venter; brothers and sisters of the half blood, by the same venter.
=utérus= (-rus), _n.m._, womb, matrix, uterus.
=utile=, _adj._, useful, of use, advantageous; expedient, proper, due,
beneficial; profitable, serviceable; subservient. _En temps —_; in
proper, _or_ due, _or_ good, time.
=utile=, _n.m._, utility, usefulness. _Joindre l’— à l’agréable_; to
combine utility and pleasure.
=utilement= (u-til-mān), _adv._, usefully, profitably, beneficially,
advantageously.
=utiliser=, _v.a._, to find use for, to turn to account, to make use of,
to avail one’s self of. _S’—_, to be utilized.
=utilitaire=, _n.m._ and _adj._, utilitarian.
=utilité=, _n.f._, utility, use, usefulness, benefit, profit, service,
avail, advantage, purpose; (thea.) utility (actor). _But d’—_; purpose,
useful end.
=utopie=, _n.f._, utopia.
=utopique=, _adj._, utopian.
=utopiste=, _n.m.f._ and _adj._, utopist; utopian.
=utricule=, _n.m._, utricle.
=utriculé=, =-e=, _adj._, utricular.
=uvée=, _n.f._, (anat.) uvea.
=uvelte=, _n.f._, (bot.) sea-grape.
=uviforme=, _adj._, uviform, grape-shaped.
=uvulaire=, _adj._, (anat.) uvular.
V
=v=, _n.m._, the twenty-second letter of the alphabet, v.
=v=, (initial letter of _voir_, to see). _V._, vide.
=va=, imperative of _aller_, to go. _— pour cela_; I consent to it; done,
agreed.
=va=, _n.m._, va (at basset, faro).
=vacance=, _n.f._, vacancy. _pl._, vacation, holidays; recess (of
parliament). _Entrer en —s_; to break up (of schools).
=vacant=, =-e=, _adj._, vacant, unfilled, unoccupied, empty; (jur.) in
abeyance, unclaimed.
=vacarme=, _n.m._, hubbub, tumult, uproar. _Faire du —_; to kick up a
shindy; to create a disturbance.
=vacation=, _n.f._, attendance, sitting (of public officers); day’s sale
(of auctions); vacation (of courts); ☉trade, profession. _— avenante_; in
case of a vacancy.
=vaccin=, _n.m._, (med.) vaccine matter, vaccine; lymph.
=vaccinal=, =-e=, _adj._, vaccinal, vaccine.
=vaccinateur=, _n.m._, vaccinator.
=vaccination=, _n.f._, vaccination.
=vaccine=, _n.f._, vaccinia, cow-pox; vaccination.
=vacciner=, _v.a._, to vaccinate.
=vache=, _n.f._, (mam.) cow; cow-hide (prepared for use). _Etable à —s_;
cow-house, cow-stable _or_ shed. _— à lait_; milk cow, milch cow, dairy
cow. _Manger de la — enragée_; to endure great hardships, to rough it.
_Le grand chemin des —s_; the beaten track. _Le plancher des —s_; dry
land, terra firma. _Parler français comme une — enragée_; to murder the
French language.
=vach-er=, _n.m._, =-ère=, _n.f._, cowherd, cow-keeper, neat-herd.
=vacherie= (va-shrî), _n.f._, cow-house.
=vaciet=, _n.m._, (bot.) grape-hyacinth.
=vacillant=, =-e= (-sil-lān, -t), _adj._, vacillating; reeling,
staggering, tottering; wavering, uncertain, undecided; (bot.) versatile;
(fig.) flickering (of light).
=vacillation= (-sil-la-), _n.f._, vacillation; wavering, flickering (of
light).
=vaciller= (-sil-lé), _v.n._, to vacillate; to waver; to reel, to
stagger; (fig.) to flicker (of light).
=vacuité=, _n.f._, vacuity, emptiness.
=vade=, _n.f._, vade, stake (at play).
=vademanque=, _n.f._, (banking) decrease of money in reserve.
=vade-mecum= (va-dé-mé-ko-m), _n.m._ (_—_), vade-mecum, manual.
=va-et-vient=, _n.m._ (_—_), (mec.) reciprocating motion, swing, sweep,
see-saw motion; (fig.) oscillation; (nav.) small ferry-boat; pass-rope,
traversing gear.
=vagabond=, =-e=, _n._ and _adj._, vagabond, vagrant; wandering.
=vagabondage=, _n.m._, vagrancy; roguery.
=vagabonder= _or_ ☉=vagabonner=, _v.n._, to be a vagabond, to wander, to
roam, to tramp about.
=vagant=, _n.m._, wrecker.
=vagin=, _n.m._, (anat.) vagina.
=vaginal=, =-e=, _adj._, (anat.) vaginal.
=vagir=, _v.n._, (of infants) to wail, to mewl, to pule.
=vagissant=, _adj._, mewling, wailing, puling.
=vagissement=, _n.m._, crying, wailing, mewling (of infants).
=vague= (vag), _n.f._, wave, billow, surge.
=vague=, _adj._, vague, indeterminate, loose, uncertain; faint,
indistinct, hazy; empty. _Terres —s_; waste-land.
=vague=, _n.m._, vagueness, looseness; uncertainty; space, empty space,
emptiness; void, vacuum.
=vaguement= (vag-mān), _adv._, vaguely.
=vaguemestre= (vag-mès-tr), _n.m._, (milit.) wagon-master,
baggage-master, paymaster, orderly, post-sergeant; (nav.) postman.
=vaguer= (va-ghé), _v.n._, to ramble, to rove, to range about, to wander,
to stray, to straggle. _v.a._, to mash (in brewing).
=vaguesse=, _n.f._, (paint.) lightness, airiness.
=vaigrage=, _n.m._, (nav.) outer-planking, ceiling, wale.
=vaigre=, _n.f._, (nav.) plank (for ceiling).
*=vaillamment= (va-ia-mān), _adv._, valiantly, valorously, courageously,
stoutly.
*=vaillance=, _n.f._, valiance, valor, courage, bravery.
*=vaillant=, =-e=, _adj._, valiant, valorous, brave, courageous, gallant.
*=vaillant=, _n.m._, all a man is worth, one’s substance. _Tout son —_;
one’s all.
*=vaillant=, _adv._, worth, value. _N’avoir pas un sou —_; not to be
worth a penny (of a person). _Il n’a rien —_; he is penniless. _Il a dix
mille écus —_; he is worth 30,000 francs.
☉*=vaillantise=, _n.f._, (fam.) prowess, valorous deed.
=vain=, =-e= (vin, vè-n), _adj._, vain, fruitless, ineffectual,
unprofitable; empty, shadowy, foolish, trifling, frivolous; vainglorious,
presumptuous, self-conceited. _En —_; vainly, in vain, to no purpose.
_Homme —_; vain, conceited man.
=vaincre= (vainquant, vaincu), _v.a._, to vanquish, to conquer, to
overcome, to master, to defeat, to get the better of; to outdo, to
surpass, to excel. _Se laisser —_; to give way to, to yield. _Se laisser
— à la pitié_; to be moved to pity.
_se_ =vaincre=, _v.r._, to conquer one’s self; to conquer one’s passions.
=vaincre=, _v.n._, to win; to be victorious.
=vaincu=, _n.m._, conquered, vanquished (enemy).
=vainement= (vè-n-mān), _adv._, vainly, in vain, fruitlessly; to no
purpose.
=vainqueur=, _n.m._ and _adj._, vanquisher, conqueror, subduer, victor,
overcomer; prize-winner, prize-man, prize-boy, prize-holder; conquering,
victorious, triumphant.
=vair=, _n.m._, (her.) vair.
=vairé=, =-e=, _adj._, (her.) vairy.
=vairon=, _adj._, silver-eyed (of horses); (pers.) wall-eyed, odd-eyed.
_Œil —_; wall-eye.
=vairon=, _n.m._, (ich.) minnow.
=vaisseau=, _n.m._, ship, vessel; structure, fabric; pile (inside of a
building); (anat.) vessel, tube; (bot.) duct. _pl._, (nav.) shipping.
_— d’approvisionnement_; victualing-ship. _— marchand_; merchantman. _—
de guerre_; man-of-war. _— à deux ponts_; two-decker. _— de la marine
royale_; His, Her, Majesty’s ship. _— frégate_; frigate-built ship. _— de
compagnie_; (nav.) good company keeper. _— école_; training-ship. _— armé
en guerre_; armed ship.
=vaisselle=, _n.f._, plates and dishes; plate (of gold _or_ silver). _—
de terre_; earthenware. _— d’or_; gold plate. _— d’argent_; silver plate.
_— ciselée_; carved plate. _— plate_; (of gold _or_ silver) plate.
=vaissellerie=, _n.f._, pots and pans.
=val=, _n.m._, valley, vale, dale. _Par monts et par vaux_; up hill and
down dale.
=valable=, _adj._, valid, good for.
=valablement=, _adv._, validly.
=valenciennes=, _n.f._, valenciennes (lace).
=valériane=, _n.f._, (bot.) valerian.
=valet=, _n.m._, footman, valet; knave (at cards); door weight; hold-fast
(of a joiner); support (of a looking-glass). _— de pied_; footman.
_— de chambre_; valet. _— de bourreau_; assistant-executioner, aid.
_Faire le bon —_; to be officious. _Maître —_; (agri.) headman. _— de
ferme_; farm-servant. _— de chiens_; whipper-in. _Tel maître, tel —_;
like master, like man. _C’est un — de cartes_; (fig.) he is a nobody, a
contemptible fellow. _Il n’y a pas de grand homme pour son — de chambre_;
no man is a hero to his valet. _On ne prend pas de — pour se servir
soi-même_; what! keep a dog and bark thyself!
=valetage= (val-taj), _n.m._, duty of a valet, drudgery.
*=valetaille= (val-tâ-i), _n.f._, pack of men-servants, footmen,
flunkies, lackeys, menials.
=valet-à-patin=, _n.m._, (_—s-—_) (surg.) forceps (for ligatures).
=valeter= (val-té), _v.n._, to cringe, to dance attendance, to fawn upon.
=valétudinaire=, _n.m.f._ and _adj._, valetudinary, valetudinarian,
invalid.
=valeur=, _n.f._, value, worth, consideration; import, meaning. _pl._,
(com.) bills, paper, stocks, shares, securities; valor, bravery, courage,
gallantry. _Être en —_; to bear a good price. _Être de nulle —_; to
be of no value, to be valueless. _Abaisser la —_; to depreciate. _—
en espèces_; value in cash. _—s mobilières_; transferable securities.
_Mettre en —_; to improve (land).
=valeureusement= (-reûz-mān), _adv._, valiantly, valorously, bravely,
courageously.
=valeureu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, valiant, valorous, brave, courageous,
gallant.
=validation=, _n.f._, (jur.) validation, rendering valid.
=validé=, _n.f._, (_n.p._) the title of the Sultan’s mother.
=valide=, _n.m._ and _adj._, person in health; healthy; in health, valid,
good.
=validement= (-lid-mān), _adv._, (jur.) validly.
=valider=, _v.a._, to validate, to confirm, to ratify, to make valid.
=validité=, _n.f._, validity, validness.
=valise=, _n.f._, valise, portmanteau.
=valisnère= _or_ =valisnérie=, _n.f._, (bot.) frogbit.
=valkyrie=, _n.f._, (_—s_) Scandinavian myth, valkyrie, goddess,
wish-maiden.
=vallaire=, _adj._, (antiq.) vallary, vallar. _Couronne —_; vallary crown.
=vallée=, _n.f._, valley, vale.
=vallon=, _n.m._, dale, vale, small valley.
=valoir= (valant, valu), _v.n._, to be worth, to be as good as, to be
equal to; to yield, to bring, to win for, to procure. _— mieux_; to be
better, to be preferable. _Il vaut mieux ne pas y aller_; it is better
not to go there. _Cela ne vaut rien_; that is good for nothing. _Cet
habit ne vaut plus rien_; this coat is quite worn out. _Cela ne vaut pas
la peine d’y penser_; that is not worth a moment’s thought. _Il ne vaut
pas la peine qu’on lui réponde_; he is not worth answering. _Vous ne
faites rien qui vaille_; nothing you do is worth anything; you do nothing
to speak of. _Chaque chose vaut son prix_; everything has its price.
_Cela vaut son pesant d’or_; that is worth its weight in gold. _Faire —
une terre_; to improve, to cultivate, an estate. _Faire — son argent_;
to turn one’s money to account, to put it out at interest. _Faire — son
talent_; to turn one’s talent to account. _Faire — sa marchandise_; to
set off one’s goods. _Il fait bien — ce qu’il sait_; he makes the best
of his knowledge. _Faire — son droit_; to assert, _or_ maintain, one’s
right. _Se faire —_; to push one’s self forward, to brag too much. _Cela
vaut fait_; that’s as good as done. _Vaille que vaille_; at all events,
for better or worse. _Que lui a valu son ambition?_ what has his ambition
brought him, _or_ won for him?
=valonnement=, _n.m._, disposing in vales.
_ad_ =valorem=, _adj._, (com.) ad valorem.
=valse=, _n.f._, waltz.
=valser=, _v.n._, to waltz.
=valseu-r=, _n.m._, =-se=, _n.f._, waltzer, dancer, partner (in a dance).
=value=, _n.f._, value. _Plus-—_; superior value. _Moins-—_; inferior
value.
=valvaire=, _adj._, (bot.) valvate.
=valve=, _n.f._, valve; (tech.) clack, _or_ trap, door.
=valvé=, =-e=, _adj._, (bot.) valved, valvate.
=valvule=, _n.f._, (anat.) valvule.
=vampire=, _n.m._, vampire.
=van=, _n.m._, (agri.) fan, van; winnowing-baskets.
=vandale=, _n.m._ and _adj._, Vandal; vandalic.
=vandalisme=, _n.m._, vandalism.
=vandoise=, _n.f._, (ich.) dart; dace.
*=vanille=, _n.f._, (bot.) vanilla, vanilla-tree; (bot.) vanilla (fruit).
*=vanillier=, _n.m._, (bot.) vanilla-tree, vanilla.
=vanité=, _n.f._, vanity, self-conceit. _Que vous avez de —!_ how full of
vanity you are! _Faire — d’une chose_; to be proud of a thing. _Sans —_;
vanity apart.
=vaniteu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, vainglorious, absurdly vain.
=vannage=, _n.m._, (agri.) winnowing; (hydraul.) system of water-gates in
a dam, etc.
=vanne=, _n.f._, water-gate, sluice, sluice-gate; paddle-door. _adj._
_Eaux —s_; waste waters (from factories, etc.).
=vanneau=, _n.m._, (orni.) lapwing, peewit, plover.
=vanner=, _v.a._, to winnow, to fan, to sift, to hull; (hydraul.) to
make, _or_ to place, water-gates in dams, etc.
=vannerie= (va-n-rî), _n.f._, basket-trade; basket-work.
=vannet=, _n.m._, scallop, scollop (shell-fish).
=vannette=, _n.f._, server, flat basket (to give horses their corn). _—
crible_; oat-sieve.
=vanneur=, _n.m._, winnower.
=vannier=, _n.m._, basket-maker.
*=vantail=, _n.m._, leaf of a folding-door; window-shutter; lock-gate.
_Fermer les vantaux_; to shut the folding-doors.
=vantard=, =-e=, _n._ and _adj._, boaster, bragger, braggart; boasting,
boastful; bragging.
=vantardise=, _n.f._, (fam.) habitual boasting, bragging.
=vanter=, _v.a._, to vaunt, to cry up, to praise up, to extol.
_se_ =vanter=, _v.r._, to boast, to vaunt, to brag; to praise one’s self;
to plume one’s self upon. _Il n’y a pas de quoi se —_; there is nothing
to brag of.
=vanterie= (vān-trî), _n.f._, boasting, bragging, vaunting; brag, boast.
☉=vanteur=, _n.m._ _V._ =vantard=.
=va-nu-pieds=, _n.m._ and _f._, (_—_) tatterdemalion, ragged rascal,
ragamuffin, waif and stray; vagabond, beggar.
=vapeur=, _n.f._, vapor, fume, steam, damp, exhalation. _pl._, vapors,
hysterics. _À la —_; by steam. _Bateau à —_; steam-boat, steamer.
_Remorqueur à —_; steam-tug. _Chaudière à —_; steam-boiler. _Machine à
—_; steam-engine. _Registre de —_; throttle-valve (of a steam-engine).
_En —_; with the steam on. _À toute —_; at full speed. _Mettre en —_; to
put the steam on, to get up steam. _On est en pleine —_; steam is up.
=vapeur=, _n.m._, steamer. _— poste_; mail-steamer.
=vaporeu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, vaporous, vaporish; (paint.) aërial.
=vaporisation=, _n.f._, vaporization.
=vaporiser=, _v.a._, to vaporize.
_se_ =vaporiser=, _v.r._, to vaporize, to be vaporized.
=vaquer= (va-ké), _v.n._, to be vacant, void, empty; to be in
vacation-time, not to sit; to attend, to devote one’s self to. _Il vaque
à ses affaires_; he is attending to his business.
*=varaigne=, _n.f._, tide-sluice (of salt marshes).
=varaire=, _n.f._, (bot.) white hellebore.
=varangue= (-rāng), _n.f._, (nav.) floor-timbers of a ship. _— plate_ or
_— de fond_; flat floor-timber. _— fort acculée_; rising floor-timber
(amidships).
=vare=, _n.f._, Spanish measure of length, about a yard.
=varec= _or_ =varech=, _n.m._, (bot.) varec, wrack, sea-wrack, sea-weed;
(jur.) wreck (things washed upon the shore by the sea); sunken ship.
=varenne=, _n.f._, waste-land; (hunt.) ☉chase, royal preserve.
=vareuse=, _n.f._, oil-skin (jacket); pilot-jacket; jersey, blazer.
=variabilité=, _n.f._, variableness, variability, changeableness; (alg.)
variability.
