _A_ or
_de —_; (mil.) in the rear, on the flank.
=réversal=, =-e=, _adj._, (jur.) confirmatory.
=reverseau=, _n.m._, flashing-board (for doors, etc.).
=reversement=, _n.m._, (nav.) trans-shipment. _V._ =transbordement=.
=reverser=, _v.a._, to pour out again; to pour off; (nav.) to trans-ship
(_V._ =transborder=); (com.) to transfer, to carry (forward _or_ over).
=reversi= _or_ =reversis=, _n.m._, reversis (card game).
=réversibilité=, _n.f._, (jur.) revertibility.
=réversible=, _adj._, reversible; (jur.) revertible.
=réversion=, _n.f._, (jur.) reversion.
=réversoir=, _n.m._, dam, weir.
=revertier= (-tié), _n.m._, sort of backgammon.
=revêtement= (-vê-tmān), _n.m._, (arch., mas.) covering, lining, coating,
casing, facing; (fort.) revetement; (joinery) veneering.
=revêtir=, _v.a._, to clothe; to give clothes to, to invest; to dress; to
put on, to assume; to endow a person with; to bestow on a person; (mas.)
to line, to cover. _— les pauvres_; to clothe the poor. _— un habit_;
to put on a coat. _— ses pensées d’un style brillant_; to clothe one’s
thoughts in brilliant language. _— la figure de quelqu’un_; to put on the
air of some one else. _Les formes que revêt la pensée_; the forms that
thought assumes. _— un personnage_; to assume a character. _Je me suis
dépouillé de cet emploi pour l’en —_; I threw up this employment in his
favor, to bestow it on him. _— une terrasse de gazon_; to cover a terrace
with turf.
_se_ =revêtir=, _v.r._, to clothe one’s self, to array one’s self,
to invest one’s self, to dress, to put on, to assume, to take; to be
invested.
=rêveu-r=, =-se=, _n._ and _adj._, dreamer, muser; thoughtful, pensive,
dreamy, musing.
=revidage=, _n.m._, (at auction) knock-out.
=revider=, _v.a._, to empty again; to knock out.
=revient= (rĕvi-in), _n.m._, (com.) only used in: _prix de —_; net cost.
=revirade=, _n.f._, (backgammon) back-game.
=revirement= (re-vir-mān), _n.m._, sudden change; (nav.) tacking; (com.
and fin.) transfer. _— de parties_; (com.) transfer.
=revirer=, _v.n._, (nav.) to tack about, to tack, to put about; to turn
round, to change sides, to be a turn-coat, to rat. _Il a reviré de bord_;
he has ratted.
=revisable=, _adj._, revisable.
=reviser=, _v.a._, to revise, to review, to examine.
=reviseur=, _n.m._, reviser, examiner.
=revision=, _n.f._, revisal, revision, re-examination, review. _Sujet à
—_; questionable. _— de procès_; rehearing. _Faire la — d’une feuille_;
(print.) to revise a sheet. _Conseil de —_; (milit.) examining-board (as
to health of recruits).
=revivification=, _n.f._, (chem.) revivification.
=revivifier=, _v.a._, to revive, to revivify, to vivify; to regenerate.
=revivre=, _v.n._, to come to life again; to live again; to revive.
_Faire —_; to bring to life again, to revive, to restore. _Les pères
revivent dans leurs enfants_; fathers live again in their children.
=révocabilité=, _n.f._, revocability.
=révocable=, _adj._, revocable, reversible, repealable.
☉=révocati-f=, =-ve=, _adj._, repealing.
=révocation=, _n.f._, revocation, repeal, revoking, recall.
=révocatoire=, _adj._, revocatory.
=revoici=, _prep._, (fam., jest) once more, here ... again. _Me —_; here
am I again.
=revoilà=, _prep._, (fam., jest) once more, there ... again. _Les
revoilà!_ there they are again!
=revoir=, _v.a._, to see again; to meet again; to revise, to review, to
re-examine.
_se_ =revoir=, _v.r._, to see, to meet, each other again; to be seen
again. _Nous nous reverrons_; we shall meet again.
=revoir=, _n.m._, seeing, _or_ meeting, again. _Au —_; good-bye for the
present, _or_ till we meet again. _À —_; to be revised.
=revoler=, _v.n._, to fly again, to fly back; to steal, _or_ rob, again.
=revolin=, _n.m._, (nav.) eddy-wind.
=révoltant=, =-e=, _adj._, revolting.
=révolte=, _n.f._, revolt, rebellion.
=révolté=, _n.m._, rebel.
=révolter=, _v.a._, to cause to revolt _or_ rebel, to stir up; to rouse,
to excite; to shock, to disgust, to horrify.
_se_ =révolter=, _v.r._, to revolt, to rebel, to be indignant, to be
shocked.
=révolter=, _v.n._, to revolt, to rebel.
=révolu=, =-e=, _adj._, revolved, accomplished, completed, finished,
ended.
=révoluti-f=, =-ve=, _adj._, (bot.) revolute.
=révolution=, _n.f._, revolution.
=révolutionnaire=, _n.m._ and _adj._, revolutionist; revolutionary.
=révolutionnairement= (-sio-nèr-mān), _adv._, in a revolutionary manner.
