Chapter D (8)

_s’_=enrichir=, _v.r._, to enrich one’s self with, to grow rich, to thrive; to be stored. _S’— des dépouilles d’autrui_; to thrive on the spoils of others.

=enrichissement= (-shis-mān), _n.m._, enriching, embellishment, adornment.

=enrôlement= (ān-rôl-măn), _n.m._, enlisting, enlistment, enrollment.

=enrôler=, _v.a._, to enlist, to enroll.

_s’_=enrôler=, _v.r._, to enroll one’s self, to enlist.

=enroué=, =-e=, _adj._, hoarse, husky.

=enrouement= _or_ =enroûment= (ān-roo-mān), _n.m._, hoarseness, huskiness.

=enrouer=, _v.a._, to make hoarse.

_s’_=enrouer=, _v.r._, to become, to get, hoarse, husky.

*=enrouiller=, _v.a._, to rust, to make rusty. _L’humidité enrouille le fer_; damp rusts iron.

_s’_=enrouiller=, _v.r._, to grow, to get rusty.

=enroulement= (ān-rool-mān), _n.m._, rolling up; (arch.) scroll.

=enrouler=, _v.a._, to roll, to roll up, to twist, to coil.

_s’_=enrouler=, _v.r._, to roll one’s self up; to roll up; to twist round.

=enrubanner=, _v.a._, to deck out with ribbons.

_s’_=enrubanner=, _v.r._, to deck one’s self out with ribbons; to adorn one’s self too much.

=enrue=, _n.f._, large furrow.

=ensablement=, _n.m._, sand-bank; ballasting.

=ensabler=, _v.a._, to run aground, to strand; to cover with sand; to ballast.

_s’_=ensabler=, _v.r._, to run aground; to sink in sand; to be blocked up with sand.

=ensacher=, _v.a._, to bag.

=ensaisinement=, _n.m._, (feudal law) acknowledging a purchaser of land as a tenant.

=ensaisiner=, _v.a._, to put in possession of property; (feudal law) to acknowledge a purchaser of land as a tenant.

=ensanglanter=, _v.a._, to make bloody, to stain with blood.

=enseignable=, _adj._, teachable.

*=enseignant=, =-e=, _adj._, teaching. _Corps —_; university; body of teachers; staff.

*=enseigne=, _n.f._, mark, sign, sign-board; ensign (flag); ☉ensigncy; streamer (flag). _n.m._, ensign (officer), standard-bearer. _— de vaisseau_; sub-lieutenant. _À bonnes —s_; deservedly; on sure grounds. _Être logé à même —_; to be in the same predicament. _À telles —s que_; so much so that; as proof. _À bon vin point d’—_; good wine needs no bush.

*=enseignement= (ān-sègn-mān), _n.m._, precept, instruction, teaching, teaching profession; tuition; lesson. ☉_pl._, (jur.) proof. _Il est dans l’—_; he is a teacher, a master.

*=enseigner=, _v.a._, to teach, to teach how to, to instruct; to show, to inform, to direct to. _Enseignez-nous le chemin_; show us the way. _Enseignez-nous la maison_; direct us to the house.

=ensellé=, =-e=, _adj._, saddle-backed.

=ensemble=, _adv._, together, conjointly, at the same time. _Mêler —_; to mix together. _Ils ne sont pas bien —_; they are not friends.

=ensemble=, _n.m._, whole, general effect; mass; uniformity; harmony. _Tout cela forme un assez bel —_; all that forms a respectable whole. _Morceau d’—_; a concerted piece of music; part music. _Le tout —_; the whole, the general effect. _Mouvement d’—_; combined movement.

=ensemencement= (āns-māns-mān), _n.m._, (agri.) sowing.

=ensemencer=, _v.a._, to sow. _S’—_; to be sowed.

=enserrer=, _v.a._, ☉to contain, to inclose; to lock up; to encompass, to hem in; (gard.) to put into a greenhouse.

=ensevelir= (ān-sĕ-vlir), _v.a._, to shroud, to put in a shroud; to bury; to swallow up, to entomb, to ingulf; to engross; to absorb. _— les morts_; to bury the dead. _Être enseveli dans le chagrin_; to be absorbed in grief.

_s’_=ensevelir=, _v.r._, to be buried; to bury one’s self.

=ensevelissement= (ān-sĕ-vlis-mān), _n.m._, putting in a shroud; burying, burial.

=ensevelisseu-r=, _n.m._, =-se=, _n.f._, layer-out.

=ensiforme=, _adj._, ensiform, sword-shaped.

=ensoleillé=, =-e=, _adj._, sunny, bathed in sunshine.

=ensorceler=, _v.a._, to bewitch. _Cette femme l’a ensorcelé_; that woman has bewitched him.

=ensorceleu-r=, _n.m._, =-se=, _n.f._, bewitcher. _adj._, bewitching.

=ensorcellement= (-sèl-mān), _n.m._, bewitchment.

=ensoufrer=, _v.a._, to dip in brimstone.

=ensuite=, _adv._, after, afterwards, then; in the next place; what then? what next? what of that! well! _Vous irez là —_; you will go there afterwards. _— il me dit_; then he told me. _Et —?_ what then?

=ensuite=, _prep._, after (old). _— de cela_; after that. _— de quoi_; after which.

☉=ensuivant=, _adj._, following. _V._ =suivant=.

_s’_=ensuivre=, _v.r._, to follow, to result, to ensue, to spring, to proceed. _Il s’ensuit que vous avez tort_; it follows that you are in the wrong. _Il ne s’ensuit pas que j’aie tort_; it does not follow that I am wrong. _De grands malheurs s’ensuivirent_; great misfortunes resulted from it. [This verb is only used in the third person, singular and plural.]

=entablement=, _n.m._, (arch.) entablature; entablement; tablet.

_s’_=entabler=, _v.r._, (man.) to entable.

=entacher=, _v.a._, to taint, to infect; to sully, to tarnish.

*=entaille=, _n.f._, notch, gash; (carp.) mortise; groove.

*=entailler=, _v.a._, to notch; to cut away.

*=entaillure=, _n.f._, notch.

=entame=, _n.f._, first cut, first _or_ outside slice (of a loaf).

=entamer=, _v.a._, to make an incision, to cut, to make the first cut; to broach, to begin; to break into; (milit.) to break through; (b.s.) to encroach, upon; (b.s.) to impair; to injure; to prevail upon. _— la peau_; to cut the skin. _— un pain_; to begin a loaf. _— d’un coup de dent_; to bite into. _— une matière_, _un sujet_; to begin, to broach a subject. _— la réputation de quelqu’un_; to injure any one’s reputation.

=entamure=, _n.f._, cut; first cut; incision; grazing; opening, beginning.

=entassement= (ān-tas-mān), _n.m._, heap, accumulation, pile; crowding.

=entasser=, _v.a._, to heap, to heap up, to pile up; to hoard, to hoard up; to accumulate; to cram; to huddle, to pack together. _— des écus_; to hoard up money. _Personne entassée_; thick-set person.

=entasseur=, _n.m._, hoarder, heaper.

=ente=, _n.f._, graft, block, tree bearing a graft; (paint.) handle (of a brush).

=entement=, _n.m._, grafting; joining.

=entendement= (ān-tand-mān), _n.m._, understanding; judgment, head, sense.

=entendeur=, _n.m._, hearer, understander. _A bon — demi-mot suffit_ or _a bon — salut_; a word to the wise is sufficient.

=entendre=, _v.a._, to hear; to understand; to know; to expect, to require, to intend; to mean, to think proper. _À vous —_; according to you. _J’ai entendu dire_; I heard some people say. _Il n’est pire sourd que celui qui ne veut pas —_; none so deaf as those who won’t hear. _— les témoins_; to hear the witnesses. _Il entend un peu l’anglais_; he understands English a little. _— mal_; to misunderstand. _Entendons-nous_; let us come to a right understanding. _— à demi-mot_; to take the hint. _Donner à —_; to intimate, to hint. _Ne pas — malice_; to mean no harm. _Il a fait allusion à votre disgrâce, mais sans y — malice_; he alluded to your mishap, but he did not mean any harm. _— raison_; to listen to reason. _— raillerie_; to take a joke. _Il n’entend pas raillerie_; he cannot take a joke. _Il n’entend pas la raillerie_; he is no hand at jokes. _— la messe_, _— les vêpres_; to attend mass, vespers. _Il entend bien son métier_; he knows his trade very well. _Cet homme n’entend rien aux affaires_; that man knows nothing about business. _Qu’entendez-vous par là?_ what do you mean by that? _Chacun fait comme il l’entend_; everybody does as he thinks proper.

_s’_=entendre=, _v.r._, to hear one another; to understand one another; to be heard; to be understood; to act in concert with, to have a secret understanding with; to come to an arrangement with; to come to terms with; to agree with, to be on good terms with; to be skillful in; to be a judge of. _Le bruit est si grand qu’on ne s’entend pas_; there is so much noise that we cannot hear one another speak. _Le canon de Waterloo s’entendait à dix lieues du champ de bataille_; the cannon of Waterloo were heard at a distance of ten leagues from the field of battle. _On l’accuse de s’— avec l’ennemi_; he is accused of acting in concert with the enemy. _S’— à une chose_; to be skillful in a thing. _Il ne s’entend pas mal à cela_; he is pretty well up in that. _S’— en une chose_; to understand how to do a thing. _Il s’entend en musique_; he understands music. _Je m’entends bien_; I know very well what I mean. _Ils s’entendent pour me nuire_; they have laid their heads together to injure me. _Ils s’entendent comme larrons en foire_; they are as thick as thieves. _Cela s’entend_ or _cela s’entend bien_; let it be understood; of course, as a matter of course, to be sure.

