=ronflement=, _n.m._, snoring, snore; roaring, peal, rumbling; humming;

snorting (of horses). _— des vents_; roaring of the wind. _— d’une

toupie_; humming of a top.

=ronfler=, _v.n._, to snore; (of horses) to snort; (of cannon, thunder)

to roar; (of organs) to peal; (of spinning-tops) to hum.

=ronfleu-r=, _n.m._, =-se=, _n.f._, snorer.

=ronge=, _n.m._, (hunt.) ruminating. _Le cerf fait le —_; the stag is

ruminating.

=rongeant=, =-e=, _adj._, gnawing, devouring, corroding; (med.) corrosive.

*=ronge-maille=, _n.m._, (_—_) nibble (rat). _Maître —_; squire nibble.

=ronge-ver=, _n.m._, gnawing worm.

=ronger=, _v.a._, to gnaw, to nibble, to pick; to waste, to consume, to

eat up, to corrode; to fret, to torment, to prey upon (the mind). _— un

os_; to pick, _or_ gnaw, a bone. _— son frein_; to champ the bit; to fret

inwardly, to chafe. _— ses ongles_; to bite one’s nails. _La rouille

ronge le fer_; rust corrodes iron. _Donner un os à — à quelqu’un_; (fig.)

to bestow upon, to grant any one, a favor; to cut out work for any one,

to give any one trouble.

=rongeur=, _n._ and _adj._ _m._, (mam.) rodent; gnawing, biting;

corroding; consuming. _Ver —_; never-dying worm.

=ronron=, _n.m._, purr, purring. _Faire —_; to purr.

=roquefort=, _n.m._, Roquefort cheese.

☉=roquelaure=, _n.f._, roquelaure (sort of cloak).

=roquentin=, _n.m._, dotard, gray-beard, old buck.

=roquer=, _v.n._, to castle, to rook (at chess).

=roquet=, _n.m._, pug-dog; (fam.) dog, puppy, cur (person).

=roquette=, _n.f._, (bot.) rocket. _— sauvage_; wild rocket.

☉*=roquille=, _n.f._, gill, quartern.

=rorage=, _n.m._, dew-bleaching.

=rosace=, _n.f._, (arch.) rose; rose-work; (Gothic arch.) rose-window.

=rosacé=, =-e=, _adj._, (bot.) rosaceous.

=rosacées=, _n.f.pl._, (bot.) rose-tribe, rosaceæ.

=rosage=, _n.m._, (bot.) oleander, rose-bay; rosing (dyeing).

=rosagine=, _n.f._, (bot.) rose-bay.

=rosaire=, _n.m._, rosary.

=rosat=, _adj._, (pharm.) of roses. _Miel —_; honey of roses.

=rosbif=, _n.m._, (_—s_) roast-beef.

=rose=, _n.f._, rose; (arch.) rose-window; rose-diamond. _Couleur de —_;

rose-colored. _De —_; rosy. _— d’Inde_; African marigold. _Laurier-—_,

(_—s-—s_) rose-laurel. _— gueldre_; Guelder-rose. _— des quatre saisons_;

monthly rose. _— de diamants_; cluster of diamonds in the form of a rose.

_Diamant en —_; rose-cut diamond. _— des vents_; (nav.) compass-card.

_Découvrir le pot aux —s_; to find out the secret. _Il n’est point de —

sans épines_; there is no rose without a thorn.

=rose=, _adj._, rosy, pink; rose-colored.

=rose=, _n.m._, rose-color.

=rosé=, =-e=, _adj._, roseate, rosy.

=roseau=, _n.m._, reed, reed-cane; reed-grass. _— de marais_; common

marsh-reed. _— cultivé_; evergreen reed. _— odorant_; sweet-flag. _— des

Indes_; bamboo. _Lieu planté de —x_; reed-bank. _Plein_, or _couvert_,

_de —x_; reedy. _C’est un — peint en fer_; his looks belie his firmness.

=rose-croix=, _n.m._, (_—s-—_) Rosicrucian.

=rosée=, _n.f._, dew; (vet.) oozing blood. _— du soleil_; (bot.) sun-dew.

_— du matin_; morning-dew. _Goutte de —_; dew-drop.

=roselet= (rô-zlè), _n.m._, (mam.) stoat.

=roselière=, _n.f._, reed-bank, reed-field.

=roselle=, _n.f._, (orni.) redwing.

=roséole=, _n.f._, (med.) roseola, scarlet rash.

=roser=, _v.a._, to rose. _Se —_; to become rosy; to assume a roseate hue.

=roseraie= (rôz-rè), _n.f._, rosery, rose garden.

=rosette=, _n.f._, rosette; small rose; rose-diamond, rose; red ink; red

chalk; (ich.) gray gurnard; (metal.) cake; (orni.) redwing, swine-pipe;

(hat-making) tip; (paint.) rosette, roset. _Diamant à —_; rose-diamond.

=rosier=, _n.m._, rose-tree, rose-bush.

=rosière=, _n.f._, rose-queen; (ich.) minnow, pink.

=roson=, _n.m._ _V._ =rosace=.

=rosse=, _n.f._, jade, screw; (ich.) roach.

=rosser=, _v.a._, to belabor, to lick, to thrash, to maul, to drub, to

give a drubbing to.

*=rossignol=, _n.m._, (orni.) nightingale; pipe, flute (made of bark);

stop (of organ); picklock; skeleton key; (carp.) wedge; shopkeeper (old

article). _— d’Arcadie_; jackass. _— de muraille_; (orni.) red-start.

*=rossignoler=, _v.n._, (fam.) to imitate the nightingale’s song.

=rossinante=, _n.f._, Rosinante (sorry horse).

=rossinante=, _n.m._, Rosinante (Don Quixote’s horse).

=rossolis=, _n.m._, rossolis (liquor); (bot.) sun-dew.

=roster=, _v.a._ _V._ =rouster=.

=rostral=, =-e=, _adj._, rostral.

=rostre=, _n.m._, (zoöl.) rostrum.

=rostré=, =-e=, _adj._, rostrate, rostrated.

=rosture=, _n.f._ _V._ =rousture=.

=rot=, _n.m._, (l.ex.) belch, eructation. _Faire un —_; to belch.

=rôt=, _n.m._, roast, roast meat; first course. _Gros —_; joint of meat.

_Petit —_; roast of game.

=rotacé=, =-e=, _adj._, (bot.) rotate, rotated.

=rotang=, _n.m._ _V._ =rotin=.

=rotateur=, _n._ and _adj._ _m._, (anat.) rotator; rotatory.

=rotateurs=, _n.m.pl._, (zoöl.) rotatories.

=rotation=, _n.f._, rotation.

=rotatoire=, _adj._, rotatory.

=rotatoires=, _n.m.pl._ (ent.) rotifers, rotatories, wheel-animals,

wheel-insects, wheel-animalcules.

=rote=, _n.f._, rota (court of Rome).

=roter=, _v.n._, (l.ex.) to belch.

=rôti=, _n.m._, roast, roast meat (prov.). _Il ne faut pas s’endormir sur

le —_; we must have our wits about us, _or_ not neglect our work.

=rôtie= (-tî), _n.f._, toast. _Une —_; a round of toast. _— au beurre_;

buttered toast. _— au vin_; toast in wine.

=rotifère=, _n.m._, (ent.) rotifer, wheel-animal.

=rotiforme=, _adj._, (zoöl.) wheel-shaped.

=rotin=, _n.m._, (bot.) rotang; rattan, rattan-cane.

=rôtir=, _v.a._, to roast; to broil; to toast (bread); to burn, to parch.

_— au four_; to bake. _N’être bon ni à — ni à bouillir_; to be fit for

nothing.

_se_ =rôtir=, _v.r._, to parch, to burn, to roast one’s self.

=rôtir=, _v.n._, to roast, to broil, to toast.

=rôtissage=, _n.m._, roasting.

=rôtisserie= (-ti-srî), _n.f._, cook-shop.

=rôtisseu-r=, _n.m._, =-se=, _n.f._, cook-shop keeper. _— en blanc_;

poulterer.

=rôtissoire=, _n.f._, roasting screen, roaster, Dutch oven.

=rotonde=, _n.f._, rotunda, back part of a diligence. _En —_; circular.

=rotondité=, _n.f._, rotundity, roundness; plumpness, fatness.

=rotule=, _n.f._, (anat.) patella, knee-cap.

=roture=, _n.f._, commonalty, plebeian state. _Il est né dans la —_; he

is of ignoble birth.

=roturi-er=, =-ère=, _n._ and _adj._, commoner; plebeian, of mean birth;

vulgar, mean. ☉_Air —_; vulgar air.

=roturièrement= (-rièr-mān), _adv._, in a plebeian manner; vulgarly.

=rouage=, _n.m._, wheelwork, wheels; machinery; (horl.) movement.

=rouan=, =-ne=, _adj._, (of horses) roan.

=rouan=, _n.m._, roan horse.

=rouanne=, _n.f._, brand-iron, marking-iron.

=rouanner=, _v.a._, to brand, to mark.

=rouannette=, _n.f._, (carp.). _V._ =rainette=.

=rouble=, _n.m._, rouble, ruble (Russian coin).

=rouc=, _n.m._ _V._ =rock=.

=rouche=, _n.f._, (nav.) a ship’s hull.

=roucou=, _n.m._, (bot.) and (dy.) arnotto.

=roucouer=, _v.a._, to paint with arnotto.

_se_ =roucouer=, _v.r._, to paint one’s self with arnotto.

=roucoulement= (-kool-mān), _n.m._, cooing.

=roucouler=, _v.n._ and _a._, to coo (pigeons); to warble (out) _or_

(forth).

=roucouyer=, _n.m._, (bot.) arnotto-tree.

=roudou=, _n.m._ _V._ =redoul=.

=roue=, _n.f._, wheel; paddle; (torture) wheel; (artil.) truck.

_— d’affût de canon_; truck of a gun-carriage. _— d’une horloge_;

clock-wheel. _— à aubes_ or _à pales_; paddle-wheel. _— hydraulique_;

water-wheel. _Pousser à la —_; to put one’s shoulder to the wheel, to

help on. _Mettre des bâtons dans les —s_; to thwart, to put spokes into

the wheels (of). _Un paon fait la —_; a peacock spreads his tail. _Faire

la —_; to strut, to stalk, to show off, to wheel about; to tumble over

and over, to do the windmill. _— de compte_; (horl.) notch-wheel. _—

dentée_; toothed-wheel, _— de rencontre_; (horl.) balance-wheel. _— de

câble_; (nav.) coil. _— de gouvernail_; steering-wheel. _Mettre à la —_;

to rack, to put to the rack.

=roué=, _n.m._, roué; rake, profligate; trickster.

=roué=, =-e=, _adj._, crafty, sharp, artful; very deep; knocked up,

broken down. _— de coups_; soundly thrashed.

=rouelle=, _n.f._, round slice, collop; (vet.) rowel. _— de citron_;

slice of lemon. _— de veau_; fillet of veal.

=rouennerie= (rooa-n-rî), _n.f._, printed cotton goods; Rouen goods.

=rouer=, _v.a._, to break upon the wheel; to crush; to jade. _— quelqu’un

de coups_; to beat any one unmercifully. _Être roué de fatigue_; to be

jaded with fatigue. _— un câble_; to coil a cable.

=rouerie= (roo-rî), _n.f._, piece of knavery, sharp practice, cheat;

trickery.

=rouet=, _n.m._, small wheel; spinning-wheel; purr (of a cat); (nav.)

sheave. _— de moulin_; cog-wheel of a mill. _— de tisserand_; weaver’s

cloth-beam. _— d’arquebuse_; lock of an arquebuse. _Faire le —_; to purr.

=rouette=, _n.f._, (tech.) osier-twig.

=roue-vis=, _n.f._, (_—s-—_) screw-wheel.

=rouge=, _adj._, red; blood-red; blood-shot; red-hot. _Fer —_; red-hot

iron; (of partridges) red-legged. _Boulets —s_; red-hot balls. _Cuivre

—_; copper. _— trogne_; (fam.) red face.

=rouge=, _n.m._, red; red paint, rouge; redness, blush; (orni.) shoveler.

_— vif_; deep red, bright red. _— brun_; brownish red. _— d’écarlate_;

scarlet. _— sanguin_; blood red. _— de garance_; madder.

=rouge=, _adv._, only used in: _Se fâcher tout —_; to get downright angry.

=rougeâtre= (-jâtr), _adj._, reddish.

=rougeaud=, =-e= (-jô, -d), _n._ and _adj._, red-faced person;

ruddy-faced, red-faced, ruddy.

=rouge-bord=, _n.m._, (_—s-—s_) bumper (of red wine).

=rouge-gorge=, _n.m._, (_—s-—s_) (orni.) redbreast, robin redbreast.

=rougeole= (-jol), _n.f._, (med.) measles, (bot.) cow-wheat.

=rouge-queue=, _n.m._, (_—s-—s_) red-start, red-tail.

=rouget=, _n.m._, (ich.) gurnet, red gurnet; red surmullet; (ent.)

wheal-worm. _adj._, reddish.

=rougette=, _n.f._, (mam.) pteropus.

=rougeur=, _n.f._, redness, blush, glow, color. _pl._, (med.) rosy-drop,

red-spot. _La — lui est montée au visage_; the color came into her cheeks.

=rougir=, _v.n._, to redden, to grow red; to color, to color up, to

blush, to be ashamed. _— de honte_; to blush with shame. _— de colère_;

to grow red with anger. _— jusqu’au blanc des yeux_; to blush up to the

eyes, to color up to the eyes. _Faire — quelqu’un_; to put any one to the

blush.

=rougir=, _v.a._, to redden; to tinge with red or blood; to mix red wine

with water.

=roui=, _n.m._, steeping, soaking, maceration; retting; fustiness,

rancidness. _Sentir le —_; to have a rancid taste.

*=rouille=, _n.f._, rust, rustiness (of metals); flaw (of mirrors);

(bot.) mildew, blight, blast. _La — mange le fer_; rust corrodes iron.

_Ces froments sont chargés de —_; this wheat is mildewed.

*=rouillé=, =-e=, _adj._, rusty; blighted (of corn).

*=rouiller=, _v.a._, to rust, to make rusty; to blight; to impair.

_se_ =rouiller=, _v.r._, to rust, to grow rusty; to get rusty, to become

rusty; to rust, to be impaired.

*=rouilleu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, ferruginated.

*=rouillure=, _n.f._, rustiness, rust.

=rouir=, _v.a._, to steep, to soak, to macerate (hemp, flax), to ret.

=rouir=, _v.n._, to be retted.

=rouissage=, _n.m._, soaking, steeping, retting.

=rouissoir=, _n.m._, rettery.

=roulade=, _n.f._, roll, rolling; (mus.) roulade, trill, shake; (cook.)

collar. _Faire une — de_; (cook.) to collar.

=roulage=, _n.m._, rolling; carriage (of goods); wagon-office; wagoning.

_— accéléré_; fly-wagon. _Voiture de —_; goods wagon.

=roulant=, =-e=, _adj._, rolling; easy (of roads); (surg.) moving (of

veins). _Chemin —_; easy way. _Feu —_; (milit.) running fire. _Presse

—e_; (print.) press at work.

=rouleau=, _n.m._, roll; roller; rolling-pin; roll, twist (of tobacco);

coil (of a rope); (med.) roller; (print.) roller; (tech.) sheave. _—

de papier_; roll of paper. _Plier en —_; to roll up. _Être au bout de

son —_; to be at one’s wits’ end, _or_ at the end of one’s tether. _—

d’imprimeur_; printer’s roller.

=roulée=, _n.f._, (pop.) thrashing, drubbing.

=roulement= (rool-mān), _n.m._, rolling, roll, rumbling; (mus.) roll;

roll (of a drum); rotation; volutation. _— d’yeux_; rolling of the eyes.

_— de fonds_; (com.) circulation of capital. _Fonds de —_; floating

capital.

=rouler=, _v.a._, to roll, to roll up; to wind, to wind up; to revolve,

to turn over; to pass, to pass away; (of meat) to collar; (fig.) to do

for a person. _— une chose dans sa tête_; to turn a thing over in one’s

mind. _— sa vie_; to pass one’s life. _— carrosse_; to keep a carriage.

_Je l’ai roulé_; I did for him _or_ I bowled him over.

_se_ =rouler=, _v.r._, to roll one’s self, to roll, to tumble; to wallow;

to wind; to fight, to have a set to.

=rouler=, _v.n._, to roll, to revolve; to tumble; to toss; to ramble,

to wander, to stroll; to keep going; to succeed by rotation; to be

plentiful; to turn upon (of a thing). _Faire — la presse_; (print.) to

set the press going. _— sur l’or et sur l’argent_; to roll in riches.

_Tout roule là-dessus_; all turns upon that. _Ils roulent ensemble_; they

take their turns. _Faire —_; to keep going. _Pierre qui roule n’amasse

pas de mousse_; a rolling stone gathers no moss. _La conversation roula

sur ce sujet_; the conversation turned upon this subject.

=roulet=, _n.m._, hatter’s roller.

=roulette=, _n.f._, roller, truckle, little wheel; truckle-bed;

☉hand-chaise, Bath-chair; caster; roulette (game); (geom.) cycloid. _Cela

marche comme sur des —s_; that is getting on swimmingly. _Lit à —s_;

bedstead on casters. _— de relieur_; book-binder’s fillet.

=rouleur=, _n.m._, (ent.) vine-fretter, vine-grub, (nav.) rolling vessel.

=rouleuse=, _n.f._, caterpillar.

=roulier=, _n.m._, wagoner, carter, carrier.