=révolutionner=, _v.a._, to revolutionize.
=revolver= (ré-vol-vèr), _n.m._, revolver.
=revomir=, _v.a._, to vomit, to throw up again; to vomit again; to bring
up.
=révoquer=, _v.a._, to recall (an ambassador); to dismiss (a clerk, an
officer, an official, etc.); to revoke, to repeal. _— en doute_; to call
in question.
=revouloir=, _v.a._, to wish again, to wish again for.
=revoyager=, _v.n._, to travel again.
=revue=, _n.f._, review; magazine; survey, examination, revision. _Faire
la — de_; to examine, to survey. _Faire une — de ses papiers_; to examine
one’s papers. _Passer en —_; (milit.) to review. _Être gens de —_; to
meet often.
=révulsi-f=, =-ve=, _adj._, (med.) revulsive.
=révulsif=, _n.m._, (med.) revulsive.
=révulsion=, _n.f._, revulsion.
=rez=, _prep._, (l.u.) level with, even with. _— pied_, _— terre_; even,
_or_ level, with the ground.
=rez-de-chaussée=, _n.m._, (_—_) ground-floor; level with the ground. _Au
—_; on the ground-floor. _À —_; level with the ground.
=rhabdologie=, _n.f._ _V._ =rabdologie=.
=rhabdomancie=, _n.f._ _V._ =rabdomancie=.
*=rhabillage=, _n.m._, repairing, mending, botching, patching.
*=rhabillement=, _n.m._ _V._ =rhabillage=.
*=rhabiller=, _v.a._, to dress again, to clothe anew; to mend, to patch
up.
*=rhabilleu-r=, _n.m._, =-se=, _n.f._ _V._ =rebouteur=.
=rhagade=, _n.f._, (med.) rhagade, crack, chap, fissure.
=rhapontic=, _n.m._, (bot.) bastard monk’s-rhubarb, rheum rhaponticum.
=rhapsode=, _n.m._, =rhapsodie=, _n.f._, =rhapsodiste=, _n.m._ _V._
=rapsode=, =rapsodie=, =rapsodiste=.
=rhénan=, =-e=, _adj._, (geog.) Rhenish.
=rhésus= (-zus), _n.m._, pig-tailed baboon.
=rhéteur=, _n.m._, rhetorician, rhetor.
=rhétien=, =-ne= (ti-in, -tiè-n), _adj._, (geog.) Rhetian.
=rhétoricien= (-si-in), _n.m._, rhetorician.
=rhétorique=, _n.f._, rhetoric. _Figure de —_; rhetorical figure. _Faire
sa —_; to be in the class of rhetoric (in the highest form but one; the
_Remove_).
=rhin=, _n.m._, (geog.) Rhine. _Vin du —_; Rhenish wine, Rhine-wine.
=rhinanthe=, _n.f._, (bot.) cock’s-comb.
=rhingrave=, _n.m._, rhingrave (German governor).
=rhingrave=, _n.f._, (formerly) a sort of knee-breeches, knickerbockers.
=rhinocéros= (-ros), _n.m._, rhinoceros.
=rhinoplastie=, _n.f._, (surg.) rhinoplasty.
=rhodium= (-om), _n.m._, (min.) rhodium.
=rhododendron=, _n.m._, (bot.) rhododendron; rose-bay.
=rhombe=, _n.m._, (geom.) rhomb, rhombus; (ich.) rhombus.
=rhomboèdre=, _n.m._, (geom.) rhombohedron.
=rhomboïdal=, =-e=, _adj._, rhomboidal.
=rhomboïde=, _n.m._, (anat., geom.) rhomboid.
=rhubarbe=, _n.f._, rhubarb. _— blanche_; white jalap. _— des moines_;
monk’s-rhubarb, herb-patience.
=rhum= (rom), _n.m._, rum.
=rhumatique=, _adj._, rheumatic.
=rhumatisant=, =-e=, _n._ and _adj._, rheumatic.
=rhumatismal=, =-e=, _adj._, rheumatic.
=rhumatisme=, _n.m._, rheumatism.
=rhumb=, _n.m._ _V._ =rumb=.
=rhume=, _n.m._, cold. _— de cerveau_; cold in the head. _Un gros —_; a
violent cold. _— de poitrine_; cold on the chest. _Attraper un —_; to
catch a cold.
=rhus= (rus), _n.m._ _V._ =sumac=.
=rhythme=, _n.m._ _V._ =rythme=.
=rhythmique=, _adj._ _V._ =rythmique=.
=riant=, =-e=, _adj._, laughing, smiling, lively, cheerful; pleasant,
pleasing.
=ribambelle=, _n.f._, swarm, string; host, lot (of people).
=ribaud=, =-e=, _n._ and _adj._, (l.ex.) ribald.
=ribauderie= (-bô-drî), _n.f._, ribaldry.
=ribaudure=, _n.f._, crease, fold (in cloth).
=riblette=, _n.f._, (cook.) collop, rasher.
=riblons=, _n.m.pl._, scrap-iron.
=ribord=, _n.m._, (nav.) garboard strake.
=ribordage=, _n.m._, (nav.) damage by fouling.
=ribote=, _n.f._, (pop.) debauch, drunken bout. _Être en —_; to be boozy,
drunk, tight; to be on the spree. _Faire —_; to have a drunken bout.
