Part 105

=mi=, _invariable particle_, mid, middle, half. Joined to the names of the months, or to the word _carême_, it forms with them _feminine_ compound nouns which require the article; _la mi-carême_; Mid-Lent; _la mi-août_; the middle of August. It may also be joined to the nouns _corps_, _jambe_, _chemin_, _mur_, _côte_, _terme_, _sucre_, when the compound words thus formed require the preposition _à_ and do not admit of the article: _à mi-côte_; half-way up the hill. _À —-chemin_; half-way. _À —-mât_; half-mast high. _À —-jambe_; half-way up the leg; past the knees. _A mi-corps_; up to the waist. _V._ =mi-parti=.

=mi=, _n.m._, (mus.) E, mi.

=miasmatique=, _adj._, miasmatic, malarious.

=miasme=, _n.m._, miasma, miasm, noxious exhalation.

=miaulement= (miôl-mān), _n.m._, mewing.

=miauler=, _v.n._, to mew.

=mica=, _n.m._, (min.) mica, glimmer, glist, Muscovy glass.

=micacé=, =-e=, _adj._, micaceous.

=micaschiste=, _n.m._, (min.) mica-schist, mica-slate.

=miche=, _n.f._, round loaf; small loaf, hunch, lump.

=michel=, _n.m._, Michael. _La Saint —_, (_n.f._) Michaelmas. _— Morin_; Jack of all trades.

=micmac=, _n.m._, secret practice, underhand trick _or_ dealing, intrigue; jobbery, foul-play.

=micocoulier=, _n.m._, (bot.) nettle-tree.

=microcosme=, _n.m._, microcosm.

=micrographie=, _n.f._, micrography.

=micromètre=, _n.m._, (astron.) micrometer.

=microscope=, _n.m._, microscope; magnifying-glass. _Voir tout avec un —_; to exaggerate everything.

=microscopique=, _adj._, microscopic, microscopical.

=microzoaire=, _n.m._, (zoöl.) microscopic animalcule, infusory.

=miction=, =micturition=, _n.f._, (med.) micturition.

=midi=, _n.m._, noon, noonday, noontide, mid-day, twelve o’clock (in the day); meridian; south; southern aspect, southern railway. _À —_; at noon, at twelve o’clock. _Le — de la vie_; the meridian of life. _À l’heure de —_; at the hour of twelve. _Sur le coup de —_; on the stroke of twelve. _— est sonné_; it has struck twelve. _Chercher — à quatorze heures_; to look for knots in a bulrush, to create difficulties where there are none. _— vrai_; true meridian. _— moyen_; mean meridian. _Les régions du —_; the regions of the south.

=mie=, _n.f._, crum, crumb; (very little bit).

=mie=, _adv._, (l.u.) not, not a jot, not at all, not in the least.

=mie=, _n.f._, (ab. of _amie_) dear, sweet, love; nurse. _Ma —_; my darling, my sweet, sweetheart, my love. _Il appelle sa —_; he is calling his nurse.

=miel=, _n.m._, honey. _Mouche à —_; honey-bee. _Rayon de —_; honey-comb. _Ruche à —_; bee-hive. ☉_— aérien_; manna. _On prend plus de mouches avec du — qu’avec du vinaigre_; fair means go farther than foul. _La lune de —_; the honey-moon.

=miélaison=, _n.f._, honey-time.

=miellat=, _n.m._, (bot.) honey-dew.

=miellé=, =-e=, _adj._, honey-colored; honeyed, sweet, bland; covered with honey.

=mielleusement= (-eûz-mān), _adv._, sweetly, blandly, honey-like.

=mielleu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, honeyed, fair-spoken; sweet, bland; mawkish. _Paroles —ses_; honeyed words.

=mien=, =-ne= (mi-in, mi-è-n), _adj._, (l.u.) mine. _Un — frère_; a brother of mine. _Le —_, _la —ne_, _les —s_, _les —nes_, (_pron._) mine, my own. _Je ne demande que le —_; I only ask for my own. _Les —s_; my friends, my relations. _Faire des miennes_; to play tricks, pranks, _or_ follies. [Used as adjective in the singular _only_, and _always_ with the indefinite article _un_, _une_.]

