Part 18

=autre=, _pron._, another, other, else. _Nul — n’y aurait consenti_; nobody else would have consented to it. _Un — le fera_; another will do it. _Tout — l’aurait fait_; any other would have done it. _Les uns se plaisent à une chose, les —s à une —_; some delight in one thing and some in another. _L’un l’—_; one another, each other. _L’un et l’—_; both. _L’un ou l’—_; either. _Ni l’un ni l’—_; neither. _L’un et l’— vous ont obligé_; both have obliged you. _Les uns et les —s_; all. _Ni l’un ni l’— ne valent rien_; both are good for nothing. _À l’un ou à l’—_; to either. _Ni pour l’un ni pour l’—_; for neither. _On les a payés l’un et l’—_; both have been paid. _À l’envi l’un de l’—_; in emulation of one another. _Entre —s_; among other people or among other things. _De côté et d’—_; up and down. _De part et d’—_; on both sides, on all sides. _C’est un — homme_; he is no more the same man. _Il ne fait — chose que jouer_; he does nothing but play. _C’est — chose_; it is quite another thing. _C’est une — paire de manches_; that’s a horse of another color. _Nous —s Français, nous mangeons beaucoup de pain_; we French people eat a great deal of bread. _Causer de choses et d’—s_; to talk of different things. _Il dit d’une façon et il fait d’une —_; he says one thing and does another. _L’un vaut l’—_; they are much of a muchness; or one is as bad as the other. _Comme dit l’—_; as somebody says; as the saying is. _Il n’en fait point d’—s_; he does nothing else, these are his pranks. _L’un dans l’—_, _l’un portant l’—_; one with another; on an average. _Il en sait bien d’—s_; he knows a trick worth two of that. _J’en ai vu bien d’—s_; I have outlived worse things than that. _À d’—s!_ pshaw! I know better, you must not tell that to me, tell it to the marines.

=autrefois=, _adv._, formerly, in former times; of old.

=autrement=, _adv._, otherwise; after another manner, another way; else; or else. _Faisons —_; let us go to work another way. _Entrez, — je fermerai la porte_; come in, or else I’ll shut the door. _C’est un homme qui n’est pas — riche_; he is a man who is not over rich.

=autrichien=, =-ne=, _adj._, _n.m.f._, Austrian.

=autruche=, _n.f._, (orni.) ostrich. _Avoir un estomac d’—_; to have the stomach of an ostrich; to digest anything.

=autrui=, _n.m._, _pron._, others, other people. _Dépendre d’—_; to depend on others. _Faire à — ce que nous voudrions qu’on nous fît_; to do by others as we would be done by. _Le bien d’—_; another’s property. _Mal d’— n’est que songe_; we make light of the ills of others.

=auvent=, _n.m._, shed, penthouse, lean-to.

=auvernat=, _n.m._, Orléans wine.

=aux= (_pl._ of au), _art._, to the. _V._ =à=.

=auxdits=, =auxdites=, _adj.m.f.pl._, to the said.

=auxiliaire=, _adj._, auxiliary, subsidiary. _Verbe —_; auxiliary verb.

=auxiliaire=, _n.m._, auxiliary; helper, assistant.

_s’_=avachir=, _v.r._, to flag; to grow fat and flabby; to get out of shape, to run down at heel.

=aval=, _adv._, down, downwards, down stream. _Le vent vient d’—_; the wind is blowing up stream. _En — de_; below. _Vent d’—_; westerly wind.

=aval=, _n.m._, (com.) guarantee, indorsement. _Mettez votre — au dos de ce billet_; indorse that bill.

=avalaison=, _n.f._, flood, torrent; (nav.) a long-continued west or northwest wind.

=avalanche=, _n.f._, avalanche, snow-slip.

=avalasse=, _n.f._ _V._ =avalaison=.

=avalé=, =-e=, _part._, flagging, hanging down; sunk, fallen in; gone down stream.

