Chapter VII: Preface: To Revised Edition (7)

=autrement=, _adv._, otherwise; after another manner, another way; else; or else. _Faisons —_; let us go to work another way. _Entrez, — je fermerai la porte_; come in, or else I’ll shut the door. _C’est un homme qui n’est pas — riche_; he is a man who is not over rich.

=autrichien=, =-ne=, _adj._, _n.m.f._, Austrian.

=autruche=, _n.f._, (orni.) ostrich. _Avoir un estomac d’—_; to have the stomach of an ostrich; to digest anything.

=autrui=, _n.m._, _pron._, others, other people. _Dépendre d’—_; to depend on others. _Faire à — ce que nous voudrions qu’on nous fît_; to do by others as we would be done by. _Le bien d’—_; another’s property. _Mal d’— n’est que songe_; we make light of the ills of others.

=auvent=, _n.m._, shed, penthouse, lean-to.

=auvernat=, _n.m._, Orléans wine.

=aux= (_pl._ of au), _art._, to the. _V._ =à=.

=auxdits=, =auxdites=, _adj.m.f.pl._, to the said.

=auxiliaire=, _adj._, auxiliary, subsidiary. _Verbe —_; auxiliary verb.

=auxiliaire=, _n.m._, auxiliary; helper, assistant.

_s’_=avachir=, _v.r._, to flag; to grow fat and flabby; to get out of shape, to run down at heel.

=aval=, _adv._, down, downwards, down stream. _Le vent vient d’—_; the wind is blowing up stream. _En — de_; below. _Vent d’—_; westerly wind.

=aval=, _n.m._, (com.) guarantee, indorsement. _Mettez votre — au dos de ce billet_; indorse that bill.

=avalaison=, _n.f._, flood, torrent; (nav.) a long-continued west or northwest wind.

=avalanche=, _n.f._, avalanche, snow-slip.

=avalasse=, _n.f._ _V._ =avalaison=.

=avalé=, =-e=, _part._, flagging, hanging down; sunk, fallen in; gone down stream.

=avaler=, _v.a._, to swallow, to swallow down; to let down; to endure, to pocket (affront); to lower (things into a cellar); to drink, to toss off; (gard.) to lop; to gulp down. _— un affront_; to pocket an insult. _Il ne fait que tordre et —_; he gobbles up everything. _— du vin dans une cave_; to let wine down into a cellar. _— une branche_; to lop off a branch close to the trunk. _— des couleuvres_; to pocket many affronts.

=avaler=, _v.n._, to go down, drop off (the river with the stream).

_s’_=avaler=, _v.r._, to flag, to hang down, to fall down or in; to be swallowed.

=avalette=, _n.f._, a sort of float (angling).

=avaleur=, _n.m._, swallower, glutton. _— de pois gris_; a great glutton. _— de charrettes ferrées_; a braggadocio.

=avaloire=, _n.f._, a large throat or swallow; (saddlery) breeching; (hat making) stamper.

=avançage=, _n.m._, cab stand, stand.

=avance=, _n.f._, advance, start, distance in advance; projection, prominence; advance-money; first step, offer; gain, benefit. _Il a quatre lieues d’— sur moi_; he is four leagues ahead of me. _Faire une — de mille écus_; to advance a thousand crowns. _Faire les —s d’une entreprise_; to advance the funds for an enterprise. _Faire des —s_; to make advances to. _Prendre l’—_; to get the start. _D’—_; beforehand. _Payer d’—_; to pay beforehand. _Prévenir d’—_; to warn beforehand. _À l’—_, _en —_, _par —_; beforehand, before one’s time, by anticipation.

=avancé=, =-e=, _part._, advanced; forward, early; late (of the hour). _Un homme — en âge_; an elderly man. _Un jeune homme fort —_; a very forward youth. _Les arbres sont —s_; the trees are forward. _Je n’en suis pas plus —_; I am not a bit the better off for it. _Viande —e_; meat which is getting bad. _Me voilà bien —!_ that’s all I get for my pains; I am in a pretty predicament.

=avancée=, _n.f._, (milit.) advance guard.

=avancement= (-mān), _n.m._, progress, advancement; improvement; preferment, promotion, rise.

=avancer=, _v.a._, to advance, to bring, to put forward; to hold out, to stretch out, to set forward; to bring nearer; to hasten; to forward; to pay beforehand; to lay out or down; to assert, to bring forth, to urge; to hold forth; to promote, to put on (a clock); to broach, to bring forward (opinion); to give (a chair). _Avancez la table_; push the table forward. _— le pied_; to put one’s foot forward. _Faire —_; to push, to push on. _Cela a avancé sa mort_; that hastened his death. _— l’horloge_; to put the clock on. _— le dîner_; to hasten dinner. _— un ouvrage_; to forward a piece of work. _Il lui a avancé de l’argent_; he has advanced him some money. _— les intérêts de quelqu’un_; to promote any one’s interests. _Pouvez-vous prouver ce que vous avancez?_ can you prove your assertion? _On l’a avancé_; he has been promoted.

=avancer=, _v.n._, to advance, to get on, to proceed, to march on, to move forward, to keep on, to go too fast; to come out; to jut out; to lean over, to bear out; to encroach; to improve, to make some progress; to thrive; to rise. _Avancez-donc!_ come along! _L’horloge avance_; the clock is fast. _Cette maison avance trop sur la rue_; that house juts out too much into the street. _— en âge_; to advance in years. _Faire — une voiture_; to call a cab. _Cela m’— bien!_ what good is that to me?

_s’_=avancer=, _v.r._, to advance, to go on, to move forward; to stand forth; to draw near, to come up; to get on, to improve; to get preferred, to be successful; to go far; to jut out, to project. _Cet ambassadeur s’est trop avancé_; that ambassador has gone too far. _Le temps s’avance_; time flies. _S’— à cheval_; to ride up. _S’— en voiture_; to drive up. _S’— à la voile_; to sail up. _S’— en courant_; to run up.

=avanceur=, _n.m._, gold-wire drawer.

=avanie=, _n.f._, insult, affront, outrage.

=avant=, _n.m._, (nav.) prow, head, bow of a ship. _De l’— à l’arrière_; from stem to stern. _Gagner l’— de_; to get ahead of, to get a headway (on a ship).

=avant=, _prep._, (of time and order) before. _J’ai vu cela — vous_; I saw that before you. _— toutes choses_; above all things. _— tout_; first of all, before all.

=avant=, _adv._, far, deep, forward, far advanced. _D’—_; before. _En —!_ forward! march on! _En — de_; before, in front of. _Mettre en —_; to bring forward. _N’allez pas si —_; don’t go so far. _Creuser fort — dans la terre_; to dig very deep in the ground. _Plus —_; further, deeper. _Bien — dans la nuit_; very late at night. _Nous étions bien — en mer_; we had got a great way out to sea. _Aller de l’—_; (nav.) to go ahead.

=avant que=, _conj._, before. _— qu’il soit un an_; before a year is over.

=avantage=, _n.m._, advantage, vantage-ground, pleasure; benefit, profit, interest; behalf, behoof; (nav.) weather-gauge; (man.) whip-hand; odds (at play). _Avoir l’— sur_; to have the advantage over. _Avoir l’—_; to win, to prevail. _On lui a fait tous les — possibles_; they gave him every possible advantage. _Quel — vous en revient-il?_ what benefit do you reap from it? _On peut dire ceci à son —_; this may be said in his favor. _Nos troupes ont eu l’—_; our troop have had the best of it. _Tirer — de tout_; to turn everything to account. _J’ai perdu, vous avez l’—_; I have lost, you have the better of the game. _S’habiller à son —_; to dress to the best advantage.

=avantager=, _v.a._, to advantage; to bestow an advantage on; to favor. _La nature l’avait avantagé de beaucoup de qualités précieuses_; nature had endowed him with many inestimable qualities.

=avantageusement=, (-mān), _adv._, advantageously, to advantage; usefully; beneficially, favorably; highly. _S’habiller —_; to dress to the best advantage. _Parler — de quelqu’un_; to speak highly of any one.

=avantageu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, advantageous, profitable, beneficial, eligible; conceited, presuming; overbearing; (of dress) becoming. _Conditions —ses_; advantageous terms. _Coiffure —se_; a becoming way of dressing the hair. _Un ton —_; a confident, assuming tone. _C’est un homme —_; he is a conceited fellow, vain, presuming.

=avant-bec=, _n.m._, (_—-—s_) (arch.) starling of a bridge, pier, ice-breaker, cutwater.

=avant-bras=, _n.m._, (_—_) fore-arm.

=avant-corps=, _n.m._, (_—_) (arch.) fore-part.

=avant-cour=, _n.f._, (_—-—s_) fore-court.

=avant-coureur=, _n.m._, (_—-—s_) (mil.) van-courier, forerunner, precursor; harbinger.

=avant-courri-er=, _n.m._, =-ère=, _n.f._, (_—-—s_) forerunner, harbinger.

=avant-derni-er=, =-ère=, _adj._ and _n._, (_—-—s_) the last but one. _L’—e syllabe_; the penultimate.

