Heath's French and English dictionary
Part 101
=maniement= _or_ =manîment=, _n.m._, handling; wielding; management, use, conduct, handling of money. _— des armes_; manual exercise. _Le — des deniers_; the management of money.
=manier=, _v.a._, to feel, to handle; to touch; to use, to wield, to ply, to manage, to govern. _Il sait bien — le ciseau_; he is a fine sculptor. _Au —_; by the touch, by handling. _— une affaire_; to manage a business.
=manier=, _v.n._, (man.) to act (of a horse).
=manière=, _n.f._, manner, way, fashion, sort, kind; style, mannerism, affectation, fuss; attitude. _La — dont je lui ai parlé_; the way in which I spoke to him. _De — ou d’autre_; somehow or other. _Chacun a sa —_; every one has his own way of doing. _— de parler_; mode of speech. _De la bonne —_; handsomely. _Par — d’acquit_; for form’s sake. _La — de cet auteur est grande_; that author’s style is grand. _De la même —_; in the same manner. _Il a des —s agréables_; he has pleasing manners. _De — que_ or _de — à ce que_; so that. _Il est une des plus grandes —s du siècle_; he is one of the finest stylists of the century.
=maniéré=, =-e=, _adj._, affected, unnatural, forced. _Air —_; affected air.
=maniériste=, _n.m._, mannerist.
=manieur=, _n.m._, handler, manager.
=manifestation=, _n.f._, manifestation.
=manifeste=, _adj._, manifest, evident.
=manifeste=, _n.m._, manifesto.
=manifestement=, _adv._, manifestly.
=manifester=, _v.a._, to manifest, to make known, to display, to show. _— sa pensée_; to make known one’s thought.
_se_ =manifester=, _v.r._, to manifest one’s self, to assert one’s self, to be made manifest.
=manigance=, _n.f._, manœuvre, underhand dealing, intrigue.
=manigancer=, _v.a._, to contrive, to plot, to concoct. _Se —_; to be brewing, to be concocted.
=maniguette=, _n.f._ _V._ =malaguette=.
=maniguière=, _n.f._, net (for catching eels).
=manille=, _n.f._, (at cards) manille; manilla cheroot.
=manioc=, =manihot=, _or_ =manioque=, _n.m._, (bot.) manioc, cassado, tapioca, cassava.
=manipulateur=, _n.m._, manipulator.
=manipulation=, _n.f._, manipulation.
=manipule=, _n.m._, handful; (c.rel., antiq., pharm.) maniple.
=manipuler=, _v.a._ and _n._, to manipulate.
=manique= _or_ =manicle=, _n.f._, hand-leather.
=maniveau=, _n.m._, osier-stand; punnet.
=manivelle=, _n.f._, handle, winch, crank, (fig.) drudgery, daily round. _La — d’un gouvernail_; the whipstaff of a helm.
=manne= (mâ-n), _n.f._, manna; (fig.) balm, gift. _— en larmes_; manna in flakes. _— céleste_; manna from Heaven.
=manne= (ma-n), _n.f._, hamper, flat basket. _— d’enfant_; cradle. _— à marée_; fish-crate.
=mannequin= (ma-n-kin), _n.m._, hamper; small hamper; (paint.) lay-figure, dummy, puppet; insignificant person. _Figure qui sent le —_; unnatural figure. _C’est un vrai —_; he is a mere automaton.
=mannequiné=, =-e=, _adj._, unnatural. _Ces figures sont —es_; (paint.) those figures are unnatural, smack of the lay-figure.
=manœuvre=, _n.f._, handiwork, handcraft, working, manœuvre, move, management, tactics; (nav.) rope; working (a ship); (milit.) drill. _pl._, (nav.) rigging. _—s courantes_; running-rigging. _—s dormantes_; standing-rigging. _Officier qui entend la —_; officer expert in working a ship. _Amarrer une —_; to make a rope fast.
=manœuvre=, _n.m._, workman, journeyman-mason, laborer; bungler; crafty person. _Ce n’est qu’un —_; he is a mere mechanic. _Travail de —_; manual labor.
