Part 121

=pied= (pié), _n.m._, foot; footing; track; leg (of furniture); bottom, ground; pace, slip, track; stalk (of plants). _Les doigts du —_; the toes. _— bot_; club-foot, club-footed. _Avoir des cors aux —s_; to have corns on one’s feet. _Le cou-de-—_, (_—s-—_) the instep. _Marcher sur la pointe du —_; to walk on tip-toe. _Un coup de —_; a kick. _Donner des coups de — à_; to kick. _Aller à —_; to go on foot. _Sur —_; on foot, standing, astir, sitting up. _Taper du —_; to stamp. _Marcher —s nus_; to walk barefooted. _Mettre sous ses —s_; to trample upon. _Les —s de devant_; the fore-feet. _Petits-—s_, (_—_) small fowl, small game. _— plat_, _plat —_; flat foot; (fig.) knave, mean rascal. _— poudreux_; vagabond, rascal, scoundrel. _Une coutume qui prend —_; a custom that is gaining ground. _Perdre —_; to get out of one’s depth. _Avoir —_; not to be out of one’s depth. _—s et poings liés_; tied hand and foot. _Lâcher —_; to give way, to fall back. _Prendre — sur quelque chose_; to take anything as a precedent. _Ne savoir sur quel — danser_; not to know which way to turn. _Sauter à —s joints_; to jump upon; (fig.) to ride rough-shod over. _Tenir le — sur la gorge de quelqu’un_; to attempt to force any one to do anything. _Tenir — à boule_; to stick to one’s work. _Couper l’herbe sous le — à quelqu’un_; to supplant any one. _Il a été sur — toute la nuit_; he has been up all night. _De — en cap_; cap-a-pie, from head to foot. _Haut le —_; be off with you; let us be off at once! _Faire haut le —_; to vanish, to disappear; to run away. _Haut-le-—_, (_—_) (fam.) a man with no fixed residence; a scoundrel. _Renvoyer des chevaux haut le —_; to send horses away without saddles _or_ harness. _Au — de la lettre_; strictly speaking, literally. _Si vous lui donnez un —, il en prendra quatre_; give him an inch and he’ll take an ell. _Il a trouvé chaussure à son —_; he has found just what he wanted; he has met with his match. _Il s’est tiré une épine du —_; he pulled a thorn out of his foot; (fig.) he has got out of a difficulty. _Être en —_; to be in the exercise of one’s functions. _De — ferme_; without stirring, firmly. _De plain —_; on a level with. _Être assis au — d’un arbre_; to be seated at the foot of a tree. _Un — de céleri_; a stick of celery. _Le — du lit_; the foot of the bed. _Le — d’une table_; the leg of a table. _— de mât_; heel of a mast. _Cela a tant de —s de long_; that is so many feet long. _— à —_; step by step; by degrees. _Sur le — de_; at the rate of. _D’arrache-—_; without intermission, without stopping. _Au petit —_; on a small scale. _Faire des —s et des mains pour_; to do one’s utmost (to), to leave no stone unturned (to). _Sur le — où en sont les choses_; as matters stand. _Avoir bon —, bon œil_; to be hale and hearty. _Mettre quelqu’un à —_; to dismiss a functionary; to deprive a cabman of his license. _Ne pas se moucher du —_; to give one’s self airs; to be no fool. _Sécher sur —_; to pine away. _La mort l’a pris au — levé_; death took him without warning, unawares. _Aller du — comme un chat maigre_; to be a capital walker.

=pied-à-terre=, _n.m._, (_—_) temporary lodging; country-box; shooting lodge.

=pied-d’alouette=, _n.m._, (_—s-—_) (bot.) larkspur.

=pied-de-coq=, _n.m._, (_—s-—_) (bot.) cock’s-foot-grass.

=pied-de-lion=, _n.m._, (_—s-—_) (bot.) lion’s-foot.

=pied-de-poule=, _n.m._, (_—s-—_) (bot.) crowfoot.

=pied-de-veau=, _n.m._, (_—s-—_) calf’s foot; (bot.) cuckoo-pint, wake-robin.

=pied-d’oiseau=, _n.m._, (_—s-—_) (bot.) bird’s-foot.

=pied-droit=, _n.m._, (_—s-—s_) (arch.) pier; pied droit, upright, pillar.

