Part 123

=pli=, _n.m._, plait, fold, bend, wrinkle, rumple; tuck, coil; undulation, depression, wave; cover, letter, envelope, message, crease. _Cet habit ne fait pas un —_; that coat has not a wrinkle in it. _Sous le même —_; under the same cover. _Fouiller dans tous les —s et replis_, _sonder tous les —s et replis_, _du cœur_; to search into the innermost recesses of the heart. _Un faux —_; a crease (in stuffs). _Il a pris son —_; he has taken his bent, decided upon his course (of action). _Avoir des —s au front_; to have wrinkles on one’s forehead. _Le — du bras_; the bend of the arm. _Un — de terrain_; an undulation _or_ depression of the ground. _Cela ne fera pas un —_; there will not be the slightest difficulty, all will go as on wheels. _Prendre un mauvais —_; to get into bad habits.

=pliable=, _adj._, pliable, pliant, bending, flexible, supple.

=pliage=, _n.m._, folding.

=pliant=, =-e=, _adj._, pliant, pliable, bending, flexible, supple. _Siège —_; a folding-stool.

=pliant=, _n.m._, folding-stool, fold-stool.

=plica=, _n.m._, (med.). _V._ =plique=.

=plicatile=, _adj._, (bot.) plicate, twining.

=pliciforme=, _adj._, in the form of a fold.

=plie=, _n.f._, (ich.) plaice.

=plié=, =-e=, _part._, folded.

=plié=, _n.m._, bend of the knee in dancing.

=pliement= (plî-mān), _n.m._, act of folding.

=plier=, _v.a._, to fold, to fold up; to bend; to bring under. _— une lettre_; to fold a letter. _— du linge_; to fold up linen. _— les voiles_; to furl the sails. _— bagage_; to decamp, to pack or make off. _— son esprit aux volontés d’autrui_; to bend one’s mind, to yield to the will of others.

_se_ =plier=, _v.r._, to be folded, bent; to bow, to bend. _Je ne saurais me — à cela_; I cannot stoop to that.

=plier=, _v.n._, to bend; to yield; to give way. _Faire — un arc_; to bend a bow. _Il vaut mieux — que rompre_; better bend than break. _— sous l’autorité de quelqu’un_; to yield to any one’s authority. _L’infanterie plia_; the infantry gave way.

=plieu-r=, _n.m._, =-se=, _n.f._, folder.

=plinthe=, _n.f._, (arch.) plinth.

=plioir=, _n.m._, folding-knife; paper-folder.

=plique=, _n.f._, (med.) plica.

=plissé=, _n.m._, kilting, plaits; wrinkling.

=plissement= (plis-mān), _n.m._, folding; plaiting, doubling over; undulation (of waves).

=plisser=, _v.a._, to plait; to kilt, to wrinkle.

_se_ =plisser=, _v.r._, to form plaits; to be plaited, or wrinkled, to pucker.

=plissure=, _n.f._, plaiting.

=ploc=, _n.m._, (nav.) sheathing hair, cow-hair.

=ploiement=, _n.m._, folding.

=plomb= (plon), _n.m._, lead, shot; plumb-line, plummet; custom-house seal; sink. _De —_; (fig.) heavy; (of clouds _or_ sky) gray, leaden, of a leaden hue. _Menu —_; small shot. _— en saumon_; pig-lead. _Jeter son — sur quelque chose_; to have an eye upon anything. _Mine de —_; black-lead pencil, lead. _— dans la tête_; (fig.) ballast. _À —_; perpendicularly, directly; vertically; right, or sheer, down. _Sous les —s_; under the leads. _Tomber à —_; to plumb; to fall vertically.

=plombage=, _n.m._, leading, lead work; plumbing.

=plombagine=, _n.f._, plumbago, black-lead.

=plombé=, _-e_, _part._, leaded; (fig.) of a leaden hue, leaden-colored; (of sticks) loaded. _Dent —e_; tooth that has been stopped. _Il a le teint —_; he has a livid complexion.

=plomber=, _v.a._, to lead; to load, to seal, to stop, to mark or stamp with lead; to stop (a tooth); to plumb. _— le faîte d’un toit_; to lead the ridge of a roof. _— un mur_; to plumb a wall. _Se —_; to assume a leaden hue.