=variable=, _adj._, variable, changeable, fickle, unsettled, unsteady.
_La fortune est —_; fortune is fickle. _Pouls —_; changeable pulse.
=variable=, _n.m._, variable, change. _Le baromètre est au —_; the
barometer is at change.
=variant=, =-e=, _adj._, (l.u.) variable, fickle.
=variante=, _n.f._, different reading, _or_ interpretation; various, _or_
different, spelling; alteration, difference (in different editions of a
book), etc.
=variation=, _n.f._, variation, variety, change, changeableness;
alteration.
=varice=, _n.f._, (med.) varix, varicose vein.
=varicelle=, _n.f._, (med.) varicella, swine-pox.
=varicocèle=, _n.f._, (med.) varicocele.
=varier=, _v.a._, to vary, to variegate, to diversify. _— la phrase_; to
say the same thing in other words.
=varier=, _v.n._, to vary, to change, to be changeable; to disagree, to
be at variance; to be fickle.
=variété=, _n.f._, variety, diversity, change. _pl._, miscellanea;
varieties; medley; extracts.
_ne_ =varietur= (né varié-tur), (jur.) in order that no change may be
made; “final edition” of an author’s works.
=variole=, _n.f._, small-pox, variola.
=varioleu-x=, =-se=, _adj._ and _n._, (a person) suffering from small-pox.
=variolique=, _adj._, (med.), variolous, variolar, variolic.
=variolite=, _n.f._, (min.) variolite.
=varioloïde=, _n.f._, (med.) varioloid, chicken-pox.
=variorum=, _n.m._ and _adj._, (_—_) variorum. _Edition —_; variorum
edition.
=variqueu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, varicose, varicous.
☉=varlet=, _n.m._, varlet, page.
=varlope=, _n.f._, jointer, jointing-plane.
=vasculaire= _or_ (l.u.) =vasculeu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, (anat.) vascular.
=vase=, _n.m._, vase, vessel, urn. _—s antiques_; antique vases. _—s
étrusques_; Etruscan vases. _—s cinéraires_; funeral urns. _— de nuit_;
chamber utensil.
=vase=, _n.f._, slime, mud, mire, ooze, silt.
=vaseu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, slimy, muddy, miry, silty, oozy.
=vasi-er=, =-ère=, _n._ and _adj._, mud, of mud.
=vasière=, _n.f._, salt-pan, brine-pan; mussel-bed.
=vasistas= (-tâs), _n.m._, casement-window, casement; hatch-door;
shutter; blind (of a carriage).
=vasque=, _n.f._, basin (of a fountain).
=vassal=, _n.m._, vassal.
=vassalité=, _n.f._, vassalage; land held by vassals.
=vasselage= (vas-laj), _n.m._, vassalage.
=vaste=, _adj._, vast, wide, great, spacious, extensive. _— pays_; vast
country. _De —s desseins_; great designs. _Un lieu —_; a vast place.
_int._ (nav.) avast!
=vastement=, _adv._, vastly, extensively, hugely, widely, greatly.
=vatican=, _n.m._, Vatican, the Palace of the Pope.
=va-tout=, _n.m._, (_—_) staking all one has, one’s all (at cards).
_à_ =vau-de-route=, _adv._ _V._ =à vau-l’eau=.
=vaudeville= (vôd-vil), _n.m._, (thea.) vaudeville; ballad; (thea.)
ballad-opera, ballad-farce (corruption of _Vaux de Vire_, by Olivier
Basselin).
=vaudevilliste=, _n.m._, vaudeville-writer; ballad-writer.
=vaudois=, _n.m._, Vaudois, native of Vaud.
_à_ =vau-l’eau=, _adv._, with the current, down stream; (fig.) to wrack
and ruin; at sixes and sevens.
=vaurien= (-in), _n.m._, good-for-nothing wretch, worthless fellow,
scamp, scape-grace; rogue, vagabond.
=vautour=, _n.m._, (orni.) vulture.
=vautrait=, _n.m._, (hunt.) boar-hunting equipage.
=vautre=, _n.m._, boar-hound.
=vautré=, =-e=, _adj._, wallowing, weltering; sprawling.
_se_ =vautrer=, _v.r._, to wallow, to welter, to roll; to spread one’s
self out, to sprawl.
=vavasseur=, _n.m._, vavasor (vassal of a vassal).
=vayvodat=, _n.m._, waywodate, waywodeship.
=vayvode=, _n.m._, (_—s_) waiwode, waywode.
=vayvodie=, _n.f._, waywodeship.
=veau=, _n.m._, calf; bull-calf; calf’s leather; veal; lazy fellow. _—
marin_; seal, sea-calf; sealskin. _Chair de —_; veal. _Longe de —_; loin
of veal. _Rouelle de —_; fillet of veal. _Des pieds de —_; calves’ feet.
_Eau de —_; veal broth. _Faire le pied de —_; (fig.) to cringe, to bow
and scrape, to truckle (to). _Faire le —_; to sprawl; to indulge one’s
self, to idle one’s time away.
=vecteur=, _adj._, (astron.) vector. _Rayon —_; radius vector.
=véda=, _n.m._, Veda (sacred books of the Hindoos).
=védasse=, _n.f._, (dy.) weed-ashes.
=vedette=, _n.f._, scout, vedette, mounted sentinel; watch-box,
watch-tower. _Ecrire quelque chose en —_; to write anything in a line by
itself. _Mettre en —_; to place on vedette.
=védique=, _adj._, Vedic.
=végétable=, _adj._, capable of vegetation.
=végétal=, _n.m._, vegetable; plant.
=végétal=, =-e=, _adj._, vegetable.
=végétalité=, _n.f._, vegetability.
=végétant=, =-e=, _adj._, vegetating.
=végétarien=, =-ne=, _n.m.f._, vegetarian.
=végétati-f=, =-ve=, _adj._, vegetative.
=végétation=, _n.f._, vegetation.
=végéter=, _v.n._, to vegetate. _Il ne fait plus que —_; he merely
vegetates.
=véhémence=, _n.f._, vehemence, vehemency, impetuosity; force, violence.
=véhément=, =-e=, _adj._, vehement, impetuous, hot, passionate. _Naturel
—_; hot temper. _Orateur —_; vehement orator, impassioned orator.
=véhémentement=, _adv._, ☉(jur.) strongly; (fam., fig.) vehemently.
=véhicule=, _n.m._, vehicle.
=vehme=, _n.f._, (_n.p._) Vehmic Court.
=vehmique=, _adj._, Vehmic.
*=veille=, _n.f._, watch, watching, sitting up; eve, vigil, day before;
point, verge. _Être à la — de_; to be on the point of, on the verge of.
_Entre la — et le sommeil_; between sleeping and waking.
*=veillée=, _n.f._, sitting up to work in company; evening (in company);
night attendance (upon a sick person). _Les —s d’hiver_; the winter
evenings.
*=veiller=, _v.n._, to watch, to sit up, to wake, to be awake, to lie
awake; to be on the watch; to attend, to take care, to see, to have an
eye upon. _— au salut de l’état_; to watch over the safety of the state.
_— sur soi même_; to be upon one’s guard. _Faire — quelqu’un_; to keep
any one up. _Veillez-y_; see to it.
*=veiller=, _v.a._, to watch over, to look after, to sit up with. _— un
malade_; to sit up with, _or_ to watch by the bedside of, a sick person.
*=veilles=, _n.f.pl._, labors; night-studies, night-watches, vigils.
*=veilleur=, _n.m._, watcher; night watchman.
*=veilleuse=, _n.f._, night-lamp; float-light, watch-light.
*=veillote= _or_ =veillotte=, _n.f._, hay-cock; (bot.) meadow-saffron.
=veinage=, _n.m._, (paint.) veining.
=veinard=, _n.m._ and _adj._, (pop.) lucky fellow, in luck’s way.
=veine=, _n.f._, (anat., geol., min.) vein; (of marble _or_ wood) vein;
(geol.) seam; underground spring of water; (fig.) vein. _Je suis en —_;
my hand is in; I am in luck’s way. _En — de_; in the vein for, in the
humor for. _Bonne —_; good run of luck (at play). _Avoir de la —_; to be
in luck. _Je ne suis plus en —_; my luck has turned.
=veiné=, =-e=, _adj._, veiny, veined.
=veiner=, _v.a._, (paint.) to vein.
=veineu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, veined, veining; (anat.) venous, venal.
=veinule=, _n.f._, (anat.) small vein.
=vêlage=, _n.m._, calving (of cows).
=vélar=, _n.m._, hedge-mustard, hedge-garlic.
=vélarium= (-rio-m), _n.m._, (_—s_) (Rom. antiq.) velarium (awning
stretched above the theater to keep off the sun).
=vélaut!= _int._, (hunt.) tally-ho.
=velche=, _n.m._, Goth, ignoramus.
=velcherie=, _n.f._, ignorance, stupidity.
=vêle=, _n.f._, cow-calf.
=vêler=, _v.a._, (of cows) to calve.
=vélin=, _n.m._, vellum; fine Alençon lace.
=vélite=, _n.m._, (Rom. antiq.) light-armed soldier, skirmisher.
=velléité= (vél-lé-), _n.f._, velleity, slight desire, fancy, mind.
☉=véloce=, _adj._, (astron.) swift, rapid.
=vélocipède=, _n.m._, velocipede, cycle.
=vélocité=, _n.f._, velocity, swiftness, rapidity, speed.
=velours=, _n.m._, velvet. _— ras_; short-nap velvet. _— façonné_;
figured velvet. _— de soie_; silk velvet. _— de coton_; cotton velvet.
_— à côtes_; corduroy. _— de coton croisé_; velveteen. _— glacé_; shot
velvet. _Faire patte de —_; to speak smoothly; to draw in one’s claws.
_Habits de — ventre de son_; (prov.) silks and satins put out the kitchen
fire. _Passe —_; (bot.) prince’s feathers.
=velouté=, _n.m._, velveting, flock surface; velvet-pile; softness;
(bot.) velvet; (med.) ☉mucous membrane.
=velouté=, =-e=, _adj._, velvet, velvety; cut in imitation of velvet;
velvet-like; with the softness of velvet; soft and smooth to the palate
(of wines).
=velouter=, _v.a._, to give (to some material) the appearance of velvet;
to make velvet-like.
=veloutier= (-tié), _n.m._, velvet-worker.
=veltage=, _n.m._, measuring liquids by the _velte_.
=velte=, _n.f._, an (obsolete) measure of capacity, about 7 quarts
English; a sort of gauge to measure the capacity of casks.
=velter=, _v.a._, to measure liquids by the _velte_.
=velteur=, _n.m._, gauger; one who measures by the _velte_.
=velu=, =-e=, _adj._, hairy (not applied to the head or beard); shaggy,
rough. _n.m._, shagginess; hairy part.
=velverette=, _n.f._, corduroy.
=velvet=, _n.m._, =velvetine=, _n.f._, velveteen.
=velvote=, _n.f._, (bot.) (spurious) toad-flax.
=venaison=, _n.f._, venison.
=vénal=, =-e=, _adj._, venal, mercenary.
=vénalement= (-nal-mān), _adv._, in a venal, mercenary manner.
=vénalité=, _n.f._, venality.
=venant=, _n.m._ and _adj._, comer; coming. _A tout —_; to the first
comer; to any one, _or_ as the fancy takes one.
=vendable=, _adj._, salable, vendible.
=vendange=, _n.f._, vintage; grape-gathering. _Faire —_; to gather the
grapes; (fig.) to make a good thing of, to profit by.
=vendanger=, _v.a._ and _n._, to gather grapes; to vintage; (fig.) to
make illicit profits; to ravage, to spoil, to devastate, to sweep away.
=vendangeu-r=, _n.m._, =-se=, _n.f._, vintager, grape-gatherer.
=vendéen=, =-ne=, _n._, _adj._, Vendean.
=vendémiaire=, _n.m._, Vendémiaire, the first month of the calendar of
the first French republic, from September 22d or 23d to October 21st or
22d.
=venderesse= (vān-drès), _n.f._, (jur.) vendor.
=vendetta=, _n.f._, (_—s_) vendetta, vengeance.
=vendeu-r=, _n.m._, =-se=, _n.f._, seller, vendor, dealer. _—
d’orviétan_; quack.
=vendication=, _n.f._ _V._ =revendication=.
=vendiquer=, _v.a._ _V._ =revendiquer=.
☉=vendition=, _n.f._, (jur.) sale.
=vendre=, _v.a._ and _n._, to sell, to vend, to sell out; (fig.) to
betray. _— cher_; to sell dear. _— à bon marché_; to sell cheap. _—
argent comptant_; to sell for ready money. _À —_; to be sold, for sale.
_Chose qui plaît est à moitié vendue_; good wares make quick sales.
_se_ =vendre=, _v.r._, to sell one’s self; to sell, to go off (of a
thing).
=vendredi=, _n.m._, Friday. _Le — saint_; Good-Friday.
=vené=, =-e=, _adj._, high (of meat).
☉=vénéfice=, _n.m._, (jur.) poisoning by malefice.
☉=venelle=, _n.f._, small street, alley, lane. [Only used in the popular
expression _Enfiler la —_; to run away, to take to one’s heels.]
=vénéneu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, venomous, poisonous (of plants only).
=vener=, _v.a._, to run (cattle) to make their flesh tender. _Faire — de
la viande_; to keep meat until it gets high.
=vénérable=, _adj._, venerable, reverend.
=vénérablement=, _adv._, venerably, reverently.
=vénération=, _n.f._, veneration. _Sa mémoire est en —_; his memory is
held in veneration.
=vénérer=, _v.a._, to venerate, to reverence.
=vénerie= (vé-n-rî) _n.f._, venery, hunting; hunting-train; kennel.
=vénérien=, =-ne= (-in, -è-n), _adj._, venereal, syphilitic.
=venette=, _n.f._, (pop.) fright, funk. _Avoir la —_; to be in a funk.
_Donner la —_; to frighten, to put into a funk.
=veneur=, _n.m._, huntsman. _Grand —_; master of the hounds.
=venez-y-voir=, _n.m._, (_—_) (fam., iron.) sight, show, raree-show;
trifle, catch, cheat.
=vengeance= (-jans), _n.f._, vengeance, revenge. _Tirer — d’un affront_;
to be revenged for an affront. _Demander_, or _crier_, _—_; to call,
_or_ cry, for vengeance. _Esprit de —_; revengefulness. _Par —_; out of
revenge.
=venger=, _v.a._, to revenge, to avenge, to take revenge for, to resent.
_— une injure_; to avenge an injury.
_se_ =venger=, _v.r._, to revenge one’s self, to avenge one’s self; to be
revenged. _Se — de quelqu’un_; to be revenged on any one.
=venge-ur=, =-resse=, _n._ and _adj._, avenger, revenger; revengeful,
avenging.
=véniel=, =-le=, _adj._, venial.
=véniellement= (-nièl-mān), _adv._, venially.
=veni-mecum= (vé-ni-mé-co-m), _n.m._, (_—_). _V._ =vade-mecum=.
=venimeu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, communicating poison, venomous (of animals);
poisonous, malignant.
=venin=, _n.m._, venom, poison, spite, rancor, malice. _Morte la bête,
mort le —_; dead dogs can’t bite or dead men tell no tales. _Il a jeté
tout son —_; he has vented all his spite.
=venir= (venant, venu), _v.n._, to come, to be coming; to come along, to
arrive; to chance, to fall out, to occur, to happen; to be descended;
to grow, to grow up, to thrive (of plants); to issue, to run, to flow;
to emanate, to proceed, to arise, to derive; to reach. _Je le vois —_;
I see him coming; (fig.) I see what he is driving at. _Le voilà qui
vient_; here he comes. _Venez ici_; come here. _Voulez-vous — avec nous à
Londres?_ will you go with us to London? _Faire —_; to send for. _Faire
— le médecin_; to send for the doctor. _Il va et vient_; he goes in and
out. _Il s’en est allé comme il est venu_; he has had his labor for his
pains. _Je ne ferai qu’aller et —_; I will not stay, I shall be back
again directly. _En — aux extrémités_; to come to extremities. _S’en
—_; to come away. _Il en vint jusqu’à le menacer_; he went so far as to
threaten him. _En — aux mains_; to come to blows. _Il en faut — là_;
we must come to that at last. _Si ma lettre venait à se perdre_; if my
letter should happen to be lost, _or_ to miscarry. _Tout lui vient à
souhait_; everything succeeds according to his wishes. _Cette nouvelle
est venue jusqu’à moi_; that news reached even me. _Il me vint une
pensée_; a thought came into my head. _D’où vient-il que?_ how is it
that? _D’où vient cela?_ what is the cause of that? _D’où vient que?_ how
is it that? _Quand il vint à parler de_; when he came to speak of. _— au
monde_; to come into the world. _— de_; to come from; (followed by an
infinitive) to have just. _Je viens de le quitter_; I have just left him.
_Se faire bien — de_; to ingratiate one’s self (with), to curry favor
(with). _Il vient de partir_; he has only just gone, _or_ started. _Il
vient d’arriver_; he has just arrived. _Je viens le voir_; I come to see
him. _Je viens de le voir_; I have just seen him. _Cet arbre vient bien_;
that tree thrives well. _Viens donc_, _venez donc_; come away, come
along. _Où voulez-vous en —?_ what are you aiming, driving, at? _D’où
venez-vous?_ where do you come from? where were you brought up? _Il faut
le voir —_; we must first see what he is driving at. _Vouloir en — à_; to
aim at, to be driving at, to mean, to be up to. _Temps à —_; future time.
_— à bout de_; to succeed, to master, to get through (anything). _Tout
vient à point à qui sait attendre_; everything comes to him who waits.
_C’est un beau — y voir_; a pretty sight, indeed!
=venir=, _n.m._, coming.
