A GENERAL FRENCH-ENGLISH DICTIONARY. (continued 5)

bordereau, n.m., (com.) account, memorandum, note.

bordi-er, -ère, adj., (nav.) lop-sided.

bordier, n.m., lop-sided ship.

bordigue (-dig), n.f., crawl (for taking fish).

bordure, n.f., frame, edge, edging; border, curb; rim; (nav.) foot.

bore, n.m., (chem.) boron.

boréal, -e, adj., boreal, northern.

borée, n.m., Boreas, North-wind.

*borgne, n. and adj., one-eyed person; blind of one eye; one-eyed; dark, obscure, paltry. Changer son cheval — contre un aveugle; to change for the worse. Au royaume des aveugles les —s sont rois; among the blind, the one-eyed is king.

*borgnesse, n.f., (pop.) one-eyed woman.

borique, adj., (chem.) boracic.

bornage, n.m., settling bounds, fixing limits.

borne, n.f., landmark; boundary, limit, confine; bounds; mile-stone, spur-post. Mettre des —s à son ambition; to set bounds to one’s ambition. Cela passe toutes les —s; that is going beyond all bounds. Être planté là comme une —; to stand there like a post.

borné, -e, part., bounded, limited, confined; narrow, mean, small; shallow. Esprit fort —; narrow mind.

borne-fontaine, n.f., (—s-—s) water-post.

borner, v.a., to set landmarks; to bound, to set bounds to, to limit, to circumscribe, to restrict, to terminate, to confine. — son ambition; to set bounds to one’s ambition.

se borner, v.r., to keep within bounds, to restrain one’s self. Il faut se — à cela; we must be content with that, or not go beyond that.

bornous (-noos), n.m., V. bernous.

bornoyer, v.a., to place, to set marks in, to look with one eye at.

bosan, n.m., bosa (Turkish beverage).

bosel, n.m., (arch.) torus.

bosphore, n.m., Bosphorus.

bosquet, n.m., grove, thicket.

bossage, n.m., (arch.) bossage, embossment, relief.

bosse, n.f., hunch, hump; bump; bruise; knob, protuberance, lump; bunch; boss; embossment; (sculp.) relievo, relief, embossment; (paint.) bust; boss (at tennis). Ne demander que plaie et —; to think of nothing but mischief or fighting. Ouvrage relevé en —; embossed piece of work. Ouvrage de demi —; figure in half-relief. Donner dans la —; to fall into the snare, to be duped, to be caught. Travailler en —; to emboss.

bosselage (bos-laj), n.m., embossing.

bosselé, -e, adj., bruised (metal); (bot.) bunched; embossed.

bosseler (bos-lé), v.a., to dent; to emboss.

bosselure (bos-lur), n.f., embossment.

bosser, v.a., (nav.) to stopper.

bossette, n.f., (arch., man.) boss, stud.

bossoir, n.m., (nav.) cat-head; bow.

bossu, -e, n. and adj., hunchback; hunchbacked, humpbacked, deformed, uneven, crooked, tortuous. — par-devant; pigeon-breasted. Rire comme un —; to split one’s sides with laughter.

bossuer, v.a., to bruise, to dent, to batter.

se bossuer, v.r., to get bruised, dented.

bostangi, n.m., (—s) soldier of the Turkish militia.

boston, n.m., boston (game at cards).

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

bot, adj., club-footed. Pied —; (subst.) club-foot. C’est un pied —; he is club-footed.

bot, n.m., Dutch-boat.

botanique, n.f., botany.

botanique, adj., botanical.

botaniste, n.m., botanist.

botargue, n.f. V. boutargue.

botte, n.f., boot (man’s only); Wellington boot; bunch, bundle, truss; (fenc.) pass, thrust, lunge; step of a coach; cask; clod of dirt or snow; wine vessel, butt. —s à genouillère; jack-boots. —s à l’écuyère; top-boots. Souliers —s; Blucher boots. —s retroussées, —s à revers; top-boots. —s de sept lieues; ogre’s boots. —s fines; dress boots. Tirant de —; boot-strap. Tige de —; boot-leg. Tire-—; boot-jack. Mettre du foin dans ses —; to feather one’s nest. A propos de —s; about nothing. Graisser ses —; to prepare for a journey, for death. Décrotter, cirer, des —s; to clean, to polish, boots. Une — d’asperges; a bundle of asparagus. Une — de foin; a truss of hay. Porter une — à quelqu’un; (fenc.) to make a pass, a lunge, at one. Parer une —; to parry a pass. Il lui a porté une vilaine —; he served him a very scurvy trick.

botté, -e, adj., booted, with boots on.

bottelage (bo-tlaj), n.m., tying up in bundles.

botteler (bo-tlé), v.a., to put up in bundles.

botteleur (bo-tleur), n.m., (agri.) binder, bandster.

botter, v.a., to make, to supply any one with, boots; to boot anybody. Ce bottier botte bien, mal; this bootmaker makes boots well, badly. (fam.) Cela me botte; that suits me down to the ground.

se botter, v.r., to put one’s boots on; to get one’s shoes clogged with dirt; to ball (of horses); (milit.) to boot. Cet homme se botte bien, mal; this man wears well made, badly made, boots.

bottier, n.m., bootmaker, shoemaker.

bottine, n.f., half-boot; lady’s boot.

boubie, n.f., (orni.) booby, gannet.

bouc, n.m., he-goat; goat-skin; pulley. — émissaire; scape-goat.

boucage, n.m., (bot.) burnet saxifrage.

boucan, n.m., a place to smoke-dry in.

boucaner, v.a., to smoke (meat, hides).

boucaner, v.n., to smoke-dry; to hunt wild bulls for their hides.

boucanier, n.m., buccaneer, bucanier; free-booter; buccaneer’s musket.

boucaro, n.m., boucaro, red clay.

boucassin, n.m., lining.

boucaut, n.m., cask, hogshead.

bouche, n.f., mouth; lips; tongue; muzzle (of a cannon); voice; victuals; eating, living; cooks (of a sovereign); mouth, opening, aperture (of canals, rivers); plug-hole, fire-plug. Dépense de —; household expenses. Munitions de —; provisions. — à —; face to face. — béante; open-mouthed. De —; by word of mouth. Être sur sa —; to be given to gluttony. Que l’imposture ne souille point votre —; let not falsehood sully your lips. — close; keep it to yourself; mum’s the word! Il dit cela de —, mais le cœur n’y touche; he says one thing and thinks another. Fermer la — à quelqu’un; to stop any one’s mouth. Il dit tout ce qui lui vient à la —; he says whatever comes uppermost. Faire la petite —; to be difficult to please, dainty. Elle n’en fait point la fine —; she does not mince it. Faire la — en cœur; to screw up one’s mouth, to look captivating. Cela rend la — amère; that leaves a bitter taste in the mouth. Garder une chose pour la bonne —; to keep a tit-bit till the last. Cela fait venir l’eau à la —; that makes one’s mouth water. Prendre sur sa —; to stint one’s self. Selon ta bourse, gouverne ta —; you must cut your coat according to your cloth. Il arrive bien des choses entre la — et le morceau; there is many a slip between the cup and the lip. Cheval qui a bonne —; hard-feeding horse. Un cheval qui n’a ni — ni éperon; a horse that obeys neither bridle nor spur. Un homme fort en —; a man that out-talks everybody. Il y en avait à — que veux-tu; there was enough and to spare.

bouchée, n.f., mouthful. Ne faire qu’une — de quelqu’un; to make but a mouthful of any one, to beat any one with ease.

bouche-nez, n.m., stench-trap.

boucher, v.a., to stop, stuff, choke up; to obstruct. — une bouteille; to cork a bottle. — un tonneau; to bung a barrel. — la vue d’un voisin; to obstruct a neighbor’s view. Se — les oreilles; to stop one’s ears. Se — le nez; to hold one’s nose. — un trou; to stop up a gap, to pay a debt.

boucher, n.m., butcher. — en gros; carcass-butcher.

bouchère, n.f., a butcher’s wife, woman keeping a butcher’s shop.

boucherie (boo-shrî), n.f., shambles, butchery, market; slaughter, carnage, massacre.

bouche-trou, n.m., (—-—s) a stop-gap.

bouchoir, n.m., oven-door, lid, stopper.

bouchon, n.m., cork, stopper; ☉darling; wisp (of straw, &c.); packet (of linen); pot-house. Frotter un cheval avec un — de paille; to rub down a horse with a wisp of straw. — de cabaret; tavern-bush (kind of game).

bouchonner, v.a., to rub down (a horse).

bouchonnier, n.m., corkcutter.

bouchot, n.m., fishing-hurdles; mussel-bed.

bouchure, n.f., quickset hedge.

boucle, n.f., buckle; ring; curl, ringlet, lock; (arch.) knocker; (nav.) staple, ring. Des —s d’oreilles; ear-rings. Mettre une perruque en —s; to curl a wig. Mettre en —; to put in irons.

bouclé, -e, part., buckled, curled. Cheveux —s; curly hair.

boucler, v.a., to buckle; to put a ring to; to curl (hair); (hunt.) to ferret out.

se boucler, v.r., to curl one’s hair.

boucler, v.n., to curl, to put out, bulge.

bouclier, n.m., buckler, shield; defense, protection; (ich.) lump-fish. Levée de —s; rising in arms; insurrection.

☉boucon, n.m., (l.ex.) poisoned drink or dish.

bouddhique, adj., Buddhistic.

bouddhisme, n.m., Buddhism.

bouddhiste, n.m. and f., Buddhist.

bouder, v.n., to pout, to look sour, to sulk; to pout at; not to be able to play (dominoes); (hort.) to be stunted.

se bouder, v.r., to be sulky with, to be cool, towards each other.

bouderie (bou-drî), n.f., pouting, sulking, sulkiness.

boudeu-r, -se, adj., sulky, sullen.

boudeu-r, n.m., -se, n.f., person who sulks.

boudin, n.m., black pudding; (nav.) pudding; (arch.) torus; saddle-bag, cloak-bag; spring (of a coach); long curl; sausage-finger.

boudinage, n.m., slubbing, roving.

boudine, n.f., (glass-making) bunt, knot.

boudineu-r, n.m., -se, n.f., rover, slubber.

boudini-er, n.m., -ère, n.f., black-pudding-maker.

boudinoir, n.m., roving-machine.

boudoir, n.m., boudoir, lady’s private-room.

boue, n.f., dirt, mire, mud; filth; meanness; sordidness; sediment (of ink). Je n’en fais pas plus de cas que de la — de mes souliers; I don’t value it more than the dirt on my shoes. Une âme de —; a mean soul. Tirer quelqu’un de la —; to raise any one from the dunghill. Traîner quelqu’un dans la —; to load any one with abuse.

bouée, n.f., (nav.) buoy. — de sauvetage; life-buoy.

boueur, n.m., scavenger, dustman.

boueu-x, -se, adj., dirty, miry; muddy; foul. Chemin —; dirty road. Ecriture —se; thick writing.

bouffant, -e, adj., puffed.

☉bouffante, n.f., hoop, farthingale.

bouffarde, n.f., (pop.) short pipe. Téter or fumer sa —; to have a whiff, to blow one’s cloud.

bouffe, n.m., buffoon. pl., Italian opera (in Paris). Aller aux —s; to go to the Italian opera.

bouffée, n.f., puff, gust, blast, whiff; fit. Par —s; by fits and starts.

bouffer, v.n., to puff, to swell, to rise, to bulge.

bouffer, v.a., to blow (meat).

bouffette, n.f., bow (ribbon), ear-knot.

bouffi, -e, adj., puffed up, swollen, inflated. Des joues —es; puffed out cheeks. — d’orgueil; puffed up with pride. Ange —; chubby child.

bouffir, v.a., to puff up, to swell, to bloat.

bouffissure, n.f., swelling, puffing up; turgidness, bombast.

bouffon, n.m., buffoon, jester, clown; merry-andrew, jack-pudding, droll. Un mauvais —; a sorry jester. Faire le —; to play the buffoon.

bouffon, -ne, adj., jocose, facetious, comical.

bouffonner, v.n., to be jocose, full of jests; to play the buffoon.

bouffonnerie (-fo-n-rî), n.f., buffoonery, drollery, jesting.

bouge, n.m., little closet, hole, wretched den, hovel; bulge of a cask.

bougeoir (-joar), n.m., flat candlestick, chamber-candlestick; taper-stand.

bougeotte, n.f., pigeon-hole.

bouger, v.n., to stir, to budge, to wag, to fidget. Il ne bouge de cette maison; he is always at that house.

bougie, n.f., candle, wax-candle, wax-light; (surg.) bougie.

bougier, v.a., to wax.

bougonner, v.n., to grumble, to scold, to jaw, to mum.

bougran, n.m., buckram.

bougre, n.m., blackguard; fellow. Bon —; good sort of fellow. Mauvais —; nasty fellow, ugly customer.

*bouillabaisse, n.f., Provençal fish-soup with garlic, &c.; mish-mash.

*bouillant, -e, adj., boiling, boiling-hot, scalding-hot, piping-hot; hot, fiery, hasty, eager, fierce, hot-headed. Jeunesse —e; fiery youth. — de colère; boiling with anger. — d’impatience; burning with impatience.

*bouille, n.f., fishing-pole.

*bouiller, v.a., to stir the water with a pole.

*bouillerie, n.f., boilery.

*bouilleur, n.m., boiler-tube (of an engine).

*bouilli, n.m., boiled beef, bouilli.

*bouillie, n.f., pap (for infants); pulp (to make paper). Faire de la — pour les chats; fruitless labor, profitless undertaking.

*bouillir, v.n., to boil, to simmer. Faire — à demi; to parboil. — à gros bouillons; to boil fast. — à petits bouillons; to boil gently; to simmer. Cela sert à faire — la marmite; that helps to make the pot boil.

*bouillir, v.a., to boil. Only used in the popular and figurative expression: — du lait à quelqu’un; to say something very pleasant to somebody.

*bouilloire, n.f., boiler, kettle.

*bouillon, n.m., broth; bubble, ripple, bubbling; ebullition, transport; puff (of a lady’s dress). — en tablette; portable broth, meat-tablet. — de poulet; chicken broth. — de veau; veal-broth. — coupé; broth diluted with water. Prendre un —; to take some broth. Boire un —; to swallow a mouthful (in bathing); to meet with a loss. — pointu; clyster. L’eau sort de la roche à gros —s; the water comes gushing out of the rock. Un — d’eau; a bubbling fountain.