=manœuvrer=, _v.a._ and _n._, to manœuvre; to work (a ship). _— les voiles_; to work the sails. _Faire — des soldats_; to drill soldiers.
=manœuvrier=, _n.m._, able seaman; tactician.
=manoir=, _n.m._, manor, mansion, manor-house.
=manomètre=, _n.m._, (phys.) manometer.
=manométrique=, _adj._, (phys.) manometrical.
=manouvrier=, _n.m._, day-laborer, workman, hodman.
=manquant=, =-e=, _n.m.f._ and _adj._, absentee, defaulter; missing, absent, wanting, failing, short.
=manque=, _n.m._, want, lack, need; shortcoming, failure, defect; (riding) stumble. _Il a trouvé dix francs de —_; he found he was ten francs short. _— de_; for want of. _— de touche_; (at billiards) miss.
=manqué=, =-e=, _part._, defective; abortive, miscarried; a failure; spoilt. _Une affaire —e_, _un coup —_; a failure. _Un poète —_; a would-be poet.
=manquement= (man-kmān), _n.m._, omission, shortcoming, oversight, failure, want, slip, breach.
=manquer=, _v.n._, to miss, to fail; to be wanting; to be wanting in respect; to be deficient; to miss fire; to stand in need of; to forfeit, to break; to be insolvent; to be near, to have need; to be out, in want, of; to decay; to miscarry; to give way, to infringe, to disregard, to disappoint. _Arme à feu qui manque_; a fire-arm that misses fire. _Marchand qui a manqué_; bankrupt merchant. _Le cœur lui manque_; her heart fails her. _Les forces lui manquent_; his strength fails him. _Le pied lui a manqué_; his foot slipped. _L’argent lui manque_; he is short of money. _Rien ne vous manquera_; you shall want for nothing. _La poudre leur manque_; they are short of powder. _L’affaire a manqué_; the business has miscarried, the affair has fallen through. _— à son devoir_; to fail in one’s duty. _— à sa parole_; to break one’s word. _— à un rendezvous_; to fail to keep an appointment. _Je n’y manquerai pas_; I will not fail. _Il ne manque de rien_; he wants for nothing, _or_ has all he wants. _Il ne manque pas de vanité_; he does not lack vanity. _— de parole_; to fail in one’s promise. _— d’argent_; to be in want of money. _Ne manquez pas de vous y trouver_; do not fail to be there. _Il a manqué de tomber_; he was very near falling. _— à quelqu’un_, _— de respect à quelqu’un_; to be disrespectful to _or_ wanting in respect to. _Il manque de tout_; he is destitute of everything. _Vous me manquez_; I miss you. _Je vous manque_; you miss me. _Il ne manquait plus que cela!_ that was the last straw _or_ that crowns all _or_ what next, I wonder! _La — belle_; (lit. to miss a fine opportunity) to have a narrow escape.
=manquer=, _v.a._, to miss, to lose. _Il a manqué son coup_; he has missed his aim. _— une occasion_; to lose an opportunity.
_se_ =manquer=, _v.r._, to forget what is due to one’s self, to be wanting in self-respect, to forget one’s honor, to prove false.
=mansarde=, _n.f._, attic, garret, roof. _Fenêtre en —_; attic window. _Toit en —_; curb roof.
=mansardé=, =-e=, _adj._, with attics, garrets.
=manse=, _n.f._, (feudality) revenue (of abbeys). _V._ =mense=.
=mansuétude=, _n.f._, mildness, meekness, gentleness, forbearance.
=mante=, _n.f._, mantle (woman’s). _— religieuse_; (ent.) praying mantis.
=manteau=, _n.m._, cloak; mantle, train, cape; mask, pretense; (her.) mantling. _S’envelopper de son —_; to wrap one’s self up in one’s cloak. _Le — royal_; the royal mantle. _Cela se vend sous le —_; that is sold clandestinely. _Garder les —x_; to stand sentinel; to take no share in. _— de cheminée_; mantel-piece.
=mantelet= (man-tlè), _n.m._, short cloak; mantlet; (fort.) mantlet. _—s de sabords_; (nav.) port-lid; (of a coach) apron.