=avant-faire-droit=, _n.m._, (_—_) preventive injunction.

=avant-fossé=, _n.m._, (_—-—s_) (fortif.) advance-fosse.

=avant-garde=, _n.f._, (_—-—s_) vanguard; (nav.) van.

=avant-goût=, _n.m._, (_—-—s_) foretaste, earnest, anticipation.

=avant-hier= (-ti-ère), _adv._, the day before yesterday.

=avant-jour=, _n.m._, (_n.p._) morning-twilight.

=avant-main=, _n.m._, (_—-—s_) (man.) fore-hand of a horse; (tennis) fore-hand stroke; (at cards) lead.

☉=avant-midi=, _n.m._, (_—_) forenoon.

=avant-mur=, _n.m._, (_—-—s_) outward wall, screen-wall.

=avant-pêche=, _n.f._, (_—-—s_) early peach.

=avant-pied=, _n.m._, (_—-—s_) vamp, upper-leather of a boot.

☉=avant-plancher=, _n.m._, (_—-—s_) false-ceiling.

=avant-poignet=, _n.m._, (_—-—s_) fore-wrist.

=avant-port=, _n.m._, (_—-—s_) (nav.) outer harbor, tide-dock.

=avant-portail=, _n.m._, (_—-—s_) fore-portal.

=avant-poste=, _n.m._, (_—-—s_) (milit.) out-post.

=avant-propos=, _n.m._, (_—_) preface, preamble; introduction, exordium.

=avant-quart=, _n.m._, (_—-—s_) (horl.) warning-bell.

=avant-scène=, _n.f._, (_—-—s_) front of the stage; proscenium, stage-box.

=avant-toit=, _n.m._, (_—-—s_) fore-roof, projecting roof, eaves.

=avant-train=, _n.m._, (_—-—s_) fore-carriage, limber.

*=avant-veille=, _n.f._, (_—-—s_) two days before.

=avare=, _adj._, avaricious, miserly, covetous; stingy, close-fisted, sparing; penurious, niggardly. _Être — de ses louanges_; to be sparing of praise. _À père — enfant prodigue_; a miserly father has a spendthrift son.

=avare=, _n.m._, miser, niggard; pinch-penny.

=avarement=, _adv._, avariciously.

=avarice=, _n.f._, avarice, avariciousness, covetousness; niggardliness; stinginess. _Par —_; from avarice.

=avaricieu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, (l.u.) avaricious, covetous; stingy.

=avarie=, _n.f._, damage (done in conveying goods); (com.) damage, loss, repairs. _—s communes_; (com.) general average. _Menues —s_; small averages. _—s simples_; ordinary damage. _Sans —_; without mishap. _Causer une —_; to damage. _Régler les —s_; to state the averages.

=avarié=, =-e=, _adj._, damaged.

=avarier=, _v.a._, to damage. _S’—_, _v.r._, to become damaged.

=avaste=, _int._, (nav.) avast, stop, stay.

=à vau-l’eau=, _adv._, with the stream, downstream. _Toutes son entreprises sont allées —_; all his undertakings have come to nought.

=à vau-de-route=, _adv._, in flight.

=avé=, _n.m._, (_—_) ave. _— Maria_; ave Maria.

=avec=, _prep._, with, together with; among. _Venez — moi_; come with me. _— dessein_; designedly. _— tout cela_; for all that, nevertheless. _Il a pris mon manteau, et s’en est allé —_; he has taken my cloak, and has gone off with it. _Discerner le bien d’— le mal_; to discern good from evil, _— ça!_ (coll.) nonsense!

=avecque=, _prep._, obsolete spelling of =avec=.

=aveindre= (aveignant, aveint), _v.a._, to take out, to fetch out.

=aveine=, _n.f._ _V._ =avoine=.

=avelanède=, _n.f._, acorn-cup, valonia.

=aveline=, _n.f._, filbert, cob-nut.

=avelinier=, _n.m._, filbert-tree.

=avénage=, _n.m._, avenage (due, paid in oats).

=avenant=, _part._ _V._ =advenant=.

=avenant=, =-e=, _adj._, good-looking, prepossessing, comely, pleasing, taking. _Physionomie —e_; pleasing features. _Manières —es_; prepossessing, engaging manners. _n._, declaration of altered policy (insurance).

_à l’_=avenant=, _adv._, appropriate; in keeping with. _Le dessert fut à l’— du repas_; the dessert was in keeping with the repast. _Et tout à l’—_; and all corresponding, matching.

=avènement= (-mān), _n.m._, coming, accession, succession, advent. _L’— du roi à la couronne_; the king’s accession to the crown. _L’— du Messie_; the coming of the Messiah.

=avèneron=, _n.m._, wild oats.

=avenir=, _n.m._, the future, futurity, existence, future welfare, hopes, prospects; (jur.) venire facias. _À l’—_; in future. _On ne peut répondre de l’—_; one cannot answer for the future. _J’assure un — à mes enfants_; I secure a competence for my children. _Cet homme n’a aucun —_; that man has no prospects. _D’—_, or _qui a de l’—_; promising, rising.

☉=avenir=, _v.n._ _V._ =advenir=.

=à-venir=, _n.m._ (_—_), (jur.) summons to an attorney to appear for his client.

=avent=, _n.m._, Advent.

=aventure=, _n.f._, adventure, occurrence; chance, accident, luck; fate, lot. _À l’—_; at a venture, at random. _Une plaisante —_; a droll adventure. _Grosse —_; (com.) bottomry. _Dire la bonne —_; to tell people’s fortunes. _Se faire dire sa bonne —_; to have one’s fortune told. _Une diseuse de bonne —_; a fortune-teller. _Tenter l’—_; to make a trial, to try one’s luck. _Mal d’—_; whitlow. _D’—_, _par —_; by chance, perchance. _Si par —_; if peradventure, if by chance.

=aventuré=, =-e=, _part._, hazardous, hazarded, bold.

=aventurer=, _v.a._, to venture, to put to the venture, to risk.

_s’_=aventurer=, _v.r._, to venture, to take one’s chance, to hazard, to risk one’s self.

=aventureu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, venturous, venturesome, adventurous.

=adventuri-er=, _n.m._, =-ère=, _n.f._, adventurer, adventuress.

=aventurine=, _n.f._, avanturine, venturine.

=avenu=, =-e=, _part._, come to pass, happened. _Acte nul et non —_; act that is null and void.

=avenue=, _n.f._, avenue, approach, walk.

=avéré=, =-e=, _part._, averred, established by evidence.

=avérer=, _v.a._, to aver, to prove the truth of, to confirm, to establish.

=averhan=. _V._ =tétras=.

=à verse=, _adv._, fast (of rain). _Il pleut —_; it is pouring with rain.

=averse=, _n.f._, shower of rain; down-pour.

=aversion=, _n.f._, aversion, hate, hatred; antipathy, dislike, detestation. _Prendre quelqu’un en —_; to take an aversion to one. _Cet homme est ma bête d’—_; that man is my bugbear, my pet aversion.

=averti=, =-e=, _part._, warned, informed. _Se tenir pour —_; to be on one’s guard, to take it as a warning. _Un bon — en vaut deux_; forewarned, forearmed.

=avertir=, _v.a._, to warn, to caution; to inform of, to acquaint with, to give notice of, to admonish. _Faire —_; to send notice, word.

=avertissement= (-mān), _n.m._, information, advice, (b.s.) warning, caution; notification; advertisement (of books); (b.s.) admonition.

=avertisseur=, _n.m._, monitor, adviser; (official) public crier; (thea.) call-boy. _— d’incendie_; fire-alarm.

=aveu=, _n.m._, avowal, confession, acknowledgment, admission; approbation, consent, recognition. _Homme sans —_; vagrant, vagabond. _Faire l’— de_; to confess.

=aveugle=, _adj._, blind, sightless; deluded; ignorant, implicit. _— de naissance_ or _né_; born blind. _Obéissance —_; implicit obedience. _Changer son cheval borgne contre un —_; to change from bad to worse. _La fortune est —_; fortune is blind.

=aveugle=, _n.m.f._, blind person. _Un — y mordrait_; a blind man would see it. _C’est un — qui en conduit un autre_; it is the blind leading the blind. _Crier comme un — qui a perdu son bâton_; to cry out before one is hurt.

=aveuglement=, _n.m._, blindness, infatuation.

=aveuglément=, _adv._, blindly, rashly, implicitly.

=aveugler=, _v.a._, to blind, to make blind; to put out the eyes of; to dazzle; to delude; to obscure, to cloud; (nav.) to fother. _La passion aveugle l’entendement_; passion obscures the understanding. _— une voie d’eau_; (nav.) to fother a leak. _La trop grande lumière aveugle_; too much light dazzles the eyes.

_s’_=aveugler=, _v.r._, to blind one’s self, to shut one’s eyes to, to be blinded, to deceive one’s self.

_à l’_=aveuglette=, _adv._, (fam.) groping in the dark. _Aller —_; to go groping along, blindly, rashly.

