A GENERAL FRENCH-ENGLISH DICTIONARY. (continued 21)

maîtriser, v.a., to master, to domineer, to lord it over, to get master of, to get under; to overcome, to subdue, to control, to manage. — ses passions; to control one’s passions.

majesté, n.f., majesty. Crime de lèse-—; high-treason. Sa —; His or Her Majesty.

majestueusement (-eûz-mān), adv., majestically.

majestueu-x, -se, adj., majestic.

majeur, n.m., a male of full age, major; (mus.) major mode; middle finger.

majeur, -e, adj., major, greater; superior, main, chief, paramount; important; of age, of full age; (mus.) major. Force —e; superior force; absolute necessity; “vis major.”

majeure, n.f., (log.) major; of age (of a woman).

majolique, n.f., majolica.

major, n.m., major. Etat-—; (milit.) staff, staff-officers, headquarters. — de place; town commandant. Tambour —; drum major.

majorat, n.m., entail; entailed estate.

majordome, n.m., major-domo.

majorité, n.f., majority, full age. Arriver à sa —; to come of age.

majuscule, n.f. and adj., capital; large, capital letter.

maki, n.m., (mam.) lemur.

makis or maquis, n.m., thicket, brushwood, bush (in Corsica).

mal, n.m., evil, ill; harm, hurt, pain, ache, sickness, distemper, complaint; hardship; pity; mischief; misfortune; trouble, difficulty, labor. — du pays; homesickness, nostalgia. Les maux de la vie; the evils of life. Rendre le bien pour le —; to return good for evil. De deux maux il faut choisir le moindre; of two evils, choose the least. Il a eu plus de peur que de —; he was more frightened than hurt. Il faut éviter le — et faire le bien; do good and shun evil. Quel — y a-t-il à cela? what harm is there in that? Induire quelqu’un à —; to lead any one into evil. Penser à —; to mean harm, to meditate evil. Il a — au côté; he has a pain in his side. Un — de tête; a headache. La tête me fait —; my head aches. — de dents; tooth-ache. — d’yeux; sore eyes. Vous me faites —; you hurt me. Avoir — à; to have a pain or pains in. Faire —; to ache, to be painful, to hurt. Faire du — à; to injure, to harm, to be injurious to. — d’aventure; whitlow. — de mer; sea-sickness. — de cœur; qualmishness. En —; amiss, ill, in a bad sense. Aux grands maux les grands remèdes; desperate diseases require desperate remedies. Tomber de fièvre en chaud —; to fall out of the frying-pan into the fire. Dire du — de son prochain; to speak ill of one’s neighbor. Prendre en —; to take offense at. Mener or conduire à —; to bring to a bad end. Tourner à —; to end badly; to take a bad turn. Tourner en —; to misinterpret; to put a wrong construction on. Avoir — au cœur; to feel sick. J’ai — à la tête; I have a headache.

mal, adv., ill, wrong, amiss, badly; uncomfortably; on bad terms. Il écrit —; he writes badly. Cela va —; things are going badly. Vous vous y prenez —; you go the wrong way to work. Cet habit vous sied —, or vous va —; that coat does not become you. De — en pis; from bad to worse. Se trouver —; to faint; to feel faint. Mettre — avec; to set at variance with. Être — dans ses affaires; to be low in the world. Être — avec quelqu’un; to be on bad terms with any one. — à propos; improperly, unseasonably. Pas —; not badly; not a little, not a few. Être fort —; to be very ill. Être au plus —; to be past recovery. N’être pas —; not to be bad-looking. Trouver —; to find amiss. C’est — à lui de; it is wrong of him to.

malachite (-kit), n.f., (min.) malachite.

malacie, n.f., (med.) malacia, depraved appetite.

malacologie, n.f., malacology.

malactique, n.m. and adj., (med.) emollient.

malade, adj., sick, ill, diseased; unwell, poorly, bad, sickly, infirm; affected, attacked. — à la mort; sick unto death. Avoir l’air —; to look ill. Bras —; sore arm. Ces plantes sont —s; those plants are diseased. Rendre —; to make ill.

malade, n.m.f., sick person, sufferer, invalid; patient. pl., sufferers.

maladie, n.f., illness, sickness, malady, disease, complaint, disorder, distemper; passion, fondness, mania. ☉— du pays; homesickness, nostalgia. Faire une —; to have an illness. — noire; hypochondria.

maladi-f, -ve, adj., sickly, puny, ailing, unhealthy.

maladivement, adv., unhealthily, morbidly.

☉maladiveté (-div-té), n.f., sickliness, unhealthiness.

maladministration, n.f., maladministration.

☉maladrerie, n.f., hospital for lepers.

maladresse, n.f., awkwardness, clumsiness, unskillfulness, awkward thing, blunder; (fig.) bad shot. —! bad shot!

maladroit, -e, n. and adj., awkward person; awkward, clumsy, stupid, unskillful. Vous êtes un —! what an awkward fellow you are! C’est une —e; she is an awkward, clumsy woman.

maladroitement (-droat-mān), adv., clumsily, awkwardly.

malaga, n.m., Malaga (wine).

malaguette or maniguette, n.f., Guinea-pepper.

malai or malais, -e, n. and adj., Malay.

malai, n.m., Malay language.

malaise, n.m., uncomfortableness, uneasiness, discomfort. Sentir du —; to feel uncomfortable. Être dans le —; to be in straitened circumstances.

malaisé, -e, adj., hard, difficult, rough, toilsome; inconvenient; straitened in circumstances, hard up.

malaisément, adv., with difficulty, with trouble.

malandre, n.f., (vet.) malanders; rotten knot (in timber).

malandreu-x, -se, adj., having rotten knots (of wood); (fig. and fam.) sickly, seedy.

malandrin, n.m., brigand, highwayman, robber, ruffian, marauder.

mal-appris, -e, adj. and n., unmannerly, ill-bred; ill-bred person, churl, vulgar fellow.

malart, n.m., wild drake.

malavisé, -e, adj., ill-advised, imprudent, ill-informed, unwise, silly, ill-judged.

malaxer, v.a., (pharm.) to work up.

malbâti, -e, n. and adj., ill-favored person; ill-shaped, gawky.

mal-bouché, -e, adj. (vet.) ill-mouthed.

malchance, n.f., ill-luck, mishap, mischance.

☉malcontent, n.m., disaffected man, malcontent. Les —s; (French hist.) the Malecontents, name of a party at the court of Charles IX. Coiffé à la —; with hair cut short.

☉malcontent, -e, adj., displeased, dissatisfied, discontented, malcontent.

maldisant, -e, n. and adj., slanderer; slanderous.

mâle, n.m., male; cock.

mâle, adj., male, manly, manful, vigorous, virile; masculine, he. Air —; manliness. Voix —; manly voice. Style —; vigorous style.

malédiction, n.f., malediction, curse. Donner sa — à; to curse.

malefaim (mal-fin), n.f., gnawing hunger.

maléfice, n.m., witchcraft, sorcery.

maléficié, -e, adj. bewitched; (fig.) worn out, broken down, decrepit.

maléfique, adj., (astrol.) malevolent, malignant.

malemort, n.f., tragic death; bad end.

malencontre, n.f., mishap, mischance, untoward accident.

malencontreusement (-treûz-man), adv., unluckily, untowardly.

malencontreu-x, -se, adj., unlucky, untoward. Evénement —; untoward event.

mal-en-point, adv., badly off; in a sorry plight.

malentendu, n.m., misunderstanding, misapprehension; mistake; misconception.

malepeste! (mal-pèst), int., egad! plague on it!

mal-être, n.m., (n.p.) uncomfortableness, uneasiness, painful sensation.

malévole, adj., (fam. l.u.) malevolent, evil-disposed.

malfaçon, n.f., bad work; cheat, trickery.

malfaire, v.n., to do evil; to do mischief; to be mischievous.

malfaisance, n.f., (l.u.) evil-doing, mischief; (jur.) malfeasance.

malfaisant, -e, adj., malevolent, mischievous, unhealthy; injurious, prejudicial. Nourriture —e; unwholesome food.

malfait, -e, adj., ill-made, ill-shaped, deformed; badly done; ill-advised.

malfaiteur, n.m., malefactor, evil-doer.

malfamé, -e, adj., ill-famed.

malformation, n.f., malformation.

malgracieusement, adv., ungraciously, rudely, uncivilly.

malgracieu-x, -se, adj., rude, ungracious, uncivil, churlish.

malgré, prep., in spite of; notwithstanding, against the will of. Il l’a fait — moi; he did it in spite of me. — cela; nevertheless; for all that; yet.

malhabile, adj., unskillful, awkward.

malhabilement, adv., unskillfully, awkwardly.

malhabileté (-bil-té), n.f., unskillfulness, awkwardness.

malherbe, n.f., deadly carrot.

malheur, n.m., misfortune; mischance, mishap; unhappiness, unfortunate thing; calamity; disaster; accident; adversity; poverty; disgrace, woe. Par —; unhappily, unluckily. De —; unlucky, ill-omened. Oiseau de —; bird of ill-omen. Avoir du —; to be unfortunate. Jouer de —; to be unlucky. Être en —; to have a run of ill luck. Porter —; to bring ill luck. Il n’y a qu’heur et — en ce monde; hap and mishap govern the world. C’est un petit —; it is but a slight misfortune. Un — ne vient jamais seul; misfortunes never come singly. À quelque chose — est bon; it is an ill wind that blows no one any good. Quel —! what a misfortune! — à vous! woe betide you! — aux vaincus! woe to the vanquished! Pour comble, or pour surcroît de —; to crown all; as a crowning misfortune.

malheureusement (-reûz-mān), adv., unfortunately, unluckily, unhappily.

malheureu-x, -se, adj., unfortunate, unlucky, unsuccessful, disastrous, fatal, unpleasant, disagreeable; unhappy; miserable, wretched, poor, needy. Il est né —; he was born unfortunate. Il mène une vie fort —se; he leads a most unhappy life. Faire une fin —se; to come to an unhappy end.

malheureu-x, n.m., -se, n.f., unhappy person, wretched being; poor wretch, wretch; naughty child. Ce — fera une mauvaise fin; the wretch will come to a bad end. —! wretch that you are!

malhonnête, adj., dishonest; impolite; uncivil; rude. n.m.f., rude fellow, saucy baggage.

malhonnêtement (-nêt-mān), adv., dishonestly; unpolitely, rudely, uncivilly.

malhonnêteté (-nêt-té), n.f., impoliteness, rudeness, incivility; rude action; dishonesty, knavery. Il est d’une — révoltante; he is shockingly rude.

malice, n.f., malice, maliciousness, spite; roguishness, archness; prank, waggish thing, roguish thing, trick, dodge.

malicieusement (-eûz-mān), adv., maliciously, malignantly; archly, roguishly, slyly.

malicieu-x, -se, adj., malicious, malignant, mischievous; roguish, waggish, arch; spiteful, sly. Un enfant —; a roguish child.

*malignement, adv., malignantly, maliciously.

*malignité, n.f., malignity, malice; maliciousness.

malin, n.m., devil, evil spirit, fiend.

mali-n, *-gne, adj., malicious, mischievous, malignant; waggish, arch, roguish; shrewd; sly, knowing, clever, cunning. L’esprit —, le — esprit; the evil one, Satan. Un regard —; an arch look. Il est trop — pour se laisser attraper; he is too shrewd to be caught. Fièvre —gne; malignant fever.

mali-n, n.m., *-gne, n.f., malignant, malicious person; sly, shrewd, acute person; knavish person. C’est un —; he is a sly one, a knowing one.

maline, n.f., (nav.) spring-tide.

malines, n.f., Mechlin, Mechlin lace.

malingre, adj., poorly, sickly, weakly, puny.

malintentionné, -e, n. and adj., evil-minded person, evil-minded, ill-disposed. Il est — à votre égard; he is ill-disposed towards you.

malique, adj., (chem.) malic.

malitorne, n. and adj., awkward, ungainly, dowdy person; awkward, ungainly, gawky, clumsy.

mal-jugé, n.m., (n.p.) (jur.) erroneous judgment, error in judgment.

mallard, n.m., small grindstone.

malle, n.f., trunk; peddler’s box; mail, mail-coach; mail. Faire, défaire, sa —; to pack up, to unpack.

malléabilité (mal-lé-), n.f., malleability.

malléable (mal-lé-), adj., malleable.

malléole, n.f., (anat.) malleolus, ankle-bone.

malle-poste, n.f., (—s-—s) mail-coach.

malletier (mal-tié), n.m., (l.u.) trunk-maker.

mallette, n.f., small trunk; portmanteau.

mallier, n.m., shaft-horse, wheeler.

malmener, v.a., to use ill, to maltreat, to handle roughly; to bully, to abuse.

malotru, n.m., -e, n.f., ill-bred person; uncouth person, lout, boor.

*malpeigné, n.m., dirty fellow, dirty pig. adj., unkempt.

malplaisant, -e, adj., unpleasant, disagreeable.

malpropre, adj., dirty, slovenly, squalid, untidy; unfit for.

malproprement, adv., dirtily, slovenly, squalidly.

malpropreté, n.f., dirtiness, uncleanliness, slovenliness; dirt, filth.

malsain, -e, adj., unhealthy, sickly; unwholesome, injurious, dangerous; not good for. Cet air est —; that air is injurious to, not good for, health.

malséance, n.f., unbecomingness, unseemliness, impropriety.

malséant, -e, adj., unbecoming, unseemly, improper.

malsonnant, -e, adj., ill-sounding, offensive.

malt (malt), n.m., malt.

maltage, n.m., maltage.

malté, -e, adj., malted.

malteur, n.m., maltman, maltster.

maltraiter, v.a., to maltreat; to treat harshly, to use ill, to abuse, to handle roughly; to wrong, to injure.

malvacée, n. and adj. f., malvaceous plant; malvaceous.

*malveillance, n.f., malevolence, ill-will, malice.

*malveillant, -e, adj., malevolent, malignant, ill-disposed, ill-natured, spiteful.

