Part 142

*=retravailler=, _v.a._, to work again, to do over again.

=retraverser=, _v.a._, to cross, to traverse again.

=retrayant=, _n.m._, =-e=, _n.f._, (jur.) repurchaser; re-emptor.

=rêtre=, _n.m._ _V._ =reître=.

=rétréci=, =-e=, _adj._, narrow, cramped, contracted, confined.

=rétrécir=, _v.a._, to take in, to straiten, to make narrower, to contract; to narrow, to cramp; to shrink; to limit.

_se_ =rétrécir=, _v.r._, to become narrow, to grow strait; to shrink, to contract; to be cramped, contracted, straitened.

=rétrécir=, _v.n._, to narrow, to shrink up.

=rétrécissement= (-sis-mān), _n.m._, narrowing, shrinking, cramping; contracting; narrowness, contraction; (med.) stricture.

=rétreindre=, _v.a._, to hammer out (metal).

=rétreinte=, _n.f._, hammering out.

=retremper=, _v.a._, to temper again (metal); to give renewed force to, to strengthen.

_se_ =retremper=, _v.r._, to acquire renewed strength; to recruit one’s strength, to be strengthened, invigorated.

=rétribué=, =-e=, _adj._, remunerated, rewarded.

=rétribuer=, _v.a._, to remunerate, to requite, to reward; to give a salary, a fee, to.

=rétribution=, _n.f._, retribution, reward.

=rétroacti-f=, =-ve=, _adj._, retroactive.

=rétroaction=, _n.f._, retroaction.

=rétroactivement= (-tiv-mān), _adv._, retroactively.

=rétroactivité=, _n.f._, retroactive effect.

=rétroagir=, _v.n._, to have a retroactive effect.

=rétrocéder=, _v.a._, to give back again, to cede back; (jur.) to reconvey; to reassign.

=rétrocessi-f=, =-ve=, _adj._, retroceding, retrocedent.

=rétrocession=, _n.f._, (jur.) retrocession, redemise, reconveyance.

=rétrogradation=, _n.f._, (astron.) retrogradation, retrogression, retrocession.

=rétrograde=, _adj._, retrograde.

=rétrograder=, _v.n._, to retrograde, to go backward; to go back.

=rétrogressi-f=, =-ve=, _adj._, retrogressive.

=rétrogression=, _n.f._, retrogression.

=rétrospecti-f=, =-ve=, _adj._, retrospective.

=retroussé=, =-e=, _part._, turned up, tucked up, cocked up. _Nez —_; snub nose, turned-up nose. _Avoir le bras —_; to have one’s sleeves tucked up.

=retroussement= (-troos-mān), _n.m._, turning up, tucking up, cocking up, curling up.

=retrousser=, _v.a._, to turn up, to tuck up, to cock; to tie up; (nav.) to truss up sails. _— sa robe_; to tuck up one’s gown. _— sa moustache_; to turn up one’s moustache.

_se_ =retrousser=, _v.r._, to turn up, to cock up; to tie up; to tuck up one’s gown.

=retroussis=, _n.m._, cock, flap (of a hat); boot-top, top (of a boot); facing (of a uniform, livery).

=retrouver=, _v.a._, to find again, to recover; to recognize; to meet again. _Je le retrouverai bien_; he will not escape me.

_se_ =retrouver=, _v.r._, to find one another again; to find one’s self again; to be found again; to be met with again; to find one’s way.

=rets= (ré), _n.m._, net, netting, snare, toils.

=réunion=, _n.f._, reunion, union, junction; meeting, assembly; company; concourse, gathering; party, soirée, reception. _Salle de —_; assembly-room. _Maison de —_; meeting-house.

=réunir=, _v.a._, to reunite, to join again, to bring together again, to reannex; to unite, to join, to bring together, to annex; to collect, to assemble, to muster; to call together, to combine; to reconcile, to unite. _— des faits_; to collect facts.

_se_ =réunir=, _v.r._, to reunite, to unite, to join, to join again, to unite again; to be united, to be joined, to be collected; to meet (at an appointed place); to gather, to collect, to come together, to assemble, to muster, to club together, to combine, to blend, to be blended.