=mantelle=, _n.f._, hooded crow; the coat of a dog; the hair on its back.
=mantelure= (man-tlur), _n.f._, mantling.
*=mantille=, _n.f._, mantilla.
=manuel=, =-le=, _adj._, manual, portable.
=manuel=, _n.m._, manual, hand-book, text-book.
=manuellement= (-èl-mān), _adv._, from hand to hand, manually.
=manufacture=, _n.f._, manufacture, making, make; manufactory; mill, works, factory.
=manufacturer=, _v.a._, to manufacture. _Se —_; to be manufactured.
=manufacturi-er=, =-ère=, _adj._, manufacturing.
=manufacturier=, _n.m._, manufacturer.
=manumission=, _n.f._, manumission.
_in_ =manus=, _n.m._ _V._ =in manus=.
=manuscrit=, =-e=, _adj._, manuscript matter.
=manuscrit=, _n.m._, manuscript.
=manutention=, _n.f._, management, care, making, fabrication; (l.u.) upholding, enforcement; (milit.) bake-house, bakery, bread-making.
=manutentionner=, _v.a._, to bake for the army.
=mappemonde= (map-mond), _n.f._, map of the world. _— céleste_, planisphere.
=maque=, _n.f._ _V._ =macque=.
=maquer=, _v.a._ _V._ =macquer=.
=maquereau= (ma-krô), _n.m._, (ich.) mackerel, (l.ex.) pimp, pander; reddish spot on one’s legs; procurer, brothel-keeper.
=maquerellage=, _n.m._, (l.ex.) panderism, pimping, procuring.
=maquerelle=, _n.f._, (l.ex.) procuress.
=maquette=, _n.f._, (sculpt.) small rough model (in clay, wax); (paint.) rough sketch, lay figure.
*=maquignon=, _n.m._, (b.s.) horse-dealer; horse-jockey; jockey; jobber. _— de charges_; (b.s.) agent for the sale of offices. _— de mariages_; (b.s.) matrimonial agent.
*=maquignonnage=, _n.m._, (b.s.) horse-dealing; jockeyship; bishoping; underhand work; jobbing.
*=maquignonné=, =-e=, _part._, trimmed up for sale, bishoped (of horses).
*=maquignonner=, _v.a._, (b.s.) to jockey, to trim, to bishop (a horse for sale); to job; to carry on any illicit trade.
*=maquilleur=, _n.m._, (nav.) mackerel-boat.
=maquilleuse=, _n.f._, face-painter, enameler.
=maquis=, _n.m._ _V._ =makis=.
=marabout=, _n.m._, marabout (priest); ill-favored man, big-bellied copper kettle; (orni.) marabou-stork feathers; a kind of ribbon.
=maraîcher=, _n.m._, market-gardener.
=marais=, _n.m._, marsh, feu, bog, swamp, morass; low-lying market-garden ground (Paris). _Dessécher un —_; to drain a marsh. _— salant_; salt-marsh. _Chasse au —_; moor-shooting.
=marasca=, _n.m._, (hort.) sour cherry.
=marasme=, _n.m._, (med.) marasmus, consumption, atrophy, emaciation.
=marasquin=, _n.m._, maraschino.
=marâtre=, _n.f._, step-mother; unkind, harsh mother.
=maraud=, _n.m._, =-e=, _n.f._, scoundrel, rascal, knave; slut, jade.
=maraudage=, _n.m._, marauding, freebooting.
*=maraudaille=, _n.f._, rabble, knave.
=maraude=, _n.f._, marauding; (cabmen’s slang) crawling, plying for hire.
=marauder=, _v.n._, to maraud; to crawl, to ply for hire.
=maraudeur=, _n.m._, marauder; crawler.
=maravédis=, _n.m._, maravedi (small Spanish coin).
=marbre=, _n.m._, marble; marble, slab, stone for grinding colors, etc.; (print.) imposing-stone, slab. _pl._, works, statues, etc., made of marble; samples of various kinds of marble. _Il est de —_; he is made of stone. _— jaspé_; variegated marble. _Plaque de —_; slab of marble. _— filandreux_; fibrous marble. _— terrasseux_; terrene marble. _— du gouvernail_; (nav.) barrel of the steering-wheel. _Sur le —_; (print.) in type.