=miette=, _n.f._, crumb, bit, particle, morsel. _Ramasser les —s_; to pick up the crumbs. _Mettre en —s_; to crumble.

=mieux=, _adv._, better; rather, best, more, more correctly, more properly, more comfortable. _J’aimerais —_; I had rather. _En —_; for the better. _De — en —_; better and better. _Je me porte le — du monde_; I am as well as can be. _Le — que je pourrai_; as well as I can. _Il a fait du — qu’il a pu_; he has done his best. _À qui — —_; in emulation of one another, in eager rivalry. _C’est on ne peut —_; it cannot be better _or_ cannot be improved upon. _Disons —_; or rather, to speak more correctly. _Vous feriez —_; you had better. _Valoir —_; to be better, to be worth more. _Faute de —_; for want of something better. _Avoir — que cela_; to have much better _or_ dearer than that. _Tant —_; so much the better. _Je ne demande pas —_; nothing would give me greater pleasure.

=mieux=, _n.m._, better; best, best thing, best plan; improvement. _Le — est l’ennemi du bien_; let well alone. _Il y a du — dans son état_; he is better. _Faire de son —_, _faire du — qu’on peut_; to do one’s best, to do the best one can. _Au —_; at best; for the best. _Pour le —_; for the best.

=mieux=, _adj._, better. _Il n’y a rien de —_; there is nothing better.

=mieux-disant=, =-e=, _adj._, better _or_ best spoken; more _or_ most eloquent.

=mieux-être=, _n.m._, better _or_ best condition; improvement in one’s condition; increase of comfort.

=mieux-faisant=, =-e=, _adj._, best-acting, most kind, most generous; (hist.) the (best) horse in a tournament.

=mièvre=, _adj._, (fam.) arch, roguish; quaint, affected style of writing.

=mièvrerie= _or_ =mièvreté=, _n.f._, (fam.) roguishness, archness; piece of roguery, prank; affectedness, quaintness in writing.

*=mignard=, =-e=, _adj._, delicate, pretty; mincing. _Manières —es_; mincing manners.

*=mignardement=, _adv._, delicately, daintily, mincingly.

*=mignarder=, _v.a._, to cocker, to fondle, to cuddle, to indulge. _— un enfant_; to cocker a child. _— son style_; to be over nice in writing. _Se —_; to take great care of one’s self.

*=mignardise=, _n.f._, delicacy, delicateness; mincing over nicety; fondling, cockering, cuddling; (bot.) feathered pink.

*=mignon=, =-ne=, _adj._, delicate, pretty, neat, tiny. _Bouche —ne_; pretty, small mouth. _Pied —_; neat foot. _Argent —_; spare money, pocket-money.

*=mignon=, _n.m._, darling, pet, favorite; minion.

*=mignonne=, _n.f._, darling, fondling, favorite; a kind of pear; (print.) emerald, minion.

*=mignonnement=, _adv._, delicately, finely, nicely.

*=mignonnette=, _n.f._, mignonette (sort of lace); ground pepper; (bot.) feathered pink.

☉*=mignoter=, _v.a._, (fam.) to fondle; to cocker; to cuddle.

☉*_se_ =mignoter=, _v.r._, (fam.) to cocker one’s self, to nurse one’s self.

☉*=mignotise=, _n.f._, (fam.) blandishment, endearment; caress.

=migraine=, _n.f._, sick- _or_ nervous-headache.

=migrat-eur=, =-rice=, _adj._, migrating, migratory.

=migration=, _n.f._, migration.

=migratoire=, _adj._, migratory.

=mijaurée=, _n.f._, (fam.) affected, finical woman; humbug.

=mijoter=, _v.a._, (cook.) to cause to simmer; (fam.) to fondle, to cocker; (fig.) to contrive, to plot, to brew.

_se_ =mijoter=, _v.r._, (fam.) to cocker one’s self, to nurse one’s self; (cook.) to boil gently, to simmer.

=mikado=, _n.m._, (_—s_) Mikado.