=réussi=, =-e=, _adj._, successful, brilliant, well executed _or_ carried out. _Bien —_; well done; a success, well-performed. _Mal —_; badly done; spoilt, badly performed; not a success.

=réussir=, _v.n._, to succeed, to prosper, to thrive, to be successful, to have success. _— à faire quelque chose_; to succeed in doing anything. _Il a mal réussi_; he was unsuccessful. _Ce projet n’a pas réussi_; the plan did not succeed. _Tout ce qu’il entreprend lui réussit_; everything he undertakes succeeds. _Les pommiers réussissent dans ce terrain_; apple-trees thrive in this soil. _Cela m’a bien réussi_; that answered my purpose admirably.

=réussir=, _v.a._, to carry out well, to execute well, to accomplish, to perform.

=réussite=, _n.f._, success; issue, event, result.

=revacciner=, _v.a._, to revaccinate.

=revalidation=, _n.f._, (jur.) rendering valid again.

=revaloir=, _v.a._, to return like for like; to be even with, to pay back. _Il me le revaudra_; he shall pay for it, I will be even with him (for it).

=revanche=, _n.f._, revenge, retaliation; return; return-match (at play). _Avoir sa —_; to have one’s revenge; to have one’s turn. _Prendre sa —_; to take one’s revenge; to return like for like; to play the return-match. _En —_; by way of retaliation; in return.

=revancher=, _v.a._, (fam.) to defend; to revenge; to return like for like.

_se_ =revancher=, _v.r._, (fam.) to defend one’s self; to be revenged, to revenge; to return like for like; to have one’s turn. _Se — d’un bienfait_; to return a benefit.

=revancheur=, _n.m._, (l.u.) defender.

=rêvasser=, _v.n._, to have troubled dreams, to dream, to keep dreaming; to muse. _— à une affaire_; to muse over, _or_ ponder over, any matter.

=rêvasserie= (-va-srî), _n.f._, unconnected, broken dreams; musing, dreaming.

=rêvasseur=, _n.m._, dreamer, muser.

=rêve=, _n.m._, dream; idle fancy, day-dream, vision, illusion.

=revêche=, _adj._, sharp, harsh, rough; stubborn, unruly, cross, untractable, ill-natured, dogged, cross-grained, crabbed, cantankerous. _Diamant —_; diamond not polishable in all its parts.

=rêve-creux=, _n.m._, (_—_) dreamer.

*=réveil=, _n.m._, waking, awaking; waking-time; (horl.) alarum, alarm; alarm-watch, alarm-clock; (milit.) reveille. _À mon —_; on my awaking.

*=réveille-matin=, _n.m._, (_—_) alarm-clock, alarum; chanticleer, cock; (bot.) wartwort, spurge.

*=réveiller=, _v.a._, to awake, to wake, to rouse, to rouse up, to call up; to stir up, to quicken, to revive, to recall, to evoke, to rake up. _— des souvenirs fâcheux_; to recall disagreeable recollections.

*_se_ =réveiller=, _v.r._, to wake, to awake, to wake up, to awaken; to revive; to be aroused, to be renewed, to be awakened. _Sa haine se réveilla_; his hatred was aroused. _Se — de son assoupissement_; to awake from one’s lethargy. _Se — en sursaut_; to start up out of one’s sleep.

=réveilleu-r=, =-se=, _n.m.f._, waker, awakener, caller.

*=réveillon=, _n.m._, midnight repast; Christmas-eve revel; (paint.) strong touch of light.

=révélat-eur=, _n.m._, =-rice=, _n.f._, informer, revealer, discoverer, detector. _adj._, revealing, tell-tale. _— d’un complot_; revealer of a plot. _Être le — de ses complices_; to inform against one’s accomplices; (jur.) to turn king’s, queen’s, evidence.

=révélation=, _n.f._, revelation; discovery, disclosure; (jur.) information.

=révéler=, _v.a._, to reveal, to discover, to lay open, to disclose, to detect; to betray; to inform against; (fam., pop.) to blab.