=piédestal=, _n.m._, (arch.) pedestal.

=pied-fort=, _n.m._, (_—s-—s_) (coin.) a gold, silver, _or_ copper coin (thicker than others).

=piédouche=, _n.m._, (arch.) piedouche, small pedestal for a bust, a vase, etc.

=piège=, _n.m._, snare, trap, decoy. _Tendre_, _dresser_, _un —_; to set a snare. _Prendre au —_; to catch in a trap. _Il a donné_, _il est tombé_, _dans le —_; he fell into the snare.

=pie-grièche=, _n.f._, (_—s-—s_) (orni.) shrike; (pers.) shrew.

=pie-mère=, _n.f._, (_n.p._) (anat.) pia mater.

*=pierraille=, _n.f._, broken stone.

=pierre=, _n.f._, stone, flint; (fig.) steel, rock; gem; (med.) calculus. _— de taille_; freestone. _— à aiguiser_; grindstone. _— précieuse_; gem, precious stone. _— fausse_; paste. _— à fusil_; flint. _— à cautère_; potential cautery. _— d’achoppement_; stumbling-block. _— de touche_; touchstone. _Première —_; foundation-stone. _La — philosophale_; the philosopher’s stone. _Il gèle à — fendre_; it is freezing extremely hard. _Jeter la — à quelqu’un_; to attack any one (in words). _Jeter des —s dans le jardin de quelqu’un_; to throw out insinuations against any one. _— d’attente_; (mas.) toothing; (fig.) stepping-stone. _— angulaire_; corner-stone. _— d’évier_; gutter-stone, kitchen-sink. _— milliaire_; milestone. _Faire d’une — deux coups_; to kill two birds with one stone. _— qui roule n’amasse pas de mousse_; a rolling stone gathers no moss. _Faire rire un tas de —s_; to make a cat laugh.

=pierrée=, _n.f._, (engineering) rubble drain.

=pierreries= (pièr-rî), _n.f.pl._, jewels, precious stones.

=pierrette=, _n.f._, little stone, pebble; (orni.) hen-sparrow.

=pierreu-x=, =-se=, _n._ and _adj._, stony, flinty, gritty, gravely; calculous.

=pierrier=, _n.m._, stone drain, swivel-gun.

=pierrot=, _n.m._, house-sparrow; clown, merry-andrew.

=pierrures=, _n.f.pl._, (hunt.) pearls; bur (of deer).

=piété=, _n.f._, piety, godliness; love, affection.

=piéter=, _v.n._, to foot the mark (at games).

=piéter=, _v.a._, ☉to set against. _— l’étrave_, _l’étambord_, _le gouvernail_; (nav.) to mark the numbers of feet on the stem, on the stern-post, on the rudder.

☉_se_ =piéter=, _v.r._, to resist, to set one’s self against.

=piétinement= (-ti-n-mān), _n.m._, moving of feet; stamping, trampling.

=piétiner=, _v.n._, to stamp, to move one’s feet about. _— de colère_; to stamp with rage.

=piétiner=, _v.a._, to tread, _or_ to trample, under foot, to trample on.

=piétisme=, _n.m._, pietism.

=piétiste=, _n.m._, pietist.

=piéton=, _n.m._, =-ne=, _n.f._, pedestrian, foot-passenger; rural postman.

=piètre=, _adj._, (fam.) shabby, wretched; pitiful. _n._, vagabond, tramp, loafer.

=piètrement=, _adv._, (fam.) pitifully, wretchedly, shabbily.

=piètrerie=, _n.f._, (l.u.) shabby thing, wretched stuff.

=piette=, _n.f._, (orni.) weasel-coot.

=pieu=, _n.m._, stake, pile, post, pale.

=pieusement= (pi-eûz-mān), _adv._, piously, devoutly, religiously; implicitly, obediently; reverently.

=pieuvre=, _n.f._, (mol.) octopus, poulp, cat-o’nine tails.

=pieu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, pious, godly, religious, holy.

=pif=, _n.m._, bottle-nose, nozzle. _— paf_; (int.) slap! bang!

=piffre=, _n.m._, =-sse=, _n.f._, (l.ex.) stout person; glutton.

_se_ =piffrer=, _v.r._, (l.ex.) to eat greedily, _or_ to excess.

=pigamon=, _n.m._, meadow-rue.

