torçonniers et maltotiers, extortionate tax-gatherers

Page 187. — i. Lombard, Lombard. As the bankers of médias val Europe the Lombards were reputed to exact the letter of their bonds. God, the soldier thinks, will prove more merciful.

2. anspessade, petty infantry officer^ lower than a corporal. Obsolète.

3. Notre-Dame de Lorette, Our Lady of Loretto, a shrine in Italy said to contain the house of the Virgin Mary that was borne there through the air by angels in 1294.

Page 188* — i. Saint-Écope, Sf Scoop** He relies less on prayer to save the boat than on the use of the baling-scoop.

Page 189. — i. nom d'une pipe, a popular oath.

GLOSSARY

Note. — This Glossary is not a dictionary. It gives, as a mie, onlj such meanings of words and phrases as are needed for idiomatic translation of this text. Références to page and Une are given to assist choice in doubtf ul cases and to direct attention to peculiar uses. The Glossary is not a vocabalary. It omits words that should be rendered in every instance by words similar in orthography that should call for no définition. It omits also adverbs in — tmnt where thèse are to be rendered by adverbs in — /y formed from the adjective. Articles and their contractions, numerals, the more common pronouns, prépositions and conjunctions, exœpt for unusual idiomatic uses, are also omitted.

abaisser (s'), sink, slope, i66:

abandon, m. unconstraint,

yielding, self-surrender, 125:

abandonner, give up, désert;

s' — , surrender oneself .

abattre, destroy, shoot down,

abbaye,/, abbey.

abbé, m, ahbe, i, e, anyone

wearing clérical dress, abfme. m. abyss, gulf, 96:11;

fond de V — , depths, 185:27.

abfmé, lost, niined.

abîmer, sink; s' — , sink, be

wrecked.

aboiement, m. baying of dogs, abolir (s'), fade away.

abord: d* — , at first, in the

first place; tout d* — , at the

very start.

aborder au port, corne to an-

chor.

abri, m. shelter.

abruti, stupified.

absolu, absolute; — ^ment, posi-

tivcly.

absoudre, absolve.

abstenir (s'), abstain.

abuser, abuse; s' — , deceîve oneself, 45:24.

acacia, m., gum tree, acacia.

acajou, m, mahogany.

accabler, overcome, overwhelm.

accélérer, hasten; au pas accéléré, double quick, i :2.

accent, m. accent, tone.

accentué, loud, 75:26.

accès, m, attack, e. g. of disease.

accessoires, pi. accessories, furnishings.

accidenté, rugged land.

accommoder; s' — de, adapt oneself to.

accomplir, carry out, 164:22; commit, 87:2; fulfil, 93:6; s' — , take place, 82:21; accompli, fulnlled, perfected.

accord, m. harmony.

accorder, grant, attribute, 103:

i; harmonize, 161:23: s* — , agrée. [81:11.

accoudé sur, with hîs elbow on,

accotirir, run, run up, hasten there, 137:10.