=plomberie= (plon-brî), _n.f._, plumbery; lead-making; lead-manufactory; lead-works.

=plombeur=, _n.m._, (custom-house) stamper. _Rouleau —_; field roller.

=plombeu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, leady, leaden.

=plombier=, _n.m._, plumber.

=plombifère=, _adj._, plumbiferous.

=plongé=, =-e=, _part._, immersed; dipped (of candles); sunk (in despair); weltering (in blood). _Chandelle —e_; dip candle.

=plongeant=, =-e= (-jān, -t), _adj._, plunging. _Vue —e_; view from a height. _Feu —_; plunging fire (coming from above); raking fire.

=plongée=, _n.f._, (fort.) glacis, slope.

=plongement= (plonj-mān), _n.m._, plunging; dipping; dip; (the sea) pitching.

=plongeon= (-jon), _n.m._, (orni.) diver; loon; dive, diving. _Faire le —_; to dive; to duck; (fig.) to flinch; to back out of.

=plonger=, _v.a._, to plunge, to dip, to immerse; to throw, to involve. _— quelqu’un dans la douleur_; to plunge any one into grief.

_se_ =plonger=, _v.r._, to be plunged.

=plonger=, _v.n._, to dive, to dip; to duck; to take a downward direction; to welter; to pitch (of ships).

=plongeur=, _n.m._, plunger, diver. _Cloche de_, or _à_, _—_; diving-bell.

=plongeur=, _adj._, (hydr.) plunging, diving.

=ploquer=, _v.a._, (nav.) to felt (a ship’s bottom); to sheath with hair.

=ployable=, _adj._, pliable, easy to bend; flexible.

=ployer=, _v.a._, to bend, to bow; to fold up.

_se_ =ployer=, _v.r._, to be bent, to be folded; to bend, to give way.

=ployer=, _v.n._, to bend; to yield, to submit; to give way.

=pluche=. _V._ =peluche=.

=pluie=, _n.f._, rain; downpour; shower, abundance of. _Un jour de —_; a rainy day. _Il tombe de la —_; it is raining. _Petite — abat grand vent_; a little rain lays a great dust. _Après la —, le beau temps_; every cloud has its silver lining. _— battante_; pelting rain. _Le temps est à la —_; it looks like rain. _Faire la — et le beau temps_; to be absolute master, to rule the roost. _Parler de la — et du beau temps_; to talk of indifferent things. _Une — de fleurs_; flowers in abundance.

=plui-plui=, _n.m._ _V._ =pleu-pleu=.

=plumage=, _n.m._, plumage, feathers.

*=plumail=, _n.m._, feather-broom. _V._ =plumet= _or_ =plumeau=.

=plumasseau=, _n.m._, quill (for harpsichords); feather (of arrows); (surg.) pledget; feather-broom, duster.

=plumasserie= (-ma-srî), _n.f._, feather-trade.

=plumassier=, _n.m._, feather-merchant (dresser, or seller).

=plume=, _n.f._, feather, plume, quill, pen. _— d’acier_; steel pen. _Tailler une —_; to mend, to cut a pen. _Mettre la main à la —_; to take pen in hand. _Se laisser aller au courant de la —_; to write off-hand. _— de corbeau_; crow-quill. _La belle — fait le bel oiseau_; fine feathers make fine birds. _Il est au poil et à la —_; he is fit for anything; fit as a fiddle. _Il y a laissé de ses —s_; he has been stripped of his feathers. _Passer la — par le bec à quelqu’un_; to baffle any one. _La fente d’une —_; the slit of a pen. _Le bec d’une —_; the nib of a pen. _Une bonne —_; a good penman. _Jeter la — au vent_; to allow chance to decide. _Guerre de —_; paper warfare. _Une — à son chapeau_; a feather in one’s cap.

=plumeau=, _n.m._, feather-broom, duster; pen-stand.

=plumée=, _n.f._, penful (of ink); plucking goose-feathers; plucking.

