Chapter M (2)

=mariage=, _n.m._, marriage, matrimony, wedlock; match; wedding; fortune, portion; union, blending. _— d’inclination_; love match. _— de raison_, _— de convenance_; prudent match, marriage for money (_or_ position). _— en détrempe_; pretended marriage, illicit intercourse. _— sous la cheminée_; marriage under the rose. _— de la main gauche_; morganatic marriage. _Contrat de —_; marriage contract. _Promettre en —_; to promise in marriage. _Rechercher une jeune fille en —_; to solicit the hand of a young girl. _Prendre en —_; to take to wife. _— de conscience_; private marriage.

=marié=, _n.m._, married man; bridegroom. _pl._, married people. _Nouveaux —s_; newly-married couple.

=mariée=, _n.f._, married woman; bride. _Se plaindre que la — est trop belle_; to find fault with a good bargain.

=marier=, _v.a._, to marry, to give in marriage, to match; to blend; to unite. _Il a fort bien marié sa fille_; he has married his daughter very advantageously. _— la vigne avec l’ormeau_; to marry, _or_ to twine, the vine with the elm. _— des couleurs_; to blend, _or_ to combine, colors.

_se_ =marier=, _v.r._, to marry, to espouse, to wed, to be married to; to match, to ally, to unite, to blend, to combine, to pair. _Il s’est marié très richement_; he has made a very rich match. _Elle est en âge de se —_; she is of an age to marry.

=marie-salope=, _n.f._, (_—s-—s_) mud-barge.

=marieu-r=, _n.m._, =-se=, _n.f._, match-maker.

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

=marin=, _n.m._, mariner, seaman, seafaring man, sailor. _— d’eau douce_; fresh-water sailor, land-lubber.

=marinade=, _n.f._, marinade, pickled meat; souse; pickles.

=marine=, _n.f._, sea-affairs; sea-service; navigation; marine; navy; naval forces; taste, smell, of the sea; (paint.) sea-piece, seascape. _Officier de —_; naval officer. _— marchande_; mercantile, marine. _— militaire_ or _de l’état_; royal navy. _Soldats_, _troupes_, _de la —_; marines. _Terme de —_; sea-term. _Sentir la —_, or _avoir un goût de —_; to taste of the sea.

=mariné=, =-e=, _part._, marinated, pickled; (her.) marine. _Des marchandises —es_; merchandise spoiled _or_ damaged by the sea.

=mariner=, _v.a._, to marinate, to pickle, to souse; (nav.) to jerk.

=maringouin=, _n.m._, (ent.) musquito.

=marinier=, _n.m._, waterman, bargeman, lighterman; mariner, seaman. _Maître —_; master-bargeman. _Officiers —s_; petty officers.

_à la_ =marinière=, _n.f._ _Nager à la —_; to swim on the side; (cook.) “marinière” fashion.

=mariniste=, _n.m._, marine-painter.

=marionnette=, _n.f._, puppet, marionette; short woman; frivolous, weak-minded woman. _pl._, puppet-show.

=marital=, =-e=, _adj._, marital, pertaining to a husband.

=maritalement= (-tal-mān), _adv._, maritally, as man and wife, matrimonially.

=maritime=, _adj._, maritime, naval; nautical.

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

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

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

=marjolaine=, _n.f._, (bot.) sweet marjoram.

☉=marjolet=, _n.m._, fop, little coxcomb.

=marli=, _n.m._, catgut, thread gauze.

*=marmaille=, _n.f._, (fam.) brats, lots of little brats.

=marmelade=, _n.f._, marmalade. _Cette viande est en —_; that meat is done to a jelly. _Mettre en —_; to beat to a jelly. _Avoir la mâchoire en —_; to have one’s jaw smashed in.

=marmenteau=, _adj._, reserved, ornamental (of trees).

=marmite=, _n.f._, pot, saucepan, boiler, copper. _Elles servent à faire bouillir la —_; they help to make the pot boil. _Ecumeur de —s_; sponger, parasite. _Nez en pied de —_; pug nose. _— à vapeur_; steamer. _La — bout dans cette maison_; they live well _or_ keep a good table. _La — est renversée_; they give no more dinner parties, they see no more company.

☉=marmiteu-x=, =-se=, _n._ and _adj._, (fam.) pitiful, poor wretch; sad, wretched, whimpering, whining, pitiful, seedy.

=marmiton=, _n.m._, scullion, kitchen drudge.

=marmonner=, _v.a._ and _n._ _V._ =marmotter=.

=marmoréen=, =-ne=, _adj._, marmorean.

=marmose=, _n.f._, (mam.) marmose.

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

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

=marmotter=, _v.a._ and _n._, to mutter, to mumble, to grumble, to growl.

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

=marnage=, _n.m._, (agri.) marling, chalking, claying.

=marne=, _n.f._, (agri.) marl, chalk, clay.

=marner=, _v.a._, (agri.) to marl, to chalk, to clay.

=marneron=, _n.m._, (agri.) marler, marl-digger.

=marneu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, marly.

=marnière=, _n.f._, marl-pit, clay-pit, chalk-pit.

=maronite=, _n.m.f._ and _adj._, Maronite.

=maronner=, _v.n._, (pop.) to grumble, to growl, to croak. _Faire —_; to keep waiting a long time; to tease, to plague.

=maroquin=, _n.m._, morocco-leather, roan. _— du Levant_; Turkey-leather.

=maroquiner=, _v.a._, to morocco.

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

=maroquinier=, _n.m._, morocco-tanner.

=marotique=, _adj._, marotic (imitation of Marot’s style).

=marotisme=, _n.m._, marotism (imitation of Marot’s style).

=marotte=, _n.f._, fool’s bauble, cap and bells; fancy, folly, whim, hobby. _Chacun a sa —_; everybody has his hobby.

=maroufle=, _n.m._, ragamuffin; booby, clod-hopper, bumpkin, clown, churl.

=maroufle=, _n.f._, (paint.) lining-paste.

=maroufler=, _v.a._, (paint.) to line.

=marquant=, =-e=, _adj._, conspicuous, striking. _Personne —e_; person of note, of distinction.

=marque=, _n.f._, mark, cipher, stamp; (com.) private mark; brand (with a hot iron); badge; trace (of footsteps) print; sign; token; testimony; proof, instance; counter (at play); pit (of the small-pox). _— de fabricant_; manufacturer’s mark. _— de la douane_; custom-house stamp. _— d’honneur_; badge of honor. _Homme de —_; man of note. _Donner à quelqu’un une — d’estime_; to give any one a proof of esteem. _Lettres de —_; letters of mark (for seizing vessels). _Ville de —_; coinage-town. _— de beau temps_; signs of fine weather. _Une — qu’il est venu, c’est qu’il a laissé ceci_; a proof that he came, is that he left this. _Faire porter ses —s à quelqu’un_; (fam.) to leave one’s mark on any one.

=marqué=, =-e=, _part._, marked, evident, conspicuous, obvious; decided, pronounced; strong, resolute. _— de la petite vérole_; pitted with small-pox. _Homme — au bon coin_; a man of the right stamp. _— à l’A._; thoroughly reliable, the soul of honor. _Ouvrage — au bon coin_; excellent work. _Attentions —es_; marked attentions. _Il est né —_; he was born with a mark. _Avoir les traits —s_; to have strongly-marked features.

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

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

=marqueter=, _v.a._, to speckle, to spot, to inlay.

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

=marqueteur=, _n.m._, inlayer.

=marquette=, _n.f._, cake (of virgin wax).

=marqueur= (-keur), _n.m._, marker, scorer, tally-keeper.

=marquis=, _n.m._, marquis, marquess. _— de Carabas_; (jest.) great landed proprietor. _Faire le —_; to give one’s self airs.

=marquisat=, _n.m._, marquisate.

=marquise=, _n.f._, marchioness; marquee, awning, verandah; settee; waist-buckle.

=marquiser=, _v.a._, to style any one a marquis.

_se_ =marquiser=, _v.r._, to assume the title of marquis.

=marquoir=, _n.m._, bodkin.

=marraine=, _n.f._, godmother, sponsor.

=marre=, _n.f._, mattock, hoe.

☉=marri=, =-e=, _adj._, sorry, grieved, concerned, troubled.

=marron=, _n.m._, (bot.) large French chestnut; chestnut; ☉large curl tied with a ribbon; cracker (fire-works); (milit.) mark; unlicensed broker; unlicensed printer; (print.) work printed clandestinely; chestnut color. _— d’Inde_; horse-chestnut. _— d’eau_; water-caltrops (fruit). _—s glacés_; candied chestnuts. _Tirer les —s du feu_; to pull the chestnuts out of the fire.