=entendre=, _v.n._, to hear, to hear of; to approve of, to consent to; to listen to. _— dur_; _— de corne_; to be hard of hearing; to misunderstand. _— clair_; to be quick of hearing. _Ne savoir auquel —_; not to know whom to listen to, which to attend to first. _Il n’entend pas de cette oreille-là_; he is deaf on that side, _or_ he does not see it in that light. _J’entends que vous restiez avec moi_; I expect you to remain with me.

=entendu=, =-e=, _adj._, heard; understood; agreed; arranged; managed; intelligent, skillful. _Un homme bien — aux affaires_; a man well up in business matters. _Faire l’—_; to put on a knowing look. _—!_ all right, agreed. _C’est —_; that’s a bargain, that’s settled.

=enténébrer=, _v.a._, to involve in darkness; to wrap in darkness, in night.

=entente=, _n.f._, meaning; skill, judgment, understanding, agreement; harmony. _Mots à double —_; ambiguous words, with a double meaning. _L’— est au diseur_; everybody understands his own meaning best. _L’— du coloris_; skill in coloring.

=enter=, _v.a._, to graft, to ingraft. _— de nouveau_; to regraft. _— en écusson_; to bud, to ineye.

=entérinement= (-ri-n-mān), _n.m._, judicial ratification, confirmation.

=entériner=, _v.a._, to ratify, to confirm.

=entérique=, _adj._, (med.) enteric.

=entérite=, _n.f._, (med.) enteritis.

=enterrement= (ān-tèr-mān), _n.m._, burial, funeral, interment. _Billet d’—_; invitation to a funeral. _Être prié à un —_; to be invited to a funeral.

=enterrer=, _v.a._, to bury, to inter, to inhume; to survive, to eclipse, to surpass; to end, to terminate; to sink (of money). _— son secret_; to bury one’s secret. _Molière a enterré tous ses devanciers_; Molière threw all his predecessors into the shade. _— la synagogue avec honneur_; to terminate an affair with honor.

_s’_=enterrer=, _v.r._, to bury one’s self; to see no company; to go with his head to the ground (of a horse).

=enterreur=, _n.m._, burier; (_zoöl._) sexton-beetle.

=en-tête=, _n.m._, (_—-—s_) heading; head; headline. _— de facture_; bill-head.

=entêté=, =-e=, _n.m.f._ and _adj._, stubborn person; obstinate, wayward, self-willed, stubborn; infatuated. _— comme un âne_; as stubborn as a mule. _Il est — de cette femme_; he is infatuated with that woman.

=entêtement= (ān-tê-tmān), _n.m._, stubbornness, waywardness; obstinacy; infatuation. _Son — le perdra_; his stubbornness will be his ruin.

=entêter=, _v.a._, to affect the head, to make giddy, to intoxicate; to prepossess, to infatuate, to render vain; to head (pins). _Vin qui entête_; heady wine. _Les louanges nous entêtent_; praises are apt to make us conceited.

_s’_=entêter=, _v.r._, to become stubborn, wayward, obstinate; to be infatuated with, to take a strong fancy to, to be bent upon; to do a thing at any price.

=entêteu-r=, _n.m._, =-se=, _n.f._, header (of pins).

=enthousiasme=, _n.m._, enthusiasm, rapture, ecstasy.

=enthousiasmer=, _v.a._, to enrapture, to render enthusiastic. _Il est enthousiasmé de cette musique_; he is in raptures with that music.

_s’_=enthousiasmer=, _v.r._, to become enthusiastic; to be in raptures.

=enthousiaste=, _n.m.f._, enthusiast.

=enthousiaste=, _adj._, enthusiastic.

=enthymème=, _n.m._, (log.) enthymeme.

=entiché=, =-e=, _part._, (l.u.) infected (fruit); tainted, marred; infatuated with, wedded to; overfond of, overpartial to. _Fruit —_; spoiled fruit.

=enticher=, _v.a._, to taint, to infect; to infatuate. _Vous l’avez entiché de ce système_; you have infatuated him with that system.

_s’_=enticher=, _v.r._, to become infected; infatuated with; wedded to. _Il s’est entiché de cette femme_; that woman has bewitched him.

=enti-er=, =-ère= (-tié, -tiè-r), _adj._, entire, whole, complete, total; obstinate, positive, self-willed; (arith.) integral. _Une —e soumission_; complete submission. _Cheval —_; stone-horse, stallion, entire horse. _Pain —_; whole loaf. _Nombre —_; (arith.) integer. _Il est très —_; he is very self-willed _or_ obstinate.

=entier= (-tié), _n.m._, entireness; (arith.) integral. _En son —_; at full length; in full, bodily, wholly.

=entièrement= (ān-tièr-mān), _adv._, entirely, wholly. _— ruiné_; utterly ruined.

=entité=, _n.f._, (philos.) entity.

=entoilage=, _n.m._, lining; pasting _or_ mounting on canvas.

=entoiler=, _v.a._, to line; to mount upon canvas.

=entoir=, _n.m._, (hort.) grafting-knife.

=entomologie=, _n.f._, entomology.

=entomologique=, _adj._, entomological.

=entomologiste=, _n.m._, entomologist.

=entonnement= (ān-to-n-mān), _n.m._, tunning, barreling, casking.

_s’_=entonner=, _v.r._, (of the wind) to rush into, to blow down. _Le vent s’entonne dans la cheminée_; the wind blows down the chimney.

=entonner=, _v.a._, to tun, to barrel, to put into casks; (mus.) to begin to sing; to intonate, to strike up; to celebrate, to quaff. _Il entonne bien_; (pop.) he drinks hard. _— une chanson à boire_; to strike up a drinking song.

=entonnerie=, _n.f._, place where beer is barreled.

=entonnoir=, _n.m._, funnel; (anat.) funnel. _Fleurs en —_; funnel-shaped flowers; (fig. and pop.) tippler, hard-drinker, toper.

=entorse=, _n.f._, sprain; strain, twist, shock. _Il s’est donné une — au pied_; he has sprained his foot.

*=entortillage=, _n.m._, entanglement, intricacy, obscurity; subterfuge; circumlocution, equivocation; involved _or_ obscure discourse.

*=entortillé=, =-e=, _part._, twined, wound about; twisted; (of style) involved, obscure.

*=entortillement=, _n.m._, winding, twining, twisting, entanglement; intricacy, obscurity. _L’— d’un serpent_; the twisting of a serpent.

*=entortiller=, _v.a._, to wrap, to roll round, to wind, to coil; to twist, to distort; to get round, to get the better of. _Laissez-moi tranquille, vous m’entortillez_; (pop.) leave me alone, you bother me.

_s’_=entortiller=, _v.r._, to twist round, to wind round; to twine.

=entour=, _n.m._, [always employed in the plural, save in the adverbial expression: _À l’—_; around]. _—s_; environs, adjacent parts; persons around one. _Prendre les —s_; to gain over to one’s interest the persons around any one.

=entourage=, _n.m._, frame; setting, mounting, (of jewelry); confidants, advisers, friends, servants, relations, circle, attendants.

=entourer=, _v.a._, to inclose, to surround, to encompass; to hem round. _— une ville de murailles_; to encompass a town with walls. _Entouré de terre_; land-locked. _— quelqu’un de soins_; to lavish attentions upon any one.

=entournure=, _n.f._, arm-hole; sloping (of sleeves).

=en-tout-cas=, _n.m._, (_—_) sun-shade.

_s’_=entr’accorder=, _v.r._, to agree together.

_s’_=entr’accuser=, _v.r._, to accuse one another.

=entr’acte=, _n.m._, (_—-—s_) (thea.) interval (between the acts); interlude, intermede. _Dans l’—_; between the acts. _Faire de longs —s_; to have long intervals, waits.

_s’_=entr’admirer=, _v.r._, to admire one another.

_s’_=entr’aider=, _v.r._, to help, to aid, one another.

*=entrailles=, _n.f.pl._, entrails, bowels, intestines, inward parts; feelings, tenderness, heart; pity. _Elle a pour moi des — de mère_; she has a motherly affection for me. _Cet acteur a des —s_; this actor has feeling.

_s’_=entr’aimer=, _v.r._, to love one another.

=entrain=, _n.m._, warmth; heartiness; spirit, spirits; animation; life; go.

=entraînant=, =-e=, _adj._, that carries away, captivating, inspiriting, seductive. _Un style —_; a captivating style. _Eloquence —e_; winning eloquence.

=entraînement= (ān-trè-n-mān), _n.m._, impulse, sway, prevalence; rapture, enthusiasm; temptation, allurement; training (of horses for races).