=revenant=, =-e=, _adj._, pleasing, prepossessing. _Physionomie —e_; pleasing physiognomy.

=revenant= (rĕ-vnān), _n.m._, ghost, spirit. _Il y a des —s dans cette maison_; that house is haunted.

=revenant-bon=, _n.m._, (_—s-—s_) perquisite; bonus; emolument; windfall, godsend.

=revendage=, _n.m._, huckstering.

=revendeu-r=, _n.m._, =-se=, _n.f._, retail dealer, retailer; dealer in old clothes; regrater. _—se à la toilette_; wardrobe dealer, dealer in cast clothes.

=revendicable=, _adj._, claimable.

=revendication=, _n.f._, (jur.) claim; claiming, demand. _Action en —_; (jur.) action in pursuit of a claim.

=revendiquer=, _v.a._, to claim, to demand.

=revendre=, _v.a._, to sell again; to re-sell. _Il en a à —_; he has enough of it, and to spare. _En — à quelqu’un_; to be deeper than any one, to be more than a match for any one; to outdo.

=revenir= (rĕ-vnir), _v.n._, to come again, to come back, to come back again, to return, to recover, to recover one’s self; to get over, to come to one’s self, to come to; to be restored; to occur, to recur, to present one’s self; to resume, to reconsider; to alter one’s mind, to change one’s opinion, to recant, to retract; to be undeceived; to come over to, to adopt, to embrace; to retrieve; to be reconciled, to be appeased, to be pacified; to cost, to stand in; to amount, to come to; to be tantamount to; to please, to suit, to match; to arise, to accrue, to result, to proceed; to appear, to haunt, to walk; (jur.) to claim on a guarantee; (of food) to rise (in the stomach). _Faire — quelqu’un_; to call any one back. _Son nom ne me revient pas_; I do not recollect his name. _Revenons à notre propos_; let us resume, let us return to our business. _J’en reviens toujours là que_; I still persist in thinking that. _En — toujours là_; to be always harping on the same string. _— à la charge_; to return to the charge. _— à ses moutons_; to return to one’s subject. _— sur une matière_; to return to a subject. _— d’une maladie_; to recover from an attack of illness. _Il revient à vue d’œil_; he is recovering visibly. _— à soi_; to recover one’s senses, to come to one’s self again, to come to, to revive; to resume one’s serenity; to reform, to be reformed, to be reclaimed, to return to the right path. _— d’une frayeur_; to recover from a fright. _— en santé_; to recover one’s health. _— de loin_; to escape great danger, to have a narrow escape; to recover from a dangerous illness. _— sur l’eau_; to get afloat again, to recover one’s losses. _N’en pas —_; to wonder at, to be lost in astonishment. _En — d’une belle_; to have had a narrow escape. _Revenir à l’avis de_; to come over to the opinion of, to fall in with any one’s views. _Je n’en reviens pas_; I cannot recover from my astonishment, I cannot get over it; I cannot make it out; (fam.) it caps me. _— de ses préjugés_; to shake off one’s prejudices. _— de ses folies_; to leave off one’s old pranks. _Je suis revenu de ces amusements-là_; I do not care for those amusements any more _or_ these amusements pall upon me now. _— sur le compte de quelqu’un_; to have a better (_or_ a worse) opinion of any one (as the case may be). _Quand on m’a fait de ces tours, je ne reviens pas_; when people play me such tricks as those I never forgive them. _Son humeur ne me revient pas_; his humor does not please me. _Les deux choses reviennent au même_; the two things amount to the same, come to the same, are tantamount to the same. _Cet habit revient à tant_; that coat costs so much. _Il me revient que_; I hear, I am told, _or_ I understand that. _Il ne m’en revient rien_; I get nothing by it. _De la viande qui revient_; meat that rises in one’s stomach. _Le vin fait — le cœur_; wine cheers the heart. _Faire — de la viande_; (cook.) to parboil, to half-cook meat.

=revente=, _n.f._, resale; selling again, reselling; regrating. _De —_; second-hand. _Lit de —_; second-hand bed.