*bouillon-blanc, n.m., (—s-—s) mullein, cow’s-lung-wort.

*bouillonnant, -e, adj., bubbling, gurgling.

*bouillonnement (-io-n-mān), n.m., bubbling up, spouting or gushing out; ebullition, effervescence, agitation.

*bouillonner, v.n., to bubble, to gush out, to boil, to boil over.

bouillonner, v.a., to put puffs to. — une robe; to put puffs to a dress.

*bouillotte, n.f., foot-warmer.

*bouillotte, n.f., bouillotte (game at cards).

bouin, n.m., (dy.) head of silk.

bouis, n.m., glazing-stick.

boujaron, n.m., tot, about half a gill (nav.).

boulaie, n.f., (l.u.) birch plantation.

boulang-er, n.m., -ère, n.f., baker; baker’s wife.

boulanger, v.a., to make bread. Du pain bien boulangé; well-made bread.

boulanger, v.n., to bake.

boulangerie (-lan-jrî), n.f., baking, bakers’ business; bakehouse.

boule, n.f., bowl, ball, pate, head, noddle, sconce. Il est rond comme une —; he is as round as a ball. Un jeu de —; a bowling-green. Jouer à la —; to play at bowls. Avoir la —; to play first. Boule-de-neige, (—s-—) (bot.) snow-ball. — d’eau chaude; hot water bottle. ☉A la — vue; in haste, carelessly. —; (for voting) ballot. (pop.) Perdre la —; to lose one’s head.

bouleau, n.m., birch, birch-tree.

bouledogue, n.m., bull-dog.

bouler, v.n., to swell, to pout (of pigeons).

boulet, n.m., bullet, ball; fetlock-joint (of a horse); (man.) boulet. Un — de canon; a cannon-ball. Un coup de —; a cannon-shot. — rouge; red-hot ball. — ramé; chain-shot, bar-shot. Condamner au —; (milit.) to condemn to chain and ball. Tirer à —s rouges sur quelqu’un; to load any one with abuse.

bouleté, -e, adj., (vet.) upright on fetlock-joint. V. juché.

boulette, n.f., forced-meat ball; pellet, paper-bullet, blunder. Faire des —s; to commit blunders.

bouleux, n.m., thick-set horse; heavy hack; drudge. Un bon —; a plodding man, a drudge.

boulevard or boulevart (bool-var), n.m., bulwark, rampart; boulevard.

bouleversement (bool-vers-mān), n.m., destruction, ruin; overthrow; overthrowing; overturning; commotion, confusion, disorder.

bouleverser (bool-vèr-) v.a., to overthrow; to throw down, to subvert; to agitate, to trouble, to throw into commotion; to upset; to unsettle, to unhinge, to convulse. Cela m’a tout bouleversé; it has quite unhinged me.

☉à la boule vue, adv. V. boule.

boulier, n.m., bag-net (fishing).

boulimie, n.f., (med.) bulimy.

boulimique, adj., bulimic.

boulin, n.m., pigeon-hole; (mas.) pigeon-cove; putlog. Trous de —; scaffolding-holes.

bouline, n.f., (nav.) bowline, gantlet. Aller à la —; to sail close to the wind; to tack about. Courir la —; to run the gantlet.

bouliner, v.n., to sail close to the wind.

bouliner, v.a., to haul to windward. — une voile; to haul a sail to windward.

boulingrin, n.m., bowling-green, grass-plot.

boulinier, n.m., (nav.) Un bon —; a ship that sails well to windward.

bouloir, n.m., (mas.) larry, pole.

boulon, n.m., bolt, large iron pin.

boulonnement, n.m., bolting, pinning.

boulonner, v.a., to pin, to fasten with iron pins, to bolt.

boulot, -te, adj., fat, dumpy, squatty.

boulotter, v.n., to jog along.

☉bouque, n.f., channel, strait, mouth, passage.

☉bouquer, v.a. and n., to kiss forcibly; to yield, to truckle.

bouquet, n.m., bunch, cluster, tuft; nosegay, bouquet, posy; birth-day ode, sonnet; birth-day present; flavor, aroma (of wine). Un — de plumes; a plume of feathers. Un — de pierreries; a sprig of jewels. Un — de bois; a cluster of trees. Fleur qui vient en —s; flower that grows in bunches. — de fusées; bunch of rockets. Réserver une chose pour le —; to keep a thing for the last. Et maintenant, pour le —! and now, to cap the story!

bouquetier (book-tié), n.m., flower-vase.

bouquetière, n.m., flower-girl.

bouquetin, n.m., wild goat, ibex.

bouquin, n.m., old he-goat; buck-hare; old book. Mauvais —; worthless book; (of pipes) mouth-piece.

bouquiner, v.n., to buck, to couple (of hares); to hunt after, to read, old books.

bouquinerie (-ki-n-ri), n.f., old-book trade.

bouquineur, n.m., lover of old books, book-fancier.

bouquiniste, n.m., dealer in old books.

bouracan, n.m., a sort of camlet, barracan.

bouracanier, n.m., barracan maker.

bourbe, n.f., mire, mud, dirt.

bourbeu-x, -se, adj., miry, muddy, sloughy, sloshy.

bourbier, n.m., slough, puddle, mire, mud; lurch, plunge, scrape, danger. Il s’est mis dans le —; he has got himself into a scrape.

*bourbillon, n.m., core (of an abscess).

bourcette. V. mâche.

bourdaine, or bourgène, n.f., black alder.

bourdalou, n.m., hat-band; sort of chamber-pot.

bourde, n.f., fib, sham, humbug, lie. Donner une — a quelqu’un; to tell any one a fib.

bourder, v.n., to fib, to sham, to humbug.

bourdeur, n.m., fibber, shammer.

*bourdillon, n.m., stave-wood (for casks).

bourdon, n.m., drone; pilgrim’s staff; great bell; (mus.) drone; humble-bee; great bell; (print.) out, omission.

bourdonnant, -e, adj., humming, buzzing.

bourdonnement (-mān), n.m., buzz, buzzing; hum, humming; murmur; tinkling noise.

bourdonner, v.n., to buzz, to hum, to murmur.

bourdonner, v.a., to hum; to bore; to pester.

bourdonnet, n.m., (surg.) dossil.

bourdonneur, n.m., humming-bird, colibri.

bourg, n.m., borough, market-town.

bourgade, n.f., small market-town, straggling village.

bourgène, n.f. V. bourdaine.

bourgeois, n.m., -e, n.f., (-joâ, -joaz), burgess, citizen, townsman, commoner; master, mistress, owner of a merchant-ship; contractor. Un bon —; a substantial citizen. Un petit —; a humble citizen. Être en —; (of officers) to be dressed in plain clothes.

bourgeois, -e, adj., middle-class; belonging to, or becoming, a citizen, citizenlike; private; plain; common. Famille —e; good middle-class family. Avoir l’air —, les manières, —es; to be common in one’s gait and manners. Cuisine —e; plain, homely cooking. Pension —; private boarding-house. Comédie —e; private theatricals.

bourgeoisement (-joaz-mān), adv., citizenlike, humbly; vulgarly.

bourgeoisie (-joa-zî), n.f., middle-class, citizenship, citizens. Droit de —; freedom of a city. Haute —; upper middle-class, gentry. Caution —; good security.

bourgeon (boor-jon), n.m., bud, gem; shoot; pimple.

bourgeonnant, -e, adj., budding.

bourgeonné, -e, part., budded, pimpled.

bourgeonnement (-jo-n-mān), n.m., budding, budding-time.

bourgeonner (-jo-né), v.n., to bud, to shoot, to put forth young shoots; to break out in pimples.

bourgeonnier (-jo-nié), n.m., (orni.) bullfinch.

bourgmestre, n.m., burgomaster.

*bourgogne, n.m., Burgundy wine.

bourgépine (-ghé-), n.f., (bot.) buckthorn.

*bourguignon, -ne (-ghi-), n. and adj., Burgundian, of Burgundy.

bourlet, n.m. V. bourrelet.

bournous. V. bernous.

bourrache, n.f., (bot.) borage.

bourrade, n.f., blow with a musket butt; beating, home-thrust; taunt; (hunt.) snapping.

bourras, n.m. V. bure.

bourrasque, n.f., squall; relapse; fresh attack (of a disease); vexation; caprice; fit of anger, of ill-humor.

bourre, n.f., hair, fluff (of animals); stuff, trash; flock (of wool); floss (of silk); wad (of fire-arms); kind of down (on the buds of trees). Lit de —; flock-bed.

bourreau, n.m., hangman, executioner; tormentor, tyrant, butcher. Un — d’argent; a spendthrift.

bourrée, n.f., brushwood, chatwood; small fagot; boree (dance).

bourreler (boor-), v.a., to torment, to sting; to torture, to rack, to goad.

bourrelet or bourlet, n.m., pad; cushion; sand-bag; swelling (about the loins); padded cap; (of horses) collar.

bourrelier (boor-), n.m., harness-maker.

bourrelle, -ment, n.m., torment, torture.

bourrellerie (boo-rèl-rî), n.f., business of a harness-maker.

bourrer, v.a., to ram; to thrash; to abuse; to stuff, to wad; to cram with food; ☉to nonplus; (hunt.) to snap. — de coups; to give a sound thrashing to.

se bourrer, v.r., to cram one’s self with food; to abuse each other.

bourrer, v.n., (of horses) to bolt.

bourriche, n.f., game-basket.

bourrique, n.f., she-ass; ignorant, stupid person.

bourriquet, n.m., ass’s colt; hand-barrow; windlass; mason’s horse.

bourriqui-er, -ère, n.m.f., donkey-driver.

bourrir, v.n., to whir (of partridges).

bourroir, n.m., tamping-bar.

bourru, -e, adj., cross, morose, peevish, crabbed, moody, wayward, surly, snappish; unfermented.

bourse, n.f., purse; hair-bag; purse-net; saddle-bag; scholarship; foundation; (anat.) sac; (bot.) wrapper; (surg.) suspensory bandage; (com.) exchange. Coupeur de —; cut-throat. Avoir la —; to keep the money. Faire — commune; to live in common. Faire — à part; to keep one’s own money. La — ou la vie! your money or your life! Aller à la —; to go to the Exchange, to go on ’Change. Loger le diable en sa —; to be penniless. Avoir toujours la — à la main; to be always dipping into one’s purse. Sans — délier; without expense.

bourses, n.f.pl., scrotum.

boursette, n.f., small purse.

boursicaut, n.m., small purse; small sum.

boursier, n.m., purse-maker; foundation scholar, exhibitioner.

*boursiller, v.n., to club together; to fork out.

bourson, n.m., fob, little pocket.

boursouflage, n.m., bombast, fustian.

boursouflé, -e, adj., bloated; bombastic, inflated, turgid. Style —; turgid style.

boursoufler, v.a., to bloat, to make turgid, to puff up.

boursouflure, n.f., bloatedness (face); turgidness (style).

bousage, n.m., dunging.

bousard or bouzard, n.m., deer’s dung.

bousculade or bousculement (boos-kul-mān), n.m., jostling, hustling; bullying.

bousculer (boos-) v.a., to turn upside down, to throw into disorder; ta jostle, to hustle, to squeeze.

bouse (booz), n.f., cow-dung.

*bousillage, n.m., mud-wall; mud-walling; bungling piece of work.

*bousiller, v.a., to make a mud-wall; to bungle, to botch.

*boursilleu-r, n.m., -se, n.f., mud-wall builder, bungler, botcher.

bousin, n.m., the soft crust of freestone; (l.ex.) row, shindy.

boussole, n.f., sea compass, compass; mariner’s needle; guide, direction.

boustrophédon, n.m., (antiq.) boustrophedon.

bout, n.m., end, extremity, tip; top, point; bit; nipple; muzzle, ferrule; fag-end. Le — des doigts; the finger-ends. Savoir une chose sur le — des doigts; to have a thing at one’s finger’s ends, to know it perfectly. Brûler la chandelle par les deux —s; to burn the candle at both ends, to be a bad manager. Le bas —; the lower end. Le — de la langue; the tip of the tongue. Le — de la mamelle; the nipple of the breast. —s de manches; false sleeves. —s d’aile; pinions. Bâton à deux —s; quarter staff. Au — d’une heure de conversation; after an hour’s conversation. Tenir le haut —; to get the upper hand. Se tenir sur le — des pieds; to stand on tip-toe. Patience, nous ne sommes pas au —; have patience, we have not done yet. Tirer un coup de pistolet à — portant; to fire off a pistol point-blank. Rire du — des dents des lèvres; to laugh in a forced manner. Un — de ruban; a bit of ribbon. Il est économe de —s de chandelle; he is penny wise and pound foolish. Mettre la patience de quelqu’un à —; to exhaust any one’s patience. Pousser quelqu’un à —; to drive any one to extremities. Venir à — de; to succeed, to get through anything. On ne saurait venir à — de cet enfant; this child cannot be managed. À tout — de champ; at every turn. Au — du compte; after all; upon the whole. D’un — à l’autre; from beginning to end. Au — de l’aune faut le drap; the last straw breaks the camel’s back. Jusqu’au — des ongles; to one’s finger-tips. Laisser voir le — de l’oreille; to reveal one’s true character. —-rimé. V. bout-rimé.

boutade, n.f., (boo-) whim, fit, start, caprice, frolic, freak. Par —s; by fits and starts.

boutant, adj., (arch.) supporting. Arc-—; buttress.

boutargue or botargue, n.f., botargo.

bout-dehors, (—s-—). V. boute-hors.

bouté, -e, adj., (man.) straight-legged. Cheval —; straight-legged horse.

boute-en-train, n.m., (—) stallion kept with mares; bird piper. Être le —; to be the life and soul of the company.

boutefeu, n.m., (artil.) linstock; incendiary, firebrand.

☉boute-hors, n.m., (—) (nav.) boom; outrigger; good command of words. Jouer au —; to try to oust one another, to play at beggar my neighbor.

*bouteille, n.f., bottle; bottleful; bubble; bottle case. Boucher une —; to cork a bottle. Déboucher une —; to uncork a bottle. Mise en —; bottling. Faire sauter le bouchon d’une —; to crack a bottle (instead of uncorking it). N’avoir rien vu que par le trou d’une —; to know nothing of the world.

☉*bouteiller. V. boutillier.