=roulière=, _n.f._, wagoner’s smock.

=roulis=, _n.m._, (nav.) rolling, laboring; roll (of the waves).

=rouloir=, _n.m._, rolling-board (for candles); roller, cylinder.

=roulotte=, _n.f._, wagon.

=roupie=, _n.f._, rupee; (l.ex.) snivel. _Avoir la —_; to snivel.

=roupieu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, (l.u.) snively, sniveling.

*=roupiller=, _v.n._, (pop.) to doze, to snooze.

*=roupilleu-r=, _n.m._, =-se=, _n.f._, (pop.) dozer, snoozer.

=roure=, _n.m._, (bot.) English oak.

=roussâtre=, _adj._, reddish, russet.

=rousseau=, _n._ and _adj._ _m._, (fam.) red-haired fellow; red-haired.

=rousselet= (roo-slè), _n.m._, (bot.) russet pear.

=rousserolle= (roo-srol), _n.f._, (orni.) great sedge-warbler.

=roussette=, _n.f._, (orni.) bog-rush, hedge-sparrow; (ich.) dog-fish,

bounce; (mam.) pteropus.

=rousseur=, _n.f._, redness; freckle. _Avoir des —s_, _avoir des taches

de —_; to be freckled.

=roussi=, _n.m._, burnt smell; burning, smell of burning; ☉Russia leather.

=roussin=, _n.m._, thick-set stallion. _— d’Arcadie_; ass, jackass, moke.

=roussir=, _v.a._ and _n._, to redden; to singe, to scorch; to dye of a

rusty color, or of a fawn-color; to grow red, to turn red; to singe, to

scorch. _Faire —_; to brown (meat, etc.).

=roussissage=, _n.m._, dyeing red.

=rouster= _or_ =rusturer=, _v.a._, (nav.) to woold, to wind (ropes).

=rousture= _or_ =rosture=, _n.f._, (nav.) woolding.

=rout= (raoot), _n.m._, (_—_) rout (assembly). _V._ =raout=.

*=routailler=, _v.a._, (hunt.) to track.

=route=, _n.f._, road, way; journey, route, direction, path, course;

(nav.) track, course, way, run; riding (in a forest); track, path (of

planets, comets). _Grand’—_, (_—-—s_) highway. _— ordinaire_; common

road. _— de traverse_; cross road. _Il est resté en —_; he remained

behind. _Il est en —_; he is on his way. _Prendre la — de_; to take the

way to, to go in the direction of, to make for. _Faire —_; to travel.

_Faire —_; (nav.) to sail. _À la —!_ (nav.) steer the course! _Porter à

—_; to go, _or_ take, a straight course. _Faire fausse —_; to take the

wrong road; (nav.) to alter the course; (fig.) to take a wrong step;

to make a mistake. _— estimée_; (nav.) dead reckoning. _Feuille de —_;

(milit.) route; way-bill (of public conveyances). _On lui a tracé sa —_;

his course is marked out for him. _La — de la vertu_; the path of virtue.

=routier= (-tié), _n.m._, (geog.) tract chart, road book; (nav.) sailing

orders, guide, pilot. _Vieux —_; old stager.

=routi-er=, =-ère=, _adj._, of roads. _Carte —ère_; road-map. _Locomotive

—_; traction engine, road engine.

=routine=, _n.f._, routine, habit; rote (frequent repetition of sounds).

_Par —_; by routine, by habit, by rote.

=routiner=, _v.a._, (l.u.) to teach by routine.

=routini-er=, =-ère=, _n._ and _adj._, person acting by routine,

red-tapist; of routine, routine-like.

=routoir=, _n.m._, retting-pond; retting-pit.

=rouverin= (roo-vrin), _adj.m._, (metal.) blistered, brittle, hot, short.

=rouvieux= _or_ =roux-vieux=, _n._ and _adj._ _m._ (_n.p._), (vet.) mange;

mangy.

=rouvre=, _n.m._, (bot.) English oak. _V._ =roure=.

=rouvrir=, _v.a._, to open again. _— une plaie_; to reopen a wound. _Se

—_; to open again.

=rou-x=, =-sse=, _adj._, reddish, red-haired, russet; sandy, carroty.

_Vents —_; cold dry winds. _Lune —sse_; April moon.

=roux=, _n.m._, reddish color; russet; (mam.) field-mouse; (cook.) brown

butter sauce. _— ardent_; fiery red.

=roux-vieux=, _n.m._ _V._ =rouvieux=.

=royal=, =-e= (roa-yal), _adj._, royal, regal, kingly, kinglike.

=royale= (roa-yal), _n.f._, tuft of beard just below the underlip,

chin-tuft.

=royalement= (roa-yal-mān), _adv._, royally, regally, in a kingly manner.

=royalisme= (roa-ya-), _n.m._, royalism.

=royaliste= (roa-ya-), _n.m.f._ and _adj._, royalist.

=royaume= (roa-yôm), _n.m._, kingdom, realm.

=royauté= (roa-yô-), _n.f._, royalty. _Abdiquer la —_; to abdicate the

throne. _Les marques de la —_; the regalia.

=r.p.=, initial letters of _Révérend Père_; reverend father.

=rr.=, abbreviation of _Royales_, royal.

=ru=, _n.m._, channel _or_ bed (of a small stream).

=ruade=, _n.f._, kick (of horses, etc.). _pl._, kicking. _Détacher_, or

_lancer_, _une —_; to give a kick.

=rubabelle= _or_ =rubace=, _n.f._, rubicel, rubicelle.

=ruban=, _n.m._, ribbon; (arch.) beading. _Garniture de —s_; set

of ribbons. _— de fil_; tape. _—-d’eau_, (_—s-—_) (bot.) bur-reed,

reed-grass. _Canon à —_; twisted gun-barrel. _—s de la glotte_, _—s

vocaux_; (anat.) vocal cords. _— de soie_; silk ribbon. _— de velours_;

velvet ribbon.

=rubané=, =-e=, _part._, (zoöl.) striped; flattened, ribbon-like. _Canon

—_; twisted gun-barrel.

=rubaner=, _v.a._, to trim with ribbons; to arrange flax and hemp fibers;

to divide wax into bandelets; to twist a band of iron to turn it into

gun-barrels.

=rubanerie= (-ba-n-rî), _n.f._, ribbon-weaving; ribbon-trade.

=rubani-er=, =-ère=, _adj._, ribbon. _Industrie —ère_;

ribbon-manufacture, ribbon trade.

=rubanier=, _n.m._, ribbon-weaver; (bot.) burweed.

=rubanière=, _n.f._, ribbon-weaver.

=rubarbe=, _n.f._ _V._ =rhubarbe=.

=rubasse=, _n.f._, (min.) colored quartz.

=rubéfaction=, _n.f._, (med.) rubefaction.

=rubéfiant=, =-e=, _adj._, (med.) rubefacient.

=rubéfiant=, _n.m._, (med.) rubefacient.

=rubéfier=, _v.a._, or _se —_, _v.r._, (med.) to rubify.

☉=rubeline=, _n.f._ _V._ =rouge-gorge=.

=rubéole=, _n.f._, (bot.) cross-wort.

=rubescent=, =-e=, _adj._, rubescent.

=rubiacé=, =-e=, _adj._, red-colored.

=rubiacées=, _n.f.pl._, plants of the madder family.

=rubican=, _n.m._ and _adj._, rubican color; rubican.

=rubicon=, _n.m._, Rubicon. _Passer le —_; to take a desperate step.

=rubicond=, =-e=, _adj._, rubicund; bloated; blowzy.

=rubification=, _n.f._, rubification.

=rubigineu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, rubiginous.

☉=rubine=, _n.f._, (chem.) ruby. _— d’argent_; red-silver, ruby-silver.

_— d’arsenic_; realgar.

=rubis=, _n.m._, ruby; red pimple, grog-blossom. _Faire — sur l’ongle_;

to drink to the last drop. _Payer — sur l’ongle_; to pay to the last

farthing. _Monté sur —_; jeweled.

=rubricaire=, _n.m._, rubrician, rubricist.

=rubricateur=, _n.m._, artist who illuminated manuscripts in the Middle

Ages.

=rubrique=, _n.f._, method, rule, practice; head; title; trick; ruddle,

red chalk. _pl._, (canon law) rubric. _Sous la — de_; under the head of.

=ruche=, _n.f._, hive; swarm; (needlework) quilling, frilling, ruche. _—

d’abeilles_; bee-hive. _Châtrer une —_; to cut away the wax and honey

from a hive.

=ruché=, =-e=, _adj._, quilted. _n.m._, frilling.

=ruchée=, _n.f._, hive-full.

=rucher=, _n.m._, stand for bees; apiary.

=rucher=, _v.a._, (needlework) to quilt, to frill.

=rudâni-er=, =-ère=, _adj._, (l.u.) surly, churlish, uncouth.

=rude=, _adj._, harsh, rough, rugged, steep, uneven; sharp, rude, hard;

disagreeable; grating, violent, fierce; severe, bitter; rigid, strict;

formidable; uncouth, unpolished; impetuous, boisterous; troublesome,

difficult. _Avoir la peau —_; to have a rough skin. _Une — épreuve_; a

severe trial. _Chemin —_; rugged road. _Avoir la voix —_; to have a harsh

voice. _Des manières —s_; rough, coarse, uncouth manners. _Un — assaut_;

a fierce assault. _Les temps sont —s_; times are hard. _Des paroles —s_;

harsh words.

=rudement= (ru-dmān), _adv._, roughly, ruggedly, harshly, sharply,

severely, strictly; tumultuously, violently, impetuously, rudely.

_Traiter —_; to treat roughly. _Aller — en besogne_; to work with a

vengeance.

=rudenté=, =-e=, _adj._, (arch.) cabled (of columns).

=rudenture=, _n.f._, (arch.) cabling, rudenture.

=rudesse=, _n.f._, harshness; roughness; ruggedness; severity;

tumultuousness; fierceness, violence; austerity, strictness;

troublesomeness; rude thing, coarse thing; rudeness.

=rudiment=, _n.m._, rudiment.

=rudimentaire=, _adj._, rudimental, elementary, rudimentary.

=rudoyer=, _v.a._, to use roughly, harshly; to speak harshly to; to

bully; to ill-treat (a horse).

=rue=, _n.f._, street; (bot.) rue. _— passante_; much frequented

street. _Courir les —s_; to run about the streets; (fig.) to be in

everybody’s mouth (of news); to be common (of a thing). _— de traverse_;

cross-street. _— écartée_; back street. _Il est fou à courir les —s_; he

is stark, staring mad. _Les —s en sont pavées_; (prov.) it is as common

as dust. _Être vieux comme les —s_; to be as old as the hills. _— de

chèvre_; goat’s-rue.

=ruelle=, _n.f._, lane, alley, by-street; bed-side, wall-side; (fig.)

lady’s alcove; private circle; literary coterie. _Les belles —s de

Paris_; the best drawing-rooms in the town.

=rueller=, _v.a._, to mold (vines).

=ruer=, _v.a._, (l.u.) to fling, to hurl, to cast; to throw. _— de grands

coups_; to deal heavy blows.

_se_ =ruer=, _v.r._, to throw one’s self; to rush upon.

=ruer=, _v.n._, to kick (of horses, etc.).

=rueu-r=, =-se=, _n._ and _adj._, (man.) kicker; given to kicking.

=rugine=, _n.f._, (surg.) rugine, scalp; (dentist’s) tooth-scaler.

=ruginer=, _v.a._, (surg.) to scalp.

=rugir=, _v.n._, to roar, to yell.

=rugissant=, =-e=, _adj._, roaring.

=rugissement= (-jis-mān), _n.m._, roaring, roar.

=rugosité=, _n.f._, rugosity, roughness, unevenness; wrinkle.

=rugueu-x=, =-se= (-gheû, -z), _adj._, rugose, rough, uneven; wrinkled.

=ruilée=, _n.f._, (arch.) verge.

=ruine=, _n.f._, ruin, decay; overthrow, destruction, downfall;

desolation. _Tomber en —s_; to fall to, to crumble to, ruins. _Tomber en

—_; to run to ruin. _Courir à sa —_; to go to one’s ruin; to go to wrack

and ruin. _Cet édifice menace —_; this building is falling to ruins.

_Sortir de ses —s_; to rise from its ruins (of towns, etc.). _Battre en

—_; (milit.) to batter down.

=ruiné=, =-e=, _adj._, ruined. _Son crédit est —_; his crédit is gone.

_Un tempérament —_; a worn-out constitution.

=ruiner=, _v.a._, to ruin, to lay waste; to spoil; to undo, to overthrow,

to destroy. _— un cheval_; to spoil a horse.

_se_ =ruiner=, _v.r._, to decay; to fall into decay; to ruin one’s self;

to be ruined, spoilt.

=ruineu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, falling to ruin; ruinous.

=ruinure=, _n.f._, (carp.) bearing.

=ruisseau=, _n.m._, brook, stream, rivulet; gutter, street kennel. _Petit

—_; rivulet, brook, streamlet, rill.

=ruisselant=, =-e= (rui-slān, -t), _adj._, streaming, running down,

dripping.

=ruisseler= (rui-slé), _v.n._, to gush, to stream; to trickle, to trickle

down, to run down.

☉=ruisselet= (rui-slè), _n.m._, rivulet, brooklet.

=rum=, _n.m._ _V._ =rhum=.

=rumb= (romb), _n.m._, (nav.) rhumb, rhomb.

=rumen= (-mè-n), _n.m._, rumen, paunch.

=rumeur=, _n.f._, rumor, report; clamor, uproar, noise.

=ruminant=, =-e=, _adj._, ruminant, ruminating.

=ruminant=, _n.m._, (mam.) ruminant.

=rumination=, _n.f._, rumination, chewing the cud.

=ruminer=, _v.n._, to ruminate, to chew the cud; (fig.) to muse on, to

ponder over, to think over.

=ruminer=, _v.a._, to ruminate; to think over, to muse over. _Que

ruminez-vous là?_ what are you thinking about _or_ turning over in your

mind?

=runes=, _n.f.pl._, runes, runic characters.

=runique=, _adj._, runic.

=rupture=, _n.f._, breaking, rupture, breaking off; (fig.) complete

separation (between two persons); bursting; (med.) rupture, hernia;

fracture; (paint.) mixing of colors. _La — d’un os_; the fracture of a

bone. _La — d’un tendon_; the rupture of a sinew. _La — d’un mariage_;

the breaking off of a match. _En — de ban_; escaped from banishment. _Ils

en sont venus à une —_; all is at end between them.

=rural=, =-e=, _adj._, rural.

=ruse=, _n.f._, artifice, wile, deceit, craft, ruse, cunning, trick;

(hunt.) double. _User de —s_; to practice deceit. _— de guerre_;

stratagem of war.

=rusé=, =-e=, _adj._, artful, deceitful, cunning, crafty, sly, subtle,

designing. _Un — matois_; a knowing card. _Avoir l’air —_; to look

cunning.

=ruser=, _v.n._, to use deceit, craft, guile, artifice, cunning; (hunt.)

to double.

=russe=, _n.m.f._ and _adj._, Russian.

=rustaud=, =-e=, _adj._, (fam.) boorish, rustic, coarse, uncouth.

=rustaud=, _n.m._, (fam.) rustic; clod-hopper.

=rustaudement= (-tô-dmān), _adv._, (fam.). _V._ =rustiquement=.

=rustauderie= (-tô-drî), _n.f._ (fam.). _V._ =rusticité=.

=rusticité=, _n.f._, rusticity, clownishness, churlishness, uncouthness.

=rustique=, _adj._, rural, rustic, country; artless, boorish. _Vie

—_; country life. _Manières —s_; rustic manners. _Langage —_; boorish

language.

=rustique=, _n.m._, (arch.) rustic order.

=rustiquement= (-tik-mān), _adv._, rustically, rudely, clownishly,

boorishly, uncouthly.

=rustiquer=, _v.a._, (arch.) to rough-cast, to jag out.

=rustre=, _n.m._ and _adj._, boor, clown, churl, clodhopper; boorish,

clownish, rude.

=rusturer=, _v.a._ _V._ =rouster=.

=rut= (rut), _n.m._, rut (of deer). _Être en —_; to rut.

=rutabaga=, _n.m._, (agri.) Swedish turnip, rutabaga.

=rutilant=, =-e=, _adj._, rutilant, shining, brilliant.

=rutiler=, _v.n._, to shine, to rutilate.

=rutoir=, _n.m._, (manu.) retting-pit; retting-pond.

=ryott=, _n.m._, ryot (in India).

=rythme=, _n.m._, rhythm.

=rythmique=, _adj._, rhythmical.

S

=s= (èss), _n.f._, (se), _n.m._, the nineteenth letter of the alphabet,

s. [S is added for the sake of euphony to the second pers. sing. of the

imperative of verbs of the first conjugation before _y_, as: _vas-y_; go

there; and also before _en_, as: _donnes-en_; give some.] _Faire des S_;

to reel about, to stagger (like a drunken man).

=s’=, contraction of _se_.

=sa=, _adj.f._, his, her, one’s, its. _V._ =son=.

=sabbat=, _n.m._, Sabbath, seventh day of the week among the Jews;

Sabbath (sabbatic year), nocturnal meeting _or_ nightly revels (of

witches); racket, uproar, tumult, scolding. _— de chats_; caterwauling.

_Faire un —_; to kick up a shindy. _Faire un beau — à quelqu’un_; to

scold any one well.

=sabbataire=, _n.m._, Sabbatarian; Seventh-day Baptist.

=sabbatique=, _adj._, sabbatical (of years).