*malveillant, n.m., evil-minded person.

malversation, n.f., malversation, malpractice, embezzlement, fraud.

malverser, v.n., to be guilty of malversation, of malpractices; to embezzle.

malvoisie, n.f., Malmsey.

malvoulu, -e, adj., (l.u.) disliked, hated; cut, avoided.

maman, n.f., mamma, mother. Bonne —, grand’—; grandmother, granny. Une grosse —; a fat woman.

mame (pop.), for madame.

mamelle, n.f., breast; teat; udder. Un enfant à la —; a child at the breast.

mamelon (ma-mlon), n.m., nipple, teat; dug (of animals); pap (of a mountain).

mamelonné, -e, adj., mammillated.

mamelu, -e (ma-mlu), adj., full-breasted.

mameluk (ma-mlook), n.m., Mameluke.

mamillaire (-mil-lèr), adj., (anat.) mammillary.

mammaire (mam-mèr), adj., (anat.) mammary.

mammalogie (mam-ma-), n.f., mammalogy.

mammalogiste (mam-ma-), n.m., mammalogist.

mammifère (mam-mi-), n.m. and adj., mammifer; mammiferous.

mammiforme (mam-mi-) adj., mammiform.

mammon, n.m., Mammon.

mammouth, n.m., mammoth.

m’amour, (obsolete abbreviation of ma amour) my love, lovee. —s; marks of love, caresses, soft nothings; wheedling, coaxing. Faire des —s; to fawn upon, to coax, to wheedle.

manant, n.m., ☉peasant; clown, clodhopper.

*mancenille, n.f., (bot.) manchineel.

*mancenillier, n.m., manchineel-tree.

manche, n.m., handle; neck (of musical instruments). — à gigot; bone-holder. — de gigot; knuckle-bone (of mutton); finger-board (of a violin); tail (of a plow). — de couteau; knife handle. Il branle dans le —; he hesitates; he is irresolute. Jeter le — après la cognée; to throw the rope after the bucket (i.e. to give up in despair).

manche, n.f., sleeve; (geog.) channel; (at play) rubber, game, heat; (nav.) flexible pipe, hose. Bouts de —; half-sleeves. Grandes —s; pudding-sleeves. —s pendantes; hanging-sleeves. — à —; even (at play). Avoir une personne dans sa —; to have somebody at one’s disposal. C’est une autre paire de —s; that is quite another thing or a horse of another color or quite another pair of shoes. J’ai gagné la première —; I have won the first game (of the rubber) or first heat (racing). — à vent; (nav.) windsail.

manchette, n.f., cuff, ruffle; (print.) sidenote.

manchon, n.m., muff.

manchot, -te, n.m.f. and adj., one-handed, one-armed person; one-handed, one-armed. Il n’est pas —; he is no fool.

manchot, n.m., (orni.) penguin.

mancienne (-si-èn), n.f., mealy-tree, wayfaring-tree.

mandant, n.m., (jur.) employer; (com.) principal; constituent, elector.

mandarin, n.m., mandarin.

mandarine, n.f., mandarin orange.

mandarinier, n.m., (bot.) mandarin orange-tree.

mandat, n.m., (jur.) warrant, mandate, authority, charge, commission; (com.) draft; check; money-order; order. — de comparution; summons to appear. — d’arrêt, — d’amener; warrant. — de or sur la poste; money-order. — de dépôt; commitment. — de perquisition; search warrant. — de banque; bank-post bill.

mandataire, n.m., mandatory; proxy, attorney, representative, agent.

mandater, v.a., to deliver an order for the payment of; to deliver an order for.

mandement (mān-dmān), n.m., mandate, order, mandamus; charge (of a bishop).

mander, v.a., to write, to write word, to send word, to send for; to inform, to acquaint, to let know. Je lui ai mandé de venir; I have sent him word to come. On a mandé le médecin; the doctor was sent for.

mandibule, n.f., (anat.) mandible, jaw.

☉*mandille, n.f., livery-coat.

mandoline, n.f., mandolin.

mandoliniste, n.m., mandolin-player.

mandore, n.f., mandore (sort of lute).

mandragore, n.f., (bot.) mandrake.

*mandrill, n.m., (mam.) mandrill, rib-nosed baboon.

mandrin, n.m., mandrel, (tech.) chuck, punch.

manducation, n.f., manducation.

manéage, n.m., (nav.) hand-work, handiwork.

manège, n.m., manege, horsemanship; riding-school; manœuvre, by-play, trick, intrigue.

mânes, n.m.pl., manes, shade, ghost, shades.

manet, n.m., drift-net.

maneton, n.m., lever-handle.

manette, n.f., (tech.) handgear; (hort.) trowel.

manganèse, n.m., manganese.

mangeable (-jabl), adj., eatable, fit to eat.

mangeaille (-jâ-i), n.f., food (for birds, cats); (b.s.) victuals, grub, eatables.

mangeant, -e (-jān, -t), adj., eating. Être bien —; to eat heartily; to be a hearty eater.

mangeoire (-joâr), n.f., manger, crib.

mangeoter, v.n., to eat little, to pick one’s food; to nibble.

manger, v.a., to eat; to eat up; to consume; to squander away, to run through. Salle à —; dining-room. — son bien; to squander one’s property. À —; to eat. Donner à —; to give food, to keep an eating-house. — du bout des doigts; to pick a bit here and there; to nibble at one’s food. — des yeux; to look daggers at. On mange bien dans cet hôtel; the cooking is excellent in that hotel. — ses mots; to clip one’s words. Les gros poissons mangent les petits; (fig.) might overcomes right.

se manger, v.r., to eat each other; to eat each other up; to hurt each other, to look daggers at one another; (gram.) to be cut off, elided, not pronounced.

manger, v.n., to eat; to take one’s meals; to feed. Il mange dans la main; he eats out of your hand (of an animal). Donnez-moi à —; give me something to eat.

manger, n.m., eating, victuals, food. Le — et le boire; eating and drinking.

mangerie (man-jrî), n.f., (pop.) eating; exaction, extortion, imposition.

mange-tout, n.m., (—) prodigal, spendthrift, squanderer.

mangeu-r, n.m., -se, n.f., eater; great eater; spendthrift. Un — de viandes apprétées; a lazy fellow. — de petits enfants; braggart. — de livres; a book-worm.

mangeure (-jur), n.f., place nibbled (by mice), feeding (for boars).

mangle, n.f., (bot.) mangle (fruit).

manglier, n.m., (bot.) mangrove, mangle.

mangonneau, n.m., mangonel (an engine formerly used for throwing stones).

mangoustan, n.m., (bot.) mangostan.

mangouste, n.f., (mam.) ichneumon; mangostan (fruit).

mangue (mang), n.f., (bot.) mango.

manguier (-ghié), n.m., (bot.) mango-tree.

maniable, adj., easy to be handled, workable; tractable, manageable, supple, pliable.

maniaque, n.m. and adj., maniac. adj., mad, furious, eccentric; crotchety.

manichéen (-in), -ne, n. and adj., Manichean.

manichéisme, n.m., Manicheism.

manichordion (-kor-), n.m., manichord, manicordon.

manicle, n.f. V. manique.

manie, n.f., mania, madness, folly, fancy, whim, hobby; inveterate habit.

maniement or manîment, n.m., handling; wielding; management, use, conduct, handling of money. — des armes; manual exercise. Le — des deniers; the management of money.

manier, v.a., to feel, to handle; to touch; to use, to wield, to ply, to manage, to govern. Il sait bien — le ciseau; he is a fine sculptor. Au —; by the touch, by handling. — une affaire; to manage a business.

manier, v.n., (man.) to act (of a horse).

manière, n.f., manner, way, fashion, sort, kind; style, mannerism, affectation, fuss; attitude. La — dont je lui ai parlé; the way in which I spoke to him. De — ou d’autre; somehow or other. Chacun a sa —; every one has his own way of doing. — de parler; mode of speech. De la bonne —; handsomely. Par — d’acquit; for form’s sake. La — de cet auteur est grande; that author’s style is grand. De la même —; in the same manner. Il a des —s agréables; he has pleasing manners. De — que or de — à ce que; so that. Il est une des plus grandes —s du siècle; he is one of the finest stylists of the century.

maniéré, -e, adj., affected, unnatural, forced. Air —; affected air.

maniériste, n.m., mannerist.

manieur, n.m., handler, manager.

manifestation, n.f., manifestation.

manifeste, adj., manifest, evident.

manifeste, n.m., manifesto.

manifestement, adv., manifestly.

manifester, v.a., to manifest, to make known, to display, to show. — sa pensée; to make known one’s thought.

se manifester, v.r., to manifest one’s self, to assert one’s self, to be made manifest.

manigance, n.f., manœuvre, underhand dealing, intrigue.

manigancer, v.a., to contrive, to plot, to concoct. Se —; to be brewing, to be concocted.

maniguette, n.f. V. malaguette.

maniguière, n.f., net (for catching eels).

manille, n.f., (at cards) manille; manilla cheroot.

manioc, manihot, or manioque, n.m., (bot.) manioc, cassado, tapioca, cassava.

manipulateur, n.m., manipulator.

manipulation, n.f., manipulation.

manipule, n.m., handful; (c.rel., antiq., pharm.) maniple.

manipuler, v.a. and n., to manipulate.

manique or manicle, n.f., hand-leather.

maniveau, n.m., osier-stand; punnet.

manivelle, n.f., handle, winch, crank, (fig.) drudgery, daily round. La — d’un gouvernail; the whipstaff of a helm.

manne (mâ-n), n.f., manna; (fig.) balm, gift. — en larmes; manna in flakes. — céleste; manna from Heaven.

manne (ma-n), n.f., hamper, flat basket. — d’enfant; cradle. — à marée; fish-crate.

mannequin (ma-n-kin), n.m., hamper; small hamper; (paint.) lay-figure, dummy, puppet; insignificant person. Figure qui sent le —; unnatural figure. C’est un vrai —; he is a mere automaton.

mannequiné, -e, adj., unnatural. Ces figures sont —es; (paint.) those figures are unnatural, smack of the lay-figure.

manœuvre, n.f., handiwork, handcraft, working, manœuvre, move, management, tactics; (nav.) rope; working (a ship); (milit.) drill. pl., (nav.) rigging. —s courantes; running-rigging. —s dormantes; standing-rigging. Officier qui entend la —; officer expert in working a ship. Amarrer une —; to make a rope fast.

manœuvre, n.m., workman, journeyman-mason, laborer; bungler; crafty person. Ce n’est qu’un —; he is a mere mechanic. Travail de —; manual labor.

manœuvrer, v.a. and n., to manœuvre; to work (a ship). — les voiles; to work the sails. Faire — des soldats; to drill soldiers.

manœuvrier, n.m., able seaman; tactician.

manoir, n.m., manor, mansion, manor-house.

manomètre, n.m., (phys.) manometer.

manométrique, adj., (phys.) manometrical.

manouvrier, n.m., day-laborer, workman, hodman.

manquant, -e, n.m.f. and adj., absentee, defaulter; missing, absent, wanting, failing, short.

manque, n.m., want, lack, need; shortcoming, failure, defect; (riding) stumble. Il a trouvé dix francs de —; he found he was ten francs short. — de; for want of. — de touche; (at billiards) miss.

manqué, -e, part., defective; abortive, miscarried; a failure; spoilt. Une affaire —e, un coup —; a failure. Un poète —; a would-be poet.

manquement (man-kmān), n.m., omission, shortcoming, oversight, failure, want, slip, breach.

manquer, v.n., to miss, to fail; to be wanting; to be wanting in respect; to be deficient; to miss fire; to stand in need of; to forfeit, to break; to be insolvent; to be near, to have need; to be out, in want, of; to decay; to miscarry; to give way, to infringe, to disregard, to disappoint. Arme à feu qui manque; a fire-arm that misses fire. Marchand qui a manqué; bankrupt merchant. Le cœur lui manque; her heart fails her. Les forces lui manquent; his strength fails him. Le pied lui a manqué; his foot slipped. L’argent lui manque; he is short of money. Rien ne vous manquera; you shall want for nothing. La poudre leur manque; they are short of powder. L’affaire a manqué; the business has miscarried, the affair has fallen through. — à son devoir; to fail in one’s duty. — à sa parole; to break one’s word. — à un rendezvous; to fail to keep an appointment. Je n’y manquerai pas; I will not fail. Il ne manque de rien; he wants for nothing, or has all he wants. Il ne manque pas de vanité; he does not lack vanity. — de parole; to fail in one’s promise. — d’argent; to be in want of money. Ne manquez pas de vous y trouver; do not fail to be there. Il a manqué de tomber; he was very near falling. — à quelqu’un, — de respect à quelqu’un; to be disrespectful to or wanting in respect to. Il manque de tout; he is destitute of everything. Vous me manquez; I miss you. Je vous manque; you miss me. Il ne manquait plus que cela! that was the last straw or that crowns all or what next, I wonder! La — belle; (lit. to miss a fine opportunity) to have a narrow escape.

manquer, v.a., to miss, to lose. Il a manqué son coup; he has missed his aim. — une occasion; to lose an opportunity.

se manquer, v.r., to forget what is due to one’s self, to be wanting in self-respect, to forget one’s honor, to prove false.

mansarde, n.f., attic, garret, roof. Fenêtre en —; attic window. Toit en —; curb roof.

mansardé, -e, adj., with attics, garrets.

manse, n.f., (feudality) revenue (of abbeys). V. mense.

mansuétude, n.f., mildness, meekness, gentleness, forbearance.

mante, n.f., mantle (woman’s). — religieuse; (ent.) praying mantis.

manteau, n.m., cloak; mantle, train, cape; mask, pretense; (her.) mantling. S’envelopper de son —; to wrap one’s self up in one’s cloak. Le — royal; the royal mantle. Cela se vend sous le —; that is sold clandestinely. Garder les —x; to stand sentinel; to take no share in. — de cheminée; mantel-piece.

mantelet (man-tlè), n.m., short cloak; mantlet; (fort.) mantlet. —s de sabords; (nav.) port-lid; (of a coach) apron.

mantelle, n.f., hooded crow; the coat of a dog; the hair on its back.

mantelure (man-tlur), n.f., mantling.