*bouteilles, n.f.pl., (nav.) round house.

☉bouter, v.a., to pare, to flesh, to put.

bouter, v.n., (of wine) to become ropy.

bouterolle (boo-trol), n.f., chape (of a scabbard).

boute-selle, n.m., (—-—s) (milit.) signal to saddle.

☉boute-tout-cuire, n.m., (—) (fam.) a spend-all, glutton.

bouteuse, n.f., pin-sticker.

bouteux, n.m., putting-net, shrimp-net.

☉*boutillier, n.m., cup-bearer.

boutique, n.f., shop; merchandise of a shop; tools; implements; well for fish. Garçon de —; shop-boy. Demoiselle de —; shop-girl. Cela vient de votre —; that is your doing. — bien fournie; a well-stocked shop. Il a vendu toute sa —; he has left off business, or disposed of his business.

boutiqu-ier (boo-), n.m., -ière, n.f., tradesman; shopkeeper; vulgar fellow. adj., shoppy.

boutis, n.m., (hunt.) rooting-place.

boutisse (boo-), n.f., (mas.) header, bondstone.

boutoir, n.m., snout of a wild boar; buttress; parer; currier’s knife. Coup de —; rough answer; disagreeable proposal; stunner.

bouton, n.m., button; stud; bud; nipple; pimple; gem; knob; sight (of a gun); (chem.) button. — à queue; shank button. — d’or; buttercup. Le — d’une serrure; the knob, button of a lock. Serrer le — à quelqu’un; to keep a tight hand over; to press hard upon.

boutonné, -e, part., buttoned, pimpled; (fig.) reserved. Nez —; nose full of red pimples. C’est un homme —; he is very reserved.

boutonnement (-mān), n.m., budding, buttoning.

boutonner, v.a., to button; (fenc.) to touch.

se boutonner, v.r., to button one’s coat.

boutonner, v.n., to bud, to button.

boutonnerie (boo-to-n-rî), n.f., button-trade.

☉boutonnet, n.m., little bud, button, gem.

boutonnier, n.m., button-maker.

boutonnière, n.f., button-hole; (fig.) cut, gash.

bout-rimé, n.m., poetry made on given rhymes.

bouts-rimeur, n.m., (—-—s) person who fills up given rhymes.

*bout-saigneux, n.m., (—s-—) scrag-end.

bouture, n.f., (hort.) slip; cutting.

bouvart or bouveau, n.m., young bull.

bouverie (boo-vrî), n.f., ox-stall.

bouvet, n.m., joiner’s grooving-plane.

bouvi-er, n.m., -ère, n.f., cowherd, drover, ox-drover, (fig.) churl.

*bouvillon, n.m., young bullock, steer.

*bouvreuil, n.m., (boo-) bullfinch.

bovine, adj., bovine. Peste —; cattle plague.

boxe, n.f., boxing.

boxer, v.n., to box.

se boxer, v.r., to box.

boxeur, n.m., boxer. Combat de —s; boxing-match.

boyard, n.m., boyard (Russian nobleman).

boyau, n.m., bowel, gut, cat-gut; (hort.) branch; hose, pipe. Corde à —; catgut. — de tranchée; branch of a trench (fort.) Descente de —x; rupture.

boyauderie, n.f., gut-works.

boyaudier, n.m., gutspinner.

brabançon, -ne, adj., Brabantine.

brabant, n.m., Belgian plow.

bracelet (bra-slè), n.m., armlet, bracelet, bangle.

brachial, -e (-ki-), adj., (anat.) brachial.

brachygraphie (-ki-), n.f., brachygraphy.

brachylogie (-ki-) n.f., (rhet.) brachylogy.

braconnage, n.m., poaching.

braconner, v.n., to poach, to steal game.

braconnier, n.m., poacher.

bractée, n.f., (bot.) bract, bractea.

bractéifère, adj., (bot.) bracteate.

bractélé, -e, adj. V. bractéifère.

brague (brag), n.f., (nav.) breeching. pl., breeches.

braguette, n.f. V. brayette.

brahmane, brahme, n.m., Brahmin.

brahmanique, adj., Braminical.

brahmanisme, n.m., Braminism.

brai, n.m., resin, rosin, pitch.

braie, n.f., napkin, clout; (nav.) coat. pl., breeches, trousers. S’en tirer les —s nettes; to get off unharmed, to get clear off.

*braillard, n.m., -e, n.f., bawler, brawler, squaller.

*braillard, -e, adj., brawling, squalling; obstreperous.

braillement, n.m., squalling.

*brailler, v.n., to bawl, to be noisy.

brailleu-r, -se, adj. and n. V. braillard.

braiment, n.m., braying of an ass.

braire, v.n., to bray; (fig.) to cry, to whine.

braise, n.f., live coals; embers, burning coal. Il l’a donné chaud comme —; he blurted it all out. Tomber de la poêle dans la —; from the frying-pan into the fire. Passer sur une chose comme un chat sur la —; to pass lightly over a subject; to skip over.

braiser, v.a., (cook.) to bake, to braise.

braisier, n.m., brazier.

braisière, n.f., oven.

brame. V. brahmane.

bramement, n.m., (hunt.) belling.

bramer, v.n., (of deer) to bell.

bramin or bramine, n.m. V. brahmane.

☉bran, n.m., bran; (pop.) excrement. — de son; coarse bran; sawdust. — de judas; freckles.

bran! int. (l.ex.) — de lui! a fig for him!

brancard, n.m., stretcher, litter, hand-barrow; shaft (of a cart).

brancardier, n.m., (milit.) ambulance-man, litter-bearer.

branchage, n.m., branches, boughs; horns.

branche, n.f., branch, bough, stick, arm; pin-wire; part, division; (arch.) branch; side (of a ladder); branch (of a family); (bot.) grain. A —s; branched. Sauter de — en —; to go from one thing to another. Jeune —; twig. —s gourmandes; proud wood. S’accrocher à toutes les —s; to try every possible means, whether fair or foul. Être comme l’oiseau sur la —; to be unsettled.

☉brancher, v.a., to hang on a tree.

brancher, v.n., (hunt.) to perch, to roost; to branch off.

branche-ursine, or branc-ursine, n.f., (—) (bot.) brank-ursine.

branchial, -e, adj., (ich.) branchial. Opercule —; gill-cover.

branchier, adj.m., brancher, percher.

branchies (-shi), n.f.pl., fish-gills.

branchu, -e, adj., ramous, forked, bifurcated; two-horned.

brandade, n.f., ragout (of cod).

brande, n.f., heath, heather.

brandebourg, n.m., gimp, braid; facing.

☉brandevin, n.m., wine-brandy.

*brandillement, n.m., tossing, swinging.

*brandiller, v.a., to swing, to shake to and fro.

*se brandiller, v.r., to swing.

*brandilloire, n.f., swing, see-saw; (agri.) swing-plough.

brandir, v.a., to brandish, to swing; to flourish; (carp.) to pin.

brandon, n.m., torch, wisp of lighted straw; fire-brand, flake of fire. — de discorde; cause of discord.

brandonner, v.a., to place brands in to mark the seizure of a field.

branlant, -e, adj., shaking, loose; wagging, tottering.

branle, n.m., jogging, push, shake, swing, tossing, motion, shaking; peal; sort of dance, brawl; hammock; (nav.) hammock. Être en —; to be in motion. Donner le —; to set going. Mener le —; to lead the dance.

branle-bas, n.m., (—) (nav.) clearing, for action. Faire le —; to clear the decks. —! up all hammocks!

branlement (branl-mān), n.m., jogging; shaking, swinging; tottering.

branle-queue, n.m., (—) (orni.) wag-tail; dish-washer.

branler, v.a., to jog, to wag, to move, to shake, to brandish.

se branler, v.r., to move.

branler, v.n., to shake, to jog, to totter, to rock; to stir, to move, to wag; to give way, to waver. — dans le manche; to shake in the handle, to be unsteady, irresolute, to be shaky. Tout ce qui branle ne tombe pas; a creaking gate hangs long, or threatened men live long.

branloire, n.f., see-saw; swing.

braque, n.m., brach-hound; a hare-brained fellow; mad-cap.

☉braquemart, n.m., cutlass; broadsword.

braquement (brak-mān), n.m., pointing (of ordnance).

braquer, v.a., to set, to turn, to level, to point. — un canon; to level a cannon. — une lunette; to point a telescope.

bras, n.m., arm; power; sconce (candelabrum); arm (of anchors, capstans, levers, seats); brace (of yards); handle; shaft (of litters); (mec.) side rod; arm (of a horse); claw (of a crawfish). Être blessé au —; to be wounded in the arm. Il a le — en écharpe; he has his arm in a sling. Recevoir quelqu’un à — ouverts; to receive any one with open arms. Demeurer les — croisés; to stand with folded arms. À pleins —; by armfuls. Un — de mer; an arm of the sea. À force de —; by strength of arms. Ne vivre que de ses —; to live by the labor of one’s hands. Avoir quelqu’un sur les —; to have any one to maintain. Avoir de grandes affaires sur les —; to have great concerns in hand. J’ai sur les — un puissant ennemi; I have to do with a powerful enemy. Les — m’en sont tombés; I was struck dumb with surprise. Se jeter entre les — de quelqu’un; to fly to any one for protection. Tendre les — à quelqu’un; to offer one’s aid to any one. Moulin à —; handmill. Les — de la mort; the jaws of death. À tour de —; with all one’s might. A —-le-corps; in one’s arms. Saisir quelqu’un à —-le-corps; to seize any one round the body. — dessus — dessous; arm in arm. Avoir les — longs; to have great influence. En prendre long comme le —; to take an ell; to impose upon.

braser, v.a., to braze, to solder.

brasier, n.m., quick clear fire; red-hot fire; brazier, furnace.

*brasillement (-mān), n.m., (nav.) glittering, glancing, sparkling of the sea.

*brasiller, v.a., to sparkle (of the sea).

brasque, n.f., brasque (cement made of clay and charcoal dust).

brasquer, v.a., to cover with brasque.

brassage, n.m., stirring up; mashing, brewing; (coin.) mixing.

brassard, n.m., brace (armor), armlet, arm-guard.

brasse, n.f., (nav.) fathom, six feet, stroke. Pain de —; a twenty or twenty-five pound loaf.

brassée, n.f., armful; stroke (swimming).

brasser, v.a., to brew, to mash; to stir; to hatch, to work, to plot.

brasserie, n.f., brewery, brewhouse.

brasseu-r, n.m., -se, n.f., brewer.

brasseyage, n.m., (nav.) bracing.

brassiage, n.m., (nav.) sounding.

brassière, n.f., shoulder-strap, brace, bodice with shoulder straps; restraint. Être en —s; to be under restraint.

brassin, n.m., brewing tub; mash-tub; boiling (quantity boiled or brewed).

brassoir, n.m., (metal.) stirring-stick.

brasure, n.f., brazing, soldering.

bravache, n.m., bully, swaggerer, blusterer.

bravade, n.f., bravado, boast, bluster.

brave, adj., brave, gallant, true; smart, fine, spruce; honest; good, kind. — capitaine; gallant captain. Il est — comme l’épée qu’il porte; he is as true as steel. Il n’est — qu’en paroles; he is only brave as far as words go. Un homme —; an honest man. Vous voilà bien — aujourd’hui; how smart you are to-day. C’est un — homme; he is an honest, worthy fellow. C’est un — garçon; he is a capital fellow; a brick.

brave, n.m., brave or courageous man; (b.s.) ruffian, bully. Faux —; blustering bully. Faire le —; to play the bully. — à trois poils; hard-fighter; man of real courage, right down plucky, regular game. En —; bravely, gallantly.

bravement (-mān), adv., bravely, stoutly, valiantly, manfully; skillfully, finely.

braver, v.a., to defy, to set at defiance, to bid defiance, to dare, to beard, to face, to brave. — les autorités; to set the authorities at defiance. — la mort; to face death.

braverie (-vrî), n.f., boasting; finery, fine clothes.

bravo, n.m., (bravi or bravos) bravo, hurrah; hired assassin; applause.

bravo! adv., bravo! well done! capital!

bravoure, n.f., bravery, courage, manhood, gallantry; (mus.) bravura. Il a fait preuve de —; he has given proofs of courage.

brayer (bra-ié), n.m., (surg.) truss, bandage.

brayer (brè-ié), v.a., (nav.) to pay over.

brayette (bra-iète), n.f., flap (of trousers); (bot.) cowslip.

brayon (bra-ion), n.m., trap (for vermin).

break (brèke), n.m., (—s) break (carriage).

bréant or bruant, n.m., (orni.) bunting, yellow-hammer.

brebis, n.f., ewe; sheep. pl., flock. — égarée; stray sheep. Troupeau de —; flock of sheep. Une — galeuse; a scabby sheep. Mener paître les —; to lead the sheep to pasture. Il ne faut qu’une — galeuse pour gâter tout un troupeau; one scabby sheep will taint a whole flock. Qui se fait —, le loup le mange; daub yourself with honey, and you’ll never want for flies. À — tondue, Dieu mesure le vent; God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb. Faire un repas de —; to eat a dry meal. La — galeuse; the black sheep. — comptées, le loup les mange; we must watch as well as count.

brèche, n.f., breach, flaw, rupture, hiatus; notch, gap. Battre en —; to batter in, to breach. Monter à la —; to mount the breach. La — d’un couteau; the notch of a knife. Faire — à un pâté; to make a gap in a pie. C’est une — à l’honneur; it is a breach of honor.

brèche, n.f., (min.) breccia.

brèche-dent, adj., (—) that has lost a front tooth or two; broken-mouthed.

brèche-dent, n.m.f., (—) person who has lost a front tooth.

brechet, n.m., breastbone, brisket.

bredi-breda, adv., (fam.) hastily.

bredindin, n.m., (nav.) garnet.

brédissure, n.f., (med.) locked jaw.

*bredouillage, n.m., jabbering, sputtering.

*bredouille, n.f., (trictrac) lurch. Jouer —; to play lurches. Sortir —; to go away as one came. Revenir —; to return with an empty bag (of sportsmen). Se coucher —; to go to bed supperless.

*bredouillement, n.m., stuttering, stammering, faltering.

*bredouiller, v.n., to stammer, to stutter, to falter.