=vent=, _n.m._, wind, gale; flatulence; breath; (hunt.) scent; vanity,
emptiness; (artil.) windage. _Un souffle de —_; a puff of wind. _Un —
coulis_; a slight draught. _Il fait du —_; it is windy. _Être à l’abri du
—_; to be sheltered from the wind. _Jeter la plume au —_; to allow chance
to decide. _Autant en emporte le —_; all that is idle talk. _Aller comme
le —_; to go swiftly, like the wind. _Aller selon le —_; to sail with the
wind; (fig.) to go with the times; to be a time-server. _— fait_; settled
wind. _Au —_; to the wind; (nav.) to windward. _Sous le —_; (nav.) to
leeward. _— de terre_; land breeze. _— de mer_; sea breeze. _Avoir — et
marée_; to have both wind and tide (in one’s favor). _Avoir le dessus
du —_; (nav.) to have the weather-gauge; (fig.) to have the upper
hand of any one. _Avoir des —s_; to be troubled with wind, flatulence
(fig.). _Lâcher un —_; to break a wind. _Tout cela n’est que du —_; all
that means nothing. _Si le — le permet_; weather permitting. _Filer —
arrière_; (nav.) to sail before the wind. _Gagner le — sur_; to get to
windward of; to weather. _Prendre le —_; to scent; (nav.) to sail near
the wind. _— frais_; fresh gale. _Gros coup de —_; strong gale. _Être
logé aux quatre —s_; to be exposed to every wind that blows. _Avoir le —
contraire_; to have the wind against one. _Flotter au gré du —_; to float
in the wind. _Iles du —_; (geog.) Windward Islands. _— au visage rend un
homme sage_; (prov.) adversity makes a man wise, not rich.
*=ventail=, _n.m._, (her.) ventail, visor (of a helmet).
=vente=, _n.f._, sale; selling, auction; felling, cutting out (of
timber). _En —_; for sale, now ready (of a book). _Mettre en —_; to offer
for sale; to put up for sale, to publish (a book). _— aux enchères_;
auction. _— judiciaire_; sale under warrant, _or_ before the sheriff.
_Marchandise de bonne —_; goods that go off well. _Asseoir les —s_; to
mark the trees that are to be felled. _Lods et —s_; tax on the sale of
heritages.
=ventelle=, _n.f._ paddle-valve (of lock-gates).
=venter=, _v.n.imp._, to blow, to be windy. _Il vente_; the wind is
blowing, it is windy.
=venteu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, windy, flatulent.
=ventier=, _n.m._, wood-salesman.
=ventilateur=, _n.m._, ventilator, fan; (phys.) air-exhauster.
=ventilation=, _n.f._, ventilation, airing; (jur.) valuation.
=ventiler=, _v.a._, to ventilate, to air; (jur.) to value; (fig.) to
discuss, to moot.
=ventis=, _n.m._, wind-fallen timber.
=ventolier=, _n.m._, (hawking) bird that flies well against the wind.
=ventôse=, _n.m._, Ventose, the sixth month of the calendar of the first
French republic, from February 19th or 20th to March 20th.
=ventosité=, _n.f._, flatulence, ventosity.
=ventouse=, _n.f._, cupping-glass, sucker; the devil-fish; ventilator,
vent-hole, air-hole; (arch.) ventiduct. _pl._, cupping-glasses.
_Appliquer les —s_; to cup. _—s-sèches_; dry-cupping.
=ventouser=, _v.a._, to cup.
=ventouseur=, _n.m._, cupper.
=ventral=, =-e=, _adj._, ventral.
=ventre=, _n.m._, belly, stomach; (of bottles) belly; womb; chest, body,
inside. _— à terre_; at full speed. _Passer sur le — à_; to bear down
upon, to rout, to put to rout. _Prendre du —_; to get a corporation. _Le
bas-—_; (anat.) the abdomen. _J’ai mal au —_; I have a stomach-ache.
_Remettre le cœur au — à quelqu’un_; to give any one fresh courage. _À
plat —_; flat on the face. _Faire —_; to bulge, to swell out. _Manger à
— déboutonné_; to eat like a glutton. _— affamé n’a point d’oreilles_; a
hungry man will not listen to reason _or_ a hungry man is an angry man.
_Savoir ce que quelqu’un a dans le —_; (fam.) to know what a person is
worth, _or_ is thinking of. _N’avoir pas à trois mois dans le —_; (fam.)
not to have three months to live. _— affamé prend tout à gré_; any food
is good food when you are starving.
=ventrebleu!= _int._ zounds!
=ventrée=, _n.f._, litter (of animals).
=ventricule=, _n.m._, ventricle.
=ventrière=, _n.f._, girth (of a horse), belly-band, abdominal belt;
sling; (carp.) purlin; (machinery) brace.
=ventriloque=, _n.m._ and _adj._, ventriloquist; ventriloquous,
ventriloquial.
=ventriloquie=, _n.f._, ventriloquy, ventriloquism.
*_se_ =ventrouiller=, _v.r._, to wallow in the mire, _or_ in the mud.
=ventru=, =-e=, _adj._, big-bellied, corpulent; bulging (out).
=venu=, =-e=, _part._, come. _Bien —_; welcome, well-grown (of trees,
etc.). _Mal —_; ill-received; not welcome; ill-grown, stunted (of
trees, etc.); not justified, wrong. _Le premier —_, _la première —e_;
the first-comer, the first that comes, the first person one meets, any
one, no matter which _or_ who. _Le dernier —_; the last comer. _Nouveau
—_; new-comer (_m.s._). _Des nouveaux —s_; new-comers (_m.pl._). _Une
nouvelle —e_; a new-comer (_f.s._). _Des nouvelles —es_; new-comers
(_f.pl._).
=venue=, _n.f._, coming, arrival, advent, growth. _Allées et —s_; goings
and comings. _Tout d’une —_; at a stretch, all at once. _À la bonne —_;
come what may, at all hazards.
☉=vénule=, _n.f._ _V._ =veinule=.
=vénus= (-nus), _n.f._, (astron., myth.) Venus; ☉(chem.) copper.
=vénusté=, _n.f._, (l.u.) handsomeness, gracefulness, elegance.
=vêpres=, _n.f.pl._, vespers.
=ver= (vèr), _n.m._, worm, maggot; moth; mite. _— luisant_; glowworm. _—
de fumier_; muck-worm. _— à soie_; silk-worm. _— rongeur_; never-dying
worm. _— de fromage_; cheese-mite. _— solitaire_; tape-worm. _— de
terre_; earth-worm. _Mangé_, or _rongé_, _des —s_; worm-eaten. _Nu comme
—_; stark naked. _Tuer son —_; (pop.) to have a morning nip.
=véracité=, _n.f._, veracity.
=véraison=, _n.f._, turning, ripening (of grapes).
=véranda=, _n.f._, verandah.
=vératre=, _n.m._, (bot.) veratrum.
=vératrine=, _n.f._, (chem.) veratria, veratrine.
=verbal=, =-e=, _adj._, verbal. _Promesse —e_; promise by word of mouth.
=verbalement= (-bal-mān), _adv._, verbally, by word of mouth.
=verbaliser=, _v.n._, to draw up a written statement; to state facts, to
be long-winded.
=verbe=, _n.m._, (gram.) verb; voice; (theol.) the Word.
=verbénacées=, _n.f.pl._, (bot.) verbenaceæ.
=verbération=, _n.f._, verberation.
=verbeusement=, _adv._, verbosely, with many words.
=verbeu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, verbose, prolix.
=verbiage=, _n.m._, verbiage.
=verbiager=, _v.n._, to be verbose.
=verbiageu-r=, _n.m._, =-se=, _n.f._, verbose, _or_ wordy, talker;
twaddler.
=verbosité=, _n.f._, verbosity.
=ver-coquin=, _n.m._, (_—s-—s_) (ent.) vine-grub; (vet.) staggers;
caprice, whim.
=verd=, _adj._ _V._ =vert=.
=verdal=, _n.m._, basement-light, cellar-light.
=verdâtre=, _adj._, greenish.
=verdée=, _n.f._, white wine of Tuscany.
=verdelet=, =-te=, _adj._, tart (of wine); vigorous, strong, hale (of old
people).
=verderie=, _n.f._, verderer’s range; verderer’s jurisdiction.
=verdet=, _n.m._, verdigris.
=verdeur=, _n.f._, greenness, viridity, sap; tartness, harshness (of
wine); acrimony; (of old people) vigor, freshness.
=verdict= (-dikt), _n.m._, (jur.) verdict, finding. _Rendre un —_; to
deliver a verdict.
=verdier=, _n.m._, verderer, verderor; (orni.) greenfinch, green-linnet.
=verdir=, _v.a._ and _n._, to paint green; to grow green, to become
green; to get covered with verdigris (of copper).
=verdoyant=, =-e=, _adj._, verdant, green.
=verdoyer=, _v.n._, to be verdant, to become green.
=verdure=, _n.f._, verdure, greenness, green; pot-herbs.
=verdurier=, _n.m._, greengrocer.
=véreu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, worm-eaten, maggoty, full of maggots, rotten;
suspicious, suspected of a concealed vice _or_ defect; (com.) (of bills)
insecure, unsafe, doubtful.
=verge=, _n.f._, rod, wand; shank (of an anchor); handle (of a whip);
penis. _pl._, rod, birch (old); yard (measure). _— de bedeau_, verger’s
wand. _Cet enfant craint les —s_; that child fears the rod. _Donner des
—s pour se faire fouetter_; to give a rod to beat one’s self. _Passer_
(_quelqu’un_) _par les —s_; (mil.) to flog. _Être passé par les —s_ or
_passer par les —s_; to run the gauntlet. _Faire passer_ (_un soldat_)
_par les —s_; (mil.) to flog through the lines.
=vergé=, =-e=, _adj._, (of paper) laid; (of textile fabrics) streaky.
=vergée=, _n.f._, about a rood.
=verger=, _v.a._, to measure by the rod.
=verger=, _n.m._, fruit-garden, orchard.
=vergeté=, =-e=, _part._, beaten (cleaned with a cane); streaked (of
skin).
=vergeter=, _v.a._, to beat, to whisk, to brush (with a cane).
=vergetier= (-tié), _n.m._, brushmaker, rodmaker.
=vergette=, _n.f._, brush, clothes-brush, bundle of rods, switch
(generally used in the plural); hoops (of a drum). _Donner un coup de —s_
(_à_); to give a brushing, to brush.
=vergeure= (-jur), _n.f._, wire-mark (of paper).
=verglacé=, =-e=, _part._ _adj._, covered with rime, coated over with
frost, frozen over.
=verglacer=, _v.imp._ (old). _Il verglace_; the rain freezes as it falls.
_V._ =verglas=.
=verglas=, _n.m._, glazed frost, frozen rain, rime. _Il fait —_ or _il
tombe du —_; the rain freezes as it falls.
*=vergne=, _n.m._, alder-tree.
*=vergogne=, _n.f._, shame. _Sans —_; shameless.
=vergogneu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, shy, reserved, modest, bashful.
=vergue= (vèrg), _n.f._, (nav.) yard (of a sail). _Grande —_; main-yard.
=véricle=, _n.f._, paste, imitation (jewelry).
=véridicité=, _n.f._, veracity, credibility.
=véridique=, _adj._, veracious, credible.
=véridiquement=, _adv._, veraciously, truthfully.
=vérificateur=, _n.m._, verifier, examiner (of work); auditor (of
accounts).
=vérification=, _n.f._, verification, examining, auditing; (of wills)
probate.
=vérifier=, _v.a._, to inspect, to examine, to verify, to try (weights,
measures); to audit, to prove (a will).
=vérin=, _n.m._, screw-jack.
=vérine=, _n.f._, verinas (tobacco); (nav.) binnacle-lamp.
=vérissime=, _adj._, most true, most faithful.
=véritable=, _adj._, true, genuine, pure, real, staunch. _Un — ami_; a
true friend.
=véritablement=, _adv._, truly, really, in reality, indeed, in truth.
=véritas=, _n.m._, Lloyd’s register (French). _Bureau —_; (French)
Lloyd’s rooms.
=vérité=, _n.f._, truth, verity, truthfulness. _Dire la —_; to speak the
truth. _En —_; indeed, truly. _À la —_; indeed; it is true; I confess.
_Toute — n’est pas bonne à dire_; all truths are not to be spoken at all
times. _On dit souvent la — en riant_; there’s many a true word spoken in
jest. _Dire ses —s à quelqu’un_; (not to be afraid) to tell anyone his
faults; to be outspoken with any one.
=verjus=, _n.m._, verjuice; sour grapes. _C’est jus vert et —_; it is six
of one and half a dozen of the other.
=verjuté=, =-e=, _adj._, sharp, tart, acid.
=verjuter=, _v.a._, to flavor with verjuice.
*=vermeil=, =-le=, _adj._, vermilion, ruby, ruddy, rosy, coral. _Teint
—_; rosy complexion.
*=vermeil=, _n.m._, silver-gilt.
=vermicel= _or_ =vermicelle=, _n.m._, vermicelli.
=vermicelier=, _n.m._, vermicelli manufacturer.
=vermiculaire=, _adj._, vermicular, worm-shaped; (anat.) vermiform.
=vermiculaire=, _n.f._, (bot.) stone-crop.
=vermiculé=, =-e=, _adj._, (arch.) vermicular, vermiculated.
=vermiculures=, _n.f.pl._, (arch.) vermiculated work.
=vermiforme=, _adj._, worm-shaped; (anat.) vermiform.
=vermifuge=, _n.m._, (med.) vermifuge.
*=vermiller=, _v.n._, (hunt.) (of boars) to scratch for worms, etc.
*=vermillon=, _n.m._, vermilion.
*=vermillonner=, _v.a._, to vermilion; to paint in red.
=vermine=, _n.f._, vermin, (fig.) rabble.
=vermineu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, (med.) caused by worms.
=vermisseau=, _n.m._, vermicule, grub, earthworm, little worm.
_se_ =vermouler=, _v.r._, to be worm-eaten.
=vermoulu=, =-e=, _adj._, worm-eaten, decayed, crumbling to pieces.
=vermoulure=, _n.f._, worm-hole, rottenness in wood, dry-rot.
=vermout= _or_ =vermouth=, _n.m._, bitters.
=vernaille=, _n.f._, (min.) telesia.
=vernal=, =-e=, _adj._, vernal, spring-like.
=vernation=, _n.f._, (bot.) vernation, foliation.
=verne=, _n.m._, (bot.). _V._ =vergne=.
=vernier=, _n.m._, vernier, sliding-rule.
=vernir=, _v.a._, to varnish; to glaze; to japan, to lacquer, to polish.
=vernis=, _n.m._, varnish, polish, glaze, glazing. _— gras_; oil-varnish.
_Donner un — à_; to polish, to set off.
=vernissage=, _n.m._, varnishing; glazing.
=vernisser=, _v.a._, to varnish, to glaze, to japan.
=vernisseur=, _n.m._, varnisher.
=vernissure=, _n.f._, the application of varnish, _or_ glazing, on
anything.
=vérole=, _n.f._, pox. _La petite —_; the small-pox. _Grain de petite —_;
pock-mark. _Petite — volante_; chicken pox.
=vérolé=, =-e=, _n._ and _adj._, (l.ex.) (med.) poxed, syphilitic.
=vérolique=, _adj._, (med.) syphilitic.
=véron=, _n.m._ _V._ =vairon=.
=véronique=, _n.f._, (bot.) veronica, speedwell.
*=verraille=, _n.f._, small glass wares; old glass.
=verrat=, _n.m._, boar.
=verre=, _n.m._, glass. _— à boire_; drinking glass. _Choquer les
—s_; to touch glasses. _— grossissant_; magnifying-glass. _— ardent_;
burning-glass. _Grand —_; tumbler. _— à pied_; rummer. _— à vin_;
wine-glass. _— de vin_; glass of wine. _— de couleur_; stained glass,
colored glass.
=verrée=, _n.f._, glassful.
=verrerie= (vér-rî), _n.f._, glass-works; glass-making; glass-wares.
=verrier=, _n.m._, glass-maker, glassman, glass-blower; dealer in
glassware; glass-basket.
=verrière=, _n.f._, glass-stand, monteith; (in churches) stained window.
=verrine= _or_ =verrière=, _n.f._, glazed box; glass picture frame.
=verroterie= (vè-ro-trî), _n.f._, glass-ware; glass trinket; glass beads.
=verrou=, _n.m._, bolt. _Fermer une porte au —_; to bolt a door.
_S’enfermer au —_; to bolt one’s self in. _Au —_; under lock and key,
locked up.
*=verrouiller=, _v.a._, to bolt, to bar.
*_se_ =verrouiller=, _v.r._, to bolt one’s self in.
=verrucaire=, _n.f._, (bot.) wartwort.
=verrue=, _n.f._, wart.
=verruqueu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, warty; wart-like; verrucose; (med.)
tubercled.
=vers= (vèr), _n.m._, verse, line (of poetry). _Faire des —_; to write
verses. _Grand —_; Alexandrine (twelve-syllabled verse).
=vers=, _prep._, towards, about, to. _Tournez-vous — moi_; turn towards
me. _— les quatre heures_; about four o’clock.
=versable=, _adj._, apt to overturn, liable to upset.
=versade=, _n.f._, upsetting, overturning.
=versage=, _n.m._, (agri.) first dressing (of land).
=versant=, =-e=, _adj._, liable to be overturned.
=versant=, _n.m._, declivity, side, slope (of mountains); watershed.
=versatile=, _adj._, versatile, variable, changeable.
=versatilité=, _n.f._, versatility, variableness.
=verse=, _adj._, (geom.) versed. _Sinus —_; versed sine.
_à_ =verse=, _adv._, (of rain) very fast, in torrents. _Il pleut à —_; it
is raining in torrents, or cats and dogs.
=versé=, =-e=, _part._ _adj._, poured, overturned; (fig.) versed, skilled,
conversant.
=verseau=, _n.m._, (astron.) Aquarius.