=marron=, _adj. invariable_, maroon, chestnut-color.

=marron=, =-ne=, _adj._, fugitive, runaway (of slaves); wild (of animals that have been tame); (com.) unlicensed, interloping. _Courtier —_; (com.) unlicensed broker. _Cochon —_; wild hog.

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

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

☉=marronner=, _v.a._, to curl the hair with curling-tongs.

=marronnier=, _n.m._, (bot.) French chestnut-tree, chestnut-tree. _— d’Inde_; horse-chestnut-tree.

=marrube=, _n.m._, (bot.) madwort; horehound; bugle-weed.

=mars= (mars), _n.m._, March; (chem.) Mars (iron); (astron.) Mars; (fig., poet.) war. _pl._, seed sown in spring. _Giboulées de —_; April showers. _Champ de —_; (milit.) large drilling ground. _Cela vient comme — en carême_; that comes very seasonably, _or_ in the nick of time.

=marseillaise=, _n.f._, Marseillaise (French national anthem).

=marsouin=, _n.m._, (mam.) porpoise, sea-hog; ugly wretch. _Vilain —_; ugly, disagreeable man.

=marsupial=, =-e=, _adj._, (natural hist.) marsupial.

=martagon=, _n.m._, (bot.) martagon, mountain-lily, Turk’s-cap.

=marte=, _n.f._ _V._ =martre=.

=marteau=, _n.m._, hammer, clapper; knocker; (ich.) hammer-fish; hammer-oyster. _Être entre le — et l’enclume_; to be in an embarrassing position. _— à deux mains_; sledge-hammer. _— d’une arbalète_; cross. _Graisser le —_; to fee the porter. _Avoir un coup de —_; to be somewhat gone in the upper story. _Il faut être enclume ou —_; you must bite _or_ be bitten. _N’être pas sujet au coup de —_; to be one’s own master.

=martel=, _n.m._, ☉hammer. [Only used in: _Avoir — en tête_; to be very uneasy. _Se mettre — en tête_; to fret one’s self to death.]

=martelage=, _n.m._, (tech.) hammering; (of trees) marking.

=martelé=, =-e=, _part._, hammered; (mus.) brilliant and distinct. _Vaisselle —e_; hammered plate. _Vers —s_; labored verses.

=marteler=, _v.a._, to hammer; to torment, to tease, to vex, to strain, to labor. _Il martèle ses vers_; he labors his verses.

=martelet=, _n.m._, little hammer.

=marteleur=, _n.m._, hammerman.

=martial=, =-e=, _adj._, martial, warlike, soldierly. _Code —_, _législation —e_; articles of war.

=martin=, _n.m._, (orni.) pastor, (kind of starling) _La Saint-—_; Martinmas. _— pêcheur_; kingfisher.

=martiner=, _v.a._, to tilt, to hammer.

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

=martingale=, _n.f._, (nav., man.) martingale. _Jouer à la —_; to play double or quits.

=martinisme=, _n.m._, martinism.

=martiniste=, _n.m._, martinist.

=martin-pêcheur=, _n.m._, (_—s-—s_) (orni.) kingfisher.

=martin-sec=, _n.m._, (_—s-—s_) a kind of pear.

=martre=, _n.f._, (mam.) marten, sable. _— zibeline_; sable. _Prendre — pour renard_; to take a cow for a bull.

=martyr=, _n.m._, =-e=, _n.f._, martyr. _Le commun des —s_; the common herd.

=martyre=, _n.m._, martyrdom. _Souffrir le —_; to suffer martyrdom. _Faire souffrir le — à quelqu’un_; to make any one suffer martyrdom.

=martyriser=, _v.a._, to make any one suffer martyrdom, to make a martyr of; to torment; to torture.

=martyrologe=, _n.m._, martyrology.

=martyrologiste=, _n.m._, martyrologist.

=marum= (-rom), _n.m._, (bot.) cat-thyme.

=mascarade=, _n.f._, masquerade, mask.

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

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

=mascaron=, _n.m._, (arch.) mask, grotesque figure.

=masculin=, =-e=, _adj._, masculine, male. _Fief —_; fee in tail male.

=masculin=, _n.m._, (gram.) masculine.

=masculiniser=, _v.a._, to make masculine. _Se —_, _v.r._, to become masculine.

=masculinité=, _n.f._, masculineness, masculinity.

=masque=, _n.m._, mask; blind, cloak, pretense; masker, masquerader, mummer; face-guard; (paint.) head; (arch.) mask. _Il a un bon —_; (of actors) his features are expressive. _Lever le —_; to pull off the mask. _Arraches les —s_; to tear off the disguise.

☉=masque=, _n.f._, ugly woman; naughty little girl.

=masqué=, =-e=, _part._, masked; disguised. _Être toujours —_; to be always close. _Bal —_; masked ball, masquerade.

=masquer=, _v.a._, to mask, to conceal, to cloak, to disguise; (milit.) to mask.

_se_ =masquer=, _v.r._, to be masked, to mask; to disguise one’s self; (of things) to be disguised.

=massacrant=, =-e=, _adj._, killing; cross, peevish, surly, dreadful, disagreeable. _Humeur —e_; awful temper.

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

=massacrer=, _v.a._, to massacre, to butcher, to murder, to slay, to slaughter; to bungle, to botch, to destroy; to hack (meat or poultry). _Cet acteur a massacré son rôle_; that actor murdered his part. _— des hardes_, _des meubles_; to spoil clothes, furniture.

=massacreur=, _n.m._, slaughterer, slayer; bungler, botcher.

=massage=, _n.m._, shampooing.

=masse=, _n.f._, mass, heap, lump; earnings; hoard; stock; mace; butt-end, butt; (jur.) creditors, estate (of bankrupts); (com.) capital stock, capital; (tech.) sledge-hammer. _— des biens_; (jur.) estate. _— des biens immeubles_; (jur.) real estate. _— des biens meubles_; (jur.) personal estate. _— de plume_; fifty pounds of feathers. _— de héron_; heron’s crest, tuft. _— d’eau_; typha, reed-mace. _En —_; in a body, in the mass, by the bulk. _Les —s_; the people as a whole, the million, the masses. _— d’armes_; mace. _Soulever les —s_; to stir up the people.

☉=masse=, _n.f._, stake, pool (at play).

=massement=, _n.m._, (milit.) massing of troops.

=massepain= (mas-pin), _n.m._, marchpane (kind of cake).

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

=massette=, _n.f._, (bot.) mace-reed, reed-mace; cat’s-tail. _— à larges feuilles_; great cat’s-tail.

=masseur=, =-se=, _n.m.f._, shampooer.

=massicot=, _n.m._, (chem.) massicot, masticot; paper-cutter.

=massier=, _n.m._, mace-bearer.

=massi-f=, =-ve=, _adj._, massive, bulky; lumpish; massy, solid; clumsy, heavy, dull. _Figure d’argent —_; figure of solid silver, of massive silver. _Avoir l’esprit —_; to be dull-minded.

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

=massivement= (-siv-mān), _adv._, massively, heavily, solidly; stupidly, dully.

=massiveté=, _n.f._, massiveness.

=massorah= _or_ =massore=, _n.f._, masorah, massora.

=massorète=, _n.m._, masorite.

=massorétique=, _adj._, massoretic, masoretic.

=massue=, _n.f._, club, crowbar. _Coup de —_; dreadful blow, heavy blow, knock-down blow; calamity.

=mastic=, _n.m._, mastic; cement; putty; (print.) transposition.

=masticage=, _n.m._, cementing, puttying.

=mastication=, _n.f._, mastication, chewing.

=masticatoire=, _n.m._, (med.) masticatory.

=mastigadour=, _n.m._, (vet.) masticador, slabbering-bit (of a bridle).

=mastiquer=, _v.a._, to putty; to cement.

=mastiquer=, _v.n._, to masticate.

=mastodonte=, _n.m._, (fos.) mastodon.

=mastoïde=, _adj._, (anat.) mastoid. _Apophyse —_; mastoid process.

=mastoïdien=, =-ne= (-in, -è-n), _adj._, (anat.) mastoidean.

=masturbation=, _n.f._, masturbation, self-pollution.

=masturber=, _v.a._, to pollute.

_se_ =masturber=, _v.r._, to commit self-pollution.

=masulipatan=, _n.m._, calico (sort of).

=masure=, _n.f._, ruins; hovel, hut, tumble-down house.