=marbré=, =-e=, _part._, _adj._, marbled. _Du papier —_; marbled, mottled paper.
=marbrer=, _v.a._, to marble, to vein, to mottle. _Se —_; to become marbled.
=marbrerie=, _n.f._, marble-cutting, marble-work, marble-yard; marble-works.
=marbreur=, _n.m._, marbler.
=marbrier=, _n.m._, marble-cutter, marble-polisher; marble-grainer, dealer in marble.
=marbrière=, _n.f._, marble-quarry.
=marbrure=, _n.f._, marbling, marble-graining.
=marc= (mar), _n.m._, mark. _Poids de —_; eight-ounce weight. _Au — la livre_ or _le franc_; so many cents in the dollar. _— d’or_; a duty paid to the king by the titularies of certain offices.
=marc= (mar), _n.m._, residuum (of anything squeezed, boiled, or strained). _— de raisin_; skins, husks of grapes after the last pressing. _— de café_; grounds, grouts of coffee.
=marcassin=, _n.m._, young wild boar, grice.
=marcassite=, _n.f._, (min.) marcasite.
=marceline=, _n.f._, colored silk fabric; (min.) red silicate of manganese.
=marchand=, _n.m._, =-e=, _n.f._, merchant, dealer, tradesman, shopkeeper; hawker, peddler, trader, store-keeper; buyer, customer; bidder (at auctions); (orni.) surf-scoter. _— en gros_; wholesale dealer, merchant. _— en détail_; retail merchant. _— fripier_; second-hand clothes dealer. _Petit —_; chandler. _— ambulant_, _forain_; itinerant dealer. _N’est pas — qui toujours gagne_; we must expect to meet with losses sometimes. _Y a-t-il —?_ is there a bidder, does any one bid? (at auctions). _Trouver —_; to find a customer, a purchaser. _C’est un — de soupe_; he’s a regular Squeers. _En être le mauvais —_; to get the worst of the bargain.
=marchand=, =-e=, _adj._, merchantable, marketable, saleable, vendible; mercantile, trading; navigable (of rivers). _Prix —_; trade price, wholesale price. _Place —e_; trading-place. _Vaisseau —_; merchantman, merchant-ship. _Capitaine —_; merchant-captain. _Marine —e_; merchant-service; mercantile navy.
=marchandage=, _n.m._, task-work, piece-work; bargaining.
*=marchandailler=, _v.n._, to haggle.
=marchande=, _n.f._, tradeswoman. _— lingère_; linen draper. _— d’huîtres_; oyster-woman. _— de modes_; milliner.
=marchander=, _v.a._, to ask the price of, to cheapen, to bargain for, to haggle for, to chaffer for; to spare; to hesitate to expose; to grudge, to trouble. _Ne pas — quelqu’un_; not to spare any one, not to mince matters with any one. _Il ne marchande pas sa vie_; he does not hesitate to expose his life.
_se_ =marchander=, _v.r._, to be cheapened, to spare each other.
=marchander=, _v.n._, to haggle, to chaffer, to stand haggling, to bargain; to be irresolute, to hesitate.
=marchandeur=, _n.m._, task-master, middleman; haggler, bargainer.
=marchandise=, _n.f._, merchandise, goods, ware, commodity. _Faire valoir sa —_; to cry up one’s goods, to set one’s self off. _— qui plaît est à demi-vendue_; please the eye and pick the purse.