=avicule=, _n.f._, (mol.). _V._ =aronde=.

=avide=, _adj._, greedy of, eager for, thirsting for; voracious; covetous, rapacious. _Un homme —_; a covetous man. _— de gain_; eager for gain.

=avidement= (-mān), _adv._, greedily, eagerly, voraciously, covetously.

=avidité=, _n.f._, avidity, greediness, eagerness, covetousness.

=avilir=, _v.a._, to debase, to demean, to disgrace, to vilify; to disparage, to discredit, to depreciate, to lower.

_s’_=avilir=, _v.r._, to disgrace one’s self, to debase one’s self, to grow contemptible.

=avilissant=, =-e=, _adj._, debasing, degrading, humiliating.

=avilissement= (-mān), _n.m._, degradation, debasement, depreciation, contempt, vileness.

=aviné=, =-e=, _part._, drunk, drunken, unsteady (from drink). _Il est —_; _c’est un corps —_; he is a regular tippler.

=aviner=, _v.a._, to season with wine.

=aviron=, _n.m._, (nav.) oar. _— de couple_; scull. _Aller à l’—_; to row. _Donner un coup d’—_; to lend a helping hand.

=avironnerie=, _n.f._, oar-maker’s shed.

=avironnier=, _n.m._, oar-maker.

=avis=, _n.m._, opinion, sentiment, mind, judgment; advice, counsel, deliberation, admonition; notice, notification; warning, caution; account, information, intelligence, news; motion; vote; advertisement (in books). _À mon —_; in my opinion. _Je suis d’— que vous lui écriviez_; I am of opinion that you should write to him. _Je ne suis pas d’— d’y aller_; I am not for going there. _Dire son —_; to say, speak one’s mind. _Je profiterai de l’— que vous me donnez_; I shall avail myself of the caution you have given me. _— au lecteur_; a note to the reader; a word to the wise. _J’ai changé d’—_; I have altered my mind. _On a reçu — de Paris_; we are advised from Paris. _Lettre d’—_; letter of advice. _Faute d’—_; for want of advice. _Sous —_; with advice. _Suivant l’— de_; as per advice. _Donner à quelqu’un un — de quelque chose_; to advise any one of anything. _Ne m’écris plus jusqu’à nouvel —_; write no more till further notice. _Ouvrir un —_; to broach an opinion. _Être d’—_; to opine. _Prendre les —_; to take the opinion. _Aller aux —_; to put to the vote. _Donner un — assez clair à quelqu’un_; to give a pretty broad hint to any one. _Il m’est —_; I rather think or methinks. _Deux —s valent mieux qu’un_; two heads are better than one. _Il y a jours d’—_; there is no hurry; there is plenty of time.

=avisé=, =-e=, _adj._, wary, discreet, prudent, cautious, advised, circumspect. _Mal —_; ill-advised, _il est fort —_; he is a very discreet man.

=aviser=, _v.a._, to apprise; to perceive; to espy; (com.) to advise.

=aviser=, _v.n._, to consider, to see to, to think upon, to look to. _Avisez-y_; look to it. _Vous y aviserez_; you will see to it.

_s’_=aviser=, _v.r._, to think of, to consider, to take it into one’s head; to bethink one’s self, to be so minded, to dare, to presume. _Il ne s’avise jamais de rien_; he thinks of nothing. _Il s’avisa de_; he took it into his head to. _Il n’y a sottise dont il ne s’avise_; there is no folly he does not commit. _Il s’avisa d’un bon expédient_; he bethought himself of a good expedient. _Ne vous en avisez pas_; you had better not.

=aviso=, _n.m._, (nav.) dispatch-boat.

*=avitaillement=, _n.m._, (nav., milit.) victualing; stores.

*=avitailler=, _v.a._, to victual, to furnish with victuals, to store.

☉*=avitailleur=, _n.m._, army or navy contractor.

=avivage=, _n.m._, first laying of tin-foil on glass; hewing.

=aviver=, _v.a._, to polish, to burnish, to brighten.

=avives=, _n.f.pl._, (vet.) vives.

=avivoir=, _n.m._, polisher, burnisher (tool).

=avocasser=, _v.n._, to be a pettifogger, to drudge at the bar.

=avocasserie=, _n.f._, pettifoggery, caviling, quibble, twaddle.

=avocat=, _n.m._, counsel, barrister, advocate, pleader, intercessor. _— de causes perdues_, _— de Pilate_, _— de balle_, _— à tort_; briefless barrister. _— consultant_; chamber-counsel. _— principal_; leading barrister. _— général_; solicitor general. _Plaider par —_; to be represented by counsel.

=avocate=, _n.f._, female advocate; mediatrix, intercessor.

=avocette=, _n.f._, (orni.) avoset.

=avoine=, _n.f._, oats. _—s_; oats still standing. _D’—_; of oats. _Farine d’—_; oatmeal. _Balle d’—_; oatchaff. _Folles —s_; wild oats.

=avoinerie=, _n.f._, oat-field.

=avoir= (ayant, eu), _v.a._, to have; to get, to possess, to enjoy; to be; to be worth; to be the matter with, to ail; to have on. _— pour agréable_; to like. _— honte_; to be ashamed. _— raison_; to be right. _— raison de_; to get the mastery over. _— tort_; to be wrong. _— peur_; to be afraid. _— faim_; to be hungry. _— soif_; to be thirsty. _Vous n’avez qu’a dire_; you need only say the word. _Qu’est-ce que vous avez?_ what ails you? what is the matter with you? _Faire —_; to procure for. _Quel âge avez-vous?_ how old are you? _Il a quarante ans_; he is forty. _J’ai à vous parler_; I have something to tell you. _Il avait un habit bleu_; he had on a blue coat. _En —_; to catch it. _Il en a_; he has caught it. _En a-t-il!_ what a lot he has! _Y —_; there to be, to be the matter. _Il ne saurait y — de différence_; there can be no difference. _Il y en a de noirs_; there are some black ones. _C’est une femme comme il n’y en a point_; she has not her like, her match. _Il y a plus_; nay, more. _Il y en a encore_; there is still some left. _Il y a de quoi_; there is enough, or good reason to. _Il n’y a pas de quoi_; don’t name or mention it; there is no offense. _Je suis venu ici il y a deux mois_; I came here two months ago. _Il n’y a tel que d’en_; money makes the man. _Il y a un an qu’il est mort_; he has been dead a year. _Il y a deux mois que je suis ici_; I have been here two months. _Il y a une heure que nous écrivons_; we have been writing for the last hour. _Combien y a-t-il de Paris à Londres?_ how far is it from Paris to London? _En — à_; to owe a grudge to. _— dans la main_; to hold in the hollow of one’s hand. _— la parole_; to be entitled to speak, to be in possession of the House. _Vous avez la main_, _le dé_, _la boule_; it is your turn to play (at cards, at dice, at billiards).

=avoir=, _n.m._, possessions, substance, property, what one is worth; (com.) credit, creditor, creditor-side. _Voilà tout mon —_; this is all I have.

=avoir du poids=, _n.m._, (_n.p._) avoirdupois.

=avoisinant=, =-e=, _adj._, neighboring, adjoining, close by.

=avoisiné=, _part._, with neighbors. _Être bien_ or _mal —_; to have good or bad neighbors.

☉=avoisinement= (-mān), _n.m._, nearness, proximity.

=avoisiner=, _v.a._, to border upon, to be situated near, to be contiguous to.

=avorté=, =-e=, _adj._, abortive, miscarried; (bot.) abortive; frustrated, baffled; imperfect.

=avortement=, _n.m._, abortion, miscarriage, failure.

=avorter=, _v.n._, to miscarry; to slip; to prove abortive; to fail. _Faire —_; to cause or procure abortion. _Ce dessein avorta_; that plan failed. _Faire — les desseins de quelqu’un_; to baffle any one’s designs.

=avorton=, _n.m._, abortion; abortive child. (fig.) _Un — de mouche_; a wretched, paltry, miserable fly.

=avouable=, _adj._, avowable.

=avoué=, _n.m._, attorney; solicitor. _Une étude d’—_; a solicitor’s office.

=avouer=, _v.a._, to confess, to avow; to own, to acknowledge, to declare openly, to grant, to allow; to approve. _Il a avoué le fait_; he has confessed the deed. _Il avoue l’avoir fait_; he confesses to it. _S’— vaincu_; to own one’s self vanquished. _J’étais, je l’avoue, un peu confus_; I was rather confused, I must allow. _— un enfant_; to acknowledge a child. _J’avouerai tout ce qu’il fera_; I will approve of all he does.

=avoyer=, _n.m._, avoyer (Swiss magistrate).

*=avril=, _n.m._, April. _Donner un poisson d’— à quelqu’un_; to make any one an April-fool. _Recevoir un poisson d’—_; to be made an April-fool. _Poisson d’—_; mackerel.

=avrillé=, =-e=, _adj._, sown in April.

=avron=, _n.m._, (bot.) wild oats.

=avuer=, _v.a._, (hunt.) to mark down, to mark in.