=entraîner=, _v.a._, to carry away, to sweep off; to hurry away, to hurry along; to draw, to drag after, to bring, to win, to gain, over; to drag away, along; to entail, to involve; to train (race-horses). _— les cœurs_; to win all hearts. _— quelqu’un dans l’erreur_; to lead any one into error. _La guerre entraîne après elle bien des maux_; war drags after it many evils.

=entraîneur=, _n.m._, horse-trainer.

=entrait=, _n.m._, (carp.) tie-beam.

=entrant=, =-e=, _adj._, ingoing, incoming, insinuating; entering office. _Les conseillers —s_; the newly appointed councilors.

=entrant=, _n._, person coming in. _Les —s et les sortants_; the outgoers and incomers.

_s’_=entr’appeler=, _v.r._, to call one another.

=entrave=, _n.f._, clog, hindrance, obstacle, impediment, shackle, fetter. _pl._, horse-lock; trammels, fetters.

=entraver=, _v.a._, to shackle, to clog; to fetter, to trammel; to hinder, to impede, to thwart. _— un cheval_; to shackle a horse.

=entravon=, _n.m._, cutting-boot (on a horse’s fetlock).

_s’_=entr’avertir=, _v.r._, to give one another notice, to warn one another.

=entre=, _prep._, between, betwixt; among, amongst, with; in, of, into. _— le ciel et la terre_; between heaven and earth. _Regarder quelqu’un — les deux yeux_; to stare at any one. _Être — deux vins_; to be half seas over. _— chien et loup_; between lights, at dusk. _Ils résolurent — eux_; they resolved among themselves. _— autres_; among others. _Je le mettrai — vos mains_; I will deliver it into your hands. _Cela soit dit — nous_; that is between ourselves.

=entre-bâillé=, =-e=, _adj._, ajar, half open.

*=entre-bâillement=, _n.m._, part-opening.

*=entre-bâiller=, _v.a._, to half open.

_s’_=entre-baiser=, _v.r._, to kiss one another.

_s’_=entre-battre=, _v.r._, to beat one another, to fight together.

_s’_=entre-blesser=, _v.r._, to wound one another.

=entrechat=, _n.m._, (dancing) caper, entrechat.

_s’_=entre-chercher=, _v.r._, to seek one another, to look for one another.

=entrechoquement=, _n.m._, clash; clashing; conflict.

_s’_=entre-choquer=, _v.r._, to knock, to clash, to beat, to dash, against one another; to interfere, to thwart each other.

_s’_=entre-clore=, _v.r._, to half-close.

=entre-colonne=, _n.f._, (_—-—s_) _or_ =entre-colonnement=, _n.m._, (_—-—s_) (arch.) intercolumniation.

_s’_=entre-connaître=, _v.r._, to know each other.

=entrecôte=, _n.m._, (cook.) piece off the ribs.

_s’_=entrecouder=, _v.r._, to elbow one another.

=entre-coupe=, _n.f._, (_—-—s_), (arch.) turning-space.

=entrecoupement=, _n.m._, intersection; cutting; crossing; faltering.

=entrecoupé=, =-e=, _part._, broken (of words).

=entrecouper=, _v.a._, to traverse, to cross, to intersect; to stop, to interrupt, to break off.

_s’_=entrecouper=, _v.r._, to cut _or_ cross one another; to interrupt one another; to intersect; (vet.) to hit _or_ chafe one leg against the other.

=entrecroisement=, _n.m._, intersection, crossing.

_s’_=entre-croiser=, _v.r._, to cross one another, to intersect.

_s’_=entre-déchirer=, _v.r._, to tear one another to pieces.

_s’_=entre-défaire=, _v.r._, to defeat one another.

_s’_=entre-détruire=, _v.r._, to destroy one another.

=entre-deux=, _n.m._, (_—_) intermediate space; partition; cut; (cook.) middle pier-piece (of a cod); insertion (lace); (nav.) trough of the sea.

=entre-deux=, _adv._, (l.u.) betwixt and between.

_s’_=entre-dévorer=, _v.r._, to devour one another; to ruin one another.

_s’_=entre-dire=, _v.r._, to tell one another. _S’— des injures_; to call one another names.

_s’_=entre-donner=, _v.r._, to give one another.

=entrée=, _n.f._, entry, entrance; mouth; entering, coming in; reception; beginning; introduction, inlet; (cook.) first-course, side-dish; admission-money, entrance-money; custom-duty; entrée (dancing). _L’— d’un port_; the mouth of a harbor. _— et sortie d’un acteur_; entrance and exit of an actor. _Avoir ses —s_; to have free admission _or_ access to, to be on the free-list of a theatre. _Droit d’—_; custom-duty. _Payer l’—_; to pay a town-due; (custom-house) to pay duty. _Tuyau d’—_; (tech.) inlet-pipe. ☉_D’—_; at first, at the first.

_s’_=entre-fâcher=, _v.r._, to anger one another.

=entrefaites=, _n.f.pl._, interval, meantime. _Dans ces —_, _Sur ces —_; meanwhile.

=entre-filet=, _n.m._, a short paragraph, note.

_s’_=entre-fouetter=, _v.r._, to whip _or_ lash one another.

_s’_=entre-frapper=, _v.r._, to strike one another.

=entregent=, _n.m._, (fam.) shrewdness, address, tact. _Cet homme fera son chemin, il a de l’—_; that man will get on, he possesses tact.

_s’_=entr’égorger=, _v.r._, to cut each other’s throat; to kill one another.

_s’_=entre-haïr=, _v.r._, to hate each other.

_s’_=entre-heurter=, _v.r._, to knock _or_ beat one against the other.

=entre-jambes=, _n.m._, fork; knee-hole.

=entrelacement= (-las-mān), _n.m._, interweaving, wreathing, blending, intertwining.

=entrelacer=, _v.a._, to interlace, to intertwine, to interweave, to wreathe, to weave, to braid; to plash; to wattle. _Des branches entrelacées_; interwoven branches.

_s’_=entrelacer=, _v.r._, to entwine, to twist, to wreathe.

=entrelacs= (-lâ), _n.m._, ciphers; flourishes; interlaced ornaments; (arch., paint.) twine.

=entrelardé=, =-e=, _part._, interlarded, streaky.

=entrelarder=, _v.a._, to interlard; to insert between.

=entre-large=, _adj._, (com.) of middle width.

*=entre-ligne=, _n.m._, (_—-—s_) space between lines, interlineation; (print.) space-line, lead.

_s’_=entre-louer=, _v.r._, to praise one another, to laud one another.

=entre-luire=, _v.n._, to glimmer.

_s’_=entremanger=, _v.r._, to eat one another.

=entremêlement=, _n.m._, intermixing; intermixture.

=entremêler=, _v.a._, to intermingle, to intermix.

_s’_=entremêler=, _v.r._, to intermingle, to intermix; to meddle. _Des nuances qui s’entremêlent_; shades (of color) which are blended together.

_s’_=entre-mesurer=, _v.r._, to measure each other.

=entremets= (-mè), _n.m._, (cook.) side-dish, entremets.

=entremetteu-r=, _n.m._, =-se=, _n.f._, go-between, manager, mediator; procurer; procuress.

_s’_=entremettre=, _v.r._, to interpose, to interfere, to intermeddle, to meddle.

=entremise=, _n.f._, interposition, mediation, intervention, interference; medium, agency; (nav.) carling. _Par l’— de la presse_; through the medium of the press. _Par son —_; thanks to him.

_s’_=entre-mordre=, _v.r._, to bite one another.

_s’_=entr’empêcher=, _v.r._, to hinder, to thwart, one another.

=entre-nœud=, _n.m._, (_—-—s_) (bot.) internode.

=entrenouer=, _v.a._, to interknot.

_s’_=entre-nuire=, _v.r._, to hurt one another, to injure each other.

_s’_=entre-pardonner=, _v.r._, to pardon one another.

_s’_=entre-parler=, _v.r._, to speak to one another, to talk together.

=entrepas=, _n.m._, (man.) amble, ambling pace.

_s’_=entre-percer=, _v.r._, to run each other through, to pierce each other.

*_s’_=entre-piller=, _v.r._, to plunder one another.

*=entre-pointillé=, =-e=, _adj._, (engr.) composed of line and dotted engraving.

=entrepont=, _n.m._, (nav.) between decks, orlop deck. _Dans les —_; between decks.

=entreposage=, _n.m._, bonding, warehousing.

=entreposer=, _v.a._, to bond, to put in bond; to store, to warehouse.

=entreposeur=, _n.m._, bonded-warehouse-keeper; warehouse-keeper.

=entrepositaire=, _n.m._, bonder.

=entrepôt=, _n.m._, mart, free port, emporium; bond; bonded warehouse; store. _— fictif_; town warehouse. _— réel_; king’s warehouse, queen’s warehouse, bonded warehouse. _Mutation d’—_; removal to another warehouse; removal of bonded goods. _Port à l’—_; bonded port; warehousing port. _En —_; in bond. _Faire une mutation d’—_; to remove goods to another warehouse. _Mettre en —_; to bond. _Réintégrer dans l’—_; to rewarehouse.

_s’_=entre-pousser=, _v.r._, to push each other.

=entreprenable=, _adj._, undertakable.

=entreprenant=, =-e=, _adj._, enterprising, adventurous, venturesome; daring, bold, pushing, encroaching.