*bredouilleu-r, n.m., -se, n.f., stammerer, stutterer.

br-ef, -ève, adj., brief, short, concise, succinct. Une réponse brève; a brief reply. Avoir le parler —; to be a man of few words.

bref, adv., in a few words; in short, in fine, to be short.

bref, n.m., brief (pope’s pastoral letter); church calendar.

brège, n.f., salmon-net, close-net.

bregin, n.m., close-net.

*bréhaigne, adj., barren, sterile.

*bréhaigne, n.f., (pop.) barren, sterile woman.

brelan, n.m., brelan (game at cards); pair-royal; gaming-house. Tenir —; to keep a gaming-house.

brelander, v.n., to gamble, to be a gamester.

brelandi-er, n.m., -ère, n.f., gamester, gambler.

brelique-breloque, adv., at random; higgledy-piggledy; slap-dash.

brelle, n.f., raft, float of wood.

breloque, n.f., charm, gewgaw, toy, trinket. V. berloque.

☉breluche, n.f., drugget, linsey-woolsey.

brème, n.f., (ich.) bream.

breneu-x, -se, adj., (l.ex.) dirty, soiled.

brequin, n.m., wimble, bit of a wimble.

brésil, n.m., Brazil-wood.

*brésiller, v.a., to break small, to cut small; to dye with Brazil-wood.

*brésillet, n.m., Brazil or Jamaica-wood.

breste, n.f., catching birds with lime.

*brétailler, v.n., (b.s.) to tilt, to fight.

*brétailleur, n.m., (b.s.) bruiser, bully.

bretaudé, -e, adj., crop-eared.

bretauder, v.a., to crop badly (animals).

bretelle, n.f., strap; brace. En avoir jusqu’aux —s; to be over head and ears in trouble.

breton, -ne, adj. and n.m.f., of Brittany.

brette, n.f., (jest.) long sword, rapier.

bretté, -e, adj., matched, indented, jagged.

bretteler, v.a., (arch.) to indent.

bretter, v.a., (arch.) to indent.

bretteur, n.m., bully, fighter.

bretture, n.f., teeth, notches (in tools).

*breuil, n.m., inclosed copse, thicket.

breuvage, n.m., beverage, potion, draught, liquor, drink; (vet.) drench.

brève, n.f., short syllable; (mus.) short note.

brevet, n.m., warrant, brevet; (milit.) commission; patent; license (of printers). — d’apprentissage; indentures.

breveté, -e (brèv-), part., patented.

breveté, n.m., -e, n.f., patentee.

breveter (brèv-), v.a., to patent, to license.

bréviaire, n.m., breviary.

brévité, n.f., (gram.) shortness (of syllables).

bribe, n.f., hunch. pl., scraps, bits; odd ends.

bric-à-brac, n.m., (—) odds and ends; old stores; curios. Marchand de —; dealer in old iron, old pictures, old stores, curios.

brick, n.m., (nav.) brig.

bricole, n.f., breast-collar of a horse; rebound of a ball (at tennis); back stroke (at billiards); strap; (nav.) pitching, rolling. De or par —; indirectly, unfairly, by a fluke.

bricoler, v.n., (billiards, tennis) to hit a back stroke; (fig.) to cadge, to dodge, to shuffle.

bride, n.f., bridle, reins, check, curb; string (of a woman’s cap, bonnet); loop (for a button); (surg.) frenum. Mettre la — à un cheval; to put a bridle upon a horse. Tenir la — haute à un cheval; to keep a tight rein. Lui tenir la — courte; to shorten the rein. Lâcher la —; to give rein, to give head. Courir à toute —, à — abattue; to run at full speed. Tourner —; to turn back. Tenir quelqu’un en —; to keep any one within bounds, to curb. À cheval donné on ne regarde pas à la —; one does not look a gift-horse in the mouth. Laisser or mettre la — sur le cou; to give head entirely; (fig.) to let any one have his own way.

bridé, -e, part., bridled. Oison —; silly creature.

brider, v.a., to bridle; to tie fast, to fasten; to restrain, to curb, to keep under; to check. — l’ancre; (nav.) to shoe the anchor. — ses désirs; to curb one’s desires. — son cheval par la queue; to begin at the wrong end. Mon habit me bride sous les bras; my coat is too tight under the arms.

bridon, n.m., snaffle-bridle.

brie, n.f., rolling-pin. Fromage de Brie; Brie cheese.

bri-ef, -ève, adj., short, brief, curt.

brièvement (-èv-mān), adv., briefly, succinctly, in short.

brièveté (-èv-té), n.f., brevity, shortness, briefness, conciseness, succinctness.

brigade, n.f., (milit.) brigade; gang, troop, body.

brigadier, n.m., corporal (of cavalry); sergeant (of police); (nav.) bowman.

brigand, n.m., brigand, highwayman, robber; ruffian, thief.

brigandage, n.m., robbery, brigandage, plunder.

brigandeau, n.m., cheat, rogue, knave.

brigander, v.n., to rob, to plunder.

brigandine, n.f., coat of mail, brigandine.

brigantin, n.m., brigantine, brig.

brigantine, n.f., small brigantine.

*brignole, n.f., French plum.

brigue (brig), n.f., intrigue, bribery; canvassing; cabal, faction.

briguer (-ghé), v.a., to canvass for, to solicit, to seek, to court, to stand for, to seek, to aspire to.

brigueur (-gheur), n.m., canvasser, solicitor.

*brillamment (-mān). adv., brilliantly, in a brilliant manner; in brilliant fashion.

*brillant, -e, adj., brilliant, shining, sparkling, glittering, bright, showy, effulgent, beaming, radiant; robust, blooming (of health). Esprit —; sparkling wit. —s appas, charmes —s; dazzling charms. Affaire —e; (milit.) famous action.

*brillant, n.m., brilliancy, brightness, splendor, radiancy, refulgence, resplendency, luster; brilliant (diamond).

*brillanté, -e, adj., cut into a brilliant. n.m., diaper, damask.

*brillanter, v.a., to cut into a brilliant. — son style; (fig.) to load it with false ornaments.

*briller, v.n., to shine, to glitter, to sparkle, to glisten, to be bright, sparkling; to play, to blaze, to dawn, to lighten, to flourish, to gleam, to glare. Tout ce qui — n’est pas or; all that glitters is not gold.

brimbale, n.f., brake, handle of a pump.

brimbaler, v.n., (fam., l.u.) to ring, to swing, to toss.

brimborion, n.m., nicknack, bauble, gewgaw.

brin, n.m., blade, slip, slender stalk; sprig, shoot; bit, jot. Un — de romarin; a sprig of rosemary. Un beau — de bois; a fine straight piece of timber. Un beau — d’homme; a tall well-set youth. Beau — de fille; fine slip of a girl. Un — de paille; a straw. Un — de fil; a bit of thread. Il n’y en a —; there is none at all. Un — de feu; a bit of fire. De, or en, —; (of wood) unhewn.

brinde, n.f., health, toast. Porter des —s; to drink toasts. Être dans les —s; to be drunk, tipsy.

*brindille, n.f., sprig, twig.

bringuebale, n.f. V. brimbale.

brio, n.m., dash, spirit, pluck, go; raciness, vivacity.

brioche, n.f., bun, cake; mistake, blunder.

brion, n.m., (bot.) tree-moss.

*briquaillon, n.m., brickbat.

brique, n.f., brick. — anglaise; Bath brick.

briquet, n.m., steel, flint, tinder-box; short saber, dirk; (dog) beagle, harrier. Battre le —; to strike a light. — pneumatique; fire syringe. Pierre à —; flint.

briquetage (brik-taj), n.m., brick-work; imitation brick-work.

briqueté (brik-), part., bricked; brick-like.

briqueter (brik-), v.a., to brick; to imitate brick-work.

briqueterie (brik-trî), n.f., brick-field, brick-making.

briqueteur (brik-teur), n.m., bricklayer.

briquetier (brik-tié), n.m., brick-maker.

briquette, n.f., compressed, patent fuel.

bris, n.m., (jur.) breaking open (of doors, prisons); wreckage, fragment; rigging (the market).

brisant, n.m., breaker, breakwater.

*briscambille, n.f. V. brusquembille.

brise, n.f., breeze. — carabinée; stiff gale.

brisé, -e, part., broken to pieces; harassed, fatigued; folding; (her.) rompu. Lit —; folding-bed. Chaise —e; folding-chair. Porte —e; folding-door.

☉brise-cou, n.m., (—) break-neck pace; (man.) rough-rider. V. casse-cou.

brise-eau, n.m., (—) breakwater.

brisée, n.f., fan-joint (of umbrellas).

brisées, n.f.pl., boughs cut off; footsteps, wake, shoes, heels, ground. Marcher sur les — de quelqu’un; to follow in any one’s footsteps. Aller sur les — de quelqu’un; to walk in any one’s shoes, to poach on any one’s preserves. Reprendre ses —; to retrace one’s steps.

brise-glace, n.m., (—, or —-—s) ice-breaker; starling (of a bridge).

brise-lames, n.m., (—) breakwater.

brisement (briz-mān), n.m., breaking, dashing (of waves); heartrending; contrition.

brise-pierre, n.m., (—) (surg.) stone-crusher.

briser, v.a., to break to pieces, to dash to pieces; to flaw, to burst, to crack, to knock off, to shatter, to shiver, to snap, to crush, to crash; to bruise. Être brisé; to feel sore all over.

briser, v.n., (nav.) to break, to dash. Brisons-là; let us say no more on the subject; enough!

se briser, v.r., to break, to be dashed to pieces; to fold up.

brise-raison, n.m., (—) wrong-headed person.

brise-scellé, n.m., (—-—s) (l.u.) seal-breaker.

brise-tout, n.m., (—) person that breaks everything; rough, clumsy fellow.

briseur, n.m., (l.u.) one who breaks anything. — d’images; image-breaker, iconoclast.

briseuse, n.f., breaker, breaker-engine.

brise-vent, n.m., (—, or —-—s) (gard.) screen.

brisoir, n.m., brake (for flax).

brisque, n.f., a card game; trump.

brisure, n.f., break, folding-point; catch, fastening; (her.) rebatement.

britannique, adj., British, Britannic.

broc (brô), n.m., large jug; pot, spit. De bric et de —; anyhow; by hook or by crook. Manger de la viande de — en bouche; to have one’s meat hot from the spit.

brocantage, n.m., dealing in second-hand goods, broker’s business; bartering.

brocanter, v.n., to deal in second-hand goods; to exchange, to barter.

brocanteu-r, n.m., -se, n.f., a dealer in second-hand goods; broker.

brocard, n.m., taunt, jeer; joke, scoff; lampoon.

brocarder, v.a., to taunt, to jest, to jeer.

brocardeu-r, n.m., -se, n.f., scoffer, jeerer.

brocart, n.m., brocade.

brocatelle, n.f., brocatel; (min.) brocate.

brochage, n.m., stitching (books).

brochant, part., (her.) — sur le tout; over all.

broche, n.f., spit; needle to knit with; spindle; skewer; spigot, peg (of casks); gudgeon (of locks); tusk (of wild boars); brooch (jewel); iron-pin. Mettre la viande à la —; to spit the meat.

broché, -e, adj., stitched (books); embossed (linen); figured (stuffs).

brochée, n.f., spitful, rod full of candles.

brocher, v.a., to stitch (a book); to figure (stuffs); to emboss (linen); to knit (stockings); to strike (a nail into a horse’s foot); to do things in a hurry, to dispatch. — une comédie, etc.; to polish off a comedy, etc.

brochet, n.m., pike, jack.

brocheter (brosh-té), v.a., (cook.) to skewer.

brocheton (brosh-ton), n.m., small pike, pickerel.

brochette, n.f., little skewer; meat (roasted on skewers); pin. Elever des oiseaux à la —; to feed birds by hand. Enfant élevé à la —; child brought up with great care.

brocheu-r, n.m., -se, n.f., knitter; book-stitcher.

brochoir, n.m., smith’s shoeing-hammer.

brochure, n.f., stitching; book stitched and covered with a wrapper; pamphlet, tract.

brocoli, n.m., broccoli.

brodé, -e, part., embroidered.

brodequin (brod-kin), n.m., buskin, sock; half-boot, laced-boot (generally of women and children). Chausser le —; to go on the comic stage.

broder, v.a., to embroider; to adorn, to embellish a story, to exaggerate, to amplify.

broderie (bro-drî), n.f., embroidery; embellishment; exaggeration, amplification.

brodeu-r, n.m., -se, n.f., embroiderer. — mécanique; embroidering machine.

brodoir, n.m., bobbin, frame.

broie, n.f., brake (for hemp).

broiement (broa-mān), n.m., grinding, powdering, pounding, pulverization.

brome, n.m., (chem.) brome.

bromure, n.m., (chem.) bromide.

bronchade, n.f., stumbling, tripping.

bronchement (bronsh-mān), n.m., (l.u.) flinching, stumbling. V. bronchade.

broncher, v.n., to stumble, to trip, to reel; to blunder, to falter, to fail, to flinch. Il n’y a si bon cheval qui ne bronche; it is a good horse that never stumbles.

bronches, n.f.pl., (anat.) bronchi, bronchiæ, bronchial tubes.

bronchies, n.f.pl. V. branchies.

bronchique, adj., (anat.) bronchial.

bronchite, n.f., (med.) bronchitis.

bronchotomie (-ko-), n.f., (surg.) bronchotomy.

bronze, n.m., bronze; bronze-figure, medal; (fig.) iron (insensibility), impudence, brass. Un cœur de —; a heart of iron, steel.

bronzer, v.a., to bronze, to paint in bronze color; to tan (face). — un canon de fusil; to bronze the barrel of a musket. Bronzé par le hâle; sunburnt, tanned by the sun.

broquart, n.m., (hunt.) brocket.

broquette, n.f., tin tack, small nail.

☉brossailles. V. broussailles.

brosse, n.f., brush; painter’s brush. — à dents; tooth-brush. — à habits; clothes-brush. (fig.) brush-wood, cover.

brossée, n.f., (fam.) brushing; drubbing, thrashing.

brosser, v.a., to brush, to rub with a brush.

se brosser, v.r., to brush one’s self.

brosser, v.n., to run through woods or bushes; to scour.

brosserie (bros-rî), n.f., brushmaking business; brush manufactory.

brosseur, n.m., (milit.) an officer’s servant.

brossier, n.m., brushmaker; brusher.

brou, n.m., husk, peel, shell (of walnuts). — de noix; walnut brandy.

brouée, n.f., fog, mist, drizzle, blight.

brouet, n.m., thin broth, porridge. — noir; black broth.

brouette, n.f., wheelbarrow; barrow; bath-chair.

brouetter, v.a., to wheel in a barrow.

brouetteur, n.m., bath-chairman.

brouettier, n.m., barrow man.

brouhaha, n.m., hubbub, uproar, hurly-burly.