=avulsion=, _n.f._, avulsion.

=axe=, _n.m._, axis; axle, axle-tree; (artil.) trunnion. _— tournant_; axle-tree. _— de vis_; screw-arbor.

=axifuge=, _adj._, centrifugal. _V._ =centrifuge=.

=axillaire= (ak-sil-lèr), _adj._, (anat., bot.) axillar, axillary. _Fleurs —s_; axillary flowers.

=axiome=, _n.m._, axiom.

=axiomètre=, _n.m._, (nav.) tell-tale (of the tiller).

=axonge=, _n.f._, (phar.) hog’s lard.

=ayan=, _n.m._, (_—s_) ayan (Turkish official).

=ayant cause=, _n.m._, (_—s —_) (jur.) assign.

=ayant droit=, _n.m._, (_—s —_) (jur.) party entitled.

=aynet=, _n.m._, skewer (for herrings).

=azalée=, _n.f._, (bot.) azalea.

=azédarac=, _n.m._, azedarach, bead-tree.

=azerole=, _n.f._, (bot.) azarole.

=azerolier=, _n.m._, azarole-tree.

☉=azime=, _adj._ _V._ =azyme=.

=azimut= (-mut), _n.m._, (astron.) azimuth.

=azimutal=, =-e=, _adj._, azimuthal.

=azotate=, _n.m._, (chem.) nitrate.

=azote=, _n.m._, (chem.) azote, nitrogen.

=azote=, _adj._, azotic, nitric.

=azoté=, _adj._, azotized, nitrogenized.

=azotique=, _adj._, azotic, nitric.

=azur=, _n.m._, azure, blue; sky-color. _— de Hollande_; Dutch blue. _Pierre d’—_; azure-stone.

=azuré=, =-e=, _adj._, azure, sky-colored. _La voûte —e_; the azure skies.

=azurer=, _v.a._, to paint azure color, to blue.

=azurin=, =-e=, _adj._, azure. _n.m._, blue-butterfly.

=azyme=, _adj._, azymous, unleavened.

=azyme=, _n.m._, azym, unleavened bread. _Fête des —s_; feast of unleavened bread.

=azymite=, _n.m._, Azymite.

B

=b=, _n.m._, the second letter of the alphabet, b. _Être marqué au —_; to be either one-eyed, hunch-backed, or lame (_borgne_, _bossu_, _boiteux_). _Ne parler que par ~b~ ou par ~f~_; never to speak without swearing.

=baba=, _n.m._, bun, plum-cake.

=babel=, _n.f._, Babel, uproar, disorder. _Tour de —_; tower of Babel. _C’est une vraie tour de —_, _c’est une —_; it is a perfect tower of Babel, uproar.

=babeurre=, _n.m._, buttermilk.

=babiche=, _n.f._, =babichon=, _n.m._, lap-dog.

*=babil=, _n.m._, chatter, prating, talk, gabbling, tattle, prattle. _Il nous étourdit par son —_; he bewilders us with his chattering.

*=babillage=, _n.m._, chit-chat, tittle-tattle, prattle, babbling, twaddle.

*=babillard=, _n.m._, =-e=, _n.f._, chatterer, babbler, tattler; blab, blabber; (orni.) nettle-creeper. _C’est un franc —_; he is a regular babbler. _Ne vous fiez pas à cet homme-là, c’est un —_; don’t trust that man, he is a great blab.

*=babillard=, =-e=, _adj._, babbling, talkative, chattering.

*=babillement=, _n.m._, talkativeness, loquacity, garrulity.

*=babiller=, _v.n._, to prate, to tattle, to gossip.

=babine=, _n.f._, lip (of animals); chop. _Il s’en lèche les —s_; he is smacking his lips over it.

=babiole=, _n.f._, bauble, gewgaw, toy, knick-knack, plaything, trifle, trinket.

=bâbord=, _n.m._, (nav.) port.

=bâbord=, _adv._, larboard; aport.

=bâbordais=, _n.m._, (nav.) larboard-watch.

=babouche=, _n.f._, Turkish slipper.

=babouin=, _n.m._, baboon, monkey (of a child). _Faire baiser le — à quelqu’un_; to make any one eat humble pie.

=babouine=, _n.f._, little fool, little hussy; lip. _V._ =babine=.

=babouiner=, _v.n._, (fam.) to play the buffoon.

=bac=, _n.m._, ferry, ferry-boat.

=baccalauréat=, _n.m._, bachelorship, bachelor’s degree.

=bacchanal= (-ka-), _n.m._, racket, uproar. _Faire —_; to make a racket, to kick up a great row.

=bacchanale= (-ka-), _n.f._, noisy drinking-bout, revel, debauch.

☉=bacchanaliser= (-ka-), _v.n._, to revel, to riot.

=bacchante= (-kant), _n.f._, bacchante, termagant.

=baccharis= (-ka-ris), =-ide=, _n.f._, baccharis, ploughman’s spikenard.

=baccifère=, _adj._, bacciferous, berry-producing.

=bacha=, _n.m._ _V._ =pacha=.

=bâche=, _n.f._, cart tilt; hot-bed frame; tank, cistern; awning, tarpaulin (of a wagon).

☉=bachelette=, _n.f._, young girl, maid, lass, damsel.

=bachelier=, _n.m._, bachelor of a university.

=bâcher=, _v.a._, to tilt, to cover (a cart).

=bachique=, _adj._, bacchic, jovial, drunken.

=bachon=, _n.m._, wooden pail.

=bachot=, _n.m._, wherry, small ferry-boat; (fam.) bachelor’s degree.

=bachotage=, _n.m._, ferry-man’s business.

=bachoteur=, _n.m._, ferry-man.

=bachotier=, _n.m._, crammer.

=bacile=, _n.m._, (bot.) sea-fennel.

=bacillaire=, _n.m._, pyramidal feldspar, scapolite.

=bâclage=, _n.m._, line of boats (in a port); (fig.) patching, hasty, scamped work.

=bâclé=, =-e=, _part._, barred, fastened, scamped.

=bâcler=, _v.a._, to bar or chain, to close, to fasten (a door, a window, a boat, a harbour); to do hastily, to polish off; to scamp (work).

=badaud=, _n.m._, =-e=, _n.f._, ninny, booby; gazer, lounger, idler; cockney.

=badaudage=, _n.m._, cockneyism.

=badauder=, _v.n._, to lounge, to saunter, to loiter.

=badauderie=, _n.f._, foolery, silliness, simplicity, lounging, sauntering.

=baderne=, _n.f._, (nav.) dolphin, paunch, fender (of ship).

=badian=, _n.m._, _or_ =badiane=, _n.f._, aniseed-tree.

=badigeon= (-jon), _n.m._, badigeon, stone-color, whitewash.

=badigeonnage= (-jo-naj), _n.m._, painting stone-color; smearing, making up, daub.

=badigeonner= (-jo-né), _v.a._, to paint with stone-color, to whitewash, to daub.

=badigeonneur= (-jo-neur), _n.m._, whitewasher, colorer, dauber.

=badin=, =-e=, _adj._, _n._, waggish, jocular, playful, roguish; sportive, droll, comical. _Il a l’humeur —e_; he is of a sportive humor. _Air —_; playful air. _Style —_; playful style. _C’est un vrai —_; he is a regular banterer, a wag; joker, jester.

=badinage=, _n.m._, sport, play, jest; foolery, playfulness, jocularity, trifle. _Ceci n’est point du —_; this is no foolery. _Il se prête volontiers au —_; he has no objection to a little trifling. _Finissez votre —_; have done with your fooling. _Ce n’est pour lui qu’un —_; it is mere child’s play for him.

=badine=, _n.f._, switch; _pl._, small tongs.

=badiner=, _v.n._, to trifle, to dally, to play, to toy, to sport; to flaunt. _Il ne badine pas_; he is not joking. _En badinant_; in fun, by way of a joke. _La dentelle est trop tendue, il faut qu’elle badine un peu_; the lace is too tight, it must wave about a little. _On ne badine pas avec l’amour_; love is not to be trifled with.

=badinerie=, _n.f._, silly stuff, foolery, trifling.

=bafouer=, _v.a._, to scout, to scoff at, to baffle. _On l’a bafoué_; he was scouted. _Il s’est fait —_; he got scoffed at.

=bâfre=, _n.f._, (pop.) guzzling, blow out, gorge.

=bâfrer=, _v.n._, (l.ex.) to guzzle, to eat greedily, to have a blow out, a grand feed.

=bâfreu-r=, _n.m._, =-se=, _n.f._, (l.ex.) guzzler, glutton.

=bagace=. _V._ =bagasse=.

=bagage=, _n.m._, luggage, baggage. _Nous avons laissé notre — en arrière_; we have left our luggage behind. _Plier trousser —_; to pack off. _Il a plié —_; he has taken his last journey (died). _Quel est le — de cet auteur?_ what works has this author written? _— littéraire_; literary knowledge.

