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déjà, already

déjeuner, breakfast.

délabré, dilapidated, tattered.

délasser, refresh.

délibérer, deliberate.

délicatesse,/, refinement, sensé

of propriety.

délices, pi. rapture, bliss, joy.

délicieux, -se, delîcious, deiightful, fascinating.

délier, loose; délié, slender, sharply marked, 124:23.

délirant, unreasoning, wild.

délire; avoir le — , be eut of one's mind, 175:14.

demain, m. tomorrow.

demande,/, question, request.

demander, ask, ask for, beg.

démarche, /. action, behavior:

faire une — , take a step, 127:16.

démarquer, destroy marks of identification and gamble for ail or nothing. The double meaning is intended^ 97:12.

démêler, untangle, discover.

démentir,*belie, contradict.

demeure, /. dwelling place.

demeurer, remain, dwell, live, 105:22.

demi; à demi, half ; brigade,

régiment; — -heure, half hour; — -lieue, half league, i.e. I i miles; — -nu, half dressed; — -teinte, half-tone,

color; ^tour à gauche, left

face!

demoiselle,/, young lady, lady, unmarried, of noble rank; — de compare, lady-companion.

démoli, delapîdated.

démolir, tear down.

dénier, a coin then obsolète; — s comptants, "hard cash," "hard dollars," specie.

dénoter, bear the mark of .

dénoûment, m. outcome.

dent,/, tooth.

dentelles, pi. lace.

dénué, stripped; — de, bereft of, 52:26, free from, 112:26.

départ, m. departure.

dépasser, pass, go by.

dépecer, eut up, take to pièces.

dépêcher (se), hurry.

dépeindre, irr. describe.

dépenser, spend.

déplaire, irr, displease, be disagreeable.

dépUer, unfold.

déployer, irr. display, spread, bring into play, 186:15.

déposer, set down, testîfy te.

déposition, /. statement, légal,

dépouillement du scrutin, counting of the ballots.

dépouiller, strip, lay aside.

dépourvu de, without.

depuis (que), since, from, for, after; — longtemps, long ago; — peu, a little while ago; — quelque temps, for some time; — 40 ans, since they were 40, 161:16; — 4 ans, for the last four years, 115:

32; — II mois, II months ago, 17:32, comp. 113:18; n'est ici que — , bas been hère only, 16:6.

député, m. deputy, legîslator.

déranger, get out of range, 25:

26, move, 118:16.

derechef, over agaîn, again.

dernier, -ère, last, meanest, 116:29, uttermost, 27:7; dernièrement, recently.

dérobé, stolen; à la — e, with stolen glances.

déroute,/, rout, retreat; en — , routed.

derrière, behind.

dès, since, any time after; — lors, from that moment, 86:

25; — que, from the time that, 171:16; partis — le matin, who had started that morning, 64:27.

désaccord, m. lack of harmony.

descendre, come down, go down stairs, fall down; — de, get out of, 15:20. [éd.

désemparé, disabled, shatter-

désert, deserted, bare, lonely.

désespérant, despairing.

désespéré, desperate.

désespoir^ m. despair; en — de

cause, m his desperate case,

désigner, designate, point to.

désolant, dîstressing.

désolé, desolate, desperate. désordres, pi, disorderly life,

debauchery.

dessein, m, design, plan, purpose, pattern, 122:4.

dessin, m, drawing.

dessiner, draw, design, outline;

se — , stand out.

dessous, under; de — , out from

under, 4:32.

dessus, m, top; prep, on; adv.

on it; de — , from the top of,

destination, /. purpose.

destiné à, intended for, des-

tined.

destinée,/, destîny, career.

détacher, detach, unfasten, eut

off ; été — , been, i,e. climbed,

to pluck, 44:25; — sur, stand

out.against, 69:24.

détonation, /. report of a gun, détotu:, m, évasion, détourner, turn away; se — ,

turn round; détourné, round

about, 172:11.

détresse, /. dbtress, embar-

rassed situation, 137:21.

détroit, m, strait.

détruire, irr, destroy.

deuil, m, mouming.

deuxième, second, devant, in front of, before; —

d'autel, altar-f rontal.

dévaster, lay waste.

devenir, irr, become; que de-

vins-je, what was my surprise, 41:29.

deviner, guess, perceive; vous

— , see your purpose, 54:32;

GLOSSARY

exposition, /. exposure, exhibition, front, 7:11.