=versement=, _n.m._, payment; deposit. _— partiel_; installment.
=verser=, _v.a._, to pour, to pour out; to shoot, to discharge, to empty;
to shed, to spill; to lodge, to deposit (money); to overturn, to upset,
to cast, to throw.
=verser=, _v.n._, to overturn, to upset, to be overturned, to overset (of
vehicles); to be laid, to be beaten down (of standing corn).
=verset=, _n.m._, (Bibl.) verse.
=versicules= _or_ =versiculets=, _n.m.pl._, (fam., jest.) little verses,
versicles.
=versificateur=, _n.m._, versifier, poetaster.
=versification=, _n.f._, versification.
=versifier=, _v.n._, to versify, to make verses.
=versifier=, _v.a._, to turn into verses.
_se_ =versifier=, _v.r._, to be versified, to be put into verse.
=version=, _n.f._, version, translation.
=verso=, _n.m._, (_—s_) back (of a leaf); (print.) reverse, even,
left-hand page.
=versoir=, _n.m._, mold-board (of a plow).
=verste=, _n.f._, verst (Russian measure of length, about 1166 yards).
=vert=, =-e=, _adj._, green; sharp, harsh (of things); tart (of wine);
raw (of hides); vigorous, robust (of old age); resolute. _Bois —_; green
wood. _Morue —e_; salt fish (that has not been yet dried). _Cuir —_;
raw leather. _Fruit —_; green fruit. _Du vin —_; tart wine. _Pomme —e_;
unripe apple. _Pierres —es_; stones just cut out of the quarry. _Une —e
vieillesse_; a vigorous, _or_ hale, old age. _Une —e réponse_; a sharp
answer. _Ils sont trop —s_; the grapes are sour. _Il a la tête —e_; he is
a hare-brained fellow, _or_ a greenhorn.
=vert=, _n.m._, green, green color; grass; green meat; green food;
tartness (of wine). _— de mer_; sea-green. _Employer le — et le sec_; to
leave no stone unturned. _Mettre des chevaux au —_; to turn horses out to
grass. _Vous ne le prendrez pas sans —_; you will not catch him napping.
_Manger son blé en —_; (prov.) to anticipate one’s income.
=vert d’eau= _or_ =vert de mer=, _n.m._, sea-green.
=vert-de-gris=, _n.m._, (_n.p._) verdigris.
=vert de vessie=, _n.m._, sap-green.
=vert-pomme=, _n.m._, apple-green.
=vertébral=, =-e=, _adj._, vertebral.
=vertèbre=, _n.f._, vertebra.
=vertébré=, =-e=, _adj._, vertebral, vertebrate.
=vertébré=, _n.m._, (zoöl.) vertebral, vertebrate. _Les —s_; the
vertebrates.
=vertement=, _adv._, vigorously, briskly, sharply; harshly, severely. _Je
l’ai tancé —_; I reprimanded him most severely, I gave him a good talking
to.
=vertical=, =-e=, _adj._, vertical.
=verticalement= (-kal-mān), _adv._, vertically.
=verticalité=, _n.f._, verticalness.
*=verticille=, _n.m._, (bot.) verticil; whorl.
*=verticillé=, =-e=, _adj._, (bot.) verticillate.
=verticité=, _n.f._, verticity (of the sea compass).
=vertige=, _n.m._, dizziness, giddiness, vertigo, swimming in the head;
(vet.) staggers; (fig.) folly, madness, intoxication.
=vertigineu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, giddy, dizzy (of heights, etc.), subject
to giddiness.
=vertigo=, _n.m._, (_—s_) vertigo; whim, crotchet; (vet.) staggers.
=vertu=, _n.f._, virtue, chastity; property, faculty, quality; power,
force. _Faire de nécessité —_; to make a virtue of necessity. _En — de_;
by virtue of, in pursuance of. _— de ma vie!_ why, bless my heart!
☉=vertubleu!= =vertuchou!= _int._, bless my heart! zounds!
=vertueusement= (-eûz-mān), _adv._, virtuously.
=vertueu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, virtuous.
☉=vertugadin=, _n.m._, farthingale.
=verve=, _n.f._, warmth, fancy, inspiration; animation, liveliness;
spirit; fervor; rapture; raciness, humor; (l.u.) fancy, whim, crotchet.
_Avoir de la —_; to be sprightly, spirited.
=verveine=, _n.f._, (bot.) vervain, verbena.
=vervelle=, _n.f._, (falconry) varvel.
=verveux= _or_ =vervier=, _n.m._ and _adj._, hoop-net (for fishing).
=vésanie=, _n.f._, (med.) madness, insanity.
=vesce=, _n.f._, (bot.) vetch, tare.
=vésical=, =-e=, _adj._, vesical.
=vésicant=, =-e=, _adj._, causing blisters, vesicatory.
=vésication=, _n.f._, (med.) vesication.
=vésicatoire=, _n.m._ and _adj._, blister; vesicatory; blistering. _Un
emplâtre —_; a blistering plaster. _Un —_; a blister. _Mouche à —_;
blister-fly.
=vésiculaire=, _adj._, vesicular.
=vésicule=, _n.f._, vesicle, bladder.
=vésiculeu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, vesiculate, bladdery.
=vesou=, _n.m._, sugar-cane juice.
=vespasienne= (-zi-èn), _n.f._, urinal (public).
=vesper= (vès-pèr), _n.m._, (astron.) Vesper, Venus.
☉=vespériser=, _v.a._, to scold, to reprimand.
=vespétro=, _n.m._, ratafia (a cordial).
=vesse=, _n.f._, (l.ex.) fizzling (school-slang). _Vesse!_ cave! _Avoir
la —_; (fig.) to be in a funk.
=vesse-de-loup=, _n.f._, (_—s-—_) (bot.) puff-ball.
=vesser=, _v.n._, (l.ex.) to fizzle; (fig.) to funk.
=vesseu-r=, _n.m._, =-se=, _n.f._, (l.ex.) one who fizzles; coward, funk.
=vessie=, _n.f._, bladder; blister; (ich.) bladder; (fig.) trifle,
nonsense. _— natatoire_; swimming bladder. _Faire croire que des —s sont
des lanternes_; (prov.) to make any one believe that the moon is made of
green cheese. _Il vaut nous faire prendre des —s pour des lanternes_; he
would make us believe ..., etc. _Faire venir des —s_; to blister.
=vessigon=, _n.m._, (vet.) vessicnon, wind-gall.
=vesta=, _n.f._, (astron.) Vesta.
=vestale=, _n.f._, vestal.
=veste=, _n.f._, round jacket.
=vestiaire= (-ti-èr), _n.m._, vestiary; robing-room; wardrobe;
dressing-room; cloak-room; charity clothing-club; clothes-money (in
convents).
=vestibule=, _n.m._, vestibule, lobby, hall, porch, gateway; passage.
=vestige=, _n.m._, footstep, track; vestige, sign, mark, foot-print;
trace, remains.
=veston=, _n.m._, lounge-jacket, dress-jacket.
=vésuvien=, =-ne=, _adj._, Vesuvian.
=vêtement= (vêt-mān), _n.m._, garment; garb. _pl._, dress, clothes,
raiment, wearing apparel. _— manqué_; misfit.
=vétéran=, _n.m._, veteran; unpromoted pupil.
=vétérance=, _n.f._, quality of a veteran, veteranship.
=vétérinaire=, _n.m._ and _adj._, veterinary surgeon; veterinary.
*=vétillard=, =-e=. _V._ =vétilleur=.
*=vétille=, _n.f._, trifle.
*=vétiller=, _v.n._, to trifle, to stand upon trifles.
=vétillerie=, _n.f._, hair-splitting.
*=vétilleu-r=, _n.m._, =-se=, _n.f._, one who stands upon trifles,
trifler, hair-splitter.
*=vétilleu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, overnice, fastidious, captious,
hair-splitting (of a person); ticklish, minute, tedious, trifling (of a
thing).
=vêtir= (vêtant, vêtu), _v.a._, to clothe, to vest, to array, to dress.
_se_ =vêtir=, _v.r._, to put on one’s clothes, to dress one’s self.
=vétiver= (-vèr), _n.m._, (bot.) whorl-flowered bent-grass.
=veto= (vé-tô), _n.m._, (_n.p._) veto.
=vêtu=, =-e=, _part._, dressed, clothed, clad, arrayed. _Mal —_;
ill-dressed. _— de blanc_, _de noir_; dressed in white, in black.
=vêture=, _n.f._, taking the habit _or_ the veil (of friars and nuns).
[_Prise d’habit_ is more frequently used.]
=vétusté=, _n.f._, antiquity, oldness, decay.
=vétyver= (-vèr), _n.m._ _V._ =vétiver=.
=veu-f=, =-ve=, _n._ and _adj._, widower; widow; widowed. _Cette église
est —ve de son évêque_; this church is deprived of its bishop. _Eglise
—ve_; a church no longer, a cathedral. _Epouser la —_; (pop.) to be
guillotined.
=veule=, _adj._, (gard.) too light (of earth); long, small and weak
(branches); (pers.) weak, powerless.
=veuvage=, _n.m._, widowhood.
=veuve=, _n.f._, widow; (bot.) tulip streaked white and violet; (orni.)
widow-bird, whidah-finch, vidua.
=veuvier=, _adj._, widower.
=vexant=, =-e=, _adj._, vexing, provoking, annoying.
=vexat-eur=, =-rice=, _adj._, vexatious.
=vexation=, _n.f._, vexation, molestation, annoyance.
=vexatoire=, _adj._, vexatious, annoying.
=vexer=, _v.a._, to vex, to plague, to molest, to torment, to annoy.
=vexillaire=, _n.m._, (Rom. antiq.) vexillary, standard-bearer.
=vexillaire=, _adj._, (nav.) vexillary (of signals made by means of
flags); (bot.) having the shape of a flag.
=viâ=, _prep._, via, by way of.
=viabilité=, _n.f._, (med., jur.) viability (of infants); condition of
the roads of a country; good repair.
=viable=, _adj._, viable, likely to live.
=viaduc=, _n.m._, viaduct.
=viag-er=, =-ère=, _adj._, for life, during life. _Rente —ère_;
life-annuity. _Placer en —_; to sink (money); to invest in a life-annuity.
=viager=, _n.m._, (fin.) life-interest.
=viande=, _n.f._, meat, viand. _— de boucherie_ or _grosse —_; butcher’s
meat. _Menue —_; fowl and game. _— blanche_; white meat (poultry, veal,
etc.). _— noire_; brown meat (game). _Basse —_; inferior, coarse meat.
_Un mangeur de —s apprêtées_; a lazy fellow, a sponger.
=viander=, _v.n._, (hunt.) to graze (of deer).
=viandis=, _n.m._, pasture, grazing (of deer).
=viatique=, _n.m._, Viaticum; last sacrament; provisions for a journey;
traveling money.
=vibord=, _n.m._, (nav.) waist (of a ship).
=vibrant=, =-e=, _adj._, vibrating; vibrant; jarring.
=vibration=, _n.f._, vibration.
=vibratoire=, _adj._, vibratory.
=vibrer=, _v.n._, to vibrate.
=vibrion=, _n.m._, (zoöl.) vibrio, microscopic eel.
=vicaire=, _n.m._, vicar (delegate); curate of a parish. _Le — de
Jésus-Christ_; the Pope. _Grand —_; grand vicar.
=vicairie=, _n.f._, _or_ =vicariat=, _n.m._, curacy, curateship,
vicarage, living.
=vicarial=, =-e=, _adj._, vicarial.
=vicarier=, _v.n._, to officiate as a curate.
=vice=, _n.m._, vice, fault; blemish, defect, flaw, imperfection, error.
_Pauvreté n’est pas —_; poverty is no crime. _— de forme_; informality.
=vice=, _Latin particle_, vice, instead of. [Only used in French in
composition with nouns.]
=vice-amiral=, _n.m._, (_—-amiraux_), vice-admiral; second ship of a
fleet.
=vice-amirauté=, _n.f._, (_—-—s_) vice-admiralty.
*=vice-bailli=, _n.m._, (_—-—s_) vice-bailiff.
=vice-chancelier=, _n.m._, (_—-—s_) vice-chancellor.
=vice-consul=, _n.m._, (_—-—s_) vice-consul.
=vice-consulat=, _n.m._, (_—-—s_) vice-consulship.
=vice-gérant=, _n.m._, (_—-—s_) vicegerent, deputy manager.
=vice-gérent=, _n.m._, (_—-—s_) vicegerent.
=vice-légat=, _n.m._, (_—-—s_) vice-legate.
=vice-légation=, _n.f._, (_—-—s_) vice-legateship.
=vicennal=, =-e=, _adj._, vicennial (of twenty years).
=vice-préfet=, _n.m._, vice-prefect.
=vice-présidence=, _n.f._, (_—-—s_) vice-presidency.
=vice-président=, _n.m._, (_—-—s_) vice-president.
=vice-reine=, _n.f._, (_—-—s_) vice-queen.
=vice-roi=, _n.m._, (_—-—s_) viceroy.
=vice-royauté=, _n.f._, (_—-—s_) viceroyalty, viceroyship.
=vice-sénéchal=, _n.m._, (_—-sénéchaux_) deputy-seneschal.
=vice versa=, _adv._, vice versa.
=vicié=, =-e=, _adj._, vitiated, depraved, corrupted; foul (air).
=vicier=, _v.a._, to vitiate, to taint, to corrupt, to make _or_ render
foul.
_se_ =vicier=, _v.r._, to become vitiated _or_ corrupt; to become, _or_
get, tainted _or_ foul.
=vicieusement= (-eûz-mān), _adv._, viciously.
=vicieu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, vicious, faulty, defective.
=vicinal=, =-e=, _adj._, (of roads) parish, parochial, connecting.
=vicinalité=, _n.f._, condition of the roads of a parish, connection,
communication (of roads).
=vicissitude=, _n.f._, vicissitude; revolution, change.
=vicomtal=, =-e=, _adj._, of a viscount _or_ viscountess.
=vicomte=, _n.m._, viscount.
=vicomté=, _n.f._, viscountship; viscounty.
=vicomtesse=, _n.f._, viscountess.
=victimaire=, _n.m._, (antiq.) victimarius. _adj._, of a victim, _or_
victims.
=victime=, _n.f._, victim, sufferer. _Être — de_; to be a sufferer by.
_Mourir — de_; to die a victim to.
=victimer=, _v.a._, to victimize; to sacrifice; to immolate; to ridicule;
to quiz; to make a laughing-stock of.
=victoire=, _n.f._, victory, conquest. _Remporter la —_; to gain the
victory. _proper noun_, Victoria.
=victoria=, _n.f._, victoria, park-phaeton.
=victorieuse=, _n.f._, (bot.) a variety of anemone.
=victorieusement= (-eûz-mān), _adv._, victoriously, triumphantly.
=victorieu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, victorious, triumphant.
=victorieux=, _n.m._, (bot.) a variety of carnation.
*=victuaille=, _n.f._, (l.u.) provisions. _pl._, (nav.) ☉stores,
victuals, eatables. _V._ =vivres=.
☉*=victuailleur=, _n.m._, (nav.) victualer, victualing-agent.
=vidage=, _n.m._, emptying.
=vidame=, _n.m._, (feudalism) vidame.
=vidamé=, _n.m._, _or_ =vidamie=, _n.f._, dignity of a vidame.
=vidange=, _n.f._, clearing, emptying, removing; (of cess-pools)
night-work; ullage (of liquor). _pl._, night-soil; (med.) lochia. _En —_;
(of corks) ullaged.
=vidangeur=, _n.m._, night-man, scavenger.
=vide=, _adj._, empty, void, blank, devoid, destitute, vacant, vacuous;
(mus.) open. _Corde à —_; open string.
=vide=, _n.m._, void, gap, chasm, hole; vacuum, emptiness, vanity; blank,
empty space. _À —_; empty, upon nothing. _Mâcher à —_; (fig.) to feed on
false hopes.
=vidé=, =-e=, _part._, emptied, empty. _Jarrets bien —s_; (of a horse)
clean hocks.
*=vide-bouteille=, _n.m._, (_—-—s_) small country house, country-box
(house).
=vide-poches=, _n.m._, (_—_) lady’s work-table, carriage-basket.
=vider=, _v.a._, to empty; to vacate; to decide, to end; to settle; to
draw (poultry); to gut (fish); to drain. _— un étang_; to drain a pond.
_— une clef_; to bore a key. _— du drap_; to pink cloth. _— un procès_;
to adjust, _or_ to settle, a lawsuit. _— un différend_; to settle a
dispute. _— ses comptes_; to make up one’s accounts. _— les lieux_, _une
province_, _etc._; to leave, to be driven from, a place, a province, etc.
(by force).
_se_ =vider=, _v.r._, to be emptied; to empty itself (of a thing); to be
settled, to be adjusted.
=vidimer=, _v.a._, (jur.) to collate, to compare (the copy of a document
with the original).
☉=vidimus=, _n.m._, the certifying the copy of a document as conforming
to the original.
=vidrecome=, _n.m._, (l.u.) tumbler, large drinking-glass.
=viduité=, _n.f._, widowhood.
=vidure=, _n.f._, emptying, drawing; pinking.
=vie=, _n.f._, life, existence, days; morals, character; lifetime;
livelihood, living; food, subsistence; way of living, course of life;
vitality; spirit, animation. _Rendre la — à quelqu’un_; to restore life
to any one. _Rendre la — dure à quel-qu’un_; to make any one miserable;
to make life a burden to any one. _Être en —_; to be alive. _Il y va de
la —_; it is a case of life and death. _Demander la —_; to beg for life.
_Je n’ai rien vu de pareil de ma —_; I never saw anything like it in all
my life. _Gagner sa —_; to get one’s livelihood. _Mendier sa —_; to beg
one’s bread. _Faire bonne —_; to lead a merry life. _Faire la —_; to live
fast; to racket. _Faire — qui dure_; to lead a sober life; (fig.) to
husband one’s resources. _Mener une — heureuse_; to lead a happy life.