=avaler=, _v.a._, to swallow, to swallow down; to let down; to endure, to pocket (affront); to lower (things into a cellar); to drink, to toss off; (gard.) to lop; to gulp down. _— un affront_; to pocket an insult. _Il ne fait que tordre et —_; he gobbles up everything. _— du vin dans une cave_; to let wine down into a cellar. _— une branche_; to lop off a branch close to the trunk. _— des couleuvres_; to pocket many affronts.

=avaler=, _v.n._, to go down, drop off (the river with the stream).

_s’_=avaler=, _v.r._, to flag, to hang down, to fall down or in; to be swallowed.

=avalette=, _n.f._, a sort of float (angling).

=avaleur=, _n.m._, swallower, glutton. _— de pois gris_; a great glutton. _— de charrettes ferrées_; a braggadocio.

=avaloire=, _n.f._, a large throat or swallow; (saddlery) breeching; (hat making) stamper.

=avançage=, _n.m._, cab stand, stand.

=avance=, _n.f._, advance, start, distance in advance; projection, prominence; advance-money; first step, offer; gain, benefit. _Il a quatre lieues d’— sur moi_; he is four leagues ahead of me. _Faire une — de mille écus_; to advance a thousand crowns. _Faire les —s d’une entreprise_; to advance the funds for an enterprise. _Faire des —s_; to make advances to. _Prendre l’—_; to get the start. _D’—_; beforehand. _Payer d’—_; to pay beforehand. _Prévenir d’—_; to warn beforehand. _À l’—_, _en —_, _par —_; beforehand, before one’s time, by anticipation.

=avancé=, =-e=, _part._, advanced; forward, early; late (of the hour). _Un homme — en âge_; an elderly man. _Un jeune homme fort —_; a very forward youth. _Les arbres sont —s_; the trees are forward. _Je n’en suis pas plus —_; I am not a bit the better off for it. _Viande —e_; meat which is getting bad. _Me voilà bien —!_ that’s all I get for my pains; I am in a pretty predicament.

=avancée=, _n.f._, (milit.) advance guard.

=avancement= (-mān), _n.m._, progress, advancement; improvement; preferment, promotion, rise.

=avancer=, _v.a._, to advance, to bring, to put forward; to hold out, to stretch out, to set forward; to bring nearer; to hasten; to forward; to pay beforehand; to lay out or down; to assert, to bring forth, to urge; to hold forth; to promote, to put on (a clock); to broach, to bring forward (opinion); to give (a chair). _Avancez la table_; push the table forward. _— le pied_; to put one’s foot forward. _Faire —_; to push, to push on. _Cela a avancé sa mort_; that hastened his death. _— l’horloge_; to put the clock on. _— le dîner_; to hasten dinner. _— un ouvrage_; to forward a piece of work. _Il lui a avancé de l’argent_; he has advanced him some money. _— les intérêts de quelqu’un_; to promote any one’s interests. _Pouvez-vous prouver ce que vous avancez?_ can you prove your assertion? _On l’a avancé_; he has been promoted.

=avancer=, _v.n._, to advance, to get on, to proceed, to march on, to move forward, to keep on, to go too fast; to come out; to jut out; to lean over, to bear out; to encroach; to improve, to make some progress; to thrive; to rise. _Avancez-donc!_ come along! _L’horloge avance_; the clock is fast. _Cette maison avance trop sur la rue_; that house juts out too much into the street. _— en âge_; to advance in years. _Faire — une voiture_; to call a cab. _Cela m’— bien!_ what good is that to me?

_s’_=avancer=, _v.r._, to advance, to go on, to move forward; to stand forth; to draw near, to come up; to get on, to improve; to get preferred, to be successful; to go far; to jut out, to project. _Cet ambassadeur s’est trop avancé_; that ambassador has gone too far. _Le temps s’avance_; time flies. _S’— à cheval_; to ride up. _S’— en voiture_; to drive up. _S’— à la voile_; to sail up. _S’— en courant_; to run up.