=sabbatisme=, _n.m._, sabbatism.

=sabéen= (-in), _adj._, sabian.

=sabéisme= _or_ =sabaïsme=, _n.m._, Sabaism.

=sabin=, =-e=, _n.m.f._, Sabine man _or_ woman.

=sabine=, _n.f._, (bot.) savin.

=sabisme=, _n.m._, Sabaism.

=sable=, _n.m._, sand; gravel, ballast; (l.u.) hour-glass; (her.) sable.

=sablé=, =-e=, _adj._, laid with sand, sanded. _Allée —e_; gravel-walk

_or_ path.

=sabler=, _v.a._, to gravel, to sand, to cover with sand _or_ gravel; to

drink off. _— un verre de vin_; to toss off a glass of wine.

=sableu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, sandy.

=sablier=, _n.m._, sand-glass; hour-glass; sand-man, dealer in sand;

(nav.) glass; sand-box; (bot.) sand-box.

=sablière=, _n.f._, sand-pit, gravel-pit; (carp.) raising-piece; (arch.)

wall-plate; torsel.

=sablon=, _n.m._, fine sand, scouring sand.

=sablonner=, _v.a._, to sand, to scour with sand.

=sablonneu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, sandy, graveled; gritty.

=sablonnier=, _n.m._, dealer in sand.

=sablonnière=, _n.f._, sand-pit, gravel-pit.

=sabord=, _n.m._, (nav.) port, port-hole, gun-port.

=sabordement=, _n.m._, (nav.) scuttling.

=saborder=, _v.a._, (nav.) to scuttle.

=sabot=, _n.m._, sabot, wooden shoe, horse’s hoof, clog; shoe (of

carriages); (conch.) turban, turban-shell; socket (of furniture); top

(plaything); sorry fiddle; (of ships) old tub. _Dormir comme un —_; to

sleep like a top.

=saboter=, _v.n._, to whip a top; to clatter with one’s shoes. _v.a._, to

arm the end of a stake with an iron socket; (pop.) to bungle, to botch.

=saboteur=, _n.m._, bungler.

=sabotier= (-tié), _n.m._, clog maker, wearer _or_ maker of wooden shoes,

wooden shoe-maker.

=sabotière=, _n.f._, wooden-shoe shop; dance of people (in wooden shoes).

=sabouler=, _v.a._, (pop.) to push about, to jostle, to hustle; to scold,

to rate, to bully.

=sabre=, _n.m._, saber; broadsword. _— baïonnette_; rifle-sword,

sword-bayonet. _— poignard_; dirk, saber-poniard.

☉=sabrenas=, _n.m._, cobbler; bungler.

☉=sabrenasser=, _v.a._ _V._ =sabrenauder=.

☉=sabrenauder=, _v.a._, to cobble, to botch, to bungle.

=sabrer=, _v.a._, to strike _or_ cut with a saber, to saber; to hurry

over, to botch, to bungle. _— une affaire_; to hurry over any business.

=sabretache=, _n.f._, (milit.) sabretache.

=sabreur=, _n.m._, (fam.) brave soldier, hard fighter, swash-buckler;

(fig.) bungler, botcher. _Beau —_; dashing soldier (cavalry).

☉=sabuleu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, gritty.

=saburral=, =-e=, _adj._, (med.) saburral.

=saburre=, _n.f._, (med.) indigestion, foulness of the stomach.

=sac=, _n.m._, sack, bag; knapsack; sackcloth; poke-net; (surg.) sac;

bag, pouch (of certain animals); plunder, sack, sacking, pillage,

ransacking. _— de nuit_; carpet-bag. _— à ouvrage_; work-bag. _Homme de

— et de corde_; Newgate-bird. _— à vin_; drunkard. _— à papier!_ zounds!

hang it! bless me! _Cul-de-—_, (_—s-—_) blind alley. _Mettre quelqu’un

au —_; to nonplus any one. _Tirer d’un — deux moutures_; to take double

fees. _Voir le fond du —_; to sift an affair to the bottom. _Prendre

quelqu’un la main dans le —_; to catch any one in the very act, _or_

red-handed. _— de blé_; sack of wheat. _— de procès_; lawyer’s bag.

_Donner communication de son —_; (jur.) to communicate papers. _Être dans

le —_; to be in a fair way (to succeed). _Remplir son —_; (fam., pop.) to

fill one’s belly. _Donner à quelqu’un son —_; to send any one about his

business, to give any one the sack. _Dans les petites —s sont les fines

épices_; small parcels hold fine wares. _Vider son —_; to exhaust one’s

budget, to have one’s say out. _Prendre son — et ses quilles_; to pack

off, bag and baggage. _Mettre une ville à —_; to plunder, to sack a town.

_Juger sur l’étiquette du —_; to judge by appearances.

=saccade=, _n.f._, (man.) saccade, jerk (with a bridle); check, rebuke,

reproof, reprimand; scolding, rating; (fig.) sudden, brusque movement;

fit, start. _Par —s_; by fits and starts.

=saccadé=, =-e=, _part._, jerked, by jerks; broken, irregular. _Style —_;

abrupt style. _Phrases —es_; short, pithy sentences.

=saccader=, _v.a._, (man.) to jerk, to check.

=saccage=, _n.m._, havoc, confusion, jumble, confused heap.

=saccagement= (sa-kaj-mān), _n.m._, sack, sackage, sacking, pillaging,

ransacking, plunder.

=saccager=, _v.a._, to sack, to ransack, to pillage, to plunder; to throw

into confusion.

=saccageur=, _n.m._, plunderer; sacker, ravager.

=saccatier=, _n.m._, coal-heaver.

=saccellaire=, _n.m._, (Fr. Hist.) treasurer, keeper of the privy purse.

=saccharate= (sak-ka-), _n.m._, (chem.) saccharate. _— de chaux_;

saccharated solution of lime.

=sacchareu-x=, =-se= (sak-ka-), _adj._, saccharine.

=saccharifère= (sak-ka-), _adj._, sacchariferous.

=saccharimètre= (sak-ka-), _n.m._, saccharimeter, saccharometer.

=saccharin=, =-e= (sak-ka-), _adj._, saccharine.

=saccharique= (sak-ka-), _adj._, saccharic.

=saccharure= (sak-ka-), _n.m._, (pharm.) sugar of (certain chemicals). _—

d’aconit_; sugar of aconite.

=sacciforme= (sak-si-), _adj._, (bot.) bagged.

=sacerdoce=, _n.m._, priesthood.

=sacerdotal=, =-e=, _adj._, sacerdotal, priestly.

=sacerdotalisme=, _n.m._, sacerdotalism.

=sachée=, _n.f._, sackful, bagful.

=sachem= (sa-shèm), _n.m._, sachem (Indian chief).

=sachet=, _n.m._, satchel, little bag _or_ sack; scent-bag.

=sacoche=, _n.m._, saddle-bag; money-bag.

=sacramentaire=, _n.m._, sacramentarian.

=sacramental=, =-e=, _or_ =sacramentel=, =-le=, _adj._, sacramental.

_Mots sacramentaux_; decisive words.

=sacramentalement= (-tal-mān) _or_ =sacramentellement=, _adv._,

sacramentally.

=sacre=, _n.m._, anointing, coronation of a king; (orni.) saker; (fig.)

blackguard. _— d’un évêque_; consecration of a bishop.

=sacré=, =-e=, _adj._, sacred, inviolable; holy, consecrated, anointed,

crowned; (l.ex.) damned, cursed, confounded, blasted; (anat.) sacral.

=sacrebleu=, _int._, by Jove! confound it! dash it!

=sacrement=, _n.m._, sacrament; matrimony, marriage. _Saint —_; Holy

Sacrament; (c.rel.) Host; (c.rel.) monstrance. _Administrer les derniers

—s à quelqu’un_; to administer the last sacrament to any one. _Recevoir

le —_; to receive the sacrament, to take the sacrament. _Office du saint

—_; communion-service.

=sacrer=, _v.a._, to anoint, to crown, a king; to consecrate a bishop.

=sacrer=, _v.n._, to curse, to swear.

=sacret=, _n.m._, (hawking) sakeret.

=sacrificateur=, _n.m._, sacrificer. _Souverain —_; high-priest.

=sacrificatoire=, _adj._, sacrificial.

=sacrificature=, _n.f._, office of sacrificer.

=sacrifice=, _n.m._, sacrifice, offering, peace-offering. _— d’actions de

grâces_, _— de louange_; (Bibl.) thanksgiving.

=sacrifier=, _v.a._, to sacrifice, to make offerings; to immolate; to

devote (time to a thing). _— des victimes_; to sacrifice victims. _— tout

à ses intérêts_; to sacrifice everything to one’s interest.

=sacrifier=, _v.n._, to sacrifice.

=sacrilège=, _n.m._, sacrilege.

=sacrilège=, _n.m.f._ and _adj._, sacrilegist, sacrilegious person;

sacrilegious.

=sacrilègement= (-lèj-mān), _adv._, sacrilegiously.

=sacripant=, _n.m._, hector, bully, swaggerer; scoundrel, blackguard.

=sacristain=, _n.m._, sexton; sacristan, vestry-keeper.

=sacristie=, _n.f._, sacristy, vestry, vestry-room; audit-house (of

cathedrals); church-plate, sacred vases, etc.; church fees.

=sacristine=, _n.f._, vestry-nun.

=sacro=, _adj. invariable_, (rel.) holy. _—-saint_; very, doubly holy;

(anat.) sacro.

=sacrum=, _n.m._, (anat.) sacrum. _Os —_; sacrum, sacral bone.

=saducéen= (-cé-in), =-ne= (-cé-è-n), _n._ and _adj._, Sadducee;

Sadducean.

=saducéisme=, _n.m._, Sadducism.

☉=saette=, _n.f._ _V._ =sagette=.

=safran=, _n.m._ (bot.) saffron; crocus. _— bâtard_; meadow-saffron,

mock-saffron, bastard-saffron, safflower. _— de gouvernail_; (nav.)

after-piece of a rudder.

=safrané=, =-e=, _adj._, saffron, saffroned; yellow.

=safraner=, _v.a._, to saffron.

=safranière=, _n.f._, saffron-plantation.

=safranum= (-nom), _n.m._, (chem.) safflower.

☉=safre=, _adj._, (pop.) greedy, gluttonous.

=safre=, _n.m._, (chem.) zaffre, zaffer.

=saga=, _n.f._, saga (legend of the northern nations of Europe).

=sagace=, _adj._, sagacious, acute, shrewd.

=sagacité=, _n.f._, sagacity, sagaciousness, quickness, acuteness,

shrewdness.

=sagamore=, _n.m._, sagamore (Indian chief).

=sage=, _adj._, sage, wise, sensible, wary, rational, discreet,

judicious, prudent; cool, sober, staid, well-behaved, steady, virtuous,

modest; quiet, gentle. _Des lois —s_; wise laws. _Conduite —_; steady,

prudent conduct. _— politique_; wise policy. _Être —_; (of children) to

be good, to be well-behaved. _Femme —_; virtuous woman.

=sage=, _n.m._, wise man, sage.

=sage-femme=, _n.f._, (_—s-—s_), midwife.

=sagement= (saj-mān), _adv._, sagely, wisely, prudently, discreetly,

judiciously, warily, soberly, steadily.

=sagesse=, _n.f._, wisdom; moderation, discretion, prudence; steadiness,

sobriety, chastity; goodness; good behavior (of children); gentleness (of

animals).

☉=sagette= _or_ =saette=, _n.f._, arrow; (bot.) arrow-head;

adder’s-tongue.

=sagination=, _n.f._, fattening.

=sagine=, _n.f._, (bot.) pearl-grass, pearl-wort.

=sagittaire=, _n.m._, (astron.) Sagittarius.

=sagittaire=, _n.f._, (bot.) arrow-head, adder’s tongue.

=sagittale=, _adj.f._, (anat.) sagittal.

=sagitté=, =-e=, _adj._, (bot.) sagittate, arrow-headed, arrow-shaped.

=sagou=, _n.m._, sago.

=sagouier= _or_ =sagoutier=, _n.m._, (bot.) sago-tree.

=sagouin=, _n.m._, =-e=, _n.f._, (mam.) sagoin, squirrel-monkey; slovenly

fellow, slovenly woman.

=s a i=, initial letters of _Son Altesse Impériale_, His _or_ Her

Imperial Highness.

=saie=, _n.f._, (antiq.) sagum (tunic, cloak); brush (used by

goldsmiths); a light kind of serge.

=saietter=, _v.a._, to brush.

*=saignant=, =-e=, _adj._, bleeding, bloody; nearly raw, underdone (of

meat).

*=saignée=, _n.f._, (surg.) phlebotomy, bleeding, blood-letting; small

of the arm; trench (for draining); (fig.) heavy payment, expense; drain.

*=saignement= (-mān), _n.m._, bleeding. _— de nez_; bleeding at the nose.

*=saigner=, _v.a._, to bleed, to draw out blood; (cook.) to kill, to

stick; to drain; to get money out of, to bleed any one.

_se_ *=saigner=, _v.r._, to bleed one’s self, to drain one’s self; to

make a sacrifice.

*=saigner=, _v.n._, to bleed. _Je saigne du nez_; I am bleeding at the

nose. _— du nez_; (fig.) to show the white feather, to lack courage. _Le

cœur m’en saigne_; it cuts me to the heart.

*=saigneur=, _n.m._, (fam., l.u.) bleeder, blood-letter.

*=saigneu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, bloody. _Bout —_; scrag end, neck (of lamb,

mutton, veal).

*=saillant=, =-e=, _adj._, jutting out, projecting; striking, forcible,

remarkable; (her.) salient.

*=saillant=, _n.m._, (fort.) the salient angle of any out-work.

*=saille!= _archaic 2d pers. sing. of the imperative of the verb

saillir_, (nav.) haul! (word of command).

*=saillie=, _n.f._, jutting out, projecture; prominence, protuberance;

start, sudden gush, spurt, sudden fit, sally; flash of wit, witticism;

(arch.) rabbet, ledge; (of a steam-engine) spindle.

*=saillir=, _v.n._, (_irregular_) (arch.) to project, to jut, to jut

out, to stand out, to protrude, to rabbet; (paint.) to stand out. _Faire

—_; to bring out; to bring into prominence; to show up. _Qui saille_;

prominent. _Cette corniche saille trop_; that cornice projects too much.

*=saillir=, _v.a._, (_regular_) (of animals) to leap, to cover, to serve.

*=saillir=, _v.n._, (_regular_) to gush, to spout out (of liquids). _V._

=jaillir=, which is much more generally used.

=sain=, =-e=, _adj._, sound, hale, healthy, sane, wholesome; (nav.)

clear. _— de corps et d’esprit_; sound in body and mind. _Revenir —

et sauf_; to return safe and sound. _Jugement —_; sound, judgment.

_Nourriture —e_; wholesome food.

=sainbois=, _n.m._, (bot.) spurge-flax. _V._ =garou=.

=saindoux=, _n.m._, lard.

=sainement= (sè-n-mān), _adv._, soundly, rationally, judiciously,

healthily, wholesomely.

=sainfoin=, _n.m._, (bot.) sainfoin.

=saint=, =-e=, _adj._, holy, sacred, godly, sainted; sanctified;

consecrated, saintly. _— homme_; godly man. _L’Ecriture —e_; Holy-Writ.

_La semaine —e_; holy-week. _Le vendredi —_; Good-Friday. _La —-Jean_;

Midsummer. _La —-Martin_; Martinmas-day. _Le —-siège_; the holy see.

_—-père_; holy father, the Pope. _Le —-Esprit_, _l’Esprit-—_; the

Holy Ghost, the Holy Spirit. _Le —-empire romain_, _le —-empire_;

(formerly) the German empire. _—-office_; the holy-office (a name for

the Inquisition). _Mal —-Jean_, _mal de —_; falling sickness. _Rendre

—_; to sanctify. _Lieu —_; sanctuary. _Terre —e_; consecrated ground;

Holy Land. _Feu —-Antoine_; Saint Anthony’s fire, erysipelas. _La —e

journée_; the blessed, _or_ the whole, day. _Tout le — Frusquin_; (pop.)

the whole bally lot (of clothes). [Saint is written with a capital letter

and joined to the following name by a hyphen, when such name does not

designate a saint: _la Saint-Jean_; Midsummer.]

=saint=, _n.m._, =-e=, _n.f._, saint, patron saint, patron. _— d’une

ville_; patron saint of a town. _Mettre au nombre des —s_; to canonize.

_Il ne sait à quel — se vouer_; he does not know which way to turn. _Le —

des —s_; the holy of holies.

=saint-augustin=, _n.m._, (_n.p._) Saint Augustine; (print.) English.

=sainte-barbe=, _n.f._, (_—_) (nav.) powder-magazine, gun-room. _Collège

—_; (in Paris).

=saintement= (sint-mān), _adv._, holily, sacredly; righteously, piously,

religiously.

=sainte nitouche=, _n.f._, (_n.p._) a sanctimonious-looking person.

_Faire la — —_; to sham Abraham.

=sainte-pélagie=, _n.f._, (formerly) debtor’s prison; the French

“Marshalsea”; (now) a political prison.

=sainteté= (sint-té), _n.f._, holiness, sanctity, sacredness,

saintliness; godliness, righteousness; Holiness (the pope); (b.s.)

saintship.

=saint-germain=, _n.m._, (_—_) (hort.) Saint Germain (a kind of pear).

=saint-simonien=, _n.m._ =-ne=, _n.f._, (_—-—s_) Saint-Simonian.