*mantille, n.f., mantilla.

manuel, -le, adj., manual, portable.

manuel, n.m., manual, hand-book, text-book.

manuellement (-èl-mān), adv., from hand to hand, manually.

manufacture, n.f., manufacture, making, make; manufactory; mill, works, factory.

manufacturer, v.a., to manufacture. Se —; to be manufactured.

manufacturi-er, -ère, adj., manufacturing.

manufacturier, n.m., manufacturer.

manumission, n.f., manumission.

in manus, n.m. V. in manus.

manuscrit, -e, adj., manuscript matter.

manuscrit, n.m., manuscript.

manutention, n.f., management, care, making, fabrication; (l.u.) upholding, enforcement; (milit.) bake-house, bakery, bread-making.

manutentionner, v.a., to bake for the army.

mappemonde (map-mond), n.f., map of the world. — céleste, planisphere.

maque, n.f. V. macque.

maquer, v.a. V. macquer.

maquereau (ma-krô), n.m., (ich.) mackerel, (l.ex.) pimp, pander; reddish spot on one’s legs; procurer, brothel-keeper.

maquerellage, n.m., (l.ex.) panderism, pimping, procuring.

maquerelle, n.f., (l.ex.) procuress.

maquette, n.f., (sculpt.) small rough model (in clay, wax); (paint.) rough sketch, lay figure.

*maquignon, n.m., (b.s.) horse-dealer; horse-jockey; jockey; jobber. — de charges; (b.s.) agent for the sale of offices. — de mariages; (b.s.) matrimonial agent.

*maquignonnage, n.m., (b.s.) horse-dealing; jockeyship; bishoping; underhand work; jobbing.

*maquignonné, -e, part., trimmed up for sale, bishoped (of horses).

*maquignonner, v.a., (b.s.) to jockey, to trim, to bishop (a horse for sale); to job; to carry on any illicit trade.

*maquilleur, n.m., (nav.) mackerel-boat.

maquilleuse, n.f., face-painter, enameler.

maquis, n.m. V. makis.

marabout, n.m., marabout (priest); ill-favored man, big-bellied copper kettle; (orni.) marabou-stork feathers; a kind of ribbon.

maraîcher, n.m., market-gardener.

marais, n.m., marsh, feu, bog, swamp, morass; low-lying market-garden ground (Paris). Dessécher un —; to drain a marsh. — salant; salt-marsh. Chasse au —; moor-shooting.

marasca, n.m., (hort.) sour cherry.

marasme, n.m., (med.) marasmus, consumption, atrophy, emaciation.

marasquin, n.m., maraschino.

marâtre, n.f., step-mother; unkind, harsh mother.

maraud, n.m., -e, n.f., scoundrel, rascal, knave; slut, jade.

maraudage, n.m., marauding, freebooting.

*maraudaille, n.f., rabble, knave.

maraude, n.f., marauding; (cabmen’s slang) crawling, plying for hire.

marauder, v.n., to maraud; to crawl, to ply for hire.

maraudeur, n.m., marauder; crawler.

maravédis, n.m., maravedi (small Spanish coin).

marbre, n.m., marble; marble, slab, stone for grinding colors, etc.; (print.) imposing-stone, slab. pl., works, statues, etc., made of marble; samples of various kinds of marble. Il est de —; he is made of stone. — jaspé; variegated marble. Plaque de —; slab of marble. — filandreux; fibrous marble. — terrasseux; terrene marble. — du gouvernail; (nav.) barrel of the steering-wheel. Sur le —; (print.) in type.

marbré, -e, part., adj., marbled. Du papier —; marbled, mottled paper.

marbrer, v.a., to marble, to vein, to mottle. Se —; to become marbled.

marbrerie, n.f., marble-cutting, marble-work, marble-yard; marble-works.

marbreur, n.m., marbler.

marbrier, n.m., marble-cutter, marble-polisher; marble-grainer, dealer in marble.

marbrière, n.f., marble-quarry.

marbrure, n.f., marbling, marble-graining.

marc (mar), n.m., mark. Poids de —; eight-ounce weight. Au — la livre or le franc; so many cents in the dollar. — d’or; a duty paid to the king by the titularies of certain offices.

marc (mar), n.m., residuum (of anything squeezed, boiled, or strained). — de raisin; skins, husks of grapes after the last pressing. — de café; grounds, grouts of coffee.

marcassin, n.m., young wild boar, grice.

marcassite, n.f., (min.) marcasite.

marceline, n.f., colored silk fabric; (min.) red silicate of manganese.

marchand, n.m., -e, n.f., merchant, dealer, tradesman, shopkeeper; hawker, peddler, trader, store-keeper; buyer, customer; bidder (at auctions); (orni.) surf-scoter. — en gros; wholesale dealer, merchant. — en détail; retail merchant. — fripier; second-hand clothes dealer. Petit —; chandler. — ambulant, forain; itinerant dealer. N’est pas — qui toujours gagne; we must expect to meet with losses sometimes. Y a-t-il —? is there a bidder, does any one bid? (at auctions). Trouver —; to find a customer, a purchaser. C’est un — de soupe; he’s a regular Squeers. En être le mauvais —; to get the worst of the bargain.

marchand, -e, adj., merchantable, marketable, saleable, vendible; mercantile, trading; navigable (of rivers). Prix —; trade price, wholesale price. Place —e; trading-place. Vaisseau —; merchantman, merchant-ship. Capitaine —; merchant-captain. Marine —e; merchant-service; mercantile navy.

marchandage, n.m., task-work, piece-work; bargaining.

*marchandailler, v.n., to haggle.

marchande, n.f., tradeswoman. — lingère; linen draper. — d’huîtres; oyster-woman. — de modes; milliner.

marchander, v.a., to ask the price of, to cheapen, to bargain for, to haggle for, to chaffer for; to spare; to hesitate to expose; to grudge, to trouble. Ne pas — quelqu’un; not to spare any one, not to mince matters with any one. Il ne marchande pas sa vie; he does not hesitate to expose his life.

se marchander, v.r., to be cheapened, to spare each other.

marchander, v.n., to haggle, to chaffer, to stand haggling, to bargain; to be irresolute, to hesitate.

marchandeur, n.m., task-master, middleman; haggler, bargainer.

marchandise, n.f., merchandise, goods, ware, commodity. Faire valoir sa —; to cry up one’s goods, to set one’s self off. — qui plaît est à demi-vendue; please the eye and pick the purse.

marche, n.f., walk; walking; gait, march; progress, journey, course, advance; procession; step, stair; move (at chess, drafts); conduct, arrangement; way of proceeding; military frontier, border; marches, borders, between England and Wales, also between England and Scotland. Ce vaisseau a une — avantageuse; that vessel is a fast sailer. Vaisseau construit pour la —; ship built to sail very fast or for speed; clipper. Mettre en —; to set going. Faire une fausse —; to play a false move. Gagner une — sur; to steal a march upon. — d’un poème; progress of a poem. — d’escalier; step of a staircase. — d’un tour; treadle of a lathe. — de deux heures; two hours’ walk or journey. La — de cet homme a été louche dans l’affaire; the conduct of that man in the matter has been suspicious. — militaire, — triomphale; military, triumphal, march. L’armée est en —; the army is on the march. Fermer la —; to close the procession. Ouvrir la —; to lead the way.

marché, n.m., market, market-place; market-time; bargain, purchase, price, rate; sale; agreement, contract, treaty. — au blé, aux herbes, au poisson; corn, grass, fish-market. Bon —; cheapness. Conclure un —; to strike a bargain. Acheter, vendre, à bon —; to buy, to sell cheap. Avoir bon — de; to easily get the better of. Faire bon — d’une chose; to hold anything cheap, not to spare; to think little of. Mettre le — à la main à quelqu’un; to offer any one to break off a bargain; to make any one take it or leave it. Vous n’en serez pas quitte à si bon —; you shall not get off so easily. On n’a jamais bon — de mauvaise marchandise; the best is cheapest. Il le paiera plus cher qu’au —; he shall smart for it, he shall repent it or rue it. — d’or; excellent bargain, great bargain. Meilleur — or à meilleur —; cheaper. C’est un — donné; it is absolutely given away. Par-dessus le —; into the bargain. Le — tient tous les jours; the market is held every day. Cours du —; market-price. Est-ce — fuit? is it a bargain?

marche-palier, n.f., landing step.

marchepied (marsh-pié), n.m., stepping-stone; towing-path; foot-board, footstool; step (of a coach, altar). pl., (nav.) foot-ropes of the yards. Servir de —; to serve as a stepping-stone.

marcher, v.n., to walk, to step; to tread; to go, to travel, to march, to wade; to sail, to run, to ply; to move on, to advance, to progress; to go on; to flow, to run, to rank. — en avant, en arrière, à reculons; to walk forward, to walk backward. — à grands pas, sur la pointe du pied; to stride along, to walk on tiptoe. — à quatre pattes; to go on all-fours. — à pas de loup; to walk with stealthy steps. — sur les traces de quelqu’un; to follow in any one’s footsteps. — sur les talons de quelqu’un; to tread on any one’s heels. — sur des épines; to tread on thorns. — de front; to march abreast. — droit; to walk straight. Faire —; to get along, to set going. Je le ferai — droit; I will take care that he behaves well. Cette montre marche bien; this watch keeps good time. Ce navire marche bien; this vessel sails well or is very fast. — sur quelque chose; to tread upon anything. — égal à; to be equal to. — à l’ennemi; to march against the enemy. — à tâtons; to grope or feel one’s way.

marcher, n.m., walking, walk; gait, step, pace, treading, tread; ground (on which one walks).

marcher, v.a., (hat-making) to press, to felt, to full, to tread.

marcheu-r, n.m., -se, n.f., pedestrian, walker, (nav.) sailer. Bon —; (nav.) fast-sailing, swift-sailing, vessel; fast sailer.

marcottage, n.m., (hort.) layering.

marcotte, n.f., (hort.) layer.

marcotter, v.a., (hort.) to layer (vines, etc.).

mardelle. V. margelle.

mardi, n.m., Tuesday. — gras; Shrove-Tuesday. — saint; Tuesday before Easter; Tuesday in Passion-week.

mare, n.f., pool, pond; trough (used by cider brewers).

maréage, n.m., hire, pay (for a voyage).

marécage, n.m., marsh, bog, fen, swamp, morass.

marécageu-x, -se, adj., marshy, fenny, swampy, boggy. Pays —, terrain —; marshy land.

maréchal, n.m., farrier, shoeing-smith; marshal, field-marshal. — des logis; sergeant-major (in the cavalry). — ferrant; farrier. — vétérinaire; farrier and veterinary surgeon. — de camp; brigadier, brigadier-general. — de France; Marshal of France. Grand —; grand marshal; earl marshal, lord high steward.

maréchalat, n.m., marshalship.

maréchale, n.f., field-marshal’s wife.

maréchalerie, n.f., farriery.

☉maréchaussée, n.f., marshalsea, constabulary; mounted police.

marée, n.f., tide, water, flood; (fresh) sea-fish. Haute —, pleine —; high water. Basse —; low water. De —; tidal. Grande —, — de vive eau; spring-tide. — morte; neap tide. La — monte; the tide is coming in. La — descend; the tide is going down, running out. Prendre la —; to take advantage of the tide. — montante; flood. — descendante; ebb. — qui porte au vent; wind-tide. Aller contre vent et —; to pursue one’s course in spite of all difficulties. Avoir vent et —; to sail with wind and tide. Vendeur de —; fishmonger. Cela arrive comme — en carême; that comes like fish in Lent. Ce qui vient de flot s’en retourne de —; lightly come, lightly go. La — n’attend personne; time and tide wait for no man.

marégraphe, n.m., tide-gauge.

marelle, n.f., hopscotch.

maremme, n.f., marshy land on the seashore (in Italy).

marengo (-rin-go), n.m., Oxford gray.

marengo, n.f., (cook.) marengo, fowl fricasseed with mushrooms.

mareyeur, n.m., fish-factor, fish-salesman; fish-carrier.

margarine, n.f., (chem.) margarine.

margarique, adj., (chem.) margaric.

margay, n.m., (mam.) margay, tiger-cat.

marge, n.f., margin (of paper, books); freedom, latitude, scope; time, means. Ecrire une note en —; to make a marginal note. Laisser assez de — à quelqu’un; to give any one sufficient scope. Nous avons de la —; we have time enough or to spare.

margelle, n.f., curb-stone, edge (of a well).

marger, v.a., (print.) to regulate the margin of, to margin.

margeur, n.m., (print.) layer on.

marginal, -e, adj., marginal.

marginé, -e, part., margined, marginated.

marginer, v.a., to margin.

margot, n.f., magpie, mag; talkative woman, chatterbox; dim. of Marguerite, Madge, Meg, Peggy.

margotin, n.m., small bundle of fagots.

*margouillet, n.m., (nav.) bull’s eye, wooden thimble.

*margouillis (-goo-yee), n.m., (fam.) puddle, dirty plash, sludge, slop; (fig.) difficulty; embarrassment. Laisser quelqu’un dans le —; to leave any one in the lurch.

margrave, n.m.f., margrave; margravine.

margraviat, n.m., margraviate.

marguerite, n.f., daisy; pearl; (nav.) messenger. Reine-—, (—s-—s) China-aster, China-star. Faire —; (nav.) to clap a messenger on the cable. Jeter des —s devant les pourceaux; to cast pearls before swine.

*marguillerie, n.f., churchwardenship.

*marguillier, n.m., churchwarden.

mari, n.m., husband, spouse. Affranchissement de la puissance de —; (jur.) discoverture. Etat de la femme en puissance de —; (jur.) coverture. En puissance de —; (jur.) feme covert, under coverture.

mariable, adj., marriageable.

mariage, n.m., marriage, matrimony, wedlock; match; wedding; fortune, portion; union, blending. — d’inclination; love match. — de raison, — de convenance; prudent match, marriage for money (or position). — en détrempe; pretended marriage, illicit intercourse. — sous la cheminée; marriage under the rose. — de la main gauche; morganatic marriage. Contrat de —; marriage contract. Promettre en —; to promise in marriage. Rechercher une jeune fille en —; to solicit the hand of a young girl. Prendre en —; to take to wife. — de conscience; private marriage.

marié, n.m., married man; bridegroom. pl., married people. Nouveaux —s; newly-married couple.

mariée, n.f., married woman; bride. Se plaindre que la — est trop belle; to find fault with a good bargain.

marier, v.a., to marry, to give in marriage, to match; to blend; to unite. Il a fort bien marié sa fille; he has married his daughter very advantageously. — la vigne avec l’ormeau; to marry, or to twine, the vine with the elm. — des couleurs; to blend, or to combine, colors.

se marier, v.r., to marry, to espouse, to wed, to be married to; to match, to ally, to unite, to blend, to combine, to pair. Il s’est marié très richement; he has made a very rich match. Elle est en âge de se —; she is of an age to marry.

marie-salope, n.f., (—s-—s) mud-barge.

marieu-r, n.m., -se, n.f., match-maker.

marin, -e, adj., marine; seafaring; sea; sea-going; seaworthy. Avoir le pied —; to be a good sailor; (fig.) not to be put out of countenance.

marin, n.m., mariner, seaman, seafaring man, sailor. — d’eau douce; fresh-water sailor, land-lubber.

marinade, n.f., marinade, pickled meat; souse; pickles.

marine, n.f., sea-affairs; sea-service; navigation; marine; navy; naval forces; taste, smell, of the sea; (paint.) sea-piece, seascape. Officier de —; naval officer. — marchande; mercantile, marine. — militaire or de l’état; royal navy. Soldats, troupes, de la —; marines. Terme de —; sea-term. Sentir la —, or avoir un goût de —; to taste of the sea.

mariné, -e, part., marinated, pickled; (her.) marine. Des marchandises —es; merchandise spoiled or damaged by the sea.

mariner, v.a., to marinate, to pickle, to souse; (nav.) to jerk.

maringouin, n.m., (ent.) musquito.

marinier, n.m., waterman, bargeman, lighterman; mariner, seaman. Maître —; master-bargeman. Officiers —s; petty officers.