*brouillamini, n.m., confusion; disorder.

*brouillard, n.m., fog, mist, haze, damp; (com.) waste-book. Un — épais; a dense fog. Je n’y vois que du —; I am muddled.

*brouillard, adj., blotting. Du papier —; blotting paper.

*brouillasser, v.imp., to drizzle. Il brouillasse; it is drizzling.

*brouille, n.f., quarrel, falling out, misunderstanding, disagreement, discord, broil. Être en — avec; to be on bad terms with, to disagree with.

*brouillé, -e, part., jumbled, at variance. Des œufs —s; buttered or scrambled eggs. Nous sommes —s; we have fallen out. Un teint —; a mottled complexion. Être — avec la justice; to be in the clutches of the law.

*brouillement, n.m., mixing together, jumbling.

*brouiller, v.a., to throw into confusion, to mix together, to blend, to stir up, to shake, to jumble, to shuffle, to confound; to set at variance; to embroil, to confuse; to puzzle. — deux personnes l’une avec l’autre; to set two people at variance. Vous me brouillez; you put me out.

se *brouiller, v.r., to be out, to put one’s self out, to confound one’s self; to fall out with any one. Le temps se brouille; the weather is spoiling. Se — avec la justice; to fall foul of the law, to fall into the clutches of the law.

*brouiller, v.n., to blunder, to mar.

*brouillerie (broo-), n.f., misunderstanding, disagreement, coolness, variance.

*brouillon, n.m., rough draft, rough copy; waste-book.

*brouillon, n.m., -ne, n.f., blunderer, bungler, mar-all, mar-plot.

*brouillon, -ne, adj., mischief-making; blundering.

brouir, v.a., to blight, to blast, to nip, to parch.

brouissure, n.f., blight, scorching.

*broussailles, n.f.pl., bushes, brushwood, brambles.

brousse, n.f., brushwood, undergrowth.

broussin, n.m., excrescence from a tree.

brout, n.m., browse.

broutant, -e, adj., browsing.

broutement, n.m., browsing.

brouter, v.a.n., to browse, graze. L’herbe sera bien courte s’il ne trouve de quoi —; the grass must be very short, if he cannot get a bite.

broutilles, n.f.pl., sprigs, small-wood, chat-wood; (fig.) trinkets, nicknacks.

brouture, n.f., browsing.

broyer, v.a., to grind, to pound, to beat small, to bruise; to break (hemp). — l’encre; (print.) to bray the ink. — du noir; to be in a brown study.

broyeur, n.m., grinder, pounder, hemp or flax-breaker.

☉broyon, n.m., brayer (for printer’s ink).

bru, n.f., daughter-in-law.

bruant, n.m., (orni.) yellow-hammer.

brucelle, n.f., (bot.) brownwort; pl., tweezers.

*brugnon, n.m., nectarine.

bruine, n.f., small drizzling rain.

bruiner, v.imp., to drizzle.

bruire, v.n., to rustle, to rattle; (of the wind) to roar, to sough.

bruissement (-mān), n.m., rustling noise, rattling, roaring; whirring, (of the wind) soughing.

bruit, n.m., noise, bustle, din, racket, creaking, knocking, sound, clamor, buzz; quarrel, dispute; fame, name, reputation; report, talk; rumor. — d’une arme à feu; report of a firearm. Faire un — sourd; to rumble, to hum. Au — des cloches, or du canon; at the ringing of the bells, the roar of the guns. On le fit entrer sans —; he was let in noiselessly. Cet événement fait du —; that affair is making a great noise. Ils ont eu du — ensemble; they came to high words. Il s’est répandu un —; a rumor has spread. Un faux —; a false report. Il court un —; it is reported. Il n’est — que de; there’s no talk but of. Grand — petite besogne; great cry, little wool.

brûlable, adj., (l.u.) fit to be burnt.

brûlant, -e, adj., burning, scorching, hot, burning hot, torrid; eager, earnest, ardent.

brûlé, n.m., burning. Cela sent le —; that smells of burning.

brûlé, -e, part., burnt.

brûle-gueule, n.m., (—) short pipe.

brûlement (-mān), n.m., burning.

à brûle-pourpoint, adv., (of shooting) close to; point-blank; to one’s face, in one’s teeth; unreservedly. adj., irrefutable. Un argument —; an irrefutable argument.

brûler, v.a., to burn, to consume by fire, to cauterize; to parch, to scorch, to blast, to scar, to swelter. — de fond en comble; to burn to the ground. — la cervelle à quelqu’un; to blow any one’s brains out. Son style brûle le papier; his style is full of fire. — de l’encens devant quelqu’un; to flatter any one excessively. — une étape; to pass a halting-place without stopping. — le pavé; to dash along at full tilt. — ses vaisseaux; not to go back.

brûler, v.n., to burn, to be on fire; to be all in a flame. Les mains lui brûlent; his hands burn. Je brûle de vous revoir; I am impatient, longing to see you again. — d’un feu lent; to be consumed by degrees.

se brûler, v.r., to burn one’s self, to be burnt, to scorch. Venir se — à la chandelle; to burn one’s wings at the candle. — la cervelle; to blow one’s brains out. — les doigts; to burn one’s fingers.

brûlerie, n.f., (l.u.) burning; brandy-distillery.

brûle-tout, n.m., (—) save all.

brûleur, n.m., incendiary, firer; (fig.) blackguard.

brûloir, n.m., brûloire, n.f., burner, roaster.

brûlot, n.m., fire-ship; firebrand, incendiary.

brûlure, n.f., burn, scald, scalding.

brumaire, n.m., Brumaire, second month of the calendar of the first French republic, from Oct. 23rd to Nov. 21st.

brumal, -e, adj., (l.u.) brumal, winterly, wintry.

brume, n.f., fog, haze, mist.

brumeu-x, -se, adj., foggy, hazy, misty.

brun, -e, adj., brown, dark, dun, dusk; gloomy, sad. Il commence à faire —; it is beginning to be dusk.

brun, n.m., brown; dark person. — châtain; chestnut brown. — clair; light brown. — foncé; dun-colored.

brunâtre, adj., brownish.

brune, n.f., dusk (of the evening); dark woman, dark girl.

brunelle, n.f., (bot.) self-heal.

brunet, -te, adj., brownish.

brunette, n.f., dark woman, dark girl; ☉love ballad.

bruni, n.m., (tech.) burnish.

brunir, v.a., to brown, to make brown, to darken; to burnish.

se brunir, v.r., to turn dark or brown.

brunir, v.n., to turn brown.

brunissage, n.m., burnishing.

brunisseu-r, n.m., -se, n.f., one who burnishes, burnisher.

brunissoir, n.m., burnisher (tool).

brunissure, n.f., burnishing; browning.

brusque, adj., blunt, abrupt, rough, gruff, short-crusted, sudden, unexpected.

*brusquembille, n.f., game at cards.

brusquement, adv., bluntly, abruptly, roughly, hastily, gruffly.

brusquer, v.a., to offend; to treat roughly, bluntly, to be sharp with any one. Il brusque tout le monde; he is abrupt with everybody. — une chose; to do a thing in haste. — l’aventure; to decide at once. — la fortune; to tempt fortune.

brusquerie, n.m., bluntness; abruptness, roughness, gruffness; suddenness, hastiness.

brut (brut), -e, adj., rough, raw, crude, unpolished, unhewn, coarse, unfashioned; clownish, awkward; rude, ill-bred. Diamant —; rough diamond. Sucre —; brown sugar. Bête —e; (fam.) brute beast. Produit —; gross produce; gross returns. Vin —; unadulterated wine.

brut (brut), adv., (com.) gross.

brutal, -e, adj., brutal, brutish, surly, bearish, churlish, cynical.

brutal, n.m., brute.

brutalement (-tal-mān), adv., brutally, brutishly, rudely, churlishly.

brutaliser, v.a., to bully; to use one brutally.

brutalité, n.f., brutality, brutishness; outrageous language. Dire des —s à quelqu’un; to abuse any one in a brutal manner.

brute, n.f., brute, beast; brutal person.

bruyamment (bru-ia-mān), adv., noisily, loudly, clamorously.

bruyant, -e (bru-iān, -te), adj., noisy, blustering, clamorous, clattering, loud.

bruyère (bru-ièr), n.f., heath, sweet-heather. Coq de —; grouse.

bryon, n.m. V. brion.

bryone, n.f., (bot.) bryony.

buanderie (-drî), n.f., wash-house, laundry.

buandi-er, n.m., -ère, n.f., bleacher; washerman, washerwoman.

bubale, n.m., species of buffalo.

bube, n.f., pimple, blotch.

bubon, n.m., (med.) bubo.

bubonocèle, n.m., (med.) bubonocele.

bucarde, n.m., (conch.) heart-shell, cockle.

buccal, -e, adj., buccal.

buccin (buk-sin), n.m., (conch.) whelk; (mus.) bass-trombone.

buccinateur, n.m., (anat.) buccinator.

bucentaure, n.m., Bucentaur.

bucéphale, n.m., Bucephalus (Alexander’s horse).

bûche, n.f., billet, chump of wood, lump of coal, log; dull-pated fellow, blockhead.

bûcher, n.m., wood-house; funeral-pile, pyre, stake.

bûcher, v.a., (carp.) to rough-hew, to cut down; (fig.) to fag at, to work hard, to drudge.

bûcheron (bûsh-ron), n.m., woodcutter.

bûchette, n.f., stick of dry wood.

bucoliaste, n.m., bucolic, writer of bucolics.

bucolique, adj., bucolic. —s, n.f.pl., bucolics; (fam.) rattle-traps.

budget, n.m., budget. Le — de l’Etat; the state budget. Le — de la marine; the naval estimates. Le — de la guerre; the army estimates. Le — d’un ménage; household expenses.

budgétaire, adj., pertaining, relating, to the budget.

buée, n.f., ☉lye, washing in lye; steam, reek.

buffet, n.m., cupboard, sideboard; refreshment-room; service (of plate). — d’orgues; organ-case.

buffle, n.m., buffalo; buff-leather; buff.

buffleterie (-fle-trî), n.f., belts, straps, &c., (of a soldier).

buffletin, n.m., young buffalo.

bufonite, n.f., (foss.) bufonite.

bugle, n.f., (bot.) bugle.

buglosse, n.f., (bot.) bugloss.

bugrane, n.f., (bot.) rest-harrow.

buhotier, n.m., shrimp-net.

buie, n.f., pitcher, jug.

buire, n.m., vase, jug, beaker, flagon.

buis, n.m., box; box-tree, box-wood. — piquant; butcher’s broom.

buissaie, n.f., grove of box-trees.

buisson, n.m., bush, thicket. — ardent; (bot.) evergreen thorn. Trouver — creux; to find the birds flown.

buissonner, v.n., (bot.) to bush.

buissonneu-x, -se, adj., bushy, woody.

buissonni-er, -ère, adj. Only used in the expressions: Lapins buissonniers; thicket-rabbits. Faire l’école buissonnière; to play the truant.

bulbe, n.f., (bot.) bulb.

bulbe, n.m., (anat.) bulb.

bulbeu-x, -se, adj., bulbous.

bulbifère, adj., (bot.) bulbiferous.

bullaire (-lèr), n.m., collection of papal bulls.

bulle, n.f., bubble; (med.) bubble, blister; (metal.) bead. — d’eau; water-bubble. — d’air; air-bubble.

bulle, n.f., pope’s bull. La — d’or; the golden bull.

bulle, adj., whity-brown (of paper). Papier —; whity-brown paper.

bullé, -e, adj., authentic; by pope’s bull.

bulletin, n.m., paper, circular, voting paper; (milit.) bulletin; bulletin, official report. — de bagages; luggage-ticket.

bunium, n.m., earth-nut; pig-nut.

buphthalme, n.m., (bot.) ox-eye.

buplèvre, n.m., (bot.) hare’s-ear.

bupreste, n.m., (ent.) burn-cow; golden beetle.

buraliste, n.m., office-keeper, clerk; money-taker.

burat, n.m., drugget; bunting.

buratine, n.f., poplin.

bure, n.f., drugget; fustian, rough serge (of monk’s dress), baize; (min.) shaft, pit-hole.

bureau, n.m., bureau, writing-table, desk; office; board, bench (in a court of judicature); committee; court (personages). — de tabac; tobacconist’s shop. Chef de —; head clerk; chief of a department. Déposer sur le —; (parliament) to lay upon the table. Payer à — ouvert; (com.) to pay on demand. Prendre l’air du —; to see how matters stand; to call in at the office. Vent du —; aspect of affairs. — de placement; registry office for servants, etc.

☉bureau, n.m., drugget.

bureaucrate, n.m., bureaucrat, clerk in a public office; red-tapist.

bureaucratie, n.f., bureaucracy, red-tapeism.

burette, n.f., cruet; vase, flagon; (bicycle) oil-can.

burgau, n.m., burgaudine, n.f., burgau; burgau mother of pearl.

burgrave, n.m., Burgrave.

burgraviat, n.m., Burgraviate.

burin, n.m., graver, graving-tool; (fig.) pen.

buriner, v.a., to engrave.

burlesque, adj., burlesque, merry, comical, jocose, jocular, ludicrous. Vers —s; doggerel verses.

burlesque, n.m., burlesque.

burlesquement, adv., comically, ludicrously, in a jocose way.

burnous, n.m. V. bernous.

bursal, -e, adj., fiscal.

busard, n.m., (orni.) buzzard; (fig.) blockhead, dolt.

busc, n.m., busk (of stays); mitre (of locks).

buse, n.f., (orni.) buzzard; (fig.) blockhead. On ne sauvait faire d’une — un épervier; one cannot make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear.

busqué, part., busked; curved, arched.

busquer, v.a., to put a busk in; (of skirts) to shorten, to draw up.

se busquer, v.r., to wear a busk.