=avanceur=, _n.m._, gold-wire drawer.

=avanie=, _n.f._, insult, affront, outrage.

=avant=, _n.m._, (nav.) prow, head, bow of a ship. _De l’— à l’arrière_; from stem to stern. _Gagner l’— de_; to get ahead of, to get a headway (on a ship).

=avant=, _prep._, (of time and order) before. _J’ai vu cela — vous_; I saw that before you. _— toutes choses_; above all things. _— tout_; first of all, before all.

=avant=, _adv._, far, deep, forward, far advanced. _D’—_; before. _En —!_ forward! march on! _En — de_; before, in front of. _Mettre en —_; to bring forward. _N’allez pas si —_; don’t go so far. _Creuser fort — dans la terre_; to dig very deep in the ground. _Plus —_; further, deeper. _Bien — dans la nuit_; very late at night. _Nous étions bien — en mer_; we had got a great way out to sea. _Aller de l’—_; (nav.) to go ahead.

=avant que=, _conj._, before. _— qu’il soit un an_; before a year is over.

=avantage=, _n.m._, advantage, vantage-ground, pleasure; benefit, profit, interest; behalf, behoof; (nav.) weather-gauge; (man.) whip-hand; odds (at play). _Avoir l’— sur_; to have the advantage over. _Avoir l’—_; to win, to prevail. _On lui a fait tous les — possibles_; they gave him every possible advantage. _Quel — vous en revient-il?_ what benefit do you reap from it? _On peut dire ceci à son —_; this may be said in his favor. _Nos troupes ont eu l’—_; our troop have had the best of it. _Tirer — de tout_; to turn everything to account. _J’ai perdu, vous avez l’—_; I have lost, you have the better of the game. _S’habiller à son —_; to dress to the best advantage.

=avantager=, _v.a._, to advantage; to bestow an advantage on; to favor. _La nature l’avait avantagé de beaucoup de qualités précieuses_; nature had endowed him with many inestimable qualities.

=avantageusement=, (-mān), _adv._, advantageously, to advantage; usefully; beneficially, favorably; highly. _S’habiller —_; to dress to the best advantage. _Parler — de quelqu’un_; to speak highly of any one.

=avantageu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, advantageous, profitable, beneficial, eligible; conceited, presuming; overbearing; (of dress) becoming. _Conditions —ses_; advantageous terms. _Coiffure —se_; a becoming way of dressing the hair. _Un ton —_; a confident, assuming tone. _C’est un homme —_; he is a conceited fellow, vain, presuming.

=avant-bec=, _n.m._, (_—-—s_) (arch.) starling of a bridge, pier, ice-breaker, cutwater.

=avant-bras=, _n.m._, (_—_) fore-arm.

=avant-corps=, _n.m._, (_—_) (arch.) fore-part.

=avant-cour=, _n.f._, (_—-—s_) fore-court.

=avant-coureur=, _n.m._, (_—-—s_) (mil.) van-courier, forerunner, precursor; harbinger.

=avant-courri-er=, _n.m._, =-ère=, _n.f._, (_—-—s_) forerunner, harbinger.

=avant-derni-er=, =-ère=, _adj._ and _n._, (_—-—s_) the last but one. _L’—e syllabe_; the penultimate.

=avant-faire-droit=, _n.m._, (_—_) preventive injunction.

=avant-fossé=, _n.m._, (_—-—s_) (fortif.) advance-fosse.

=avant-garde=, _n.f._, (_—-—s_) vanguard; (nav.) van.

=avant-goût=, _n.m._, (_—-—s_) foretaste, earnest, anticipation.

=avant-hier= (-ti-ère), _adv._, the day before yesterday.

=avant-jour=, _n.m._, (_n.p._) morning-twilight.

=avant-main=, _n.m._, (_—-—s_) (man.) fore-hand of a horse; (tennis) fore-hand stroke; (at cards) lead.

☉=avant-midi=, _n.m._, (_—_) forenoon.