=mat= (mat), =-e=, _adj._, unpolished, dead, dull; flat, insipid; heavy, sodden; (chess) mated, checkmated. _Or —_; unpolished gold. _Coloris —_; dim coloring. _Broderie —e_; heavy embroidery.

=mat= (mat), _n.m._, (chess) mate; (tech.) deadening. _Donner_, _faire_, _échec et —_; to checkmate.

=mât= (mâ) _n.m._, mast; pole. _Le grand —_; the main-mast. _— de perroquet_; top-gallant-mast. _— de beaupré_; bowsprit. _— de misaine_; fore-mast. _— d’artimon_; mizzen-mast. _Bas — de misaine_; lower fore-mast. _Petit — de hune_; top-mast. _— de perroquet de fougue_; mizzen top-mast. _— de perruche_; mizzen top-gallant-mast. _— à pible_; pole mast. _— vertical_; mast on end. _—s inclinés vers l’arrière_; masts hanging abaft. _— d’un brin_; mast of one piece of wood only. _— d’assemblage_; made mast. _— forcé_; mast which is sprung. _— jumelé_, _reclampé_, _renforcé_; mast fished (in a weak place or opposite any spring). _— de pavillon_; ensign staff. _—s de hune de rechange_; spare top-masts. _—s majeurs_; standing masts. _Aller à —s et à cordes_; to scud under bare poles. _—s venus à bas_; disabled masts. _Caler les —s_; to lower the masts. _Lieu d’un —_; station of a mast. _Mettre_, or _guinder_, _les —s de hune_; to heave the top-masts on end. _— de fortune_; jury mast. _— de rechange_; spare mast. _— de cocagne_; greasy pole.

=matador=, _n.m._, matador; matadore (at play); magnate, big wig.

=mâtage=, _n.m._, masting (of a ship).

=matamore=, _n.m._, hector, bully.

=matasse=, _n.f._, raw silk; raw cotton.

☉=matassins=, _n.m.pl._, matachin dance; matachins; (figs.) buffoon.

=maté=, _n.m._, (bot.) maté; Paraguay tea.

=mâté=, =-e=, _adj._, (nav.) masted. _— en caravelle_; fitted with pole top-masts. _— en chandelier_; masted upright. _— en frégate_; having bent, inclined, masts. _— en vaisseau_; masted as a ship of the line. _— en fourche_; masted with a gaff. _— à pible_; pole-masted. _— en polacre_; masted with three pole masts and square sails. _— en heu_; masted for a sprit. _— en galère_; masted as a galley. _Haut —_, _trop —_; over-masted.

=matelas= (ma-tlâ), _n.m._, mattress; pad; wadding. _— d’un carrosse_; squab, cushion, of a coach. _— de bourre_; flock-bed. _— à air_; air mattress.

=matelasser= (ma-tla-sé), _v.a._, to cover with a mattress, to stuff.

=matelassi-er=, _n.m._, =-ère=, _n.f._, mattress-maker.

=matelot= (ma-tlô), _n.m._, seaman, sailor; (nav.) consort-ship. _Bon —_; able seaman. _— de première classe_; able-bodied seaman. _— à deniers_; seaman engaged for a specified time. _— à mariage_; seaman engaged for the whole voyage. _Vaisseau —_; good company-keeper.

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

=matelote= (ma-tlot), _n.f._, (cook.) matelote, fish-stew. _À la —_; seamanlike, sailor fashion.

=mâter=, _v.a._, to mast; to toss up (the oars). _Machine à —_; sheers. _Machine à — flottante_; sheer-hulk.

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

=mâtereau=, _n.m._, (nav.) small mast; spar, pole, staff.

=matérialiser=, _v.a._, to materialize.

=matérialisme=, _n.m._, materialism.

=matérialiste=, _n.m.f._ and _adj._, materialist; materialistic.

=matérialité=, _n.f._, materiality.

=matériaux=, _n.m.pl._, materials, material.

=matériel=, =-le=, _adj._, material; coarse, gross, rough; massy, heavy, dull. _Il est —_; he is a matter-of-fact man. _Faux —_; (jur.) forgery.

=matériel=, _n.m._, materials, stock, working-stock; stores, apparatus, fittings, plant. _— d’une armée_; baggage, ammunition, artillery. _— de siège_; siege apparatus. _— d’une imprimerie_; printing-office plant.

=matériellement= (-rièl-mān), _adv._, materially; coarsely, grossly, roughly.

=maternel=, =-le=, _adj._, maternal, motherly. _Parents —s_; relations on the mother’s side. _Langue —le_; mother-tongue.

=maternellement= (-nèl-mān), _adv._, maternally.

=maternité=, _n.f._, maternity.

=mâteur=, _n.m._, (nav.) mast-maker.

=mathématicien= (-siin), _n.m._, mathematician.

=mathématique=, _n.f._, mathematics. _—s pures_; pure mathematics. _—s mixtes_; mixed mathematics. _Etudier les —_; to study mathematics. [Rarely used in the singular.]

=mathématique=, _adj._, mathematical.

=mathématiquement= (-tik-mān), _adv._, mathematically.

=matière= (ma-ti-èr), _n.f._, matter; substance, stuff, fluid; subject, cause, reason, motive, grounds; theme, contents. _— brute_, _— première_; raw material. _—s d’or et d’argent_; bullion. _S’élever au-dessus de la —_; to soar above matter. _Donner — à parler_; to give occasion for talking. _En — de_; in point of, in matters of.

=matin=, _n.m._, morning, noon, forenoon; prime, dawn. _Demain —_; to-morrow morning. _Se lever de grand —_; to rise very early. _Un beau —_; some fine day, _or_ one fine morning. _Un de ces quatre —s_; one of these fine days.

=matin=, _adv._, early, early in the morning. _De grand_, or _de bon_, _—_; very early.

=mâtin=, _n.m._, mastiff; rascal, cur. _Mâtin!_ By Jove! _Ce — de_; that scoundrel of, that confounded, that cursed.

=matinal=, =-e=, _adj._, morning; early-rising; early, up early.

=matinalement=, _adv._, early.

=mâtine=, _n.f._, hussy, wench. _Cette — de_; that confounded, _or_ cursed.

=mâtineau=, _n.m._, little mastiff.

=matinée=, _n.f._, morning, forenoon, morning’s work; morning performance. _Dormir_, or _faire_, _la grasse —_; to lie in bed late in the morning, to sleep it out.

=mâtiner=, _v.a._, to serve (of a mastiff); to abuse, to disparage, to snub.

=matines=, _n.f.pl._, matins.

=matineu-x=, =-se=, _adj._ (generally), rising early; early riser (of persons).

=matini-er=, =-ère=, _adj._, morning, of the morning. [Only used in: _l’étoile —ère_; the Morning-Star.]

=matir=, _v.a._, to deaden (metals).

=matois=, =-e=, _adj._ and _n._, cunning, artful, sly, deep; cunning person, sly dog. _C’est un fin —_; he’s an artful blade.

=matoisement=, _adv._, cunningly, slyly.

=matoiserie= (ma-toa-zrî), _n.f._, cunning, slyness.

=matou=, _n.m._, tom-cat; ugly person, monkey, curmudgeon.

=matras= (-trâ), _n.m._, (chem.) matrass.

=matricaire=, _n.f._, (bot.) matricaria, feverfew.

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

=matrice=, _adj._, mother, principal, primitive, unmixed. _Eglise —_; mother-church. _Langue —_; mother-tongue. _Couleurs —s_; primitive, unmixed colors.

=matricide=, _n.m._, matricide.

=matriculaire=, _n.m._ and _adj._, matriculate; matriculated.

=matricule=, _n.f._ and _adj._, register, matricula; matriculation, certificate of matriculation; matriculation. _Registre —_; matriculation book.

=matrimonial=, =-e=, _adj._, matrimonial.

=matrone=, _n.f._, matron; ☉midwife.

=matte=, _n.f._, (metal.) matt. _pl._, clotted milk, curds.

=maturati-f=, =-ve=, _adj._, (med.) maturative.

=maturatif=, _n.m._, (med.) maturant.

=maturation=, _n.f._, maturation, ripening.

=mâture=, _n.f._, masting, masts, mast-store; wood for masts, sheer-hack, sheers.

=maturité=, _n.f._, maturity, ripeness, completion; consideration. _Avec —_; maturely, with consideration.

=matutinal=, =-e=, _adj._, (l.u.) matutinal.

=maubèche=, _n.f._, (orni.) knot, sandpiper.

=maudire= (maudissant, maudit), _v.a._, to curse, to imprecate, to rue.

=maudissable=, _adj._, execrable, detestable.

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

=maugréer=, _v.n._, to fret and fume, to curse and swear; to grumble.