☉busquière, n.f., busk-case.

busserole, n.f., (bot.) whortle-berry.

buste, n.m., (sculpt.) bust; head and shoulders. Portrait en —; half-length portrait.

but, n.m., mark; object, end, aim, purpose, design, view; goal. Viser au —; to aim at the mark. Le — de ses désirs; the object of his desires. Se proposer un —; to have an object in view. Arriver le premier au —; to be the first to reach the goal. — à —; without any odds, evens. Jouer — à —; to play even. De — en blanc; bluntly, without any preamble; point-blank.

butant, adj. V. boutant.

bute, n.f., farrier’s knife.

butée, n.f., (arch.) abutment-pier. V. buttée.

buter, v.n., to hit the mark; to stumble; to aim at. Ce cheval bute à chaque pas; that horse stumbles at every step.

buter, v.a., (gard.) to earth up; (arch.) to prop up. — un mur; to prop a wall with a buttress. — un arbre; to heap up earth round the root of a tree. — du céleri; to earth up celery.

se buter, v.r., to be bent on; to stick to; to contradict, to oppose.

butin, n.m., booty, pillage, spoils, prize, plunder.

butiner, v.n., to spoil, to pillage, to plunder, to get booty, to pilfer; to collect, to gather.

butiner, v.a., (fig.) to pilfer.

butome, n.m., (bot.) flowering rush; water-gladiole.

butor, n.m., (orni.) bittern; churl, dull fellow.

butorde, n.f., coarse, pig-headed woman.

butte, n.f., rising ground, ridge, knoll, mound, bank. Être en — à; to be exposed to.

buttée, n.f. V. butée.

butter, v.a., (gard.) to earth up.

butter, v.n. V. buter.

buttoir, n.m., ridging-plow; buttress; (rail.) buffer-stop; catch-peg.

butyreu-x, -se, adj., butyrous; buttery.

buvable, adj., drinkable, fit to drink.

buvard, n.m., blotting-case, blotting-pad. Papier —; blotting paper.

buvetier (buv-tié), n.m., keeper of a tavern.

buvette, n.f., refreshment-room, tap-room, shades, public house.

buveu-r, n.m., -se, n.f., drinker; toper.

buvoter, v.n., to sip, to tipple.

bysse, n.m. V. byssus.

byssus, n.m., (bot., antiq.) byssus.

byzantin, -e, adj., Byzantine style.

C

c, n.m., the third letter of the alphabet, c.

c., (ab.) (com.) compte; account.

c’ (contraction of ce, and used only before the verb être), this, it.

ça, adv., here. — et là; here and there, up and down, to and fro.

ça, int., now. — voyons! now, let us see! Or — commencez! come, begin!

ça, pron., (for cela) that. Donnez-moi —; give me that. Comme —; like that; so. Comment vous portez-vous? comme ci comme —; how do you do? only so-so.

cabalant, -e, adj., caballing.

cabale, n.f., cabal; cabala.

cabaler, v.n., to cabal, to plot.

cabaleur, n.m., caballer, intriguer.

cabaliste, n.m., cabalist.

cabalistique, adj., cabalistic.

caban, n.m., cloak with a hood.

cabanage, n.m., camp, hutting.

cabane, n.f., cot, hut, shed, cabin, cottage; flat-bottomed boat on the Loire.

cabaner, v.a., (nav.) to capsize (a boat).

cabaner, v.n., (nav.) to capsize.

cabanon, n.m., cell (prison).

cabaret, n.m., wine-shop, tavern, pot-house; china tea- or coffee-service, liqueur-service, tray; (bot.) asarum. Pilier de —; tavern haunter, tippler. — borgne; pot-house.

cabareti-er, n.m., -ère, n.f., publican, tavern-keeper.

cabas, n.m., basket; cottage bonnet; wicker-work carriage, rumbling-carriage.

☉cabasset, n.m., helmet.

cabéliau, n.m., (ich.) keeling.

cabestan, n.m., capstan, capstern, hand-winch. Grand —; main capstan. — volant; crab. Envoyer un homme au —; to send a man to the capstan (to be punished).

*cabillaud, n.m., (ich.) cod (live cod).

cabine, n.f., (nav.) cabin.

cabinet, n.m., closet, study, cabinet; practice (of a professional man); summer-house; office (of an attorney, a barrister); cabinet, cabinet-council. — de lecture; reading-room. — de toilette; dressing-room. — de bains; bath-room. — d’aisance; water-closet. Affaires de —; chamber practice (of lawyers).

câble, n.m., cable. Filer du —; (nav.) to pay out, to veer more cable; (fig.) to spin out the time. — de remorque; tow-cable. Bitter le —; to bit the cable. Maître —; sheet-cable. — d’affourche; small bower-cable. — de touée; stream-cable.

câblé, n.m., thick cord.

câblé, -e, adj., (arch.) cabled, twisted.

câbleau or câblot, n.m., cablet, small cable; mooring-rope, painter.

câblée, n.f., cable’s length.

câbler, v.a., to twist threads into a cord; to make ropes or cables.

cabliau, n.m. V. cabillaud.

cablogramme, n.m., cablegram.

caboche, n.f., pate, noddle, nob; head-piece, hobnail. Grosse —; logger-head. Être bonne —; to have a good head-piece.

cabochon, n.m., polished but uncut precious stone; (tech.) fancy brass nail.

cabochon, adj., (of stones) polished only, but uncut.

cabosse, n.f., cacao pod.

cabot, n.m., (ich.) bull-head. V. chabot.

cabotage, n.m., coasting, coasting-trade. Vaisseau de —; coasting-vessel.

caboter, v.n., to coast.

caboteur, n.m., coaster.

cabotier, n.m., coasting-vessel.

cabotin, n.m., (b.s.) strolling player; low comedian.

cabre, n.f., gin; (nav.) sheers.

se cabrer, v.r., to prance, to rear, to rise up; to fly into a passion; to be refractory. Faire se — un cheval; to make a horse rear.

cabrer, v.a., to provoke any one, to make any one fly into a passion; to offend, to shock.

cabri, n.m., kid.

cabriole, n.f., caper; (man.) cabriole.

cabrioler, v.n., to caper, to cut capers.

cabriolet, n.m., cabriolet, cab, gig. — à pompe; curricle. Place de —; cab-stand.

cabrioleur, n.m., caperer.

cabus, adj., (of cabbages) headed.

caca, n.m., child’s excrement. Faire —; to do one’s excrement.

cacade, n.f., (l.u., l.ex.) mess, mistake, failure, mull.

cacao, n.m., cacao, chocolate-nut.

cacaotier or cacaoyer, n.m., cacao-tree.

cacaoyère, n.f., cacao-plantation.

cacatois, n.m., (nav.) royal, mast-top.

cacatois or kakatoès, n.m., (orni.) cockatoo.

caccaber, v.n., to cry (of partridges).

cachalot, n.m., cachalot; spermaceti-whale.

cache, n.f., hiding-place; (hunt.) stake-net.

caché, -e, part., hid, hidden. Ressorts —s; hidden, secret springs. N’avoir rien de — pour quelqu’un; to keep nothing secret from anyone, to have no secrets for. Jeu —; underhand game.

cache-cache, n.m., (n.p.) hide and seek.

cachectique (shèk-), adj., (med.) cachetic.

cache-entrée, n.m., (—, or —-—s) drop (of a key-hole).

cachement (kash-mān), n.m., (l.u.) concealing, hiding.

cachemire, n.m., cashmere.

cache-nez, n.m., muffler, comforter.

*cache-peigne, n.m., (—, or —-—s) head-ornament to conceal the comb.

cacher, v.a., to hide, to secrete, to conceal, to disguise, to lurk; to abscond. Cachez votre jeu; hide your cards. — son jeu; to hide, to mask, one’s play. — son nom, son âge; to conceal one’s name, one’s age. — sa vie; to lead a secluded life.

se cacher, v.r., to hide, to secrete one’s self; to lurk; to abscond.

cachet, n.m., seal (of private individuals); stamp; ticket. Lettre de —; lettre-de-cachet, (arbitrary warrant of imprisonment). — de chiffres, d’armes; seal with a cipher, with a coat of arms. — volant; flying seal. Courir le —; to give private lessons in town, to go about teaching. Son style a un — particulier; his style has a certain stamp, characteristic, character all its own.

cacheté, -e, part., sealed. Soumissions —es; sealed tenders.

cacheter (kash-té), v.a., to seal, to seal up. Cire à —; sealing-wax. Pain à —; wafer.

cachette, n.f., hiding-place. En —; secretly, by stealth.

cacheu-r, -se, n.m.f., sneak, sly-boots.

cachexie (-shè-ksi), n.f., (med.) cachexy.

cachot, n.m., dungeon; (milit.) black hole.

cachotte, n.f., tobacco-pipe without a heel.

cachotterie (-sho-trî), n.f., mysterious ways, secret practice (about trifles).

cachotti-er, n.m., -ère, n.f., mysterious, sly.

cachou, n.m., cachou.

cacique, n.m., cazique or cacique (Indian chief).

cacis. V. cassis.

cacochyme (-shim), adj., (med.) cachochymic.

cacochymie (-shi-), n.f., (med.) cacochymy.

cacoèthe, adj., (med.) (ulcers) malignant, incurable.

cacographie, n.f., cacography.

cacolet, n.m., mule-litter, pannier. En —; on panniered mules.

cacologie, n.f., cacology.

cacophonie, n.f., cacophony.

cacotrophie, n.f., (med.) cacotrophy.

cactier or cactus, n.m., (bot.) torch-thistle, cactus.

cadastral, -e, adj., referring to the register of lands; pertaining to real estate.

cadastre, n.m., register of the survey of lands.

cadastrer, v.a., to survey.

cadavéreu-x, -se, adj., cadaverous, wan, ghastly.

cadavérique, adj., (anat.) of a dead body.

cadavre, n.m., corpse, dead body. C’est un — ambulant; he is a walking ghost.

cadeau, n.m., present, gift. Faire — de; to make a present of.

cadédis (-diss), int., zounds, faith!

cadenas (-nâ), n.m., padlock; clasp, snap. — à secret; secret padlock. Enfermer sous —; to padlock.

cadenasser, v.a., to padlock; to clasp.

cadence, n.f., time (in dancing); (mus.) quivering, shake; (man., harmony) cadence. Aller en —; to keep time.

cadencé, -e, part., cadenced, numbered, harmonious.

cadencer, v.a., to cadence, to harmonize; (mus.) to time, to shake, to trill.

cadène, n.f., (l.u.) chain; chain-gang (of convicts).

cadenette (-nett), n.f., hair-cue, tress (of hair).

cadet, -te, adj., younger, junior (of two). Branche —te; younger branch.

cadet, n.m., (milit.) cadet; younger brother; younger son; junior (of two), (fam.) young fellow. C’est un jeune — de haut appétit; he is an extravagant young gentleman.

cadette, n.f., younger sister, younger daughter; paving stone; long billiard cue.

cadi, n.m., cadi (Turkish judge).

cadis, n.m., sort of woolen serge.

cadisé, n.m., kind of drugget.

cadmie, n.f., (chem., metal.) oxide of zinc.

cadmium, n.m., cadmium.

cadogan, n.m. V. catogan.

cadole, n.f., latch, little bolt.

cadran, n.m., dial-plate, dial.

cadrat, n.m., (print.) quadrat. — creux; quotation.

cadratin, n.m., (print.) M quadrat. Demi —; N quadrat.

cadrature, n.f., (horl.) movement; dial-work.

cadre, n.m., frame (for a picture); (nav. milit.); list of officers; framework; skeleton; limits. Être sur les —; (nav.) to be on the sick list.

cadrer, v.n., to agree, to square with, to tally; to suit, to fit in with.

cadrille, n.f., check, square.

cadriller, v.a., to rule (in squares), to checker.

cadu-c, -que, adj., decrepit; broken-down; decayed, crazy; lapsed, null, void (of legacies); (bot.) deciduous. Age —; decrepit old age. Devenir —; to decay. Legs —; lapsed legacy (barred by limitation). Le mal —; the falling sickness, epilepsy.

caducée, n.m., caduceus, Mercury’s wand; tipstaff.

caducité, n.f., caducity; decay, decline.

cæcum (sékom), n.m., (anat.) cæcum.

cafard, -e, adj., hypocritical, sanctimonious.

cafard, n.m., -e, n.f., canter, hypocrite; tell-tale; humbug, sneak.

cafard, n.m., (ent.) cockroach. V. blatte.

cafarderie, n.f., cant, hypocrisy, false devotion.

cafardise, n.f., (l.u.) piece of hypocrisy; cant.

café, n.m., coffee; coffee-house; coffee (berry). Tasse de —; cup of coffee. Rôtir, moudre, prendre, du —; to roast, to grind, to drink, coffee. — au lait; coffee with milk. — à la crème; coffee with cream. — chantant; music-hall.

caféier, n.m. V. cafier.

caféière, n.f., coffee-plantation.

cafetan, or caftan, n.m., caftan (Turkish garment).

cafetier, n.m., coffee-house keeper.

cafetière, n.f., coffee-pot.

cafier, or caféier, n.m., coffee-tree.

cafre, n.m.f., Caffre.

cage, n.f., cage; coop (for fowls); (tech.) frame; casing, housing. Mettre un homme en —; to put a man in prison, or under lock and key. La belle — ne nourrit pas l’oiseau; all is not gold that glitters.

cagée, n.f., cage-full.

*cagnard, -e, adj., lazy, skulking, slothful.

*cagnard, n.m., -e, n.f., lazy-bones, skulker. C’est un —; he is a skulker, loafer.

*cagnarder, v.n., to loaf.

*cagnardise, n.f., laziness, slothfulness, skulking.

*cagne, n.f., (l.u.) slut.

*cagneu-x, -se, adj., knock-kneed, splay-footed.

cagot, -e, adj., (fam.) bigoted, hypocritical.

cagot, n.m., -e, n.f., (fam.) bigot.

cagoterie, n.f., (fam.) affected devotion, hypocrisy, bigotry.

cagotisme, n.m., (fam.) bigotry, false devotion.

cagoule, n.f., a monk’s cloak.

cague, n.f., Dutch sloop.

cahier, n.m., paper-book; copy-book; quarter of a quire of paper; book (manuscript); sheet. — des charges; specifications. — des frais; bill of costs.

cahin-caha, adv., (fam.) so-so, lamely, poorly, slowly, reluctantly.

cahot, n.m., jerk; jolt of a coach.

cahotage, cahotement, n.m., jolting, jerking.

cahotant, -e, adj., rough, jolting.

cahoter, v.n., to jolt, to toss about.

cahoter, v.a., to jolt, to jog, to jerk.

cahute, n.f., hut, crib, hovel; (nav.) small cabin.

caïc or caïque, n.m., yawl, long-boat, levantine-boat.

caiche, n.f., (nav.) ketch.

caïd, n.m., (—s) Arab military chief or judge.

caïeu, n.m., (hort.) sucker, off-shoot.