=avant-mur=, _n.m._, (_—-—s_) outward wall, screen-wall.

=avant-pêche=, _n.f._, (_—-—s_) early peach.

=avant-pied=, _n.m._, (_—-—s_) vamp, upper-leather of a boot.

☉=avant-plancher=, _n.m._, (_—-—s_) false-ceiling.

=avant-poignet=, _n.m._, (_—-—s_) fore-wrist.

=avant-port=, _n.m._, (_—-—s_) (nav.) outer harbor, tide-dock.

=avant-portail=, _n.m._, (_—-—s_) fore-portal.

=avant-poste=, _n.m._, (_—-—s_) (milit.) out-post.

=avant-propos=, _n.m._, (_—_) preface, preamble; introduction, exordium.

=avant-quart=, _n.m._, (_—-—s_) (horl.) warning-bell.

=avant-scène=, _n.f._, (_—-—s_) front of the stage; proscenium, stage-box.

=avant-toit=, _n.m._, (_—-—s_) fore-roof, projecting roof, eaves.

=avant-train=, _n.m._, (_—-—s_) fore-carriage, limber.

*=avant-veille=, _n.f._, (_—-—s_) two days before.

=avare=, _adj._, avaricious, miserly, covetous; stingy, close-fisted, sparing; penurious, niggardly. _Être — de ses louanges_; to be sparing of praise. _À père — enfant prodigue_; a miserly father has a spendthrift son.

=avare=, _n.m._, miser, niggard; pinch-penny.

=avarement=, _adv._, avariciously.

=avarice=, _n.f._, avarice, avariciousness, covetousness; niggardliness; stinginess. _Par —_; from avarice.

=avaricieu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, (l.u.) avaricious, covetous; stingy.

=avarie=, _n.f._, damage (done in conveying goods); (com.) damage, loss, repairs. _—s communes_; (com.) general average. _Menues —s_; small averages. _—s simples_; ordinary damage. _Sans —_; without mishap. _Causer une —_; to damage. _Régler les —s_; to state the averages.

=avarié=, =-e=, _adj._, damaged.

=avarier=, _v.a._, to damage. _S’—_, _v.r._, to become damaged.

=avaste=, _int._, (nav.) avast, stop, stay.

=à vau-l’eau=, _adv._, with the stream, downstream. _Toutes son entreprises sont allées —_; all his undertakings have come to nought.

=à vau-de-route=, _adv._, in flight.

=avé=, _n.m._, (_—_) ave. _— Maria_; ave Maria.

=avec=, _prep._, with, together with; among. _Venez — moi_; come with me. _— dessein_; designedly. _— tout cela_; for all that, nevertheless. _Il a pris mon manteau, et s’en est allé —_; he has taken my cloak, and has gone off with it. _Discerner le bien d’— le mal_; to discern good from evil, _— ça!_ (coll.) nonsense!

=avecque=, _prep._, obsolete spelling of =avec=.

=aveindre= (aveignant, aveint), _v.a._, to take out, to fetch out.

=aveine=, _n.f._ _V._ =avoine=.

=avelanède=, _n.f._, acorn-cup, valonia.

=aveline=, _n.f._, filbert, cob-nut.

=avelinier=, _n.m._, filbert-tree.

=avénage=, _n.m._, avenage (due, paid in oats).

=avenant=, _part._ _V._ =advenant=.

=avenant=, =-e=, _adj._, good-looking, prepossessing, comely, pleasing, taking. _Physionomie —e_; pleasing features. _Manières —es_; prepossessing, engaging manners. _n._, declaration of altered policy (insurance).

_à l’_=avenant=, _adv._, appropriate; in keeping with. _Le dessert fut à l’— du repas_; the dessert was in keeping with the repast. _Et tout à l’—_; and all corresponding, matching.

=avènement= (-mān), _n.m._, coming, accession, succession, advent. _L’— du roi à la couronne_; the king’s accession to the crown. _L’— du Messie_; the coming of the Messiah.