=bagarre=, _n.f._, squabble, scuffle, fray, brawl; crowd, crush. _Se trouver dans une —_; to get into a fray. _Se tirer d’une —_; to get out of a scuffle.

=bagasse=, _n.f._, bagasse, cane trash; hussy, drab, slut.

=bagatelle=, _n.f._, bauble, trash, trinket, trifle, nonsense, mere nothing. _Table de —_; bagatelle table. _Il ne s’amuse qu’à des —s_; he trifles away his time. _S’amuser à une —_; to trifle away time. _Bagatelles que tout cela_; that is all stuff and nonsense.

*=bagne=, _n.m._, convict-prison, hulks.

=bagnole=, _n.f._, horse-box (on railways).

☉*=bagnolette=, _n.f._, a head-dress.

=bague= (bag), _n.f._, ring. _— gravée en cachet_; seal-ring. _—s et joyaux_; jewels and ornaments. _Course de —_; running at the ring. _Jeu de —_; roundabout. _— au doigt_; (fig.) clear gain, sinecure, good thing.

=baguenaude= (bag-nôd), _n.f._, bladder-nut, trifle.

=baguenauder= (bag-nô-), _v.n._, to mind trifles, to trifle time away, to fiddle-faddle.

=baguenaudier= (bag-nô-), _n.m._, bladder-nut-tree, bastard senna tree; trifler; ring-puzzle.

=baguer= (ba-ghé), _v.a._, to baste, to stitch; (hort.) to ring.

=bagues=, _n.f.pl._, (l.u.) luggage.

=baguette= (ba-ghèt), _n.f._, switch, rod, ramrod, drum-stick, small stick, wand; _pl._, (milit.) gauntlet; (arch.) baguet. _Ce cheval obéit à la —_; that horse obeys the switch. _— à gant_; glove-stick. _—s de tambour_; drum-sticks. _Coup de —_; beat of the drum. _— de fusée volante_; stick of a rocket. _— d’or_; golden stick. _— d’huissier_; usher’s rod. _— divinatoire_; conjuror’s wand. _Commander à la —_; to command magisterially. _Passer par les —s_; to run the gauntlet. _Mener à la —_; to rule with a rod of iron.

=baguier= (ba-ghié), _n.m._, casket for rings.

=bah=, _int._, pooh, pshaw, nonsense, fudge.

=bahut=, _n.m._, trunk, chest, press. _En —_; rounded, convex.

=bahuter=, _v.n._, to roister, to kick up a row.

=bahutier=, _n.m._, trunk-maker.

=bai=, =-e=, _adj._, bay. _Un cheval —_; a bay horse. _— châtain_; chestnut. _— miroité_; dapple-bay. _— clair_; light-bay. _— doré_; yellow dun.

=baie=, _n.f._, bay, gulf, road; (arch.) bay; (bot.) berry; ☉humbug, trick. _Donner une — à quelqu’un_; to humbug one.

=baignade=, _n.f._, bath, bathing; bathing-place.

*=baigné=, =-e=, _part._, bathed, weltering; (geog.) washed. _On l’a trouvé — dans son sang_; he was found weltering in his blood. _Des yeux —s de larmes_; eyes bathed in tears. _Être — de sueur_; to be in a bath of perspiration.

=baigner=, _v.a._, to bathe, to give a bath, to wash, to lave, to water. _Faire — les chevaux_; to take horses to the water.

_se_ =baigner=, _v.r._, to bathe, to wash; to welter (in blood).

*=baigner=, _v.n._, to soak; to steep.

*=baigneu-r=, _n.m._, =-se=, _n.f._, bather, bath-keeper.

☉*=baignoir=, _n.m._, bathing-place.

*=baignoire=, _n.f._, bathing-tub, bath; corner box (thea.). _Voiture —_; bathing-machine.

*=bail=, _n.m._, (baux) lease. _— à ferme_; lease of ground. _— à long terme_; long lease. _Donner à —_; to lease. _Passer un —_; to draw up a lease. _Rompre_, _résilier_, _un —_; to break, to throw up, a lease. _Cela n’est pas de mon —_; I did not bargain for that.

*=baille=, _n.f._, (nav.) half tub. _— de sonde_; bucket (for sounding). _— à brac_; tar-pail, _or_ kid.

*=bâillement=, _n.m._, yawning, yawn; (gram.; l.u.) hiatus.

*=bâiller=, _v.n._, to yawn, to gape; to open (fissures); to be on the jar, to gape (of doors). _On bâille souvent en voyant bâiller les autres_; yawning is catching. _Bâiller de sommeil_; to yawn with drowsiness.

☉*=bailler=, _v.a._, to give, to deliver. _— à ferme_; to let, to lease, to farm out. _Vous me la baillez belle_; you are humbugging me.

*=baillet=, _adj._, (of horses) sorrel.

☉*=bailleul=, _n.m._, bone-setter. _V._ =rebouteur=.

*=bâilleu-r=, _n.m._, =-se=, _n.f._, yawner; gaper. _Un bon — en fait bâiller deux_; yawning is catching.

=baill-eur=, _n.m._, =-eresse=, _n.f._, one who leases, lessor. _Un — de fonds_; money-lender, sleeping partner.

*=bailli=, _n.m._, bailiff.

*=bailliage=, _n.m._, bailiwick.

*=bailliag-er=, =-ère=, _adj._, of a bailiwick.

*=baillive=, _n.f._, bailiff’s wife.

=bâillon=, _n.m._, gag, muzzle; bribe.

*=bâillonner=, _v.a._, to stop the mouth of, to gag, to muzzle; to wedge up (a door).

=bain=, _n.m._, bath; bathing-tub; _pl._, baths, bathing establishment, bathing place, bathing room, waters. _— de mer_; salt water bath. _— à domicile_; bath at home. _— de siège_; hip bath. _— de vapeur_; vapor bath. _— de pieds_; foot bath. _La chambre de —_; the bath-room. _L’ordre du —_; the Order of the Bath.

=bain-marie=, _n.m._ _Cuire au —_; to cook in a vessel immersed in boiling water.

=baïonnette=, _n.f._, bayonet. _— au bout du fusil_; with fixed bayonets. _—s au canon!_ fix bayonets! _Croiser la —_; to cross bayonets. _Charger à la —_; to charge with fixed bayonets. _Enlever un poste à la —_; to carry a post at the point of the bayonet.

=baïram= _or_ =beiram=, _n.m._, Baïram (Turkish feast).

☉=baisemain=, _n.m._, kissing (of hands); compliments.

=baisement=, _n.m._, kissing of feet; (geom.) osculation.

=baiser=, _v.a._, to kiss.

=baiser=, _n.m._, kiss, salute. _Un — de Judas_; a treacherous kiss.

=baiseu-r=, _n.m._, =-se=, _n.f._, kisser.

=baisoter=, _v.a._, to be always kissing.

=baisse=, _n.f._, fall, abatement, decline, falling off. _En —_; (com.) falling. _Jouer à la —_; to bear, to speculate on a fall.

=baissé=, =-e=, _part._, down, let down, lowered. _Il marchait les yeux —s_; he walked with downcast eyes. _Se retirer tête —e_; to sneak away. _Donner tête —e dans le piège_; to fall headlong into the snare.

=baisser=, _v.a._, to let down, to lower, to bring down, to hang down; to droop; (nav.) to lower, to strike. _Elle baissa son voile_; she let down her veil. _— le rideau_; to drop the curtain. _— la visière d’un casque_; to lower the beaver of a helmet. _— le drapeau_; to lower the colors. _— pavillon_; to strike one’s flag; to knock under to one. _— les yeux_; to cast one’s eyes down. _— la tête_; to hold, to hang down, to droop one’s head. _— l’oreille_; to look confused.

=baisser=, _v.n._, to lower, to wear, to break, to fail, to decay; to go down; to ebb; to be on the decline, on the wane; to flag, to droop; to fall. _Le jour baisse_; night is coming on. _Ce vieillard baisse_; this old man is breaking up. _Sa vue commence à —_; his sight begins to fail. _Il baisse à vue d’œil_; he is visibly sinking. _Son génie baisse_; his genius is on the decline. _Ce malade baisse_; the patient is losing strength. _Les actions baissent_; there is a fall in the shares. _Les fonds baissent_; the funds are falling.

_se_ =baisser=, _v.r._, to stoop; to bow down, to be lowered. _Il n’a qu’à — pour en prendre_; he has only to pick and choose.

=baissier=, _n.m._, bear, operator for a fall.

=baissière=, _n.f._, bottom of a cask; (agri.) hollow, puddle.

=baisure=, _n.f._, kissing-crust.

☉=bajoire=, _n.f._, double-faced coin.

=bajoue=, _n.f._, hog’s cheek; chap.

=bajoyer=, _n.m._, lateral wall, facing.

=bal=, _n.m._, ball, dance. _— masqué_; masked ball. _— paré_; fancy dress-ball. _— bourgeois_; private ball. _— champêtre_; country ball. _— costumé_; fancy dress ball. _Donner le — à quelqu’un_; to make one dance for it. _Mettre le — en train_; to set things going. _Mettre une carte au —_; to stake money upon a card.