*caille, n.f., (orni.) quail.

caillé, adj., curdled, clotted.

*caillé, n.m., curdled milk, curds.

*caillebot, n.m., guelder-rose.

*caillebotis, n.m., (nav.) grating of the hatches.

*caillebotté, -e, part., curdled.

*caillebotte, n.f., mass of curds.

*caillebotter, v.n., to curdle.

*caille-lait, n.m., (—) (bot.) cheese-rennet.

*caillement, n.m., curdling, coagulating.

*cailler, v.a., to curdle, to clot, to curd.

*se cailler, v.r., to coagulate, to turn to curds.

*cailletage, n.m., gossiping, idle talk, tittle-tattle.

*cailleteau, n.m., young quail.

cailleter, v.n., to gossip, to chatter.

*cailletot, n.m., young turbot.

*caillette, n.f., rennet; gossip; chatterer.

*caillot, n.m., clot of blood; coagulum.

*caillotis, n.m., kelp (ashes of seaweed).

*caillot-rosat, n.m., (—s-—s) a kind of pear.

*caillou, n.m., flint, flint-stone, pebble.

*cailloutage, n.m., stoning, graveling, ballasting; flint-ware, pebble-work.

*caillouter, v.a., to macadamize, to gravel, to ballast.

*caillouteu-x, -se, adj., pebbly, flinty.

*cailloutis, n.m., broken stones, gravel; broken flint.

caïmacan, n.m., caimacan (a Turkish officer).

caïman, n.m., American crocodile, caiman.

caimand. V. quémand.

caimander. V. quémander.

caimandeu-r, -se. V. quémandeur.

caïque, n.m. V. caïc.

caisse, n.f., case, box, chest, trunk; coffer, till; cash-room, counting-house; cylinder (of a drum); (anat.) drum (of the ear); body (of a coach); pay-office. — de médicaments; medicine chest. — militaire; military chest. La — du régiment; the regimental chest. Avoir tant d’argent en —; to have so much money in hand. Les —s de l’Etat; the coffers of the state. Livre de —; cash-book. Tenir la —; to keep the cash. — de secours mutuels; sick-fund. — des pensions; pension fund. Faire la —; to make up the cash account. — d’amortissement; sinking fund. — d’épargne; savings-bank. — d’escompte; discounting bank. Grosse —; big drum. Battre la —; to beat the drum. Bander la —; to brace the drum. Tenir la —; to act as cashier. (jest.) Sauver la —; to run off with the till.

caissier, n.m., treasurer, cashier.

caisson, n.m., (milit.), ammunition wagon, caisson, chest; (nav.) locker; (arch.) coffer; compartment ceiling; sunk-panel; (artil.) limber. Les —s des vivres; the provision wagons. — à poudre; powder-chest.

cajoler, v.a., to cajole, to coax, to wheedle.

cajolerie, n.f., cajolery, coaxing, wheedling.

cajoleu-r, n.m., -se, n.f., cajoler, coaxer, wheedler.

cal, n.m., callosity; (med.) callus.

calade, n.f., (man.) calade; descent, slope.

calage, n.m., wedging, lowering, sinking.

calaison, n.f., load water line; sea-gauge.

calambour, n.m., calambac (wood).

calamendrier, n.m., (bot.) common wall-germander.

calament, n.m., (min. bot.) calamint.

calaminaire, adj., (l.u.) belonging to calamine.

calamine, n.f., (min.) calamine.

calamite, n.f., (min.) calamite.

calamité, n.f., calamity, distress.

calamiteu-x, -se, adj., distressful, calamitous.

calandrage, n.m., calendering, hot-pressing, mangling.

calandre, n.f., (ent.) weevil; mangle, calender; (orni.) calandra.

calandrer, v.a., to calender, to press, to smooth, to mangle.

calandreur, n.m., mangler, calenderer.

calangue, n.f., (nav.) creek, cove.

calao, n.m., (orni.) horn-bill.

calatrava, n.m., a Spanish military order.

calcaire, adj., calcareous.

calcaire, n.m., limestone.

calcanéum (-om), n.m., (anat.) calcaneum, os calcis, heel-bone.

calcédoine, n.f., (min.) chalcedony.

calcédonieu-x, -se, adj., chalcedonic.

calcin, n.m., calcined glass.

calcinable, adj., calcinable.

calcination, n.f., calcination.

calciner, v.a., to calcine, to burn.

se calciner, v.r., to calcine.

calcis, n.m., (orni.) night-hawk.

calcite. V. chalcite.

calcium (-om), n.m., calcium.

calcographie, n.f., calcography.

calcul, n.m., calculation, ciphering, arithmetic, computation, reckoning, counting, estimate, forecast; design, selfish motive; (med.) calculus; stone in the bladder. — différentiel; differential calculus. — approximatif; rough calculation. Il apprend le —; he learns arithmetic. De — fait; everything included.

calculable, adj., computable, calculable.

calculant, -e, adj., calculating, reckoning; designing.

calculateur, adj., calculating.

calculateur, n.m., calculator, reckoner, accountant; schemer.

calculatoire, adj., calculatory.

calculer, v.a., to calculate, to compute, to reckon, to estimate; to forecast, to contrive, to devise; to determine.

calculeu-x, -se, adj., (med.) calculous.

calculeu-x, n.m., -se, n.f., person affected with calculus.

cale, n.f., (nav.) hold (of a ship); wedge, prop; ducking, keel-hauling (punishment); (tech.) block, quay. — de construction; stocks. — de magasin, d’un quai; slip. À fond de —; at the bottom of the hold. Eau de —; bilge water. Donner la — à un matelot; to give a sailor a ducking. — sèche; dry ducking. Être à fond de —; (fam.) to be hard up, to be at the end of one’s resources.

calebasse, n.f., (bot.) calabash; gourd; (fig. & fam.) pate, nob, noddle.

calebassier, n.m., calabash tree.

calèche, n.f., calash; barouche, open carriage.

caleçon, n.m., drawers, pair of drawers.

caleçonnier, n.m., one who makes drawers.

calédonien, -ne, n. and adj., Caledonian.

caléfacteur, n.m., cooking apparatus, kitchener, cooking-stove.

caléfaction, n.f., calefaction, heating.

calembour, n.m., pun.

calembouriste, n.m., a punster.

calembredaine, n.f., fib, fetch, quibble, subterfuge.

calencar, n.m., a kind of Indian chintz.

calence, n.f., want of work. En —; out of work.

calender (-dèr), n.m., kind of dervis.

calendes, n.f.pl., (antiq.) calends; convocation of the country clergy. Renvoyer aux — grecques; to put off till doomsday.

calendrier, n.m., calendar, almanac. Vieux —; the old calendar (old style). Nouveau —, — grégorien; the new, the Gregorian, calendar.

calenture, n.f., (med.) calenture.

calepied, n.m., toe-clip (bicycle).

calepin, n.m., note-book, memorandum-book.

caler, v.a., (nav.) to lower, to strike; to support, to wedge up. — les voiles; to strike sail. Cale tout! let go amain! — la voile; to yield, to sing small.

caler, v.n., to have more or less draught, to sink. Ce navire cale trop; that ship draws too much water. —; (at marbles) to knuckle down. —; (school) to keep away from.

calfait, n.m., (nav.) calking iron.

calfat, n.m., (nav.) calker.

calfatage, n.m., (nav.) calking.

calfater, v.a., (nav.) to calk.

calfatin, n.m., (nav.) calker’s boy.

calfeutrage, n.m., stopping of chinks.

calfeutrer, v.a., to stop up the chinks, to make air tight.

se calfeutrer, v.r., to be stopped up (of chinks); to be made air tight.

calibre, n.m., caliber, bore (of a gun); caliber, size (of a bullet); diameter of a body; kind, sort, stamp; caliber.

calibrer, v.a., to give the caliber to, to take the caliber of; to proportion.

calice, n.m., chalice, communion-cup; (bot.) calyx, flower-cup; grief, sacrifice. Boire le — jusqu’à la lie; to drink the cup to the dregs. Boire, avaler, le —; to swallow the pill.

calicinal, -e, adj., (bot.) calycinal, calycine.

calicot, n.m., calico; counter-jumper.

califat, n.m., califate, caliphate, kalifate.

calife, n.m., calif, caliph, kalif.

à califourchon, adv., astride, astraddle.

califourchon, n.m., hobby. C’est son —; it is his hobby.

câlin, n.m., -e, n.f., wheedler, cajoler. C’est une petite —e; she is a little wheedler.

câlin, -e, adj., wheedling, cajoling, caressing, coaxing, fondling. Cet homme a l’air —; that man has a wheedling look about him.

câliner, v.a., to fondle, to cajole, to wheedle.

se câliner, v.r., to coddle one’s self, to take one’s ease, to give one’s self up to indolence, to nurse one’s self.

câlinerie, n.f., wheedling, cajolery, fondling, caressing.

caliorne, n.f., (nav.) winding-tackle.

calleu-x, -se, adj., callous, hard, horny.

calligraphe, n.m., caligraphist, good penman.

calligraphie, n.f., caligraphy, calligraphy, penmanship.

calligraphique, adj., caligraphic.

callisthénie, n.f., calisthenics.

callosité (kal-lo-), n.f., callousness; callosity.

calmande, n.f., calamanco; woolen stuff; (ich.) whiff.

calmant, n.m., (med.) composing draught; anodyne, sedative.

calmant, -e, adj., anodyne, calming, soothing.

calmar, n.m., ☉pen-case; (ich.) calamary.

calme, adj., still, quiet, serene, calm; dispassionate, unruffled, composed, collected; (com.) dull.

calme, n.m., stillness, calmness, tranquillity, quiet, calm, composure. — plat; (nav.) dead calm.

se calmer, v.r., to become calm, to calm one’s self; to compose one’s self; to get appeased, to blow over, to subside, to abate.

calmer, v.a., to still, to quiet, to appease, to allay, to pacify, to calm, to soothe.

calmer, v.n., (nav.) to lull, to fall to a calm. Le vent calme; the wind is dropping.

calmie, n.f., (nav.) lull.

calomel or calomélas, n.m., calomel.

calomniat-eur, n.m., -rice, n.f., calumniator, slanderer.

calomnie, n.f., calumny, slander.

calomnier, v.a., to calumniate, to slander.

calomnieusement (-eûz-mān), adv., calumniously, slanderously.

calomnieu-x, -se, adj., calumnious, slanderous.

calonière, n.f., (pop.) pop-gun. V. canonnière.

calorifère, n.m., hot-air stove or pipe.

calorimètre, n.m., calorimeter.

calorifique, adj., calorific.

calorique, n.m., caloric, heat.

calotte, n.f., calotte, smoking-cap; skull-cap (of priests); (surg.) head-piece; (anat.) pan (of the brain); (arch.) calotte; box on the ears; cap of valve (mech.). La — rouge d’un cardinal; the red calotte of a cardinal. Donner des —s à; to box any one’s ears.

calotter, v.a., to box the ears of.

calottier, n.m., calotte-maker; cap-maker.

caloyer, n.m., caloyer (Greek monk).

calque, n.m., tracing, calquing; imitation, copy.

calquer, v.a., to counter-draw, to trace; to copy, to imitate closely. — à la pointe; to trace with a point. — à la vitre; to counter-draw on glass.

calquoir, n.m., tracing-point.

calumet, n.m., pipe, calumet.

calus (-luss), n.m., callus; callousness; callosity; (med.) callus.

calvaire, n.m., mount Calvary; a calvary.

calvanier, n.m., (agri.) day-laborer, stacker.

calville, n.m., calville (apple).

calvinien, -ne (-i-in, -i-è-n), adj., Calvinistic.

calvinisme, n.m., Calvinism.

calviniste, n.m., Calvinist.

calviniste, adj., Calvinistic.

calvitie (-sî), n.f., baldness. — des paupières; loss of the eye-lashes.

camaïeu, n.f., cameo; (paint.) camaieu; cameo brooch; monotonous play.

*camail, n.m., (—s) hood, capuchin, cardinal (garment); bishop’s purple ornament worn over the rochet.

camaldule, n.m., monk of the Order of St. Benedict.

camarade, n.m.f., comrade, fellow, mate, chum; female companion; playmate, play-fellow; fellow-laborer; fellow-servant. — de collège; college companion. — de classe; school-fellow. — de lit; bed-fellow. — de voyage; fellow-traveler. — de malheur; fellow-sufferer. — de chambre; chum.

camaraderie, n.f., companionship, intimacy, close friendship; coterie, clique; party spirit.

camard, -e, adj., flat-nosed, snub; flat.

camard, n.m., -e, n.f., flat-nosed person. La —e; (pop.) death.

*camarilla, n.f., camarilla (a coterie).

camarine, n.f., (bot.) crow-berry.

cambiste, n.m., cambist.

cambouis, n.m., coom, cart-grease.

cambre, n.f., cambering, curving, arching.

cambré, -e, part., bent, cambering, having a fall (in the back); arched, well-set. Pont de navire —; cambering deck.

cambrer, v.a., to bend, to curve, to arch. — la forme d’un soulier; to give the bend to a last, to block (boots).

se cambrer, v.r., to camber; to take a sweep; to warp; to draw one’s self up (by throwing the chest forward).

*cambrillon, n.m., stiffener (of a shoe).

cambrioleu-r, -se, n.m.f., house-thief; house-breaker; burglar.

cambriolage, n.m., house-entering, house-breaking; burglary.

cambrure, n.f., bend, flexure, incurvation, arch, curve.

cambuse, n.f., (nav.) store-room.

cambusier, n.m., (nav.) steward’s mate, store-keeper.

came, n.f., (conch.) chama; heart-cockle; (tech.) peg-cam; cog. V. chame.

camée, n.m., a cameo.

camélée, n.f., (bot.) widow-wail.

caméléon, n.m., chameleon.

caméléopard, n.m., camelopard.

camélia or camellia, n.m., (bot.) camelia.

cameline, n.f., (bot.) camelina, gold of pleasure.

camelot (-lô), n.m., (stuff) camlet; cheap Jack, peddler, hawker; (of newspapers) news-boy, paper-boy.

camelote (-lott), n.f., worthless merchandise, trash, stuff; bosh.

camelotine, n.f., a sort of camlet.

camérier, n.m., chamberlain (of the pope).

camériste, n.f., maid of honor; waiting-woman, lady’s maid; chambermaid.

camerlingat, n.m., camerlingate (at Rome).

camerlingue, n.m., camerlingo (papal officer).

camion, n.m., minikin-pin; little cart; truck; dray, wagon; (paint.) kettle.

camionnage, n.m., carting, carriage (in a dray).

camionneur, n.m., drayman.