expression,/, expression, look.

exprimer, express.

exquis, exquisite, delicious, charming.

extase,/, ecstasy, rapture.

extemporanné, extemporized.

extérieur, m, exterior, outside.

fabricant, m, manufacturer.

fabrique, /. manuf actory.

fabriqué, manufactured.

fabuleux, -se, strange, fabulous.

façade, /. front, of a building.

face,/, face; en — de, opposite.

fâché, sorry, grieved.

fftcheux, -se, unfavorable, 48:

facile, easy; — à s'épanouir, expansîve, 109:1.

façon; sans — , without ceremony.

factice, assumed, pretended, apparent, 161:21.

faible, weak, feeble, small, poor; faiblement, feebly, slîghtly, dimly, faintly.

faiblesse morale, moral childlikeness, 163:5.

faillir, fail, just miss; with infinitivCy almost, e. g. failli tuer, almost killed, 17:21; il vous faillait, you wanted, 52 :

faillite,/, f allure, commercial.

faim, /. hunger; avoir — , be hungry.

faire, irr. do, make, cause to, say, 164:19; hâve, 4:3; se — , take place, happen, 88:11; — with infinitive as past participlcy = get or hâve, e.g., — creuser, get dug, 53 : 26; le — attacher, hâve him tied, 100:

i; nous — couper le cou,

get us guillotined, 156:16;

— attention, pay attention; me ferez avoir, get for me, 33:24; — la cour, pay court, make love, 143:23; — entendre, ut ter, 181:18; — faire des rêves, make one hâve dreams, 107:29; — froid, be cold; — gronder, growl, 121:20; — apporter, hâve brought, 54:2; — la guerre, be a soldier, 95:16;

— de l'héroïsme, act the hero, 92 :7; — horreur, be répulsive to, 93:3; se — illusion, deceîve oneself, 50:4; faisait juger, enabled one to judge, 14:2; — mal, hurt; le

— mettre au lit, hâve him put to bed, 48:17; lui — part de, tell him of; — prendre, procure, 53:13; — rotder, tum over, 31:18; se laissait — , let her work over her, 43:3; être bien fait, hâve a good figure.

faiseur de caricature, caricaturist.

fait, m. fact, act. [top.

fidteau de cheminée, chimney

falloir, irr. need, want, be necessary; impersonal, il faut, it is necessary, I, he, we, you, they, must, need to, may, hâve to, ought to, should, with infinitive; il nous faut, we had to, 131:10; il le faut, I must, 30:25 ; il faudrait, one might, 62:17; il fallait^ there was need of, 100:11; il faudrait, you should, 164:7; il faut s'occuper, we must think, 160:2; il faut que notre amour se noie, our love must drown, 142:28.

familier, -ière, familiar, cornmon.

GLOSSARY

famille,/, family; en — , a fam-

ily party, 150:21.

fange,/, mire, vileness, 96:2.

fanatisme, m. fanaticism.

fantassin, m. infantry man.

fantasmogorique, of a phan-

tom, 158:15.

fantastique, fantastic, fancifui;

as naun, fantasy, 177:11.

fantôme, m. apparition, phan-

tom.

faon, m. fawn.

farce, /. farce; c'te — , what a

joke!, i. e. what luckl^ 34:2. farceur, m. joker, droll fellow,

fardé, rouged, painted.

fardeau, m. burden.

farine,/, flour.

fascination,/, fascination, hyp-

notic influence, 80:20.

fasciner, fascinate, hypnotize,

hold spell-bound, 79:3, 97:3.

fasse, see faire, fastes, pi, annals.

fatal, fatal, inévitable, unfor-

tunate, iÙ-starred.

fatigué, tired, wearied.

faubourg, m. quarter of a town;

— St. Martin, on the lefl

bank of the Seine, above and

beyond the Luxembourg gar-

dens, in Paris, faucon, m, falcon.

faudra, faudrait, faut, see falloir, fausseté; sans — , unfeigned.

faute, /. fault; — de, for lack

of ; faire — , fail.

fauteuil, m, arm chair.

fauve, tan, color, faux, fausse, false, treacher-

ous, counterfeit, 54:14.

faveur, /. favor; en — , in be-

half, 22:15, because, 125:23;

à la — du, thanks to the,

fnrony favorite.

favoriser, favor.

fécond, teeming.

femme, /. woman, wife, lady,

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