=maupiteu-x=, =-se=, _adj._ and _n._, ☉cruel, pitiless. _Faire le —_; to look miserable (without cause).

=maure=, _n.m._ _V._ =more=.

=mauresque=, _adj._ _V._ =moresque=.

=mauricaud=, _adj._ _V._ =moricaud=.

=mausolée=, _n.m._, mausoleum.

=maussade=, _adj._, sulky, sullen, cross, disagreeable; unpleasant, dull, tedious; awkward; slovenly, clumsy.

=maussadement= (mô-sad-mān), _adv._, disagreeably, sullenly, peevishly.

=maussaderie= (mô-sa-drî), _n.f._, unpleasantness, sullenness, sulkiness.

=mauvais=, =-e=, _adj._, bad, ill, evil; mischievous, ill-natured; injurious; wrong, amiss; unpleasant; contrary, adverse; (print.) battered (of letters); unhandsome. _—e nouvelle_; bad news. _— livre_; mischievous, wretched book. _Avoir —e mine_; to look ill. _Prendre quelque chose en —e part_; to take a thing ill, in a bad sense, _or_ in bad part. _—e tête_; hot-headed person. _— sujet_; worthless fellow, rascal, scoundrel.

=mauvais=, _n.m._, bad. _Il faut prendre le bon et le —_; one must take the good with the bad.

=mauvais=, _adv._, bad, wrong. _Sentir —_; to have a bad smell. _Il fait —_; it is bad weather. _Trouver — que_; to take it ill that.

=mauve=, _n.f._, mallow; (orni.) sea-gull, sea-mew.

=mauviette=, _n.f._, lark; field-lark; lath (thin person); poor stick.

=mauvis=, _n.m._, (orni.) mavis, redwing, throstle.

=maxillaire=, _adj._, pertaining to the jaw, maxillary.

=maxime=, _n.f._, maxim. _Tenir pour — de_; to hold it as a maxim to.

=maximum=, _n.m._ (_—s_), (math.) (maxima), highest, height, maximum; acme; (com.) the highest price.

=mayonnaise=, _n.f._, (cook.) mayonnaise.

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

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

=md.=, (ab. of Marchand) shopkeeper.

=mde.=, (ab. of Marchande) shopkeeper.

=me=, _pron._, me; to me _or_ at me. _Il — blâme_; he blames me. _Vous — parlez_; you speak to me. _— voici_; here I am.

=meâ-culpâ=, _n.m._, (_—_) expression taken from the Confiteor. _Dire_, _faire_, _son —_; to repent; to confess one’s faults.

=méandre=, _n.m._, meander, winding.

=méat=, _n.m._, (anat.) meatus, duct, passage.

=mécanicien= (-in), _n.m._, mechanician; machinist, mechanic; engine-maker; engine-man; engine-driver. _Ingénieur —_; mechanical engineer. _Serruries —_; manufacturing locksmith.

=mécanique=, _n.f._, mechanics; mechanism; machine, machinery, piece of machinery; brake. _Serrer la —_; to put on the brake.

=mécanique=, _adj._, mechanic, mechanical, machine-made.

=mécaniquement= (-ni-kmān), _adv._, mechanically.

=mécaniser=, _v.a._, to use as a machine; (pop.) to tease, to plague. _— les hommes_; to use men as mere machines.

=mécanisme=, _n.m._, mechanism, machinery; structure; mechanical parts.

=mécène=, _n.m._, Mæcenas (a protector of science, art, and literature).

=méchamment= (mé-sha-mān), _adv._, wickedly, spitefully, maliciously, ill-naturedly.

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

=méchant=, =-e=, _adj._, bad, wretched, worthless; wicked, dishonest; sorry, paltry; wicked, ill-natured, mischievous, malicious; wayward, naughty, unkind; (of a horse) vicious. _— homme_; wicked man. _Il a la mine —e_; he has an ill-natured look. _Un — poète_; a sorry, wretched poet.

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

=mèche=, _n.f._, wick (of a lamp _or_ candle); tinder; match; screw, bit, auger; worm (of cork-screws, wimbles); (surg.) tent; center-bit; whip-lash, lock (of hair). _— anglaise_; center-bit. _Découvrir_, _éventer_, _la —_; (milit.) to discover the enemy’s match by means of a countermine; to find out the secret of a plot. _— de cheveux_; lock of hair. _Il n’y a pas —_; it’s no go; it can’t be done. _S’il y a —_; if it can be managed.

☉=méchef=, _n.m._, mischief, mischance; harm.

=mécher=, _v.a._, to fumigate with brimstone, to sulphur.

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

=mécompter=, _v.n._, to strike wrong (of clocks).

_se_ =mécompter= (mé-kon-tè), _v.r._, to miscalculate; to be disappointed; to be out in one’s reckoning. _Il s’est mécompté dans son raisonnement_; he is out in his reasoning.

=méconium= (-om) _n.m._, (med.) meconium.

=méconnaissable=, _adj._, not to be recognized; unrecognizable.

=méconnaissance=, _n.f._, unthankfulness, ungratefulness, ingratitude.

=méconnaissant=, =-e=, _adj._, thankless, ungrateful, unmindful.

=méconnaître=, _v.a._, not to know again, not to recognize; to disown, to disregard, not to know; to ignore, to slight, not to appreciate. _Il méconnaît ses parents_; he disowns his relations.

_se_ =méconnaître=, _v.r._, to forget one’s self.

=méconnu=, =-e=, _part._, unacknowledged; unrecognized; ignored, disowned, disregarded.

=mécontent=, =-e=, _adj._, dissatisfied, displeased, discontented. _Il est — de vous_; he is displeased with you. _Vous êtes — de tout_; you are discontented with everything.

=mécontent=, _n.m._, =-e=, _n.f._, dissatisfied person; malcontent. _C’est un —_; he is a discontented man.

=mécontentement= (-tan-tmān), _n.m._, discontent, discontentedness, dissatisfaction, displeasure. _Donner du — à_; to displease.

=mécontenter=, _v.a._, to discontent, to dissatisfy, to displease.

=mécréance=, _n.f._, infidelity, unbelief, irreligion.

=mécréant=, _n.m._, unbeliever, infidel.

=mécroire=, _v.n._, to disbelieve.

=médaille=, _n.f._, medal; (arch.) medallion; (of porters) badge, ticket; license. _— d’honneur_; prize-medal. _Chaque — a son revers_; everything has its bright and its dark side. _Le revers de la —_; the dark side of the picture. _Tourner la —_; to turn the tables. _La — est renversée_; the tables are turned.

*=médaillé=, =-e=, _n.m.f._ and _adj._, with a medal as a reward; (of porters) licensed. _n._, medalist, prize-winner.

=médailleur=, _n.m._, die-sinker.

*=médaillier=, _n.m._, cabinet of medals.

*=médailliste=, _n.m.f._, medalist.

*=médaillon=, _n.m._, medallion; locket.

=médecin= (mé-dsin), _n.m._, physician, doctor. _Faire venir le —_; to send for the doctor. _Il est abandonné des —s_; the doctors have given him up. _Docteur médecin_; doctor of medicine. _Un — d’eau douce_; a water-gruel doctor. _— chirurgien_; general practitioner. _— empirique_; quack doctor. _Le temps est un grand —_; time cures all ills _or_ time is the great healer.

=médecine= (mé-dsi-n), _n.f._, medicine, physic. _Etudiant en —_; medical student. _— légale_; forensic medicine. _— noire_; black draught.

=médeciner= (mé-dsi-né), _v.a._, to physic, to doctor.

_se_ =médeciner=, _v.r._, to physic, to doctor one’s self.

=médial=, =-e=, _adj._, (gram.) medial.

=médian=, =-e=, _adj._, (anat.) mesial, middle.

=médianoche=, _n.m._, meat-supper (after midnight).

=médiante=, _n.f._, (mus.) mediant.

=médiastin=, _n.m._, (anat.) mediastine.

=médiat=, =-e=, _adj._, mediate.

=médiatement= (mé-dia-tmān), _adv._, mediately.

=médiat-eur=, _n.m._, =-rice=, _n.f._, mediator, mediatrix. _adj._, mediatory.

=médiation=, _n.f._, mediation.

=médiatisation=, _n.f._, mediatization.

=médiatiser=, _v.a._, to mediatize.

=médical=, =-e=, _adj._, medical. _Matière —e_; materia medica.

=médicament=, _n.m._, medicament.

=médicamentaire=, _adj._, concerning medicines.

=médicamentation=, _n.f._, doctoring, physicking.