=marche=, _n.f._, walk; walking; gait, march; progress, journey, course, advance; procession; step, stair; move (at chess, drafts); conduct, arrangement; way of proceeding; military frontier, border; marches, borders, between England and Wales, also between England and Scotland. _Ce vaisseau a une — avantageuse_; that vessel is a fast sailer. _Vaisseau construit pour la —_; ship built to sail very fast _or_ for speed; clipper. _Mettre en —_; to set going. _Faire une fausse —_; to play a false move. _Gagner une — sur_; to steal a march upon. _— d’un poème_; progress of a poem. _— d’escalier_; step of a staircase. _— d’un tour_; treadle of a lathe. _— de deux heures_; two hours’ walk _or_ journey. _La — de cet homme a été louche dans l’affaire_; the conduct of that man in the matter has been suspicious. _— militaire_, _— triomphale_; military, triumphal, march. _L’armée est en —_; the army is on the march. _Fermer la —_; to close the procession. _Ouvrir la —_; to lead the way.
=marché=, _n.m._, market, market-place; market-time; bargain, purchase, price, rate; sale; agreement, contract, treaty. _— au blé_, _aux herbes_, _au poisson_; corn, grass, fish-market. _Bon —_; cheapness. _Conclure un —_; to strike a bargain. _Acheter_, _vendre_, _à bon —_; to buy, to sell cheap. _Avoir bon — de_; to easily get the better of. _Faire bon — d’une chose_; to hold anything cheap, not to spare; to think little of. _Mettre le — à la main à quelqu’un_; to offer any one to break off a bargain; to make any one take it or leave it. _Vous n’en serez pas quitte à si bon —_; you shall not get off so easily. _On n’a jamais bon — de mauvaise marchandise_; the best is cheapest. _Il le paiera plus cher qu’au —_; he shall smart for it, he shall repent it or rue it. _— d’or_; excellent bargain, great bargain. _Meilleur —_ or _à meilleur —_; cheaper. _C’est un — donné_; it is absolutely given away. _Par-dessus le —_; into the bargain. _Le — tient tous les jours_; the market is held every day. _Cours du —_; market-price. _Est-ce — fuit?_ is it a bargain?
=marche-palier=, _n.f._, landing step.
=marchepied= (marsh-pié), _n.m._, stepping-stone; towing-path; foot-board, footstool; step (of a coach, altar). _pl._, (nav.) foot-ropes of the yards. _Servir de —_; to serve as a stepping-stone.
=marcher=, _v.n._, to walk, to step; to tread; to go, to travel, to march, to wade; to sail, to run, to ply; to move on, to advance, to progress; to go on; to flow, to run, to rank. _— en avant_, _en arrière_, _à reculons_; to walk forward, to walk backward. _— à grands pas_, _sur la pointe du pied_; to stride along, to walk on tiptoe. _— à quatre pattes_; to go on all-fours. _— à pas de loup_; to walk with stealthy steps. _— sur les traces de quelqu’un_; to follow in any one’s footsteps. _— sur les talons de quelqu’un_; to tread on any one’s heels. _— sur des épines_; to tread on thorns. _— de front_; to march abreast. _— droit_; to walk straight. _Faire —_; to get along, to set going. _Je le ferai — droit_; I will take care that he behaves well. _Cette montre marche bien_; this watch keeps good time. _Ce navire marche bien_; this vessel sails well _or_ is very fast. _— sur quelque chose_; to tread upon anything. _— égal à_; to be equal to. _— à l’ennemi_; to march against the enemy. _— à tâtons_; to grope or feel one’s way.
=marcher=, _n.m._, walking, walk; gait, step, pace, treading, tread; ground (on which one walks).
=marcher=, _v.a._, (hat-making) to press, to felt, to full, to tread.
=marcheu-r=, _n.m._, =-se=, _n.f._, pedestrian, walker, (nav.) sailer. _Bon —_; (nav.) fast-sailing, swift-sailing, vessel; fast sailer.
=marcottage=, _n.m._, (hort.) layering.
=marcotte=, _n.f._, (hort.) layer.
=marcotter=, _v.a._, (hort.) to layer (vines, etc.).
=mardelle=. _V._ =margelle=.
=mardi=, _n.m._, Tuesday. _— gras_; Shrove-Tuesday. _— saint_; Tuesday before Easter; Tuesday in Passion-week.
=mare=, _n.f._, pool, pond; trough (used by cider brewers).
=maréage=, _n.m._, hire, pay (for a voyage).
=marécage=, _n.m._, marsh, bog, fen, swamp, morass.