=mil=, _adj._, one thousand. [Used for the _first_ thousand in dates of the Christian era only.] _L’an — huit cent cinquante_; the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty.

=mil=, _n.m._, (bot.) millet.

=milady= (-lè-), _n.f._ (_miladies_), my lady.

=milan=, _n.m._, (orni.) kite.

=milandre=, _n.m._, (ich.) tope.

=milaneau=, _n.m._, young kite.

=milésiaque=, _adj._, Milesian.

=miliaire=, _n.f._ and _adj._, (med., anat.) miliaria; miliary. _Fièvre —_; miliaria, miliary fever.

=miliasse=, _n.f._, hominy, hasty-pudding.

=milice=, _n.f._, militia; soldiery, soldiers; ☉war, warfare. _Soldat de la —_; militiaman. _Tirer pour la —_; to ballot for the militia.

=milicien= (-si-in), _n.m._, militiaman.

=milieu=, _n.m._, middle, midst, heart, center; expedient, medium, mean, way, expedient, second course; sphere, society, company. _Au — de la foule_; in the midst of the crowd. _Au beau —_; in the very middle. _Au — des hommes_; among men. _L’air est le — dans lequel nous vivons_; the air is the medium in which we live. _Il faut savoir garder le juste —_; we must know how to observe the golden mean. _— de salon_; center ottoman.

=milieu=, _adj._, middle. [Only used in the expression _le point —_; the middle point.]

=militaire=, _n.m._ and _adj._, military man, soldier, military, soldiery; soldierly, soldierlike, warlike, military. _L’art_, _la discipline_, _—_; military art, discipline.

=militairement= (-tèr-mān), _adv._, militarily.

=militant=, =-e=, _adj._, (theol.) militant. _L’église —e_; the church militant.

=militer=, _v.n._, to militate, to make (for _or_ against). _Cette raison milite pour moi_; that reason militates in my favor.

=mille=, _n.m._ and _adj._, thousand, a thousand, one thousand. _Les — et une nuits_; the thousand and one nights. _On a dit cela — et — fois_; that has been said thousands of times. _Le premier —_; the first thousand. _L’an —_; the year one thousand.

=mille=, _n.m._, mile (= 1,608 mètres).

*=mille-feuille=, _n.f._, (_—_) (bot.) milfoil, yarrow.

=mille-fleurs=, _n.f._, (_—_) all-flower. _Eau de —_; extract of all flowers; (_med._) cow-water (taken as a remedy). _Huile de —_; oil of cow-dung. _Rossolis de —_; all-flower cordial.

=millénaire= (mil-lé-), _adj._, millenary.

=millénaire=, _n.m._, millennium; millenarian.

=millénarisme=, _n.m._, millenarianism.

☉=millepède=, _n.m._ _V._ =mille-pieds=.

=mille-pertuis=, _n.m._, (_—_) (bot.) St.-John’s-wort.

=mille-pieds=, _n.m._, (_—_) (ent.) milliped.

=millépore=, _n.m._, millepore.

=millésime= (mil-lé-zi-m), _n.m._, date, year (of a medal, coin, monument).

*=millet=, _n.m._, (bot.) millet grass, millet.

=milliaire=, _n.m._ and _adj._, milestone; miliary. _Borne —_, _pierre —_; milestone. _— doré_; (_milliarum aureum_) the milestone set up by Augustus in the Forum.

=milliard=, _n.m._, one thousand millions.

=milliasse=, _n.f._, (fam.) thousands, swarms (vast number).

=millième=, _n.m._ and _adj._, thousandth.

=millier=, _n.m._, thousand, thousand-weight. _— de fer_; thousand-weight of iron. _Un — d’arbres_; a thousand trees. _Des — d’arbres_; thousands of trees. _On en trouve par —s_; they are to be found in thousands.

=milligramme=, _n.m._, milligram (French weight; ·0154 grain).

=millilitre=, _n.m._, milliliter (French measure; ·06103 cubic inch).

=millimètre=, _n.m._, millimeter (French measure; ·03937 inch).

=million=, _n.m._, million.

=millionième=, _n.m._ and _adj._, millionth.