=saint-simoniser=, _v.a._, to convert (to the doctrines of) (used by de

Balzac).

=saint-simonisme=, _n.m._, (_n.p._) Saint-Simonianism (system of the

Count of Saint-Simon).

=saïque=, _n.f._, (nav.) saic.

=saisi=, =-e=, _adj._, seized, possessed, struck, impressed. _Être —

d’une affaire_; to be made cognizant with; to be called upon to look

into, to examine; (jur.) distrained.

=saisi=, _n.m._, (jur.) person distrained.

=saisie=, _n.f._, seizure, distress, distraint, execution. _—

immobilière_; distress on real property. _— mobilière_; distress on

movable goods, distress on personal property.

=saisie-arrêt=, _n.f._, (_—s-—_) (jur.) attachment; garnishment (in

London).

=saisie-brandon=, _n.f._, (_—s-—_) (jur.) execution on growing crops.

=saisie-exécution=, _n.f._, (_—s-—_) (jur.) execution; distress.

=saisie-gagerie=, _n.f._, (_—s-—_) (jur.) execution by way of security

(for house-rent).

=saisie-revendication=, _n.f._, (_—s-—_) (jur.) attachant of goods

claimed (pending litigation).

=saisine=, _n.f._, (jur.) seizin; (nav.) gripe, lashing.

=saisir=, _v.a._, to seize, to seize upon, to catch, to lay hold of,

to catch hold of, to get hold of, to take, to take hold of; to strike,

to come upon, to impress, to shock, to startle; to embrace, to avail

one’s self of; to understand, to perceive, to discern, to comprehend; to

attack; to make cognizant of, to lay before; (jur.) to distrain; (jur.)

to vest; (jur.) to attach. _— quelqu’un au collet_; to collar any one. _—

l’occasion_; to seize the opportunity. _— un prétexte_; to avail one’s

self of an excuse. _La peur les a saisis_; they were struck with fear. _—

un tribunal d’une affaire_; to lay (an affair) before a court, to bring

before a court of justice.

_se_ =saisir=, _v.r._, to seize, to catch hold (of), to lay hold (of),

to grasp; to take possession, to take cognizance (of); to arrest, to

apprehend. _Saisi du vol_; (of a thief) with the stolen goods upon him.

=saisir-arrêter=, _v.a._, (jur.) to attach; (in London) to garnish.

=saisir-exécuter=, _v.a._, (jur.) to distrain.

=saisissable=, _adj._, distrainable, seizable; attachable.

=saisissant=, =-e=, _adj._, (of cold) keen, sharp, piercing; striking,

thrilling, startling, impressive.

=saisissant=, =-e=, _n._ and _adj._, (jur.) distrainer.

=saisissement= (-zis-mān), _n.m._, shock, chill, violent impression,

pang; (of criminals) pinioning.

=saison=, _n.f._, season, weather; proper time, moment. _Arrière-—_,

(_—-—s_) latter end of autumn; (fig.) aftermath. _La — est avancée_; the

season is forward. _Morte-—_, (_—s-—s_) (com.) dull, dead season. _Morte

—_; winter. _En temps et en —_; in due season. _Être en pleine —_; to be

in their prime (of flowers and fruits). _Ces mets ne sont plus de —_;

those dishes are out of season. _De —_; in season. _Marchand des quatre

—s_; costermonger, hawker.

=salace=, _adj._, salacious.

=salacité=, _n.f._, salaciousness, salacity.

=salade=, _n.f._, salad, salading; mess (for horses); sallet (kind of

helmet). _Retourner_, _fatiguer_, _la —_; to mix the salad.

=saladier=, _n.m._, salad-dish, salad-bowl.

=salage=, _n.m._, salting.

=salaire=, _n.m._, wages, pay, hire; recompense, reward, retribution,

punishment. _Toute peine mérite —_; the laborer is worthy of his hire.

=salaison=, _n.f._, salting; salt-provision.

=salamalec=, _n.m._, (jest.) low bow, salaam.

=salamandre=, _n.f._, salamander, fire-eater.

=salangane=, _n.f._, (orni.) esculent swallow.

=salant=, _adj._, salt; saline. _Marais —_; salt-marsh.

=salarié=, =-e=, _n._ and _part._, salaried person; hireling; placeman;

paid.

=salarier=, _v.a._, to pay; to give wages, _or_ a salary, _or_ a stipend,

to.

=salaud=, =-e=, _n._ and _adj._, sloven, dirty fellow; dirty woman, slut;

slovenly, sluttish.

=sale=, _adj._ and _n.m.f._, dirty, nasty, foul; soiled; filthy, low,

coarse, dirty person; sloven. _Vaisseau —_; (nav.) foul ship; (of colors)

dull.

=salé=, _n.m._, salt-pork. _Du petit —_; pork newly-salted; pickled pork.

=salé=, =-e=, _adj._, salted, salt, briny; keen, pungent, biting;

loose, coarse, broad. _Un peu —_; saltish. _Sources —es_; salt-springs.

_Raillerie —e_; biting raillery. _Un propos —_; a coarse remark.

=salement= (sal-mān), _adv._, dirtily, nastily, filthily; (fig.) in a

slovenly manner.

=salep= (sa-lèp), _n.m._, salep.

=saler=, _v.a._, to salt, to salt down; to corn (beef); to overcharge, to

lay it on stiff for (goods); to fleece (customers).

_se_ =saler=, _v.r._, to be salted (of anything).

=saleron= (sal-ron), _n.m._, bowl of a salt-cellar.

=saleté= (sal-té), _n.f._, dirt, soil, dirtiness, nastiness, filthiness;

filth, dirty rubbish; dirty thing; dirty trick; coarseness, ribaldry,

obscenity.

=saleur=, _n.m._, salter, curer.

=salicaire=, _n.f._, salicaria; purple willow.

=salicole=, _adj._, salicultural.

=salicoque=, _n.f._, prawn.

=salicor=, _n.m._, _or_ =salicorne=, _n.f._, (bot.) glasswort, saltwort.

☉=salicot=, _n.m._ _V._ =salicoque=.

=salicotte=, _n.f._, (bot.) saltwort.

=saliculture=, _n.f._, saliculture.

=salière=, _n.f._, salt-cellar; salt-box; eye-pit (of horses); hollow

behind the collar-bone (of persons).

=salifère=, _adj._, saliferous.

=salifiable=, _adj._, (chem.) salifiable.

=salification=, _n.f._, (chem.) salification.

=salifier=, _v.a._, to salify.

=saligaud=, _n.m._, =-e=, _n.f._, (pop.) dirty person; dirty thing;

sloven; slut.

*=salignon=, _n.m._, salt-cat.

=saligot=, _n.m._, (bot.) water-caltrop.

=salin=, =-e=, _adj._, saline, briny.

=salin=, _n.m._, salt-marsh; raw salt; brine-pan; salt-works.

=saline=, _n.f._, salt provisions, salt fish; salt-mine, salt-works,

salt-pit, brine-pit.

=salinier=, _n.m._, the owner and worker of salt-works.

=salique=, _adj._, salic. _Loi —_; salic law.

=salir=, _v.a._, to dirt, to dirty, to soil, to stain, to foul, to taint,

to sully, to tarnish, to disgrace.

_se_ =salir=, _v.r._, to dirty one’s self; to get dirty; to soil; to

sully one’s reputation, to disgrace one’s self.

=salissant=, =-e=, _adj._, soiling, that soils, that gets dirty.

=salisson=, _n.f._, (pop.) young slut.

=salissure=, _n.f._, spot of dirt; soil, stain.

=salivaire=, _adj._, (anat.) salivary.

=salivation=, _n.f._, (med.) salivation.

=salive=, _n.f._, saliva; spittle.

=saliver=, _v.n._, to spit; to salivate.

=salle=, _n.f._, hall, room; ward (in hospitals); (thea.) house; arbor

(of gardens). _— à manger_; dining-room. _La — du commun_; the servants’

hall. _— d’audience_; audience-chamber. _— de spectacle_; play-house. _—

de billard_; billiard-room. _— d’armes_; fencing-school, school of arms,

armory. _— de danse_; dancing-room, dancing-school. _— de verdure_; green

arbor. _— d’asile_; infant-school. _— des festins_; banqueting-hall. _—

d’étude_; study, school-room. _— de police_; (mil.) guard-room. _— du

rapport_; orderly-room. _— de récréation_; play-room. _— de réunion_;

assembly-room. _— du conseil_; council-chamber. _— pleine_, or _comble_;

crowded house; house-full, full house.

=salmigondis=, _n.m._, (cook.) hotch-potch, resurrection pie; medley,

farrago.

=salmis=, _n.m._, ragout of game (previously roasted).

=saloir=, _n.m._, salt-box; salting-tub.

=salon=, _n.m._, drawing-room; saloon, parlor; exhibition (of paintings,

of works of art). _pl._, fashionable world; fashionable circles. _Petit

—_; small drawing-room. _Fréquenter les —s_; to be a man of fashion.

=salope=, _n._ and _adj._ _f._, slut; disorderly woman; slovenly,

sluttish. _C’est une vraie —_; she is a perfect slut. _Marie-—_;

(_—s-—s_) mud-boat.

=salopement= (-lop-mān), _adv._, (pop.) sluttishly, dirtily.

=saloperie= (-lo-prî), _n.f._, slovenliness, sluttishness; coarse

language, ribaldry; beastliness, filth.

=salorge=, _n.m._, loaf of salt.

=salpêtrage=, _n.m._, nitrification; saltpeter-making.

=salpêtre=, _n.m._, saltpeter. _Ce n’est que du —_; he fires up, _or_ he

takes fire, at the least thing; (fig.) hastiness; fire, vivacity.

=salpêtrer=, _v.a._, to throw saltpeter (over a space of ground); to

nitrify (a wall); to throw out, to produce, saltpeter.

_se_ =salpêtrer=, _v.r._, to nitrify, to be covered with saltpeter (of

walls).

=salpêtrerie=, _n.f._, saltpeter-works.

=salpêtreu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, saltpetrous.

=salpêtrier=, _n.m._, saltpeter-maker.

=salpêtrière=, _n.f._, saltpeter-works. _La Salpêtrière_; asylum for

women.

*=salsepareille=, _n.f._, sarsaparilla.

=salsifis= (-fi), _n.m._, (bot.) salsify. _— sauvage_, _— des prés_;

goat’s-beard. _— noir_, _— d’Espagne_; viper’s-grass.

=saltarelle=, _n.f._, saltarella, Italian dance.

=saltation=, _n.f._, saltation.

=saltimbanque=, _n.m._, mountebank, clown, buffoon; humbug, quack.

=salubre=, _adj._, salubrious, wholesome, healthful, healthy.

=salubrité=, _n.f._, salubrity, salubriousness, healthfulness,

wholesomeness. _Conseil de —_; board of health. _Inspecteur de —_;

sanitary inspector.

=saluer=, _v.a._, to salute, to bow to; to hail, to greet; to cheer; to

proclaim. _— la compagnie_; to bow to the company. _Je vous salue_, _j’ai

l’honneur de vous —_; (in letters) your servant, your humble servant. _—

le soleil_; to hail the sun. _Saluez-le de ma part_; remember me to him.

_— empereur_, or _roi_; to proclaim emperor, _or_ king. _— de onze coups

de canon_; to fire a salute of eleven guns (in honor of).

_se_ =saluer=, _v.r._, to bow to, to salute, each other.

=salure=, _n.f._, saltness, brine.

=salut=, _n.m._, safety; (rel.) salvation; salute, bow; welfare,

preservation, escape, hope _or_ chance of success; salutation; hail;

(c.rel.) benediction (after even song). _Il a cherché un — dans la

fuite_; he sought safety in flight. _Un profond —_; a low bow. _Léger —_;

nod; (nav., milit.) salute. _int._, _—!_ hail! greeting! _À bon entendeur

—!_ a word to the wise is enough.

=salutaire=, _adj._, salutary, wholesome, advantageous, beneficial.

=salutairement= (-tèr-mān), _adv._, salutarily, beneficially.

=salutation=, _n.f._, salutation, _pl._, compliments; salute; bow.

_Recevez mes —s empressées_; yours very truly (in letters).

☉=salvage=, _n.m._ _V._ =sauvetage=.

=salvanos= (-nôs), _n.m._, (_—_) (nav.) life-buoy.

☉=salvations=, _n.f._, (jur.) rejoinder.

=salve=, _n.f._, (artil.) salute, volley. _Une — d’applaudissements_; a

round of applause.

=salvé=, _n.m._, (_—_) (c.rel.) Salve Regina.

=samaritain= (-tin), =-e= (-tè-n), _n._ and _adj._; Samaritan.

=samedi= (sa-m-di), _n.m._, Saturday. _— saint_; Easter-eve.

=samscrit=, =-e=, _adj._ _V._ =sanscrit=.

=san-benito=, _n.m._, (_—_) san benito.

=sancir=, _v.n._, (nav.) to founder, to sink (by the bows).

=sanctifiant=, =-e=, _adj._, sanctifying.

=sanctificateur=, _n.m._, sanctifier, _adj._ sanctifying.

=sanctification=, _n.f._, sanctification, holy-keeping.

=sanctifier=, _v.a._, to sanctify, to make holy, to keep holy, to hallow.

=sanction=, _n.f._, sanction; approbation; assent (of parliament).

=sanctionner=, _v.a._, to sanction.

=sanctuaire=, _n.m._, sanctuary; (of the temple at Jerusalem) holy of

holies; (of churches) chancel, altar; (fig.) church.

=sandal= _or_ =santal=, _n.m._, sandal-wood, sandal.

=sandale=, _n.f._, sandal; fencing-shoe.

=sandalier=, _n.m._, sandal-maker.

=sandaraque=, _n.f._, (bot.) sandarac, pounce.

=sandjak=, =sandjiak=, _or_ =sandjiakat=, _n.m._ _V._ =sangiac=.

=sandwich= (-ooitch), _n.m._, sandwich.

=sang=, _n.m._, blood; race, parentage, relationship, kindred, race. _Un

homme de —_; a blood-thirsty man. _Coup de —_; stroke, apoplectic fit.

_Pur —_; thoroughbred. _Demi —_; halfbred. _Mettre à feu et à —_; to put

to fire and sword. _Suer — et eau_; to toil and moil _or_ to strain every

nerve. _Se battre au premier —_; to fight till the first blood is drawn.

_Cela glace le —_; that curdles one’s blood. _Cela est dans le —_; that

runs in the blood. _Se faire du bon —_; (fam.) to amuse one’s self, to

have a jolly time (of it). _Se faire du mauvais —_; to fret, to worry.

_Bon — ne peut mentir_; good breeding will assert itself. _Son — n’a fait

qu’un tour_; he was struck all of a heap.

=sang-de-dragon=, _n.m._ (_—_) (bot.) dragon’s-blood.

=sang-froid=, _n.m._, (_n.p._) coolness, composure, sang-froid, presence

of mind. _De —_; in cold blood; with composure; soberminded. _Perdre son

—_; to lose one’s presence of mind.

=sangiac= _or_ =sangiacat=, _n.m._, sangiac; district, province; governor

(in Turkey).

=sanglade=, _n.f._, lash, cut (with a whip).

=sanglant=, =-e=, _adj._, bloody, covered with blood; outrageous, gross;

keen, biting, cutting. _Affront —_; outrageous affront.

=sangle=, _n.f._, strap, band, belt; girth (of saddles). _Lit de —_;

cross, _or_ folding, bedstead.

=sanglé=, =-e=, _adj._, strapped; (fig.) ill-treated, cut up; tight,

tight-fitting.

=sangler=, _v.a._, to bind with a girth, to girth, to strap, to gird; to

tighten, to lash, to beat. _— un coup de poing_; to deal a blow. _Avoir

été sanglé_; to have been beaten, ill-used; (fig.) cut up.

_se_ =sangler=, _v.r._, to lace one’s self tightly; (fig.) to stint, _or_

pinch, one’s self.

=sanglier=, _n.m._, wild boar. _— de mer_; sea-hog, boar-fish.

=sanglot=, _n.m._, sob. _pl._, sobbing, moaning (of the sea: V. Hugo).

_—s entre-coupés_; broken sobs.

=sangloter=, _v.n._, to sob.

=sangsue= (san-sû), _n.f._, leech; (fig.) blood-sucker, extortioner.

=sanguification= (-gu-i-), _n.f._, sanguification.

=sanguifier= (-gu-i-), _v.a._, to sanguify.

_se_ =sanguifier=, _v.r._, to sanguify.

=sanguin=, =-e= (-ghīn, -ghi-n), _adj._, of blood, full-blooded;

sanguineous, blood-colored, blood-red. _Vaisseau —_; blood-vessel.

=sanguinaire= (-ghi-), _adj._, sanguinary, bloody, murderous,

bloodthirsty.

=sanguinaire=, _n.f._, (bot.) bloodwort.

=sanguine= (-ghi-n), _n.f._, red chalk, blood-stone.

=sanguinelle= (-ghi-), _n.f._, (bot.) gatter-tree.

=sanguinolent=, =-e= (-ghi-), _adj._, (med.) tinged with blood.

=sanhédrin=, _n.m._, sanhedrim.

=sanicle=, _n.f._, (bot.) sanicle.

=sanie=, _n.f._, (med.) sanies.

=sanieu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, sanious.

=sanitaire=, _adj._, sanitary.

=sans=, _prep._, without; free from; but for, had it not been for, were

it not for. _— amis_; friendless. _— doute_; without doubt. _— cela_;

were it not for that _or_ else. _— quoi_; otherwise _or_ else, without

that. _— y penser_; unawares, unthinkingly. _— peur_; fearless. _— le

sou_; penniless. _Cela va — dire_; of course, as a matter of course.