=pigeon= (-jon), _n.m._, pigeon, dove; dupe, gull. _— culbutant_; tumbler. _— à grosse gorge_; pouter, cropper. _— ramier_; wood-pigeon. _— voyageur_ or _messager_; carrier-pigeon. _Des —s à la crapaudine_; broiled pigeons. _Gorge de —_; shot-colored (of silks).

=pigeonneau= (-jo-no), _n.m._, young pigeon.

=pigeonnier= (-jo-nié), _n.m._, pigeon-house, dove-cot.

=pigment=, _n.m._, (anat.) pigment.

*=pigne=, _n.f._, (metal.) pena gold, pena silver; (bot.) kernel of the fir-apple.

*=pignocher=, _v.n._, to eat without appetite, to pick here and there; to nibble at food.

*=pignon=, _n.m._, gable end, gable (of a house); kernel (of a fir-apple); (mec.) pinion. _Avoir — sur rue_; to have a house of one’s own.

=pignorati-f=, =-ve=, _adj._, (jur.) with power of redemption.

=pilaire=, _adj._, pilous, pilose, hairy.

=pilastre=, _n.m._, (arch.) pilaster.

=pilau=, _n.m._, pillaff (stewed rice).

=pile=, _n.f._, pile, heap; pier (of a bridge); mole (mas.); (arch.) tambour; (of coins) reverse, pile. _Mettre en —_; to pile up. _— de cuivre_; pile of weights. _— voltaïque_, _— de Volta_, _— galvanique_; voltaic, galvanic battery. _— ou face_, _croix ou —_; head or tail, man or woman. _Jouer à — ou face_, or _à croix ou —_; to play at heads or tails, to toss. _N’avoir ni croix ni —_; to be penniless, destitute.

=pile-culée=, _n.f._, (_—s-—s_) abutment-pier.

=piler=, _v.a._, to pound, to crash, to powder.

=pileur=, _n.m._, pounder, beater.

=pileu-x=, =-se=, _adj._ _V._ =pilaire=.

=pilier=, _n.m._, pillar, column, post; (pers.) support, supporter, fixture; constant frequenter; stump (leg). _— de cabaret_; tavern-haunter, regular tippler. _— butant_; butting pillar. _— de carrière_; pillar, support of a quarry.

*=pillage=, _n.m._, pillage, plunder, pilfering, plundering. _Livrer au —_; to give up to plunder. _Tout y est au —_; everything is at the mercy of any one, can be had for the taking.

*=pillard=, =-e=, _n._ and _adj._, pillager, plunderer; pillaging, plundering.

*=piller=, _v.a._, to pillage, to plunder, to ransack; to purloin, to pilfer; to attack (of dogs). _— une ville_; to plunder a town. _Ce chien pille tous les autres chiens_; that dog attacks, _or_ flies at, all the other dogs. _Pille! Pille!_ seize him! seize him!

*=pillerie=, _n.f._, pillage, plunder, pilfer, extortion.

*=pilleur=, _n.m._, pillager, plunderer, pilferer.

=pilon=, _n.m._, pestle; stamper. _Mettre au —_; to tear up (books).

=pilonnage=, _n.m._, (tech.) pugging; pounding, stamping, milling.

=pilonner=, _v.a._, (tech.) to pug; to pound, to mill, to stamp.

=pilori=, _n.m._, pillory. _Mettre quelqu’un au —_; (fig.) to defame anybody.

=pilorier=, _v.a._, to pillory, to put in the pillory, to slander, to libel, to asperse.

=piloris=, _n.m._, (mam.) musk-rat.

=piloselle=, _n.f._, (bot.) mouse-ear.

=pilot= (pi-lô), _n.m._, (tech.) heap of salt; pile, stake of timber.

=pilotage=, _n.m._, pile-driving, piling; (nav.) piloting.

=pilote=, _n.m._, pilot, guide. _— côtier_; coasting pilot. _— lamaneur_; coasting, harbor, river pilot. _— hauturier_; sea pilot.

=piloter=, _v.a._ and _n._, (tech.) to pile, to drive piles in.

=piloter=, _v.a._, (nav.) to pilot; (fig., fam.) to pilot, to guide, to serve as a guide.

=pilotin=, _n.m._, (nav.) pilot’s apprentice.

=pilotis=, _n.m._, piling, pile-work; stilt.