=riboter=, _v.n._, (pop.) to get boozy, drunk; to be on the spree.
=riboteu-r=, _n.m._, =-se=, _n.f._, (pop.) drunkard; boozer.
=ricanement= (-ka-n-mān), _n.m._, chuckling, chuckle, sneering, sneer;
giggling, giggle.
=ricaner=, _v.n._, to chuckle, to sneer, to snigger, to giggle.
=ricanerie= (-ka-n-rî), _n.f._ _V._ =ricanement=.
=ricaneu-r=, =-se=, _n._ and _adj._, sneerer, sneering; giggler,
giggling.
=ric-à-ric=, _adv._, in driblets; (fam.) rigorously, strictly.
=richard=, _n.m._, moneyed man; rich fellow; capitalist, nabob.
=riche=, _n.m._ and _adj._, rich man; rich, wealthy, opulent; sumptuous;
copious; valuable, precious. _Un — parti_; a good match (marriage). _—
moisson_; abundant harvest. _Langue —_; copious language. _Le mauvais —_;
the rich man of the Gospel.
=richement= (rish-mān), _adv._, richly, opulently, copiously, splendidly;
preciously.
=richesse=, _n.f._, riches, wealth, wealthiness, opulence; copiousness;
richness. _La — d’une langue_; the copiousness of a language.
_Contentement passe —_; enough is as good as a feast.
=richissime=, _adj._, (fam.) inordinately rich.
=ricin=, _n.m._, (bot.) palma Christi, castor-oil plant. _Huile de —_;
castor-oil.
=ricocher=, _v.n._, (artil.) to ricochet, to rebound.
=ricochet=, _n.m._, duck and drake (rebound on the water); series; chain,
succession; (artil.) ricochet. _Faire des —s_; (artil.) to ricochet; to
make ducks and drakes on the water. _Feu à —_; (artil.) ricochet-firing
_or_ fire. _C’est la chanson du —_; it is the same thing over and over
again. _Par —_; indirectly.
=rictus=, _n.m._, grin, grinning.
=ride=, _n.f._, wrinkle (on the face); (bot.) wrinkle; ripple (on the
water); (nav.) laniard. _—s des haubans_; shroud laniards.
=ridé=, =-e=, _adj._, wrinkled; (bot.) rugose. _Une pomme —e_; a
shriveled apple.
=rideau=, _n.m._, curtain; screen (of trees); (fort.) rideau. _Tirer le
—_; to draw the curtain. _Baisser le —_; (thea.) to drop the curtain.
_Lever de —_; (thea.) curtain-raiser. _— d’entr’acte_; drop-scene.
=ridée=, _n.f._, clap-net.
=ridelle=, _n.f._, staff-side, standard-side (of a cart).
=rider=, _v.a._, to wrinkle (the skin); to shrivel; to crumple; to
ripple, to ruffle (water); to corrugate, to contract.
_se_ =rider=, _v.r._, to wrinkle, to shrivel, to shrivel up; to ripple,
to ruffle (of water).
=ridicule=, _adj._, ridiculous. _Se rendre —_; to make one’s self
ridiculous.
=ridicule=, _n.m._, ridicule, ridiculousness; ridiculous person,
ridiculous thing. _Tomber dans le —_, or _tourner au —_; to become
ridiculous. _Tourner quelqu’un en —_; to ridicule any one.
=ridiculement= (-kul-mān), _adv._, ridiculously.
=ridiculiser=, _v.a._, to ridicule, to make ridiculous, to make fun (of).
=ridiculité=, _n.f._, (l.u.) ridiculousness, ridiculous thing. _C’est une
— de parler ainsi_; it is absurd to speak in this manner.
=rièble=, _n.m._ _V._ =grateron=.
=rien= (ri-in), _n.m._, nothing, nought, not anything; mere nothing,
trifle, mere trifle. _Pour —_; for nothing, for next to nothing, for
a mere trifle, for a song, _— de plus beau_; nothing finer. _— autre
chose_; nothing else. _On ne fait — de —_; nothing can be made out of
nothing. _Je n’en ferai —_; I shall do nothing of the sort. _Cette montre
ne vous sert à —_; that watch is of no use to you. _Il ne sert à — de_;
it is of no use to. _Cet homme ne m’est —_; that man is nothing to me.
_Cela ne fait —_; that does not matter. _Tout comme si de — n’était_; as
if nothing at all was the matter. _Ne faites semblant de —_; pretend not
to mind it, not to see it, say nothing at all. _Je ne pense à — moins
qu’à cela_; nothing is further from my thoughts. _Ce n’est — moins que
cela_; it is quite another thing, it is anything but that. _En moins de
—_; in the twinkling of an eye, in a trice. _De —_; don’t mention it! of
nothing; insignificant. _— au monde ne me fera oublier cela_; nothing in
the world will make me forget that. _— de —_; absolutely nothing. _Moins
que —_; very little. _S’il y a — qui me plaise_; if anything pleases me.
_Y a-t-il — de nouveau?_ is there any news? _N’aboutir à —_; to come to
nothing.
=rieu-r=, _n.m._, =-se=, _n.f._, laugher, giggler, sneerer. _Il a les —s
de son côté_; he has the laughers on his side.