=sans-cœur=, _adj._ and _n.m.f._, (pop.) heartless; unfeeling person _or_

wretch.

=sanscrit=, _n.m._, Sanscrit (language).

=sanscrit=, =-e=, _adj._, Sanscrit.

=sans-culotte=, _n.m._, (_—-—s_) ragged fellow; sans-culotte;

ultra-violent republican.

=sans-culottides=, _n.f.pl._, the five supernumerary days to complete the

year in the calendar of the first French republic; _also_, the festivals

held during those days.

=sans-dents=, _n.f._, (_—-—s_) toothless old woman.

=sans-façon=, _n.m._, bluntness, off-handedness, familiarity.

=sans-fleur=, _n.f._, (_—-—s_) a sort of apple.

=sans-gêne=, _n.m._, unceremoniousness; impudence, coolness;

off-handedness.

=sansonnet=, _n.m._, (orni.) starling.

=sans-peau=, _n.f._, (_—_) summer-pear.

=sans que=, _conj._, without. _Il a passé — que je l’aie aperçu_; he

passed without my seeing him.

=sans-soin=, _adj._, careless. _n.m.f._, careless creature.

=sans-souci=, _n.m._, (_—_) careless, indifferent man, jolly fellow.

=sans-terre=, _adj._, Lackland. _Les —s_; the Lacklanders.

=santal=, _n.m._ _V._ =sandal=.

=santaline=, _n.f._, (chem.) santaline.

=santé=, _n.f._, health, healthiness; soundness; toast. _Comment va la

—?_ how is your health? how are you? _Maison de —_; private asylum.

_Bureau de —_; board of health. _Billet de —_; certificate of health.

_Boire à la — de quelqu’un_; to drink any one’s health. _Corps de —_;

medical staff. _Officier de —_; medical practitioner.

=santoline=, _n.f._, (bot.) santolina. [Sometimes, but improperly, used

for _santonine_, which see.]

=santon=, _n.m._, santon; a santon’s tomb (in Algeria).

=santonine=, _n.f._, (bot.) artemisia santonica; (chem.) santonin.

=sanve=, _n.f._, (bot.) charlock.

=saoul=, _adj._ _V._ =soûl=.

=saouler=, _v.a._ _V._ =soûler=.

=sapa=, _n.m._, (pharm.) grape-jelly, juice.

=sapajou=, _n.m._, (mam.) sapajou; (fig. pers.) monkey.

=sapan=, _n.m._, sapan-wood.

=sape=, _n.f._, (milit.) sap, sapping, mine, trench. _Aller à la —_;

(milit.) to sap.

=saper=, _v.a._, to sap, to undermine, to cut away, to shake.

=sapeur=, _n.m._, (milit.) sapper.

=saphène=, _n.f._, (anat.) saphena.

=saphique=, _n.m._ and _adj._, (Grec. poet.) sapphic.

=saphir=, _n.m._, sapphire.

=saphirine=, _n.f._, (min.) blue chalcedony.

=sapide=, _adj._, sapid, palatable.

=sapidité=, _n.f._, sapidity, sapidness, flavor.

=sapience=, _n.f._, ☉sapience, wisdom (theol.).

=sapientiaux=, _adj.m.pl._, (Bibl.) sapiential.

=sapin=, _n.m._, fir, fir-tree; spruce, deal; (pop.) hackney-coach.

_Sentir le —_; to have a foot in the grave. _Sa toux sent le —_; he has a

churchyard cough.

=sapine=, _n.f._, fir-plank, deal-board; scaffold-pole.

=sapinière=, _n.f._, fir-plantation, fir-grove.

=saponacé=, =-e=, _adj._, saponaceous.

=saponaire=, _n.f._, (bot.) soapwort.

=saponification=, _n.f._, saponification.

=saponifier=, _v.a._, to saponify.

_se_ =saponifier=, _v.r._, to saponify.

=saponine=, _n.f._, saponine.

=saporifique=, _adj._, saporific.

=sapote= _or_ *=sapotille=, _n.f._, sapota (fruit).

=sapotier= _or_ *=sapotillier=, _n.m._, sapota (tree).

=sar=, _n.m._ _V._ =sart=.

=sarabande=, _n.f._, saraband (dance).

=sarbacane=, _n.f._, air-cane; pea-shooter; speaking tube; puff and dart.

_Par —_; by proxy.

=sarbotière=, _n.f._ _V._ =sorbétière=.

=sarcasme=, _n.m._, sarcasm.

=sarcastique=, _adj._, sarcastic; sarcastical.

=sarcelle=, _n.f._, (orni.) teal.

=sarcite=, _n.f._, flesh-stone.

=sarclage=, _n.m._, (gard.) weeding.

=sarcler=, _v.a._, (gard.) to weed; (fig.) to extirpate.

=sarcleur=, _n.m._, weeder.

=sarcloir=, _n.m._, weeding-hook _or_ fork, hoe.

=sarclure=, _n.f._, weedings.

=sarcocèle=, _n.f._, (surg.) sarcocele.

=sarcocolle=, _n.f._, sarcocolla.

=sarcocollier=, _n.m._, (bot.) sarcocol-tree, pænea mucronata.

=sarcologie=, _n.f._, sarcology.

=sarcomateu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, (surg.) sarcomatous.

=sarcome=, _n.m._, (surg.) sarcoma.

=sarcophage=, _n.m._, sarcophagus; coffin, representation of a coffin (at

a funeral).

=sarcophage=, _n.m._ and _adj._, (med.) caustic, corrosive, escharotic.

☉=sarcotique=, _n.m._ and _adj._, (med.) sarcotic.

=sardanapale=, _n.m._, effeminate man.

=sarde=, _n.m.f._ and _adj._, Sardinian.

=sarde=, _n.f._, (ich.) scomber; a kind of sardine _or_ pilchard (of

Brazil).

=sardine=, _n.f._, pilchard, sardine.

=sardoine=, _n.f._, (min.) sardonyx.

=sardonien=, =-ne= (-ni-in, -ni-è-n), _adj._, sardonian, sardonic.

=sardonique=, _adj._, sardonic.

=sargasse=, _n.f._, sargassum, gulf-weed.

=sarge= _or_ =sargue=, _n.m._, (ich.) sheep’s head, sargus.

=sarigue=, _n.m.f._, opossum.

=sarisse=, _n.f._, (antiq.) sarissa, the phalanx’s long pike.

=sarmate=, _adj._, sarmatian.

=sarment=, _n.m._, vine-shoot, vine-twig.

=sarmenteu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, (bot.) sarmentous, branchy, climbing.

=sarracénique=, _adj._, Saracenic.

=sarrasin=, _n.m._ and _adj._, Saracen; (arch.) Saracenic.

=sarrasin=, _n.m._, buckwheat.

=sarrasine=, _n.f._, (fort.) sarasin, sarrasine, portcullis, herse.

=sarrau=, _n.m._, smock-frock, smock; (children) pinafore.

=sarrette=, _n.f._, (bot.) saw-wort.

=sarriette=, _n.f._, (bot.) savory; common marum.

=sarrot=, _n.m._ _V._ =sarrau=.

=sart= _or_ =sar=, _n.m._, sea-wrack.

=sas=, _n.m._, bolting-sieve; sieve; screen; chamber (of locks). _Passer

au —_; to sift (fig.). _Passer au gros —_; to examine superficially.

=sassafras=, _n.m._, (bot.) sassafras.

=sasse=, _n.f._, (nav.) scoop.

=sassement= (sâs-mān), _n.m._, sifting, winnowing.

=sassenage= (sās-naj), _n.m._, Sassenage cheese.

=sasser=, _v.a._, to sift, to bolt; to winnow; to scan, to scrutinize.

=sasset=, _n.m._, little sieve.

=sasseur=, _n.m._, sifter, bolter; winnower.

=satan=, _n.m._, Satan.

=satanas=, _n.m._, (fam.) Satan.

=satané=, _adj._, (fam.) roguish, wanton, mischievous; devilish,

confounded.

=satanique=, _adj._, satanic, satanical.

=satellite= (-tèl-lit), _n.m._, satellite.

=satellite=, _adj._, (anat.) companion. [Only used in: _veines —s_; _venæ

comites_; companion veins.]

=satiété=, _n.f._, satiety, surfeit, fullness.

=satin=, _n.m._, satin.

=satinade=, _n.f._, satinet.

=satinage=, _n.m._, satining; glazing (of paper).

=satiné=, =-e=, _adj._, satin-like, satiny, hot _or_ cold pressed; glazed

(of paper). _Peau —e_; skin as soft as velvet.

=satiner=, _v.a._, to satin; to glaze (paper). _— à chaud_; to hot press.

_— à froid_; to cold press.

=satiner=, _v.n._, to become as soft as satin.

=satire=, _n.f._, satire; lampoon. _— piquante_; cutting satire. _—

personnelle_; lampoon.

=satirique=, _n.m._ and _adj._, satirist; satirical.

=satiriquement= (-rik-mān), _adv._, satirically.

=satiriser=, _v.a._, to satirize.

=satirist=, _n.m.f._, satirist.

=satisfaction=, _n.f._, satisfaction, gratification, pleasure; atonement.

=satisfactoire=, _adj._, (theol.) satisfactory.

=satisfaire=, _v.a._, to satisfy, to please, to gratify; to supply

(wants); to answer; to meet, to discharge; to give satisfaction (to)

(to make amends); to perform, to execute, to fulfill; to comply (with),

to obey. _— sa passion_; to gratify one’s passion. _— l’attente de

quelqu’un_; to answer any one’s expectation.

_se_ =satisfaire=, _v.r._, to satisfy one’s self, to indulge one’s self.

=satisfaire=, _v.n._, to satisfy; to discharge; to perform, to execute;

to gratify, to indulge. _— à ses engagements_; to meet one’s engagements.

=satisfaisant=, =-e=, _adj._, satisfactory.

=satisfait=, =-e=, _adj._, satisfied, contented, pleased.

=satisfecit=, _n.m._, (_—_) certificate of good conduct.

=satrape=, _n.m._, satrap.

=satrapie=, _n.f._, satrapy.

=saturable=, _adj._, saturable.

=saturant=, =-e=, _adj._, saturant.

=saturation=, _n.f._, saturation.

=saturer=, _v.a._, to saturate; to surfeit.

_se_ =saturer=, _v.r._, to become saturated, surfeited.

=saturnales=, _n.f.pl._, Saturnalia.

=Saturne=, _n.m._, (astron., chem.) Saturn.

=saturnin=, =-e=, _adj._, (med.) lead. _Colique —e_; lead colic.

=satyre=, _n.m._, satyr.

=satyre=, _n.f._, (Grec. antiq.) satyric play; satire.

=satyriasis= (-zis), _n.m._, (med.) satyriasis.

=satyrion=, _n.m._, (bot.) satyrion, satyrium, standard-grass,

stander-grass.

=satyrique=, _adj._, pertaining to satyrs, satyric.

=sauce=, _n.f._, (cook.) sauce. _— relevée_; rich, highly-seasoned,

sauce. _— douce_; sweet sauce. _— piquante_; sharp sauce. _À toute —_;

in all manner of ways, for any sort of work. _Il n’est —_ (or _chère_)

_que d’appétit_; a good appetite is the best sauce. _On ne sait à quelle

— le mettre_; there is no knowing what to do with him. _Faire la — à

quelqu’un_; to give any one a smart rebuke, to pull any one up sharply.

_Être dans la —_; to be in a pickle.

=saucé=, =-e=, _part._, drenched, soused, wet through. _Médailles —es_;

plated medals.

=saucer=, _v.a._, to dip in sauce; to sop, to souse, to wet through; to

scold; to blow up.

=saucier=, _n.m._, (nav.) saucer (of a capstan); sauce-maker,

sauce-contriver.

=saucière=, _n.f._, sauce-boat, sauce-tureen.

=saucisse=, _n.f._ sausage.

=saucisson=, _n.m._, large sausage; (artil.) saucisson, saucisse; (fort.)

bundle of fagots _or_ fascines.

=sau-f=, =-ve=, _adj._, safe, unhurt, unscathed, spared. _Il en est

revenu sain et —_; he returned safe and sound. _La vie —ve_; with one’s

life.

=sauf=, _prep._, saving, save, except, but; reserving; subject to;

under. _— erreur ou omission_; errors excepted. _— correction_; under

correction. _— votre respect_; saving your presence.

=sauf-conduit=, _n.m._, (_—-—s_) safe-conduct.

=sauge=, _n.f._, (bot.) sage.

=saugrenu=, =-e=, _adj._, absurd, ridiculous.

=saulaie=, _n.f._, willow-plantation _or_ grove.

=saule=, _n.m._, willow. _— pleureur_; weeping willow.

=saulée=, _n.f._, row _or_ avenue of willows.

=saumâtre=, _adj._, brackish, briny.

=saumon=, _n.m._, (ich.) salmon; (metal.) pig, brock; (nav.) kentledge.

_— mariné_; pickled salmon. _— de fonte_; pig-iron.

=saumoné=, =-e=, _adj._, salmon. _Truite —e_; salmon-trout.

=saumoneau=, _n.m._, (ich.) young salmon, grilse.

=saumure=, _n.f._, brine, pickle.

=saumurer=, _v.a._, to brine, to pickle, to souse.

=saumurois=, _adj._, native of Saumur.

=saunage=, _n.m._, salt-trade; salt-making. _Faux-—_; (_n.p._) illicit

salt-trade.

=sauner=, _v.n._, to make salt.

=saunerie= (sô-n-rî), _n.f._, salt-house; salt-works.

=saunier= _or_ =saulnier=, _n.m._, salt-maker. _Faux-—_, (_—-—s_) dealer

in contraband salt.

=saunière=, _n.f._, salt-box.

=saupiquet=, _n.m._, (cook.) sharp sauce.

=saupoudrage=, _n.m._, salting, besprinkling.

=saupoudrer=, _v.a._, to powder; to sprinkle with salt, pepper, etc.; to

strew; to sprinkle; (fig.) to intersperse, to interlard, to strew.

=saur=, _adj._, red (of herrings). [This word is an abbreviation of

_saure_, which see below.]

=saure=, _adj._, yellowish brown; sorrel (of horses); red, smoked (of

herrings). _Un hareng —_; a red herring. _Un cheval —_; a sorrel horse.

=saurer=, _v.a._, to smoke (herrings).

=sauret=, _adj._, (l.u.) red (of herrings).

=sauriens= (-īn), _n.m.pl._, saurians; lizards.

=saurin=, _n.m._, herring (just) smoked.

=saussaie=, _n.f._ _V._ =saulaie=.

=saut=, _n.m._, leap, jump, skip, bound; spring; waterfall; (man.)

vault, leap. _Faire un —_; to take a leap. _— de carpe_ or _périlleux_;

somerset, somersault. _— de Breton_; tripping up any one. _— de loup_;

ha-ha; ditch. _Il s’élança tout d’un —_; he sprang forward at a bound.

_Au — du lit_; on getting up, on getting out of bed. _De plein —_; at

once; point blank. _Par —s et par bonds_; by fits and starts. _— de

mouton_; (man.) goat-leap; (game) leap-frog.

=sautage=, _n.m._, exploding, blasting (mines).

=saute=, _n.f._, (nav.) sudden veering of the wind, chopping.

=sauté=, _n.m._, (cook.) stew.

=sauté=, =-e=, _adj._, (cook.) stewed.

=saute-en-barque=, _n.m._, boating-jacket.

=sautelle=, _n.f._, vine-shoot.

=sauter=, _v.n._, to leap, to leap off, to jump, to skip, to pass over,

to overlook; to spring; (nav.) to veer, to shift, to chop round (of the

wind); to blow up (to explode); to kick the bucket; to be discharged (of

a person). _— en avant_; to leap forward. _— par-dessus une muraille_; to

leap over a wall. _— de joie_; to jump, _or_ leap, for joy. _Faire — un

bastion_; to blow up a bastion. _Faire — la banque_; to break the bank.

_— au collet de quelqu’un_; to collar any one. _Cela saute aux yeux_;

that is obvious, self-evident. _— aux nues_; to jump up to the ceiling.

_Le vent saute_; (nav.) the wind is shifting, _or_ chopping, round. _— en

l’air_; to bounce, _or_ jump, up. _— à bas du lit_; to jump out of bed.

_Reculer pour mieux —_; to await a better opportunity. _— en selle_; to

leap into the saddle.

=sauter=, _v.a._, to leap, to leap over; to overlook, to pass over;

to leave out, to skip. _— un fossé_; to clear a ditch. _Il a sauté

une phrase_; he has skipped a sentence. _— à pieds joints_; to jump

close-feet _or_ close-legged.

=sautereau= (sô-trô), _n.m._, jack (of harpsichords).

=sauterelle= (sô-trèl), _n.f._, grasshopper, locust, gutter-skipper;

(carp.) level (instrument).

=saute-ruisseau=, _n.m._, (_—-—x_) (game) hop-scotch; errand-boy. _— de

mer_; squilla (sort of shrimp).

=sauteu-r=, _n.m._, =-se=, _n.f._, leaper, jumper, tumbler, mountebank;

(man.) vaulter; leaping-horse.

=sauteuse=, _n.f._, a kind of dance.

*=sautillant=, =-e=, _adj._, hopping, skipping; (fig.) jerky (of style).

*=sautillement=, _n.m._, hopping, skipping.

*=sautiller=, _v.n._, to hop, to skip, to jump about.