=pilule=, _n.f._, (pharm.) pill. _Dorer la —_; to gild the pill.

=pilulier=, _n.m._, pill-machine.

=pilum=, _n.m._, (_—_) (antiq.) pilum (Roman antiq.).

=pimbèche=, _n.f._, impertinent woman, saucy baggage. _Quelle —!_ what a minx!

=piment=, _n.m._, pimento, capsicum, all-spice.

=pimpant=, =-e=, _adj._, natty, tidy; fine, spruce, smart, stylish.

=pimprenelle=, _n.f._, (bot.) pimpernel, burnet. _— d’Afrique_; honey-flower.

=pin=, _n.m._, (bot.) pine-tree, pine, Scotch fir. _Pomme de —_; fir-cone; fir-nut; fir-apple.

=pinace=, _n.f._ _V._ =pinasse=.

=pinacle=, _n.m._, pinnacle. _Mettre quelqu’un sur le —_; to praise any one to the skies. _Il est sur le —_; he is as high as he can go.

=pinaie=, _n.f._, pine-plantation.

=pinasse= _or_ =pinace=, _n.f._, (nav.) pinnace.

=pinastre=, _n.m._, (bot.) pinaster.

=pinçard=, _adj._, wearing the shoe at the toe (of a horse).

=pince=, _n.f._, pliers, nippers; tongs; hold; gripe; crow, crowbar (lever); sharp-pointed fold (in garments); toe (of a horse’s foot); claw (of a lobster); edge (of a deer’s hoof); (surg.) forceps. _Petites —s_; tweezers. _—s à sucre_; sugar-tongs. _—s d’un cheval_; horse’s fore-teeth. _— d’un fer à cheval_; front of a horse-shoe. _Prendre une bûche avec la —_; to take up a log with the tongs. _Être menacé de la —_, _craindre la —_; to be in danger of being arrested, to fear arrest. _Gare la —!_ mind you are not sent to prison! _Avoir la — forte_, _la — rude_; to have a good gripe.

=pincé=, =-e=, _adj._, pinched; affected, stiff, prim; thin; tight. _—!_ caught! found out! taken in!

=pinceau=, _n.m._, pencil, brush. _Trait_, _coup_, _de —_; dash, stroke, of the pencil. _Avoir un beau —_; (paint.) to have a fine touch. _— à barbe_; shaving brush.

=pincée=, _n.f._, pinch.

=pincelier=, _n.m._, (paint.) dip-cup, smutch-pot.

*=pince-maille=, _n.m._, (_—_, or _—-—s_) pinch-penny, skinflint, screw.

=pincement=, _n.m._, (agri.) pinching, nipping off of the heads of buds.

=pince-nez=, _n.m._, (_—_) double eye-glass, folding eye-glass; folder.

=pincer=, _v.a._, to pinch, to press, to hold fast, to gripe, to bite; to nip, to nip off; to rally, to reproach; to surprise, to catch; to play (the guitar, harp); (nav.) to hug. _— les petits bourgeons d’un arbre_; to nip off the small buds of a tree. _— de la harpe_; to play upon the harp. _— quelqu’un_; to give any one a nip. _Il pince en riant_; he can nip and laugh. _— le vent_; (nav.) to hug _or_ haul close to the wind. _Se faire —_; to get caught, to get found out, taken in.

_se_ =pincer=, _v.r._, to pinch one’s self.

=pincer=, _v.n._, to pinch, to rally, to reproach; to play (the guitar, harp); (man.) to spur gently.

=pince-sans-rire=, _n.m._, (_—_) sly, malicious person; dry joker.

=pincette=, _n.f._, _or_ =pincettes=, _n.f.pl._, tongs, tweezers, nippers. _On ne le toucherait pas avec des —s_; a person would not touch him with a pair of tongs.

=pinchina=, _n.m._, thick, coarse woolen cloth.

=pinçon=, _n.m._, pinch (mark).

=pinçure=, _n.f._, pinching, pinch; crease.

=pindarique=, _adj._, pindaric.

=pindariser=, _v.n._, to speak affectedly; to talk fustian, bombast; to write fustian, bombast.

=pindariseur=, _n.m._, ranter, talker of fustian, bombast; writer of fustian, bombast.

=pinde=, _n.m._, Pindus; (fig.) poets, poetry.