=millionnaire=, _n.m.f._ and _adj._, millionaire; person extremely rich; worth millions. _C’est un —_, _il est —_; he is a millionaire, he is worth millions.

=millouin= _or_ =milouin=, _n.m._, (orni.) pochard, canvas-back duck.

=milord= (-lor), _n.m._, (_milords_) lord, my lord; your lordship (French); cab, phaeton (private); (pop.) rich man. _C’est un —_; he is a nabob.

=milréis= (-is), _n.m._, milreis (Portuguese coin).

=mime=, _n.m._ and _adj._, (antiq.) mime; mimer; mimic; mimical.

=mimer=, _v.a._, to mimic.

=mimi=, _n.m.f._, darling, puss, pet, sweetheart.

=mimique=, _n.f._ and _adj._, art of imitating, mimicry; mimic, mimical.

=mimosa=, _n.f._, (bot.) mimosa (the sensitive-plant). [In botanical language this and all other names of plants ending in _a_ are masculine.]

=mimule=, _n.m._, (bot.) monkey-flower.

=minable=, _adj._, (fam.) pitiful, wretched-looking; seedy, shabby.

=minage=, _n.m._, (feudalism) toll-dues, corn-duty.

=minaret=, _n.m._, minaret; (mining) shaft.

=minauder=, _v.n._, to mince, to simper, to smirk, to be lackadaisical.

=minauderie= (mi-nô-drî), _n.f._, affected, lackadaisical manners; lackadaisicalness, simpering, smirking.

=minaudi-er=, =-ère=, _adj._ and _n._, affected, lackadaisical; affected, lackadaisical person.

=mince=, _adj._, thin, slender, puny, shallow, poor, slight, scanty; trivial, vulgar. _Esprit —_; shallow wit. _C’est un homme bien —_; he is but a shallow man. _Taille —_; slim _or_ slender waist. _Il est d’un —_; he is as shallow as you like, _or_ as they make them.

=mine=, _n.f._, look, aspect, mien, appearance; show; air, figure, style. _Il a la — trompeuse_; he has a deceitful look. _— fière_; proud look. _Il ne faut pas juger des gens à la —_; people should not be judged by their looks. _Homme de bonne —_; good-looking man. _De mauvaise —_; ill-looking. _Avoir bonne —_; to look well. _Avoir mauvaise —_; to look ill. _Il a la — d’être riche_; he looks like a rich man. _J’ai bien la — de payer vos folies_; it seems as if I shall have to pay for your follies. _Faire — d’être fâché_; to pretend to be angry. _Faire bonne — à quelqu’un_; to greet any one pleasantly. _Faire mauvaise — à_; to receive coldly, to look daggers at. _Faire bonne — à mauvais jeu_; to put a good face on matters. _Faire la — à quelqu’un_; to pout at any one. _Faire la —_; to look displeased. _Payer de —_; to be all outside show.

=mine=, _n.f._, mine; ore; source, store; plot, secret; mine (French measure, 78 liters); (Grec. antiq.) mina. _— d’or_; gold-mine. _— de charbon de terre_; coal-pit. _Le puits de la —_; the shaft of the mine. _— de plomb_; lead-mine; plumbago, black-lead pencil. _— d’argent cornée_; soft silver-ore. _— d’argent rouge_; silver-ore (mixed with arsenic and sulphur). _— à bocarder_; ore rough from the mine. _— élevée_; upright mine. _— profonde_; mine with downward lodes. _— sèche_; hard ore. _—s vives_; rich mines. _Faire jouer une —_; (milit.) to spring a mine. _Eventer la —_; (milit.) to discover and destroy the enemy’s mine; (fig.) to discover the plot; to baffle any one’s designs.

=miner=, _v.a._, to mine, to undermine, to sap; to hollow, to waste, to wear away; to consume, to waste by slow degrees, to impair, to prey upon. _— un bastion_; (milit.) to mine a bastion. _L’eau mine la pierre_; water wears away stone. _Cette maladie le mine_; that disease is wearing him away. _Se —_; to become undermined.