=entreprendre=, _v.a._, to undertake, to attempt, to take in hand, to take upon one’s self; to contract for, to contract to; to adventure, to offer, to venture; to trouble. _— quelqu’un_; to set on any one, to fall foul of any one, to banter _or_ jeer any one.

=entreprendre=, _v.n._, to encroach on, to infringe upon; to undertake.

=entrepreneur=, _n.m._, master-builder; contractor. _— de diligences_; coach proprietor. _— de maçonnerie_; master-mason. _— de pompes funèbres_; undertaker.

=entrepreneuse=, _n.f._, maker.

=entrepris=, =-e=, _adj._, crippled, impotent; disconcerted. _Il est — d’un bras_; he has lost the use of an arm.

=entreprise=, _n.f._, enterprise, undertaking, attempt, venture; usurpation, violence; contract; (com.) concern, establishment, company. _À —_; by contract. _Par —_; by contract. _Ouvrage à l’—_; work by contract. _— par masse de travaux_; contract by the lump. _Il échoue dans ses —s_; he fails in his undertakings. _— générale des messageries_; general coach and conveyance office. _Tenter l’—_; to make the attempt.

_s’_=entre-produire=, _v.r._, to produce each other.

_s’_=entre-quereller=, _v.r._, to quarrel with each other.

=entrer=, _v.n._, to enter, to come in, to go in, to get in, to walk in, to march in, to drop in, to step in; to pierce, to run into; (astron.) to house; (nav.) to let in; to enter (book-keeping). _— bien avant_; to penetrate far. _— une seconde fois_; to re-enter. _Faire —_; to show in, to usher in, to send in. _Faire — un vaisseau dans un bassin_; to dock a ship. _— dans le monde_; to go out into the world _or_ into society. _— en possession_; to take possession. _— au service de quelqu’un_; to enter any one’s service. _— en maison_; to go into service. _— en religion_; to become a monk _or_ a nun. _— dans sa vingtième année_; to enter on one’s twentieth year. _— en jeu_; to come into play. _Vous n’entrez pas dans ma pensée_; you mistake my meaning. _— dans les intérêts de quelqu’un_; to side with any one. _— dans les goûts_; to be of any one’s taste. _— en danse_; to begin to dance. _Faire — quelque chose dans un discours_; to introduce something into a speech. _Il y entre pour un cinquième_; he has a fifth share in the enterprise. _Cet article n’entre pour rien dans mes demandes_; this article has nothing to do with my demands. _On ne saurait lui rien faire — dans la tête_; there is no driving anything into his head. _On n’entre pas ici_; no admittance here.

=entre-rails=, _n.m._, (rail.) gauge, four-foot way.

_s’_=entre-regarder=, _v.r._, to look at, to stare at one another.

_s’_=entre-regretter=, _v.r._, to regret each other.

_s’_=entre-répondre=, _v.r._, to answer one another.

=entre-sabords=, _n.m._, (nav.) between ports.

_s’_=entre-saluer=, _v.r._, to salute one another.

_s’_=entre-secourir=, _v.a._, to help, to succor, one another.

=entresol=, _n.m._, mezzanine, entresol (suite of low rooms between the ground floor and the first floor).

=entre-sourcils=, _n.m._, (_—_) space between the eyebrows.

_s’_=entre-soutenir=, _v.r._, to support one another.

_s’_=entre-souvenir=, _v.r._, to half remember.

_s’_=entre-suivre=, _v.r._, to follow each other, to succeed each other.

*=entretaille=, _n.f._, (engr.) interline; (dancing) change of foot.

*_s’_=entre-tailler=. _V._ _s’_=entrecouper= (vet.).

*=entretaillure=, _n.f._, (vet.) cutting, crepance.

_s’_=entre-talonner=, _v.r._, to tread on each other’s heels; to follow each other closely.

=entre-temps=, _n.m._, (_—_) interval. _Dans l’—_; meanwhile.

=entretenir= (ān-trè-tnir), _v.a._, to hold, to hold together, to keep up; to keep in repair, to keep in good order; to keep, to preserve, to maintain, to support, to feed; to cherish; to converse, to talk with; to entertain. _— les chemins_; to keep the roads in repair. _— la paix_; to maintain peace.

_s’_=entretenir=, _v.r._, to hold together, to keep up; to be sustained, to be maintained, to be supported, to be kept up; to maintain, to keep, to support one’s self; to subsist; to converse with, to discourse with, to commune with, to talk to. _S’— avec quelqu’un_; to talk with any one. _S’— par lettres_; to converse by letters. _S’— de quelqu’un_; to speak of any one. _Il s’entretient du jeu_; he lives by gambling. _S’— avec soi-même_; to meditate, to reflect.

=entretenu=, =-e=, _part._ of entretenir. _Femme —e_; kept woman, mistress.

=entretien= (-ti-in), _n.m._, maintenance, keeping, living, livelihood; keeping in repair; conversation, discourse, talk; communication, conference. _Faire l’— du public_; to be the talk of the parish. _Un homme d’un agréable —_; a man of agreeable conversation.

=entre-tisser=, _v.a._, to interweave.

=entre-tissu=, =-e=, _adj._, interwoven.

=entretoile=, _n.f._, insertion; open-work.

=entretoise=, _n.f._, (carp.) tie-beam, cross-bar; cross-piece; transom.

_s’_=entre-toucher=, _v.r._, to touch one another.

_s’_=entre-tuer=, _v.r._, to kill each other.

_s’_=entre-vendre=, _v.r._, to sell to each other; to sell each other, to betray each other.

=entre-voie=, _n.f._, (_—-—s_) (rail.) the six-foot way.

=entrevoir=, _v.a._, to have _or_ catch a glimpse of, to only just see, to discover a little of; to have an imperfect notion of, to foresee. _— quelqu’un_; to have a glimpse of any one. _J’entrevois de grands obstacles_; I foresee great difficulties. _Laisser —_; to show, to discover, to disclose.

_s’_=entrevoir=, _v.r._, to have a meeting, interview, conference; to see, to visit, each other.

=entrevous=, _n.m._, (carp.) interjoist.

=entrevoûter=, _v.a._, to plaster between joists.

=entrevue=, _n.f._, interview, meeting.

*=entr’paillé=, =-e=, _adj._, (l.ex.) big-bellied.

_s’_=entr’obliger=, _v.r._, to oblige each other.

=entr’ouïr=, _v.a._, (l.u.) to hear imperfectly.

=entr’ouvert=, =-e=, _part._, partly open, ajar; gaping, yawning; (man.) strained shoulder.

=entr’ouverture=, _n.f._, (vet.) shoulder strain.

=entr’ouvrir=, _v.a._, to open a little, to half-open. _— une porte_; to half-open; to set a door ajar.

_s’_=entr’ouvrir=, _v.r._, to open, to gape, to yawn; to be ajar.

_s’_=entr’user=, _v.r._, to wear each other out.

=enture=, _n.f._, (gard.) incision, cut (for grafting).

=énumérateur=, _n.m._, enumerator.

=énumérati-f=, =-ve=, _adj._, enumerative.

=énumération=, _n.f._, enumeration.

=énumérer=, _v.a._, to enumerate, to count, to reckon.

=envahir=, _v.a._, to invade, to overrun, to spread over, to overgrow; to encroach upon, to usurp.

=envahissant=, =-e=, _adj._, invading, encroaching.

=envahissement= (-is-mān), _n.m._, overrunning, invasion, encroachment, usurpation.

=envahisseur=, _n.m._, invader. _adj._, invading, encroaching; silting (of sand).

=envaser=, _v.a._, to fill up, to choke with mud.

_s’_=envaser=, _v.r._, (nav.) to stick fast in the mud; to become filled up and choked with mud; to silt up (of sand, etc.).

=enveloppe= (ān-vlop), _n.f._, wrapper, cover, covering; envelope; exterior; disguise; (anat.) coat; casing (of cylinders); tunic (of the eye); (fort.) envelope; (mec.) case, casing; (tech.) cage; (metal.) mold. _— de voyage_, hold-all. _Ecrire sous l’— de quelqu’un_; to write under another person’s cover.

=enveloppé=, =-e=, _part._, enveloped, surrounded; ambiguous, equivocal; confused; muddled. _Être — dans un désastre_; to be involved in a misfortune.

=enveloppement= (ānv-lop-mān), _n.m._, enveloping, surrounding; wrapping up, envelopment.

=envelopper=, _v.a._, to envelop, to wrap up, to cover, to fold up, to do up, to put up; to muffle; to beset, to inclose, to environ, to hem in, to surround; to involve, to implicate; to disguise. _— quelque chose de papier_; to wrap anything up in paper. _— l’ennemi_; to hem in the enemy.

_s’_=envelopper=, _v.r._, to cover _or_ wrap one’s self up, to envelop one’s self, to muffle one’s self up; to involve one’s self.

=envenimer=, _v.a._, to poison, to envenom, to irritate, to inflame, to exasperate. _— une plaie_; to irritate a wound. _Il l’a envenimé contre moi_; he has exasperated him against me.

_s’_=envenimer=, _v.r._, to be envenomed; to fester, to rankle.

=enverger=, _v.a._, to garnish with little willow branches.