_Avoir la — dure_; to have a hard time; to have nine lives. _Train de
—_; way of living. _Tourmenter sa —_; to bestir one’s self. _Faire — de
garçon_; to live like a bachelor. _Mener une — réglée_; to lead a regular
life. _C’est ma —_; it is my very life. _Telle —, telle fin_; people die
as they live. _Il a écrit lui-même sa —_; he has written his own life.
_À la — et à la mort_; in life and death. _Une pension à —_; a pension
for life. _Sa — durant_; during his life. _Prodiguer sa —_; to throw away
one’s life, to expose one’s self to danger. _S’ôter la —_; to make way
with one’s self.
=viédase=, _n.m._, (l.ex.) (pers.) puppy, jackanapes.
*=vieil=, _adj._ _V._ =vieux=.
*=vieillard=, _n.m._, old man.
*=vieille=, _adj._ _V._ =vieux=.
*=vieille=, _n.f._, old woman.
*=vieillement=, _adv._, in an old way, _or_ manner.
*=vieillerie=, _n.f._, old things; old clothes, old goods, old stuff, old
lumber, rubbish.
*=vieillesse=, _n.f._, old age; oldness. _Elle est morte de —_; she died
of old age.
*=vieillir=, _v.n._, to grow old; to get old; to look old; to become
obsolete (of words).
*=vieillir=, _v.a._, to make old; to make look old.
*_se_ =vieillir=, _v.r._, to make one’s self look old; to give one’s self
out as older than one actually is.
*=vieillissant=, =-e=, _adj._, growing old.
*=vieillissement= (-is-mān), _n.m._, growing old.
*=vieillot=, =-te=, _adj._, oldish.
=vielle=, _n.f._, hurdy-gurdy. _Il est du bois dont on fait les —s_; he
is of a pliant temperament.
=vieller=, _v.n._, to play upon the hurdy-gurdy; (pop.) ☉to stand
trifling.
=vielleu-r=, _n.m._, =-se=, _n.f._, hurdy-gurdy player.
=vierge=, _n.f._, virgin, maid; (astron.) Virgo.
=vierge=, _adj._, virgin, virginal, maiden; pure, untrodden, unwrought;
free from. _Métaux —s_; native, _or_ virgin, metals. _Forêt —_; primeval,
untrodden, virgin forest. _Epée —_; unfleshed, maiden sword.
=vieux=, =vieil=, _adj.m._, =vieille=, _f._, old; aged, advanced in
years; ancient, venerable. _Un vieux soldat_; an old soldier. _Un vieil
arbre_; an old tree. _Un vieil harpagon_; an old miser. _Une vieille
femme_; an old woman. [_Vieil_ may be used instead of _vieux_ before a
vowel or a silent _h_.]
=vieux=, _n.m._, old man, old boy, old fellow; _un — de la vieille_; a
veteran of the Old Guard.
=vieux=, _n.m._, anything that is old (especially clothes, shoes, etc.).
=vi-f=, =-ve=, _adj._, alive, live, living; quick; lively, brisk,
sprightly, smart, animated, fiery, mettlesome, ardent, eager, hasty,
keen, alert, nimble; sharp, violent (of pain); vivid, bright (of colors).
_Cheval —_; mettlesome horse. _Des yeux —s_; sparkling eyes. _Couleur
—ve_; bright color. _Un froid —_; a piercing cold. _Une —ve douleur_;
a violent pain. _Eau —ve_; spring-water. _Chaux —ve_; quicklime. _Haie
—ve_; quickset hedge. _De —ve voix_; by word of mouth; vivâ voce;
verbally, orally. _Il est — comme la poudre_; he is quick-tempered, as
hot as a peppercorn; he is quick at work. _Mort ou —_; dead or alive.
=vif=, _n.m._, quick; (jur.) person living; shaft (of a column). _Être
touché au —_; to be touched to the quick. _Trancher_, or _couper_, _dans
le —_; to cut to the quick; (fig.) to set to work in earnest. _Piquer
au —_; to sting to the quick. _Être pris sur le —_; (of pictures,
descriptions) to be very life-like.
=vif-argent=, _n.m._, (_n.p._) quicksilver.
=vigie=, _n.f._, (nav.) look-out; look-out man; lurking rock; rock above
water; (railways) seat (on the top of cars). _Être en —_; (nav.) to be on
the look-out, on the watch.
=vigilamment= (-la-mān), _adv._, vigilantly, watchfully.
=vigilance=, _n.f._, vigilance, watchfulness.
=vigilant=, =-e=, _adj._, vigilant, watchful.
=vigile=, _n.f._, vigil, eve.
*=vigne=, _n.f._, vine; vineyard. _— sauvage_; wild vine. _— vierge_;
wild-grape, wild-briony. _— noire_; black briony _or_ bryony. _—
blanche_; white briony, traveler’s joy. _— de Judée_; woody nightshade,
bitter-sweet. _Être dans les —s du Seigneur_; to be in one’s cups, to be
half-seas-over.
*=vigneau=, _n.m._ _V._ =vignot=.
*=vigneron=, _n.m._, =-ne=, _n.f._, vine-dresser, wine-grower.
*=vignette=, _n.f._, (engr.) vignette; (bot.) meadow-sweet.
=vignettiste=, _n.m._, vignettist, vignette-maker.
*=vignoble=, _n.m._, vineyard. _Propriétaire de —s_; wine-grower.
*=vignoble=, _adj._, wine-growing.
*=vignot= _or_ =vigneau=, _n.m._, periwinkle.
*=vigogne=, _n.m._, vicuna-felt hat.
*=vigogne=, _n.f._, vicugna, vicuña, vicuna; vicuna-wool, swan’s down.
=vigoureusement= (-reûz-mān), _adv._, vigorously, stoutly, forcibly,
energetically.
=vigoureu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, vigorous, stout, hardy, lusty, forcible,
energetic.
=viguerie=, _n.f._, provostship (in Languedoc, Provence).
=vigueur=, _n.f._, vigor, strength, force; power, sturdiness; energy,
spirit. _Mettre en —_; to put in force, to enforce. _— d’esprit_;
strength of mind. _Entrer en —_; to come into force.
=viguier=, _n.m._, provost (Languedoc, Provence).
=vil=, =-e=, _adj._, vile, base, mean, despicable, low, wretched. _À —
prix_; very cheap, dirt-cheap.
=vilain=, _n.m._, (feudalism) villain, villein; niggard; blackguard,
cad, nasty fellow; miser. _Oignez — il vous poindra, poignez — il vous
oindra_; a bad man will return evil for good.
=vilain=, =-e= (-līn, -lè-n), _adj._, ugly, vile, villainous, pitiful,
miserable, unhandsome; shabby, worthless, nasty, filthy, slovenly,
wicked; sordid, wretched, infamous, scandalous. _Il m’a joué un — tour_;
he has played me a nasty trick. _— temps_; bad weather. _Il fait —_; it
is nasty weather. _C’est un — monsieur_; he is a nasty fellow, an ugly
customer.
=vilain= (-līn), _n.m._, =-e= (-lè-n), _n.f._, (fam.) naughty boy,
naughty girl.
=vilainement= (-lè-n-mān), _adv._, uglily; basely, nastily, shamefully,
scandalously, unworthily, villainously, wretchedly, naughtily, sordidly,
improperly, deplorably.
=vilayet=, _n.m._, vilayet, large Turkish province.
=vilebrequin= (vil-brĕ-kin), _n.m._, center-bit, wimble.
=vilement= (vil-mān), _adv._, vilely, basely, meanly, abjectly,
contemptibly.
=vilenie= (vil-nî), _n.f._, filth, nastiness, foulness, dirt; sordid
avarice, niggardliness; trash, unwholesome food; mean, base, vile action,
_pl._, offensive words; filthiness, obscenity.
=vileté= (vil-té) _or_ =vilité=, _n.f._, cheapness, low price;
unimportance, baseness, meanness.
=vilipendement=, _n.m._, vilification.
=vilipender=, _v.a._, to vilify, to despise, to cry down; to undervalue.
=vilité=, _n.f._ _V._ =vileté=.
=villa=, _n.f._, villa.
=villace=, _n.f._, (fam., l.u.) large, straggling, thinly-peopled city.
=village=, _n.m._, village. _Des gens de —_; country-folk. _Il est bien
de son —_; he knows nothing of what is going on in the world.
=villageois= (-joâ), _n.m._, =-e= (-joaz), _n.f._, villager, rustic,
cottager. _adj._ rustic, country.
=villanelle=, _n.f._, pastoral poetry; a dancing tune.
=ville=, _n.f._, town, city. _— de commerce_; commercial town. _—
maritime_; sea-port town. _— de bains_ or _d’eaux_; watering-place. _— de
guerre_; fortress. _Robe_, or _toilette_, _de —_; walking-dress. _Habit
de —_; (of officers) plain clothes, mufti. _Costume de —_; morning-coat,
frock coat. _Corps de —_; corporation, town-council. _Être en —_; to be
out (not at home). _Il est allé dîner en —_; he has gone out to dinner,
he is dining out. _Être à la —_; to be in town.
=villégiature=, _n.f._, sojourn in the country. _En —_; staying in the
country.
=villette=, _n.f._, (fam.) small town, townlet.
=villeu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, (bot.) villous, villose.
=villifère=, _adj._, villiferous.
=villiforme=, _adj._, villiform.
=villosité=, _n.f._, (bot.) villosity.
=vimaire=, _n.f._, damage caused (to forests) by storms.
=vin=, _n.m._, wine, vinosity, strength. _— mousseux_; sparkling wine.
_— non mousseux_; still wine. _Du — éventé_; dead wine. _— de Bordeaux_;
claret. _Du — paillet_; pale wine. _— du Rhin_; Rhenish wine. _— de deux
feuilles_; wine two years old. _— qui a beaucoup de corps_; full-bodied
wine. _— ordinaire_; dinner wine. _— pur_; neat wine (without water).
_— coupé_; diluted wine. _— de la comète_; vintage wine. _— brûlé_, _—
chaud_; mulled wine, negus. _Marchand de —_, or _négociant en —s_;
wine-merchant. _Un doigt de —_; a drop of wine. _Tremper son —_; to
dilute one’s wine. _Il est en pointe de —_; he has had a drop too much.
_Être pris de —_; to be the worse for liquor. _Être entre deux —s_; to be
half-seas over. _Cuver son —_; to sleep one’s self sober. _Un sac à —_;
a drunken sot. _Il a le — mauvais_; he is quarrelsome in his cups. _Il a
le — bon_; he is merry in his cups. _À bon — point d’enseigne_; good wine
needs no bush. _Du — à faire danser les chèvres_; wine not fit to drink.
_Le — entré, la raison sort_; (prov.) when ale is in, wit is out.
_Mouiller trop son —_; to drown the miller.
=vinage=, _n.m._, putting alcohol into wine.
=vinaigre=, _n.m._, vinegar.
=vinaigré=, =-e=, _adj._, seasoned with vinegar.
=vinaigrer=, _v.a._, to season with vinegar.
=vinaigrerie=, _n.f._, vinegar manufactory.
=vinaigrette=, _n.f._, vinegar sauce; meat seasoned with vinegar; Bath
chair, hand-chair.
=vinaigrier=, _n.m._, vinegar merchant; vinegar cruet; (bot.) sumac tree.
=vinaire=, _adj._, for wine. _Vaisseaux —s_; wine-vessels, wine-casks.
=vinasse=, _n.f._, very weak wine.
=vindas= (-dâs), _n.m._, (tech.) windlass.
=vindicati-f=, =-ve=, _adj._, vindictive, revengeful.
=vindicte=, _n.f._, (jur.) prosecution (of crime). _La — publique_;
prosecution (by the public prosecutor). _À la — publique_; held up to
public reprobation.
=vinée=, _n.f._, crop of wine, vintage.
=viner=, _v.a._, to put alcohol into wine.
=vinetier= (vi-n-tié) _or_ =vinettier= (-nè-tié), _n.m._, barberry-tree.
=vineu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, vinous; winy, wine-colored.
=vingt= (vīn), _n.m._ and _adj._, twenty, score; twentieth.
_Quatre-vingts hommes_; eighty men. _Quatre-vingt-six bœufs_; eighty-six
oxen. [_Vingt_ takes an _s_ when preceded and multiplied by another
number, but remains invariable when it is followed by another number.]
=vingtaine= (vin-tè-n), _n.f._, a score, about twenty.
=vingt et un=, _n.m._, (_n.p._) vingt-et-un (card game).
=vingtième= (vin-ti-èm), _n.m._ and _adj._, twentieth.
=vinicole=, _adj._, wine-growing, wine-producing.
=vinification=, _n.f._, wine-making.
=viol=, _n.m._, rape, violation; indecent assault.
=violacé=, =-e=, _adj._, violaceous; (med.) purple.
=violacées= _or_ =violariées=, _n.f.pl._, (bot.) violaceæ.
=violat=, _adj._, of violets.
=violat-eur=, _n.m._, =-rice=, _n.f._, violator, infringer, breaker,
transgressor. _adj._, violating, transgressing, infringing.
=violation=, _n.f._, violation, transgression, breach, infringement.
=violâtre=, _adj._, inclining to a violet color, purplish.
=viole=, _n.f._, (mus.) tenor-violin; viol.
=violement= (viol-mān), _n.m._, (l.u.) violation; (old) infringement,
infraction; rape.
=violemment= (-la-mān), _adv._, violently, with violence.
=violence=, _n.f._, violence; (jur.) force, stress. _Faire — à
quelqu’un_; to offer violence to any one.
=violent=, =-e=, _adj._, violent; strong (of suspicion); (fig.) too bad.
_C’est par trop —_; it is really too bad. _Douleur —e_; violent pain.
_Mort —e_; violent death.
=violenter=, _v.a._, to force, to offer violence to; to compel, to
constrain; to ill-use.
=violer=, _v.a._, to violate, to ravish; to break, to infringe, to
transgress. _— sa foi_; to break one’s faith. _— le droit des gens_; to
break the law of nations.
=violet=, _n.m._, violet-color.
=violet=, =-e=, _adj._, violet-colored.
=violette=, _n.f._, (bot.) violet. _— tricolore_; heart’s-ease, pansy. _—
de la chandeleur_; snow-drop. _— marine_; Canterbury-bell.
=violeur=, _n.m._, violator, ravisher.
=violier=, _n.m._, wall-flower, gilly-flower. _— des jardins_; stock.
=violiste=, _n.m._, violist.
=violon=, _n.m._, violin, fiddle; violinist, violin-player, fiddler;
cell, round-house, lock-up (prison). _Mettre quelqu’un au —_; to put any
one in quod. _Il a payé les —s_; he paid the piper. _Jouer du —_; to play
on the violin.
=violoncelle=, _n.m._, violoncello.
=violoncelliste=, _n.m._, violoncellist.
=violoniste=, _n.m.f._, violinist.
=viorne=, _n.f._, (bot.) viburnum.
=vipère=, _n.f._, viper, adder.
=vipereau=, _n.m._, young viper.
=vipérin=, =-e= (-rīn, -ri-n), _adj._, viperine.
=vipérine= (-ri-n), _n.f._, (bot.) viper’s-bugloss.
=virago=, _n.f._, virago, catamaran.
=virée=, _n.f._, veering.
=virelai=, _n.m._, virelay (ancient French poem on two rhymes).
=virement= (vir-mān), _n.m._, turning; (nav.) veering, tacking about;
(fin.) clearing. _— d’eau_; (nav.) turn of the tide.
=virer=, _v.n._ and _a._, to turn, to turn about; (nav.) to tack; to
heave. _— de bord_; (nav.) to tack about, to put about; (fig.) to change
sides, to turn round, to rat. _Vire!_ ’bout ship!
=vireur=, _n.m._, turning-gear; (phot.) toning.
=vireu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, poisonous, noxious, fetid, nauseous.
=virevau= _or_ =vireveau= (vir-vô), _n.m._, (nav.) winch.
=virevaude=, _n.f._ _V._ =vire-vire=.
=virevent= (vir-vān), _n.m._, (orni.) kingfisher.
=vire vire=, _n.f._, (_—_) (nav.) whirlpool.
=virevolte=, _n.f._, (man.) volt right and left, quick turning.
☉=virevousse= _or_ =virevouste=, _n.f._, bustle; (fig.) prevarication,
shuffling, shifting.
=virginal=, =-e=, _adj._, virginal, maidenly.
=virginalement=, _adv._, maidenly, in a maiden-like manner.
=virginité=, _n.f._, virginity, maidenhead.
=virgouleuse=, _n.f._, a sort of winter pear.
=virgule=, _n.f._, (gram.) comma; (horl.) hook escapement. _Point et —_;
semicolon.
=viril=, =-e=, _adj._, male, virile, manly. _Age —_; manhood, man’s
estate.
=virilement= (-ril-mān), _adv._, manfully, manly, like a man.
=virilité=, _n.f._, virility, manhood, man’s estate, vigor, force.
=virole=, _n.f._, ferrule.
=virolé=, =-e=, _adj._, (her.) virole.
=viroler=, _v.a._, to ferrule, to hoop.
=virtualité=, _n.f._, virtuality, potentiality.
=virtuel=, =-le=, _adj._, virtual, potential.
=virtuellement= (-èl-mān), _adv._, virtually, potentially.
=virtuose=, _n.m.f._, virtuoso.
=virulence=, _n.f._, virulence, virulency.
=virulent=, =-e=, _adj._, virulent.
=virus= (-rus), _n.m._, virus.
=vis= (vis), _n.f._, screw. _Escalier à —_; winding, corkscrew staircase.
=visa=, _n.m._, (_—_) visa, signature, indorsement (on passports).