=plumer=, _v.a._, to pluck, to plume; to fleece. _— une volaille_; to pluck a fowl. _— quelqu’un_; to fleece any one; (in rowing) to feather. _— la poule sans la faire crier_; to fleece the sheep without making it bleat.

=plumet=, _n.m._, plume, ostrich feather; feather broom.

=plumetis= (plum-tî), _n.m._, feather-stitch.

=plumeu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, (bot.) plumous, feathery.

=plumipède=, _n.m._, plumiped.

=plumiste=, _n.m._, artist in feathers.

=plumitif=, _n.m._, (jur.) minute-book; (fam.) penman, clerk, scratch-paper.

=plum-pudding=, _n.m._ (_—-—s_). _V._ =pouding=.

=plumule=, _n.f._, (bot.) plumule.

=plupart=, _n.f._, most, most part, the greatest part; generality, majority (of); most people. _La — du monde prétend_; most people say. _La — de ses amis l’abandonnèrent_; most of his friends forsook him. _La — écrivent_; most people write. _Pour la —_; mostly. _Les hommes sont pour la — intéressés_; the generality of men are selfish. _La — du temps_; generally, mostly, in most cases.

=pluralité=, _n.f._, plurality.

=pluriel=, =-le=, _adj._, (gram.) plural.

=pluriel=, _n.m._, (gram.) plural.

=plus=, _adv._, more, over, most; also, moreover; further; besides; item; plus; no more, not any more, no longer, not again; never again. _— savant que lui_; more learned than he. _Il a — d’argent que moi_; he has more money than I. _Il m’en coûte — qu’a vous_; it costs me more than it does you (to have to say it, etc.). _Il a — de vingt ans_; he is more than twenty. _Nous sommes — qu’à moitié persuadés_; we are more than half convinced. _Je n’y retournerai —_; I will go there no more. _— je la vois, — je la hais_; the more I see her, the more I hate her. _— loin_; further. _— près_, _de — près_; nearer. _— de larmes_; no more tears. _N’avoir — rien_; to have nothing left. _Il y a —_; what is more. _Il y en a tant et —_; there is enough and to spare. _Au —_, _tout au —_; at most, at the most. _Il a tout au — trente ans_; he is thirty at most. _De —_; besides, moreover, again, furthermore, nay. _De —, il faut remarquer_; we must observe besides. _D’autant —_; the more so. _De — en —_; more and more. _Il s’enrichit de — en —_; he grows richer and richer every day. _Ni — ni moins_; neither more nor less. _Vous avez beau dire, il n’en sera ni — ni moins_; you may talk as much as you please, it will be so. _— ou moins_; more or less, thereabout. _Qui —, qui moins_; some more, some less. _Sans — différer_; without further delay. _Sans — de façon_; without any more ado. _— tard_, _— loin_, _— près_; later, farther, nearer. _Qui — est_; what is more. _N’être —_; to be no more. _Deux fois —_; twice as much. _Deux fois de —_; twice more. _Je n’ai — qu’à_; it only remains for me to.

=plus=, _n.m._, more; most. _Le — que je puisse faire_; the most I can do.

=plusieurs=, _pron._ and _adj._, _m.f.pl._, several, some.

=plus-pétition=, _n.f._, (_n.p._) (jur.) exorbitant demand.

=plus-que-parfait= (plus-kĕ-par-fè), _n.m._ (_n.p._), (gram.) pluperfect tense.

=plus-value=, _n.f._, (_—-—s_) (fin.) superior value.

=plutocratie=, _n.f._, plutocracy.

=plutonique=, _adj._, (geol.) plutonic.

=plutôt=, _adv._, rather, sooner, in preference to. _— mourir que faire une lâcheté_; rather die than do a dishonorable thing. _Voyez —_; look, or see, for yourself!

=pluvial=, _n.m._, (c.rel.) pluvial.

=pluvial=, _adj._, of rain, rainy. _Eau —e_; rainwater.

=pluvier=, _n.m._, plover.

=pluvieu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, rainy, showery, wet. _Un jour —_; a rainy day.

=pluviomètre=, _n.m._, pluviometer, rain-gauge, udometer.