=sautoir= (sô-toar), _n.m._, Saint Andrew’s cross; scarf, watch-guard;

(her.) saltier; (cook.) stew-pan; (horl.) jumper. _En —_; cross-wise,

slung over the shoulder (of muskets); crossways; (her.) saltier-wise.

_Porter son bagage en —_; to have one’s baggage slung over one’s shoulder.

=sauvage=, _n.m.f._ and _adj._, savage; savage, wild, untamed; shy,

timid; unsociable; uncivilized; rude, brutal, barbarous.

=sauvagement=, _adv._, wildly; savagely; fiercely.

=sauvageon= (-jon), _n.m._, (agri.) wild stock.

=sauvagerie= (sô-va-jrî), _n.f._, unsociableness; shyness, wildness.

=sauvagesse=, _n.f._, uncivilized woman; (fam.) a woman destitute of

education and manners, a scold, a shrew.

=sauvagin=, _n.m._, taste, _or_ smell, of water-fowl.

=sauvagin=, =-e=, _adj._, fishy (in taste). _Sentir le —_; to taste

fishy, to smell fishy.

=sauvagine=, _n.f._, wild water-fowl; odour of water-fowl; (com.) common

unprepared skins _or_ furs.

=sauvegarde= (sôv-gard), _n.f._, safe-keeping, safeguard; shield,

buckler, protection. _—s de beaupré_; (nav.) man-ropes of the bowsprit;

rudder pendant.

=sauvegarder= (sôv-gardé), _v.a._, to protect, to safeguard.

=sauve-qui-peut=, _n.m._, (_—_) headlong flight, rout; stampede; panic.

=sauver=, _v.a._, to save, to deliver, to rescue; to keep, to be the

salvation of; to economize; to ward off, to palliate; to conceal; to

excuse, to vindicate. _Sauve qui peut_; save himself who can, every one

for himself. _— les apparences_; to save appearances. _— les défauts d’un

ouvrage_; to conceal the imperfections of a work. _— la vie à quelqu’un_;

to save any one’s life.

_se_ =sauver=, _v.r._, to escape, to make good one’s escape, to run away;

to abscond; to make off; to take refuge; to retrieve one’s self; to

indemnify one’s self; to work out one’s salvation.

=sauvetage= (sôv-taj), _n.m._, (nav.) salvage, saving, rescue. _Canot

de —_; life-boat. _Ceinture de —_; life-belt. _Bouée de —_; life-buoy.

_Société de —_; life-boat institution. _Appareil_, or _sac_, _de —_;

fire-escape.

=sauveteur= (sôv-teur), _n.m._, rescuer; life-preserver; fire-escape;

salvor.

=sauvette=, _n.f._ duck-stone (game).

=sauveur=, _n.m._ and _adj._, saver, deliverer; Saviour, Redeemer; (Bib.)

all-saving.

=sauve-vie=, _n.f._, (_—_) (bot.) wall-rue.

=savamment= (-va-mān), _adv._, learnedly, cleverly; knowingly, wittingly.

=savane=, _n.f._, savannah.

=savant=, =-e=, _adj._, learned, clever; masterly, able, skillful. _Une

main —e_; a skillful hand. _Femme —e_; blue-stocking.

=savant=, _n.m._, =-e=, _n.f._, scholar, learned person. _Les —s_; the

literati, the learned.

=savantasse=, _n.m._, pedant. [Sometimes spelt _savantas_ in poetry.]

=savanterie=, _n.f._, pedantry.

=savantissime=, _adj._, most learned.

=savarin=, _n.m._, tipsy cake.

=savate=, _n.f._, old shoe; awkward, clumsy person; (nav.) shoes;

slip-shoe; shoe down at the heel; (game) hunt the slipper; bungler.

_Traîner la —_; to be as poor as Job; to shuffle along. _Tirer la —_; to

fight with the feet.

=savaterie=, _n.f._, old-shoe trade _or_ market; old-shoe shop.

=saveter= (sav-té), _v.a._, to cobble; to bungle, to botch.

=savetier= (sav-tié), _n.m._, cobbler; bungler, botcher, duffer.

=saveur=, _n.f._, savor, flavor, relish; taste, zest.

=savoir= (sachant, su), _v.a._, to know, to have a knowledge of, to be

aware of; to understand; to be sensible of; to be acquainted with. _Il

n’en sait rien_; he knows nothing about it. _Puis-que vous en savez

tant_; since you know so much (about it) _or_ since you are so well

posted up (in the matter). _Faire —_; to notify, to acquaint, to let

know, to inform. _Je ne sais_; I don’t know. _Je ne sais que faire_; I

don’t know what to do. _Je suis tout je ne sais comment_; I am all out of

sorts. _Pas que je sache_; not that I know, not to my knowledge. _Il sait

son pain manger_; he knows what he is about. _— vivre_; to know how to

behave, to be well-bred, to have breeding. _Il ne sait pas vivre_; he has

no manners. _Il ne sait ni A ni B_; he is a regular dunce _or_ duffer.

_En — plus d’une_; to know a trick or two. _En — gré à quelqu’un_; to be

grateful, _or_ thankful, to any one (for). _En — trop long_; to know too

much. _Je ne sais qu’en croire_; I know not what to think of it. _Je le

sais de bonne part_; I have it from a good source. _Si l’on vient à —

cela_; if that comes to be known. _Je ne saurais qu’y faire_; I cannot

help it. _Je ne sais où j’en suis_; I do not know which way to turn, _or_

what I am about. _Autant que je sache_; to the best of my belief. _Que

nous sachions_; as far as we know; as far as we recollect; as far as we

can judge; as far as we are aware. _Un je ne sais quoi_; an indescribable

something. [_Je ne sais quoi_ is the “indescribable” in French.] _Qui

sait plus se tait_; (prov.) a still tongue shows a wise head.

=savoir=, _v.n._, to know, to be learned, to be a scholar, to be a person

of learning. _—_, _à —_; viz., namely, that is to say, to wit; that

remains to be known; perhaps.

_se_ =savoir=, _v.r._, to get _or_ become known, to know one’s self to

be. _Tout se sait avec le temps_; everything becomes known in time.

=savoir=, _n.m._, knowledge, learning, scholarship, talents, skill.

=savoir-faire=, _n.m._, (_n.p._) management; tact, ability, skill; wits.

_Il vit de son —_; he lives by his wits.

=savoir-vivre=, _n.m._, (_n.p._) good manners, good breeding.

=savoisien=, =-ne=, _adj._ and _n._, Savoyard; of, from, Savoy.

=savon=, _n.m._, soap; rebuke, scolding, blowing up, wigging; soaping.

_Donner un — à quelqu’un_; to blow any one up, to give a wigging to. _—

marbré_; mottled soap. _— parfumé_; scented soap. _— noir_; soft soap.

_Eau de —_; soapsuds.

=savonnage=, _n.m._, soaping; washing with soap, soap-suds.

=savonner=, _v.a._, to soap; to wash with soap, to lather; (pop.) to

rebuke, to scold, to blow up.

_se_ =savonner=, _v.r._, to bear washing, to wash (of fabrics). _Cette

étoffe se savonne_; this material will wash, will bear washing.

=savonnerie= (-vo-n-rî), _n.f._, soap-house, soap-trade; soap-works.

=savonnette=, _n.f._, wash-ball; soap-ball.

=savonneu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, soapy.

=savonnier=, _n.m._, soap-boiler, soap-manufacturer; (bot.)

soapberry-tree.

=savourement= (-voor-mān), _n.m._, savoring, tasting; (fig.) enjoyment.

=savourer=, _v.a._, to savor; to relish, to taste; (fig.) to enjoy, to

delight in.

=savouret=, _n.m._, marrow-bone.

=savoureusement= (-reuz-mān), _adv._, with relish.

=savoureu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, savory, delicious.

=savoyard=, _n.m._, =-e=, _n.f._, Savoyard; native of Savoy; (fig.)

ill-mannered, rude, unmannerly person. _V._ =savoisien=.

=saxatile=, _adj._, saxatile.

=saxifrage=, _adj._, saxifragous.

=saxifrage=, _n.f._, (bot.) saxifrage.

=saxon=, =-ne=, _n._ and _adj._, Saxon.

=saynète=, _n.f._, sainette (Spanish farce).

=sayon=, _n.m._, sayon, tunic.

=sbire=, _n.m._, sbirro, myrmidon.

=scabellon=, _n.m._, (arch.) socle, small pedestal.

=scabieuse=, _n.f._, (bot.) scabious.

=scabieu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, (med.) scabious, scabby.

=scabreu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, scabrous, rugged, rough; dangerous,

difficult, slippery; delicate; ticklish.

=scabrosité=, _n.f._, (of plants) roughness; ruggedness.

=scalaire=, _n.f._, (moll.) wentletrap.

=scalde=, _n.m._, (antiq.) Scandinavian poet.

=scalène=, _adj._, (geom.) scalene, scalenous.

=scalpel=, _n.m._, scalpel.

=scalper=, _v.a._, to scalp. _S’entre —_; to scalp one another.

=scalpeur=, _n.m._, scalper.

=scammonée=, _n.f._, scammony.

=scandale=, _n.m._, scandal; offense; exposure; shame; dismay, horror.

_Au grand — de tout le monde_; to every one’s horror. _Faire du —_; to

make a scene.

=scandaleusement= (-leûz-mān), _adv._, scandalously.

=scandaleu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, scandalous.

=scandaliser=, _v.a._, to scandalize, to shock.

_se_ =scandaliser=, _v.r._, to be scandalized, to be shocked, to take

offense. _Il se scandalise de tout_; he takes offense at everything.

=scander=, _v.a._, to scan.

_se_ =scander=, _v.r._, to be scanned.

=scandinave=, _n.m.f._ and _adj._, scandinavian.

=scansion=, _n.f._, scansion.

=scape=, _n.m._, (bot.) flower-supporting stem, scape.

=scaphandre=, _n.m._, cork-jacket (for swimming); diving apparatus.

=scaphandrier=, _n.m._, diver.

=scaphoïde=, _adj._, scaphoid.

=scapin=, _n.m._, knave, rogue, scamp. [The “knave” of Molière’s

comedies.]

=scapolite=, _n.m._, (min.) scapolite.

=scapulaire=, _n.m._, scapular, scapulary; (surg.) shoulder-band.

=scapulaire=, _adj.f._, (anat., orni.) scapular.

=scarabée=, _n.m._, (ent.) scarabæus, beetle.

=scaramouche=, _n.m._, scaramouch.

=scare=, _n.m._, (ich.) scarus, parrot-fish.

=scarieu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, (bot.) scarious.

=scarificateur=, _n.m._, (surg.) scarificator; scarifier (instrument).

=scarification=, _n.f._, scarification.

=scarifier=, _v.a._, to scarify.

=scariole=, _n.f._ _V._ =escarole=.

=scarlatine=, _n._ and _adj._ _f._, (med.) scarlatina; scarlet. _Fièvre

—_; scarlet fever.

=sceau=, _n.m._, seal; impression of a seal; act of confirmation;

sanction. _—x de l’Etat_; Seals of the State. _Petit —_; privy seal.

_Garde des —x_; Keeper of the Seals. _— de Notre Dame_; (bot.) black

briony. _Apposer son —_; to affix one’s seal. _Mettre le — à_; to seal;

to complete, to put the finishing touch to. _Être marqué d’un —_; to be

branded with. _Marqué au — du génie_; pregnant with genius (V. Hugo).

☉=scel=, _n.m._ _V._ =sceau=.

=scélérat=, =-e=, _adj._, flagitious, nefarious, villainous, infamous,

vile.

=scélérat=, _n.m._, scoundrel, villain; wretch.

=scélératesse=, _n.f._, villainy, infamy, atrociousness, wickedness.

=scellé=, _n.m._, waxen stamp placed officially on locks, closets, etc.;

seals. _Apposer les —s_; to affix the seals. _Lever les —s_; to take off

the seals. _Bris de —_; unlawful breaking of the seals.

=scellement= (sèl-mān), _n.m._, sealing; fastening.

=sceller=, _v.a._, to put an official seal to, to seal, to seal up; to

fix, to bind; to ratify, to confirm; to cement; to make fast; (mas.) to

bed.

=scelleur=, _n.m._, sealer.

=scène=, _n.f._, scene; uproar, quarrel, row, scene; (thea.) stage,

scenery. _La mise en — d’une pièce_; (thea.) the getting up _or_ staging

of a piece. _Faire une — à quelqu’un_; to have a row with any one, to

blow any one up. _Être en —_; (thea.) to be upon the stage.

=scénique=, _adj._, scenical, scenic.

=scénite=, _adj._, dwelling in tents.

=scénographie=, _n.f._, scenography.

=scénographique=, _adj._, scenographical.

=scénopégie=, _n.f._, the feast of tabernacles.

=scepticisme=, _n.m._, scepticism.

=sceptique=, _n.m._ and _adj._, sceptic, sceptical.

=sceptre= (sèp-tr), _n.m._, sceptre; sway, empire, dominion.

=schabraque= _or_ =chabraque= (sha-), _n.f._, shabrack.

=schah= (shâ), _n.m._, Shah (of Persia).

=schako= (sha-), _n.m._ _V._ =shako=.

=schall= (shâl), _n.m._ _V._ =châle=.

=scheik= (shèk), _n.m._ _V._ =cheik=.

=schelling= (shĕ-lin), _n.m._, (_—s_) shilling.

=schenante= (shĕ-), _n.m._, (bot.) lemon-grass.

=schène= (skè-n), _n.m._, (antiq.) scheme (Egyptian measure of length;

about six miles and a half).

=schérif= (shé-), _n.m._ (_—s_). _V._ =chérif= and =shérif=.

=scherzo= (skèr-), _n.m._, (_scherzi_) (mus.) scherzo, (sportive piece in

a symphony).

=schiite= (shi-it), _n.m._, shiite, schismatic Mahometan.

=schismatique= (shis-), _n.m._ and _adj._, schismatic; schismatical.

=schisme= (shism), _n.m._, schism.

=schiste= (shist), _n.m._, (min.) schist, slate.

=schisteu-x=, =-se= (shis-), _adj._, schistous.

=schlague= (shlag), _n.f._, (milit.) flogging.

=schlich= (shlik), _n.m._, (min.) slick.

=schlittage=, _n.m._, sledge (for felled trees).

=schlitte=, _n.f._, sledge (for felled trees) (in Erckmann-Chatrian).

=schlitteur=, _n.m._, sledger (of felled trees).

=schnapan= (shna-), _n.m._ _V._ =chenapan=.

=scholastique= (sko-). _V._ =scolastique=.

=scholie= (sko-). _V._ =scolie=.

=schooner= (shoo-nèr, skoonèr), _n.m._, (nav.) schooner.

=schorl= (shorl), _n.m._, (min.) schorl.

=sciage=, _n.m._, sawing.

=sciagraphie=, _n.f._ _V._ =sciographie=.

=sciant=, =-e=, _adj._, boring, annoying, bothering, tiresome, tedious.

=sciatérique=, _adj._, sciatheric.

=sciatique=, _n.f._ and _adj._, (anat., med.) sciatica, hip gout;

sciatical.

=scie=, _n.f._, saw; (ich.) saw-fish; (pop.) trouble, bore (tiresome

thing). _— à main_; handsaw. _— à découper_; fret-saw. _Quelle —!_ (fig.)

what a bore! _— de scieur de long_; pit-saw.

=sciemment= (si-a-mān), _adv._, wittingly, knowingly.

=science=, _n.f._, knowledge, science, learning. _Posséder une — à fond_;

to be thoroughly master of a science. _S’adonner aux —s_; to devote one’s

self to the study of sciences. _La — infuse_; intuition. _De — certaine_;

for a positive fact.

=scientifique=, _adj._, scientific.

=scientifiquement= (-fik-mān), _adv._, scientifically.

=scier=, _v.a._, to saw; to reap, to cut down. _— le dos à quelqu’un_;

(pop.) to bore any one.

_se_ =scier=, _v.r._, to saw, to be cut with a saw.

=scier=, _v.n._, to saw; (nav.) to back water. _— à culer_; (nav.) to put

astern, to back water.

=scierie= (sî-rî), _n.f._, saw-mill.

=scieur=, _n.m._, sawyer; reaper. _Fosse de — de long_; saw-pit.

=scille=, _n.f._, (bot.) squill.

=scillitique=, _adj._, (pharm.) of squill.

=scindé=, =-e=, _adj._, divided; (of books) in parts.

=scinder=, _v.a._, to divide. _Se —_; to be divided.

=scinque=, _n.m._, (erpelotogy) skink.

=scintillant=, =-e= (-til-lān, -t), _adj._, scintillant.

=scintillation= (-til-la-), _n.f._, scintillation.

=scintillement= (sin-til-mān), _n.m._, scintillation, sparkling,

twinkling.

=scintiller= (-til-lé), _v.n._, to scintillate, to sparkle, to twinkle.

=sciographie=, _n.f._, (arch.) sciagraphy, sciography.

=sciographique=, _adj._, (arch.) sciagraphical, sciographical.

=scion=, _n.m._, (bot.) scion, shoot.

=scioptique=, _adj._, (opt.) scioptic.

=scirpe=, _n.m._, (bot.) club-rush.

=scissile=, _adj._, scissible.

=scission=, _n.f._, scission, split, secession; division (of opinions);

defection, separation. _Faire —_; to secede.

=scissionnaire=, _n.m._ and _adj._, seceder; seceding.

=scissure=, _n.f._, (anat.) fissure; crack, cleft.

=sciure=, _n.f._, saw-dust, saw-powder.

=sclarée=, _n.f._, (bot.) clary.