=enverguer= (-ghé), _v.a._, (nav.) to bend a sail to the yards.

=envergure=, _n.f._, unfolding; (nav.) extent of sail upon the yards; length of a yard; spread of a bird’s wings when extended. _D’—_; from tip to tip.

=envers= (ān-vèr), _prep._, towards, to. _Je vous défendrai — et contre tous_; I will defend you against all men _or_ against the whole world.

=envers=, _n.m._, wrong side, reverse side, back. _À l’—_; on the wrong side; inside out. _Il a l’esprit à l’—_; he is wrong-headed, crack-brained, beside himself.

_à l’_=envi=, _adv._, in emulation of one another, emulously vying with one another. _À l’— l’un de l’autre_; in emulation of one another. _Ils travaillent à l’— l’un de l’autre_; they vie with each other as to who shall work most.

=enviable=, _adj._, enviable, to be envied.

=envie=, _n.f._, envy, enviousness; wish, desire, longing, hankering, inclination; birth-mark; hangnail. _L’— le dévore_; he is eaten up with envy. _Sécher d’—_; to pine away with envy. _Faire —_; to be tempting. _Porter — à quelqu’un_; to envy any one. _Avoir — de_; to have a mind to. _J’ai grande — d’aller la voir_; I have a great mind to go and see her. _— de dormir_; sleepiness, drowsiness. _On lui en a donné —_; they have set him all agog upon it. _L’— lui en est passée_; his longing is over. _Il m’en a ôté l’—_; he has put me out of conceit with it. _Passer son — de quelque chose_; to satisfy one’s longing for anything. _Il a une — au visage_; he has a birth-mark on his face. _Il ne fait — à personne_; no one envies him.

=envié=, =-e=, _part._, envied. _Il est — de tout le monde_; he is envied by everybody.

☉*=envieilli=, =-e=, _adj._, inveterate, long-established, old, of long standing; hardened. _V._ =endurci=, =invétéré=.

☉*=envieillir=, _v.a._, to make one look old. _V._ =vieillir=.

=envier=, _v.a._, to envy, to be envious of, to grudge; to desire, to long for, to wish for. _Je ne lui envie point sa bonne fortune_; I do not envy him his good fortune.

=envieu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, envious, jealous. _Se faire des —_; to excite envy.

=enviné=, =-e=, _adj._, smelling of wine. _Ce baril est —_; that cask smells of wine.

=environ=, _adv._, about, nearly, thereabouts.

=environnant=, =-e=, _adj._, surrounding.

=environner=, _v.a._, to surround; to stand round; to encompass, to beset; to environ; to encircle, to inclose. _— d’une balustrade_; to inclose with a rail. _Les gardes qui environnaient le prince_; the guards who stood round the prince. _L’éclat qui l’environne_; the splendor which surrounds him.

=environs=, _n.m.pl._, environs; vicinity, neighborhood; country round.

=envisager=, _v.a._, to look, to stare, in the face, to eye, to face; to consider, to view, to look upon, to look at. _— de sang froid le péril_; to look danger in the face.

=envoi=, _n.m._, sending; thing sent, present, packet, parcel, package, goods forwarded; goods to be forwarded; (lit.) envoy; (nav.) order to put the helm alee. _Compléter un —_; to make up a parcel. _Faire un —_; to send off a parcel _or_ package. _Lettre d’—_; letter of advice.

_s’_=envoiler=, _v.r._, (metal.) to warp, to bend.

=envoisiné=, =-e=, _adj._, surrounded by neighbors.

=envoisiner=, _v.a._, to surround with neighbors.

_s’_=envoler=, _v.r._, to fly away, to take wing; to be carried off (by the wind); to disappear, to vanish. _L’oiseau s’est envolé_; the bird has flown.

=envoûtement=, _n.m._, magical charm.

=envoûter=, _v.a._, to cast a spell on any one.

=envoyé=, _n.m._, envoy; deputy, delegate; messenger. _L’— de Dieu_; the messenger of God.

=envoyer=, _v.a._, to send, to forward, to dispatch; to transmit. _Je vous envoie mon domestique_; I send you my servant. _— chercher_; to send for. _— au diable_, _— à tous les diables_; to send to the devil. _— paître_, _— promener_; to send off, to send about one’s business; to send any one off with a flea in his ear. _— dire_; to send word. _— en prison_; to commit to prison. _Envoie!_ (nav.) bout-ship! _S’—_; to send to each other; to be sent.

=envoyeur=, _n.m._, sender. _adj.m._, (post-office) dispatching. _Bureau —_; dispatching office.

=éolien=, =-ne=, (-li-in, -liè-n), _adj._, Eolian, Eolic. _Harpe —ne_; Eolian harp.

=éolien=, _n.m._, Eolic (dialect).

=éolipyle=, _n.m._, (phys.) æolipile (smoke-driving apparatus).

=éolique=, _adj._, Eolic, Eolian.

=épacte=, _n.f._, (astron.) epact.

*=épagneul=, _n.m._, =-e=, _n.f._, spaniel.

=épais=, =-se=, _adj._, thick, big; heavy, dull, gross. _Mur — de deux pieds_; wall two feet thick. _Brouillard —_; thick fog. _Ignorance —se_; gross ignorance. _Un homme —_; a blockhead. _Avoir la langue —se_; to speak thick. _Des cheveux —_; thick hair.

=épais=, _n.m._, thickness; thick part.

=épais=, _adv._, thick, thickly. _Semer —_; to sow thick.

=épaisseur=, _n.f._, thickness; depth; density; dullness.

=épaissir=, _v.a._, to thicken, to make thick.

_s’_=épaissir=, _v.r._, to become thick, to get thick, to grow thick; to become big, to grow large; to become heavy _or_ dull. _Sa langue s’épaissit_; he is beginning to speak thick.

=épaissir=, _v.n._, to thicken, to become thick; to get stout, to grow stout, to become stout.

=épaississement= (-sis-mān), _n.m._, thickening, thickness.

=épamprage= _or_ =épamprement=, _n.m._, lopping off; pruning; feeding off (of a corn-field).

=épamprer=, _v.a._, to lop off, _or_ to prune, a vine; to feed off.

=épanchement= (é-pānsh-mān), _n.m._, pouring out, shedding; overflowing, effusion. _— de cœur_; opening of one’s heart.

=épancher=, _v.a._, to pour out, to spill; to shed; to open. _— son cœur_; to open one’s heart.

_s’_=épancher=, _v.r._, to be discharged, poured out, to escape; to open one’s heart, to unbosom one’s self.

=épanchoir=, _n.m._, outlet, drain.

=épandre=, _v.a._, to pour out, to scatter, to strew, to throw here and there. _V._ =répandre=.

_s’_=épandre=, _v.r._, to spread out, to be scattered, to flow.

=épanorthose=, _n.f._, (rhet.) epanorthosis.

=épanoui=, =-e=, _adj._, blown, full-blown; cheerful, jolly, beaming.

=épanouir=, _v.a._, to expand, to smooth, to brighten up, to gladden. _— la rate_; to make merry, to drive away the spleen.

_s’_=épanouir=, _v.r._, (of flowers) to blow, to expand, to open; to brighten up. _Son visage s’épanouit_; his face brightened up.

=épanouissement= (-noo-is-mān), _n.m._, blowing, opening (of flowers); (bot.) expansion.

=éparcet=, _n.m._ _V._ =esparcet=, =esparcette=.

_s’_=éparer=, _v.r._, (man.) to jerk, to fling out; to kick. _V._ =ruer=.

*=épargnant=, =-e=, _adj._, sparing, saving, economical; parsimonious.

*=épargne=, _n.f._, economy, saving, thrift, sparingness; ☉treasury. _— mesquine_; shabby saving. _Avec —_; sparingly. _Aller à l’—_, _user d’—_; to save, to be saving. _Il vit de ses —s_; he lives on his savings. _Aller à l’— des mots_; to be sparing of words. _Caisse d’—_ or _caisse d’— et de prévoyance_; savings-bank. _Tailler_, or _graver_, _en —_; (engr.) to reserve.

*=épargner=, _v.a._, to save, to lay up, to lay by, to spare, to husband, to economize; to spare (any one). _— son bien_; to save one’s wealth. _On ne lui épargne pas l’argent_; they allow him plenty of money. _Ne m’épargnez pas_; do not spare me.

_s’_*=épargner=, _v.r._, to spare one’s self; to spare one another.

*=épargner=, _v.n._, to economize, to be saving, to be sparing. _— sur sa toilette_; to save in dress.

*=éparpillement=, _n.m._, scattering, dispersing, dispersion.

*=éparpiller=, _v.a._, to scatter, to strew about, to spread, to throw here and there, to disperse; to fritter away, to squander. _— ses troupes_; to scatter one’s troops.

=épars=, =-e=, _adj._, scattered, dispersed, straggling, sparse; (of hair) disheveled; thin (of plants).

=éparvin= _or_ =épervin=, _n.m._, (vet.) spavin. _— osseux_, _— sec_; blood-spavin; string-halt.

=épaté=, =-e=, _adj._, broad-footed; wide; with the foot broken off (of glasses); flat (of noses); (pop.) amazed, dumfounded.

=épatement=, _n.m._, amazement.