=médicamenter=, _v.a._, to physic, to doctor.

_se_ =médicamenter=, _v.r._, to physic, to doctor one’s self.

=médicamenteu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, medicamental.

=médication=, _n.f._, medication.

=médicinal=, =-e=, _adj._, medicinal.

=médimne=, _n.m._, (antiq.) medimnus.

=médiocre=, _adj._, mediocre, middling, ordinary, moderate, passable, indifferent.

=médiocre=, _n.m._, mediocrity.

=médiocrement=, _adv._, middlingly, indifferently, tolerably; poorly, hardly, barely.

=médiocrité=, _n.f._, mediocrity; moderate competence, moderate fortune, very ordinary performance.

=médique=, _adj._, Median.

=médionner=, _v.a._, to average; to take the average.

=médire=, _v.n._, to slander, to speak ill of, to backbite, to traduce. _— de son prochain_; to speak ill of one’s neighbor.

=médisance=, _n.f._, slander, scandal, backbiting; piece of slander.

=médisant=, =-e=, _adj._ and _n._, slanderous, scandalous; slanderer. _Il ne faut pas croire les —s_; slanderers are not to be believed.

=méditati-f=, =-ve=, _adj._ and _n._, meditative; meditative person.

=méditation=, _n.f._, meditation, thought.

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

=méditer=, _v.n._, to contemplate. _Passer sa vie à —_; to spend one’s life in meditation.

=méditerrané=, =-e=, _adj._, mediterranean, midland, inland. _La mer —e_; the Mediterranean Sea.

=méditerranéen=, =-ne=, _adj._, mediterranean.

=médium= (-om), _n.m._, (_—s_) medium; middle.

=médius=, _n.m._, middle-finger.

=médullaire= (mé-dul-ler), _adj._, medullary, medullar; (bot.) pithy.

=méduse=, _n.f._, (zoöl.) medusa, sea-nettle, jellyfish.

=meeting=, _n.m._, (_—s_) meeting.

=méfaire=, _v.n._, to do evil, to do harm, wrong.

=méfait=, _n.m._, misdeed; crime.

=méfiance=, _n.f._, mistrust, distrust, suspicion, caution. _La — est mère de la sûreté_; safe bind, safe find.

=méfiant=, =-e=, _adj._, mistrustful, distrustful, suspicious; cautious.

_se_ =méfier= (=de=), _v.r._, to mistrust, to distrust, to suspect; to beware, to mind; to be on one’s guard (against).

=mégalosaure= _or_ =mégalosaurus=, _n.m._, (foss.) megalosaurus.

=mégapode=, _n.m._, jungle-fowl.

=mégarde=, _n.f._, inadvertence. _Par —_; inadvertently.

=mégathérium=, _n.m._, (_—s_) (foss.) megatherium.

=mégère=, _n.f._, (myth.) Megæra; shrew, vixen, termagant.

=mégie=, _n.f._, tawing, leather-dressing.

=mégisser=, _v.a._, to taw.

=mégisserie= (mé-gi-srî), _n.f._, tawing, leather-dressing.

=mégissier=, _n.m._, tawer, leather-dresser.

*=meilleur=, =-e=, _adj._, better, preferable, more comfortable, best. _Le —_; the best.

*=meilleur=, _n.m._, best; best wine. _Le — du conte_ or _de l’histoire_; the best of the story. _Le — n’en vaut rien_; the bad is the best.

=meistre= _or_ =mestre=, _n.m._, (nav.) mast, main mast. _Mât de —_; main mast (of ships with lateen sails).

=méjuger=, _v.a._, to misjudge.

_se_ =méjuger=, _v.r._, to overreach one’s self.

=mélampyre=, _n.m._, (bot.) cow-wheat.

=mélancolie=, _n.f._, melancholy, sadness, melancholia. _Chasser la —_; to drive away the spleen. _Il n’engendre point la —_; he is a merry fellow.

=mélancolique=, _adj._, melancholy, dismal, gloomy; sad, dull; stern. _Séjour —_; dismal abode.

=mélancoliquement= (-lik-mān), _adv._, sadly, gloomily, sorrowfully, mournfully.

=mélange=, _n.m._, mixture, mingling, crossing; medley; mash (for brewing). _pl._, miscellaneous works, miscellanea. _Un bonheur sans —_; unalloyed happiness. _Sans —_; unmixed, unblended; (fig.) pure, unalloyed.

=mélanger=, _v.a._, to mix, to mingle, to blend; to cross; to mash, to intermix, to dash.

_se_ =mélanger=, _v.r._, to mix, to mingle, to blend, to temper; to be mashed.

=mélasse=, _n.f._, molasses, treacle.

=mêlé=, =-e=, _part._, mixed; miscellaneous; medley (of verses); irregular; (of rhymes) mixed.

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

=mêler=, _v.a._, to mingle, to mix, to mix up; to blend; to intersperse, to temper; to put in; to jumble; to bring in, to implicate, to involve; to shuffle (cards); to entangle. _— du fil_; to entangle thread. _— les cartes_; to shuffle the cards. _— une serrure_; to force a lock. _Il est mêlé dans une mauvaise affaire_; he is mixed up in a bad business.

_se_ =mêler=, _v.r._, to mingle, to be mingled, to be mixed; to tamper; to blend; to trouble one’s self about; to intermeddle; to interfere (with, in); to take upon one’s self, to presume; to take part in; to dabble in; to set one’s self to do; to engage in. _Se — dans la foule_; to mingle with the crowd. _Se — de_; to meddle with, to intermeddle. _Mêlez-vous de vos affaires_; mind your own business. _De quoi vous mêlez-vous?_ what business is that of yours? _Se — ensemble_; to commingle.

=mélèze=, _n.m._, (bot.) larch, larch-tree.

=mélianthe=, _n.m._, (bot.) honey-flower.

=mélilot=, _n.m._, (bot.) melilot, sweet-trefoil.

=méli-mélo=, _n.m._, (_—_) (fam.) medley, jumble.

=mélinet=, _n.m._, (bot.) honeywort.

=mélique=, _n.f._, _adj._, (bot.) melic grass. _Poésie —_; melic poetry.

=mélisse=, _n.f._, (bot.) balm-mint, garden-balm. _Eau de —_ or _eau des Carmes_; melissa water.

=mellifère=, _adj._, melliferous.

=mellifères=, _n.m.pl._, melliferous insects.

=mellification=, _n.f._, mellification.

=melliflu=, =-e=, _adj._, mellifluous, honeyed, sweet.

=meillifluité=, _n.f._, mellifluence.

=mellithe=, _n.f._, honey-stone, mellite.

=mélodie=, _n.f._, melody, melodiousness, sweetness, harmony.

=mélodieusement= (-eûz-mān), _adv._, melodiously, musically, sweetly.

=mélodieu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, melodious, musical, tuneful.

=mélodique=, _adj._, (mus.) melodious.

=mélodramatique=, _adj._, melodramatic.

=mélodramaturge=, _n.m._, melodramatist.

=mélodrame=, _n.m._, melodrama.

=mélomane=, _n.m._, melomaniac, person music-mad.

=mélomanie=, _n.f._, melomania.

=melon=, _n.m._, melon; (fig.) jockey-cap, hunting-cap; (of persons) simpleton, muff, flat. _— musqué_; musk-melon. _— d’eau_; watermelon.

=meloné=, =-e=, _adj._, melon-shaped.

=melongène= _or_ =mélongène=, _n.f._, mad-apple, egg-plant.

=melonnière=, _n.f._, melon-pit; melon-bed.

=mélopée=, _n.f._, (mus.) melopœia.

=méloplaste=, _n.m._, (mus.) sounding-board; meloplast.

=mémarchure=, _n.f._, sprain (in a horse’s leg).

=membrane=, _n.f._, (anat.) membrane, film; (orni.) web.

=membraneu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, membranous, filmy.

=membre=, _n.m._, member; limb; (nav.) ribtimber.

=membré=, =-e=, _adj._, limbed. _Bien —_; having well-made and well-proportioned limbs.

=membru=, =-e=, _adj._, large-limbed, stout-limbed.

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

=même=, _adj._, same; self; very own. _Une seule et — origine_; one and the same origin. _C’est la — chose_; it is all one. _Moi-même_; myself. _Eux-—s_; themselves. _C’est la bonté —_; she is goodness itself. _La — chose_; the same thing. _La chose —_; the very thing.