=sclérophtalmie=, _n.f._, (med.) ophthalmy (inflammation of the

conjunctiva).

=sclérotique=, _n.f._, (anat.) sclerotic.

=scolaire=, _adj._, scholar, academic; (of schools). _Année —_; academic

year (October to August in France).

=scolarité=, _n.f._, course of study; curriculum.

=scolastique=, _adj._, scholastical; academic; of schools.

=scolastique=, _n.m._, scholastic, school-man.

=scolastique=, _n.f._, scholasticism.

=scolastiquement= (-tik-mān), _adv._, scholastically.

=scoliaste=, _n.m._, scholiast.

=scolie=, _n.f._, scholium; (Grec. antiq.) table-song.

=scolie=, _n.m._, (geom.) scholium.

=scolopendre=, _n.f._, (bot.) hart’s-tongue; (ent.) scolopendra, centiped.

=scombre=, _n.m._, (ich.) scomber.

=scorbut=, _n.m._, scurvy.

=scorbutique=, _n.m._ and _adj._, scorbutic.

=scordium= (-diom), _n.m._, (bot.) water-germander.

=scorie=, _n.f._, (metal.) scoria, dross.

=scorification=, _n.f._, (metal.) scorification.

=scorificatoire=, _n.m._, scorifier.

=scorifier=, _v.a._, to scorify.

=scorpioide=, _n.f._, (bot.) scorpion’s-tail.

=scorpiojelle=, _n.f._, scorpion oil.

=scorpion=, _n.m._, (astron.) Scorpion; (ent.) scorpion.

=scorpione=, _n.f._, (bot.) scorpion-grass, scorpion’s-tail.

=scorpiure=, _n.f._, (bot.) caterpillar.

=scorsonère=, _n.f._, (bot.) viper’s-grass.

=scotie= (-tî), _n.f._, (arch.) scotia; casement.

=scribe=, _n.m._, scribe, writer.

=scripteur=, _n.m._, writer of the pope’s bulls.

=scrofulaire=, _n.f._, (bot.) figwort.

=scrofules=, _n.f.pl._, scrofula, king’s evil.

=scrofuleu-x=, =-se=, _n._ and _adj._, scrofulous person; scrofulous.

=scrotocèle=, _n.f._, (surg.) scrotocele.

=scrotum= (-tom), _n.m._, (_—_) (anat.) scrotum.

=scrupule=, _n.m._, scruple; qualm; scrupulousness; scruple (weight).

_Avoir des —s_; to be scrupulous. _Lever des —s_; to remove scruples. _Je

m’en ferais —_; I would hesitate to do it.

=scrupuleusement= (-leûz-mān), _adv._, scrupulously, strictly, exactly.

=scrupuleu-x=, =-se=, _n._ and _adj._, over-nice, over-scrupulous person;

scrupulous, strict, nice, rigorous, precise.

=scrutat-eur=, =-rice=, _n._ and _adj._, investigator, explorer,

searcher, scrutinizer; (of a ballot) scrutineer; teller; investigating,

searching, scrutinizing.

=scruter=, _v.a._, to scrutinize, to search closely, to investigate, to

fathom; to look carefully into.

=scrutin=, _n.m._, ballot, balloting. _— de liste_; vote by ticket.

_Dépouiller le —_; to count the votes. _Au —_, or _au — secret_; by

ballot.

=scubac=, _n.m._ _V._ =usquebac=.

=sculptable= (skul-tabl), _adj._, to be sculptured; to be carved.

=sculpter= (skul-té), _v.a._, to sculpture, to carve.

=sculpteur= (skul-teur), _n.m._, sculptor, carver.

=sculptural= (skul-tu-), _adj._, sculptural.

=sculpture= (skul-tur), _n.f._, sculpture, carving; carved work.

=scutiforme=, _adj._, scutiform, shield-shaped.

=scylla=, _n.m._, Scylla. _V._ =charybde=.

=scytale=, _n.m._, a species of snake.

=scythe=, _n.m.f._ and _adj._, Scythian.

=se=, =s’=, _pron._, one’s self, himself, herself, itself, themselves;

one another, each other. _Il — ruine_; he is ruining himself. _Ils

s’aiment_; they love one another. _Cela — peut_; that may be. _Ils —

connaissent_; they know each other. _Ils — parlent_; they speak to each

other.

=séance=, _n.f._, seat (right of sitting); sitting (time of meeting of

deliberative assemblies); meeting; sitting (for one’s portrait); recital;

lecture. _Avoir —_; to have a seat. _Lever la —_; to close the meeting.

_Faire une —_; to sit (at table, at play, etc.). _En —_; sitting, _—

tenante_; there and then, forthwith.

=séant=, _part._, (jur.) sitting.

=séant=, _n.m._, sitting upright. _Être sur son —_, _se mettre sur son

—_; to sit up in bed.

=séant=, =-e=, _adj._, fitting, seemly, becoming.

=seau=, _n.m._, pail, bucket. _Il pleut à —x_; it is raining in torrents.

=sébacé=, =-e=, _adj._, sebaceous.

=sébeste=, _n.m._, sebesten-plum.

=sébestier= (-tié), _n.m._, (bot.) sebesten-plum-tree.

=sébifère=, _adj._, (bot.) sebiferous (yielding tallow).

=sébile=, _n.f._, small wooden bowl (a receptacle for the powder used to

dry ink).

=sec=, =sèche=, _adj._, dry, lean, spare; barren; plain; unadorned; cold,

unfeeling, sharp; dissatisfied (of looks); (paint.) hard; dried (of

fruit, flowers, leaves, fish, &c.); severe (of reprimands). _Des mains

sèches_; lean hands. _Un homme —_; a spare, thin man. _Coup —_; sharp

stroke. _Avoir le gosier —_; to be very dry. _Il a le pouls —_; his

pulse is sharp. _Être à —_; to have no money. _Cœur —_; unfeeling heart.

_Mine sèche_; dissatisfied look. _Perte sèche_; dead loss. _— comme un

pendu_; as thin as a lath.

=sec=, _n.m._, dryness; fodder; dry weather. _A —_; dried up; (nav.)

under bare poles; empty, low; drained, exhausted; (fig.) hard up. _À —

sur le rivage_; (nav.) high and dry (of ships). _Mettre un étang à —_; to

drain a pond; (fig.) to exhaust. _Vaisseau à —_; ship under bare poles.

=sec=, _adv._, dryly, sharply. _Boire —_; to drink hard. _Répondre —_; to

answer sharply.

=sécable=, _adj._, divisible.

=sécant=, =-e=, _adj._, (geom.) secant.

=sécante=, _n.f._, (geom.) secant.

=sécateur=, _n.m._, (gard.) pruning-shears.

=sécéder=, _v.n._, to secede.

=sécession=, _n.f._, secession.

=sécessioniste=, _adj._ and _n.m.f._, secessionist.

=séchage=, _n.m._, drying.

=sèche= _or_ =seiche=, _n.f._, cuttle-fish.

=séchée=, _n.f._, drying.

=sèchement= (sèsh-mān), _adv._, dryly; sharply; barrenly, without

ornament, plainly.

=sécher=, _v.a._, to dry, to dry up, to cure.

_se_ =sécher=, _v.r._, to dry one’s self; to dry (of a thing).

=sécher=, _v.n._, to dry, to wither, to pine away. _Faire — du linge_;

to spread out linen to dry. _— sur pied_; to pine away, to be extremely

dejected.

=sécheresse= (sè-shrès), _n.f._, dryness; drought; sharpness, barrenness.

=sécherie= (sé-shrî), _n.f._, (manu.) drying-house.

=séchoir=, _n.m._, (manu.) drying-room; (tech.) dryer.

=second=, =-e= (sĕ-gōn, -d), _adv._, second; junior; inferior. _Eau —e_;

(chem.) lye-water. _De —e main_; second-hand. _Sans —e_; matchless,

peerless.

=second= (sĕ-gōn), _n.m._, second, assistant; second story, second floor,

second class; fore cabin (in ships). _Il demeure au —_; he lives on the

second floor. _En —_; second, second in command; in the second place; in

a subordinate capacity; (nav.) mate. _En —e_; in the second class (rail.).

=secondaire= (se-gon-dèr), _adj._, secondary, accessory. _Enseignement

—_; secondary _or_ higher education.

=secondairement= (se-gon-dèr-mān), _adv._, secondarily, accessorily.

=seconde= (se-gond), _n.f._, second (of time); second class (in schools);

(mus.) second; (print.) revise, second proof.

=secondement= (se-gon-dmān), _adv._, secondly, in the second place.

=seconder= (se-gon-dé), _v.a._, to second, to assist; to favor, to back,

to support; to promote, to forward.

=secondine= (se-gon-di-n), _n.f._, (bot.) secundine. _pl._, secundines,

after-birth.

=sécot=, _adj._, lean, lanky, bony.

=secouement=, _n.m._ _V._ =secoûment=.

=secouer=, _v.a._, to shake, to shake off; to jolt, to toss; to discard,

to rouse; to rate, to handle roughly. _— le tête_; to shake one’s head.

_— les oreilles_; to demur, to say nay. _— le joug_; to shake off the

yoke.

_se_ =secouer=, _v.r._, to shake one’s self; to take exercise; to move

about; to exert one’s self.

=secoûment= _or_ =secouement=, _n.m._, shaking, jogging, jolting.

=secourable=, _adj._, helpful, helping, willing to help; relievable.

=secourir=, _v.a._, to succor, to assist, to relieve, to help, to aid; to

rescue.

=secours=, _n.m._, help, relief, succor, assistance; aid; rescue. _Donner

du —_; to render assistance. _Crier au —_; to cry out for help. _Au —!_

help! help! _— à domicile_; outdoor relief. _Société de — mutuels_;

benefit society.

=secousse=, _n.f._, shake, shock; blow, concussion, toss, tossing, jerk;

(fig.) agitation; check.

=secr-et=, =-ète=, _adj._, secret, private, hidden, undiscovered,

reserved, silent. _Tenir —_; to keep secret. _Escalier —_ or _dérobé_;

back-stairs, private staircase.

=secret=, _n.m._, secrecy, privacy, mystery; secret; solitary

confinement; secret drawer, secret spring. _C’est mon —_; that is not a

fair question. _Mettre un prisonnier au —_; to put a prisoner in solitary

confinement. _En —_; secretly, privately, in private. _Sous le —_; in

secrecy, under the seal of secrecy. _Le — de Polichinelle_; an open

secret; no secret at all. _— de deux — de Dieu, — de trois — de tous_; no

secret but between two.

=secrétaire=, _n.m._, secretary; escritoire; writing-table; (orni.)

secretary-bird. _— d’ambassade_; secretary to an embassy. _— d’état_;

secretary of state. _Sous — général_; under secretary (of state).

=secrétairerie= (-tèr-rî), _n.f._, secretary’s office.

=secrétariat=, _n.m._, secretaryship; secretary’s office.

=secrète=, _n.f._, (c.rel.) secret prayer.

=secrètement= (-krèt-mān), _adv._, secretly, privately, in secret, in

private; inwardly.

=sécréter=, _v.a._, (physiology) to secrete.

=sécréteur=, _adj._, secretory.

=sécrétion=, _n.f._, (physiology) secretion.

=sécrétoire=, _adj._, secretory, secreting.

=sectaire=, _n.m.f._, sectarian.

=sectateur=, _n.m._, follower, votary.

=secte=, _n.f._, sect. _Faire —_; to form a sect. _Faire — à part_; to

differ from most people, to form a separate body.

=secteur=, _n.m._, (geom.) sector.

=sectile=, _adj._, sectile.

=section=, _n.f._, section, division. _— de vote_; polling-station.

=sectionnement=, _n.m._, dividing into parts; division.

=sectionner=, _v.a._, to divide into parts; to divide.

=séculaire=, _adj._, secular, coming once in a century; centenarian;

venerable; time-honored, ancient. _Un chêne —_; a venerable oak.

=sécularisation=, _n.f._, secularization.

=séculariser=, _v.a._, to secularize.

=sécularité=, _n.f._, secularity, secular jurisdiction.

=séculi-er=, =-ère=, _adj._, secular, worldly. _Le bras —_; the secular

power.

=séculier=, _n.m._, laic, layman.

=séculièrement= (-lièr-mān), _adv._, secularly.

=secundo= (se-gon-), _adv._, secondly.

=sécurité=, _n.f._, security, safety; confidence.

=sedan=, _n.m._, Sedan-cloth.

=sédanoise= _or_ =parisienne=, _n.f._, (print.) pearl.

=sédati-f=, =-ve=, _adj._, (med.) sedative.

=sédatif=, _n.m._, sedative.

=sédentaire=, _adj._, sedentary, settled, stationary.

=sédiment=, _n.m._, sediment, grounds, dregs, lees.

=sédimentaire=, _adj._, sedimentary.

=séditieusement= (-si-eûz-mān), _adv._, seditiously.

=séditieu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, seditious, mutinous, rebellious, riotous.

=séditieux=, _n.m._, rebel, mutineer.

=sédition=, _n.f._, sedition, mutiny, riot. _Faire une —_; to promote a

sedition. _Eteindre une —_; to quash a sedition.

=séduct-eur=, =-rice=, _n._ and _adj._, seducer, enticer; seductive,

enticing, fascinating; deluding.

=séduction=, _n.f._, seduction, enticement; allurement; bribing,

subornation. _— de témoins_; bribing of witnesses. _La — des richesses_;

the allurements of wealth.

=séduire= (séduisant, séduit), _v.a._, to seduce; to charm, to win over;

to fascinate, to captivate; to delude, to beguile; to suborn, to bribe;

to bewitch. _— des témoins_; to bribe witnesses.

=séduisant=, =-e=, _adj._, seductive, seducing; delusive, bewitching,

fascinating, tempting. _Offres —es_; tempting offers.

=ségétal=, =-e=, _adj._, growing in cornfields.

=segment=, _n.m._, (geom.) segment.

=segmentaire=, _adj._, segmental.

=ségrairie=, _n.f._, woods held in common.

=ségrais=, _n.m._, detached wood.

=ségrégation=, _n.f._, segregation.

=ségrégativement= (-tiv-mān), _adv._, separately, segregatively.

=seiche=, _n.f._ _V._ =sèche=.

=séide=, _n.m._, fanatical partisan; assassin; blind supporter.

=seigle=, _n.m._, (bot.) rye. _— ergoté_; spurred rye. _Faux —_;

rye-grass.

*=seigneur=, _n.m._, lord; the Lord, squire. _Petit —_; lordling. _—

suzerain_; lord paramount. _Notre-—_; our Lord. _À tout — tout honneur_;

honor to whom honor is due. _En grand —_; in grand style.

*=seigneuriage=, _n.m._, seigniorage (duty on coinage).

*=seigneurial=, =-e=, _adj._, seigniorial, manorial, lordly.

*=seigneurie=, _n.f._, seigniory, lordship; manor. _Votre —_; your

lordship.

=seime=, _n.f._, (vet.) wire-heel.

=sein=, _n.m._, breast, bosom; heart (midst); middle; womb. _Au — de

l’église_; in the bosom of the church. _Donner le — à un enfant_; to give

a child the breast, to suckle.

=seine=, _n.f._, fish-net, seine. _Pêche à la —_; seine-fishing.

=seing= (sīn), _n.m._, sign manual, signature. _Blanc —_; signature in

blank. _— privé_; private seal.

=seize=, _n.m._ and _adj._, sixteen, sixteenth.

=seizième=, _n.m.f._ and _adj._, sixteenth.

=seizièmement=, _adv._, sixteenthly.

=séjour=, _n.m._, stay, abode, residence, sojourn; place, regions;

continuance; dwelling, habitation; delay. _Permis de —_; permission to

reside.

=séjourner=, _v.n._, to stay, to sojourn, to dwell, to make a stay, to

tarry; to remain, to continue.

=sel=, _n.m._, salt; wit; point, humor. _— gris_; bay salt. _De bon

—_; properly salted. _À la croque au —_; with salt only. _— gemme_;

rock-salt. _— marin_; sea-salt. _Un miton de —_; a peck of salt. _Au

gros —_; (fig.) coarse. _Beurre demi —_; salt-butter. _— Anglais_; Epsom

salts. _— blanc_; table-salt. _Gros —_; coarse salt. _Couche de —_; bed

of salt. _— attique_; Attic wit. _Ils ne mangeront pas un miton de —

ensemble_; (prov.) they will soon be at sixes and sevens, _or_ will soon

fall out.

=sélaciens=, _n.m.pl._, (ich.) cartilaginous fishes.

=sélam= _or_ =sélan=, _n.m._, (_—s_) emblematic nosegay (in the East).

=sélection=, _n.f._, selection.

=sélénieux=, _adj._, (chem.) selenious.

=sélénite=, _n.f._, (chem.) selenite.

=séléniteu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, selenitic.

=sélénium= (-om), _n.m._, (chem.) selenium.

=sélénographie=, _n.f._, selenography.

=sélénographique=, _adj._, selenographical.

=sélin=, _n.m._, milk-parsley (bot.).

=sellage=, _n.m._, saddling.

=selle=, _n.f._, saddle; stool, motion of the bowels; water-closet;

washing board. _— de femme_; side-saddle, lady’s saddle. _Cheval de —_;

saddle-horse. _Aller à la —_; to go to the stool. _Être toujours en

—_; never to be out of the saddle. _— à tous chevaux_; common saddle;

commonplace discourse. _La première —_; the best horse in the stable. _—

de calfat_; (nav.) calking-box.

=seller=, _v.a._, to saddle.

_se_ =seller=, _v.r._, (agri.) to harden (as land).