=pinéal=, =-e=, _adj._, (anat.) pineal.

=pineau=, _n.m._, black Burgundy grape.

=pingouin= _or_ =pinguin=, _n.m._, (orni.) penguin; auk.

=pingre=, _n.m._ and _adj._, (pop.) miser, skinflint; avaricious, mean, stingy, close-fisted.

=pinne= _or_ =pinne marine=, _n.f._, (mol.) pinna.

=pinné=, =-e=, _adj._, (bot.) pinnate, pinnated.

=pinnule=, _n.f._, pinnule, sight-vane (of instruments).

=pinque=, _n.f._, (nav.) pink.

=pinson=, _n.m._, (orni.) finch; chaffinch. _Gai comme un —_; as gay as a lark, as merry as a grig.

=pintade=, _n.f._, (orni.) Guinea-fowl, pearl-hen.

=pintadeau=, _n.m._, Guinea-chick.

=pinte=, _n.f._, pint (obsolete measure).

=pinter=, _v.n._, to tipple, to guzzle.

=piochage=, _n.m._, digging, working, fagging.

=pioche=, _n.f._, pickax, mattock.

=piocher=, _v.a._, to dig.

=piocher=, _v.n._, to dig; to fag, to work hard, to study hard; to fight.

=piocheur=, _n.m._, digger; hard-working student; fag, sweater.

=pioler=. _V._ =piauler=.

=pion=, _n.m._, pawn (at chess); man (at draughts); man without property _or_ resources; usher (in a school). _Damer le — à quelqu’un_; to outdo any one.

=pionce=, _n.f._, nap, snooze, forty winks.

=pioncer=, _v.n._, to snooze, to have a nap, to have forty winks.

=pionceur=, _n.m._, snoozer, heavy sleeper.

=pione=, _n.f._ _V._ =pivoine= (bot.).

=pionner=, _v.n._, to take pawns (at chess).

=pionnier=, _n.m._, pioneer.

=piot= (piô), _n.m._, (pop.) wine.

=piote=, _n.f._, a species of gondola.

=pioupiou= (pioo-), _n.m._, (_—s_) (pop.) foot-soldier, tommy, worm-crusher.

=pipe=, _n.f._, pipe, tobacco-pipe; pipe (cask).

=pipeau=, _n.m._, pipe, oaten pipe, reed-pipe, shepherd’s pipe; bird-call; limed twig; snare.

=pipée=, _n.f._, bird-catching (with a bird-call); (fig.) deceit, trickery. _Prendre à la —_; to catch with a bird-call; (fig.) to cozen, to take in.

=piper=, _v.a._, to catch birds with a bird-call; to deceive, to trick; to dupe, to cheat; to prepare (cards); to load, to cog (dice).

=piperesse=, (st.e.) _fem._ of =pipeur=, _q.v._

☉=piperie= (pi-prî), _n.f._, cheating (at play); deceit, trickery.

=pipeu-r=, =-se=, _n._ and _adj._, cheat, trickster (at play); cheat, deceiver; cheating, deceitful.

=pipi=, _n.m._, (triv.) urine, water. _Faire —_; to piddle.

=pipi= _or_ =pitpit=, _n.m._, (orni.) titling, titlark, pipit.

=pipoir=, _n.m._, owl-call.

=piquamment=, _adv._, piquantly, smartly.

=piquant=, =-e=, _adj._, prickly, stinging; sharp, pungent; biting, nipping; cutting, keen; lively, piquant, pointed, smart. _De la moutarde —e_; hot mustard. _Froid —_; biting cold. _Des mots —s_; pointed words, cutting words. _Il a une conversation —e_; his conversation is very smart. _Elle a l’air —_; she has a lively, attractive, pleasing appearance.

=piquant=, _n.m._, prickle; quill (of porcupines); pungency, pith, point, fun, cream; piquancy. _Le — de la chose_; the point, fun, _or_ cream of the thing.

=pique=, _n.f._, pike (weapon); pique, grudge, spite, quarrel. _Bois de —_; pikestaff. _Demi-—_; short pike. _Être à cent —s de_; to be miles off in guessing. _Être à cent —s au-dessus_, _au-dessous_, _de quelqu’un_, _de quelque chose_; to be far above, below, any one _or_ anything. _Petite —_; slight pique, quarrel, tiff. _Par —_; out of pique _or_ out of spite.