=épater=, _v.a._, to break the foot off (a glass); to flatten; to widen; (pop.) to amaze, to dumfound.

_s’_=épater=, _v.r._, to sprawl; to get broken (of glass).

=épaulard=, _n.m._, (ich.) grampus, ork.

=épaule=, _n.f._, shoulder; start (of wheels). _Des —s larges_; broad shoulders. _Hausser les —s_; to shrug one’s shoulders. _Faire hausser les —s à quelqu’un_; to make any one shrug his shoulders. _Plier les —s_; to put up with. _Prêter l’— à quelqu’un_; to back up any one. _Donner un coup d’— à_; to help any one; to give any one a lift. _Faire une chose par-dessus l’—_; to leave a thing undone; to do a thing over the left. _Porter sur les —s_; (fig.) to be heartily sick of. _Marcher des —s_; to slouch. _L’— d’un bastion_; the flank of a bastion. _—s d’un vaisseau_; bows of a ship.

=épaulée=, _n.f._, push (with the shoulders); (cook.) fore-quarter of mutton without the shoulder. _—s_; shouldering. _Faire une chose par —s_; to do a thing by fits and starts.

=épaulement= (é-pôl-mān), _n.m._, a shoulder-piece, covert; shoulder; (fort.) epaulement, demi-bastion, breastwork.

=épauler=, _v.a._, to break the shoulder, to splay; to help, to back, to countenance, to bring to the shoulder, to prop; to press to the shoulder (of rifles). _— des troupes_; to cover troops. _Bête épaulée_; animal with a sprained shoulder; (fig., fam.) a perfect fool; a dishonored woman.

=épaulette=, _n.f._, shoulder-strap; shoulder-piece; epaulet. _— à gros grains_, _— à graine d’épinards_; (milit.) epaulet with large bullion worn by field and general officers.

=épave=, _adj._, (jur.) stray, strayed.

=épave=, _n.f._, wreck; (jur.) waif; stray; estray. _—s maritimes_, _—s de mer_; wreck, wreckage.

=épeautre=, _n.m.f._, spelt, great barley; wheat.

=épée=, _n.f._, sword; (fig.) brand, steel; swordsman. _Charger l’— à la main_; to charge sword in hand. _Un homme d’—_; a swordsman, a soldier. _Mettre l’— à la main_; to draw one’s sword. _Se battre à l’—_; to fight with swords. _Passer l’— au travers du corps_; to run a man through the body. _Presser quelqu’un l’— dans les reins_; to press any one close, hard. _Une — vierge_; a sword that has never been fleshed _or_ drawn. _N’avoir que la cape et l’—_; to have nothing but one’s nobility; to have no other fortune but one’s sword. _Il est brave comme l’— qu’il porte_; he is true to the backbone. _L’— use le fourreau_; the sword wears out the scabbard. _C’est un coup d’— dans l’eau_; it is beating the air. _Passer au fil de l’—_; to put to the edge of the sword, to put to the sword. _Être_, _en être_, _aux —s et aux couteaux_; to be at daggers drawn. _Jouer de l’— à deux talons_; to take to one’s heels. _Son — est trop courte_; his arm is not long enough. _C’est son — de chevet_; he is his bosom friend, his constant companion; (fig.) his favorite theme; his hobby. _— de mer_; (ich.) sword-fish.

=épeiche=, _n.f._, (orni.) golden oriole, witwall.

=épeler= (é-plé), _v.a._, to spell. _Epelez ce mot_; spell that word. _— mal_; to misspell.

=épellation=, _n.f._, naming the letters of a word, spelling.

=épenthèse=, _n.f._, (gram.) epenthesis.

=épenthétique=, _adj._, (gram.) epenthetical.

=éperdu=, =-e=, _adj._, distracted, bewildered, aghast. _Tout — d’amour_; quite distraught with love.

=éperdument=, _adv._, distractedly, passionately, desperately.

=éperlan=, _n.m._, (ich.) smelt, sparling.

=éperon= (épron), _n.m._, spur; wrinkle, crow’s foot; gaffle (of game cocks); (arch.) buttress, counterfort; (nav.) head of a ship; cutwater, ram; (fort.) spur. _Donner de l’— à un cheval_; to clap spurs to a horse. _Chausser les —s_; to put on spurs. _Cheval qui n’a ni bouche ni —_; horse that obeys neither rein nor spur. _Il a besoin d’—s_; he wants spurring on. _Chausser les — à quelqu’un_; to put spurs on any one.

=éperonné=, =-e= (é-pro-né), _adj._, spurred; wrinkled. _Elle a les yeux —s_; she has wrinkles about her eyes.

=éperonner=, _v.a._, to spur; to spur on; to urge forward; to wrinkle.

=éperonnerie=, _n.f._, spur-making, spur-trade.

=éperonnier=, _n.m._, spur-maker; Indian peacock.

=éperonnière=, _n.f._, spur-leather; (bot.) larkspur.

=épervier=, _n.m._, (orni.) hawk, sparrow-hawk; cast-net.

=épervière=, _n.f._, (bot.) hawkweed.

=épervin=, _n.m._ _V._ =éparvin=.

=éphèdre=, _n.f._, shrubby horse-tail, sea-grass.

=éphélide=, _n.f._, (med.) sun-burn; freckle.

=éphémère=, _adj._, ephemeral.

=éphémère=, _n.f._, ephemera, day-fly.

=éphémérides=, _n.f.pl._, ephemerides.

=éphod= (é-fod), _n.m._, (Jewish antiq.) ephod.

=éphore=, _n.m._, (Grec. antiq.) ephor.

=épi=, _n.m._, ear of corn; awn. _— bien garni_; well-filled ear. _— de cheveux_; tuft of hair, topknot. _— de diamants_; cluster of diamonds. _— d’eau_; pond-weed. _— de faîte_; (arch.) top of the crown-post. _Assembler en —_; to scarf.

=épice=, _n.f._, spice. _pl._, ☉judges’ fees. _Pain d’—_; gingerbread. _Fine —_; sharp fellow, knowing blade. _Dans les petits sacs sont les bonnes —s_; little and good, _or_ small parcels hold fine wares (pers.). _Herbe aux —s_; allspice.

=épicé=, =-e=, _adj._, spiced, spicy; hot, seasoned.

=épicène=, _adj._, (gram.) epicene.

=épicer=, _v.a._, to spice; ☉(of judges) to charge too high fees.

=épicerie= (é-pi-srî), _n.f._, spices, grocery; grocery-business. _Petite —_; chandlery.

=épichérème= (-ké-), _n.m._, (log.) epichirema.

=épici-er=, _n.m._, =-ère=, _n.f._, grocer; vulgar fellow. _Il faut envoyer ce livre à l’—_; this book must go to the butter-shop.

=épicrâne=, _n.m._, (anat.) epicranium.

=épicurien=, =-ne= (-i-in, -iè-n), _n._ and _adj._, epicure; epicurean.

=épicurisme=, _n.m._, epicureanism, epicurism.

=épicycle=, _n.m._, (astron.) epicycle.

=épicycloïde=, _n.f._, (geom.) epicycloid.

=épidémie=, _n.f._, epidemic.

=épidémique=, _adj._, epidemic, epidemical.

=épidendre=, _n.m._, (bot.) epidendrum.

=épiderme=, _n.m._, epidermis, cuticle, scarfskin.

=épidermique=, _adj._, (anat.) epidermic, epidermical.

=épididyme=, _n.m._, (anat.) epididymis.

=épié=, =-e=, _part._, eared, awny, awned.

=épier=, _v.n._, to ear, to shoot into ears.

=épier=, _v.a._, to watch, to be a spy upon, to pry into. _Il épie ce que vous faites_; he is a spy upon your actions. _On épie vos démarches_; your steps are being dogged. _S’—_; to watch one another.

=épierrement=, _n.m._, clearing land of stones.

=épierrer=, _v.a._, to clear away stones.

=épieu=, _n.m._, boar-spear, javelin, stake.

=épieu-r=, =-se=, _n.m.f._, watcher, spier, eavesdropper; Paul Pry.

=épigastre=, _n.m._, (anat.) epigastrium.

=épigastrique=, _adj._, (anat.) epigastric.

=épiglotte=, _n.f._, (anat.) epiglottis.

=épigrammatique=, _adj._, epigrammatic, epigrammatical.

=épigrammatiquement=, _adv._, epigrammatically.

=épigrammatiser=, _v.n._, to write epigrams.

=épigrammatiste=, _n.m._, epigrammatist.

=épigramme=, _n.f._, epigram.

=épigraphe=, _n.f._, epigraph.

=épigraphie=, _n.f._, epigraphics, epigraphy.

=épigraphique=, _adj._, pertaining to epigraphy.

=épigyne=, _adj._, (bot.) epigynous.

=épilatoire=, _adj._, depilatory.

=épilepsie=, _n.f._, (med.) epilepsy. _Attaque d’—_; epileptic fit, fit of epilepsy.

=épileptique=, _n.m.f._ and _adj._, epileptic; epileptical.

=épiler=, _v.a._, to depilate.

_s’_=épiler=, _v.r._, to pluck out one’s gray hairs.

=épileu-r=, _n.m._, =-se=, _n.f._, depilator (pers.).