à la marinière, n.f. Nager à la —; to swim on the side; (cook.) “marinière” fashion.

mariniste, n.m., marine-painter.

marionnette, n.f., puppet, marionette; short woman; frivolous, weak-minded woman. pl., puppet-show.

marital, -e, adj., marital, pertaining to a husband.

maritalement (-tal-mān), adv., maritally, as man and wife, matrimonially.

maritime, adj., maritime, naval; nautical.

maritorne, n.f., ill-made, coarse woman; slattern, slut, dirty woman; (at an inn) maid of all work.

marivaudage, n.m., excessively refined style; mannerism, sentimentalism (writing in the style of Marivaux).

marivauder, v.n., to aim at over-refinement, to write in the style of Marivaux.

marjolaine, n.f., (bot.) sweet marjoram.

☉marjolet, n.m., fop, little coxcomb.

marli, n.m., catgut, thread gauze.

*marmaille, n.f., (fam.) brats, lots of little brats.

marmelade, n.f., marmalade. Cette viande est en —; that meat is done to a jelly. Mettre en —; to beat to a jelly. Avoir la mâchoire en —; to have one’s jaw smashed in.

marmenteau, adj., reserved, ornamental (of trees).

marmite, n.f., pot, saucepan, boiler, copper. Elles servent à faire bouillir la —; they help to make the pot boil. Ecumeur de —s; sponger, parasite. Nez en pied de —; pug nose. — à vapeur; steamer. La — bout dans cette maison; they live well or keep a good table. La — est renversée; they give no more dinner parties, they see no more company.

☉marmiteu-x, -se, n. and adj., (fam.) pitiful, poor wretch; sad, wretched, whimpering, whining, pitiful, seedy.

marmiton, n.m., scullion, kitchen drudge.

marmonner, v.a. and n. V. marmotter.

marmoréen, -ne, adj., marmorean.

marmose, n.f., (mam.) marmose.

marmot, n.m., ☉monkey; (mam.) marmoset; puppet, grotesque figure; brat, little chap. Croquer le —; to dance attendance, to kick up one’s heels, to wait.

marmotte, n.f., brat (little girl); (mam.) marmot; woman’s head-dress; (nav.) match-tub. Dormir comme une —; to sleep like a top.

marmotter, v.a. and n., to mutter, to mumble, to grumble, to growl.

marmouset, n.m., grotesque figure; young monkey (little boy); fire-dog, andiron.

marnage, n.m., (agri.) marling, chalking, claying.

marne, n.f., (agri.) marl, chalk, clay.

marner, v.a., (agri.) to marl, to chalk, to clay.

marneron, n.m., (agri.) marler, marl-digger.

marneu-x, -se, adj., marly.

marnière, n.f., marl-pit, clay-pit, chalk-pit.

maronite, n.m.f. and adj., Maronite.

maronner, v.n., (pop.) to grumble, to growl, to croak. Faire —; to keep waiting a long time; to tease, to plague.

maroquin, n.m., morocco-leather, roan. — du Levant; Turkey-leather.

maroquiner, v.a., to morocco.

maroquinerie (-ki-n-rî), n.f., morocco-leather manufacture.

maroquinier, n.m., morocco-tanner.

marotique, adj., marotic (imitation of Marot’s style).

marotisme, n.m., marotism (imitation of Marot’s style).

marotte, n.f., fool’s bauble, cap and bells; fancy, folly, whim, hobby. Chacun a sa —; everybody has his hobby.

maroufle, n.m., ragamuffin; booby, clod-hopper, bumpkin, clown, churl.

maroufle, n.f., (paint.) lining-paste.

maroufler, v.a., (paint.) to line.

marquant, -e, adj., conspicuous, striking. Personne —e; person of note, of distinction.

marque, n.f., mark, cipher, stamp; (com.) private mark; brand (with a hot iron); badge; trace (of footsteps) print; sign; token; testimony; proof, instance; counter (at play); pit (of the small-pox). — de fabricant; manufacturer’s mark. — de la douane; custom-house stamp. — d’honneur; badge of honor. Homme de —; man of note. Donner à quelqu’un une — d’estime; to give any one a proof of esteem. Lettres de —; letters of mark (for seizing vessels). Ville de —; coinage-town. — de beau temps; signs of fine weather. Une — qu’il est venu, c’est qu’il a laissé ceci; a proof that he came, is that he left this. Faire porter ses —s à quelqu’un; (fam.) to leave one’s mark on any one.

marqué, -e, part., marked, evident, conspicuous, obvious; decided, pronounced; strong, resolute. — de la petite vérole; pitted with small-pox. Homme — au bon coin; a man of the right stamp. — à l’A.; thoroughly reliable, the soul of honor. Ouvrage — au bon coin; excellent work. Attentions —es; marked attentions. Il est né —; he was born with a mark. Avoir les traits —s; to have strongly-marked features.

marquer, v.a., to mark, to stamp, to note down; to brand; to stigmatize; to leave marks; to score up; to mark out, to trace out; to mark down, to note; to betoken, to bespeak, to denote; to tell, to mention, to write; to show, to give marks of, to testify, to single out. — son jeu; to mark one’s points at play. Je lui ai marqué que; I wrote to him that. — à quelqu’un sa reconnaissance; to show one’s gratitude to any one. — à quelqu’un ce qu’il doit faire; to specify to any one what he has to do.

marquer, v.n., to make its appearance, to show (of a thing); to be remarked, to be evident; to be remarkable, distinguished; to set off; to be of note; to show the hour (of sun-dials); to mark, to show age by the teeth (of horses); (fenc.) to make a full pass. Cela marquerait trop; (fam.) that would attract too much attention. Cet homme ne marque point; that man is in no way remarkable.

marqueter, v.a., to speckle, to spot, to inlay.

marqueterie (-kè-trî), n.f., marquetry, checkered-work, checker-work, inlaid-work, inlaying, mosaic, patchwork.

marqueteur, n.m., inlayer.

marquette, n.f., cake (of virgin wax).

marqueur (-keur), n.m., marker, scorer, tally-keeper.

marquis, n.m., marquis, marquess. — de Carabas; (jest.) great landed proprietor. Faire le —; to give one’s self airs.

marquisat, n.m., marquisate.

marquise, n.f., marchioness; marquee, awning, verandah; settee; waist-buckle.

marquiser, v.a., to style any one a marquis.

se marquiser, v.r., to assume the title of marquis.

marquoir, n.m., bodkin.

marraine, n.f., godmother, sponsor.

marre, n.f., mattock, hoe.

☉marri, -e, adj., sorry, grieved, concerned, troubled.

marron, n.m., (bot.) large French chestnut; chestnut; ☉large curl tied with a ribbon; cracker (fire-works); (milit.) mark; unlicensed broker; unlicensed printer; (print.) work printed clandestinely; chestnut color. — d’Inde; horse-chestnut. — d’eau; water-caltrops (fruit). —s glacés; candied chestnuts. Tirer les —s du feu; to pull the chestnuts out of the fire.

marron, adj. invariable, maroon, chestnut-color.

marron, -ne, adj., fugitive, runaway (of slaves); wild (of animals that have been tame); (com.) unlicensed, interloping. Courtier —; (com.) unlicensed broker. Cochon —; wild hog.

marron, n.m., -ne, n.f., runaway slave; maroon; free black slave (of the West Indies).

marronnage, n.m., state of a runaway slave; running away (of slaves); carrying on the business of a broker without a license.

☉marronner, v.a., to curl the hair with curling-tongs.

marronnier, n.m., (bot.) French chestnut-tree, chestnut-tree. — d’Inde; horse-chestnut-tree.

marrube, n.m., (bot.) madwort; horehound; bugle-weed.

mars (mars), n.m., March; (chem.) Mars (iron); (astron.) Mars; (fig., poet.) war. pl., seed sown in spring. Giboulées de —; April showers. Champ de —; (milit.) large drilling ground. Cela vient comme — en carême; that comes very seasonably, or in the nick of time.

marseillaise, n.f., Marseillaise (French national anthem).

marsouin, n.m., (mam.) porpoise, sea-hog; ugly wretch. Vilain —; ugly, disagreeable man.

marsupial, -e, adj., (natural hist.) marsupial.

martagon, n.m., (bot.) martagon, mountain-lily, Turk’s-cap.

marte, n.f. V. martre.

marteau, n.m., hammer, clapper; knocker; (ich.) hammer-fish; hammer-oyster. Être entre le — et l’enclume; to be in an embarrassing position. — à deux mains; sledge-hammer. — d’une arbalète; cross. Graisser le —; to fee the porter. Avoir un coup de —; to be somewhat gone in the upper story. Il faut être enclume ou —; you must bite or be bitten. N’être pas sujet au coup de —; to be one’s own master.

martel, n.m., ☉hammer. [Only used in: Avoir — en tête; to be very uneasy. Se mettre — en tête; to fret one’s self to death.]

martelage, n.m., (tech.) hammering; (of trees) marking.

martelé, -e, part., hammered; (mus.) brilliant and distinct. Vaisselle —e; hammered plate. Vers —s; labored verses.

marteler, v.a., to hammer; to torment, to tease, to vex, to strain, to labor. Il martèle ses vers; he labors his verses.

martelet, n.m., little hammer.

marteleur, n.m., hammerman.

martial, -e, adj., martial, warlike, soldierly. Code —, législation —e; articles of war.

martin, n.m., (orni.) pastor, (kind of starling) La Saint-—; Martinmas. — pêcheur; kingfisher.

martiner, v.a., to tilt, to hammer.

martinet, n.m., (orni.) martinet, martlet, swift, sea-martin; flat candlestick, hand-candlestick; tilt-hammer; cat-o’-nine-tails. — de pic; (nav.) peak-halliards of the mizzen.

martingale, n.f., (nav., man.) martingale. Jouer à la —; to play double or quits.

martinisme, n.m., martinism.

martiniste, n.m., martinist.

martin-pêcheur, n.m., (—s-—s) (orni.) kingfisher.

martin-sec, n.m., (—s-—s) a kind of pear.

martre, n.f., (mam.) marten, sable. — zibeline; sable. Prendre — pour renard; to take a cow for a bull.

martyr, n.m., -e, n.f., martyr. Le commun des —s; the common herd.

martyre, n.m., martyrdom. Souffrir le —; to suffer martyrdom. Faire souffrir le — à quelqu’un; to make any one suffer martyrdom.

martyriser, v.a., to make any one suffer martyrdom, to make a martyr of; to torment; to torture.

martyrologe, n.m., martyrology.

martyrologiste, n.m., martyrologist.

marum (-rom), n.m., (bot.) cat-thyme.

mascarade, n.f., masquerade, mask.

mascaret, n.m., eddy of water, violent eddy of the tide, swelling (of waters); bar (of harbors).

mascarille, n.m., a delicious kind of mushroom; the flunkey (of Molière’s comedies).

mascaron, n.m., (arch.) mask, grotesque figure.

masculin, -e, adj., masculine, male. Fief —; fee in tail male.

masculin, n.m., (gram.) masculine.

masculiniser, v.a., to make masculine. Se —, v.r., to become masculine.

masculinité, n.f., masculineness, masculinity.

masque, n.m., mask; blind, cloak, pretense; masker, masquerader, mummer; face-guard; (paint.) head; (arch.) mask. Il a un bon —; (of actors) his features are expressive. Lever le —; to pull off the mask. Arraches les —s; to tear off the disguise.

☉masque, n.f., ugly woman; naughty little girl.

masqué, -e, part., masked; disguised. Être toujours —; to be always close. Bal —; masked ball, masquerade.

masquer, v.a., to mask, to conceal, to cloak, to disguise; (milit.) to mask.

se masquer, v.r., to be masked, to mask; to disguise one’s self; (of things) to be disguised.

massacrant, -e, adj., killing; cross, peevish, surly, dreadful, disagreeable. Humeur —e; awful temper.

massacre, n.m., massacre, butchery; slaughter, havoc, waste, squandering; bungler, botcher; (hunt.) head (of a deer newly killed).

massacrer, v.a., to massacre, to butcher, to murder, to slay, to slaughter; to bungle, to botch, to destroy; to hack (meat or poultry). Cet acteur a massacré son rôle; that actor murdered his part. — des hardes, des meubles; to spoil clothes, furniture.

massacreur, n.m., slaughterer, slayer; bungler, botcher.

massage, n.m., shampooing.

masse, n.f., mass, heap, lump; earnings; hoard; stock; mace; butt-end, butt; (jur.) creditors, estate (of bankrupts); (com.) capital stock, capital; (tech.) sledge-hammer. — des biens; (jur.) estate. — des biens immeubles; (jur.) real estate. — des biens meubles; (jur.) personal estate. — de plume; fifty pounds of feathers. — de héron; heron’s crest, tuft. — d’eau; typha, reed-mace. En —; in a body, in the mass, by the bulk. Les —s; the people as a whole, the million, the masses. — d’armes; mace. Soulever les —s; to stir up the people.