=rieu-r=, =-se=, _adj._, laughing, joking, sneering, mocking, jeering.
=riflard=, _n.m._, old umbrella; gamp; (carp.) horse-plane; (for stones)
paring-chisel; (for metal) rough file.
=rigaudon=, _n.m._ _V._ =rigodon=.
=rigide=, _adj._, rigid, strict, harsh, severe, stiff.
=rigidement= (-jid-mān), _adv._, rigidly, strictly, harshly, stiffly.
=rigidité=, _n.f._, rigidness, rigidity, stiffness, strictness, severity,
harshness.
=rigodon=, _n.m._, rigadoon (dance).
=rigole=, _n.f._, trench, little ditch _or_ furrow, little gutter;
culvert (of roads).
=rigorisme=, _n.m._, rigorism, austerity; hyper-criticism.
=rigoriste=, _n.m.f._ and _adj._, rigorist; hyper-critic; over-rigid,
over-severe; hypercritical.
=rigoureusement= (-reûz-mān), _adv._, rigorously, severely, strictly,
harshly.
=rigoureu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, rigorous, stern, harsh; strict; severe,
sharp; close.
=rigueur= (-gheur), _n.f._, rigor, severity; harshness; sternness,
sharpness, closeness, precision. _La — du sort_; the sternness of fate.
_Traiter quelqu’un avec —_; to be severe with any one. _Cette règle est
de —_; this rule is indispensable. _Jouer de —_; to play the strict rule
of the game. _La — de l’hiver_; the inclemency of the winter. _À la —_;
strictly speaking; in a strict sense; for once in a way; if absolutely
necessary.
*=rillettes=, _n.f.pl._, minced pork.
*=rimaille=, _n.f._, (b.s.), rhyming doggerel.
*=rimailler=, _v.n._, to write bad verses.
*=rimailleur=, _n.m._, sorry rhymer, poetaster.
=rime=, _n.f._, rhyme. _pl._ verse. _—s croisées_; alternate rhymes. _—s
plates_; following rhymes (line by line). _Il n’y a ni — ni raison dans
ce qu’il dit_; there is neither rhyme nor reason in what he says.
=rimer=, _v.n._ and _a._, to rhyme. _Cela ne rime à rien_; there’s no
sense in it; it is all nonsense; that means nothing at all. _De la prose
rimée_; mere doggerel.
=rimeur=, _n.m._, rhymer; poetaster.
=rinçage=, _n.m._, rinsing.
=rinceau=, _n.m._, (arch.) foliage; (her.) bough.
=rincer=, _v.a._, to rinse, to wash, to cleanse. _Il a été bien rincé_;
(pop.) he has been well drenched; he has been well thrashed; well paid
out.
_se_ =rincer=, _v.r._, to rinse. _Se — la bouche_; to rinse one’s mouth.
=rinceu-r=, =-se=, _n.m.f._, rinser, washer.
=rinçoir=, _n.m._, rinsing tub.
=rinçure=, _n.f._, rinsings; slops; (of wine) poor watery stuff.
=ringard=, _n.m._, (tech.) fire-iron, poker, iron-rake.
=ringrave=, _n.m.f._ _V._ =rhingrave=.
☉=riolé=, =-e=, _adj._, streaked.
=rioter=, _v.n._, to giggle, to titter.
=rioteu-r=, _n.m._, =-se=, _n.f._, giggler, titterer.
=riotte=, _n.f._, tiff.
=ripage=, _n.m._, (tech.) scraping.
*=ripaille=, _n.f._, feasting, junketing. _Faire —_; to feast, to junket.
=ripe=, _n.f._, (sculpt.) scraper.
=riper=, _v.a._, (sculpt.) to scrape.
=ripopée=, _n.f._, slops, medley; slipslop, mish-mash; bad wine.
=riposte=, _n.f._, smart reply, repartee; (fenc.) parry and thrust,
return.
=riposter=, _v.n._, to repartee, to make a smart reply; to make a return;
to reply, to answer, to return it; (fenc.) to parry and thrust. _Il
riposta d’un soufflet_; he replied with a slap in the face.
=ripuaire=, _adj._, riparian, riverine.
=rire= (riant, ri), _v.n._, to laugh; to be merry; to look pleasant,
to smile; to be in jest, to joke, to make game of; to trifle; to be
favorable, to be propitious; to scoff at. _Eclater de —_; to break out
into laughter, to burst out laughing. _Etouffer de —_; to be suffocating
with laughter. _Se tenir les côtes de —_; to split one’s sides with
laughing. _Se pâmer de —_; to die with laughing. _Avoir le mot pour —_;
to be facetious, to be ever ready with a joke. _— à gorge déployée_; to
roar with laughter. _— du bout des dents_, _— jaune_; to laugh on the
wrong side of one’s mouth, to force a laugh. _— dans sa barbe_, _— sous
cape_; to laugh in one’s sleeve. _— de_; to laugh at, not to mind, not to
care for. _— de quelqu’un_; to laugh at any one. _— au nez de quelqu’un_;
to laugh in any one’s face. _Apprêter à —_; to make one’s self a
laughing-stock. _Rira bien qui rira le dernier_ or _marchand qui perd ne
peut —_; let them laugh that win. _Cela fait —_; that makes one laugh.