*=épillet=, _n.m._, (bot.) spikelet.

=épilobe=, _n.m._, (bot.) willow-herb.

=épilogue= (-log), _n.m._, epilogue.

=épiloguer= (-ghé), _v.n._, to carp at, to censure, to criticise, to find fault with, to split hairs. _Il épilogue sur tout_; he finds fault with everything.

=épiloguer=, _v.a._, to criticise, to find fault with, to carp at.

=épilogueur= (-gheur), _n.m._, critic, fault-finder, carper. _adj._, fault-finding, carping.

=épiloir=, _n.m._, tweezers.

=épinaie=, _n.f._, brake, thicket, thorn-bush.

=épinard= (-nār), _n.m._, (bot.) spinach. _pl._, (cook.) spinach greens. _—-fraise_; strawberry blite, strawberry-spinach. _— sauvage_; all-good. _Epaulettes à graine d’—s_; epaulets with large bullion.

=épine=, _n.f._, thorn; prickle; spine; rub, obstacle, difficulty; bristling point (metal.). _— blanche_; hawthorn; barberry. _— dorsale_, _du dos_; spine; backbone. _Noble —_; hawthorn. _— noire_; German acacia; blackthorn, sloe. _Avoir une — au pied_; to have a thorn in one’s side. _Tirer à quelqu’un une — du pied_; to get some one over a difficulty. _Être sur les —s_, _sur des —s_; to be on pins and needles, _or_ on thorns. _Il n’y a pas de roses sans —s_; no rose without a thorn, no joy without alloy. _Les —s de la chicane_; the thorny points of the law.

=épines=, _n.f.pl._, (metal.) bristling points.

=épinette=, _n.f._, (mus.) spinet; (bot.) North American fir-tree.

=épineu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, thorny, prickly; knotty, ticklish, intricate. _Arbres —_; thorny trees. _Pomme —se_; (bot.) stramony, thorn-apple. _Question —se_; ticklish question.

=épine-vinette=, _n.f._, berberry, barberry.

=épingle=, _n.f._, pin, scarf-pin, breast-pin. _—s_; pin-money, gratuity, douceur. _Attacher avec une —_; to pin. _Il est toujours tiré à quatre —s_; he is always as neat as hands can make him; he always looks as if he had just stepped out of a bandbox, _or_ is always dressed up to the nine. _Tirer son — du jeu_; to get out of a scrape, to back out of anything. _À coups d’—s_; inch by inch; by pin-pricks. _— à cheveux_; hairpin. _Oter les —s_; to unpin.

=épingle=, _adj._, pinned; corded, terry. _Velours —_; light terry velvet.

=épingler=, _v.a._, to pin, to prick, to clean.

=épinglette=, _n.f._, (artil.) priming-iron; priming-wire; (mining) piercer; (tech.) pricker.

=épingli-er=, _n.m._, =-ère=, _n.f._, pin-maker.

=épinière=, _adj.f._, (anat.) spinal. _Moelle —_; spinal marrow.

=épiniers=, _n.m.pl._, (hunt.) brake, thicket.

=épinoche=, _n.f.m._, (com.) best coffee. _f._, (ich.) stickleback.

=épiphanie=, _n.f._, Epiphany.

=épiphonème=, _n.m._, (rhet.) epiphonema.

=épiphora=, _n.m._, (med.) epiphora, watery eye.

=épiphyse=, _n.f._, (anat.) epiphysis.

=épiploon=, _n.m._, (anat.) epiploon.

=épique=, _adj._, epic.

=épiscopal=, =-e=, _adj._, episcopal.

=épiscopal=, _n.m._, episcopalian.

=épiscopalement=, _adv._, episcopally.

=épiscopat=, _n.m._, episcopate, episcopacy.

=épiscopaux=, _n.m.pl._, Episcopalians.

=épisode=, _n.m._, episode.

=épisodique=, _adj._, episodical.

=épispastique=, _n.m._, _adj._, (med.) epispastic.

=épisperme=, _n.m._, (bot.) seed-coat, episperm, aril, arillus.

=épisser=, _v.a._, (nav.) to splice.

=épissoir=, _n.m._, (nav.) fid, splicing-fid; marlinspike.

=épissure=, _n.f._, (nav.) splice.

=épistolaire=, _adj._, epistolary.

=épistolaire=, _n.m._, letter-writer.

=épistoli-er=, _n.m._, =-ère=, _n.f._, letter-writer; (c.rel.) lectionary.

=épistolographe=, _n.m._, Greek _or_ Latin letter-writer.

=épistyle=, _n.m._, (arch.) epistyle.

=épitaphe=, _n.f._, epitaph.

=épitase=, _n.f._, (dramatic lit.) epitasis.

=épithalame=, _n.m._, epithalamium, nuptial song.

=épithème=, _n.m._, (pharm.) epithem.

=épithète=, _n.f._, epithet.

=épitoge=, _n.f._, hood; shoulder-knot; cassock.

=épitomé=, _n.m._, epitome; compendium; abridgment.

=épître=, _n.f._, epistle, letter, missive. _— dédicatoire_; dedicatory epistle. _Le côté de l’—_; the right-hand side of the altar.

=épitrope=, _n.f._, (rhet.) epitrope.

=épizootie= (-tî), _n.f._, epizooty.

=épizootique=, _adj._, epizootic. _Maladie —_; epizootic distemper.

*=éplaigner=, _v.a._, (manu.) to raise the nap of the cloth, to tease, to teasel.

=éplaigneur=, _n.m._, cloth-dresser, teaseler.

=éploré=, =-e=, _adj._, in tears, weeping, disconsolate, distressed.

=éployé=, =-e=, _adj._, (her.) spread (of the eagle).

=épluchage=, _n.m._, (manu.) picking.

=épluchement= (é-plush-mān), _n.m._, cleaning, picking.

=éplucher=, _v.a._, to pick, to clean, to sift; to examine minutely. _— la vie de quelqu’un_; to examine minutely into any one’s life. _— un ouvrage_; to examine a work minutely, _or_ to pick any work to pieces.

_s’_=éplucher=, _v.r._, to clean itself (of certain animals); (fig.) to examine one’s self.

=éplucheu-r=, _n.m._, =-se=, _n.f._, picker; fault-finder; hair-splitter.

=éplucheuse=, _n.f._, picker (instrument).

=épluchoir=, _n.m._, paring-knife.

=épluchures=, _n.f.pl._, parings, pickings, orts, refuse.

=épode=, _n.f._, epode.

=épointé=, =-e=, _adj._, without a point, blunt-topped; (of a dog) with a broken thigh; (of a horse) hip-shot.

=épointement=, _n.m._, bluntness.

=épointer=, _v.a._, to break off the point, to blunt.

_s’_=épointer=, _v.r._, to have its point broken off.

*=épointillage=, _n.m._, (tech.) burling.

*=épointiller=, _v.a._, (tech.) to burl (cloth).

=épointure=, _n.f._, (of horses, etc.) hip-shot.

=épois=, _n.m.pl._, trochings (of a deer).

=éponge=, _n.f._, sponge. _Passer l’— sur quelque action_; to say no more about, _or_ to forget, an action. _Presser l’—_; to squeeze the sponge; to exact too much. _Il boit comme une —_; he drinks like a fish.

=éponger=, _v.a._, to sponge; to sponge up; to mop.

=épongier=, _n.m._, (l.u.) spongeman.

*=épontille=, _n.f._, (nav.) stanchion, prop.

*=épontiller=, _v.a._, to prop, to shore.

=éponyme=, _n.m._ and _adj._, (antiq.) eponym; eponymous.

=épopée=, _n.f._, epopee; epic poem.

=époque=, _n.f._, epoch; period, time, date; era. _Faire —_; to mark an era. _Dès cette —_; from that time. _À l’— de_; at the time of.

=époucé=, =-e=, _adj._, thumbless.

=époudrer=, _v.a._, (l.u.) to dust. _V._ =épousseter=.

=épouffé=, =-e=, _adj._, (fam.) out of breath.

_s’_=épouffer=, _v.r._, to steal away, to scamper off; to get out of breath from laughing. _V._ =pouffer=.

*=épouiller=, _v.a._, (l.ex.) to louse; to clean of lice.

*_s’_=épouiller=, _v.r._, (l.ex.) to louse one’s self.

=époularder=, _v.a._, to pick, to clean (tobacco).

=époullin=, =espolin=, _or_ =espoulin=, _n.m._, (manu.) small shuttle, spool.

=époumoner=, _v.a._, to tire the lungs of; to exhaust.

_s’_=époumoner=, _v.r._, to tire one’s lungs; (fig.) to vociferate, to shout one’s self hoarse.

*=épousailles=, _n.f.pl._, espousals, nuptials.

=épouse=, _n.f._, spouse, bride, wife, consort.

=épousé=, =-e=, _part._, married, wedded.

=épousée=, _n.f._, bride, wife.

=épouser=, _v.a._, to marry, to take in marriage, to wed, to espouse, to embrace, to take up. _— une héritière_; to marry an heiress. _— les intérêts d’autrui_; to espouse the interests of others.

_s’_=épouser=, _v.r._, to marry each other.

=épouseur=, _n.m._, marrying man; intended husband.