☉masse, n.f., stake, pool (at play).

massement, n.m., (milit.) massing of troops.

massepain (mas-pin), n.m., marchpane (kind of cake).

masser, v.a., (milit.) to mass troops; ☉to stake, to put into the pool (at play); (paint.) to mass; to shampoo.

massette, n.f., (bot.) mace-reed, reed-mace; cat’s-tail. — à larges feuilles; great cat’s-tail.

masseur, -se, n.m.f., shampooer.

massicot, n.m., (chem.) massicot, masticot; paper-cutter.

massier, n.m., mace-bearer.

massi-f, -ve, adj., massive, bulky; lumpish; massy, solid; clumsy, heavy, dull. Figure d’argent —; figure of solid silver, of massive silver. Avoir l’esprit —; to be dull-minded.

massif, n.m., (gard.) group, clump, cluster (of trees, flowers); grove; solid mass, group, block, (of masonry) wall (of an oven); (mas.) solid mass.

massivement (-siv-mān), adv., massively, heavily, solidly; stupidly, dully.

massiveté, n.f., massiveness.

massorah or massore, n.f., masorah, massora.

massorète, n.m., masorite.

massorétique, adj., massoretic, masoretic.

massue, n.f., club, crowbar. Coup de —; dreadful blow, heavy blow, knock-down blow; calamity.

mastic, n.m., mastic; cement; putty; (print.) transposition.

masticage, n.m., cementing, puttying.

mastication, n.f., mastication, chewing.

masticatoire, n.m., (med.) masticatory.

mastigadour, n.m., (vet.) masticador, slabbering-bit (of a bridle).

mastiquer, v.a., to putty; to cement.

mastiquer, v.n., to masticate.

mastodonte, n.m., (fos.) mastodon.

mastoïde, adj., (anat.) mastoid. Apophyse —; mastoid process.

mastoïdien, -ne (-in, -è-n), adj., (anat.) mastoidean.

masturbation, n.f., masturbation, self-pollution.

masturber, v.a., to pollute.

se masturber, v.r., to commit self-pollution.

masulipatan, n.m., calico (sort of).

masure, n.f., ruins; hovel, hut, tumble-down house.

mat (mat), -e, adj., unpolished, dead, dull; flat, insipid; heavy, sodden; (chess) mated, checkmated. Or —; unpolished gold. Coloris —; dim coloring. Broderie —e; heavy embroidery.

mat (mat), n.m., (chess) mate; (tech.) deadening. Donner, faire, échec et —; to checkmate.

mât (mâ) n.m., mast; pole. Le grand —; the main-mast. — de perroquet; top-gallant-mast. — de beaupré; bowsprit. — de misaine; fore-mast. — d’artimon; mizzen-mast. Bas — de misaine; lower fore-mast. Petit — de hune; top-mast. — de perroquet de fougue; mizzen top-mast. — de perruche; mizzen top-gallant-mast. — à pible; pole mast. — vertical; mast on end. —s inclinés vers l’arrière; masts hanging abaft. — d’un brin; mast of one piece of wood only. — d’assemblage; made mast. — forcé; mast which is sprung. — jumelé, reclampé, renforcé; mast fished (in a weak place or opposite any spring). — de pavillon; ensign staff. —s de hune de rechange; spare top-masts. —s majeurs; standing masts. Aller à —s et à cordes; to scud under bare poles. —s venus à bas; disabled masts. Caler les —s; to lower the masts. Lieu d’un —; station of a mast. Mettre, or guinder, les —s de hune; to heave the top-masts on end. — de fortune; jury mast. — de rechange; spare mast. — de cocagne; greasy pole.

matador, n.m., matador; matadore (at play); magnate, big wig.

mâtage, n.m., masting (of a ship).

matamore, n.m., hector, bully.

matasse, n.f., raw silk; raw cotton.

☉matassins, n.m.pl., matachin dance; matachins; (figs.) buffoon.

maté, n.m., (bot.) maté; Paraguay tea.

mâté, -e, adj., (nav.) masted. — en caravelle; fitted with pole top-masts. — en chandelier; masted upright. — en frégate; having bent, inclined, masts. — en vaisseau; masted as a ship of the line. — en fourche; masted with a gaff. — à pible; pole-masted. — en polacre; masted with three pole masts and square sails. — en heu; masted for a sprit. — en galère; masted as a galley. Haut —, trop —; over-masted.

matelas (ma-tlâ), n.m., mattress; pad; wadding. — d’un carrosse; squab, cushion, of a coach. — de bourre; flock-bed. — à air; air mattress.

matelasser (ma-tla-sé), v.a., to cover with a mattress, to stuff.

matelassi-er, n.m., -ère, n.f., mattress-maker.

matelot (ma-tlô), n.m., seaman, sailor; (nav.) consort-ship. Bon —; able seaman. — de première classe; able-bodied seaman. — à deniers; seaman engaged for a specified time. — à mariage; seaman engaged for the whole voyage. Vaisseau —; good company-keeper.

matelotage (ma-tlo-taj), n.m., seamanship; seaman’s wages, pay.

matelote (ma-tlot), n.f., (cook.) matelote, fish-stew. À la —; seamanlike, sailor fashion.

mâter, v.a., to mast; to toss up (the oars). Machine à —; sheers. Machine à — flottante; sheer-hulk.

mater, v.a., to mortify, to harass (with corporal hardships); to bring down, to break down, to curb; to subdue, to conquer; to check-mate. On a bien maté son orgueil; his pride has been sadly brought down. On aura de la peine à la —; she will take some subduing.

mâtereau, n.m., (nav.) small mast; spar, pole, staff.

matérialiser, v.a., to materialize.

matérialisme, n.m., materialism.

matérialiste, n.m.f. and adj., materialist; materialistic.

matérialité, n.f., materiality.

matériaux, n.m.pl., materials, material.

matériel, -le, adj., material; coarse, gross, rough; massy, heavy, dull. Il est —; he is a matter-of-fact man. Faux —; (jur.) forgery.

matériel, n.m., materials, stock, working-stock; stores, apparatus, fittings, plant. — d’une armée; baggage, ammunition, artillery. — de siège; siege apparatus. — d’une imprimerie; printing-office plant.

matériellement (-rièl-mān), adv., materially; coarsely, grossly, roughly.

maternel, -le, adj., maternal, motherly. Parents —s; relations on the mother’s side. Langue —le; mother-tongue.

maternellement (-nèl-mān), adv., maternally.

maternité, n.f., maternity.

mâteur, n.m., (nav.) mast-maker.

mathématicien (-siin), n.m., mathematician.

mathématique, n.f., mathematics. —s pures; pure mathematics. —s mixtes; mixed mathematics. Etudier les —; to study mathematics. [Rarely used in the singular.]

mathématique, adj., mathematical.

mathématiquement (-tik-mān), adv., mathematically.

matière (ma-ti-èr), n.f., matter; substance, stuff, fluid; subject, cause, reason, motive, grounds; theme, contents. — brute, — première; raw material. —s d’or et d’argent; bullion. S’élever au-dessus de la —; to soar above matter. Donner — à parler; to give occasion for talking. En — de; in point of, in matters of.

matin, n.m., morning, noon, forenoon; prime, dawn. Demain —; to-morrow morning. Se lever de grand —; to rise very early. Un beau —; some fine day, or one fine morning. Un de ces quatre —s; one of these fine days.

matin, adv., early, early in the morning. De grand, or de bon, —; very early.

mâtin, n.m., mastiff; rascal, cur. Mâtin! By Jove! Ce — de; that scoundrel of, that confounded, that cursed.

matinal, -e, adj., morning; early-rising; early, up early.

matinalement, adv., early.

mâtine, n.f., hussy, wench. Cette — de; that confounded, or cursed.

mâtineau, n.m., little mastiff.

matinée, n.f., morning, forenoon, morning’s work; morning performance. Dormir, or faire, la grasse —; to lie in bed late in the morning, to sleep it out.

mâtiner, v.a., to serve (of a mastiff); to abuse, to disparage, to snub.

matines, n.f.pl., matins.

matineu-x, -se, adj. (generally), rising early; early riser (of persons).

matini-er, -ère, adj., morning, of the morning. [Only used in: l’étoile —ère; the Morning-Star.]

matir, v.a., to deaden (metals).

matois, -e, adj. and n., cunning, artful, sly, deep; cunning person, sly dog. C’est un fin —; he’s an artful blade.

matoisement, adv., cunningly, slyly.

matoiserie (ma-toa-zrî), n.f., cunning, slyness.

matou, n.m., tom-cat; ugly person, monkey, curmudgeon.

matras (-trâ), n.m., (chem.) matrass.

matricaire, n.f., (bot.) matricaria, feverfew.

matrice, n.f., matrix, womb; (com.) matrice; (min.) matrix; standard weight, measure, original register.

matrice, adj., mother, principal, primitive, unmixed. Eglise —; mother-church. Langue —; mother-tongue. Couleurs —s; primitive, unmixed colors.

matricide, n.m., matricide.

matriculaire, n.m. and adj., matriculate; matriculated.

matricule, n.f. and adj., register, matricula; matriculation, certificate of matriculation; matriculation. Registre —; matriculation book.

matrimonial, -e, adj., matrimonial.

matrone, n.f., matron; ☉midwife.

matte, n.f., (metal.) matt. pl., clotted milk, curds.

maturati-f, -ve, adj., (med.) maturative.

maturatif, n.m., (med.) maturant.

maturation, n.f., maturation, ripening.

mâture, n.f., masting, masts, mast-store; wood for masts, sheer-hack, sheers.

maturité, n.f., maturity, ripeness, completion; consideration. Avec —; maturely, with consideration.

matutinal, -e, adj., (l.u.) matutinal.

maubèche, n.f., (orni.) knot, sandpiper.

maudire (maudissant, maudit), v.a., to curse, to imprecate, to rue.

maudissable, adj., execrable, detestable.

maudit, -e, part., cursed, accursed, outcast, wretched. — soit le maladroit! deuce take the clumsy fool! — soit...! cursed be...! confound...!

maugréer, v.n., to fret and fume, to curse and swear; to grumble.

maupiteu-x, -se, adj. and n., ☉cruel, pitiless. Faire le —; to look miserable (without cause).

maure, n.m. V. more.

mauresque, adj. V. moresque.

mauricaud, adj. V. moricaud.

mausolée, n.m., mausoleum.

maussade, adj., sulky, sullen, cross, disagreeable; unpleasant, dull, tedious; awkward; slovenly, clumsy.

maussadement (mô-sad-mān), adv., disagreeably, sullenly, peevishly.

maussaderie (mô-sa-drî), n.f., unpleasantness, sullenness, sulkiness.

mauvais, -e, adj., bad, ill, evil; mischievous, ill-natured; injurious; wrong, amiss; unpleasant; contrary, adverse; (print.) battered (of letters); unhandsome. —e nouvelle; bad news. — livre; mischievous, wretched book. Avoir —e mine; to look ill. Prendre quelque chose en —e part; to take a thing ill, in a bad sense, or in bad part. —e tête; hot-headed person. — sujet; worthless fellow, rascal, scoundrel.

mauvais, n.m., bad. Il faut prendre le bon et le —; one must take the good with the bad.

mauvais, adv., bad, wrong. Sentir —; to have a bad smell. Il fait —; it is bad weather. Trouver — que; to take it ill that.

mauve, n.f., mallow; (orni.) sea-gull, sea-mew.

mauviette, n.f., lark; field-lark; lath (thin person); poor stick.

mauvis, n.m., (orni.) mavis, redwing, throstle.

maxillaire, adj., pertaining to the jaw, maxillary.

maxime, n.f., maxim. Tenir pour — de; to hold it as a maxim to.

maximum, n.m. (—s), (math.) (maxima), highest, height, maximum; acme; (com.) the highest price.

mayonnaise, n.f., (cook.) mayonnaise.

mazagran, n.m., coffee in a glass (named after the once famous Café Mazagran).

mazette, n.f., tit, poor hack (sorry horse); milksop, poor creature; dull-head, duffer (at games). —! (int.) zounds! you don’t say so!

md., (ab. of Marchand) shopkeeper.

mde., (ab. of Marchande) shopkeeper.

me, pron., me; to me or at me. Il — blâme; he blames me. Vous — parlez; you speak to me. — voici; here I am.

meâ-culpâ, n.m., (—) expression taken from the Confiteor. Dire, faire, son —; to repent; to confess one’s faults.

méandre, n.m., meander, winding.

méat, n.m., (anat.) meatus, duct, passage.

mécanicien (-in), n.m., mechanician; machinist, mechanic; engine-maker; engine-man; engine-driver. Ingénieur —; mechanical engineer. Serruries —; manufacturing locksmith.

mécanique, n.f., mechanics; mechanism; machine, machinery, piece of machinery; brake. Serrer la —; to put on the brake.

mécanique, adj., mechanic, mechanical, machine-made.

mécaniquement (-ni-kmān), adv., mechanically.

mécaniser, v.a., to use as a machine; (pop.) to tease, to plague. — les hommes; to use men as mere machines.

mécanisme, n.m., mechanism, machinery; structure; mechanical parts.

mécène, n.m., Mæcenas (a protector of science, art, and literature).

méchamment (mé-sha-mān), adv., wickedly, spitefully, maliciously, ill-naturedly.

méchanceté (mé-shans-té), n.f., wickedness, spitefulness, mischievousness; crossness, naughtiness, ill-nature; ill-natured thing, ill-natured remark, reflection, slander.

méchant, -e, adj., bad, wretched, worthless; wicked, dishonest; sorry, paltry; wicked, ill-natured, mischievous, malicious; wayward, naughty, unkind; (of a horse) vicious. — homme; wicked man. Il a la mine —e; he has an ill-natured look. Un — poète; a sorry, wretched poet.

méchant, n.m., -e, n.f., wicked person; evil doer, reprobate; naughty child. Faire le —; to be fractious (of a child).

mèche, n.f., wick (of a lamp or candle); tinder; match; screw, bit, auger; worm (of cork-screws, wimbles); (surg.) tent; center-bit; whip-lash, lock (of hair). — anglaise; center-bit. Découvrir, éventer, la —; (milit.) to discover the enemy’s match by means of a countermine; to find out the secret of a plot. — de cheveux; lock of hair. Il n’y a pas —; it’s no go; it can’t be done. S’il y a —; if it can be managed.