_Il n’y a pas là de quoi —_; there’s nothing to laugh at in that. _Il n’y
a pas de quoi —_; it is no laughing matter. _Et la foule de —_; up went
a great shout of laughter from the crowd! _— aux anges_; to laugh beyond
measure; to laugh alone, _or_ to one’s self. _— aux dépens d’autrui_; to
laugh at another’s expense. _Nous rirons bien_; we shall have great fun.
_La fortune lui rit_; fortune smiles upon him. _Est-ce que vous riez?_
are you jesting? _Vous voulez —_; you are jesting. _Je le disais pour —_;
I said it in jest. _— de bon cœur_; to laugh heartily. _Pour —_; in play,
for fun. _En riant_, or _pour —_; jokingly, in jest, for fun. _Histoire
de —_; for fun, for a lark. _Un roi pour —_; a sham king. _Un conte
pour —_; a laughable story. _Pincer sans —_; to jest bitingly. _Tel qui
rit vendredi, dimanche pleurera_; laughter is akin to tears, _or_ laugh
to-day and cry to-morrow.
_se_ =rire=, _v.r._, to laugh; to make sport, to jest, to trifle, to
scoff. _On se rit de lui_; he is laughed at.
=rire=, _n.m._, laugh; laughter, laughing; giggle; grin. _De grands
éclats de —_; great shouts of laughter. _Un — moqueur_; a sneer. _Un
— niais_; a silly laugh. _Un gros —_; loud laughter; a horse-laugh.
_— étouffé_; suppressed laugh; giggle. _Accès de —_; fit of laughter.
_Partir d’un éclat de —_; to burst out laughing.
=ris=, _n.m._, (poet.) laugh, smile, laughter; (nav.) reef (of sails);
(cook.) sweet-bread. _Un — forcé_; a forced laugh. _Un — moqueur_; a
sneer. _Prendre un —_; (nav.) to take in a reef. _— de veau_; (cook.)
sweet-bread.
=risban=, _n.m._, (fort.) risband.
=risdale=, _n.f._ _V._ =rixdale=.
=risée=, _n.f._, laugh, laughter, mockery, derision; butt,
laughing-stock; (nav.) gust, squall, flaw. _Être_, or _faire_, _la — de
tout le monde_; to be the laughing-stock of everyone. _Objet de —_;
laughing-stock.
=riser=, _v.a._, (nav.) to strike a sail, to reef.
=risette=, _n.f._, pretty laugh, smile.
=risibilité=, _n.f._, risibility.
=risible=, _adj._, risible; comical, laughable.
=risiblement=, _adv._, laughably.
=risquable=, _adj._, adventurous, hazardous; that may be ventured.
=risque=, _n.m._, risk, hazard, peril. _J’en courrai le —_; I will
run the risk of it. _À tout —_; at all hazards or costs. _À ses —s et
périls_; at one’s own risk. _Au — de_; at the risk of.
=risqué=, =-e=, _adj._, risky, hazardous, hazarded; bold; improper,
broad, free.
=risquer=, _v.a._, to risk, to hazard, to venture, to run the risk of,
to have to fear. _Qui ne risque rien n’a rien_; nothing venture, nothing
have. _— le paquet_; to risk all _or_ to brave the storm.
_se_ =risquer=, _v.r._, to risk, to venture, to take one’s chance of.
=risque-tout=, _n.m._, desperado, dare-devil.
=risse=, _n.f._, (nav.) lashing-rope.
=risser=, _v.a._, to lash, to frap.
=rissole=, _n.f._, (cook.) minced meat fritter, rissole.
=rissolé=, =-e=, _part._, (cook.) brown, browned; crackling. _Il a le
visage —_; his face is sunburnt.
=rissoler=, _v.a._, (cook.) to roast brown.
_se_ =rissoler=, _v.r._, (cook.) to roast brown.
=ristorne= _or_ =ristourne=, _n.f._, (com.) canceling an insurance.
=ristorner= _or_ =ristourner=, _v.a._, (com.) to cancel an insurance; to
carry to another account.
=rit= _or_ =rite=, _n.m._, rite.
=ritournelle=, _n.f._, (mus.) ritornello, flourish.
=ritualiste=, _n.m.f._, ritualist.
=rituel=, _n.m._, ritual, prayer-book.
=rivage=, _n.m._, shore, sea-shore, strand, beach; bank-side (of rivers);
water-side. _Être jeté sur le —_; to be cast ashore. _Quitter le —_; to
put off.
=rival=, =-e=, _n._ and _adj._, rival. _Ils sont rivaux de gloire_; they
are rivals in glory.
=rivaliser=, _v.n._, to rival, to vie, to compete, to strive, to strive
with, to emulate. _Ils ont rivalisé d’efforts_; they vied with each other
in efforts.
=rivalité=, _n.f._, rivalry, rivalship, competition, emulation.
=rive=, _n.f._, shore, bank (of rivers); border, skirt (of woods). _On
n’y voit ni fond ni —_; (prov.) it is beyond any man’s comprehension.
=rivement=, _n.m._, riveting.
=river=, _v.a._, to rivet, to clinch. _— son clou à quelqu’un_; to give
any one a clincher, to silence any one.