=avèneron=, _n.m._, wild oats.

=avenir=, _n.m._, the future, futurity, existence, future welfare, hopes, prospects; (jur.) venire facias. _À l’—_; in future. _On ne peut répondre de l’—_; one cannot answer for the future. _J’assure un — à mes enfants_; I secure a competence for my children. _Cet homme n’a aucun —_; that man has no prospects. _D’—_, or _qui a de l’—_; promising, rising.

☉=avenir=, _v.n._ _V._ =advenir=.

=à-venir=, _n.m._ (_—_), (jur.) summons to an attorney to appear for his client.

=avent=, _n.m._, Advent.

=aventure=, _n.f._, adventure, occurrence; chance, accident, luck; fate, lot. _À l’—_; at a venture, at random. _Une plaisante —_; a droll adventure. _Grosse —_; (com.) bottomry. _Dire la bonne —_; to tell people’s fortunes. _Se faire dire sa bonne —_; to have one’s fortune told. _Une diseuse de bonne —_; a fortune-teller. _Tenter l’—_; to make a trial, to try one’s luck. _Mal d’—_; whitlow. _D’—_, _par —_; by chance, perchance. _Si par —_; if peradventure, if by chance.

=aventuré=, =-e=, _part._, hazardous, hazarded, bold.

=aventurer=, _v.a._, to venture, to put to the venture, to risk.

_s’_=aventurer=, _v.r._, to venture, to take one’s chance, to hazard, to risk one’s self.

=aventureu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, venturous, venturesome, adventurous.

=adventuri-er=, _n.m._, =-ère=, _n.f._, adventurer, adventuress.

=aventurine=, _n.f._, avanturine, venturine.

=avenu=, =-e=, _part._, come to pass, happened. _Acte nul et non —_; act that is null and void.

=avenue=, _n.f._, avenue, approach, walk.

=avéré=, =-e=, _part._, averred, established by evidence.

=avérer=, _v.a._, to aver, to prove the truth of, to confirm, to establish.

=averhan=. _V._ =tétras=.

=à verse=, _adv._, fast (of rain). _Il pleut —_; it is pouring with rain.

=averse=, _n.f._, shower of rain; down-pour.

=aversion=, _n.f._, aversion, hate, hatred; antipathy, dislike, detestation. _Prendre quelqu’un en —_; to take an aversion to one. _Cet homme est ma bête d’—_; that man is my bugbear, my pet aversion.

=averti=, =-e=, _part._, warned, informed. _Se tenir pour —_; to be on one’s guard, to take it as a warning. _Un bon — en vaut deux_; forewarned, forearmed.

=avertir=, _v.a._, to warn, to caution; to inform of, to acquaint with, to give notice of, to admonish. _Faire —_; to send notice, word.

=avertissement= (-mān), _n.m._, information, advice, (b.s.) warning, caution; notification; advertisement (of books); (b.s.) admonition.

=avertisseur=, _n.m._, monitor, adviser; (official) public crier; (thea.) call-boy. _— d’incendie_; fire-alarm.

=aveu=, _n.m._, avowal, confession, acknowledgment, admission; approbation, consent, recognition. _Homme sans —_; vagrant, vagabond. _Faire l’— de_; to confess.

=aveugle=, _adj._, blind, sightless; deluded; ignorant, implicit. _— de naissance_ or _né_; born blind. _Obéissance —_; implicit obedience. _Changer son cheval borgne contre un —_; to change from bad to worse. _La fortune est —_; fortune is blind.

=aveugle=, _n.m.f._, blind person. _Un — y mordrait_; a blind man would see it. _C’est un — qui en conduit un autre_; it is the blind leading the blind. _Crier comme un — qui a perdu son bâton_; to cry out before one is hurt.

=aveuglement=, _n.m._, blindness, infatuation.

=aveuglément=, _adv._, blindly, rashly, implicitly.