=pique=, _n.m._, spade (at cards). _As de —_; (fig.) parson’s _or_ pope’s nose.

=piqué=, =-e=, _part._, quilted; larded. _Jupon —_; quilted petticoat. _Poulet —_; larded chicken. _Cela n’est pas — des vers_; it is a smart bit of work _or_ it is not to be sneezed at.

=piqué=, _n.m._, quilting. _Goût de —_; (of wine) sourish taste, tartness.

=pique-assiette=, _n.m._, (_—_, or _—-—s_) spunger; dinner-hunter; trencher-friend.

=pique-bœuf=, _n.m._, (_—_, or _—-—s_) cattle-drover; (orni.) buphaga, beef-eater.

=pique-nique=, _n.m._, (_—-—s_) picnic. _Faire un —_; to have a picnic.

=piquer=, _v.a._, to prick; to prod; to goad; to sting; to puncture; to bite; to quilt; to stitch; to lard; to stick; to prick off, to mark off; to be piquant; to excite, to stimulate, to urge on, to goad on; to pique, to gall, to nettle; to spur; (surg.) to puncture. _— les absents_; to prick off the absent. _— d’honneur_; to put on (his _or_ her) mettle. _— des bœufs_; to goad oxen. _Quelle mouche le pique?_ what has put him into a passion? what’s up with him? _— une jupe_; to quilt a petticoat. _— de la viande_; to lard meat. _— un cheval_; to spur a horse. _— la curiosité de quelqu’un_; to excite _or_ rouse any one’s curiosity. _Il en fut piqué_; he was nettled at it. _— une tête_; to take a header. _— un soleil_; (fam.) to get very red.

_se_ =piquer=, _v.r._, to prick one’s self, to sting one’s self; to be offended, to be nettled, to feel affronted, to be piqued; to pride one’s self, to plume one’s self, to pique one’s self, to take a pride in; to turn sour; to become spotted. _Se — d’honneur_; to make it a point of honor; to think one’s self bound in honor. _Se — au jeu_; to persist in playing although losing. _Ce papier se pique_; this paper is becoming spotted, covered with spots. _Ce vin se pique_; this wine is turning sour. _Se — de rien_; to take offense at the least thing.

=piquer=, _v.n._, to sting; to be piquant; (man.) to spur. _— des deux_; to spur a horse (with both heels); to put spurs to one’s horse; to gallop off at full speed; (fig. fam.) to go very fast; to strive hard.

=piquet=, _n.m._, picket, peg, stake; (milit.) picket; piquet (card game); cluster of flowers (on a bonnet). _Être au —_; to be standing up in a corner (as a punishment in schools). _Être de —_; (milit.) to be on picket duty. _Planter le —_; to pitch the tents, to take up one’s quarters. _Lever le —_; to strike the tents; to decamp. _Aller planter le — chez quelqu’un_; to take up one’s quarters with any one.

=piqueté=, =-e=, _adj._, spotted, dotted.

=piqueter=, _v.a._, to set _or_ mark with stakes _or_ pickets; to fix.

=piquette=, _n.f._, rape wine; sour wine; thin wine.

=piqueur=, _n.m._, outrider; marker who notes down the names of persons absent; (cook.) one who lards (meat); (man.) stud-groom; (hunt.) whipper-in, huntsman. _— d’assiettes_; spunger. _— d’écurie_; head-groom. _— de vins_; wine-taster.

=piqueu-r=, _n.m._, =-se=, _n.f._, stitcher.

=piquier=, _n.m._, pikeman.

=piqûre=, _n.f._, pricking, prick, sting, puncture; worm-hole; (needlework) quilting, stitching; (vet.) warbles.

=pirate=, _n.m._, pirate, corsair, buccaneer; extortioner.

=pirater=, _v.n._, to pirate, to exercise piracy, to commit piracy.

=piraterie= (pi-ra-trî), _n.f._, piracy; act of piracy; extortion.

=pire=, _adj._ and _n.m._, worse, worst. _Le remède est — que le mal_; the remedy is worse than the disease. _Le —_; the worst. _Il n’y a — sourd que celui qui ne veut pas entendre_; none so deaf as those who won’t hear. _Il n’y a — eau que l’eau qui dort_; still waters run deep.

=piriforme=, _adj._, (anat.) pear-shaped.