=sellerie= (sèl-rî), _n.f._, saddlery, saddle-room.

=sellette=, _n.f._, culprits’ seat; (fig.) stool of repentance; bed (of

a carriage); shoe-black’s box; collar (of a plow); cradle (of painters);

(nav.) calking-box. _Être sur la —_; to be at the bar (of criminals).

_Mettre sur la —_; to haul over the coals. _Tenir sur la —_; to

cross-question, to heckle, to pump (a person).

=sellier=, _n.m._, saddler.

=selon=, _prep._, according to, agreeably to, conformably to, pursuant

to. _On l’a traité — son mérite_; he was treated according to his

deserts. _— moi_; in my opinion. _C’est —_; that depends.

=selon que=, _conj._, as, according as.

*=semailles=, _n.f.pl._, sowing; seed; sowing-time.

=semaine=, _n.f._, week; week’s work; week’s wages; week’s money; week’s

pocket-money; week’s allowance. _À la —_; by the week. _Prêter à la

petite —_; to lend money (for a short time) at high interest. _— sainte_;

Holy Week. _— grasse_; shrove-tide. _Par —_; a week. _La — prochaine_;

next week. _La — des quatre jeudis_; when two Sundays come together

(_i.e._ never). _Être de —_; to be on duty (for the week).

=semainier=, _n.m._, officer, monk, _or_ actor, on duty (for the week);

case of seven razors; letter-rack; bangle.

=semainière=, _n.f._, nun, _or_ actress, on duty (for the week).

=sémaphore=, _n.m._, semaphore, signal-post.

=semaque=, _n.f._, fishing-boat, fishing-smack.

=semblable=, _adj._, like, alike, not unlike, similar, such. _— à un

torrent_; like a torrent.

=semblable=, _n.m._, like; fellow, match, equal; fellow-creature,

fellow-man.

=semblablement=, _adv._, likewise, too, also, in like manner.

☉=semblance=, _n.f._, resemblance, semblance, look, likeness.

=semblant=, _n.m._, appearance, semblance, seeming, air, look; pretense,

show, sham. _Faux —_; false pretense. _Faire —_; to feign, to pretend, to

dissemble, to seem, to appear as if. _Il fait — de ne pas le voir_; he

pretends not to see it. _Ne faire — de rien_; to appear to take no notice

(of); to feign ignorance (of). _Sans faire — de rien_; looking as if

nothing was the matter.

=sembler=, _v.n._, to seem, to appear. _Cela me semble ainsi_; it appears

so to me. _Il semble_; it seems, it appears, it would appear. _Il me

semble que je le vois_; I think, _or_ I fancy, I see him. _Il lui semble

que_; he fancies that. _Que vous en semble?_ what do you think of it?

_Il lui semble que cela n’est rien_; he thinks it is nothing. _Si bon

lui semble_; if he thinks fit. _C’est ce qui me semble_; precisely as I

thought. _Il semble que ce soit_; it seems that it is. _Il me semble que

c’est_; it seems to me that it is.

=semé=, =-e=, _part._, sowed, sown; strewn (with); interspersed (with);

(her.) aspersed. _— d’étoiles_; bespangled with stars. _— de fleurs_;

strewn with flowers.

=séméiologie=, _n.f._, semeiology.

=séméiotique=, _n.f._, semeiotics.

=semelle=, _n.f._, sole (of boots, shoes); foot (of stockings); length of

a foot; (carp.) sleeper; dormant-tree; shoe (of an anchor). _— simple_;

single sole. _Battre la —_; to pad the hoof, to tramp; to warm one’s

feet, _or_ trudge about. _Reculer d’une —_; to give way a foot. _Ne

pas rompre d’une —_; not to draw back a step; not to give way an inch.

_Rompre la —_; (fencing) to retire in parrying. _— de dérive_; (nav.)

lee-board.

=semence=, _n.f._, seed; seeds; saving; fine sprigs (small nails, tin

tacks); (fig.) cause. _— de perles_; seed-pearl. _— d’un procès_; cause

of a lawsuit. _— de diamant_; diamond-sparks.

=semencine=, _n.f._, (pharm.) one of the three kinds of wormwood.

=semen-contra= (sé-mè-n-), _n.m._, (_n.p._) (pharm.) semen-contra,

worm-seed.

=semé=, =-e=, _part._, _adj._, sown, strewn, interspersed.

=semer=, _v.a._, to sow, to scatter; to spread; to strew, to sprinkle, to

disseminate. _— du blé_; to sow wheat. _— de l’argent_; to scatter money.

_— la discorde_; to sow discord. _— la terreur_; to spread terror. _—

des fleurs_; to strew flowers. _Il faut — pour recueillir_; one must sow

first to reap afterwards. _Se —_; to be sowed.

=semestre= (-mès-), _n.m._, half-year; six months; half-year’s duty,

half-year’s income; (milit.) six months’ furlough. _Entrer en —_; to

enter upon a six months’ duty. _Congé de —_; six months’ furlough. _Par

—_; half-yearly.

=semestriel=, =-le= (-mès-), _adj._, half-yearly.

=semestrier=, (-mès-), _n.m._, (milit.) soldier absent on a six months’

furlough.

=semeur=, _n.m._, seedsman, sower; disseminator, spreader.

=semi=, _adj. invariable_, semi, demi, half.

=semi-arien=, =-ne=, _adj._ and _n._, (_—-—s_) Semi-Arian.

=semi-circulaire=, _adj._, semicircular.

=semi-double=, _adj._, semi-double.

=semi-flosculeu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, (bot.) semi-flosculous.

=semi-hebdomadaire=, _adj._, semi-weekly.

=semillance=, _n.f._, sprightliness, liveliness.

*=sémillant=, =-e=, _adj._, brisk, lively, frisky, sprightly.

=sémiller=, _v.n._, to be sprightly _or_ lively; to be brisk.

=semi-lunaire=, _adj._, semi-lunar.

=semi-mensuel=, =-le=, _adj._, fortnightly.

=séminaire=, _n.m._, seminary, clerical college; school.

=séminal=, =-e=, _adj._, seminal.

=séminariste=, _n.m._, seminarist.

=sémination=, _n.f._, semination.

=semi-périodique=, _adj._, semi-periodic.

=semi-preuve=, _n.f._, (_—-—s_) imperfect proof, beginning of a proof.

=semis=, _n.m._, seed-plot, seedling.

=sémitique=, _adj._, Semitic.

=semi-ton=, _n.m._, (_—-—s_) (mus.) semitone.

=semoir=, _n.m._, (agri.) seed-lip; drill-machine, corn-drill.

=semonce=, _n.f._, rebuke, reprimand, lecture; call, summons.

=semoncer=, _v.a._, to reprimand, to lecture, to summon, to call.

=semoule=, _n.f._, semolina.

=semper-virens= (sin-pèr-vi-rīns), _n.m._, _adj._, (_—_) (bot.) coral

honeysuckle; evergreen.

=sempiternel=, =-le= (sin-), _adj._, sempiternal, everlasting.

=sénat=, _n.m._, senate; senate-house.

=sénateur=, _n.m._, senator.

=sénatorerie=, _n.f._, senatorship.

=sénatorial=, =-e=, _adj._, senatorial.

=sénatorien=, =-ne= (-in, -è-n), _adj._, senatorial, senatorian.

=sénatrice=, _n.f._, senator’s lady.

=sénatus-consulte= (-tus-), _n.m._, (_—-—s_) senatus-consultum; decree

(of a senator).

=senau=, _n.m._, (nav.) snow (sort of vessel). _Voile de —_; try-sail.

=séné=, _n.m._, senna.

=sénéchal=, _n.m._, seneschal. _Grand —_; high seneschal.

=sénéchale=, _n.f._, seneschal’s wife.

=sénéchaussée=, _n.f._, seneschal’s jurisdiction; seneschal’s court.

=seneçon= (sè-n-son), _n.m._, (bot.) groundsel.

=senegrain=, =senègre=, _or_ =senegré=, _n.m._, (bot.) fenugreek.

=senelle=, _n.f._ _V._ =cenelle=.

=sénestre=, _adj._, ☉left; (her.) sinister.

=sénevé= (sé-n-vé), _n.m._, (bot.) charlock, black mustard.

☉=sénieur=, _n.m._, senior.

=sénile=, _adj._, senile, old.

=sénilité=, _n.f._, senility, old age.

=senne=, _n.f._ _V._ =seine=.

=sens= (sānss), _n.m._, sense, senses, feelings, passions; understanding,

judgment; intellect; reason, intelligence; opinion, sentiment; wits,

reason, judgment; meaning, import; way, direction. _Reprendre ses —_;

to come to one’s senses, to come to. _Bon —_; good sense. _— commun_;

common-sense. _— propre_; proper meaning. _— figuré_; figurative sense.

_— intime_; consciousness. _À double —_; with double meaning. _A mon —_;

in my opinion. _Dans tous les —_; in all directions, to and fro. _En tous

—_; in every direction. _N’avoir pas le — commun_; to be preposterous,

absurd. _Tomber sous le —_; to be obvious, self-evident. _À contre —_;

wrong way, in a wrong sense. _— devant derrière_; hind part foremost;

wrong side first. _Ce mot a deux —_; that word has two meanings. _Il

abonde en son —_; he is wedded to his opinion. _J’abonde dans votre —_; I

am of your opinion. _— dessus dessous_; upside down, topsy-turvy. _Être

dans son bon —_; to be in one’s right senses. _Mettre quelqu’un hors de

son bon —_; to drive any one out of his senses. _En — inverse_; in a

contrary direction.

=sensation=, _n.f._, sensation, feeling. _Faire —_; to cause a sensation.

_À —_; sensational.

=sensé=, =-e=, _adj._, sensible, intelligent, reasonable.

=sensément=, _adv._, sensibly, judiciously.

=sensibilité=, _n.f._, sensibility, sensitiveness, feeling, delicacy;

tenderness, soreness; tender-heartedness.

=sensible=, _adj._, sensible; perceptible, obvious, palpable, evident;

feeling, sensitive; visible (horizon); tender, sore (of flesh). _Il se

montra — à ma douleur_; he seemed moved by my sorrow. _C’est son endroit

—_; that’s his sensitive part. _Note —_; (mus.) leading note.

=sensible=, _n.f._, (mus.) leading note.

=sensiblement=, _adv._, sensibly, feelingly, keenly; vividly, deeply,

obviously, perceptibly, greatly, visibly, considerably, much.

=sensiblerie=, _n.f._, sentimentality.

=sensiti-f=, =-ve=, _adj._, sensitive.

=sensitive=, _n.f._, (bot.) sensitive plant.

=sensorial=, _adj._, (physiol.) sensorial.

=sensorium= (-om), _n.m._, sensorium.

=sensualisme=, _n.m._, sensualism.

=sensualiste=, _n.m.f._ and _adj._, sensualist; sensual.

=sensualité=, _n.f._, sensuality.

=sensuel=, =-le=, _n._ and _adj._, sensualist; sensual, voluptuous.

=sensuellement= (-èl-mān), _adv._, sensually.

☉=sente=, _n.f._ _V._ =sentier=.

=sentence=, _n.f._, sentence; maxim; judgment; decree, decision, verdict.

☉=sentencié=, _n.m._, =-e=, _n.f._, convict.

☉=sentencier=, _v.a._, (criminal law) to condemn, to pass sentence, to

sentence.

=sentencieusement= (-eûz-mān), _adv._, sententiously.

=sentencieu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, sententious.

=sentène=, _n.f._, thread of a skein. _V._ =centaine=.

=senteur=, _n.f._, scent, fragrance, perfume, odor, smell. _Pois de —_;

sweet pea.

=senti=, =-e=, _part._ and _adj._, felt, experienced, perceived. _Bien

—_, _vivement —_; heartfelt, deeply felt; (fig.) expressive, impressive,

well expressed.

=sentier= (-tié), _n.m._, path, foot-path, pathway, by-way; lane, track;

balk (in a plowed field). _— battu_; beaten track.

=sentiment=, _n.m._, feeling, sensation; sentiment; perception; sense,

consciousness, sensibility; opinion. _Avoir le — de_; to be conscious

of. _Juger par —_; to judge from feeling. _— d’amour_; feeling of love.

_Selon mon —_; in my opinion. _Faire des —_; to be sentimental.

=sentimental=, =-e=, _adj._, sentimental.

=sentimentalement=, _adv._, sentimentally.

=sentimentalité=, _n.f._, sentimentality.

=sentine=, _n.f._, (nav.) well-room (of a ship); (fig.) sink of vice.

=sentinelle=, _n.f._, sentinel, sentry. _— perdue_; forlorn sentinel.

_Faire —_; to keep sentry, to mount guard, to be on the watch.

=sentir= (sentant, senti), _v.a._, to feel, to be sensible of, to have

a sense of; to smell, to scent; to taste, to have a taste of, to savor;

to look like, to perceive, to experience, to foresee, to guess, to know.

_Cette carpe sent la bourbe_; this carp tastes of the mud. _Faire —

quelque chose à quelqu’un_; to impress any one with a sense of any thing,

to bring home to. _Il sent les choses de loin_; he foresees things from

afar. _Se faire —_; to make itself felt.

_se_ =sentir=, _v.r._, to feel one’s self, to know one’s self, to be

sensible; to be conscious, to feel the effects of; to be visible _or_

perceived; to feel within one’s self. _Il se sentait mourir_; he felt

himself dying. _Il ne se sent pas de froid_; he is quite benumbed with

cold. _Ne pas se — de joie_; to be beside one’s self with joy; to be in

raptures. _Il se sent bien_; he knows himself very well.

=sentir=, _v.n._, to feel; to smell, to have an odor; to have a bad

smell. _— bon_; to smell nice. _— mauvais_; to smell bad. _Cette viande

commence à —_; this meat is beginning to be tainted. _Cela ne sent pas

bon_; (fig.) I don’t like the look of it.

=seoir= (soâr), _v.n._, to suit, to become, to fit. _Il vous sied mal_,

or _il ne vous sied pas_, (_de_); it ill becomes you to.

=seoir= (soâr), _v.n._, (l.u.) to sit, to be sitting.

=séparable=, _adj._, separable.

=séparation=, _n.f._, separation, severing; parting; partition. _— de

biens_; separate estate, separate maintenance. _— de corps et de biens_;

divorce _a mensâ et thoro_, _or_ judicial separation. _Mur de —_;

partition wall.

=séparatiste=, _n.m._, separatist, secessionist. _adj._, seceding.

=séparément=, _adv._, separately; disjunctively; apart, asunder.

=séparer=, _v.a._, to separate, to sever, to disunite, to divide,

to part, to set apart, to drive asunder, to disjoin, to divorce; to

disconnect, to cut off. _— le bon grain d’avec le mauvais_; to separate

the good seed from the bad. _— les cheveux sur le front_; to part the

hair on the forehead. _— deux hommes qui se battent_; to part two men

fighting.

_se_ =séparer=, _v.r._, to separate, to sever, to part, to part company

(with); to secede, to divide; to break up (of assemblies); to come off.

_Il n’y a si bonne compagnie qui ne se sépare_; the best friends must

part at last.

=sépia=, _n.f._, sepia. _À la —_; in sepia.

=seps= (sèps), _n.m._, (erpetology) seps.

=sept= (sèt), _n.m._ and _adj._, seven, seventh.

=septain=, _n.m._, seven-lined stanza.

☉=septante= (sèp-), _adj._, seventy. _Version des —s_; septuagint.

=septembre= (sèp-), _n.m._, September.

=septembriseur= (sèp-), _n.m._, (French hist.) septembrist, agent of the

massacres of September, 1792.

=septénaire= (sèp-), _n.m._ and _adj._, septenary.

=septennal=, =-e= (sèp-tè-n-nal), _adj._, septennial.

=septennalité= (sèp-tè-n-na-), _n.f._, seven years’ duration.

=septentrion= (sèp-), _n.m._, North; (astron.) Lesser Bear.

=septentrional=, =-e= (sèp-), _adj._, North, Northern.

=septidi= (sèp-), _n.m._, septidi, the seventh day of the decade of the

calendar of the first French republic.

=septième= (sè-tièm), _n.m.f._ and _adj._, seventh; seventh day. _Elève

de —_; seventh form boy (in France); lowest-class boy (in America).

=septième= (sĕ-tièm), _n.f._, sequence of seven cards; (mus.) seventh;

(piquet) septieme.

=septièmement= (sè-tièm-mān), _adv._, seventhly.

=septier= (se-tié), _n.m._ _V._ =setier=.

=septillion= (sèp-), _n.m._, (arith.) one quadrillion.

=septimo= (sèp-), _adv._, seventhly, in the seventh place.

=septique= (sèp-), _adj._, (med.) septical, septic.

=septuagénaire= (sèp-), _n.m.f._ and _adj._, septuagenarian.

=septuagésime= (sèp-), _n.f._, septuagesima.

=septuor= (sèp-), _n.m._ (_—_), (mus.) a piece for seven voices, _or_

seven instruments.

=septuple= (sèp-), _n.m._ and _adj._, septuple, sevenfold.

=septupler= (sèp-), _v.a._, to increase sevenfold.

=sépulcral=, =-e=, _adj._, sepulchral, cadaverous.

=sépulcre=, _n.m._, sepulchre, tomb, grave.

=sépulture=, _n.f._, burial, sepulture, interment, vault (tomb). _La —

ecclésiastique_; Christian burial. _Privé de —_; left unburied. _Donner

la —_; to bury, to inter.

=séquelle=, _n.f._, (fam.) gang, crew (of persons); set, host (of things).

=séquence=, _n.f._, sequence (at cards); (c.rel.) sequence.