=riverain= (rī-vrin), _n.m._, river-side resident; borderer; owner of
riverside property.
=riverain=, =-e=, _adj._, riparian, bordering (on rivers or woods);
riverine; possessing property situated along a forest, road, or street.
=rivet=, _n.m._, rivet.
=rivetage=, _n.m._, riveting.
=rivière=, _n.f._, river, stream. _Bras d’une —_; branch of a river.
_Gens de —_; watermen. _La — est marchande_; the river is navigable.
_Les petits ruisseaux font les grandes —s_; many a little makes a
mickle. _Mettre des peaux en —_; to soak skins. _— de diamants_; diamond
necklace, stream of diamonds.
=rivoir=, _n.m._, riveting-hammer.
=rivure=, _n.f._, hinge-pin.
=rixdale=, _n.f._, rix-dollar.
=rixe=, _n.f._, combat, conflict, fight, scuffle; brawl, dispute, affray;
quarrel.
=riz= (ri), _n.m._, (bot.) rice. _— au lait_; rice-milk. _Gâteau de —_;
rice-pudding, rice-cake.
=rize=, _n.m._, rize (Turkish coin).
=rizière=, _n.f._, rice-field, rice-plantation.
=rob=, _n.m._, (pharm.) rob.
=robe=, _n.f._, gown, robe, dress, frock; coat (of certain animals);
husk, peel (of certain vegetables, fruit); cloth (clergymen); long
robe (lawyers). _— de femme_; dress, gown. _— d’enfant_; frock. _— de
chambre_; morning-gown, dressing-gown. _— décolletée_; low dress. _—
montante_; dress high to the neck. _Gens de —_; gentlemen of the long
robe; barristers. _En — de chambre_; (of potatoes) in their skins, in
their jackets.
=rober=, _v.a._, to bark (madder). _— un chapeau_; to rub a hat; (of
cigars) to wrap.
=robin=, _n.m._, (b.s.) limb of the law, lawyer.
=robin=, proper name used in the following familiar and proverbial
expressions: _Toujours souvient à — de ses flûtes_; one always remembers
one’s old ways. _C’est un plaisant —_; he is a contemptible fellow, _or_
an easy fool.
=robinet=, _n.m._, cock; tap, plug. _— à deux eaux_, _à deux faces_,
_à deux fins_; double-valve cock. _Fermer le —_; to turn off the cock.
_Ouvrir le —_; to turn on the cock.
=robinier=, _n.m._, (bot.) robinia, common acacia, locust-tree.
=roborati-f=, =-ve=, _adj._, (med.) (l.u.) roborant.
=robre=, _n.m._, rubber (whist).
=robuste=, _adj._, robust, hardy, strong, vigorous, sturdy.
=robustement=, _adv._, robustly, hardily, lustily, stoutly.
=robustesse=, _n.f._, robustness, strength, vigor.
=roc=, _n.m._, rock (isolated mass of stony matter); ☉rook, castle (at
chess). _— vif_; solid rock.
*=rocaille=, _n.f._, rock-work, grotto work.
*=rocailleur=, _n.m._, grotto-maker, rock-work-maker.
*=rocailleu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, pebbly, stony, flinty; rugged, rough.
_Style —_; harsh style.
=rocambeau=, _n.m._, (nav.) iron ring (holding the sails round the mast).
=rocambole=, _n.f._, (hort.) rocambole, seasoning; a trite, sorry joke;
☉piquancy, point, zest; cream (of anything). _Et la —_; (pop.) and the
rest of it.
=roccelle=, _n.f._, (bot.) archil, orchil.
=roche=, _n.f._, rock, boulder; quartz, stony mass (inland); rock
(insensibility), flint, steel. _Cœur de —_; heart of flint. _Homme de la
vieille —_; man of the old stamp or school. _Il y a quelque anguille sous
—_; there is a snake in the grass; I can smell a rat. _— crayeuse_; chalk
rock. _Eau de —_; spring water.
=rocher=, _n.m._, rock, boulder, crag (sea-girt usually); (conch.) murex;
(artificial) rockery. _Plein de —s_; rocky. _Cœur de —_; heart of flint.
_— escarpé_; steep rock.
=rocheraie= (ro-shré), _n.f._, (orni.) stock-dove.
=rochet=, _n.m._, rocket (surplice); (horl.) rack, ratch; (of machinery)
clink; (locksmith’s work) ratchet.
=rocheu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, (geol.) rocky, stony.
=rock= _or_ =rouc=, _n.m._, roc (fabulous bird).
=rococo=, _n.m._, and _adj._, antiquated style, rococo style, bad taste
(in arts); antiquated, trumpery, old, old-fashioned.
=rocou=, =rocouer=, =rocouyer=. _V._ =roucou=, =roucouer=, =roucouyer=.
=rôder=, _v.n._, to roam, to rove, to ramble; to prowl.
=rôdeur=, _n.m._, roamer, rover, rambler; vagrant; prowler.
=rodomont=, _n.m._, rodomont, blusterer, ranter, braggadocio, bully.
=rodomontade=, _n.f._, rodomontade, boasting, bluster, bravado,
swaggering.
=rogations=, _n.f.pl._, (c.rel.) rogation. _Jours des —_; rogation-days.
_Semaine des —_; rogation week.