☉méchef, n.m., mischief, mischance; harm.

mécher, v.a., to fumigate with brimstone, to sulphur.

mécompte (mé-kont), n.m., miscalculation; mistake, error; disappointment, drawback. Il a trouvé bien du —; he has experienced great disappointment.

mécompter, v.n., to strike wrong (of clocks).

se mécompter (mé-kon-tè), v.r., to miscalculate; to be disappointed; to be out in one’s reckoning. Il s’est mécompté dans son raisonnement; he is out in his reasoning.

méconium (-om) n.m., (med.) meconium.

méconnaissable, adj., not to be recognized; unrecognizable.

méconnaissance, n.f., unthankfulness, ungratefulness, ingratitude.

méconnaissant, -e, adj., thankless, ungrateful, unmindful.

méconnaître, v.a., not to know again, not to recognize; to disown, to disregard, not to know; to ignore, to slight, not to appreciate. Il méconnaît ses parents; he disowns his relations.

se méconnaître, v.r., to forget one’s self.

méconnu, -e, part., unacknowledged; unrecognized; ignored, disowned, disregarded.

mécontent, -e, adj., dissatisfied, displeased, discontented. Il est — de vous; he is displeased with you. Vous êtes — de tout; you are discontented with everything.

mécontent, n.m., -e, n.f., dissatisfied person; malcontent. C’est un —; he is a discontented man.

mécontentement (-tan-tmān), n.m., discontent, discontentedness, dissatisfaction, displeasure. Donner du — à; to displease.

mécontenter, v.a., to discontent, to dissatisfy, to displease.

mécréance, n.f., infidelity, unbelief, irreligion.

mécréant, n.m., unbeliever, infidel.

mécroire, v.n., to disbelieve.

médaille, n.f., medal; (arch.) medallion; (of porters) badge, ticket; license. — d’honneur; prize-medal. Chaque — a son revers; everything has its bright and its dark side. Le revers de la —; the dark side of the picture. Tourner la —; to turn the tables. La — est renversée; the tables are turned.

*médaillé, -e, n.m.f. and adj., with a medal as a reward; (of porters) licensed. n., medalist, prize-winner.

médailleur, n.m., die-sinker.

*médaillier, n.m., cabinet of medals.

*médailliste, n.m.f., medalist.

*médaillon, n.m., medallion; locket.

médecin (mé-dsin), n.m., physician, doctor. Faire venir le —; to send for the doctor. Il est abandonné des —s; the doctors have given him up. Docteur médecin; doctor of medicine. Un — d’eau douce; a water-gruel doctor. — chirurgien; general practitioner. — empirique; quack doctor. Le temps est un grand —; time cures all ills or time is the great healer.

médecine (mé-dsi-n), n.f., medicine, physic. Etudiant en —; medical student. — légale; forensic medicine. — noire; black draught.

médeciner (mé-dsi-né), v.a., to physic, to doctor.

se médeciner, v.r., to physic, to doctor one’s self.

médial, -e, adj., (gram.) medial.

médian, -e, adj., (anat.) mesial, middle.

médianoche, n.m., meat-supper (after midnight).

médiante, n.f., (mus.) mediant.

médiastin, n.m., (anat.) mediastine.

médiat, -e, adj., mediate.

médiatement (mé-dia-tmān), adv., mediately.

médiat-eur, n.m., -rice, n.f., mediator, mediatrix. adj., mediatory.

médiation, n.f., mediation.

médiatisation, n.f., mediatization.

médiatiser, v.a., to mediatize.

médical, -e, adj., medical. Matière —e; materia medica.

médicament, n.m., medicament.

médicamentaire, adj., concerning medicines.

médicamentation, n.f., doctoring, physicking.

médicamenter, v.a., to physic, to doctor.

se médicamenter, v.r., to physic, to doctor one’s self.

médicamenteu-x, -se, adj., medicamental.

médication, n.f., medication.

médicinal, -e, adj., medicinal.

médimne, n.m., (antiq.) medimnus.

médiocre, adj., mediocre, middling, ordinary, moderate, passable, indifferent.

médiocre, n.m., mediocrity.

médiocrement, adv., middlingly, indifferently, tolerably; poorly, hardly, barely.

médiocrité, n.f., mediocrity; moderate competence, moderate fortune, very ordinary performance.

médique, adj., Median.

médionner, v.a., to average; to take the average.

médire, v.n., to slander, to speak ill of, to backbite, to traduce. — de son prochain; to speak ill of one’s neighbor.

médisance, n.f., slander, scandal, backbiting; piece of slander.

médisant, -e, adj. and n., slanderous, scandalous; slanderer. Il ne faut pas croire les —s; slanderers are not to be believed.

méditati-f, -ve, adj. and n., meditative; meditative person.

méditation, n.f., meditation, thought.

méditer, v.a., to meditate, to think over, to consider, to reflect; to contemplate, to plan. — la ruine de quelqu’un; to plot any one’s ruin.

méditer, v.n., to contemplate. Passer sa vie à —; to spend one’s life in meditation.

méditerrané, -e, adj., mediterranean, midland, inland. La mer —e; the Mediterranean Sea.

méditerranéen, -ne, adj., mediterranean.

médium (-om), n.m., (—s) medium; middle.

médius, n.m., middle-finger.

médullaire (mé-dul-ler), adj., medullary, medullar; (bot.) pithy.

méduse, n.f., (zoöl.) medusa, sea-nettle, jellyfish.

meeting, n.m., (—s) meeting.

méfaire, v.n., to do evil, to do harm, wrong.

méfait, n.m., misdeed; crime.

méfiance, n.f., mistrust, distrust, suspicion, caution. La — est mère de la sûreté; safe bind, safe find.

méfiant, -e, adj., mistrustful, distrustful, suspicious; cautious.

se méfier (de), v.r., to mistrust, to distrust, to suspect; to beware, to mind; to be on one’s guard (against).

mégalosaure or mégalosaurus, n.m., (foss.) megalosaurus.

mégapode, n.m., jungle-fowl.

mégarde, n.f., inadvertence. Par —; inadvertently.

mégathérium, n.m., (—s) (foss.) megatherium.

mégère, n.f., (myth.) Megæra; shrew, vixen, termagant.

mégie, n.f., tawing, leather-dressing.

mégisser, v.a., to taw.

mégisserie (mé-gi-srî), n.f., tawing, leather-dressing.

mégissier, n.m., tawer, leather-dresser.

*meilleur, -e, adj., better, preferable, more comfortable, best. Le —; the best.

*meilleur, n.m., best; best wine. Le — du conte or de l’histoire; the best of the story. Le — n’en vaut rien; the bad is the best.

meistre or mestre, n.m., (nav.) mast, main mast. Mât de —; main mast (of ships with lateen sails).

méjuger, v.a., to misjudge.

se méjuger, v.r., to overreach one’s self.

mélampyre, n.m., (bot.) cow-wheat.

mélancolie, n.f., melancholy, sadness, melancholia. Chasser la —; to drive away the spleen. Il n’engendre point la —; he is a merry fellow.

mélancolique, adj., melancholy, dismal, gloomy; sad, dull; stern. Séjour —; dismal abode.

mélancoliquement (-lik-mān), adv., sadly, gloomily, sorrowfully, mournfully.

mélange, n.m., mixture, mingling, crossing; medley; mash (for brewing). pl., miscellaneous works, miscellanea. Un bonheur sans —; unalloyed happiness. Sans —; unmixed, unblended; (fig.) pure, unalloyed.

mélanger, v.a., to mix, to mingle, to blend; to cross; to mash, to intermix, to dash.

se mélanger, v.r., to mix, to mingle, to blend, to temper; to be mashed.

mélasse, n.f., molasses, treacle.

mêlé, -e, part., mixed; miscellaneous; medley (of verses); irregular; (of rhymes) mixed.

mêlée, n.f., conflict; fray, fight, scramble, squabble; thick of the fight; altercation, dispute, clash.

mêler, v.a., to mingle, to mix, to mix up; to blend; to intersperse, to temper; to put in; to jumble; to bring in, to implicate, to involve; to shuffle (cards); to entangle. — du fil; to entangle thread. — les cartes; to shuffle the cards. — une serrure; to force a lock. Il est mêlé dans une mauvaise affaire; he is mixed up in a bad business.

se mêler, v.r., to mingle, to be mingled, to be mixed; to tamper; to blend; to trouble one’s self about; to intermeddle; to interfere (with, in); to take upon one’s self, to presume; to take part in; to dabble in; to set one’s self to do; to engage in. Se — dans la foule; to mingle with the crowd. Se — de; to meddle with, to intermeddle. Mêlez-vous de vos affaires; mind your own business. De quoi vous mêlez-vous? what business is that of yours? Se — ensemble; to commingle.

mélèze, n.m., (bot.) larch, larch-tree.

mélianthe, n.m., (bot.) honey-flower.

mélilot, n.m., (bot.) melilot, sweet-trefoil.

méli-mélo, n.m., (—) (fam.) medley, jumble.

mélinet, n.m., (bot.) honeywort.

mélique, n.f., adj., (bot.) melic grass. Poésie —; melic poetry.

mélisse, n.f., (bot.) balm-mint, garden-balm. Eau de — or eau des Carmes; melissa water.

mellifère, adj., melliferous.

mellifères, n.m.pl., melliferous insects.

mellification, n.f., mellification.

melliflu, -e, adj., mellifluous, honeyed, sweet.

meillifluité, n.f., mellifluence.

mellithe, n.f., honey-stone, mellite.

mélodie, n.f., melody, melodiousness, sweetness, harmony.

mélodieusement (-eûz-mān), adv., melodiously, musically, sweetly.

mélodieu-x, -se, adj., melodious, musical, tuneful.

mélodique, adj., (mus.) melodious.

mélodramatique, adj., melodramatic.

mélodramaturge, n.m., melodramatist.

mélodrame, n.m., melodrama.

mélomane, n.m., melomaniac, person music-mad.

mélomanie, n.f., melomania.

melon, n.m., melon; (fig.) jockey-cap, hunting-cap; (of persons) simpleton, muff, flat. — musqué; musk-melon. — d’eau; watermelon.

meloné, -e, adj., melon-shaped.

melongène or mélongène, n.f., mad-apple, egg-plant.

melonnière, n.f., melon-pit; melon-bed.

mélopée, n.f., (mus.) melopœia.

méloplaste, n.m., (mus.) sounding-board; meloplast.

mémarchure, n.f., sprain (in a horse’s leg).

membrane, n.f., (anat.) membrane, film; (orni.) web.

membraneu-x, -se, adj., membranous, filmy.

membre, n.m., member; limb; (nav.) ribtimber.

membré, -e, adj., limbed. Bien —; having well-made and well-proportioned limbs.

membru, -e, adj., large-limbed, stout-limbed.

membrure, n.f., limbs, frame; cord (to measure fire-wood); ribs, timbers (of a ship); (carp.) split-board.

même, adj., same; self; very own. Une seule et — origine; one and the same origin. C’est la — chose; it is all one. Moi-même; myself. Eux-—s; themselves. C’est la bonté —; she is goodness itself. La — chose; the same thing. La chose —; the very thing.

même, adv., even, also, likewise. Il lui a tout donné, — ses habits; he has given him everything, even to his clothes. Les plus sages — le font; even the wisest do it. Quand — il me l’aurait dit; even though he had said it me. À — de; in a position to, able to. Mettre à —; to enable. Boire à — la bouteille; to drink out of the bottle itself. Vous êtes à — de rendre service à cet homme; you are in a position to do that man a service. Il vous a mis à — de le faire; he has enabled you to do it. De —; the same; so; like. Faites de —; do the same. Tout de —; all the same, in the same manner. De — que; in the same manner as, so as, as.

même, n.m., same, same thing. Cela revient au —; it comes to the same thing or it is all the same. Faire au —; (at billiards) to pocket straight. Faire or refaire au —; to take in, to cheat; to give like for like; to pay back in his own coin; to give (any one) as good as he brings.

mêmement, adv., also, even, likewise.

mémento (-min-), n.m., (—s) memento, reminder, hint.

mémoire, n.f., memory, recollection, remembrance; commemoration; fame. Avoir une — de lièvre; to have a very short memory. — fidèle; retentive memory. Je n’en ai pas la moindre —; I have not the slightest recollection of it. De — d’homme on n’a vu telle chose; such a thing has not been seen within the memory of man. Des choses dignes de —; things worthy of commemoration. Remettre dans la —, conserver la — de; to remind, to remember. Rappeler quelque chose à la — de quelqu’un; to bring anything to any one’s recollection, to remind any one of anything. En — de; in memory of. Réhabiliter la — d’un défunt; to restore the fair fame of any one. À la — de; in memory of. Si j’ai bonne —; if I remember rightly.

mémoire, n.m., memorial; memorandum; bill, account. Dresser un —; to draw up a memorial. — acquitté; bill receipted. — d’apothicaire; exorbitant bill.

mémorable, adj., memorable.

mémorandum (-dom), n.m., memorandum; memorandum-book; memorial.

mémorati-f, -ve, adj., (fam.) mindful; recollecting. Être — de quelque chose; to remember anything.

mémorial, n.m., memorial; (com.) waste-book.

mémorialiste, n.m., memorialist.

menaçant, -e, adj., menacing, threatening. D’une manière —e; threateningly.

menace, n.f., menace, threat. — en l’air; empty threat. Paroles de —; threatening words.

menacer, v.a., to threat, to threaten, to menace; to forebode, to portend; to impend. — de la main; to threaten to strike (any one). L’air nous menace d’un orage; the air presages a storm or there is thunder in the air. — ruine, — de tomber; to totter, to be on the point of ruin, to decay, to threaten to fall.

ménade, n.f. V. bacchante.

ménage, n.m., housekeeping, household; housewifery, house; household goods; family; husbandry, economy, saving. Toile de —; home-spun linen. Liqueurs de —; home-made wines. Tenir —, être en —; to keep house, to be a house-keeper. Entrer en —; to begin housekeeping. Rompre son —; to leave off housekeeping. Dépense de —; household expenses. — de garçon; bachelor’s household. Faire bon —; to live well together. Pain de —; household bread. Toile de —; homespun cloth. Femme de —; charwoman. Elle entend bien le —; she is a good house-wife. Vivre de —; to live sparingly. Faire le —; to do the housework. Mettre en —; to settle any one.

ménagement (-na-jmān), n.m., regard, respect, consideration; circumspection, caution, discretion; management, conduct.