=baladin=, _n.m._, =-e=, _n.f._, mountebank, juggler, buffoon, merry-andrew.

=baladinage=, _n.m._, buffoonery, nonsense.

=balafre=, _n.f._, gash, slash, cut; scar.

=balafrer=, _v.a._, to gash, to slash.

=balai=, _n.m._, broom, brush, besom. _— de jonc_; carpet-broom. _— de crin_; hair-broom. _— de plume_; duster. _— à laver_; mop. _Manche à —_; broom-stick. _Donner un coup de —_; to sweep up. _Rôtir le —_; to play one’s pranks, to lead a fast life. _Il n’est rien tel que — neuf_; a new broom sweeps clean.

=balais=, _adj._, balas. _Un rubis —_; a balas ruby.

=balance=, _n.f._, balance, scales, pair of scales; balance (of an account); balance-sheet; (astron.) Libra. _— romaine_; steelyard. _Trait de la —_; turn of the scale. _— juste_; good scales. _Arrêter une —_; to agree a balance. _Réaliser une —_; to withdraw a balance. _Faire pencher la —_; to turn the scale. _Mettre en —_; to balance. _Ses droits peuvent-ils entrer en — avec les miens?_ can his claims be weighed in the same scale with mine? _Être en —_; to be irresolute. _Cela tient l’esprit en —_; that makes one irresolute.

=balancé=, _n.m._, (dance) setting to one’s partner.

=balancelle=, _n.f._, (nav.) felucca.

=balancement= (-mān), _n.m._, balancing, poising; rocking, see-saw, fluctuation, wavering.

=balancer=, _v.a._, to balance, to poise; to swing, to wave, to weigh, to counterbalance, to rock, to square (accounts). _— un javelot_; to poise a javelin. _— les avantages et les inconvénients_; to weigh the advantages and disadvantages. _— les pertes par le gain_; to balance the loss by the profit. _Ses vertus balancent tous ses vices_; his virtues outweigh all his vices. _— la victoire_; to keep the victory in doubt. _— un compte_; to balance an account.

=balancer=, _v.n._, to balance, to hesitate, to be in suspense, to waver, to fluctuate, to demur. _Il balança s’il accepterait la place qu’on lui offrait_; he hesitated whether he should accept the situation offered him. _Il y a consenti sans —_; he consented to it without hesitating. _Il n’y a pas à —_; there is no room for hesitation.

_se_ =balancer=, _v.r._, to swing, to rock. _Cette femme se balance trop en marchant_; that woman swings too much as she walks. _Un oiseau qui se balance dan l’air_; a bird hovering in the air.

=balancier=, _n.m._, scale-maker; pendulum, balance; (coin.) coining-engine; balancing-pole. _Le — d’une horloge_; the pendulum of a clock. _Le — d’un tourne-broche_; the flyer of a roasting jack. _Le — d’une machine à vapeur_; the beam of a steam-engine. _Le — transversal d’une machine à vapeur_; cross-beam of an engine.

=balancine=, _n.f._, (nav.) lift.

=balançoire=, _n.f._, see-saw; swing. (fig.) _Quelle —!_ what a cram!

=balane=, _n.m._, (conch.) acorn-shell.

=balauste=, _n.f._, balausta, wild pomegranate.

=balaustier=, _n.m._, wild pomegranate tree.

=balayage=, =balayement=, _n.m._, sweeping.

=balayer=, _v.a._, to sweep, to scour. _Sa robe balaie la terre_; her gown sweeps the ground. _Le vent balaie la plaine_; the wind sweeps the plain. _— les mers_; to scour the seas.

=balayeu-r=, _n.m._, =-se=, _n.f._, scavenger, sweeper.

=balayures=, _n.f.pl._, sweepings. _— de mer_; sea-weed washed on shore; drift-weed.

=balbutiement= (-sî-mān), _n.m._, stuttering, stammering, lisping.

=balbutier= (-cié), _v.a._ and _n._, to lisp, to stammer, to mumble. _Un enfant qui commence à —_; a child beginning to lisp. _Elle balbutia quelques mots_; she stammered out a few words. _— un compliment_; to stammer out a compliment. _Il ne fit que — son rôle_; he did nothing but mumble his part.

=balbuzard=, _n.m._, bald-buzzard, osprey.

=balcon=, _n.m._, balcony.

=baldaquin=, _n.m._, baldachin; canopy, tester.

=baleine=, _n.f._, whale, whale-bone. _Barbe de —_; whale-bone. _Huile de —_; whale oil. _La pêche de la —_; the whale fishery. _Blanc de —_; spermaceti.

=baleiné=, =-e=, _adj._, stiffened with whalebone. _Un corset —_; whalebone stays.

=baleineau=, _n.m._, young whale.

=baleinier=, _n.m._, _adj._, whaler.

=baleinière=, _n.f._, whale-boat.

=balestron=, _n.m._, (nav.) sprit.

☉=balèvre=, _n.f._, under lip; (arch.) jutting or projection of one stone beyond another.

=bali=, _n.m._ _V._ =pali=.

=balisage=, _n.m._, (nav.) establishing of buoys, of beacons.

=balise=, _n.f._, (nav.) sea-mark, buoy, beacon; (bot.) the fruit of the shot, canna-seed.

=baliser=, _v.a._, (nav.) to buoy, to erect beacons.

=baliseur=, _n.m._, person who sets up beacons, superintendent of towing-paths.

=balisier=, _n.m._, (bot.) shot, American reed.

=baliste=, _n.f._, war-machine, ballista; (ich.) file-fish, trigger-fish.

=balistique=, _n.f._, ballistics. _adj._, ballistic.

=balivage=, _n.m._, staddling.

=baliveau=, _n.m._, staddle.

=baliverne=, _n.f._, nonsense, humbug, stuff. _Il vous conte des —s_; he talks nonsense, tells you cock and bull stories.

=baliverner=, _v.n._, to trifle, to talk idly, to fiddle-faddle.

=ballade=, _n.f._, ballad.

=ballage=, _n.m._, (metal) balling.

=ballant=, _adj._, waving, swinging, dangling. _Il va les bras —s_; he swings his arms in walking.

=ballast=, _n.m._, (railways) ballasting.

=balle=, _n.f._, ball; bullet, shot; husk of rice; bale, pack; (print.) ball. _À vous la —_; it is your turn. _Juger la —_; to foresee the end. _Prendre la — à la volée_; to hit the ball in the air. _Prendre la — au bond_; to take the ball at the rebound; to seize the opportunity; to take time by the forelock. _Enfants de la —_; children following the business of their father. _C’est un enfant de la —_; he is his father’s son. _Renvoyer la —_; to return the ball, to give tit for tat, to turn the tables on. _Fusil chargé à —_; a musket loaded with ball. _—s ramées_; chain-shot. _— morte_; spent ball. _À —s franches_; free firing. _— au camp_; rounders. _Marchandise de —_; common, pack wares.

☉=baller=, _v.n._, to hop, to skip, to dance.

=ballet=, _n.m._, ballet.

=ballon=, _n.m._, balloon; football. _Envoyer un — d’essai_; to send out a feeler.

=ballonné=, =-e=, _adj._, distended, swollen.

=ballonnement= (-mān), _n.m._, (med.) swelling.

=ballonnier=, _n.m._, football or balloon maker.

=ballot=, _n.m._, bale, package, pack. _Voilà votre —_; that is exactly what you want, the very thing for you.

=ballote=, _n.f._, (bot.) horehound.

=ballotin=, _n.m._, small parcel, packet.

=ballottade=, _n.f._, (man.) ballotade.

=ballottage=, _n.m._, balloting.

☉=ballotte=, _n.f._, ballot; bucket. _V._ =boule=.

=ballottement= (-mān), _n.m._, tossing, shaking; voting by ballot.

=ballotter=, _v.a._, to toss, to toss about; to keep in suspense, to bandy (a tennis-ball); to debate; to ballot. _— quelqu’un_; to toss any one from pillar to post.

=ballotter=, _v.n._, to shake, to rattle. _Cette porte ballotte_; that door shakes.

=balnéaire=, _adj._, watering, bathing. _Ville —_; watering place.

=balourd=, _n.m._, =-e=, _n.f._, numskull, dunce.

=balourd=, =-e=, _adj._, dull, heavy, thick-headed.

=balourdise=, _n.f._, stupidity, doltishness; stupid thing, gross blunder.

=balsamier=, _n.m._ _V._ =baumier=.

=balsamine= (-za-), _n.f._, balsamine.

=balsamique= (-za-), _adj._, balsamic, balmy.

=balsamite= (-za-). _V._ =tanaisie=.

=balustrade=, _n.f._, balustrade.

=balustre=, _n.m._, a baluster, hand-rail.

=balustrer=, _v.a._, to rail in, fence in, surround with balusters.

=balzan=, _adj._, (man.) white-footed, trammeled.

=balzane=, _n.f._, (man.) whitefoot, white spot, blaze.

=bambin=, _n.m._, baby, brat, bantling.