=mineral=, _n.m._, ore. _— lavé_; buddled ore. _Extraire le —_; to dig out ore. _— brut_; raw ore.

=minéral=, _n.m._, mineral.

=minéral=, =-e=, _adj._, mineral.

=minéralisateur=, _n.m._, (chem., min.) mineralizer.

=minéralisat-eur=, =-rice=, _adj._, (chem., min.) mineralizing.

=minéralisation=, _n.f._, (chem., min.) mineralization.

=minéraliser=, _v.a._, (chem., min.) to mineralize.

=minéralogie=, _n.f._, mineralogy.

=minéralogique=, _adj._, mineralogical, mineralogic.

=minéralogiste=, _n.m._, mineralogist.

☉=minéralogue= (-log), _n.m._ _V._ =minéralogiste=.

=minerve=, _n.f._, (myth.) Minerva; (fam.) head, brain, brains, reason. _Tirer quelque chose de sa —_; (fam.) to draw, to get, anything from one’s head, from one’s brains. _Arbre de —_; (poet.) olive-tree. _Oiseau de —_; (poet.) the owl.

=minet=, _n.m._, =-te=, _n.f._, puss, kitten.

=mineur=, _n.m._, miner, underminer, pitman.

=mineur=, =-e=, _adj._, minor, under age; minor, less, lesser; (mus.) minor. _Frère —_; Minorite, Franciscan.

=mineur=, _n.m._, =-e=, _n.f._, minor; (jur.) infant.

=mineur=, _n.m._, (mus.) minor mode; (in convents) minor.

=mineure=, _n.f._, (log.) minor.

=miniature=, _n.f._, miniature. _Portrait en —_; miniature-portrait. _Peintre en —_; miniature-painter.

=miniaturiste=, _n.m.f._, miniature-painter.

=mini-er=, =-ère=, _adj._, pertaining to mines.

=minière=, _n.f._, ore; pit.

_à_ =minimâ=, _adv._ _Appel à —_; (jur.) appeal by the crown when a sentence is too lenient.

=minime=, _adj._, very small, very slender, very trifling, trifling, inconsiderable.

=minime=, _n.m._, Minim (monk).

☉=minime=, _n.f._, (mus.) minim.

=minimum= (-mom), _n.m._, (_—s_) (math.) (_minima_), minimum, lowest.

=ministère=, _n.m._, ministry, agency; services; administration, department, functions; minister’s office; ministration. _Le — public_; public authorities; magistrates. _Cela n’est pas de mon —_; that does not belong to my office. _Le — des affaires étrangères_, _de l’intérieur_, _de la guerre_; the foreign, the home, the war, office.

=ministériel=, =-le=, _adj._, ministerial.

=ministériellement= (-rièl-mān), _adv._, ministerially.

=ministre=, _n.m._, minister; clergyman, rector, vicar; servant. _Le premier —_; the prime minister, the premier. _— d’état_; minister of state. _— du commerce_; president of the board of trade. _Les —s de l’autel_; the priests. _— de la Marine_; first Lord of the Admiralty. _— de l’Intérieur_; the Home Minister. _— des Affaires Etrangères_; the Foreign Minister.

=minium= (-om), _n.m._, (_n.p._) (min.) minium, red lead.

=minois=, _n.m._, pretty face, looks, air, appearance.

=minon=, _n.m._, puss; kitten.

=minoratif=, _n.m._, (med.) laxative, gentle aperient.

=minorati-f=, =-ve=, _adj._, laxative.

=minorité=, _n.f._, minority, nonage; (jur.) infancy.

=minot=, _n.m._, ☉minot (French measure, 39 liters); (nav.) bumkin.

=minotaure=, _n.m._, (myth.) minotaur.

=minoterie=, _n.f._, flour export trade; flour mill, flour store.

=minotier=, _n.m._, miller, flour dealer; flour-exporter.

=minuit=, _n.m._, midnight, twelve o’clock at night. _En plein —_; at the dead of night, in the middle of the night.

=minuscule=, _adj._, (of letters) small, very small.

=minuscule=, _n.f._, (print.) small letter.