=rogatoire=, _adj._, (jur.) of inquiry. _Commission —_; judicial
commission (to examine witnesses).
=rogatons=, _n.m.pl._, scraps, odds and ends, broken meat; waste paper.
=roger-bontemps=, _n.m._, (_—s-—_) (fam.) a jolly fellow, merry andrew.
*=rogne=, _n.f._, itch; mange; (vet.) scab.
*=rognement=, _n.m._, cutting, paring, clipping.
*=rogne-pieds=, _n.m.pl._, (vet.) farrier’s knife.
*=rogner=, _v.a._, to clip, to cut (at the extremities); to pare, to
crop, to prune, to lop; to cut off, to cut short, to pare off. _— la
vigne_; to prune the vine. _— un livre_; to cut a book. _— la monnaie_;
to clip coin. _— les ongles à quelqu’un_; to clip any one’s wings.
*=rogneu-r=, _n.m._, =-se=, _n.f._, clipper (of coin).
*=rogneu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, itchy, mangy, scabbed, scurvy.
*=rognoir=, _n.m._, (book-bind.) plow; cutting-press.
*=rognon=, _n.m._, kidney; (pop.) loins; hip; testicle (of some animals).
_Blessure aux —s d’un cheval_; navel-gall. _Mine en —s_; (metal.)
kidney-shaped ore.
*=rognonner=, _v.n._, to growl, to grumble.
*=rognure=, _n.f._, paring, clipping, cutting. _pl._, refuse, leavings.
=rogomme=, _n.m._, dram, spirits, grog. _Voix de —_; croaking voice,
hoarse voice, drunkard’s voice.
=rogue= (rog), _adj._, (fam.) proud, haughty, disdainful.
=roi=, _n.m._, king. _De par le —_; in the king’s name. _Vive le —_;
long live the king. _Le jour des —s_; Twelfth-day. _Gâteau des —s_;
Twelfth-cake. _Fêter_, or _tirer_, _les —s_; to celebrate Twelfth-night.
_Vivre en —_; to live like a king, like a prince. _C’est la cour du —
Pétaud_; it is Bedlam broke loose. _— d’armes_; king at arms.
=roide=, _adj._ _V._ =raide=.
=roitelet= (roa-tlè), _n.m._, petty king, kinglet; (orni.) wren. _—
huppé_; golden-crested wren. _— triple bandeau_; fire-crested wren.
=rôlage=, _n.m._, rolling (of tobaccos).
=rôle=, _n.m._, roll, scroll; list, rota, roster, catalogue; (thea.)
part, character, impersonation; (jur.) cause-list. _À tour de —_; in
turn, by turn, by rotation. _Jouer bien son —_; to play one’s part
well. _— de combat_; (nav.) quarter-bill. _— de quart_; watch-bill.
_— d’équipage_; (nav.) muster-roll. _Sortir de son —_; to be out of
character, to exceed one’s attributes. _Saisir son —_; to catch the
spirit of one’s part. _Manquer son —_; (fig.) to mistake one’s vocation.
_Outrer son —_; to overdo one’s part.
=rôler=, _v.n._, (b.s.) to spin out legal documents (to increase the
costs).
=rôlet=, _n.m._, (l.u.) character, little part. _Jouer bien son —_; to
play one’s part well. _Être au bout de son —_; to be at one’s wits’ end,
at the end of one’s tether.
=rollier=, _n.m._, (orni.) roller.
=romain=, =-e=, _adj._, Roman; Romish; (print.) Roman. _À la —e_;
Roman-like. _L’Eglise catholique —e_; the church of Rome. _Calendrier —_;
Romish calendar. _Laitue —e_; cos lettuce.
=romain=, _n.m._, =-e=, _n.f._, Roman.
=romain=, _n.m._, (print.) Roman, primer. _Gros —_; great primer. _Petit
—_; long primer.
=romaine=, _n.f._, steelyard; (bot.) cos lettuce.
=romaïque=, _n.m._ and _adj._, Romaic, modern Greek language; Greek,
Grecian.
=romaïque=, _n.f._, the Greek national dance.
=roman=, _n.m._, novel, romance, fiction, romancing tale; Romance
(language). _Cela tient du —_; it is like a romance. _C’est une aventure
de —_; it is a romantic adventure. _De —_; of novels, romantic, imaginary.
=roman=, =-e=, _or_ =romance=, _adj._, Romanic, Romance.
=romance=, _n.f._, (mus.) ballad, song.
=romancer= _or_ =romanciser=, _v.n._, to romance.
=romancero=, _n.m._, (_—s_) romancero, collection of short Spanish epic
poems.
=romancier=, _n.m._, romance-writer; novelist, novel-writer.
=romane=, _adj._, (arch.) romanesque.
=romanesque=, _adj._, fanciful, romantic; romanesque.
=romanesquement=, _adv._, romantically, in a romantic manner.
=romaniser=, _v.a._ and _n._, to romanize.
=romanticisme=, _n.m._, romanticism.
=romantique=, _n.m._ and _adj._, romanticist, romanticism; romantic,
romantical.
=romantiquement= (-tik-mān), _adv._, romantically.
=romantisme=, _n.m._, romanticism.
=romarin=, _n.m._, (bot.) rosemary.