=bambochade=, _n.f._, (paint.) grotesque picture, caricature.

=bamboche=, _n.f._, (pop.) puppet show; bit of a thing (person); drinking bout, spree; young bamboo, bamboo-cane. _Faire une —_; to have a spree. _Faire des —s_; to lead a disorderly life.

=bambocheu-r=, _n.m._, =-se=, _n.f._, (pop.) libertine.

=bambou=, _n.m._, bamboo-cane, bamboo.

=ban=, _n.m._, ban; public proclamation; banishment. _—s_, _pl._, banns (of matrimony). _Dispense de —s_; marriage license. _Mettre au —_; to send to Coventry. _Rompre son —_; to break one’s ban. _Entre au —_; to be under the ban.

=banal=, =-e=, _adj._, common; commonplace; mercenary. _Expression —e_; vulgar, commonplace expression.

=banalité=, _n.f._, vulgarity, a commonplace, a trite expression.

=banane=, _n.f._, banana.

=bananier=, _n.m._, banana-tree.

=banc= (ban), _n.m._, bench, seat, settle; pew; reef, shoal, bank; bed; dock, bar. _Un — à dos_; a bench with a back to it. _Un — de gazon_; a turf seat. _— d’église_; church seat, pew. _— de l’œuvre_; churchwardens’ pew. _Il est encore sur les —s_; he is still at college. _Echouer sur un — de sable_; to run aground on a sand bank. _Un — de corail_; a coral reef. _Un — de harengs_; a shoal of herrings. _Un — d’huîtres_; a bed of oysters. _— de pierre_; layer, bed, of stone. _Être au — des accusés_; to be in the dock. _— des témoins_; witness-box.

=bancal=, =-e=, _adj._, bandy-legged.

☉=bancelle=, _n.f._, long narrow form, seat.

=banche=, _n.f._, sunken ridge.

=banco=, _adj._, banco (a term used in exchange business). _Faire —_; to hold all the money staked.

=bancroche=, _adj._ _V._ =bancal=.

=bandage=, _n.m._, (surg.) bandage; application of bandages; belt; truss; tire (of wheels); hoop, (of guns); spring. _— herniaire_; truss. _Délier un —_; to undo a bandage.

=bandagiste=, _n.m._, truss-maker.

=bande=, _n.f._, band, belt, strip; company; gang; set of people, crew; flight; troop; (her.) bend; (arch.) fascia, string; (anat.) tract. _— de papier_; a slip of paper, wrapper. _La — d’une selle_; the side bar of a saddle. _La — d’un billard_; the cushion of a billiard-table. _Une — de voleurs_; a gang of thieves. _Ces oiseaux vont par —s_; those birds go in companies. _Faire — à part_; to keep apart. _Donner à la —_; (nav.) to heel. _Demi-—_; parliament-heel of a ship. _Sous —_; under wrapper.

=bandé=, =-e=, _part._, bandaged, taut, stretched; (her.) bendy.

=bandeau=, _n.m._, headband, fillet, frontlet, bandage; veil, mist; (arch.) string-course. _Avoir un — sur les yeux_; to be blindfolded. _En —x_; (of the hair) plain.

=bandelette=, _n.f._, little band, string, fillet; (surg.) fascia; (arch.) bandelet.

=bander=, _v.a._, to bind up; to tighten, to bend; to bandy (at tennis); (arch.) to lay the stones of an arch. _— une plaie_; to bind up a wound. _— la caisse_; to run away. _Se — la tête_; to bind up one’s head. _Se — les yeux_; to blindfold one’s self.

=bander=, _v.n._, to be stretched, tight, taut.

☉_se_ =bander=, _v.r._, to oppose, to resist.

=bandereau= (ban-dro), _n.m._, trumpet-sling.

=banderole= (ban-drol), _n.f._, banderole, streamer, pennant; shoulder-belt.

=bandière=, _n.f._ _Front de —_; front line of battle; ☉banner, flag.

=bandit=, _n.m._, robber, vagabond, bandit, ruffian.

☉=bandoulier=, _n.m._, highwayman; mountaineer.

=bandoulière=, _n.f._, shoulder-belt, bandoleer; (phot.) sling-case. _Porter la —_; to be a gamekeeper. _En —_; slung over the shoulder.

=bandure=, _n.f._, (bot.) pitcher-plant.

=bang=, _n.m._, (bot.) bang.

=banian=, _n.m._, Banian (idolater in India).

=banlieue=, _n.f._, suburbs, outskirts (of a town).

=bannatte= _or_ =bannasse=, _n.f._, tallow sieve or strainer.

=banne=, _n.f._, awning, tilt; tarpaulin; hamper (of boats).

=banneau=, _n.m._, small hamper, fruit basket.

=banner=, _v.a._, to cover with a tilt.

=banneret= (-rè), _adj._, banneret. _Chevalier —_; knight banneret.

=banneton=, _n.m._, basket, (fishing) cauf.

=bannette=, _n.f._, small hamper.

=banni=, =-e=, _part._, banished, outlawed.

=bannière=, _n.f._, banner, standard, flag, colors, streamer. _Se ranger sous la — de quelqu’un_; to side with any one. _Aller au-devant de quelqu’un avec croix et —_; to give one a handsome reception.

=bannir=, _v.a._, to banish, to expel, to dismiss; to drive away, to exclude, reject.

=bannissable=, _adj._, deserving banishment.

=bannissement= (-mān), _n.m._, banishment.

=banque=, _n.f._, bank, banking business; (print. office) wages, pay-day. _Carnet de —_; bank book. _Mandat de la —_; bank-post-bill. _Succursale de —_; branch bank. _Compte de —_; bank account. _Assignation de —_; bank transfer. _Mettre à la —_; to put in the bank. _Faire la —_; to be a banker. _Action de la —_; bank-stock. _Billet de — de cinq livres_; a five-pound bank-note. _Avoir un compte en —_; to have an account open at the bank. _Faire sauter la —_; to break the bank.

=banqueroute= (ban-kroot), _n.f._, bankruptcy. _— frauduleuse_; fraudulent bankruptcy. _Faire —_; to be bankrupt. _Faire — à quelqu’un_; to break one’s word. _Faire — à l’honneur_; to forfeit one’s honor.

=banquerouti-er=, _n.m._, =-ère=, _n.f._, bankrupt.

=banquet=, _n.m._, banquet, feast.

=banqueter=, _v.n._, to banquet, to feast.

=banquette=, _n.f._, bench; (fort.) banquette; outside (of a coach); footway (of a road). _Jouer devant les —s_; (theat.) to play to empty benches.

=banquier=, _n.m._, money-agent, banker.

=banquise=, _n.f._, ice-belt, ice-floe; bank (of fog).

=bans=, _n.m.pl._, (hunt.) litter for dogs.

=bantam=, _n.m._, bantam.

=banvin=, _n.m._, (feudal law) right to sell wine.

=baobab=, _n.m._, (bot.) baobab.

=bapaume=, _n.f._, (nav.). _En —_; at a standstill.

=baptême= (ba-têm), _n.m._, baptism, christening. _Nom de —_; Christian name. _Extrait de —_; certificate of baptism. _Recevoir le —_; to be baptized. _Tenir un enfant sur les fonts de —_; to stand godfather or godmother to a child. _Le — du tropique_; the ceremony of crossing the line, ducking at sea.

=baptiser= (ba-ti-zé), _v.a._, to baptize, to christen. _— des cloches_; to consecrate bells. _— un vaisseau_; to christen a ship. _— quelqu’un_; to give one a nickname. _— son vin_; to dilute one’s wine.

=baptismal=, =-e= (ba-tis-mal), _adj._, baptismal.

=baptistaire= (ba-tis-tèr), _adj._, of baptism. _Registre —_; parish register. _Extrait —_; certificate of baptism.

=baptiste= (ba-tist), _n.m._, baptist.

=baptistère= (ba-tis-tèr), _n.m._, baptistery.

=baquet=, _n.m._, tub, trough, bucket.

=bar=, _n.m._, (ich.) umbrina; (pisc.) bass; bar.

=baragouin=, _n.m._, gibberish, jargon, lingo. _Je ne comprends pas son —_; I don’t understand his gibberish.

=baragouinage=, _n.m._, gibberish; rigmarole.

=baragouiner=, _v.n._, to talk gibberish; to gabble. _Comme ces étrangers baragouinent_; how these foreigners do gabble, jabber.

=baragouiner=, _v.a._, to sputter out. _— un discours_; to sputter out a speech. _— une langue_; to mangle a language.

=baragouineu-r=, _n.m._, =-se=, _n.f._, jabberer.

=baraque=, _n.f._, barrack, hut; shed, shanty; booth (at fairs); hovel.

=baraquement=, _n.m._, (milit.) hutting.

=baraquer=, _v.a._, to make barracks; to hut.

_se_ =baraquer=, _v.r._, (milit.) to make huts.

=baraterie=, _n.f._, (nav.) barratry.

=barattage=, _n.m._, churning.

=baratte=, _n.f._, churn.