=même=, _adv._, even, also, likewise. _Il lui a tout donné, — ses habits_; he has given him everything, even to his clothes. _Les plus sages — le font_; even the wisest do it. _Quand — il me l’aurait dit_; even though he had said it me. _À — de_; in a position to, able to. _Mettre à —_; to enable. _Boire à — la bouteille_; to drink out of the bottle itself. _Vous êtes à — de rendre service à cet homme_; you are in a position to do that man a service. _Il vous a mis à — de le faire_; he has enabled you to do it. _De —_; the same; so; like. _Faites de —_; do the same. _Tout de —_; all the same, in the same manner. _De — que_; in the same manner as, so as, as.

=même=, _n.m._, same, same thing. _Cela revient au —_; it comes to the same thing _or_ it is all the same. _Faire au —_; (at billiards) to pocket straight. _Faire_ or _refaire au —_; to take in, to cheat; to give like for like; to pay back in his own coin; to give (any one) as good as he brings.

=mêmement=, _adv._, also, even, likewise.

=mémento= (-min-), _n.m._, (_—s_) memento, reminder, hint.

=mémoire=, _n.f._, memory, recollection, remembrance; commemoration; fame. _Avoir une — de lièvre_; to have a very short memory. _— fidèle_; retentive memory. _Je n’en ai pas la moindre —_; I have not the slightest recollection of it. _De — d’homme on n’a vu telle chose_; such a thing has not been seen within the memory of man. _Des choses dignes de —_; things worthy of commemoration. _Remettre dans la —_, _conserver la — de_; to remind, to remember. _Rappeler quelque chose à la — de quelqu’un_; to bring anything to any one’s recollection, to remind any one of anything. _En — de_; in memory of. _Réhabiliter la — d’un défunt_; to restore the fair fame of any one. _À la — de_; in memory of. _Si j’ai bonne —_; if I remember rightly.

=mémoire=, _n.m._, memorial; memorandum; bill, account. _Dresser un —_; to draw up a memorial. _— acquitté_; bill receipted. _— d’apothicaire_; exorbitant bill.

=mémorable=, _adj._, memorable.

=mémorandum= (-dom), _n.m._, memorandum; memorandum-book; memorial.

=mémorati-f=, =-ve=, _adj._, (fam.) mindful; recollecting. _Être — de quelque chose_; to remember anything.

=mémorial=, _n.m._, memorial; (com.) waste-book.

=mémorialiste=, _n.m._, memorialist.

=menaçant=, =-e=, _adj._, menacing, threatening. D’une manière —e; threateningly.

=menace=, _n.f._, menace, threat. _— en l’air_; empty threat. _Paroles de —_; threatening words.

=menacer=, _v.a._, to threat, to threaten, to menace; to forebode, to portend; to impend. _— de la main_; to threaten to strike (any one). _L’air nous menace d’un orage_; the air presages a storm _or_ there is thunder in the air. _— ruine_, _— de tomber_; to totter, to be on the point of ruin, to decay, to threaten to fall.

=ménade=, _n.f._ _V._ =bacchante=.

=ménage=, _n.m._, housekeeping, household; housewifery, house; household goods; family; husbandry, economy, saving. _Toile de —_; home-spun linen. _Liqueurs de —_; home-made wines. _Tenir —_, _être en —_; to keep house, to be a house-keeper. _Entrer en —_; to begin housekeeping. _Rompre son —_; to leave off housekeeping. _Dépense de —_; household expenses. _— de garçon_; bachelor’s household. _Faire bon —_; to live well together. _Pain de —_; household bread. _Toile de —_; homespun cloth. _Femme de —_; charwoman. _Elle entend bien le —_; she is a good house-wife. _Vivre de —_; to live sparingly. _Faire le —_; to do the housework. _Mettre en —_; to settle any one.

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

=ménager=, _v.a._, to husband, to manage, to spare, to be sparing, to save, to be saving; to take care of, to be careful of, to conduct carefully; to treat with caution, to treat gently, to treat kindly, to treat with respect, to humor, to bring about; to reserve; to procure; to contrive; to dispose, to arrange, to prepare; to help to. _— son bien_; to husband one’s fortune. _— quelqu’un_; to treat any one with respect, consideration. _Je n’ai rien à —_; I have no measures to keep. _Pour — notre faiblesse_; out of compassion for our weakness. _— les termes_; to weigh what one says. _— l’occasion_; to improve the opportunity. _— ses forces_; to spare one’s strength. _— ses amis_; to forbear being troublesome to one’s friends. _— son crédit_; to make the most of one’s credit. _Je lui ai ménagé une place_; I helped him to get a situation. _— ses ressources_; to husband one’s resources. _— une agréable surprise à_; to prepare, to procure, an agreeable surprise for. _— une étoffe_; to make the most of a stuff. _— un escalier dans un bâtiment_; to contrive a staircase in a house. _— la chèvre et le chou_; to hold with the hare and run with the hounds. _Qui vaut aller loin ménage sa monture_; he who wishes to live long avoids excess.

_se_ =ménager=, _v.r._, to take care of one’s self; to spare one’s self; to behave with care, with caution, to conduct one’s self cautiously. _Se — avec quelqu’un_; to keep in, to keep on good terms, with any one. _Se — entre deux partis contraires_; to steer a successful course between two adverse parties, and remain friendly with both.

=ménager=, _v.n._, to save, to save up. _Il ménage pour ses enfants_; he is saving up for his children.

=ménag-er=, =-ère=, _adj._, thrifty, saving, sparing, provident, frugal.

=ménager=, _n.m._, economist; thrifty, saving, frugal, sparing man. _Être bon — du temps_; to husband one’s time well.

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

=ménagerie= (-na-jrî), _n.f._, menagerie.

=mendiant=, =-e=, _n._ and _adj._, beggar, mendicant; beggar-woman; (c.rel.) mendicant-friar, mendicant. _Les quatre —s_; the four orders of mendicant friars; raisins, figs, almonds, and nuts (at dessert).

=mendicité=, _n.f._, beggary, mendicity; beggars; vagrancy. _La — est interdite_; begging is forbidden, _or_ no begging allowed.

=mendier=, _v.a._ and _n._, to beg; to beg for; (b.s.) to solicit meanly, to implore. _Il mendie son pain_; he begs his bread. _— sa vie_; to live by begging.

=mené=, =-e=, _part._ _adj._, led. _— par sa femme_; henpecked.

=meneau=, _n.m._, (arch.) mullion.

=menée=, _n.f._, underhand dealing, secret practice, plot, conspiracy; track. _Suivre la —_; (hunt.) to follow the track.

=mener=, _v.a._, to carry, to conduct, to lead, to drive (a carriage), to bring; to direct, to head, to command, to guide, to sway, to influence; to introduce, to take, to take along with; to amuse; to lead about, to manage, to steer; to handle; to humbug, to bamboozle. _— les bêtes aux champs_; to drive the cattle to the fields. _— paître les vaches_; to take, to drive, cows to pasture. _— quelqu’un en prison_; to convey any one to jail. _— un enfant par la lisière_; to have a child in leading-strings. _— quelqu’un à la baguette_; to rule any one with a tight hand. _— tambour battant_; to carry it with a high hand over. _— un grand train_; to make a great show. _— le branle_; to take the lead. _Menez-moi chez le ministre_; introduce me to the minister. _— de front_; to have several things on hand. _— bien sa barque_; to manage one’s affairs well.

=mener=, _v.n._, to drive; to lead, to conduct, to go. _Ce chemin mène à la ville_; this road leads to the town. _Cela ne mène à rien_; that leads to nothing, that is of no use.

=ménestrel=, _n.m._, minstrel.

=ménétrier=, _n.m._, village fiddler.

=meneur=, _n.m._, driver; agent for wet-nurses; leading man, ringleader.

=meneuse=, _n.f._, female agent for wet-nurses, baby-farmer.

=menhir=, _n.m._, (_—s_) (archæology) druidical-stone; menhir (standing-stone).

=méniane=, _n.f._, (arch.) verandah, balcony (in Italy).

=ménianthe=, _n.m._, (bot.) bog-bean, marsh-trefoil.

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

=méninge=, _n.f._, (anat.) meninges.

=méningite=, _n.f._, (med.) meningitis.

=ménippée=, _adj._ and _n.f._, of satires in the style of those of the philosopher Menippus. _Satire —_, _la —_; a satire which appeared in 1593 against the party of the Ligue (French hist.).

=ménisperme=, _n.m._, (bot.) menispermum, moon-seed.

=ménisque=, _n.m._, (opt.) meniscus.

=ménologe=, _n.m._, menology.

=menotte=, _n.f._, (fam.) little hand (of a child). _pl._, handcuffs, manacles. _Mettre les —s à_; to handcuff.

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

=mensole=, _n.f._, (archit.) keystone.