=reventer=, _v.a._, (nav.) to fill a sail again.

=revenu= (rĕ-vnu), _n.m._, revenue, income, rent, profit. _Etat des —s_; rental. _—s casuels_; perquisites.

=revenue=, _n.f._, young wood (of a coppice).

=rêver=, _v.n._, to dream, to be in a dream; to rave, to be light-headed; to talk idly; to have a wandering mind, to muse; to think, to reflect, to consider. _Il rêve tout éveillé_; he indulges in day-dreams. _J’ai rêvé longtemps sur cette affaire_; I have pondered long over that affair. _Je regagnai mon hôtellerie en rêvant_; I trudged back to my inn in a thoughtful mood.

=rêver=, _v.a._, to dream, to long for, to desire ardently, to dream of. _Il ne rêve que fortune_; he thinks of nothing but riches.

=réverbérant=, =-e=, _adj._, reverberating.

=réverbération=, _n.f._, reverberation; reverberation, repercussion (of sound). _La — des rayons du soleil_; the reverberation of the solar rays.

=réverbère=, _n.m._, reflector, street lamp. _Feu de —_; (chem.) reverberated fire.

=réverbérer=, _v.a._ and _n._, to reverberate.

=reverdie=, _n.m._, (nav.) return of the high tide.

=reverdir=, _v.a._ and _n._, to paint green again; to become green again; to grow young again; to reblossom; (fig.) to grow influential, powerful again. _Planter là quelqu’un pour —_; to leave any one in the lurch; to give any one the slip. _Il faut — ces barreaux_; these iron bars must be painted green again. _Faire —_; to make green; to revive.

=reverdissement= (-dis-mān), _n.m._, growing green again.

=révéremment= (-ra-mān), _adv._, reverently.

=révérence=, _n.f._, reverence, veneration; bow, curtsey. _Avec —_; reverently. _Faire une profonde —_; to make a low bow, a low curtsey. _Tirer sa — à quelqu’un_; (jest.) to bow to any one.

=révérencielle=, _adj._, reverential.

=révérencieusement= (-eûz-mān), _adv._, reverentially.

=révérencieu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, reverential; bowing and scraping, obsequious.

=révérend=, =-e=, _adj._, reverend. _Très —_; right reverend. [Sometimes used as a noun in the masculine.]

=révérendissime=, _adj._, most reverend.

=révérer=, _v.a._, to revere, to reverence, to venerate, to hold in veneration.

=rêverie= (rê-vrî), _n.f._, reverie, musing; dream; raving, delirium. _Tomber en —_; to fall to musing.

=revernir=, _v.a._, to glaze again, to varnish over again.

☉=reverquier=, _n.m._ _V._ =revertier=.

=revers= (-vèr), _n.m._, back, reverse; facing (of clothes); lapel (of a coat); back stroke; top (of boots); reverse, change for the worse. _Coup de —_; back-handed stroke. _Donner un —_; to hit a back stroke. _Le — de la médaille_; the reverse side of the medal; (fig.) the dark side of the picture. _Le — de la tranchée_; (fort.) the reverse of the trench. _A_ or _de —_; (mil.) in the rear, on the flank.

=réversal=, =-e=, _adj._, (jur.) confirmatory.

=reverseau=, _n.m._, flashing-board (for doors, etc.).

=reversement=, _n.m._, (nav.) trans-shipment. _V._ =transbordement=.

=reverser=, _v.a._, to pour out again; to pour off; (nav.) to trans-ship (_V._ =transborder=); (com.) to transfer, to carry (forward _or_ over).

=reversi= _or_ =reversis=, _n.m._, reversis (card game).

=réversibilité=, _n.f._, (jur.) revertibility.

=réversible=, _adj._, reversible; (jur.) revertible.

=réversion=, _n.f._, (jur.) reversion.

=réversoir=, _n.m._, dam, weir.

=revertier= (-tié), _n.m._, sort of backgammon.

=revêtement= (-vê-tmān), _n.m._, (arch., mas.) covering, lining, coating, casing, facing; (fort.) revetement; (joinery) veneering.