=baratter=, _v.a._, to churn.

=barbacane=, _n.f._, (fort.) barbacan; outlet.

☉=barbacole=, _n.m._, pedagogue, schoolmaster.

=barbare=, _adj._, savage, merciless, barbarous, rude; barbarian.

=barbare=, _n.m._, barbarian.

=barbarement= (-mān), _adv._, barbarously.

=barbaresque=, _adj._, of Barbary.

=barbarie=, _n.f._, barbarity, rudeness, savageness, cruelty. _Commettre une —_; to commit a piece of barbarity. _— de langage_, _de style_; crudeness of language, of style.

=barbarisme=, _n.m._, (gram.) barbarism.

=barbe=, _n.f._, beard; whiskers (of cats, dogs, &c.); (vet.) barbel; lappet (of caps); (arts) rough edge; beard (of corn, barley, &c.); gills (of cocks); wattle (of fish). _Jours de —_; shaving days. _— bleue_; blue beard. _Sainte-—_; (nav.) gun-room. _Jeune —_; beardless boy. _Vieille —_; old man, graybeard. _Se faire la —_; to shave one’s self. _Se faire faire la —_; to get one’s self shaved. _Je le lui dirai à sa —_; I’ll tell it him to his face. _Faire la — à quelqu’un_; to beard any one, to show who is master. _Rire dans sa —_; to laugh in one’s sleeve. _La — d’une plume_; the feather of a quill. _Mouiller en —_; (nav.) to come with two anchors ahead. _— d’une coiffe_; pinner. _—-de-bouc_; (bot.) goat’s beard, tragopogon. _—-de-Jupiter_; Jupiter’s beard. _—-de-chèvre_; meadow sweet. _—-de-moine_; dodder. _—-de-capucin_; bleached dandelion, endive.

=barbe=, _n.m._, barb, Barbary horse.

=barbes=, _n.f.pl._, lappets, pinners.

=barbé=, =-e=, _adj._, (her.) barbed, bearded; (bot.) barbated.

=barbeau=, _n.m._, (ich.) barbel; (bot.) bluebottle.

=barbelé=, =-e=, _adj._, bearded, barbed. _Flèche —e_; barbed arrow.

=barbet=, _n.m._, =-te=, _n.f._, water-spaniel. _Ce — va bien à l’eau_; that spaniel takes the water well. _Être crotté comme un —_; to be as dirty as you like.

=barbette=, _n.f._, (milit.) barbette. _Tirer en —_; to fire in barbe, in barbette. _Coucher à la —_; to sleep on the floor.

=barbeyer=, _v.a._, (nav.) to shiver.

=barbiche=, _n.f._, billy-goat beard.

=barbichon=, _n.m._, shaggy spaniel puppy.

=barbier=, _n.m._, barber, shaver.

=barbifier=, _v.a._, (fam.) to shave.

*=barbillon=, _n.m._, a little barbel; gill (of a cock); wattle (of a fish, a turkey).

*=barbillons=, _n.m.pl._, (vet.) barbles.

=barbon=, _n.m._, graybeard, dotard; (bot.) sweet rush. _— odorant_; lemon grass.

=barbote=, _n.f._, (ich.) eel-pout, loach, groundling.

=barboter=, _v.n._, to dabble, to paddle, to splash about; (nav.) to shiver.

=barboteur=, _n.m._, tame duck.

=barboteuse=, _n.f._, (l.ex.) dirty drab; street-walker.

=barbotière=, _n.f._, duck-pond; trough.

=barbotine=, _n.f._, (bot.) wormseed.

*=barbouillage=, _n.m._, daub, daubing; scrawl; rigmarole, twaddle.

*=barbouillé=, =-e=, _part._, daubed, besmeared.

*=barbouiller=, _v.a._, to daub, to besmear; to soil, to dirty, to blot; to scrawl, to scribble; to slur; to stammer, to splutter out; to mumble; to stumble, to flounder; to bungle. _Il lui a barbouillé le visage_; he has besmeared his face for him. _On l’a tout barbouillé d’encre_; they have daubed him all over with ink. _— un plancher_; to daub a floor. _Il n’écrit pas, il barbouille_; he does not write, he scrawls. _Il ne peint pas, il barbouille_; he does not paint, he daubs. _— un compliment_; to stammer out a compliment. _Qu’est-ce qu’il barbouille?_ what is he mumbling? _— un récit_; to make a bungle of a story. _— une feuille_; (print.) to slur a sheet.

*_se_ =barbouiller=, _v.r._, to besmear, to injure one’s character.

*=barbouilleur=, _n.m._, dauber, scribbler; mumbler, babbler.

=barbu=, =-e=, _adj._, bearded.

=barbu=, _n.m._, (orni.) barbet.

=barbue=, _n.f._, (ich.) brill.

=barcarolle=, _n.f._, barcarolle.

☉=barce= _or_ =berche=, _n.f._, a small cannon.

=barcelonnette=, _n.f._, child’s cradle, swing-cot.

=bard=, _n.m._, hand-barrow.

=bardane=, _n.f._, (bot.) bur, burdock.

=barde=, _n.f._, barb (iron armor for horses); rasher of bacon.

=barde=, _n.m._, bard, poet.

=bardé=, =-e=, _part._, barded; covered with a thin slice of bacon, larded. _Un cheval — et caparaçonné_; a horse barded and caparisoned. _Chapon —_; larded capon.

=bardeau=, _n.m._, shingle (board); (bot.) mealy-tree; (print.) fount-case.

=bardelle=, _n.f._, pack-saddle.

=barder=, _v.a._, to cover with thin slices of bacon, to lard; to barb a horse; to remove stones, wood, &c., on a handbarrow.

=bardeur=, _n.m._, stone-carrier.

=bardis=, _n.m._, (nav.) water-board.

=bardit=, _n.m._, (antiq.) Germanic war song.

=bardot=, _n.m._, small mule, pack-mule; drudge, butt, laughing-stock.

=barège=, _n.m._, barege.

=barême=, _n.m._, ready reckoner.

=baret=, _n.m._, roaring of an elephant.

=bareter=, _v.n._, to roar like an elephant.

=barge=, _n.f._, (orni.) godwit; (nav.) a barge; hay-mow, wood-pile.

=barguette= (-ghèt), _n.f._, ferry-boat.

*=barguignage= (-ghi-gnaj), _n.m._, (fam.) hesitation, haggling, wavering, higgling, dilly-dallying.

*=barguigner= (-ghi-gné), _v.n._, to be irresolute, to haggle, to waver, to shilly-shally.

*=barguigneu-r=, _n.m._, =-se=, _n.f._, haggler.

=barigel=, _n.m._, (Italian) chief-constable.

=baril= (-ri), _n.m._, barrel, cask, tub, keg.

*=barille=, _n.f._, barilla.

*=barillet=, _n.m._, rundlet; box; barrel of a watch, (of locks) drum.

=bariolage=, _n.m._, variegation, odd medley of colors, motley.

=barioler=, _v.a._, to streak with several colors, to variegate, to checker, to dapple.

=bariquaut=, _n.m._ _V._ =barriquaut=.

=baritel=, _n.m._, winding engine. _— à chevaux_; horse-whim, whim-gin.

=barlong=, =-ue=, _adj._, of unequal length.

=barnabite=, _n.m._, monk, barnabite-friar.

=barnache=, _n.f._, (orni.) barnacle.

=baromètre=, _n.m._, barometer, weather-glass. _Le — est au beau temps_; the barometer is at set fair.

=barométrique=, _adj._, barometrical.

=baron=, _n.m._, baron.

=baronnage=, _n.m._, baronage.

=baronne=, _n.f._, baroness.

=baronnet=, _n.m._, baronet. _Chevalier —_; knight baronet.

=baronnial=, =-e=, _adj._, baronial.

=baronnie=, _n.f._, barony.

=baroque=, _adj._, rough, irregular, uncouth, odd, singular, strange.

=barque=, _n.f._, bark, boat, craft; barge. _— de pêcheur_; fishing boat. _Conduire la —_; to steer the boat. _Il conduit bien sa —_; he is getting on very well. _Il sait bien conduire sa —_; he knows how to manage his affairs. _Patron de —_; barge-master.

=barquée=, _n.f._, boatful of any goods or stores.

=barquerolle=, _n.f._, small barge.

=barrage=, _n.m._, toll-bar; barrier; dam; weir.

=barrager=, _n.m._, toll-gatherer.

=barras=, _n.m._ _V._ =galipot=.

=barre=, _n.f._, bar (of metal or wood); cross-bar; railing; bolt; division; lever, crow; dash, cross; (nav.) helm, tiller, bar; stripe; (mus.) bar; bar (of courts of judicature, public assemblies). _Avoir —s sur quelqu’un_; to have the advantage over any one. _Jouer aux —s_; to play at base (a game). _— sous le vent!_ (nav.) helm alee! (man.) _—s_; bars. _Tirer la —_; to close the list. _Je ne fais que toucher —s_; I am off again immediately.

=barré=, _part._ _V._ =dent=.