=marécageu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, marshy, fenny, swampy, boggy. _Pays —_, _terrain —_; marshy land.
=maréchal=, _n.m._, farrier, shoeing-smith; marshal, field-marshal. _— des logis_; sergeant-major (in the cavalry). _— ferrant_; farrier. _— vétérinaire_; farrier and veterinary surgeon. _— de camp_; brigadier, brigadier-general. _— de France_; Marshal of France. _Grand —_; grand marshal; earl marshal, lord high steward.
=maréchalat=, _n.m._, marshalship.
=maréchale=, _n.f._, field-marshal’s wife.
=maréchalerie=, _n.f._, farriery.
☉=maréchaussée=, _n.f._, marshalsea, constabulary; mounted police.
=marée=, _n.f._, tide, water, flood; (fresh) sea-fish. _Haute —_, _pleine —_; high water. _Basse —_; low water. _De —_; tidal. _Grande —_, _— de vive eau_; spring-tide. _— morte_; neap tide. _La — monte_; the tide is coming in. _La — descend_; the tide is going down, running out. _Prendre la —_; to take advantage of the tide. _— montante_; flood. _— descendante_; ebb. _— qui porte au vent_; wind-tide. _Aller contre vent et —_; to pursue one’s course in spite of all difficulties. _Avoir vent et —_; to sail with wind and tide. _Vendeur de —_; fishmonger. _Cela arrive comme — en carême_; that comes like fish in Lent. _Ce qui vient de flot s’en retourne de —_; lightly come, lightly go. _La — n’attend personne_; time and tide wait for no man.
=marégraphe=, _n.m._, tide-gauge.
=marelle=, _n.f._, hopscotch.
=maremme=, _n.f._, marshy land on the seashore (in Italy).
=marengo= (-rin-go), _n.m._, Oxford gray.
=marengo=, _n.f._, (cook.) marengo, fowl fricasseed with mushrooms.
=mareyeur=, _n.m._, fish-factor, fish-salesman; fish-carrier.
=margarine=, _n.f._, (chem.) margarine.
=margarique=, _adj._, (chem.) margaric.
=margay=, _n.m._, (mam.) margay, tiger-cat.
=marge=, _n.f._, margin (of paper, books); freedom, latitude, scope; time, means. _Ecrire une note en —_; to make a marginal note. _Laisser assez de — à quelqu’un_; to give any one sufficient scope. _Nous avons de la —_; we have time enough _or_ to spare.
=margelle=, _n.f._, curb-stone, edge (of a well).
=marger=, _v.a._, (print.) to regulate the margin of, to margin.
=margeur=, _n.m._, (print.) layer on.
=marginal=, =-e=, _adj._, marginal.
=marginé=, =-e=, _part._, margined, marginated.
=marginer=, _v.a._, to margin.
=margot=, _n.f._, magpie, mag; talkative woman, chatterbox; dim. of =Marguerite=, Madge, Meg, Peggy.
=margotin=, _n.m._, small bundle of fagots.
*=margouillet=, _n.m._, (nav.) bull’s eye, wooden thimble.
*=margouillis= (-goo-yee), _n.m._, (fam.) puddle, dirty plash, sludge, slop; (fig.) difficulty; embarrassment. _Laisser quelqu’un dans le —_; to leave any one in the lurch.
=margrave=, _n.m.f._, margrave; margravine.
=margraviat=, _n.m._, margraviate.
=marguerite=, _n.f._, daisy; pearl; (nav.) messenger. _Reine-—_, (_—s-—s_) China-aster, China-star. _Faire —_; (nav.) to clap a messenger on the cable. _Jeter des —s devant les pourceaux_; to cast pearls before swine.
*=marguillerie=, _n.f._, churchwardenship.
*=marguillier=, _n.m._, churchwarden.
=mari=, _n.m._, husband, spouse. _Affranchissement de la puissance de —_; (jur.) discoverture. _Etat de la femme en puissance de —_; (jur.) coverture. _En puissance de —_; (jur.) feme covert, under coverture.
=mariable=, _adj._, marriageable.
=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.