=revêtir=, _v.a._, to clothe; to give clothes to, to invest; to dress; to put on, to assume; to endow a person with; to bestow on a person; (mas.) to line, to cover. _— les pauvres_; to clothe the poor. _— un habit_; to put on a coat. _— ses pensées d’un style brillant_; to clothe one’s thoughts in brilliant language. _— la figure de quelqu’un_; to put on the air of some one else. _Les formes que revêt la pensée_; the forms that thought assumes. _— un personnage_; to assume a character. _Je me suis dépouillé de cet emploi pour l’en —_; I threw up this employment in his favor, to bestow it on him. _— une terrasse de gazon_; to cover a terrace with turf.

_se_ =revêtir=, _v.r._, to clothe one’s self, to array one’s self, to invest one’s self, to dress, to put on, to assume, to take; to be invested.

=rêveu-r=, =-se=, _n._ and _adj._, dreamer, muser; thoughtful, pensive, dreamy, musing.

=revidage=, _n.m._, (at auction) knock-out.

=revider=, _v.a._, to empty again; to knock out.

=revient= (rĕvi-in), _n.m._, (com.) only used in: _prix de —_; net cost.

=revirade=, _n.f._, (backgammon) back-game.

=revirement= (re-vir-mān), _n.m._, sudden change; (nav.) tacking; (com. and fin.) transfer. _— de parties_; (com.) transfer.

=revirer=, _v.n._, (nav.) to tack about, to tack, to put about; to turn round, to change sides, to be a turn-coat, to rat. _Il a reviré de bord_; he has ratted.

=revisable=, _adj._, revisable.

=reviser=, _v.a._, to revise, to review, to examine.

=reviseur=, _n.m._, reviser, examiner.

=revision=, _n.f._, revisal, revision, re-examination, review. _Sujet à —_; questionable. _— de procès_; rehearing. _Faire la — d’une feuille_; (print.) to revise a sheet. _Conseil de —_; (milit.) examining-board (as to health of recruits).

=revivification=, _n.f._, (chem.) revivification.

=revivifier=, _v.a._, to revive, to revivify, to vivify; to regenerate.

=revivre=, _v.n._, to come to life again; to live again; to revive. _Faire —_; to bring to life again, to revive, to restore. _Les pères revivent dans leurs enfants_; fathers live again in their children.

=révocabilité=, _n.f._, revocability.

=révocable=, _adj._, revocable, reversible, repealable.

☉=révocati-f=, =-ve=, _adj._, repealing.

=révocation=, _n.f._, revocation, repeal, revoking, recall.

=révocatoire=, _adj._, revocatory.

=revoici=, _prep._, (fam., jest) once more, here ... again. _Me —_; here am I again.

=revoilà=, _prep._, (fam., jest) once more, there ... again. _Les revoilà!_ there they are again!

=revoir=, _v.a._, to see again; to meet again; to revise, to review, to re-examine.

_se_ =revoir=, _v.r._, to see, to meet, each other again; to be seen again. _Nous nous reverrons_; we shall meet again.

=revoir=, _n.m._, seeing, _or_ meeting, again. _Au —_; good-bye for the present, _or_ till we meet again. _À —_; to be revised.

=revoler=, _v.n._, to fly again, to fly back; to steal, _or_ rob, again.

=revolin=, _n.m._, (nav.) eddy-wind.

=révoltant=, =-e=, _adj._, revolting.

=révolte=, _n.f._, revolt, rebellion.

=révolté=, _n.m._, rebel.

=révolter=, _v.a._, to cause to revolt _or_ rebel, to stir up; to rouse, to excite; to shock, to disgust, to horrify.

_se_ =révolter=, _v.r._, to revolt, to rebel, to be indignant, to be shocked.

=révolter=, _v.n._, to revolt, to rebel.

=révolu=, =-e=, _adj._, revolved, accomplished, completed, finished, ended.

=révoluti-f=, =-ve=, _adj._, (bot.) revolute.

=révolution=, _n.f._, revolution.