=aveugler=, _v.a._, to blind, to make blind; to put out the eyes of; to dazzle; to delude; to obscure, to cloud; (nav.) to fother. _La passion aveugle l’entendement_; passion obscures the understanding. _— une voie d’eau_; (nav.) to fother a leak. _La trop grande lumière aveugle_; too much light dazzles the eyes.

_s’_=aveugler=, _v.r._, to blind one’s self, to shut one’s eyes to, to be blinded, to deceive one’s self.

_à l’_=aveuglette=, _adv._, (fam.) groping in the dark. _Aller —_; to go groping along, blindly, rashly.

=avicule=, _n.f._, (mol.). _V._ =aronde=.

=avide=, _adj._, greedy of, eager for, thirsting for; voracious; covetous, rapacious. _Un homme —_; a covetous man. _— de gain_; eager for gain.

=avidement= (-mān), _adv._, greedily, eagerly, voraciously, covetously.

=avidité=, _n.f._, avidity, greediness, eagerness, covetousness.

=avilir=, _v.a._, to debase, to demean, to disgrace, to vilify; to disparage, to discredit, to depreciate, to lower.

_s’_=avilir=, _v.r._, to disgrace one’s self, to debase one’s self, to grow contemptible.

=avilissant=, =-e=, _adj._, debasing, degrading, humiliating.

=avilissement= (-mān), _n.m._, degradation, debasement, depreciation, contempt, vileness.

=aviné=, =-e=, _part._, drunk, drunken, unsteady (from drink). _Il est —_; _c’est un corps —_; he is a regular tippler.

=aviner=, _v.a._, to season with wine.

=aviron=, _n.m._, (nav.) oar. _— de couple_; scull. _Aller à l’—_; to row. _Donner un coup d’—_; to lend a helping hand.

=avironnerie=, _n.f._, oar-maker’s shed.

=avironnier=, _n.m._, oar-maker.

=avis=, _n.m._, opinion, sentiment, mind, judgment; advice, counsel, deliberation, admonition; notice, notification; warning, caution; account, information, intelligence, news; motion; vote; advertisement (in books). _À mon —_; in my opinion. _Je suis d’— que vous lui écriviez_; I am of opinion that you should write to him. _Je ne suis pas d’— d’y aller_; I am not for going there. _Dire son —_; to say, speak one’s mind. _Je profiterai de l’— que vous me donnez_; I shall avail myself of the caution you have given me. _— au lecteur_; a note to the reader; a word to the wise. _J’ai changé d’—_; I have altered my mind. _On a reçu — de Paris_; we are advised from Paris. _Lettre d’—_; letter of advice. _Faute d’—_; for want of advice. _Sous —_; with advice. _Suivant l’— de_; as per advice. _Donner à quelqu’un un — de quelque chose_; to advise any one of anything. _Ne m’écris plus jusqu’à nouvel —_; write no more till further notice. _Ouvrir un —_; to broach an opinion. _Être d’—_; to opine. _Prendre les —_; to take the opinion. _Aller aux —_; to put to the vote. _Donner un — assez clair à quelqu’un_; to give a pretty broad hint to any one. _Il m’est —_; I rather think or methinks. _Deux —s valent mieux qu’un_; two heads are better than one. _Il y a jours d’—_; there is no hurry; there is plenty of time.

=avisé=, =-e=, _adj._, wary, discreet, prudent, cautious, advised, circumspect. _Mal —_; ill-advised, _il est fort —_; he is a very discreet man.

=aviser=, _v.a._, to apprise; to perceive; to espy; (com.) to advise.

=aviser=, _v.n._, to consider, to see to, to think upon, to look to. _Avisez-y_; look to it. _Vous y aviserez_; you will see to it.

_s’_=aviser=, _v.r._, to think of, to consider, to take it into one’s head; to bethink one’s self, to be so minded, to dare, to presume. _Il ne s’avise jamais de rien_; he thinks of nothing. _Il s’avisa de_; he took it into his head to. _Il n’y a sottise dont il ne s’avise_; there is no folly he does not commit. _Il s’avisa d’un bon expédient_; he bethought himself of a good expedient. _Ne vous en avisez pas_; you had better not.