ménager, v.a., to husband, to manage, to spare, to be sparing, to save, to be saving; to take care of, to be careful of, to conduct carefully; to treat with caution, to treat gently, to treat kindly, to treat with respect, to humor, to bring about; to reserve; to procure; to contrive; to dispose, to arrange, to prepare; to help to. — son bien; to husband one’s fortune. — quelqu’un; to treat any one with respect, consideration. Je n’ai rien à —; I have no measures to keep. Pour — notre faiblesse; out of compassion for our weakness. — les termes; to weigh what one says. — l’occasion; to improve the opportunity. — ses forces; to spare one’s strength. — ses amis; to forbear being troublesome to one’s friends. — son crédit; to make the most of one’s credit. Je lui ai ménagé une place; I helped him to get a situation. — ses ressources; to husband one’s resources. — une agréable surprise à; to prepare, to procure, an agreeable surprise for. — une étoffe; to make the most of a stuff. — un escalier dans un bâtiment; to contrive a staircase in a house. — la chèvre et le chou; to hold with the hare and run with the hounds. Qui vaut aller loin ménage sa monture; he who wishes to live long avoids excess.

se ménager, v.r., to take care of one’s self; to spare one’s self; to behave with care, with caution, to conduct one’s self cautiously. Se — avec quelqu’un; to keep in, to keep on good terms, with any one. Se — entre deux partis contraires; to steer a successful course between two adverse parties, and remain friendly with both.

ménager, v.n., to save, to save up. Il ménage pour ses enfants; he is saving up for his children.

ménag-er, -ère, adj., thrifty, saving, sparing, provident, frugal.

ménager, n.m., economist; thrifty, saving, frugal, sparing man. Être bon — du temps; to husband one’s time well.

ménagère, n.f., economical housewife; thrifty, saving, frugal, sparing woman; housewife; housekeeper; (of things) cruet-frame, cruet-stand.

ménagerie (-na-jrî), n.f., menagerie.

mendiant, -e, n. and adj., beggar, mendicant; beggar-woman; (c.rel.) mendicant-friar, mendicant. Les quatre —s; the four orders of mendicant friars; raisins, figs, almonds, and nuts (at dessert).

mendicité, n.f., beggary, mendicity; beggars; vagrancy. La — est interdite; begging is forbidden, or no begging allowed.

mendier, v.a. and n., to beg; to beg for; (b.s.) to solicit meanly, to implore. Il mendie son pain; he begs his bread. — sa vie; to live by begging.

mené, -e, part. adj., led. — par sa femme; henpecked.

meneau, n.m., (arch.) mullion.

menée, n.f., underhand dealing, secret practice, plot, conspiracy; track. Suivre la —; (hunt.) to follow the track.

mener, v.a., to carry, to conduct, to lead, to drive (a carriage), to bring; to direct, to head, to command, to guide, to sway, to influence; to introduce, to take, to take along with; to amuse; to lead about, to manage, to steer; to handle; to humbug, to bamboozle. — les bêtes aux champs; to drive the cattle to the fields. — paître les vaches; to take, to drive, cows to pasture. — quelqu’un en prison; to convey any one to jail. — un enfant par la lisière; to have a child in leading-strings. — quelqu’un à la baguette; to rule any one with a tight hand. — tambour battant; to carry it with a high hand over. — un grand train; to make a great show. — le branle; to take the lead. Menez-moi chez le ministre; introduce me to the minister. — de front; to have several things on hand. — bien sa barque; to manage one’s affairs well.

mener, v.n., to drive; to lead, to conduct, to go. Ce chemin mène à la ville; this road leads to the town. Cela ne mène à rien; that leads to nothing, that is of no use.

ménestrel, n.m., minstrel.

ménétrier, n.m., village fiddler.

meneur, n.m., driver; agent for wet-nurses; leading man, ringleader.

meneuse, n.f., female agent for wet-nurses, baby-farmer.

menhir, n.m., (—s) (archæology) druidical-stone; menhir (standing-stone).

méniane, n.f., (arch.) verandah, balcony (in Italy).

ménianthe, n.m., (bot.) bog-bean, marsh-trefoil.

menin, n.m., young nobleman attached to the person of the Dauphin, minion, favorite (French hist.).

méninge, n.f., (anat.) meninges.

méningite, n.f., (med.) meningitis.

ménippée, adj. and n.f., of satires in the style of those of the philosopher Menippus. Satire —, la —; a satire which appeared in 1593 against the party of the Ligue (French hist.).

ménisperme, n.m., (bot.) menispermum, moon-seed.

ménisque, n.m., (opt.) meniscus.

ménologe, n.m., menology.

menotte, n.f., (fam.) little hand (of a child). pl., handcuffs, manacles. Mettre les —s à; to handcuff.

mense, n.f., (of abbeys) income, revenue, stock; ☉table, board (food).

mensole, n.f., (archit.) keystone.

mensonge, n.m., lie, falsehood, untruth, story; error, illusion, vanity. Débiter des —s; to tell lies. Tout petit —, — de rien, — de marchand; white lie.

mensong-er, -ère, adj., lying, untrue, deceitful, false, counterfeit, illusory.

mensongèrement, adv., falsely, deceitfully, untruely; illusively.

menstrue, n.m., (chem.) menstruum.

menstruel, -le, adj., (med.) menstrual. Flux —; menses, catamenia.

menstrues, n.f., (physiology) menses, catamenia.

mensuel, -le, adj., monthly.

mensuellement, adv., monthly.

mensurabilité, n.f., mensurability.

mensurable, adj., mensurable.

mental, -e, adj., mental.

mentalement (-tal-mān), adv., mentally.

menterie (man-trî), n.f., story, fib, falsehood, untruth.

menteu-r, -se, adj., lying, false, deceitful.

menteu-r, n.m., -se, n.f., liar, story-teller, fibber. Un — de profession; a confirmed liar.

menthe, n.f., (bot.) mint. — aquatique; water-mint. — verte; spearmint. — poivrée; peppermint.

mention, n.f., mention, mentioning, naming.

mentionner, v.a., to mention, to make mention of, to name.

mentir (mentant, menti), v.n., to lie, to tell a lie, a story, a falsehood, an untruth; to fib, to speak false. Gardez-vous bien de —; beware of lying. Il en a menti; he is a liar. Il n’enrage pas pour —; he does not stick at a lie. Se — à soi-même; to belie one’s self. À beau — qui vient de loin; (prov.) travelers tell fine tales or lie with impunity. Sans —, à ne point —; to tell the truth, in fact, indeed, candidly, really.

menton, n.m., chin. — en galoche; turned-up chin. — à double étage; double chin. — qui avance; prominent chin. Avoir deux —s; to be double-chinned.

mentonnet, n.m., (mec.) ear, tipper; catch.

mentonni-er, -ère, adj., (anat.) of the chin.

mentonnière, n.f., chin-piece, chin-band, chin-strap; bandage for the chin.

mentor (min-), n.m., mentor, guide, tutor.

menu, -e, adj., small, slender, spare, thin, inconsiderable, petty, minor. Le — peuple; the common people, the lower classes. — plomb; small shot. — gibier; small game. — bétail; small cattle. —s plaisirs; pocket-money.

menu, n.m., minute detail, particulars. Le — d’un repas; the bill of fare. Un paquet de —; a bundle of small linen. Par le —; minutely, in detail.

menu, adv., small, fine; minutely; with quick and short steps. Il pleuvait dru et —; the rain fell fine and fast. Marcher, trotter, dru et —; to walk with short and quick steps.

*menuaille, n.f., small money; fry, small fish; trash.

menuet, n.m., minuet.

menuiser, v.a. and n., to do carpenter’s work.

menuiserie (-nui-zrî), n.f., joinery, joiner’s work; carpentry.

menuisier, n.m., joiner, carpenter and joiner. — en bâtiments; house-carpenter.

menuisière, n.f., carpenter’s wife.

menuisière, adj.f., (ent.) carpenter. Abeille —; carpenter-bee.

ménure, n.f., lyre-bird; lyre-pheasant.

méphitique, adj., mephitic.

méphitisme, n.m., mephitis, mephitism.

méplat, n.m., (paint.) flat, flat part, flattish curve.

méplat, -e, adj., (carp., paint.) flat, flatwise.

se méprendre, v.r., to mistake; to make a mistake; to be mistaken; to be under a mistake; to misapprehend; (fig.) to forget one’s self, to be wanting in respect. Vous vous méprenez; you mistake; you forget yourself. C’est à ne pas s’y —; you cannot make a mistake. C’est son père, à s’y —; you would easily take him for his father; he is the dead-spit of his father.

mépris, n.m., contempt, scorn, contumely. pl., contumelious language, contemptuous treatment. Avoir du — pour quelqu’un; to feel contempt for any one. Au — des lois; in defiance of the laws. Témoigner du — pour; to evince contempt for. Tomber dans le —; to fall into contempt. La familiarité engendre le —; familiarity breeds contempt.

méprisable, adj., contemptible, despicable.

méprisablement, adv., despicably.

méprisant, -e, adj., contemptuous, scornful.

méprise, n.f., mistake, oversight, misunderstanding; misapprehension; error. Lourde —; gross mistake. Faire une grande —; to make a great mistake.

mépriser, v.a., to contemn, to despise, to scorn; to slight; to set at naught; to undervalue; to disregard.

mer (mèr), n.f., sea, deep, ocean, main; tide, water; jar (frequently replenished). La haute —; main sea; high sea; high water. — basse; shallow sea, low water. Port de —; sea-port. Un coup de —; (nav.) a sea. Homme de —; seafaring man. Loup de —; expert seaman, Jack Tar; old salt. D’outre-—; beyond the seas. En pleine —; on the open sea, on the high seas. Chercher quelqu’un par — et par terre; to look for any one high and low. C’est la — à boire; it is an endless task, an impossibility. Porter de l’eau à la —; to carry coals to Newcastle. La — est belle; the sea is smooth. Tenir la —; to keep at sea. Tenir bien la —; to be a good sea-boat. Jeter, tomber, à la —; to throw, to fall, overboard. Embarquer un coup de —; to ship a sea. Gros coup de —; heavy sea. Mettre à la —; to put to sea. Pouvoir tenir la —; (nav.) to be seaworthy (of a ship). En —; at sea. Prendre la —; to go to sea. Mal de —; seasickness. Il y avait beaucoup or pas mal de —; there was a good sea on. Ecumeur de —; sea-rover. Entouré par la —; sea-girt. Apporté par —; sea-borne.

mercadet, n.m., jobber.

mercantile, adj., mercantile, commercial; (fig.) grasping, sordid.

*mercantille, n.f., (l.u.) petty trading; hucksterage.

mercenaire, adj., mercenary, venal.

mercenaire, n.m., mercenary, hireling.

mercenairement (-nèr-mān), adv., mercenarily.

mercerie, n.f., mercery, haberdashery.

merci, n.f. (n.p.), mercy, discretion, will, pleasure. Crier —; to cry for mercy. Don d’amoureuse —; lady’s favors. Se mettre, or être, à la — de quelqu’un; to be, to place one’s self, at any one’s mercy, discretion.

merci, n.m., thanks; thank you. Dieu —; thank God! Grand —! much obliged! Sa —; (old) thanks to him.

merci, adv., thank you, I have had quite enough, I’d rather not.

merci-er, n.m., -ère, n.f., mercer, haberdasher. Petit —; haberdasher.

mercredi, n.m., Wednesday. — des Cendres; Ash-Wednesday.

mercure, n.m., (astron.) Mercury; quick-silver.

mercuriale, n.f., harangue, lecture, reprimand, curtain lecture, censure, rebuke; rating; averages, average prices of grain; (bot.) mercurialis.

mercuriel, -le, adj., mercurial. Onguent —; mercurial ointment.

merde, n.f., dirt, dung; excrements (of man and animals). —! you be blowed!

mère, n.f., mother; (of animals) dam; (fig.) cause, source, reason. Belle-—, (—s-—s) mother-in-law; step-mother. Grand’—, (— —s), (pop.) —-grand, (—s-—) grandmother. Dure-—, (n.p.) dura mater. Pie-—, (n.p.) pia mater. Eau —; mother water. L’oisiveté est la — de tous les vices; idleness is the mother of all vices. — nourrice; foster-mother. La — patrie; the mother-country. Notre — commune; our mother-earth.

mère, adj., mother; chief, primitive. — goutte; unpressed wine. — laine; fine wool.

méreau, n.m., counter, ticket, check.

mérelle, n.f. V. marelle.

méridien (-in), n.m., meridian.

méridien, -ne, adj., meridian.

méridienne (-di-è-n), n.f., siesta, afternoon nap; meridian line. Faire la —; to take an afternoon nap.

méridional, -e, adj., meridional, southern.

méringue (-ringh), n.f., meringue (cake).

mérinos (-nôs), n.m., merino sheep; merino (stuff).

merise, n.f., wild cherry.

merisier, n.m., wild cherry-tree.

méritant, -e, adj., meritorious, worthy, deserving.

mérite, n.m., merit, worth; desert, talent, attainments. Il sera traité selon ses —s; he shall be dealt with according to his deserts. Se donner le — de quelque chose; to assume the merit of anything. Se faire un — de; to make a merit of. Remplir son —; to act up to one’s reputation.

mériter, v.a. and n., to deserve, to merit; to earn; to procure, to gain; to need, to require. Il mérite d’être récompensé; he deserves to be rewarded. Cette nouvelle mérite confirmation; that news requires confirmation. Cela ne mérite pas qu’on en parle; that is not worth mentioning.

mérithalle, n.m., (bot.) internode.

méritoire, adj., meritorious.

méritoirement (-toâr-mān), adv., meritoriously.

merlan, n.m., (ich.) whiting; (b.s.) journeyman hair-dresser.

merle, n.m., (orni.) blackbird. — aquatique; water-ouzel. C’est un fin —; he is a cunning blade or fellow. Dénicheur de —s; person not to be trusted. On ne prend pas les vieux —s à la pipée; old birds are not to be caught with chaff.

merlette, n.f., (her.) martlet, hen blackbird.

merlin, n.m., (nav.) marline; cudgel; cleaver, chopper, pole-ax (tool).

merlon, n.m., (fort.) merlon.

merluche, n.f., (ich.) dried haddock; stockfish; salt-cod.

merlus, n.m., hake; haddock.

merrain, n.m., broad lath, planks, stave-wood, (hunt.) horn (of deer); (cooperage) clap-board.

*merveille, n.f., wonder, marvel, miracle, prodigy. À —; admirably done, wonderfully well, capitally. Faire des —s; to perform wonders. Promettre monts et —s; to promise wonders. Mes affaires vont à —; my affairs are going on admirably, swimmingly. Se porter à —; to be in splendid health, to be very fit.