☉camisade, n.f., (milit.) night attack, camisade.

camisard, n.m., Camisard (French Calvinist).

camisole, n.f., petticoat bodice. — de force; strait waistcoat or jacket.

*camomille, n.f., camomile.

camouflet, n.m., whiff of smoke (in the face); affront, snub; rap over the knuckles.

camp (kān), n.m., camp; (fig.) army, party. Lever le —; to break up the camp. Prendre le —; to pack off.

*campagnard, -e, adj., rustic, countrified, rural.

*campagnard, n.m., -e, n.f., countryman, peasant; clodhopper, clown. C’est une —e; she is a hoyden.

*campagne, n.f., country, fields, plain; seat, estate, country-house; field, campaign; (nav.) voyage, cruise. Gens de la —; peasantry. Comédiens de —; strolling players. En pleine or rase —; in the open country, plain. Battre la —; to scour the country; to wander about; to be delirious; to blunder, to bungle. Les armées sont en —; the armies have taken the field. Pièces de —; field pieces. Faire une —; to make a campaign. Ouvrir la —; to open the campaign. Tenir la —; to keep the field. Mettre ses amis en —; to set one’s friends to work. — de croisière; cruising voyage. Être à la —; to be in the country. Être en —; to be in the field; to be at work; to be out (not at home). La — de Rome; the campagna. Parties de —; picnics.

*campagnol, n.m., field-mouse.

campane, n.f., (arch.) bell; (sculp.) ornament with fringe and tassels.

campanelle or campanette, n.f., bell-flower, Canterbury-bell.

campanile, n.m., (arch.) campanile, bell-tower.

campanule, n.f., campanula, bell-flower. — gantelée; throat-wort. — raiponce; rampion bell-flower. — à feuilles rondes; hare-bell.

campanulé, -e, adj., campanulate, bell-shaped.

campé, -e, part., encamped; (fig.) well set up. Bien — sur ses jambes; firmly planted on his legs.

campêche, n.m., (bot.) campeachy wood, logwood, blood-wood.

campement (kānp-mān), n.m., (milit.) encampment, encamping; camp detachment. Matériel de —; camping apparatus. Effets de —; camping baggage.

camper, v.n., to encamp, to pitch tents. Faire — son armée; to encamp one’s army.

camper, v.a., to camp, to seat, to fix, to stand before, to clap down. — là quelqu’un; to leave any one in the lurch.

se camper, v.r., to stand before, to sit down, to clap one’s self down. Il se campa dans un fauteuil; he sat himself down in an arm-chair. — devant une glace; to stand bravely before a mirror.

☉camphorata, n.f. V. camphrée.

camphre, n.m., camphor.

camphré, -e, adj., camphorate, camphorated.

camphrée, n.f., camphorosma.

camphrier, n.m., (bot.) camphor-tree.

campine, n.m., fine fat pullet.

campos, n.m., play-day, holiday, relaxation. Les écoliers demandent —; the boys ask for a holiday. Prendre —; to take a holiday.

camus, -e, adj., flat-nosed; disappointed, baulked; dumbfounded. Un vilain —; an ugly flat-nosed fellow. La —e; (pop.) death, grim death.

*canaille, n.f., rabble, riff-raff, mob; scum; scoundrel; noisy children, brats. Hors d’ici, —! begone, you scoundrel! Vile —; miserable scum. Ces —s de domestiques; these rascally servants!

canaillerie, n.f., blackguardism.

canal, n.m., canal, pipe; conduit, duct; drain; tube; spout; watercourse (of water-mills); channel, bed, strait; (arch.) fluting, means. Creuser un —; to dig a canal. Ce pays est tout coupé de canaux; that country is quite intersected with canals. — latéral, — de dérivation; lateral drain. — de cheminée; chimney-flue. — d’irrigation; trench for irrigation. — thoracique; thoracic duct. — de larmier; (arch.) channel of a coping. Il est le — de toutes les grâces; all favors come through him. Faire —; to cross a strait.

canaliculé, -e, adj., (bot.) channeled, furrowed.

canalisation, n.f., canalization.

canaliser, v.a., to establish canals, to intersect with canals.

canamelle, n.f., (bot.) sugar-cane; reed.

canapé, n.m., sofa, couch.

canaque, adj., Kanaka, wild, savage.

canard, n.m., drake, duck; hoax; water-spaniel. — privé; tame duck. — ordinaire; mallard. Dire des —s à; to hoax. Cet homme est un — privé; that man is a sort of decoy-duck.

canard, -e, adj., for ducks. Bâtiment —; vessel that pitches. Chien —; water-spaniel.

canardeau, n.m., young duck.

canarder, v.a., to shoot from under a shelter; to hoax, to gammon.

canarder, v.n., (nav.) to pitch (of a ship); (mus.) to goose.

☉canardier, n.m., wild-duck shooter; hoaxer.

canardière, n.f., place for catching wild-ducks; loop-hole (to shoot through); duck-gun; decoy-pond.

canari, n.m., canary, canary-bird; flat.

cancan, n.m., tittle-tattle; scandal; tale-bearing; noise; indecent dance. Faire des —s; to tittle-tattle, to invent scandalous stories.

cancaner, v.n., to tattle, to invent scandalous stories; to dance the cancan.

cancani-er, n.m., -ère, n.f., lover of tittle-tattle.

cancer (-sèr), n.m., (med., astron.) cancer.

cancéreu-x, -se, adj., (med.) cancerous.

cancre, n.m., crab, cray-fish; miser; dunce (at school).

cancrelat, n.m., cockroach.

candélabre, n.m., candelabrum, sconce.

candeur, n.f., openness of heart, frankness, candor, ingenuousness.

candi, n.m., sugar-candy, candy.

candi, -e, adj., candied.

candidat, n.m., candidate.

candidature, n.f., candidature.

candide, adj., fair, open, frank, candid, ingenuous, sincere.

candidement (-mān), adv., openly, frankly, candidly.

se candir, v.r., to candy. Faire se —; to candy.

cane, n.f., female duck.

canéficier, n.m., cassia-tree. V. casse.

canepetière, n.f., (orni.) lesser bustard.

canepin (ka-n-pin), n.m., kid skin (for gloves).

caner, v.n., to shirk danger, to funk, to show the white feather.

caner, v.a., to leave undone, shirk.

canescent, -e, adj., (bot.) canescent.

caneter, v.n., to waddle.

caneton (ka-n-ton), n.m., young duck, duckling.

canette, n.f., small duck, young duck; (her.) duck without legs; a measure for beer; (pop.) marbles.

canevas (ka-n-vâ), n.m., canvas; sail-cloth; sketch, rough draught; (mus.) canvas. Tracer son —; to prepare one’s ground-work. Faire le — d’une comédie; to sketch out, to compose the skeleton of a play.

canezou, n.m., woman’s jacket.

☉cangrène, n.f. V. gangrène.

cangue, n.f., a kind of pillory used in China.

caniche, n.m.f., poodle-dog, water-spaniel.

caniculaire, adj., canicular. Les jours —s; the dog-days.

canicule, n.f., dog-days; (astron.) canicule, dog-star.

canif, n.m., penknife.

canin, -e, adj., canine. Dent —e; canine tooth. Lettre —e; the letter R.

caniveau, n.m., (arch.) channel-stone.

cannage, n.m., (l.u.) cane-work; caning.

cannaie, n.f., cane-brake, cane-field.

canne, n.f., walking-stick; long measure; cane, reed; glassblower’s pipe. — à sucre; sugar-cane. — à épée; sword-stick. — à vent; air-gun.

canneberge (-bèrj), n.f., cranberry, moorberry.

cannelas (-lâ), n.m., cinnamon, candied cinnamon.

canneler, v.a., to flute, to channel, to groove.

cannelle, n.f., cinnamon bark. — blanche; canella.

cannelle or cannette, n.f., spigot; tap, cock.

cannelier, n.m., cinnamon-tree.

cannelon (ka-n-lon), n.m., fluted mold (for ices).

cannelure, n.f., channeling, fluting, grooving. — à côtes; fluting with intervals. — avec rudentures; fluting enriched with cables. — à vive arête; fluting without intervals. —s plates; square fluting.

cannequin, n.m., sort of cotton stuff.

*cannetille, n.f., wire-ribbon.

cannibale (can-ni-bal), n.m., man-eater, cannibal.

cannibalisme, n.m., cannibalism; ferocity.

canon, n.m., cannon, gun; cylinder, tube, pipe; barrel (of a gun, of a quill); (ecc.) canon law, rule; catalogue of saints; (mus.) canon; (print.) canon; (man.) canon-bit; leg (of trousers). L’âme d’un —; the chamber of a cannon. La lumière, la culasse, le recul, d’un —; the touch-hole, the breech, the recoil, of a cannon. L’affût d’un —; a gun-carriage. Enclouer un —; to spike a gun. Une pièce de —; a piece of ordnance. Gros —; (print.) canon. Petit —; (print.) two-line English. — de dix livres; ten-pounder. Un coup de —; a cannon-shot. De la poudre à —; gunpowder. Être à portée de —; to be within cannon-shot. Être hors de portée de —; to be beyond cannon range. — de retraite; (milit.) gun-fire; (nav.) stern-chaser. — démarré; cannon drawn in to be loaded. — rayé; rifled gun. À — rayé; rifled, rifle-barreled. — renforcé; cannon whose breech is thicker than its bore. — d’un soufflet; nose, nozzle pipe of a pair of bellows. — de gouttière; spout of a gutter. Les —s d’un concile; the canons of a council. Ecole de droit —; school of canon law. — des Ecritures; the sacred canon. Le — de la messe; the canon of the mass. — enluminé; illuminated canon.

canonial, -e, adj., canonical.

canonicat, n.m., canonry, canonship, prebend; (fig.) sinecure.

canonicité, n.f., canonicity.

canonique, adj., canonical.

canoniquement (-mān), adv., canonically.

canonisation, n.f., canonization.

canoniser, v.a., to canonize.

canoniste, n.m., canonist.

canonnade, n.f., cannonading, cannonade.

canonnage, n.m., gunnery.

canonner, v.a., to attack with heavy artillery, to cannonade.

se canonner, v.r., to cannonade.

canonnier, n.m., gunner.

canonnière, n.f., adj., ☉loop-hole; tent; tilt; drain-hole; pop-gun. —, or chaloupe — (nav.); gun-boat.

canot, n.m., ship’s-boat, cutter, yawl. — de sauvetage; life-boat.

canotage, n.m., boating, aquatics.

canotier, n.m., rower, oarsman; boat-keeper; bargeman; straw hat.

cantabile (-lé), n.m., (mus.) cantabile.

cantal, n.m., cantal (sort of cheese).

cantalabre, n.m., door-case, casing.

cantaloup, n.m., musk-melon.

cantate, n.f., (mus.) cantata.

*cantatille, n.f., cantatilla.

cantatrice, n.f., eminent singer.

cantharide, n.f., (ent.) cantharis, Spanish fly; (pharm.) (pl.) cantharides.

canthus, n.m., (anat.) canthus, corner of the eye.

cantilène, n.f., (mus.) cantilena, melody.

cantine, n.f., bottle-case; (milit.) canteen.

cantini-er, n.m., -ère, n.f., sutler, canteen-woman.

cantique, n.m., song, canticle, hymn.

canton, n.m., canton, district; (her.) canton.

cantonade, n.f., (theat.) wings. Parler à la —; to speak to an actor off the stage; (fig.) to speak to empty benches.

cantonal, -e, adj., cantonal.

cantonné, -e, adj., (arch., her., milit.) cantoned.

cantonnement (-to-n-mān), n.m., (milit.), cantonment.

cantonner, v.a., (milit.) to canton.

se cantonner, v.r., to take up a position, quarters, abode; to fortify one’s self.

cantonner, v.n., (milit.) to be cantoned.

cantonnier, n.m., road-man; (rail.) plate-layer; signal-man.

cantonnière, n.f., signal-woman; valance.

canule, n.f., clyster-pipe, injection tube; faucet, quill; (fig.) bore, plague.

canzone, n.f., (mus.) canzone.

caolin, n.m. V. kaolin.

caoutchouc, n.m., caoutchouc, India-rubber; (bot.) gum-tree.

cap, n.m., cape, headland, point, promontory, foreland; (nav.) head. Doubler un —; to double a cape. Où est le —? (nav.) how is her head? Mettre le — sur; to steer for. Avoir le — au large; to stand off. De pied en —; from top to toe.

capable, adj., able, fit, capable; calculated to, apt to. Il est — de vous desservir; he is capable of doing you an ill office. Il est — de tout; he is capable of any thing. C’est un homme —; he is a clever man. Avoir l’air —; to put on a conceited, bumptious, knowing look. Faire le —; to affect capability, to look as if you were in the know. Prendre un air —; to assume a knowing look.

capablement, adv., (l.u.) ably, skillfully.

capacité, n.f., extent, size, capaciousness; ability, capacity; (nav.) bulk, burden, tonnage. Manquer de —; to lack capacity.

caparaçon, n.m., caparison, trappings.

caparaçonner, v.a., to caparison (a horse).

cape, n.f., cloak with a hood; riding-hood; cape; (nav.) try-sail. Rire sous —; to laugh in one’s sleeve. N’avoir que la — et l’épée; to be titled, but penniless. Roman de — et d’épée; romantic, melodramatic story. Être à la —; (nav.) to try, to be lying to. À la —! bring to!

capéer, v.n., (nav.) to lie to.

capelan, n.m., beggarly priest; (ich.) caplin.

capelet, n.m., (vet.) capped hock.

capeline, n.f., hood; (of armor) capeline.

capendu, n.m., capender (apple).

caperon. V. capron.

capharnaüm, n.f., (—s) (fig. fam.) place of confusion; Babel, bear-garden.