=pirogue= (pi-rog), _n.f._, pirogue, canoe, jolly boat.

=pirole=, _n.f._, (bot.) wintergreen.

=pirouette=, _n.f._, pirouette; rapid whirling round; whirligig; subterfuge.

=pirouetter=, _v.n._, to pirouette; to whirl about _or_ round.

=pirrhonien=, =-ne=, _adj._ _V._ =pyrrhonien=.

=pirrhonisme=, _n.m._ _V._ =pyrrhonisme=.

=pis=, _n.m._, udder, dug (of cows, etc.).

=pis=, _adv._ and _n.m._, worse, worst. _Le — qui puisse arriver_; the worst that can happen. _Mettre quelqu’un au —_; to bid any one do his worst. _De mal en —_; from bad to worse. _De — en —_; worse and worse. _Qui — est_; what is worse. _Mettre les choses au —_; to suppose the worst.

=pis aller=, _n.m._, worst; last shift, last resource; makeshift; compensation. _Au — —_; at the worst; let the worst come to the worst. _C’est votre — —_; it is your last shift, your last resource. _C’est un — —_; it is a makeshift.

=piscicole=, _adj._, piscicultural.

=pisciculteur=, _n.m._, pisciculturist.

=pisciculture=, _n.f._, pisciculture, fish culture.

=pisciforme=, _adj._, pisciform, fish-shaped.

=piscine=, _n.f._, piscina.

=piscivore=, _adj._, piscivorous.

=pisé=, _n.m._, pisé (mas.).

=pissasphalte=, _n.m._, pissasphalt.

=pissat=, _n.m._, piss, urine.

=pissement= (pis-mān), _n.m._, pissing.

=pissenlit=, _n.m._, (bot.) dandelion; pissabed.

=pisser=, _v.a._ and _n._, to piss; to make water.

=pisseu-r=, _n.m._, =-se=, _n.f._, pisser.

=pissoir=, _n.m._, public urinal.

=pissoter=, _v.n._, to piss often.

=pissotière=, _n.f._, public urinal; paltry fountain.

=pistache=, _n.f._, pistachio, pistachio-nut.

=pistachier=, _n.m._, pistachio-tree.

=piste=, _n.f._, track, course, race-course, foot-prints, trace, trail. _Suivre quelqu’un à la —_; to follow on the track of any one. _Suivre un lièvre à la —_; to follow the scent of a hare.

=pistia=, _n.m._, (bot.) water-lettuce.

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

=pistole=, _n.f._, pistole (gold coin of Spain); lock-up (for remanded prisoners). _Il est cousu de —s_; he is rolling in riches, _or_ made of money.

=pistolet=, _n.m._, pistol. _Un coup de —_; a pistol-shot. _Tirer un coup de —_; to fire off a pistol. _— d’arçon_; horse-pistol. _Quel drôle de —!_ (fig. and fam.) what a funny sort of fellow!

=piston=, _n.m._, sucker, bucket (of a pump); piston. _Fusil à —_; percussion-gun. _Tige de —_; piston-rod. _Cornet à —_; cornet.

=pitance=, _n.f._, pittance, allowance (of food); dole; daily subsistence. _Maigre —_; short allowance. _Aller à la —_; to go to market.

=pitaud=, _n.m._, =-e=, _n.f._, clown, lubber, lout.

=pite=, _n.f._, (bot.) agave, pitahemp.

=piteusement= (pi-teûz-mān), _adj._, piteously, woefully, sadly.

=piteu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, piteous, pitiable, woeful. _Faire —se mine_; to look the picture of misery. _Faire —se chère_; to fare badly.

=pitié=, _n.f._, pity, compassion; mercy; contempt, disdain. _Emouvoir la — de quelqu’un_; to move any one’s pity. _D’un œil de —_; with an eye of pity. _Il vaut mieux faire envie que —_; better be envied than pitied. _C’est grande —_, _c’est grand’—_; it is a great pity. _Vos menaces me font —_; your threats excite my disdain (_i.e._, I despise your threats). _À faire —_; pitifully, wretchedly. _Regarder quelqu’un en —_; to take pity on, _or_ despise, any one. _Par —_; for pity’s sake; out of pity. _Il me fait —_; I pity him _or_ I despise him.

=piton=, _n.m._, screw-ring, staple; (geog.) peak.