=visage=, _n.m._, face, visage; countenance, aspect, look, air. _—
pâle_; pale face. _À deux —s_; double-faced. _À — découvert_; openly,
bare-facedly. _Avoir bon —_; to look well. _Faire bon_, or _mauvais_, _—
à quelqu’un_; to look pleasantly, _or_ unpleasantly, at any one; to give
any one a good, _or_ bad, reception. _Se composer le —_; to compose one’s
countenance. _Changer de —_; to change countenance; to turn pale; to have
one’s face at command. _Trouver — de bois_; to find the door shut, to
find nobody there.
=vis-à-vis=, _adv._, opposite, in juxtaposition.
=vis-à-vis= (vi-za-vî), _n.m._, (_—_) vis-a-vis (in dancing); vis-a-vis
(carriage); opposite neighbor (at table).
=vis-à-vis=, _prep._, opposite, over against, over the way; towards,
relatively. _— de l’église_; opposite the church.
=viscéral=, =-e= (vis-sé-), _adj._, visceral.
=viscère= (vis-sèr), _n.f._, (anat.) viscus. _pl._, viscera, vital organs.
=viscosité=, _n.f._, viscosity, viscidity, viscousness; clamminess.
=visée=, _n.f._, aim; end; design, plan, scheme.
=viser=, _v.n._, to aim, to take aim; to aspire (to), to endeavor. _Il
visait à ce but_; that was his goal.
=viser=, _v.a._, to aim, to aim (at), to take aim (at); to drive (at);
to countersign, to indorse (passports). _Faire — un passeport_; to get a
passport countersigned, _or_ indorsed.
=viseur=, _n.m._, aimer.
=vishnou= (vis-noo), _n.m._, Vishnu (name of one of the Hindoo deities).
=visibilité=, _n.f._, visibility, visibleness, obviousness.
=visible=, _adj._, visible, evident, manifest, obvious.
=visiblement=, _adv._, visibly, evidently, manifestly, obviously.
=visière=, _n.f._, visor (of a helmet); foresight (of fire-arms); shade
(for the eyes); peak (of caps, etc.); (fam.) eyesight. _Rompre en — à
quelqu’un_; to break one’s lance in the visor of one’s adversary; (fig.)
to attack any one to his face; to break off with, to fall out with.
_Elle lui a donné dans la —_; he was smitten with her.
=visigoth= (-gô), _n.m._, Visigoth; barbarian, Goth.
=vision=, _n.f._, vision, sight, phantom, chimera, fancy.
=visionnaire=, _n.m.f._ and _adj._, a visionary, a dreamer; visionary,
fanciful.
=visir=, _n.m._ _V._ =vizir=.
=visirat=, _n.m._ _V._ =vizirat=.
=visitandine=, _n.f._, Visitandine (nun).
=visitation=, _n.f._, visitation. _L’ordre de la —_; the Order of the
Visitation.
=visite=, _n.f._, visit; call; visiting; visitation; examination,
inspection, search. _Aller en —_; to go visiting. _En —_; visiting, on
a visit; as a visitor. _Faire —_, _rendre —_, _à quelqu’un_; to make a
call upon any one, to pay any one a visit. _Rendre sa — à quelqu’un_; to
return any one his, _or_ her, call. _Faire la — des caves_; to search
the cellars. _Droit de —_; right of search. _Faire la — des bagages_; to
examine baggage.
=visiter=, _v.a._ and _n._, to visit; to make a visit, a visitation; to
search, to examine, to inspect, to look. _— un vaisseau_; to search a
ship.
=visiteu-r=, _n.m._, =-se=, _n.f._, visitor; searcher.
=vison=, _n.m._, American marten.
=vison-visu=, _adv._, opposite one another.
=visorium= (-om), _n.m._, (print.) copy-holder, catch, jigger.
=visqueu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, viscous, slimy, clammy, sticky.
=vissage=, _n.m._, screwing.
=visser=, _v.a._, to screw; to screw on; to screw up; to screw down.
_se_ =visser=, _v.r._, to screw; to screw on; to screw up; to screw down;
to be screwed.
=visserie=, _n.f._, screws.
=visu= (=de=), _adv._, with one’s own eyes.
=visuel=, =-le=, _adj._, visual.
=vital=, =-e=, _adj._, vital, essential.
=vitalement= (-tal-mān), _adv._, vitally; essentially.
=vitalisme=, _n.m._, doctrine of the _vitalists_.
=vitaliste=, _n.m._, vitalist.
=vitalité=, _n.f._, vitality.
=vitchoura=, _n.m._, (_—s_) fur greatcoat.
=vite=, _adj._, swift, quick, fleet, speedy, rapid. _Pouls —_; quick
pulse. _— comme le vent_; as fleet as the wind.
=vite=, _adv._, quick, quickly, fast, speedily; rapidly; expeditiously.
_Allez —_; go quickly. _Aller — en besogne_; to be quick at work; (fig.)
not to mince matters. _—!_ quick! _—! —!_ quick! make haste! look sharp.
_Au plus —_; as fast as possible; that instant, that very moment. _Faire
—_; to be quick, to make haste, to expedite matters. _Allons! plus — que
ça_; come! hurry up! look sharp about it!
=vitelotte= (vi-tlot), _n.f._, kidney potato.
=vitement= (vil-mān), _adv._, quickly, speedily.
=vitesse=, _n.f._, swiftness, speed, celerity, quickness, rapidity. _À
la — de_; at a speed of, at the rate of. _Gagner quelqu’un de —_; to
outstrip, to outrun, any one. _À grande —_; at full speed. _À toute —_;
at full speed. _Train de grande —_; (railways) express, express train.
_Train de petite —_; goods train, slow train.
=vitex=, _n.m._, (bot.) vitex, chaste-tree.
=viticole=, _adj._, relating, pertaining to vine culture, wine-growing.
=viticulture=, _n.f._, vine-culture; viticulture.
=vitonnière=, _n.f._, (nav.) timber-hole.
=vitrage=, _n.m._, glazing; glass windows; glass partition.
=vitrail=, _n.m._, stained glass window, church-window.
=vitre=, _n.f._, window-glass _or_ pane; pane of glass; window. _Carreau
de —_; pane of glass. _Casser les —s_; to break the windows; (fig.) to
speak boldly, to speak out one’s mind, not to mince matters.
=vitré=, =-e=, _adj._, glazed; (of doors) glass; (anat.) vitreous. _Porte
—e_; glass door.
=vitrer=, _v.a._, to furnish with glass windows, to glaze.
=vitrerie=, _n.f._, glaziery, glazier’s work.
=vitrescibilité=, _n.f._, vitrescence.
=vitrescible=, _adj._, vitrescible.
=vitreu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, vitreous, glassy.
=vitri-er=, _n.m._, =-ère=, _n.f._, glazier; glazier’s wife.
=vitrifiable=, _adj._, vitrifiable.
=vitrification=, _n.f._, vitrification.
=vitrifier=, _v.a._, to vitrify.
_se_ =vitrifier=, _v.r._, to vitrify.
=vitrine=, _n.f._, shop-window; show-case; glass case (in museums, etc.).
=vitriol=, _n.m._, vitriol.
=vitriolé=, =-e=, _adj._, vitriolated.
=vitriolique=, _adj._, vitriolic.
=vitriolisation=, _n.f._, vitriolation.
=vitupérer=, _v.a._, to vituperate, to reprimand.
=vivable=, _adj._, (fam.) sociable, pleasant to live with.
=vivace=, _adj._, long-lived, perennial; inveterate, deep-rooted.
_Plantes —s_; perennial plants, perennials.
=vivacité=, _n.f._, vivacity, vivaciousness, liveliness, sprightliness,
briskness; spirit, life, animation; ardor, vividness, brightness.
=vivandi-er=, _n.m._, =-ère=, _n.f._, sutler, canteen-man _or_ woman.
=vivant=, =-e=, _adj._, living, alive; quick, animate, animated. _Langue
—e_; living language. _Rue —e_; lively street.
=vivant=, _n.m._, person living, person alive; determined character;
life, lifetime. _De son —_; in his lifetime. _Du — de son frère_; when
his brother was alive. _Un bon —_; a jolly, _or_ boon, companion; a high
liver.
=vivat= (-vat), _int._, hurrah! huzza! _Pousser des —_; to cheer to the
echo.
=vivat= (-vat), _n.m._, (_—s_) hurra, huzza. _Crier —_; to cheer, to
hurra.
=vive=, _n.f._, (ich.) viver, weever.
☉=vive-la-joie=, _n.m._, (_—_) jolly, boon companion.
=vivelle=, _n.f._, darn, darning; gusset.
=vivement= (viv-mān), _adv._, quickly, briskly, sharply, smartly,
vigorously, eagerly, keenly, deeply; angrily; poignantly; acutely;
spiritedly; with animation.
=viveur=, _n.m._, high liver, free liver, fast man, man about town.
=vivier=, _n.m._, fish-pond.
=vivifiant=, =-e=, _adj._, vivifying, quickening, strengthening,
recuperating, refreshing; invigorating, life-giving.
=vivification=, _n.f._, vivification, vivifying; revival.
=vivifier=, _v.a._, to vivify, to quicken; to give life to, to enliven,
to animate, to refresh, to revive.
=vivifique=, _adj._, (l.u.) vivifying, life-giving. _V._ =vivifiant=.
=vivipare=, _adj._, viviparous.
=vivisecter=, _v.a._, to vivisect.
=vivisecteur=, _n.m._, vivisector.
=vivisection=, _n.f._, vivisection.
=vivoter=, _v.n._, to live poorly; to live from hand to mouth, to make
shift to live, to rub along; to keep body and soul together.
=vivre= (vivant, vécu), _v.n._, to live, to be living, to be alive; to
exist, to subsist, to be maintained, to board, to take one’s meals at;
to behave. _Il vit mal_; he lives badly. _Il vit mal avec son frère_;
he is on bad terms with his brother. _Il vit aux dépens d’autrui_; he
lives at other people’s expense. _Bien —_; to live a good life. _—
bien_; to live well (to have abundance of everything). _Il fait cher —
à Londres_; living is dear in London. _Faire —_; to feed, to keep alive,
to maintain. _— de son travail_; to live by one’s labor. _— d’industrie_,
_— d’invention_; (b.s.) to live by one’s wits. _— d’espérance_; to live
in hopes. _Il faut que tout le monde vive_; everybody must live. _—
dans les sapes_; (Saint-Simon) to be mixed up in underhand intrigues.
_— en prince_; to live like a prince. _Savoir —_; to be a person of
good manners, of good breeding. _Il ne sait pas —_; he has no manners.
_Apprendre à —_; to learn, _or_ to teach, manners. _Vive le roi!_ long
live the king! _Vive!_ hurrah for! _Ne pas trouver âme qui vive_; not to
find a soul at home. _Qui vivra verra_; he who lives longest will see
most. _Il fait bon — ici_; this is a good place to live in. _Vivent les
ministres!_ long live the ministers!
=vivre=, _n.m._, living, board, food. _pl._, provisions, victuals.
_Couper les —s à quelqu’un_; to cut off any one’s supplies. _Agents des
—s_; (nav.) agent-victualer. _Bureau des —s_; victualing-office.
=vivres-pain=, _n.m.pl._, (n.s.) (milit., nav.) bread-store.
=vivres-viande=, _n.m.pl._, (n.s.) (milit., nav.) meat-store.
=vivrier=, _n.m._, victualer.
=vizir=, _n.m._, vizier.
=vizirat= _or_ =viziriat=, _n.m._, vizierate, viziership.
=vocable=, _n.m._, vocable, word, term, name.
=vocabulaire=, _n.m._, vocabulary.
=vocabuliste=, _n.m._, (l.u.) author of a vocabulary.
=vocal=, _n.m._, =-e=, _n.f._, (ecc.) vocal (voter).
=vocal=, =-e=, _adj._, vocal.
=vocalement= (-kal-mān), _adv._, (l.u.) vocally, orally.
=vocalisation=, _n.f._, vocalization.
=vocalise=, _n.f._, piece of music for exercising the voice.
=vocaliser=, _v.n._, (mus.) to vocalize.
=vocatif=, _n.m._, (gram.) vocative, vocative case.
=vocation=, _n.f._, vocation, calling, call; inclination; destination,
talent. _Suivre sa —_; to follow one’s vocation, one’s bent.
=vociférat-eur=, _n.m._, =-rice=, _n.f._, clamorer, brawler, _adj._,
clamoring, brawling, roaring.
=vociférations=, _n.f.pl._, vociferations.
=vociférer=, _v.a._ and _n._, to vociferate, to cry out, to roar.
=vœu=, _n.m._, vow; votive offering; vote, suffrage; prayer, wish, will,
desire, _pl._, vows (religious ceremony). _Faire — de jeûner_; to make
a vow of abstinence. _Faire des —x pour quelqu’un_; to offer up prayers
for any one, to wish any one success. _Être au comble de ses —x_; to have
reached the summit of one’s happiness.
=vogue= (vog), _n.f._, (nav.) rowing, sailing, going; (fig.) vogue,
fashion, credit, repute, reputation. _Avoir de la —_; to be in vogue, in
fashion. _Mettre en —_; to bring into vogue, into fashion. _Succès de —_;
temporary success.
=vogue-avant=, _n.m._, bow-oarsman, bow.
=voguer= (-ghé), _v.n._, (nav.) to impel a boat (by rowing); to ride, to
sail; to row (l.u.). _V._ =ramer=, =nager=. _Vogue la galère!_ come what
may!
☉=vogueur= (-gheur), _n.m._, rower; cork-bladder.
=voici=, _prep._, see here, behold, here is, here are, here come, this
is, these are. _— mon livre, voilà le vôtre_; here is my book, there is
yours. _En — bien d’une autre_; this is still more singular. _Me —, le
voilà_; here I am, there he is, here he comes. _Monsieur que —_; this
gentleman. _Le — qui vient_; here he comes. _Nous y —_; here we are. _—
venir votre frère_; here comes your brother. _— venir le printemps_;
spring is coming, is at hand, is near.
=voie=, _n.f._, way, road, track; path, organ, medium, channel; course,
breadth (between the wheels of carriages); (hunt.) track (of deer,
boars); conveyance, means of conveyance; load (of wood, stone, sand);
means; (nav.) leak; (railways) gauge, permanent way, four-foot way;
(chem.) process. _Il est toujours par — et par chemin_; he is always
rambling about, always on the move. _La — lactée_; the Milky Way. _—
d’eau_; two pailfuls of water; (nav.) leak. _Faire une — d’eau_; (nav.)
to spring a leak. _Boucher une — d’eau_; to stop a leak. _—s de fait_;
(jur.) assault, blows. _En venir aux —s de fait_; to come to blows. _—
ferrée_; railway, railroad. _Les affaires sont en — de hausse_; things
are looking up. _Être sur la —_; to be on the track, on the scent. _Être
en — de_; to be in a fair way (of). _— de garage_, _— d’évitement_;
(railways) siding, shunting-line.
=voilà=, _prep._, see there, behold, that is, those are, there is, there
are. _— l’homme_; that is the man. _Le —_; there he is. _Ah! vous —_; oh!
there you are. _— qui va bien_; that is getting on well now, that’s all
right now, that’s capital. _Le — qui arrive_; there he comes. _— qu’on
m’appelle_; I am called, some one is calling me. _Comme la — triste!_ how
sad she is! _Comme vous — fait!_ what a strange figure you cut! what a
plight you are in! _— ce que c’est_; that is what it is. _— tout_; that
is all. _En — assez_; that is enough. _En —-t-il!_ what a lot there is!
_En — pour!_ that will do for. _— comme vous êtes_; that is just like
you. _— comme je suis_; you must take me as I am, I’m that sort of man.
_Ne —-t-il pas que ..._; why, I declare it is ... _or_ lo! and behold! it
is ... _Comme le — sale!_ see how dirty he is. _— près d’un an_; it is
now nearly a year. _— une heure qu’il parle_; he has been speaking for an
hour. _Ne —-t-il pas qu’il pleut_; well! I declare, it is raining.
=voile=, _n.m._, vail; cover, mask, disguise; cloak, color, show,
pretense. _Avoir un — devant les yeux_; to have a mist before one’s eyes.
=voile=, _n.f._, (nav.) sail; (fig.) sail, ship. _La — de misaine_; the
foresail. _La — d’artimon_; the mizzen. _— de fortune_; lug sail. _Faire
force de —s_; to crowd all sail. _Aller à —s et à rames_; to go with
sails and oars. _Déployer les —s_; to unfurl the sails. _À pleines —s_
or _à toutes —s_; (nav.) with full sail, all sails set; at full speed;
(fig.) willingly, heartily. _Faire —_; to sail. _Caler la —_; to strike
sail. _Mettre à la —_; to set sail. _À la —_; under sail, sailing.
=voilé=, =-e=, _adj._, (nav.) provided with sails, rigged; (fig.) veiled,
dull, dim, soft, gentle. _Peu —_; broad (of hints or language).
=voiler=, _v.a._, to veil, to cover; to cloak, to color, to blind, to
disguise, to conceal, to muffle.
_se_ =voiler=, _v.r._, to wear a veil; to be veiled, concealed, covered,
muffled.
=voilerie= (voal-rî), _n.f._, (nav.) sail-loft; sail-making.
=voilier=, _n.m._, sail-maker; sailer (ship). _Un bon —_; a fast sailer
(ship).
=voilure=, _n.f._, set of sails; trim of the sails.
=voir= (voyant, vu), _v.a._, to see; to look at, to behold, to observe,
to view; to witness; to inspect, to superintend; to overlook; to keep
company with; to be on visiting terms with, to frequent the society of.
_Je l’ai vu de mes propres yeux_; I have seen it with my own eyes. _Il
veut tout — par lui-même_; he insists on seeing everything with his own
eyes, _or_ for himself. _Que vois-je?_ what do I see? _— quelque chose en
songe_; to see anything in a dream. _— le jour_; to be born, to see the
light of day. _Faire —_; to show, to let see. _On n’a jamais rien vu de
pareil_; the like was never seen before. _Vit-on jamais rien d’égal?_ was
anything like it ever seen? _Voyez ce tableau_; look at that picture.