=révolutionnaire=, _n.m._ and _adj._, revolutionist; revolutionary.

=révolutionnairement= (-sio-nèr-mān), _adv._, in a revolutionary manner.

=révolutionner=, _v.a._, to revolutionize.

=revolver= (ré-vol-vèr), _n.m._, revolver.

=revomir=, _v.a._, to vomit, to throw up again; to vomit again; to bring up.

=révoquer=, _v.a._, to recall (an ambassador); to dismiss (a clerk, an officer, an official, etc.); to revoke, to repeal. _— en doute_; to call in question.

=revouloir=, _v.a._, to wish again, to wish again for.

=revoyager=, _v.n._, to travel again.

=revue=, _n.f._, review; magazine; survey, examination, revision. _Faire la — de_; to examine, to survey. _Faire une — de ses papiers_; to examine one’s papers. _Passer en —_; (milit.) to review. _Être gens de —_; to meet often.

=révulsi-f=, =-ve=, _adj._, (med.) revulsive.

=révulsif=, _n.m._, (med.) revulsive.

=révulsion=, _n.f._, revulsion.

=rez=, _prep._, (l.u.) level with, even with. _— pied_, _— terre_; even, _or_ level, with the ground.

=rez-de-chaussée=, _n.m._, (_—_) ground-floor; level with the ground. _Au —_; on the ground-floor. _À —_; level with the ground.

=rhabdologie=, _n.f._ _V._ =rabdologie=.

=rhabdomancie=, _n.f._ _V._ =rabdomancie=.

*=rhabillage=, _n.m._, repairing, mending, botching, patching.

*=rhabillement=, _n.m._ _V._ =rhabillage=.

*=rhabiller=, _v.a._, to dress again, to clothe anew; to mend, to patch up.

*=rhabilleu-r=, _n.m._, =-se=, _n.f._ _V._ =rebouteur=.

=rhagade=, _n.f._, (med.) rhagade, crack, chap, fissure.

=rhapontic=, _n.m._, (bot.) bastard monk’s-rhubarb, rheum rhaponticum.

=rhapsode=, _n.m._, =rhapsodie=, _n.f._, =rhapsodiste=, _n.m._ _V._ =rapsode=, =rapsodie=, =rapsodiste=.

=rhénan=, =-e=, _adj._, (geog.) Rhenish.

=rhésus= (-zus), _n.m._, pig-tailed baboon.

=rhéteur=, _n.m._, rhetorician, rhetor.

=rhétien=, =-ne= (ti-in, -tiè-n), _adj._, (geog.) Rhetian.

=rhétoricien= (-si-in), _n.m._, rhetorician.

=rhétorique=, _n.f._, rhetoric. _Figure de —_; rhetorical figure. _Faire sa —_; to be in the class of rhetoric (in the highest form but one; the _Remove_).

=rhin=, _n.m._, (geog.) Rhine. _Vin du —_; Rhenish wine, Rhine-wine.

=rhinanthe=, _n.f._, (bot.) cock’s-comb.

=rhingrave=, _n.m._, rhingrave (German governor).

=rhingrave=, _n.f._, (formerly) a sort of knee-breeches, knickerbockers.

=rhinocéros= (-ros), _n.m._, rhinoceros.

=rhinoplastie=, _n.f._, (surg.) rhinoplasty.

=rhodium= (-om), _n.m._, (min.) rhodium.

=rhododendron=, _n.m._, (bot.) rhododendron; rose-bay.

=rhombe=, _n.m._, (geom.) rhomb, rhombus; (ich.) rhombus.

=rhomboèdre=, _n.m._, (geom.) rhombohedron.

=rhomboïdal=, =-e=, _adj._, rhomboidal.

=rhomboïde=, _n.m._, (anat., geom.) rhomboid.

=rhubarbe=, _n.f._, rhubarb. _— blanche_; white jalap. _— des moines_; monk’s-rhubarb, herb-patience.

=rhum= (rom), _n.m._, rum.

=rhumatique=, _adj._, rheumatic.

=rhumatisant=, =-e=, _n._ and _adj._, rheumatic.