=pluviôse=, _n.m._, Pluviose, fifth month of the calendar of the first French republic, from January 20th to February 18th or 19th.

=pneumatique=, _n.f._ and _adj._, pneumatics; pneumatic. _Machine —_; air-pump.

=pneumatocèle=, _n.f._, (med.) pneumatocele.

=pneumatologie=, _n.f._, pneumatology.

=pneumatose=, _n.f._, (med.) pneumatosis.

=pneumonie=, _n.f._, pneumonia.

=pneumonique=, _n.m.f._ and _adj._, (med.) pneumonic.

=pochade=, _n.f._, (paint.) rough sketch; (pop.) set to, mauling.

=poche=, _n.f._, pocket; pouch; sack; bag; rabbit-net; purse-net; small fiddle; crop (of a bird); sack (of an abscess, etc.); (needlework) pucker; wrinkle (in clothes); kit (of a violin). _Fouiller dans ses —s_; to search one’s pockets. _Un mouchoir de —_; a pocket handkerchief. _Mettre en —_; to pocket. _Jouer de la —_; to come down with the money. _Acheter chat en —_; to buy a pig in a poke. _Argent de —_; pocket-money. _Connaître comme sa —_; to know perfectly.

=poché=, =-e=, _part._, blotted (of writing); poached (of eggs); black (of the eyes). _Des œufs —s_; poached eggs. _Avoir les yeux —s au beurre noir_; to have one’s eyes black and blue.

=pocher=, _v.a._, to poach; to bruise. _— les yeux à quelqu’un_; to give any one a pair of black eyes. _Se faire — les yeux_; to get one’s eyes blacked.

=pochet=, _n.m._, nose-bag.

=pocheter= (posh-té), _v.a._, to keep in one’s pocket.

=pocheter=, _v.n._, to be kept in one’s pocket.

=pochette=, _n.f._, ☉pocket; net (for rabbits); small fiddle, kit.

=podagraire=, _n.f._, (bot.) goatweed, goutwort.

=podagre=, _n.f._, podagra, gout in the feet.

=podagre=, _n.m.f._ and _adj._, gouty person; afflicted with the gout, gouty, podagrical.

=podestat=, _n.m._, podesta (magistrate in Italy).

=podosperme=, _n.m._, (bot.) funiculus.

=poêle=, _n.f._, frying-pan. _Tomber de la — dans le feu_; to jump out of the frying-pan into the fire.

=poêle= _or_ =poile=, _n.m._, stove.

=poêle=, _n.m._, pall (at a funeral); (c.rel.) canopy.

=poêlée=, _n.f._, panful.

=poêlette=, _n.f._, small pan.

=poêlier=, _n.m._, stove-maker.

=poêlon=, _n.m._, saucepan (small).

=poêlonnée=, _n.f._, saucepanful.

=poème=, _n.m._, poem.

=poésie=, _n.f._, poetry; poesy.

=poète=, _n.m._, poet; poetess. _Méchant —_; wretched poet, poetaster. _— lauréat_; poet laureate. _Elle est —_; she is a poetess.

=poétereau= (po-é-trô), _n.m._, poetaster; rhymester.

=poétesse=, _n.f._, (l.u.) poetess.

=poétique=, _n.f._ and _adj._, poetics; poetical.

=poétiquement= (-tik-mān), _adv._, poetically.

=poétiser=, _v.n._, ☉to versify, to poetize; to make poetical.

=poids= (poâ), _n.m._, weight; heaviness; gravity; burden, load; moment, importance, consequence, consideration. _Le — d’un fardeau_; the weight of a burden. _Cela est de —_; that is full weight. _Un — de dix livres_; a ten-pound weight. _Avoir du —_; to weigh; (fig.) to be influential, to have influence. _Faire bon —_; to give good weight. _Vendre une chose au — de l’or_; to sell a thing extremely dear. _Le — des affaires_; the burden of affairs.

*=poignant=, =-e=, _adj._, poignant; acute, keen; stinging; painful, sad.

*=poignard=, _n.m._, poniard, dagger. _Coup de —_; stab. _Ce fut un coup de — pour elle_; she was cut to the quick by it, it was a crushing blow for her.