=aviso=, _n.m._, (nav.) dispatch-boat.

*=avitaillement=, _n.m._, (nav., milit.) victualing; stores.

*=avitailler=, _v.a._, to victual, to furnish with victuals, to store.

☉*=avitailleur=, _n.m._, army or navy contractor.

=avivage=, _n.m._, first laying of tin-foil on glass; hewing.

=aviver=, _v.a._, to polish, to burnish, to brighten.

=avives=, _n.f.pl._, (vet.) vives.

=avivoir=, _n.m._, polisher, burnisher (tool).

=avocasser=, _v.n._, to be a pettifogger, to drudge at the bar.

=avocasserie=, _n.f._, pettifoggery, caviling, quibble, twaddle.

=avocat=, _n.m._, counsel, barrister, advocate, pleader, intercessor. _— de causes perdues_, _— de Pilate_, _— de balle_, _— à tort_; briefless barrister. _— consultant_; chamber-counsel. _— principal_; leading barrister. _— général_; solicitor general. _Plaider par —_; to be represented by counsel.

=avocate=, _n.f._, female advocate; mediatrix, intercessor.

=avocette=, _n.f._, (orni.) avoset.

=avoine=, _n.f._, oats. _—s_; oats still standing. _D’—_; of oats. _Farine d’—_; oatmeal. _Balle d’—_; oatchaff. _Folles —s_; wild oats.

=avoinerie=, _n.f._, oat-field.

=avoir= (ayant, eu), _v.a._, to have; to get, to possess, to enjoy; to be; to be worth; to be the matter with, to ail; to have on. _— pour agréable_; to like. _— honte_; to be ashamed. _— raison_; to be right. _— raison de_; to get the mastery over. _— tort_; to be wrong. _— peur_; to be afraid. _— faim_; to be hungry. _— soif_; to be thirsty. _Vous n’avez qu’a dire_; you need only say the word. _Qu’est-ce que vous avez?_ what ails you? what is the matter with you? _Faire —_; to procure for. _Quel âge avez-vous?_ how old are you? _Il a quarante ans_; he is forty. _J’ai à vous parler_; I have something to tell you. _Il avait un habit bleu_; he had on a blue coat. _En —_; to catch it. _Il en a_; he has caught it. _En a-t-il!_ what a lot he has! _Y —_; there to be, to be the matter. _Il ne saurait y — de différence_; there can be no difference. _Il y en a de noirs_; there are some black ones. _C’est une femme comme il n’y en a point_; she has not her like, her match. _Il y a plus_; nay, more. _Il y en a encore_; there is still some left. _Il y a de quoi_; there is enough, or good reason to. _Il n’y a pas de quoi_; don’t name or mention it; there is no offense. _Je suis venu ici il y a deux mois_; I came here two months ago. _Il n’y a tel que d’en_; money makes the man. _Il y a un an qu’il est mort_; he has been dead a year. _Il y a deux mois que je suis ici_; I have been here two months. _Il y a une heure que nous écrivons_; we have been writing for the last hour. _Combien y a-t-il de Paris à Londres?_ how far is it from Paris to London? _En — à_; to owe a grudge to. _— dans la main_; to hold in the hollow of one’s hand. _— la parole_; to be entitled to speak, to be in possession of the House. _Vous avez la main_, _le dé_, _la boule_; it is your turn to play (at cards, at dice, at billiards).

=avoir=, _n.m._, possessions, substance, property, what one is worth; (com.) credit, creditor, creditor-side. _Voilà tout mon —_; this is all I have.

=avoir du poids=, _n.m._, (_n.p._) avoirdupois.

=avoisinant=, =-e=, _adj._, neighboring, adjoining, close by.

=avoisiné=, _part._, with neighbors. _Être bien_ or _mal —_; to have good or bad neighbors.