=époussetage=, _n.m._, dusting.

=épousseter= (é-pous-té), _v.a._, to dust, to wipe off the dust; to beat the dust out of; to leather, to dust (beat). _— quelqu’un_; to dust any one’s jacket for him.

_s’_=épousseter=, _v.r._, to wipe the dust off one’s self.

=époussette=, _n.f._, dusting-rag, duster.

=épouti=, _n.m._, orts (in cloth).

=époutieuse= (-tieuz), _n.f._, picker, cleaner, burler (of cloth).

=époutir=, _v.a._, to pick, to clean (cloth).

=épouvantable=, _adj._, frightful, dreadful, tremendous, shocking, horrible; appalling. _À un degré —_; to a frightful degree.

=épouvantablement=, _adv._, frightfully, dreadfully, tremendously.

*=épouvantail=, _n.m._, scare-crow; bugbear; (orni.) sea-swallow. _C’est un — de chenevière_; she is a perfect scarecrow.

=épouvante=, _n.f._, terror, dismay, affright. _Porter l’— dans le pays ennemi_; to spread terror in the enemy’s country. _L’— les a pris_; they were seized with dismay. _Frapper d’—_; to dismay, to affright.

=épouvantement=, _n.m._, terror, affright.

=épouvanter=, _v.a._, to terrify, to frighten, to appall, to scare.

_s’_=épouvanter=, _v.r._, to be frightened _or_ terrified; to take fright.

=époux=, _n.m._, spouse, husband, bridegroom. _pl._, husband and wife. _Futur —_; intended husband.

=épreindre= (épreignant, épreint), _v.a._, to squeeze out, to press, to express.

=épreinte=, _n.f._, tenesmus; straining; (fig.) pressure (chiefly used in _pl._).

_s’_=éprendre=, _v.r._, to become enamored of; to fall in love with.

=épreuve=, _n.f._, trial, proof, test, ordeal, examination; (print.) proof, revise. _J’en ai fait l’—_; I have tried it, made a trial of it. _Passer par de rudes —s_; to go through hard trials. _Mettre à l’—_; to make a trial of, to put to the test. _À l’— du feu_; fire-proof. _A l’— des balles_; ball-proof. _À l’— de l’eau_; waterproof. _À toute —_; trusty, well-tried, faithful, devoted. _Courage à toute —_; courage proof against everything. _— judiciaire_; ordeal. _Temps d’—_; probation. _— chargée_; (print.) foul proof. _— peu chargée_; (print.) clean proof. _Corriger une —_; (print.) to correct a proof. _Première — d’auteur_; (print.) reader’s proof. _Seconde — d’auteur_; (print.) revise. _Troisième — d’auteur_; (print.) second revise. _— avant la lettre_; (engr.) proof before letters. _Tirer une —_; (print.) to pull a proof.

=épris=, =-e=, _adj._, in love, taken with, smitten, charmed with. _Il en est —_; he is smitten with her.

=éprouver=, _v.a._, to try, to prove; to put to the proof; to feel, to experience, to meet with; to go through. _— la fidélité de quelqu’un_; to try any one’s fidelity. _— une douleur_; to feel a pain. _— des malheurs_; to meet with misfortunes. _— un canon_; to test a cannon. _S’— à_; to try one’s hand at.

=éprouvette=, _n.f._, gauge; steam-gauge; test-glass; eprouvette (for testing gunpowder).

_sel d’_=epsom=, _n.m._, Epsom salts.

=eptacorde=, _n.m._ _V._ =heptacorde=.

=eptagone=, _n.m._ _V._ =heptagone=.

=épucer=, _v.a._, to catch the fleas of; to clear of fleas.

_s’_=épucer=, _v.r._, to catch one’s fleas.

=épuisable=, _adj._, exhaustible.

=épuisé=, =-e=, _part._, exhausted; drained; spent; worn out; used up; threadbare; out of print; done up. _Terre —e_; exhausted ground. _L’édition est épuisée_; the book is out of print.

=épuisement= (é-puiz-mān), _n.m._, draining; draining off; exhaustion. _L’— des finances_; the low state of the finances. _Tuyau d’—_; exhausting-pipe.

=épuiser=, _v.a._, to exhaust, to spend, to drain, to use up; to eat up, to consume. _— une matière_; to exhaust a subject. _Leurs ressources étaient épuisées_; their resources were exhausted.

_s’_=épuiser=, _v.r._, to be exhausted, to waste, to wear out, to exhaust one’s self; to sell off, to get out of print.

=épuisette=, _n.f._, scoop, hand-net, landing-net.

=épulide= _or_ =épulie=, _n.f._, (surg.) epulis.

=épulons=, _n.m.pl._, (antiq.) epulones.

=épulotique=, _n.m._ and _adj._, (pharm.) epulotic.

☉=épurati-f=, =-ve=, _adj._, depurating; purifying; refining.

=épuration=, _n.f._, purification, purifying, refining, refinement. _— du sang_; purifying of the blood.

=épuratoire=, _adj._, purifying.

=épure=, _n.f._, (arch.) diagram, draught, working-drawing (of a building).

=épurement=, _n.m._, purifying.

=épurer=, _v.a._, to purify, to clear, to clarify, to refine; to purge. _— de l’eau bourbeuse_; to clear muddy water. _— de l’or_; to refine gold.

_s’_=épurer=, _v.r._, to be purified, to grow finer, more refined (of style, language).

=épurge=, _n.f._, (bot.) caper-spurge.

=équarrir=, _v.a._, (tech.) to square; to cut up.

=équarrissage=, _n.m._, (carp.) squareness; squaring; scantling; flaying and cutting up (horses). _Dix pouces d’—_; ten inches square. _Bois d’—_; squared timber. _Clos d’—_; knacker’s yard.

=équarrissement=, _n.m._, (tech.) squaring.

=équarrisseur=, _n.m._, knacker.

=équarrissoir=, _n.m._, rimer; knacker’s knife.

=équateur= (é-koua-), _n.m._, equator, equinoctial line; (country) Ecuador.

=équation= (é-koua-), _n.f._, (alg.) equation. _— du premier degré_; (alg.) simple equation. _Poser une —_; to state an equation. _Montre à —_; chronometer.

=équatorial=, =-e= (é-koua-), _adj._, equatorial. _n.m._, equatorial telescope (instrument).

=équerre=, _n.f._, set square; square rule. _Dresser à l’—_; to square. _À fausse —_; out of square; bevel. _Courbe à —_; (nav.) square knee.

=équerrer=, _v.a._, to square, to bevel.

=équestre= (é-kuèstr) _adj._, equestrian.

=équiangle= (é-kui-) _adj._, (geom.) equiangular.

=équidifférent=, =-e= (é-kui-), _adj._, equidifferent.

=équidistant=, =-e= (é-kui-), _adj._, (geom.) equidistant.

=équilatéral=, =-e= (é-kui-), _adj._, (geom.) equilateral.

=équilatère= (é-kui-), _adj._, (l.u.) (geom.) equilateral.

=équilboquet=, _n.m._, mortise-gauge.

=équilibre=, _n.m._, equilibrium, equipoise, poise, balance. _Mettre en —_; to poise. _Faire l’—_; to make things equal. _Perdre l’—_; to lose one’s equilibrium, one’s balance.

=équilibrer=, _v.a._, to poise; to place in equilibrium. _S’—_; to balance (of things).

=équilibriste=, _n.m.f._, acrobat.

=équille=, _n.f._, (pisc.) sand-eel.

=équinoxe=, _n.m._, equinox. _Vents d’—_; equinoctial wind.

=équinoxial=, =-e=, _adj._, equinoctial. _Ligne —e_; equinoctial line.

=équipage=, _n.m._, equipage, carriage; turnout; equipment; dress; gear, tackle, implements; plight; crew. _Avoir son —_, _rouler —_; to keep one’s carriage. _Être dans un triste —_; to be badly equipped. _Être en triste —_; to be in a sad plight. _— de Jean de Paris_; brilliant equipage. _— de Bohème_; sorry equipage. _Maître d’—_; (nav.) boatswain.

=équipe=, _n.f._, (nav.) train of boats; manning; set, gang (of workmen). _Chef d’—_; foreman. _Homme d’—_; boatman, oarsman, porter. _Faire l’—_; to manage; to man (a boat).

=équipée=, _n.f._, prank; freak, frolic.

=équipement= (é-kip-mān), _n.m._, outfit, fitting out, equipment, accoutrement; manning. _Petit —_; kit.

=équiper=, _v.a._, to equip, to fit out, to stock, to furnish, to man; to ill-treat, to pay out. _— une flotte_; to fit out a fleet.

_s’_=équiper=, _v.r._, to fit one’s self out; to dress up; to titivate one’s self; to rig one’s self out.

=équipet=, _n.m._, (nav.) locker.

=équipollence=, _n.f._, (l.u.) equipollence.

☉=équipollent=, _n.m._, equipollent, equivalent. _À l’—_; in proportion.

=équipollent=, =-e=, _adj._, equipollent, equivalent.

☉=équipoller=, _v.a._, to be equivalent, to be of the like value; to balance.

=équipondérance= (é-kui-), _n.f._, equiponderance.

=équitable=, _adj._, equitable, upright, just, fair.