*merveilleuse, n.f., affected lady.

*merveilleusement (-eûz-mān), adv., wonderfully, admirably; wonderfully well.

*merveilleu-x, -se, adj., wonderful, wondrous, marvelous; remarkable.

*merveilleux, n.m., wonderful, marvelous part; marvelous, exquisite; coxcomb, swell, dandy, beau.

mes (mè), adj.m.f.pl., my.

mésadvenir or mésavenir, v.imp., (l.u.) to come to any harm, to turn out ill.

mésair or mézair, n.m., (man.) prancing.

mesaise, n.m., uncomfortableness, uneasiness.

mésalliance, n.f., misalliance, disparagement, bad match.

mésallier, v.a., to disparage; to marry (beneath one); (fig.) to lower, to degrade.

se mésallier, v.a., to disparage one’s self; to lower or degrade one’s self; to contract a misalliance; to marry beneath one.

mésange, n.f., titmouse, tomtit, tit.

mésangette, n.f., bird trap.

mésarriver or mésavenir, v.imp., to come to any harm, to happen unluckily, to turn out ill.

mésaventure, n.f., mischance, mishap, misadventure.

mésembryanthème, n.m., (bot.) fig-marigold.

mésentère, n.m., (anat.) mesentery.

mésentérique, adj., (anat.) mesenteric.

mésestime, n.f., bad opinion, disesteem; disfavor, discredit, disrepute.

mésestimer, v.a., to disesteem, to undervalue, to depreciate, to despise.

mésintelligence, n.f., misunderstanding, variance, disagreement.

mésinterprétation, n.f., misinterpretation, misconstruction.

mésinterpréter, v.a., to misinterpret, to misconstrue.

mesmérisme, n.m., mesmerism.

mésoffrir, v.n., to underbid.

mesquin, -e, adj., mean, shabby; paltry, poor, pitiful; niggardly, illiberal.

mesquinement (-ki-n-mān), adv., shabbily, meanly.

mesquinerie (-ki-n-rî), n.f., meanness, shabbiness; mean or paltry thing; stinginess, paltriness.

mess, n.f., (—) (milit.) mess, officers’ table.

message, n.m., message; errand.

messag-er, n.m., -ère, n.f., messenger, fore-runner, harbinger; carrier. Les hirondelles sont les —ères du printemps; swallows are the fore-runners or harbingers of spring.

messagerie (mé-sa-jri), n.f., stage-coach office; stage-coach, coach, stage; carriage of goods; goods traffic, goods department. —s liners; steam packets.

messaline, n.f., dissolute woman, strumpet.

messe, n.f., (c.rel.) mass. — haute, grand’— (—-—s); high mass, grand mass. Petite —, — basse; low mass. — des morts, — de requiem; mass for the dead. — de minuit; midnight service. — du Saint Esprit; invocation. Livre des —; prayer-book, church-service. Près du moutier a — le dernier; the nearer the church, the farther from God.

messéance, n.f., unseemliness, unbecomingness.

messéant, -e, adj., unseemly, unbecoming.

messeigneurs, n.m.pl., my lords.

messeoir (mé-soâr), v.n., to be unbecoming; not to befit, to ill-become.

messidor, n.m., Messidor, the tenth month of the calendar of the first French republic, from June 19th to July 18th.

messie, n.m., Messiah.

messier, n.m., keeper of standing crops, of vineyards.

messieurs (mè-sieû), n.m.pl., gentlemen, Messrs.

messin, -e, adj., native of Metz.

messire jean, n.m., (—s-—s) a variety of pear.

mestre, n.m. (nav.). V. meistre.

☉mestre de camp, n.m., colonel (of a horse or infantry regiment). — général; brigadier-general.

☉mestre de camp, n.f., the first company of a regiment.

mesurable, adj., measurable.

mesurage, n.m., measurement, measuring; gauging, surveying, metage.

mesure, n.f., measure, gauge, standard; dimension; (mus.) measure, bar; (fenc.) proper distance; (poet.) meter, measure; bound; extent, limit, compass; moderation, prudence; precaution; decorum; calculation, reckoning; propriety. Il a comblé la —; he has heaped up the measure. Au fur et à — que; in proportion as; according to. Observer la —; to keep time. Battre la —; to beat time. Chanter, or aller, en —; to keep time in singing. Ne point garder de — avec une personne; to have no regard, no consideration, for a person. Cette idée passe la — de son esprit; that idea is beyond the compass of his intellect. Outre —; excessively, beyond measure. À — que; in proportion as. À —; in proportion, accordingly. À la —; by measure, on draught. A — que l’un avançait, l’autre reculait; as one advanced, the other retired. Vous n’avez qu’à travailler, et on vous paiera à —; you need only work, and you’ll be paid accordingly. Sans —; beyond all measure, immeasurably, unguardedly. Se mettre en — de; to prepare to do anything, to get ready, to arrange. Prendre ses —s; to take one’s precautions.

mesuré, -e, part., measured, regular; cautious; circumspect, guarded, prudent. Il est très — dans ses discours; he is very guarded in what he says.

mesurer, v.a., to measure, to gauge; to proportion, to survey, to compare, to consider, to weigh, to examine. — les autres à son aune; to measure other people’s corn by one’s own bushel. À brebis tondue Dieu mesure le vent; God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb. — ses discours; to be cautious in what one says.

se mesurer, v.r., to measure one’s self; to be measured; to vie, to contend, to cope with; to try one’s strength; to measure swords.

mesureur, n.m., measurer, meter, gauger.

mésusage, n.m., misuse, abuse.

mésuser, v.n., to misuse, to abuse.

métabole, n.f., (rhet.) metabola.

métacarpe, n.m., (anat.) metacarpus.

métacarpien, -ne, adj., metacarpal.

métacentre, n.m., (geom. nav.) metacenter.

métachronisme (-kro-), n.m., metachronism.

métacisme, n.m., metacism.

métairie, n.f., land (held on condition that the landlord shall receive half the produce); small farm, dairy-farm; farmhouse.

métal, n.m., metal, ore. — vierge; native ore. — blanc anglais; Britannia metal. — blanc d’Alger; nickel silver, German silver. — appliqué sur un autre; charge. — précieux; precious metal.

métalepse, n.f., (rhet.) metalepsis.

métallifère (-tal-li-), adj., metalliferous.

métallique (-tal-lik), adj., metallic.

☉métallique, n.f. V. métallurgie.

métallisation (-tal-li-), n.f., (chem.) metallization.

métalliser (-tal-li-), v.a., (chem.) to metallize.

métallographie (-tal-lo-), n.f., metallography.

métalloïde, n.m., (chem.) metalloid.

métallurgie (-tal-lur-), n.f., metallurgy.

métallurgique (-tal-lur-), adj., metallurgic.

métallurgiste (-tal-lur-), n.m., metallurgist.

métamorphique, adj., metamorphic.

métamorphisme, n.m., metamorphism.

métamorphose, n.f., metamorphosis, transformation.

métamorphoser, v.a., to metamorphose, to transform.

se métamorphoser, v.r., to metamorphose one’s self; to be, or become, metamorphosed; to change, to alter; to become changed.

métaphore, n.f., (rhet.) metaphor.

métaphorique, adj., metaphorical.

métaphoriquement (-rik-mān), adv., metaphorically.

métaphrase, n.f., metaphrase.

métaphraste, n.m., metaphrast.

métaphysicien (-in), n.m., metaphysician.

métaphysique, n.f., metaphysics.

métaphysique, adj., metaphysical.

métaphysiquement (-zik-mān), adv., metaphysically.

métaphysiquer, v.n., (fam.) to subtilize.

métaplasme, n.m., (gram.) metaplasm.

métastase, n.f., (med.) metastasis.

métatarse, n.m., (anat.) metatarsus.

métathèse, n.f., (gram.) metathesis.

métayage, n.m., leasing of farms (on condition of giving to the owner half the produce).

métay-er, n.m., -ère, n.f., metayer, farmer; small farmer, dairy farmer; (f.) farmer’s wife.

*méteil, n.m., meslin, maslin (mixture of wheat and rye). Passe-—; wheat-rye.

*méteil, adj., of wheat mixed with rye.

métempsycose, n.f., metempsychosis, transmigration of souls.

métempsycosiste, n.m.f., one who believes in metempsychosis.

métemptose, n.f., (astron.) metemptosis.

météore, n.m., meteor, fire-ball.

météorique, adj., meteoric.

météorisation, n.f., (vet.) wind, flatulence.

météorisé, -e, adj., (med.) flatulent, distended.

météorolithe, n.m., meteorite, aerolite.

météorologie, n.f., meteorology.

météorologique, adj., meteorological.

méthode, n.f., method, system; custom, way. Cet homme a une étrange —; that man has a strange way with him.

méthodique, adj., methodical, systematical.

méthodiquement (-dik-mān), adv., methodically, systematically.

méthodisme, n.m., methodism.

méthodiste, n.m.f., methodist.

méticuleusement, adv., fastidiously, minutely, nicely.

méticuleu-x, -se, adj., over-scrupulous, fastidious, nice.

métier (-tié), n.m., trade, handicraft, business, calling, craft, profession; loom, frame; framework. — à bas; stocking-frame. — à tisser; power frame. — à broder; tambour-frame. — à la main; hand-loom. De son —; by trade, by profession. Homme de —; mechanic, handicraftsman. Avoir le cœur au —; to have one’s heart in anything. Il n’a pas le cœur au —; his heart is not in it. Le — des armes; the profession of arms. Il est du —; he is in the same trade, he belongs to the same fraternity; he is of the craft. C’est un tour de son —; that’s a trick of his. Jouer, or servir, un tour de son —; to play a trick. Chacun son —, et les vaches sont bien gardées; every one to his trade. Faire — de; to make a trade of. Faire au —; to work on a frame. Corps de —; corporation, guild. Sur le —; (fig.) on the stocks.

méti-f, -ve, adj. V. métis.

métis (-tîs), -se, n. and adj., creole, mongrel; of mongrel breed, half-bred, cross-bred; hybrid; mixed. Toile —se; union cloth. Se tenir —; (fig.) to trim one’s sails; to steer a middle course (Montaigne).

métissage, n.m., cross-breeding.

métisser, v.a., to cross (animals).

métonomasie, n.f., metonomasy.

métonymie, n.f., (rhet.) metonymy.

métope, n.f., (arch.) metope.

métoposcopie, n.f., metoposcopy.

métoposcopique, adj., metoposcopical.

mètre, n.m., meter (1.093633 yards); (poet.) meter.

métrer, v.a., to measure (by the meter).

métreur, n.m., (arch.) measurer; appraiser, valuer.

métrique, n.f., scansion, versification.

métrique, adj., metrical.

métrologie, n.f., metrology.

métromane, n.m.f., metromaniac.

métromanie, n.f., metromania.

métropole, n.f., mother country, metropolis, capital, metropolitan see.

métropolitain, -e, adj., metropolitan. Eglise —e; mother-church.

métropolitain, n.m., metropolitan, bishop, archbishop; underground railway (in Paris).

métrorrhagie, n.f., (med.) metrorrhagia, uterine hemorrhage.

mets (mê), n.m., dish, food, viands.

mettable, adj., fit to be worn, wearable.

metteur, n.m., putter, layer. — en œuvre; setter, mounter (of jewels). — en pages; (print.) maker-up, clicker. — en scène; getter up (of plays); stage manager. — au point; carver.

mettre (mettant, mis), v.a., to put, to put out, to put in, to invest (money); to put on, to wear; to place, to lay, to set; to bring; to reduce, to carry; to employ; to contribute, to devote, to give; to stake, to bid. — au jour; to bring to light; to give birth to. — à jour; to bring up to date. — en ordre; to set in order. — la charrue devant les bœufs; to put the cart before the horse. — des paroles en musique; to set words to music. — de la prose en vers; to turn prose into verse. — du fard, du rouge; to paint one’s face. — par écrit; to put or set down in writing. — une chose au net; to make a fair copy. — un habit; to put on a coat. — le couvert; to lay the cloth. — un officier aux arrêts; to put an officer under arrest. — quelqu’un en état de; to enable any one to. — une chose en tête à quelqu’un; to persuade any one to do a thing, to suggest the doing of anything. — un livre au jour; to publish a book. — un vaisseau à l’eau; to launch a ship. — quelqu’un à la besace; to reduce any one to beggary. — un arrêt à exécution; to execute a decree. — bas; to bring forth, to litter. — quelqu’un dehors; to turn any one out of doors. — quelqu’un au fait; to inform any one of a thing, of what is going on, of the state of matters. — quelqu’un à l’amende; to fine any one. — quelqu’un à la raison; to bring any one to reason. — deux personnes mal ensemble; to set two persons by the ears. — une affaire en compromis; to submit a thing to arbitration. — quelqu’un en peine; to make any one uneasy. — quelqu’un en colère; to put any one into a passion. — quelqu’un au désespoir; to drive any one to despair. — ordre à ses affaires; to put one’s affairs in order. Il met son nez partout; he thrusts his nose everywhere. — en pages; (print.) to make up, to click. — du sien; to contribute something; to invest some money; to make concessions; to meet half way; to give a helping hand. Mettez cinq cents francs; make it a hundred dollars.

se mettre, v.r., to put or place one’s self; to sit down; to stand, to lie down; to dress; to begin; to set about; to take to, to apply one’s self to, to get into; to spread, to break out. Se — à table; to sit down to table. Se — à la fenêtre; to place one’s self at the window. Se — en danger; to get into danger. Se — en colère; to get into a passion. Se — sur son quant-à-soi; to give one’s self airs. Se — dans le commerce; to turn tradesman; to take to trade. Se — à son aise; to take one’s ease. Se — sur les rangs pour une charge; to enter as a candidate for a place. Se — en voyage; to set out upon a journey. Se — en route, en chemin, en marche; to start, to go forward, to make a move. Se — bien; to dress well. Se — mal avec quelqu’un; to fall out with any one. Se — en tête; to take it into one’s head. Se — bien avec; to get on good terms with. Se — mal avec; to quarrel with, to fall out with. La peste se mit dans l’armée; the plague broke out in the army. Il se met à tout; he turns his hand to everything. Se — à parler; to begin to speak. S’y —; to set about it, to turn to, to buckle to.