_Faire — du pays à quelqu’un_; to lead any one a dance. _— tout en beau_;
to see the bright side of anything. _Il ne voit personne_; he sees no
company. _Se faire —_; to appear, to show one’s self. _Je vous vois
venir_; I see what you are driving at.
_se_ =voir=, _v.r._, to see one’s self; to see one another; to visit one
another; to be, _or_ to find, one’s self. _Ils ne se voient point_; they
do not visit one another, they are not on visiting terms.
=voir=, _v.n._, to see; to have one’s sight; to superintend; to inspect,
to look, to look out. _Je vois bien quelle est son intention_; I see
plainly what he is driving at. _Je ne vois point à quoi cela peut
servir_; I don’t see what purpose that can serve. _Je lui ferai bien —
à qui il s’adresse_; I’ll show him what sort of a person he has to deal
with. _— clair_; to see clearly. _Y — trouble_; to see dimly. _Au vu et
au su de tout le monde_; openly, before every one. _Ceci est à —_; it
remains to be seen. _— de loin_; to be far-sighted. _N’y — goutte_; not
to see a bit, not to see a wink, not to see in the least. _Voyons!_ let
us see! come! now then! _Ma maison voit sur un jardin_; my house looks
out into a garden.
=voire=, _adv._, even; ☉indeed, truly. _— même_; nay even.
=voirie=, _n.f._, commission of public ways or highways; common sewer,
carrion, offal.
=voisin=, =-e=, _adj._, neighboring, bordering, adjacent, next; next
door. _La maison —e_; the next house. _Être — de sa ruine_; (fig.) to be
on the verge of ruin.
=voisin=, _n.m._, =-e=, _n.f._, neighbor. _Être —s_; to be next-door
neighbors.
=voisinage=, _n.m._, neighborhood; vicinity; proximity, nearness;
neighbors; (jur.) venue, visne.
=voisiner=, _v.n._, to visit one’s neighbors; to go a neighboring.
=voiturage=, _n.m._, conveying, transporting, carriage of goods (in cars,
carts, vans, etc.).
=voiture=, _n.f._, carriage; coach; conveyance, vehicle; fare; load.
_— publique_; stage-coach. _— à deux chevaux_; coach, or carriage, and
pair. _— de maître_; private carriage. _— d’arrosement_; watering cart.
_— à bagages_; luggage van. _Station de —_; cab-rank. _— de louage_;
hired carriage. _— de place_; cab, hackney-carriage. _— de remise_; fly,
hired carriage. _Bureau de la —_; coach-office. _Place de —s_; cab-stand.
_Descendre de —_; to alight from a carriage. _Se promener en —_, _aller
en —_; to ride in a carriage, to drive.
=voiturer=, _v.a._, to carry, to convey, to transport, to cart.
=voiturier=, _n.m._, carrier; wagoner; driver. _V._ =roulier=.
=voiturin=, _n.m._, driver (owner of a carriage usually lent on hire);
the carriage so hired.
=voix=, _n.f._, voice, tone, sound; vote, suffrage; opinion, judgment;
singer. _— grêle_; faint voice. _— de tête_; falsetto, head-note. _Faire
la petite —_; to speak small. _— aiguë_; shrill voice. _De vive —_; by
word of mouth, orally. _À — basse_; in a low voice, in an undertone, in
a whisper. _À haute —_; in a loud voice, loudly, audibly. _Aller aux —_;
to put to the vote, to divide. _Donner sa —_; to give one’s vote. _Mettre
aux —_; to put to the vote. _Aux —!_ vote! divide! _À l’unanimité des —_;
without a dissentient voice. _D’une seule_, or _d’une commune_, _—_; with
one voice, unanimously.
=vol=, _n.m._, robbery, theft, robbing, extortion, fleecing; larceny;
stolen goods. _— de nuit avec effraction_; burglary. _— de grand chemin_;
highway robbery. _On l’a trouvé saisi du —_; they found the stolen goods
upon him.
=vol=, _n.m._, flying; flight, soaring; flock; cast (of hawks). _Prendre
un — trop haut_; to soar too high. _Prendre son —_; to soar, to take
one’s flight, _or_ its flight. _À — d’oiseau_; as the crow flies. _Au —_;
flying, on the wing.
=volable=, _adj._, liable to be stolen.
=volage=, _adj._, fickle, volatile, inconstant, unsteady, flighty. _La
jeunesse est —_; youth is inconstant, flighty.
*=volaille=, _n.f._, poultry, fowl. _Marchand de —_; poulterer.
*=volailler=, _n.m._, poulterer; poultry-yard.
=volant=, =-e=, _adj._, flying, loose, floating, volatile; movable,
portable (of paper), loose; (nav.) traveling; (paint.) floating (of
drapery). _Assiettes —es_; extras, extra dishes.
=volant=, _n.m._, shuttle-cock; flounce (of a dress); fly-wheel (of
machinery); sail (of a windmill). _Jouer au —_; to play at battle-door
and shuttle-cock.
=volatil=, =-e=, _adj._, volatile; airy, light.
=volatile=, _n.m.f._, and _adj._, winged animal; winged.
=volatilisation=, _n.f._, volatilization.
=volatiliser=, _v.a._, to volatilize.
_se_ =volatiliser=, _v.r._, to volatilize, to become volatilized.
=volatilité=, _n.f._, volatility, volatileness.
*=volatille=, _n.f._, (fam.) small birds for the table.
=vol-au-vent=, _n.m._, (_—_) (cook.) vol-au-vent, puff-paste.
=volcan=, _n.m._, volcano.
=volcanique=, _adj._, volcanic.
=volcanisé=, =-e=, _adj._, vulcanized.
=volcanite=, _n.m._, vulcanite.
=vole=, _n.f._, vole (at cards).
=volée=, _n.f._, flight (of birds); flock; covey, bevy, brood; rank;
discharge (of one gun); volley (of guns); shower (of blows); peal (of
bells); swing-tree, splinter-bar _or_ bar (of a coach); drubbing,
thrashing. _Il a pris sa —_; he has taken wings. _Tirer à toute —_; to
fire a random shot. _Sonner à toute —_; to ring a full peal. _À toute —_;
(of bells) in full and furious swing. _Une — de coups de bâton_; a shower
of blows. _Être de la première —_; to be of the first water, of high
rank; tip-top, crack, swell. _Haute —_; high rank, high class, society,
aristocracy. _Donner une — à quelqu’un_; to give any one a drubbing. _À
la —_; flying, in the air; (fig.) at random, rashly, unthinkingly. _Entre
bond et —_; at a lucky moment.
=voler=, _v.n._, to fly, to fly about, to take wings, to soar, to be upon
the wing. _Le temps vole_; time flies. _— en éclats_; to fly into pieces.
_Entendre — une mouche_; to hear a pin drop.
=voler=, _v.a._, (hawking) to chase; to fly at, to fly.
=voler=, _v.a._, to steal, to rob, to fleece; to plunder; to take away,
to usurp. _— la bourse de quelqu’un_; to steal any one’s purse. _— de
l’argent_; to steal money. _Ne l’avoir pas volé_; to have richly deserved
it, to have well earned it; to have got one’s deserts.
=voler=, _v.n._, to steal, to rob. _— sur le grand chemin_; to rob on the
highway.
☉=volereau= (vol-rô), _n.m._, petty thief, pilferer.
=volerie= (vol-rî), _n.f._, robbery; robbing, pilfering; (falconry)
flying.
=volet=, _n.m._, shutter, window-shutter; pigeon-house; dove-cot; ledge
(of a pigeon-house), sorting-board (for seeds); (bot.) water-lily; (nav.)
boat-compass.
=voleter= (vol-té), _v.n._, to flutter, to hover, to flicker.
=volette=, _n.f._, small hurdle, fly-net (for a horse).
=voleu-r=, _n.m._, =-se=, _n.f._, thief, robber, stealer, extortioner,
fleecer. _— de grand chemin_; highwayman, foot-pad. _Au —!_ stop thief!
_Crier au —_; to cry out, stop thief! _Quand les —s se battent, les
larcins se découvrent_; when thieves fall out, honest men get their own.
_Être fait comme un —_; to be in tatters.
=volière=, _n.f._, aviary, pigeon-house, large bird-cage.
=volige=, _n.f._, (carp.) scantling, batten.
=volition=, _n.f._, volition.
=volontaire=, _n.m.f._ and _adj._, obstinate, headstrong person;
voluntary; intended, intentional; spontaneous; obstinate, willful, heady,
headstrong.
=volontaire=, _n.m._, volunteer.
=volontairement= (-tèr-mān), _adv._, voluntarily, willingly, willfully,
intentionally, spontaneously.
=volontariat=, _n.m._, (milit.) condition of the volunteer; volunteering.
=volonté=, _n.f._, will, mind, pleasure, intention, way. _pl._, whims,
fancies, caprices. _La bonne — est réputée pour le fait_; the will is as
good as the deed. _Tout plie sous sa —_; everything yields to his will.
_Il aime à faire ses —s_; he likes to have his own way. _Dernières —s_;
last will and testament. _Bonne —_; good-will, readiness, willingness.
_Avoir de la bonne —_; to be willing. _Mauvaise —_; ill-will,
unwillingness. _À —_; at pleasure, at will.
=volontiers= (-tié), _adv._, willingly, readily, gladly, with pleasure.
=volsque=, _n.m.f._, and _adj._, Volscian.
=voltaïque=, _adj._, voltaic. _Pile —_; voltaic pile.
=voltairien=, _n.m._, =-ne=, _n.f._, voltairian (a follower of Voltaire).
=voltaïsme=, _n.m._, voltaism.
=volte=, _n.f._, (fenc., man.) volt.
=volte-face=, _n.f._, (_—_) turning of the head, turning round. _—!_
face about! _Faire —_; (milit.) to face about; (fig.) to turn completely
round, to rat.
=volter=, _v.n._, (fenc.) to make a volt.
=voltige=, _n.f._, slack-rope; dancing on the slack-rope; tumbling;
(man.) vaulting.
=voltigeant=, =-e= (-jan,-t), _adj._, fluttering, hovering.
=voltigement= (-tij-mān), _n.m._, tumbling; hovering, flying, fluttering,
flutter; vaulting on a slack-rope.
=voltiger=, _v.n._, to flutter, to fly about, to hover; to vault on a
slack rope, _or_ on a horse; to tumble.
=voltigeur=, _n.m._, vaulter, voltigeur, tumbler, leaper; (milit.)
footsoldier. _pl._, riflemen, light infantry.
=volubile=, _adj._, (bot.) volubile, volubilate, voluble.
=volubilis=, _n.m._, (bot.) convolvulus.
=volubilité=, _n.f._, volubility, rapidity, fluency. _— de langue_;
volubility.
=voluble=, _adj._, (bot.) volubile, volubilate; voluble, fluent, quick
(of speech).
=volume=, _n.m._, volume; bulk, size, mass; compass (of the voice).
=volumineu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, voluminous, bulky, large, considerable.
=volupté=, _n.f._, voluptuousness; pleasure, delight, luxury. _Il y a
de la — à boire quand on a soif_; it is a luxury to drink when one is
thirsty.
=voluptuaire=, _n.m._, _adj._, voluptuary; luxurious; (jur.) of expenses
on ornamental repairs.
=voluptueusement= (-eûz-mān), _adv._, voluptuously.
=voluptueu-x=, =-se=, _n._ and _adj._, voluptuary, epicure; voluptuous,
sensual.
=volute=, _n.f._, (arch.) volute, scroll; (conch.) voluta.
=voluté=, =-e=, _adj._, voluted, scrolled.
=voluter=, _v.a._, to wind silk thread; (arch.) to make volutes, to
scroll.
=volva= _or_ =volve=, _n.f._, (bot.) volva, wrapper.
=volvé=, =-e=, _adj._, (bot.) having a volva.
☉=volvulus= (-lus), _n.m._, (med.) ileus, (bot.) convolvulus.
=vomer= (vomèr), _n.m._, (anat.) os vomer.
=vomique=, _n.f._, (med.) vomica.
=vomique=, _adj._, vomic. _Noix —_; vomic-nut; nux vomica.
=vomiquier=, _n.m._, (bot.) strychnos nux vomica, nux vomica tree.
=vomir=, _v.a._ and _n._, to vomit, to bring up, to throw up; to belch
out, to cast up, to vomit forth. _Avoir envie de —_; to feel sick. _Faire
des efforts pour —_; to retch. _— de la flamme_; to belch out flame.
=vomissement= (-mis-mān), _n.m._, vomiting, sickness.
=vomiti-f=, =-ve=, _adj._, vomitive.
=vomitif=, _n.m._, vomit, emetic.
=vomitoire=, _n.m._, (med.) ☉emetic; (arch.) vomitory (large doors).
=vorace=, _adj._, voracious, ravenous.
=voracement= (-ras-mān), _adv._, voraciously, ravenously.
=voracité=, _n.f._, voracity, ravenousness.
=vos=, _possessive adj._ _pl._, your. _V._ =votre=.
=votant=, _n.m._, voter.
=votant=, =-e=, _adj._, voting, having a vote.
=votation=, _n.f._, voting.
=vote=, _n.m._, vote, voice, suffrage, poll, polling. _— à main levée_;
show of hands. _— au scrutin_; ballot. _Adopté par un —_; carried.
_Rejeté par un —_; lost, defeated.
=voter=, _v.n._, to vote.
=voter=, _v.a._, to vote. _— des remercîments à quelqu’un_; to pass a
vote of thanks to any one.
=voti-f=, =-ve=, _adj._, votive, votary.
=votre=, _possessive adj._ _m.f._, =vos=, _pl._, your. _— serviteur_;
your servant. Vos parents; your relations.
_le_ =vôtre=, _possessive pron._ _m._, =la vôtre=, _f._, =les vôtres=,
_pl.m.f._, yours. _Il a pris ses livres et les —s_; he has taken his
books and yours.
_le_ =vôtre=, _n.m._, your own, yours. _pl._, your relations, friends,
etc.; your pranks, tricks. _Je suis des —s_; I am one of your party.
_Être des —s_; to be one of you, to belong to your body; to form one of
your party. _Vous avez fait des —s_; you have played one of your pranks.
=vouer=, _v.a._, to vow, to devote, to dedicate, to consecrate, to doom.
_se_ =vouer=, _v.r._, to dedicate one’s self, to apply one’s self (to),
to devote one’s self (to). _Ne pas savoir à quel saint se —_; not to know
which way to turn.
=vouge=, _n.m._, boar-spear, bill-hook.
=vouloir= (voulant, voulu), _v.a._, to will, to be willing, to be
inclined, to have a fancy, to be pleased, to intend, to wish, to require;
to consent; to resolve, to determine; to want; to try, to attempt, to
endeavor; to admit, to grant. _Je le veux ainsi_; I will have it so.
_Il veut que vous obéissiez_; he will have you obey. _Je ne veux pas_;
I won’t, I don’t mean to. _Que voulez-vous?_ what do you want? what can
I do for you? what can you expect? what was to be done? _Il ne sait ce
qu’il veut_; he does not know his own mind. _Dieu le veut_; God wills it.
_Dieu le veuille!_ God grant it! _Ce que femme veut, Dieu le veut_;
a woman must have her way. _— c’est pouvoir_; where there’s a will,
there’s a way. _Il veut que cela soit_; he will have it so. _— du bien
à quelqu’un_; to wish any one well. _Je vous veux du bien_; I am your
well-wisher. _Se faire bien_, _mal_, _— de_; to win any one’s regard, to
get disliked by. _S’en — de_; to be angry with one’s self for having. _—
du mal à quel-qu’un_; to wish any one harm. _Vous l’avez voulu!_ it is
your own fault; you would have it. _En — à quelqu’un_; to bear any one
ill-will, to owe any one a grudge. _Elle m’en veut du mal_; she bears me
a grudge for it. _Il en voulait à l’argent_; he was after the money. _Il
nous demanda ce que nous lui voulions_; he asked us what we wanted of
him. _À qui en veut-il?_ of whom, of what, does he complain? _En veux-tu,
en voilà_; as much as ever you like, heaps and heaps of. _Il y en avait à
bouche en veux-tu_; there was enough and to spare; heaps of it. _Savoir
ce que parler veut dire_; to take the hint; to understand the (hidden)
meaning. _Que veut dire cet homme?_ what does that man mean? _Que veut
dire cela?_ what does that mean? _or_ what is the meaning of this? _Que
veut dire ce mot?_ what is the meaning of this word? _Si vous le voulez,
il le voudra aussi_; if you consent to it, he will do so too. _Oui, je
le veux bien_; yes, I consent to it, I am willing. _Je veux que vous
sachiez_; I wish you to know. _Veuillez me dire_; please, _or_ kindly,
tell me. _Je le veux bien_; with pleasure! I have no objection. _Veuillez
agréer_; be pleased to accept.
=vouloir=, _n.m._, will. _Bon —_; good-will. _Mauvais —_; ill-will.
=voulu=, =-e=, _adj._, _part._, wished, wanted, desired; requisite,
required; due, casual, received, accepted.
=vous=, _personal pron._, you, ye. _— dites_; you say. _De — à moi_;
between you and me.
=vousseau= _or_ =voussoir=, _n.m._, (arch.) wedge, archstone, vault-stone.
=voussure=, _n.f._, (arch.) curve, elevation of an arch, coving.
=voûte=, _n.f._, vault, arch, canopy. _pl._, (of a horse-shoe) hollow,
vaulting. _— surbaissée_; surbased vault. _La clef de —_; the keystone.
_— imparfaite_; diminished arch. _— oblique_; skew arch. _— d’arête_;
groined vault. _— de décharge_; relieving vault. _— acoustique_;
whispering dome _or_ gallery. _La — du ciel_; the canopy of heaven.