=mensonge=, _n.m._, lie, falsehood, untruth, story; error, illusion, vanity. _Débiter des —s_; to tell lies. _Tout petit —_, _— de rien_, _— de marchand_; white lie.

=mensong-er=, =-ère=, _adj._, lying, untrue, deceitful, false, counterfeit, illusory.

=mensongèrement=, _adv._, falsely, deceitfully, untruely; illusively.

=menstrue=, _n.m._, (chem.) menstruum.

=menstruel=, =-le=, _adj._, (med.) menstrual. _Flux —_; menses, catamenia.

=menstrues=, _n.f._, (physiology) menses, catamenia.

=mensuel=, =-le=, _adj._, monthly.

=mensuellement=, _adv._, monthly.

=mensurabilité=, _n.f._, mensurability.

=mensurable=, _adj._, mensurable.

=mental=, =-e=, _adj._, mental.

=mentalement= (-tal-mān), _adv._, mentally.

=menterie= (man-trî), _n.f._, story, fib, falsehood, untruth.

=menteu-r=, =-se=, _adj._, lying, false, deceitful.

=menteu-r=, _n.m._, =-se=, _n.f._, liar, story-teller, fibber. _Un — de profession_; a confirmed liar.

=menthe=, _n.f._, (bot.) mint. _— aquatique_; water-mint. _— verte_; spearmint. _— poivrée_; peppermint.

=mention=, _n.f._, mention, mentioning, naming.

=mentionner=, _v.a._, to mention, to make mention of, to name.

=mentir= (mentant, menti), _v.n._, to lie, to tell a lie, a story, a falsehood, an untruth; to fib, to speak false. _Gardez-vous bien de —_; beware of lying. _Il en a menti_; he is a liar. _Il n’enrage pas pour —_; he does not stick at a lie. _Se — à soi-même_; to belie one’s self. _À beau — qui vient de loin_; (prov.) travelers tell fine tales _or_ lie with impunity. _Sans —_, _à ne point —_; to tell the truth, in fact, indeed, candidly, really.

=menton=, _n.m._, chin. _— en galoche_; turned-up chin. _— à double étage_; double chin. _— qui avance_; prominent chin. _Avoir deux —s_; to be double-chinned.

=mentonnet=, _n.m._, (mec.) ear, tipper; catch.

=mentonni-er=, =-ère=, _adj._, (anat.) of the chin.

=mentonnière=, _n.f._, chin-piece, chin-band, chin-strap; bandage for the chin.

=mentor= (min-), _n.m._, mentor, guide, tutor.

=menu=, =-e=, _adj._, small, slender, spare, thin, inconsiderable, petty, minor. _Le — peuple_; the common people, the lower classes. _— plomb_; small shot. _— gibier_; small game. _— bétail_; small cattle. _—s plaisirs_; pocket-money.

=menu=, _n.m._, minute detail, particulars. _Le — d’un repas_; the bill of fare. _Un paquet de —_; a bundle of small linen. _Par le —_; minutely, in detail.

=menu=, _adv._, small, fine; minutely; with quick and short steps. _Il pleuvait dru et —_; the rain fell fine and fast. _Marcher_, _trotter_, _dru et —_; to walk with short and quick steps.

*=menuaille=, _n.f._, small money; fry, small fish; trash.

=menuet=, _n.m._, minuet.

=menuiser=, _v.a._ and _n._, to do carpenter’s work.

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

=menuisier=, _n.m._, joiner, carpenter and joiner. _— en bâtiments_; house-carpenter.

=menuisière=, _n.f._, carpenter’s wife.

=menuisière=, _adj.f._, (ent.) carpenter. _Abeille —_; carpenter-bee.

=ménure=, _n.f._, lyre-bird; lyre-pheasant.

=méphitique=, _adj._, mephitic.

=méphitisme=, _n.m._, mephitis, mephitism.

=méplat=, _n.m._, (paint.) flat, flat part, flattish curve.

=méplat=, =-e=, _adj._, (carp., paint.) flat, flatwise.

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

=mépris=, _n.m._, contempt, scorn, contumely. _pl._, contumelious language, contemptuous treatment. _Avoir du — pour quelqu’un_; to feel contempt for any one. _Au — des lois_; in defiance of the laws. _Témoigner du — pour_; to evince contempt for. _Tomber dans le —_; to fall into contempt. _La familiarité engendre le —_; familiarity breeds contempt.

=méprisable=, _adj._, contemptible, despicable.

=méprisablement=, _adv._, despicably.

=méprisant=, =-e=, _adj._, contemptuous, scornful.

=méprise=, _n.f._, mistake, oversight, misunderstanding; misapprehension; error. _Lourde —_; gross mistake. _Faire une grande —_; to make a great mistake.

=mépriser=, _v.a._, to contemn, to despise, to scorn; to slight; to set at naught; to undervalue; to disregard.

=mer= (mèr), _n.f._, sea, deep, ocean, main; tide, water; jar (frequently replenished). _La haute —_; main sea; high sea; high water. _— basse_; shallow sea, low water. _Port de —_; sea-port. _Un coup de —_; (nav.) a sea. _Homme de —_; seafaring man. _Loup de —_; expert seaman, Jack Tar; old salt. _D’outre-—_; beyond the seas. _En pleine —_; on the open sea, on the high seas. _Chercher quelqu’un par — et par terre_; to look for any one high and low. _C’est la — à boire_; it is an endless task, an impossibility. _Porter de l’eau à la —_; to carry coals to Newcastle. _La — est belle_; the sea is smooth. _Tenir la —_; to keep at sea. _Tenir bien la —_; to be a good sea-boat. _Jeter_, _tomber_, _à la —_; to throw, to fall, overboard. _Embarquer un coup de —_; to ship a sea. _Gros coup de —_; heavy sea. _Mettre à la —_; to put to sea. _Pouvoir tenir la —_; (nav.) to be seaworthy (of a ship). _En —_; at sea. _Prendre la —_; to go to sea. _Mal de —_; seasickness. _Il y avait beaucoup_ or _pas mal de —_; there was a good sea on. _Ecumeur de —_; sea-rover. _Entouré par la —_; sea-girt. _Apporté par —_; sea-borne.

=mercadet=, _n.m._, jobber.

=mercantile=, _adj._, mercantile, commercial; (fig.) grasping, sordid.

*=mercantille=, _n.f._, (l.u.) petty trading; hucksterage.

=mercenaire=, _adj._, mercenary, venal.

=mercenaire=, _n.m._, mercenary, hireling.

=mercenairement= (-nèr-mān), _adv._, mercenarily.

=mercerie=, _n.f._, mercery, haberdashery.

=merci=, _n.f._ (_n.p._), mercy, discretion, will, pleasure. _Crier —_; to cry for mercy. _Don d’amoureuse —_; lady’s favors. _Se mettre_, or _être_, _à la — de quelqu’un_; to be, to place one’s self, at any one’s mercy, discretion.

=merci=, _n.m._, thanks; thank you. _Dieu —_; thank God! _Grand —!_ much obliged! _Sa —_; (old) thanks to him.

=merci=, _adv._, thank you, I have had quite enough, I’d rather not.

=merci-er=, _n.m._, =-ère=, _n.f._, mercer, haberdasher. _Petit —_; haberdasher.

=mercredi=, _n.m._, Wednesday. _— des Cendres_; Ash-Wednesday.

=mercure=, _n.m._, (astron.) Mercury; quick-silver.

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

=mercuriel=, =-le=, _adj._, mercurial. _Onguent —_; mercurial ointment.

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

=mère=, _n.f._, mother; (of animals) dam; (fig.) cause, source, reason. _Belle-—_, (_—s-—s_) mother-in-law; step-mother. _Grand’—_, (_— —s_), (pop.) _—-grand_, (_—s-—_) grandmother. _Dure-—_, (_n.p._) dura mater. _Pie-—_, (_n.p._) pia mater. _Eau —_; mother water. _L’oisiveté est la — de tous les vices_; idleness is the mother of all vices. _— nourrice_; foster-mother. _La — patrie_; the mother-country. _Notre — commune_; our mother-earth.

=mère=, _adj._, mother; chief, primitive. _— goutte_; unpressed wine. _— laine_; fine wool.

=méreau=, _n.m._, counter, ticket, check.

=mérelle=, _n.f._ _V._ =marelle=.

=méridien= (-in), _n.m._, meridian.

=méridien=, =-ne=, _adj._, meridian.

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

=méridional=, =-e=, _adj._, meridional, southern.

=méringue= (-ringh), _n.f._, meringue (cake).