=minute=, _n.f._, minute (of time); moment, instant; small hand (writing); first draught, rough draught, minute, copy; draught; (astron., arch., geom.) minute. _Homme à la —_; punctual man. _Vous êtes toujours à la —_; you are always punctual. _Faire la — de_; to make a rough draught of; to take the minutes of. _Sablier de —_; minute-glass. _—!_ stop a bit!

=minuter=, _v.a._, to draw up, to make a rough draught; to minute down; (l.u.) to design, to intend, to purpose.

=minuterie= (mi-nu-trî), _n.f._, (horl.) minute wheel-work; minute-wheels; minutes marked on a dial.

=minutie= (-ci), _n.f._, trifle, minutiæ.

=minutieusement= (-ci-eûz-mān), _adv._, minutely.

=minutieu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, minute; circumstantial.

=mioche=, _n.m.f._, (fam.) brat, urchin.

=mi-parti=, =-e=, _adj._, bipartite, divided into two equal but different parts; half and half. _Les avis ont été —s_; the votes were equally divided.

=miquelet= (mi-klè), _n.m._, soldier; Spanish bandit.

☉=miquelot= (mi-klô), _n.m._, begging-pilgrim. _Faire le —_; to put on a sanctified, a sanctimonious, air.

=mirabelle=, _n.f._, (bot.) mirabelle (plum).

=miracle=, _n.m._, miracle, wonder. _À —_; miraculously, extremely well, wonderfully well. _Faiseur de —s_; miracle-monger. _Crier —_; to cry out wonderful! _Crier au —_; to declare a thing a miracle. _Opérer des —s_; to work miracles. _C’est un — de beauté_; she _or_ it is wonderfully beautiful. _C’est un — de vous voir_; it is a wonder to see you. _Le beau —!_ not so wonderful after all; _or_ why, is that all!

=miraculeusement= (-leûz-mān), _adv._, miraculously, wonderfully.

=miraculeu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, miraculous, wonderful, marvelous.

=mirage=, _n.m._, mirage; looming; (fig.) shadow, outline, delusion.

=mirauder=, _v.a._ _V._ =mirer=.

=mire=, _n.f._, (artil.) aim; (of firearms) sight, foresight. _Prendre sa —_; to take aim. _Point de —_; aim, point aimed at; object, end, in view.

=miré=, _adj._, (hunt.) with tusks curved inwards (of boars).

=mirer=, _v.a._, to aim, to take aim, to aim at, to have in view; to look at; to examine; to candle (eggs). _— une place_; to aim at a situation. _— des œufs_; to try eggs (by holding them up to the light).

_se_ =mirer=, _v.r._, to look at one’s self in a glass; to admire one’s self; (of things) to be reflected. _Se — dans ses plumes_; to take pride in one’s beauty and dress.

=mirer=, _v.n._, (nav.) to loom, to appear indistinctly; (of precious stones) to have but few angles, few facets; to take aim.

=mirette=, _n.f._, (bot.) Venus’s looking-glass. _V._ =miroir=.

=mirifique=, _adj._, wonderful, marvelous; admirable, splendid.

=mirliflore=, _n.m._, exquisite, fop, dandy, coxcomb, spark, beau.

=mirlirot=, _n.m._, corruption of =mélilot=, _q.v._

=mirliton=, _n.m._, reed-pipe; bag-wig; tol-de-rol-lol.

=mirmidon= _or_ =myrmidon=, _n.m._, (hist.) Myrmidon; shrimp, pygmy (pers.).

=mirobolant=, =-e=, _adj._, prodigious, wonderful, stupendous.

=miroder=, _v.a._ _V._ =mirauder= and =mirer=.

=miroir=, _n.m._, mirror, looking-glass, glass; (opt.) mirror, speculum. _Etamer un —_; to foliate a looking-glass. _— ardent_; burning-mirror. _Des œufs au —_; fried eggs. _— de Vénus_; (_bot._) Venus’s looking-glass.

=miroitant=, =-e=, _adj._, reflecting (like a mirror), glistening, glittering, shimmering.

=miroité=, =-e=, _adj._, shot, shiny, glittering, glistening; shimmered; reflected; (of horses) dapple-bay.