=voûter=, _v.a._, to vault, to arch. _— un fer à cheval_; to hollow a
horseshoe.
_se_ =voûter=, _v.r._, to arch, to vault; (pers.) to be bent, to stoop,
to grow round-shouldered.
=voyage=, _n.m._, voyage, journey, travel, trip. _pl._, travels. _— de
long cours_; (nav.) long voyage, voyage in foreign parts. _— d’aller_;
(nav.) outward voyage. _— de retour_; (nav.) return voyage. _Faire un —_;
to travel, to take a journey. _Faire un petit —_; to go a short trip.
_Bon —!_ pleasant journey to you! _Être en —_; to be traveling, to be
abroad. _De —_; traveling. _En —_; traveling, journeying abroad.
=voyager=, _v.n._, to travel, to voyage, to journey. _— à pied_; to
travel on foot. _— à cheval_; to travel on horseback.
=voyageu-r=, _n.m._, =-se=, _n.f._, traveler; passenger. _Commis —_;
(com.) commercial traveler, traveler. _Oiseau —_; migratory bird. _Pigeon
—_; carrier pigeon.
=voyant=, =-e=, _adj._, gaudy, showy (of colors); person who can see, who
is not blind.
=voyant=, _n.m._, (Bibl.) seer, prophet.
=voyelle=, _n.f._, (gram.) vowel.
=voyer=, _n._ and _adj._ _m._, surveyor of roads, inspector of highways;
relating, pertaining, to roads.
=voyou=, _n.m._, (pop.) young blackguard, cad.
=vrac=, =vrague=, _or_ =vraque=, _n.m._, (nav.) disorder. _En —_;
pell-mell, unpacked, loose, in bulk. _Charger en —_; (nav.) to load with
a loose cargo, _or_ cargo in bulk.
=vrai=, =-e=, _adj._, true, real, right, genuine; proper; fit; regular,
arrant; very. _Il est — que je l’ai dit_; it is true I said so. _Est-il —
que vous l’ayez dit?_ is it true you said it? _Toujours est-il —_; it is
nevertheless true. _Un — savant_; a thorough scholar. _Un — coquin_; an
arrant knave. _Pas —!_ (fam.) isn’t it true! isn’t it a fact!
=vrai=, _n.m._, truth. _À dire —_, _à — dire_; to speak the truth. _Cela
sort du —_; that is going from the truth, that is out of character. _Au
—_; in truth, truly. _Le — n’est pas toujours vraisemblable_; truth is
stranger than fiction.
=vrai=, _adv._, in truth, truly.
=vraiment=, _adv._, truly, indeed; verily, in truth, forsooth! _Oui, —_;
yes, indeed.
=vraisemblable= (-san-), _n.m._ and _adj._, probability, likelihood;
likely, probable.
=vraisemblablement= (-san-), _adv._, likely, probably.
=vraisemblance= (-san-), _n.f._, probability, likelihood.
=vraque=, _n.m._ _V._ =vrac=.
*=vrille=, _n.f._, gimlet; wimble, borer, piercer; (bot.) clasper,
tendril.
=vrillé=, =-e=, _adj._, _part._, bored; spiral; curled; (bot.) claspered.
*=vriller=, _v.a._ and _n._, to bore, to make holes with a gimlet; (fig.)
to ascend spirally (of fireworks).
*=vrillerie=, _n.f._, gimlet-making.
*=vrillier=, _n.m._, gimlet-maker.
*=vrillon=, _n.m._, small wimble.
=vu=, _prep._, seeing, considering. _— son âge_; considering his age.
=vu=, _n.m._, sight, examination, inspection; (jur.) introductory part.
_Au — et au su de tout le monde_; in the sight of the whole world, with
the knowledge of everybody; openly.
=vu que=, _conj._, seeing that, since.
=vue=, _n.f._, sight, eyesight; eyes; view, survey, inspection, prospect;
light, window; design. _Il a perdu la —_; he has lost his sight. _Avoir
la — bonne_; to have good eyes. _Avoir la — courte_; to be short-sighted.
_Avoir la — basse_; to be near-sighted. _Jeter la — sur un objet_; to
cast one’s eye upon an object. _Baisser la —_; to look down. _Donner
dans la —_; to strike upon the eyes, to catch one’s eye. _À perte de —_;
farther than the eye can reach; out of sight; at random; far-fetched.
_Des compliments à perte de —_; long-winded compliments. _Perdre de —
une chose_; to lose sight of a thing. _À —_; at sight. _À — de pays_; by
guess. _Garder un prisonnier à —_; not to let a prisoner out of sight.
_À — d’œil_; by the eye, visibly. _Avoir la — sur quelqu’un_; to keep a
watch over any one. _Avoir des —s sur_; to have designs upon. _Connaître
de —_; to know by sight. _À dix jours de —_; ten days after sight. _Une —
de côté_; a side view. _Un plan à — d’oiseau_; a bird’s-eye view. _Cette
maison a une belle —_; that house has a fine view. _Son appartement a —
sur la rivière_; his apartment looks out upon the river. _Dans la — de_;
with a view of. _Il a de grandes —s_; he aims at great things, he aims
high. _Je l’ai fait dans cette —_; I did it with that end in view. _Avoir
une chose en —_; to have a thing in one’s eye, in view.
=vulcain=, _n.m._, (myth.) Vulcan; (fig.) smith, blacksmith; (butterfly)
red-admiral.
=vulcanien=, =-ne= (-ni-in, -ni-è-n), _adj._, (geol.) plutonian,
vulcanian.
=vulcanisation=, _n.f._, vulcanization.
=vulcanisé=, =-e=, _adj._, vulcanized.
=vulcaniser=, _v.a._, to vulcanize.
=vulgaire=, _n.m._ and _adj._, vulgar, common people; vulgar, common. _Le
—_; the vulgar herd, the common run of people.
=vulgairement= (-ghèr-mān), _adv._, vulgarly, commonly, generally.
=vulgarisateur=, _n.m._, _adj._, vulgarizer (of knowledge); vulgarizing,
popularizing.
=vulgarisation=, _n.f._, vulgarization, diffusing (of knowledge).
=vulgariser=, _v.a._, to vulgarize, to popularize.
_se_ =vulgariser=, _v.r._, to be, to become vulgarized, popularized.
=vulgarité=, _n.f._, vulgarity, commonness, triviality.
=vulgate=, _n.f._, vulgate (Latin Bible).
=vulgivague=, _adj._, prostituted. _Femme —_; prostitute.
=vulnérabilité=, _n.f._, vulnerableness.
=vulnérable=, _adj._, vulnerable.
=vulnérablement=, _adv._, vulnerably.
=vulnéraire=, _n.m._ and _adj._, (pharm.) vulnerary.
=vulnéraire=, _n.f._, (bot.) kidney-vetch, wound-wort.
=vulnérant=, =-e=, _adj._, wounding.
=vulnération=, _n.f._, wounding, wounds.
=vulpin=, _n.m._, (bot.) foxtail (grass).
=vulpin=, =-e=, _adj._, vulpine, fox-like.
=vultueu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, (med.) flushed (of the face).
=vulve=, _n.f._, (anat.) vulva.
W
=w= (double vé), _n.m._, (this letter does not belong to the French
alphabet, and is used in foreign words only), w.
=wacke=, _n.m._, (min.) wacke.
=wagon= (va-gon), _n.m._, wagon, truck, van, railway carriage. _—
écurie_; (rail.) horse-box. _— étable_; cattle-truck. _— frein_;
brake-van. _— lit_; sleeping-car. _— poste_; mail carriage. _En —!_ take
your seats! _— restaurant_; dining car. _— salon_; Pullman car.
=walhalla=, _n.m._, (_n.p._) Odin’s paradise.
=walkyrie=, _n.f._ (_—s_). _V._ =valkyrie=.
=wallon=, _n.m._, =-ne=, _n.f._, Walloon.
=wallon=, _n.m._, Walloon (language).
=warrant=, _n.m._, warrant.
=warranter=, _v.a._, (com.) to warrant, to certify.
=watergang= _or_ =watregan=, _n.m._, small canal; ditch (in Flanders).
=wesleyen=, =-ne=, _adj._, Wesleyan.
=whig= (ooig), _n.m._, Whig.
=whiggisme=, _n.m._, Whiggism.
=whiskey= (ooiski), _n.m._, whisky (spirit).
=whist=, _n.m._, whist.
=wicléfisme=, _n.m._, Wicliffism.
=wicléfiste=, _n.m._, Wicliffite.
=wigwam=, _n.m._, wigwam.
=wisk=, _n.m._ _V._ =whist=.
=wiskey=, _n.m._ _V._ =whiskey=.
=wolfram= (vol-fram), _n.m._, (min.) wolfram.
=wombat=, _n.m._, (mam.) wombat.
X
=x= (iks), _n.m._, the twenty-third letter of the alphabet, x.
=xanthe=, _n.m._, (bot.) burweed.
=xᵇʳᵉ= (ab. of _décembre_), Dec.
=xérasie= (ksé-), _n.f._, (med.) xerasia, alopecia.
=xerès=, _n.m._, sherry-wine.
=xérophagie= (ksé-), _n.f._, xerophagy.
=xérophtalmie= (ksé-), _n.f._, xerophthalmy.
=xiphias= (ksi-fias), _n.m._, (ich., astron.) xiphias.
=xiphoïde= (ksi-), _adj._, (anat.) xiphoid, ensiform.
=xylocope=, _n.m._, (zoöl.) xylocope, carpenter bee.
=xylographe= (ksi-), _n.m._, xylographer, wood-engraver.
=xylographie= (ksi-), _n.f._, xylography, wood-engraving.
=xylographique= (ksi-), _adj._, xylographic, of wood-engraving.
=xyloïdine=, _n.f._, (chem.) xyloidine.
=xylophage= (ksi-), _n.m._ and _adj._, (ent.) xylophagan; wood-fretter,
bark-chafer; xylophagous.
=xylophagie=, _n.f._, xylophagy.
=xylophone=, _n.m._, (mus.) xylophone.
=xyste= (ksist), _n.m._, (antiq.) xyst, xystos.
Y
=y= (i-grèk), _n.m._, the twenty-fourth letter of the alphabet, y.
=y=, _adv._, there, thither; within, at home. _Je l’y ai vu_; I saw him
there. _Allez-y_; go there. _Voulez-vous y aller?_ will you go there?
_Monsieur A., y est-il?_ is Mr. A. in, _or_ at home? _Oui il y est_; yes,
he is at home.
=y=, _personal pron._, by it, by them; for it, for them; in it, in them,
therein; at it, at them; to him, to her, to it, to them. _Il n’y est pas
propre_; he is not fit for it. _Il n’y gagnera rien_; he will get nothing
by it. _Ne vous y fiez pas_; don’t trust him. _Sans y penser_; without
thinking of it. _Il — a_; there is or there are.
=yac=, _n.m._, Union Jack.
=yacht= (iak), _n.m._, yacht.
=yacou=, _n.m._, (orni.) yacou.
=yankee= (-ki), _n.m._, Yankee.
=yard= (iard), _n.m._, yard (measure).
=yatagan=, _n.m._, yataghan.
=yèble=, _n.m._ _V._ =hièble=.
=yénite=, _n.f._, (min.) yenite.
=yeuse=, _n.f._, ilex, holm, evergreen oak, holly oak.
=yeux=, _n.m.pl._, eyes (_plur._ of =œil=, _q.v._).
=yole=, _n.f._, (nav.) yawl. _— gig_; gig.
=youyou=, _n.m._, dingey, small boat (China).
=ypréau=, _n.m._, Ypres-elm, wych-elm.
=ysard=, _n.m._ _V._ =isard=.
=yucca=, _n.m._, (bot.) yucca, Adam’s needle.
Z
=z= (zèd), _n.m._, the twenty-fifth letter of the alphabet, z.
=zabre=, _n.m._, corn-ground beetle.
=zagaie=, _n.f._, assegai (African javelin).
=zaïm=, _n.m._, zaïm (Turkish soldier).
=zain=, _adj._, whole-colored (of horses, etc.).
=zamie=, _n.f._, (bot.) zamia.
=zani=, _n.m._, zany.
=zèbre=, _n.m._, zebra.
=zébré=, =-e=, _adj._, striped like the zebra.
=zébrure=, _n.f._, stripes (like the zebra’s).
=zébu=, _n.m._, (mam.) zebu.
=zédoaire=, _n.f._, (bot.) zedoary.
=zée=, _n.m._, (ich.) zeus.
=zélat-eur=, _n.m._, =-rice=, _n.f._, zealot, zealous person.
=zèle=, _n.m._, zeal, warmth, ardor. _Avoir du — pour_, _à_; to be
zealous in. _Avoir peu de —_; not to be zealous, to be lukewarm. _Avec
—_; zealously. _S’enflammer de — pour_; to be fired with zeal (for).
=zélé=, =-e=, _adj._, zealous.
=zélote=, _n.f._, zealot.
=zélotisme=, _n.m._, zealotry.
=zend= (zīnd), _n.m._, (_n.p._) Zend; religious doctrine of Zoroaster.
=zend=, =-e= (zīnd), _adj._, relating to Zend.
=zend-avesta= (zīnd-), _n.m._, (_n.p._) Zendavesta (sacred book of the
Guebers _or_ Parsees).
=zénith= (-nit), _n.m._, (astron.) zenith.
=zénonique=, _adj._, Zenonic.
=zénonisme=, _n.m._, Zenonism.
=zéolithe=, _n.m._, zeolite.
=zéphire= _or_ =zéphyr=, _n.m._, zephyr, gentle breeze.
=zéro=, _n.m._, nought; cipher; zero (of the thermometer). _À —_; at
zero. _Au-dessous de —_; below zero. _C’est un —_ or _un — en chiffre_;
he is a mere cipher.
=zest= (zèst), _n.m._, only used in the proverbial and familiar
expression _Entre le zist et le —_; pretty well, so-so; middling;
undecided, wavering (of persons).
=zest= (zèst), _int._, pshaw! nonsense presto!
=zeste= (zèst), _n.m._, zest (of a lemon, orange, walnut); straw, fig,
nothing. _Cela ne vaut pas un —_; it is not worth a straw.
=zététique=, _n.f._ and _adj._, zetetics; zetetic.
=zeugme=, _n.m._, (rhet.) zeugma.
=zézaiement=, _n.m._, lisping, lisp (bad prononciation which consists in
giving to _g_ or _j_ the soft sound of _z_).
=zézayer=, _v.n._, to lisp.
=zibeline=, _n.f._, sable. _Martre —_; sable fur.
=zigzag= (zig-zag), _n.m._, zigzag; crankle; (of lightning) fork. _faire
des —s_; to reel about, to stagger. _Aller en —_; to zigzag. _Eclair en
—_; forked lightning.
=zigzaguer=, _v.n._, to zigzag; to reel about.
=zinc=, _n.m._, zinc.
=zincage= _or_ =zingage=, _n.m._, zinking, covering with zinc.
=zincographe=, _n.m._, zincographer.
=zincographie=, _n.f._, zincography.
=zincographique=, _adj._, zincographic, zincographical.
=zingari=, _n.m._, (_—s_) Gypsy.
=zinguer= (-ghé), _v.a._, to cover with zinc; to lay with zinc.
=zinguerie=, _n.f._, zinc-works.
=zingueur= (-gheur), _n.m._, zinc-worker.
=zinzolin=, _n.m._, red violet.
=zircon=, _n.m._, (min.) zircon.
=zirconium=, _n.m._, (chem.) zirconium.
=zist= (zist), _n.m._ _V._ =zest=.
=zizanie=, _n.f._, (bot.) ☉tare, darnel-grass; Canada rice; (fig.)
division, dissension, discord, variance. _Semer la —_; to sow dissension,
discord.
=zizi=, _n.m._, (orni.) cirl-bunting.
=zodiacal=, =-e=, _adj._, zodiacal.
=zodiaque=, _n.m._, zodiac.
=zoïle=, _n.m._, (_—s_) Zoilus; (fig.) a snarling critic.
=zona= _or_ =zoster= (-tè-r), _n.m._, (med.) shingles.
=zone=, _n.f._, zone, belt. _— glaciale_; frigid zone. _— tempérée_;
temperate zone. _— torride_; torrid zone.
=zoné=, =-e=, _adj._, zoned.
=zoographe=, _n.m._, zoögrapher.
=zoographie=, _n.f._, zoögraphy.
=zoolâtre=, _n.m._, zoölater.
=zoolâtrie=, _n.f._, zoölatry.
=zoolithe=, _n.m._, zoölite.
=zoologie=, _n.f._, zoölogy.
=zoologique=, _adj._, zoölogic, zoölogical.
=zoologiste=, _n.m._, zoölogist.
=zoologue=, _n.m._ _V._ =zoologiste=.
=zoonomie=, _n.f._, zoönomy.
=zoophage=, _n.m._ and _adj._, zoöphagan (carnivorous quadruped);
zoöphagous.
=zoophore=, _n.m._, (arch.) zoöphorous.
=zoophyte=, _n.m._, zoöphyte.
=zootigue=, _adj._, zoötic.
=zootomie=, _n.f._, zoötomy.
=zootomiste=, _n.m._, zoötomist.
=zopolite=, _n.m._, vulture (Mexican).
=zopissa=, _n.m._, (nav.) zopessa (pitch scraped off ships).
=zostère=, _n.f._, sea-weed, wrack-grass.
=zouave=, _n.m._, zouave (soldier).
=zoulou=, _n.m._, zulu.
=zut=, _int._, be blowed! hang it! not if I know it! no use! no go!
=zygène=, _n.m._, (ich.) hammer-fish.
=zygoma=, _n.m._, zygoma.
=zygomatique=, _adj._, zygomatic. _Arcade —_; zygomatic arch.
=zymosimètre=, _n.m._, zymosimeter (instrument).
=zymotique=, _adj._, zymotic.