=mérinos= (-nôs), _n.m._, merino sheep; merino (stuff).

=merise=, _n.f._, wild cherry.

=merisier=, _n.m._, wild cherry-tree.

=méritant=, =-e=, _adj._, meritorious, worthy, deserving.

=mérite=, _n.m._, merit, worth; desert, talent, attainments. _Il sera traité selon ses —s_; he shall be dealt with according to his deserts. _Se donner le — de quelque chose_; to assume the merit of anything. _Se faire un — de_; to make a merit of. _Remplir son —_; to act up to one’s reputation.

=mériter=, _v.a._ and _n._, to deserve, to merit; to earn; to procure, to gain; to need, to require. _Il mérite d’être récompensé_; he deserves to be rewarded. _Cette nouvelle mérite confirmation_; that news requires confirmation. _Cela ne mérite pas qu’on en parle_; that is not worth mentioning.

=mérithalle=, _n.m._, (bot.) internode.

=méritoire=, _adj._, meritorious.

=méritoirement= (-toâr-mān), _adv._, meritoriously.

=merlan=, _n.m._, (ich.) whiting; (b.s.) journeyman hair-dresser.

=merle=, _n.m._, (orni.) blackbird. _— aquatique_; water-ouzel. _C’est un fin —_; he is a cunning blade _or_ fellow. _Dénicheur de —s_; person not to be trusted. _On ne prend pas les vieux —s à la pipée_; old birds are not to be caught with chaff.

=merlette=, _n.f._, (her.) martlet, hen blackbird.

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

=merlon=, _n.m._, (fort.) merlon.

=merluche=, _n.f._, (ich.) dried haddock; stockfish; salt-cod.

=merlus=, _n.m._, hake; haddock.

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

*=merveille=, _n.f._, wonder, marvel, miracle, prodigy. _À —_; admirably done, wonderfully well, capitally. _Faire des —s_; to perform wonders. _Promettre monts et —s_; to promise wonders. _Mes affaires vont à —_; my affairs are going on admirably, swimmingly. _Se porter à —_; to be in splendid health, to be very fit.

*=merveilleuse=, _n.f._, affected lady.

*=merveilleusement= (-eûz-mān), _adv._, wonderfully, admirably; wonderfully well.

*=merveilleu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, wonderful, wondrous, marvelous; remarkable.

*=merveilleux=, _n.m._, wonderful, marvelous part; marvelous, exquisite; coxcomb, swell, dandy, beau.

=mes= (mè), _adj.m.f.pl._, my.

=mésadvenir= _or_ =mésavenir=, _v.imp._, (l.u.) to come to any harm, to turn out ill.

=mésair= _or_ =mézair=, _n.m._, (man.) prancing.

=mesaise=, _n.m._, uncomfortableness, uneasiness.

=mésalliance=, _n.f._, misalliance, disparagement, bad match.

=mésallier=, _v.a._, to disparage; to marry (beneath one); (fig.) to lower, to degrade.

_se_ =mésallier=, _v.a._, to disparage one’s self; to lower _or_ degrade one’s self; to contract a misalliance; to marry beneath one.

=mésange=, _n.f._, titmouse, tomtit, tit.

=mésangette=, _n.f._, bird trap.

=mésarriver= _or_ =mésavenir=, _v.imp._, to come to any harm, to happen unluckily, to turn out ill.

=mésaventure=, _n.f._, mischance, mishap, misadventure.

=mésembryanthème=, _n.m._, (bot.) fig-marigold.

=mésentère=, _n.m._, (anat.) mesentery.

=mésentérique=, _adj._, (anat.) mesenteric.

=mésestime=, _n.f._, bad opinion, disesteem; disfavor, discredit, disrepute.

=mésestimer=, _v.a._, to disesteem, to undervalue, to depreciate, to despise.

=mésintelligence=, _n.f._, misunderstanding, variance, disagreement.

=mésinterprétation=, _n.f._, misinterpretation, misconstruction.

=mésinterpréter=, _v.a._, to misinterpret, to misconstrue.

=mesmérisme=, _n.m._, mesmerism.

=mésoffrir=, _v.n._, to underbid.

=mesquin=, =-e=, _adj._, mean, shabby; paltry, poor, pitiful; niggardly, illiberal.

=mesquinement= (-ki-n-mān), _adv._, shabbily, meanly.

=mesquinerie= (-ki-n-rî), _n.f._, meanness, shabbiness; mean _or_ paltry thing; stinginess, paltriness.

=mess=, _n.f._, (_—_) (milit.) mess, officers’ table.

=message=, _n.m._, message; errand.

=messag-er=, _n.m._, =-ère=, _n.f._, messenger, fore-runner, harbinger; carrier. _Les hirondelles sont les —ères du printemps_; swallows are the fore-runners _or_ harbingers of spring.

=messagerie= (mé-sa-jri), _n.f._, stage-coach office; stage-coach, coach, stage; carriage of goods; goods traffic, goods department. _—s liners_; steam packets.

=messaline=, _n.f._, dissolute woman, strumpet.

=messe=, _n.f._, (c.rel.) mass. _— haute_, _grand’—_ (_—-—s_); high mass, grand mass. _Petite —_, _— basse_; low mass. _— des morts_, _— de requiem_; mass for the dead. _— de minuit_; midnight service. _— du Saint Esprit_; invocation. _Livre des —_; prayer-book, church-service. _Près du moutier a — le dernier_; the nearer the church, the farther from God.

=messéance=, _n.f._, unseemliness, unbecomingness.

=messéant=, =-e=, _adj._, unseemly, unbecoming.

=messeigneurs=, _n.m.pl._, my lords.

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

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

=messie=, _n.m._, Messiah.

=messier=, _n.m._, keeper of standing crops, of vineyards.

=messieurs= (mè-sieû), _n.m.pl._, gentlemen, Messrs.

=messin=, =-e=, _adj._, native of Metz.

=messire jean=, _n.m._, (_—s-—s_) a variety of pear.

=mestre=, _n.m._ (nav.). _V._ =meistre=.

☉=mestre de camp=, _n.m._, colonel (of a horse or infantry regiment). _— général_; brigadier-general.

☉=mestre de camp=, _n.f._, the first company of a regiment.

=mesurable=, _adj._, measurable.

=mesurage=, _n.m._, measurement, measuring; gauging, surveying, metage.

=mesure=, _n.f._, measure, gauge, standard; dimension; (mus.) measure, bar; (fenc.) proper distance; (poet.) meter, measure; bound; extent, limit, compass; moderation, prudence; precaution; decorum; calculation, reckoning; propriety. _Il a comblé la —_; he has heaped up the measure. _Au fur et à — que_; in proportion as; according to. _Observer la —_; to keep time. _Battre la —_; to beat time. _Chanter_, or _aller_, _en —_; to keep time in singing. _Ne point garder de — avec une personne_; to have no regard, no consideration, for a person. _Cette idée passe la — de son esprit_; that idea is beyond the compass of his intellect. _Outre —_; excessively, beyond measure. _À — que_; in proportion as. _À —_; in proportion, accordingly. _À la —_; by measure, on draught. _A — que l’un avançait, l’autre reculait_; as one advanced, the other retired. _Vous n’avez qu’à travailler, et on vous paiera à —_; you need only work, and you’ll be paid accordingly. _Sans —_; beyond all measure, immeasurably, unguardedly. _Se mettre en — de_; to prepare to do anything, to get ready, to arrange. _Prendre ses —s_; to take one’s precautions.

=mesuré=, =-e=, _part._, measured, regular; cautious; circumspect, guarded, prudent. _Il est très — dans ses discours_; he is very guarded in what he says.

=mesurer=, _v.a._, to measure, to gauge; to proportion, to survey, to compare, to consider, to weigh, to examine. _— les autres à son aune_; to measure other people’s corn by one’s own bushel. _À brebis tondue Dieu mesure le vent_; God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb. _— ses discours_; to be cautious in what one says.

_se_ =mesurer=, _v.r._, to measure one’s self; to be measured; to vie, to contend, to cope with; to try one’s strength; to measure swords.

=mesureur=, _n.m._, measurer, meter, gauger.

=mésusage=, _n.m._, misuse, abuse.

=mésuser=, _v.n._, to misuse, to abuse.

=métabole=, _n.f._, (rhet.) metabola.

=métacarpe=, _n.m._, (anat.) metacarpus.

=métacarpien=, =-ne=, _adj._, metacarpal.

=métacentre=, _n.m._, (geom. nav.) metacenter.

=métachronisme= (-kro-), _n.m._, metachronism.

=métacisme=, _n.m._, metacism.

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