*=poignarder=, _v.a._, to poniard, to stab, to wound, to grieve to the heart; to kill.

_se_ =poignarder=, _v.r._, to stab one’s self.

=poigne=, _n.f._, (pop.) grasp, gripe, clutch; (fig.) strength, vigor.

*=poignée=, _n.f._, handful; handle; hilt (of swords); bunch (of keys); shake (of the hand). _À —s_; by handfuls. _Jeter de l’argent à —_; to throw money about like shells. _Prendre à —_; to grasp tightly.

*=poignet=, _n.m._, wrist; wrist-band (of linen); cuff (of a gown).

=poil=, _n.m._, hair (of animals); hair (of persons other than that of the head); wool (of some animals); beard; nap (of cloth, of hats); color (of horses); (bot.) bristle, wool; (fig.) boldness, courage, resolution. _— de chèvre_; goat’s hair, mohair. _— follet_; down; soft hair. _— de drap_; nap of cloth. _Monter un cheval à —_; to ride a horse bareback. _Il y a laissé de son —_; he was pretty well fleeced there. _Être au — et à la plume_; to be fit for anything. _Faire le — à un cheval_; to trim a horse; (fig.) to outdo, to cut out. _De quel — est ce cheval?_ what is the color of that horse? _— bai_; bay. _Reprendre du — à la bête_; to be at it again; to begin again. _Chercher du — aux œufs_; to split hairs.

=poile=, _n.m._ _V._ =poêle=.

=poilu=, =-e=, _adj._, hairy, shaggy; (bot.) bristly, pilose.

*=poincillade=, _n.f._, (bot.) (Barbadoes) flower-fence.

=poinçon=, _n.m._, punch, puncheon; bodkin; stiletto, awl, pointer; stamp, die; puncheon (cask); (carp.) king-post; stamp (of coins).

=poinçonnage=, _n.m._, stamping.

=poinçonner=, _v.a._, to stamp.

=poinçonneu-r=, =-se=, _n.m._, stamper, puncher. _n.f._, stamping machine.

=poindre=, _v.n._, to peep, to dawn, to break; to appear, to begin. _Le jour commençait à —_; day was beginning to break. _Le poil commence à lui — au menton_; his beard is beginning to grow.

=poindre=, _v.a._, (l.u.) to sting. _Oignez vilain, il vous poindra, poignez vilain, il vous oindra_; save a thief from the gallows and he will cut your throat. _Quel taon vous point?_ why, what’s the matter with you? (lit., what gnat has stung you).

=poing=, _n.m._, fist, hand. _Coup de —_; punch, cuff. _Se battre à coups de —_; to fight with fisticuffs. _Fermer le —_; to clinch, clench one’s fist. _À — fermé_; with clinched, clenched fist. _Faire le coup de — avec quelqu’un_; to have a set-to with any one. _Il sait faire le coup de —_; he knows how to box. _Pieds et —s liés_; bound hand and foot.

=point=, _adv._, no, not; not at all; none (_more emphatic than_ =pas=). _Je ne l’ai — vu_; I have not seen him. _Il n’a — d’argent_; he has no money at all. _— du tout_; not at all. _— d’amitié sans vertu_; there can be no friendship without virtue.