=rhumatismal=, =-e=, _adj._, rheumatic.

=rhumatisme=, _n.m._, rheumatism.

=rhumb=, _n.m._ _V._ =rumb=.

=rhume=, _n.m._, cold. _— de cerveau_; cold in the head. _Un gros —_; a violent cold. _— de poitrine_; cold on the chest. _Attraper un —_; to catch a cold.

=rhus= (rus), _n.m._ _V._ =sumac=.

=rhythme=, _n.m._ _V._ =rythme=.

=rhythmique=, _adj._ _V._ =rythmique=.

=riant=, =-e=, _adj._, laughing, smiling, lively, cheerful; pleasant, pleasing.

=ribambelle=, _n.f._, swarm, string; host, lot (of people).

=ribaud=, =-e=, _n._ and _adj._, (l.ex.) ribald.

=ribauderie= (-bô-drî), _n.f._, ribaldry.

=ribaudure=, _n.f._, crease, fold (in cloth).

=riblette=, _n.f._, (cook.) collop, rasher.

=riblons=, _n.m.pl._, scrap-iron.

=ribord=, _n.m._, (nav.) garboard strake.

=ribordage=, _n.m._, (nav.) damage by fouling.

=ribote=, _n.f._, (pop.) debauch, drunken bout. _Être en —_; to be boozy, drunk, tight; to be on the spree. _Faire —_; to have a drunken bout.

=riboter=, _v.n._, (pop.) to get boozy, drunk; to be on the spree.

=riboteu-r=, _n.m._, =-se=, _n.f._, (pop.) drunkard; boozer.

=ricanement= (-ka-n-mān), _n.m._, chuckling, chuckle, sneering, sneer; giggling, giggle.

=ricaner=, _v.n._, to chuckle, to sneer, to snigger, to giggle.

=ricanerie= (-ka-n-rî), _n.f._ _V._ =ricanement=.

=ricaneu-r=, =-se=, _n._ and _adj._, sneerer, sneering; giggler, giggling.

=ric-à-ric=, _adv._, in driblets; (fam.) rigorously, strictly.

=richard=, _n.m._, moneyed man; rich fellow; capitalist, nabob.

=riche=, _n.m._ and _adj._, rich man; rich, wealthy, opulent; sumptuous; copious; valuable, precious. _Un — parti_; a good match (marriage). _— moisson_; abundant harvest. _Langue —_; copious language. _Le mauvais —_; the rich man of the Gospel.

=richement= (rish-mān), _adv._, richly, opulently, copiously, splendidly; preciously.

=richesse=, _n.f._, riches, wealth, wealthiness, opulence; copiousness; richness. _La — d’une langue_; the copiousness of a language. _Contentement passe —_; enough is as good as a feast.

=richissime=, _adj._, (fam.) inordinately rich.

=ricin=, _n.m._, (bot.) palma Christi, castor-oil plant. _Huile de —_; castor-oil.

=ricocher=, _v.n._, (artil.) to ricochet, to rebound.

=ricochet=, _n.m._, duck and drake (rebound on the water); series; chain, succession; (artil.) ricochet. _Faire des —s_; (artil.) to ricochet; to make ducks and drakes on the water. _Feu à —_; (artil.) ricochet-firing _or_ fire. _C’est la chanson du —_; it is the same thing over and over again. _Par —_; indirectly.

=rictus=, _n.m._, grin, grinning.

=ride=, _n.f._, wrinkle (on the face); (bot.) wrinkle; ripple (on the water); (nav.) laniard. _—s des haubans_; shroud laniards.

=ridé=, =-e=, _adj._, wrinkled; (bot.) rugose. _Une pomme —e_; a shriveled apple.

=rideau=, _n.m._, curtain; screen (of trees); (fort.) rideau. _Tirer le —_; to draw the curtain. _Baisser le —_; (thea.) to drop the curtain. _Lever de —_; (thea.) curtain-raiser. _— d’entr’acte_; drop-scene.

=ridée=, _n.f._, clap-net.

=ridelle=, _n.f._, staff-side, standard-side (of a cart).