=rompement= (ronp-mān), _n.m._, only used in: _— de tête_; mental
fatigue, head-splitting.
=rompre=, _v.a._, to break, to break asunder, to snap; to break off, to
dissolve; to train, to break in, to train up, to use; to divert, to turn
off; (phys.) to refract; (med.) to rupture; (paint.) to blend. _— un
criminel_; to break a criminal upon the wheel. _— la tête à quelqu’un_;
to break any one’s head. _— les chemins_; to spoil the roads, to break
up the roads. _— la glace_; to break the ice. _— le cou à quelqu’un_;
to break any one’s neck, to ruin any one. _— les couleurs_; to blend
the colors. _— la mesure_ or _la semelle_; (fenc.) to retire in parrying,
to draw back. _— le grain germé_; to turn the barley. _— les bordages_;
(nav.) to rip off planks. _— le sommeil de quelqu’un_; to interrupt the
sleep of any one. _— un coup_; to deaden a blow. _— le silence_; to break
silence. _— les chiens_; (hunt.) to call off the dogs. _— l’eau à un
cheval_; to interrupt a horse in drinking. _— un traité_; to break off a
treaty. _— son ménage_; to give up housekeeping. _— le carré_; (milit.)
to break the square. _— une armée_; to disband an army. _— la paille_;
to break off (an agreement, a bargain, etc.); to break off, to fall out
with, to become the enemy of any one. _— son serment_; to break one’s
oath. _— son jeûne_; to break one’s fast. _— sa prison_; to break out of
prison. _— son ban_; to break one’s ban. _— la tête à quelqu’un_; to turn
any one’s brain; to worry any one. _— un homme aux affaires_; to train
a man up to business. _— un cheval_; to break in a horse. _À tout —_;
furiously, frantically. _Cet acteur a été applaudi à tout —_; that actor
received frantic applause.
_se_ =rompre=, _v.r._, to break, to break off, to snap, to break up,
to break asunder; to discontinue; (phys.) to be refracted; (med.) to
rupture. _Se — la tête_; to puzzle, _or_ rack, one’s brains.
=rompre=, _v.n._, to break, to break asunder, to break off, to snap, to
break up; to discontinue, to have done. _— court_; to break off short.
_— en visière avec quelqu’un_; to tell any one the truth to his face; to
quarrel openly with any one, to break off with any one.
=rompu=, =-e=, _part._, broken, snapped; broken in; (nav.) hogged (of a
ship). _Être — aux affaires_; to be used, _or_ accustomed, to business.
_Tout — de fatigue_; quite worn out with fatigue. _Travailler à bâtons
—s_; to work by fits and starts. _Nombre —_; (l.u.) fraction.
=ronce=, _n.f._, (bot.) bramble, brier; blackberry-bush; blackberry-tree;
(fig.) thorn, obstacle.
=ronceraie=, _n.f._, brake, briery.
=rond=, =-e=, _adj._, round; rotund; frank, easy, plain-dealing; even (of
money, accounts). _Un peu —_; roundish. _Du fil —_; coarse thread. _Pain
—_; coarse bread. _Voix —e_; full voice. _Compte —_; even account. _C’est
un homme tout —_; he is a plain-dealing man, _or_ honesty itself. _Être
— en affaires_; to be straightforward in business matters. _Figure de —e
bosse_; (sculpt.) figure in alto-relievo. _Période —e_; full and rounded
period.
=rond=, _n.m._, round, orb, ring, circle, disk. _Danser en —_; to dance
in a ring. _— d’eau_; circular basin of water. _— de serviette_; napkin
ring.
=rondache=, _n.f._, round buckler, round shield.
=ronde=, _n.f._, round; patrol; table song, roundelay; (mus.) semibreve;
round hand (writing). _Faire la —_; to go the rounds. _À la —_; round
about. _Boire à la —_; to drink all round. _Passer à la —_; to hand
round, to pass round. _Chemin des —s_; round-way.
=rondeau=, _n.m._, rondeau, roundelay (French poet.); (mus.) rondo.
=rondelet=, =-te= (rōn-dlè, -t), _adj._, roundish, plump, plumpish.
=rondelette=, _n.f._, ground-ivy.
=rondelettes=, _n.f.pl._, sail-cloth made in Brittany.
=rondelle=, _n.f._, round shield; rundle, ring; washer (of a wheel);
sculptor’s rounded chisel.
=rondement= (rōn-dmān), _adv._, roundly; quickly; briskly, vigorously;
plainly, frankly; with a high hand. _Mener une affaire —_; not to
dilly-dally. _Y aller —_; to act frankly and quickly. _Il va — en
besogne_; he goes briskly to work.
=rondeur=, _n.f._, roundness, smoothness, undulating expanse, rotundity;
fullness, flow; openness, plain dealing; curve, compass (of a piece of
timber used in shipbuilding).
=rondin=, _n.m._, billet, round log; cudgel.
=rondiner=, _v.a._, to cudgel. _— d’importance_; to beat soundly.
=rondon=, _n.m._, (hawking) swoop, impetuosity. _En —_; impetuously.
=rond-point=, _n.m._ (_—s-—s_) (arch.) apsis; circus (place where several
roads, _or_ walks, meet).
=ronflant=, =-e=, _adj._, snoring; sonorous, high-sounding; loud.