=point=, _n.m._, point; dot, mark; full stop; period; speck; hole (of a strap, etc.); break (of day); (needlework) stitch; moment, difficulty, state, case, terms; place, quarter; (nav.) tack (of the sheets). _— de côté_; pain in the side, stitch. _Un —_; full stop. _— d’interrogation_; note of interrogation. _— d’admiration_, _— d’exclamation_; note of exclamation. _Lettre de deux —s_; (print.) two-line letter. _Il ne met jamais de — sur les i_; he never dots his i’s. _Mettre les —s sur les i_; to dot one’s i’s; to be very punctilious, to mind one’s P’s and Q’s. _— d’orgue_; (mus.) pause. _— d’appui_; fulcrum. _— d’Angleterre_; Brussels point (lace). _Faire venir quelqu’un à son —_; to bring any one over to one’s views. _Il fut sur le — d’être tué_; he was very near being killed. _À —_; in the nick of time. _À — nommé_; at the appointed time. _Tout vient à — à qui sait attendre_; patience and time bring everything to pass, _or_ all comes to him who knows how to wait. _Un — fait à temps en sauve mille_; a stitch in time saves nine. _L’affaire est réduite à ce —_; the matter has come to this point _or_ pitch. _Au plus haut —_; to the highest pitch. _Au dernier —_; in the highest degree. _C’est un — arrêté_; it is a thing agreed upon. _Avoir un — de côté_; to have a stitch in one’s side. _Faire un — à_; (needlework) to put a stitch in. _— de vue_; point of view, prospect; (fig.) light, sight, opinion. _— du vent_; (nav.) tack. _— d’honneur_; point of honor. _De tout —_; in every respect, entirely. _De — en —_; exactly, in particular, in detail. _—s cardinaux_; cardinal points. _— du compas_; point of the compass. _Rendre des — à_; to be more than a match for, to give odds (at a game). _Faute d’un —_; for a trifle. _La viande est cuite à —_; the meat is done to a turn.

=pointage=, _n.m._, (artil., nav.) pointing, leveling.

=pointal=, _n.m._, (carp.) prop, girder.

=pointe=, _n.f._, point (sharp end); (print.) bodkin; pungency, tartness, sharpness; witticism; tack, tin-tack (nail, rivet, French nail); etching-needle; head (of an arrow, of a lance); (fenc.) small sword; (agri., geog.) point. _La — d’une épée_; the point of a sword. _— d’une plume_; nib of a pen. _La — du jour_; the break, the dawn, of day. _Marcher sur la — du pied_; to walk on tiptoe. _Tourner la — du pied en dehors_; to turn one’s toes out. _Tailler en —_; to cut point-wise. _Se terminer en —_; to end in a point. _Faire une —_; (milit.) to deviate from the line; (fig.) to turn aside. _Pousser sa —_; to pursue one’s point, to persist (in); to go on (with). _Avoir une — de vin_; to be slightly excited, flustered. _— d’une épigramme_; point of an epigram. _Faire la —_; (man.) to rear. _— de terre_; foreland.

=pointé=, =-e=, _adj._, pointed.

=pointement= (point-mān), _n.m._, (artil.) pointing, leveling.

=pointer=, _v.a._, to pierce, to stick; to stab; to prick, to mark; to point; to dot; to sharpen; (print.) to register. _— la carte_; (nav.) to point the chart. _— un canon_; to point a cannon.

=pointer=, _v.n._, to point, to dot; to spring up, to soar, to fly high; to keep, to appear, to come out; (man.) to rear.

=pointeur=, _n.m._, pointer, marker, checker; (artil.) artillery-man (who points the gun).

*=pointillage=, _n.m._, (engr.) dotting, stippling.

*=pointillé=, _n.m._, (engr.) dotting, stippling.

*=pointille=, _n.f._, trifle, trifling point; bickering, cavil (about a trifling subject).

*=pointiller=, _v.n._, to dot, to stipple; to cavil, to carp at.

=pointiller=, _v.a._, to nettle, to tease.

*=pointillerie=, _n.f._, bickering, caviling, hair-splitting.

*=pointilleu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, caviling, particular, punctilious, captious. _Un critique —_; a carping critic.

=pointu=, =-e=, _adj._, pointed, sharp, sharp-pointed, peaked. _Chapeau —_; sugar-loaf hat.

=pointure=, _n.f._, (print.) point; (of shoes) size.

=poire=, _n.f._, (bot.) pear; weight (of a steel-yard). _— d’angoisse_; choke-pear. _Entre la — et le fromage_; at dessert. _— à poudre_; powder-horn, powder-flask. _Garder une — pour la soif_; to lay up something for a rainy day. _—s secrètes_; pear-bit (of a bridle). _— de Messire Jean_; a kind of very sweet pear.

=poiré=, _n.m._, perry.

=poireau= _or_ =porreau=, _n.m._, (bot.) leek; (vet.) wart.

=poirée=, _n.f._, (bot.) white beet.

=poirier=, _n.m._, pear-tree.