=miroitement=, _n.m._, reflection of the light by polished surfaces; flashing, shine, glittering, brilliancy, radiance.

=miroiter=, _v.n._, to reflect light, to flash, to shine, to glisten, to glitter, to shimmer; to radiate. _v.a._, to reflect, to mirror.

=miroiterie= (mi-roa-trî), _n.f._, looking-glass trade _or_ business, mirror-trade.

=miroiterie=, _n.f._, mirror trade; looking-glass manufactory.

=miroitier= (-tié), _n.m._, looking-glass maker.

=miroton=, _n.m._, (cook.) miroton, beef collope (with onions); (of fruits) stewed.

=mise=, _part._ _adj._, put; dressed, clad, attired.

=misaine=, _n.f._, (nav.) foresail. _Mât de —_; foremast. _Voile de —_; foresail.

=misanthrope=, _n.m._, misanthrope, misanthropist, man-hater, hater of mankind.

=misanthropie=, _n.f._, misanthropy.

=misanthropique=, _adj._, misanthropic; misanthropical.

=miscellanées=, _n.m.pl._, miscellanea, miscellany.

=mischna=, _n.f._ (_n.p._), mischna, mishna.

=miscibilité=, _n.f._, miscibility.

=miscible=, _adj._, miscible; mixable.

=mise=, _n.f._, laying, placing; dress, manner of dressing; deposit, investment, outlay, disbursement; stake; bidding (at auctions); capital, share of capital; (l.u.) circulation (of coin). _— à l’eau_; launch (of a ship). _— hors_; (com.) outlay. _Cet homme est de —_; that man is presentable. _Cette raison n’est pas de —_; that reason will not pass _or_ will not hold water. _Cette étoffe n’est pas de —_; that stuff is not worn, is not in fashion, not fashionable. _Avoir une — simple_; to dress plainly. _Sa — était de cinq francs_; he had staked five francs. _— en possession_; taking possession. _— en accusation_; impeachment, indictment. _— en arrestation_; arrest, apprehension. _— à exécution_; carrying out. _— en jugement_; trial. _— en musique_; setting to music. _— en perce_; tapping (of a cask). _— à prix_; upset price. _— en prévention_; (jur.) commitment. _— en pot_; potting. _— en justice_; bringing into court. _— à terre_; setting _or_ putting down. _— en terre_; burial, interment. _— en vigueur_; putting into force. _— en liberté_; enlargement, release, discharge. _— en scène_; (thea.) getting up of a dramatic piece. _— en vente_; putting up for sale. _— en œuvre_; working up (of anything); preparation; employing, using, setting. _— en pages_; (print.) clicking, making-up. _— en train_; setting to work, starting; (print.) making ready. _— en vigueur_; enforcement, putting into force. _De —_; acceptable, admissible.

=miser=, _v.n._, (local ex.) to bid (at auctions).

=misérable=, _adj._, miserable, wretched; wicked; sorry, worthless.

=misérable=, _n.m.f._, wretch, miserable wretch, miscreant. _C’est un —_; he is a villain, a miscreant. _C’est une —_; she is a wretch. _Les —s_; the wretched, the outcasts.

=misérablement=, _adv._, miserably, wretchedly; worthlessly, wickedly.

=misère=, _n.f._, misery, wretchedness, distress, want; trouble, plague, grievous thing, helplessness; trifle, trifling thing. _Il est mort de faim et de —_; he died of starvation and want. _Prendre le collier de —_; to make one’s self a drudge. _La — des membres_; the helplessness of the limbs.

=miséréré=, _n.m._, (med.) iliac passion; (c.rel.) miserere (51st psalm).

=miséricorde=, _n.f._, mercy, tenderness, mercifulness; pardon, quarter, grace, forgiveness, pitifulness; small seat. _Crier —_; to cry for mercy. _Il ne mérite point de —_; he deserves no mercy. _Faire —_; to show mercy. _À tout péché —_; all offenses should be forgiven. _—! il va se tuer_; mercy upon me! he will kill himself.

=miséricordieusement= (-eûz-mān), _adv._, mercifully, compassionately.