=pois=, _n.m._, (bot.) pea, peas, pease. _Cosse de —_; pea-cod. _— ramés_; branch peas. _— carrés_; marrow-fats. _— chiches_; chick-peas; dwarf pea. _— cassés_; split peas. _— verts_ or _petits —_; green peas. _Il donne un — pour avoir une fève_; he gives a sprat to catch a herring.

=poison=, _n.m._, poison, venom.

=poissard=, =-e=, _adj._, vulgar, low. _Style —_; Billingsgate style.

=poissarde=, _n.f._, fishwoman, fish-fag; low or vulgar woman.

=poisser=, _v.a._, to pitch, to do over with pitch; to make sticky.

=poisseu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, pitchy, gluey, sticky.

=poisson=, _n.m._, fish; half a gill. _pl._, (astron.) Pisces. _— de mer_, _de rivière_; sea-fish, river-fish. _Colle de —_; isinglass. _— d’avril_; April fool. _— rouge_; gold-fish. _— juif_; hammer-fish. _Donner un — d’avril à quelqu’un_; to make an April fool of any one. _Être comme un — sur la paille_; to be like a fish out of water.

*=poissonnaille=, _n.f._, small fish _or_ fry.

=poissonnerie= (-so-n-rî), _n.f._, fish-market.

=poissonneu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, abounding in fish, full of fish.

=poissonnier=, _n.m._, fishmonger, fish-salesman.

=poissonnière=, _n.f._, fishmonger (woman); fish-kettle.

=poitrail=, _n.m._, breast (of a horse); breast-piece (of harness); (arch.) breast-summer.

=poitrinaire=, _n.m.f._ and _adj._, consumptive.

=poitrine=, _n.f._, chest, breast, lungs; brisket. _Maladie de —_; consumption. _Une fluxion de —_; inflammation of the lungs. _Il a bonne —_; he has good lungs.

=poivrade=, _n.f._, pepper sauce.

=poivre=, _n.m._, pepper. _— en grains_; whole pepper. _— de la Jamaïque_; all-spice, Jamaica-pepper. _— et sel_; (of the beard) grizzly.

=poivrer=, _v.a._, to pepper, to put pepper in; (of a bill) to lay it on, to fleece.

=poivrier=, _n.m._, pepper-plant; pepper-box.

=poivrière=, _n.f._, spice-box; pepper-box; (fort.) sentry-box.

=poix=, _n.f._, pitch; shoemakers’ wax. _Cela tient comme —_; that sticks like pitch.

=polacre= _or_ =polaque=, _n.f._, (nav.) polacca, polacre.

☉=polacre= _or_ =polaque=, _n.m._, Polack (Polish).

=polaire=, _adj._, polar. _Etoile —_; polar star.

=polarisation=, _n.f._, polarization.

=polariser=, _v.a._, to polarize.

=polarité=, _n.f._, (phys.) polarity.

=polatouche=, _n.m._, flying-squirrel.

=polder= (pol-dèr), _n.m._, polder (tract of low land reclaimed from the sea by means of high embankments, in Holland and Belgium).

=pôle=, _n.m._, (astron., geog.) pole. _— arctique_; arctic pole. _— antarctique_; antarctic pole. _—s de l’aimant_; magnetic poles.

=polémarque=, _n.m._, (antiq.) polemarch.

=polémique=, _n.f._ and _adj._, polemics, controversy, disputation; polemic, polemical.

=polémoscope=, _n.m._, polemoscope.

=polenta=, _n.f._, (_n.p._) a sort of pap.

=poli=, =-e=, _adj._, polished, bright, glossy, smooth; polite, civil; refined.

=poli=, _n.m._, polish, finish, gloss.

=police=, _n.f._, police; police-regulations; (fig.) polity, government; (print.) font; policy (of insurance). _Commissaire de —_; commissary or inspecter of police. _Espion de —_; police-spy. _Être mandé à la police_; to be sent for to the police-office. _Faire la — d’une salle_; to keep order in a hall. _Faire la — des rues_; to keep the streets clear. _Salle de —_; (milit.) guard-room. _Bonnet de —_; foraging-cap. _Tribunal de —_; police-court.

=policement=, _n.m._, civilizing.