Part 67

=époullin=, =espolin=, _or_ =espoulin=, _n.m._, (manu.) small shuttle, spool.

=époumoner=, _v.a._, to tire the lungs of; to exhaust.

_s’_=époumoner=, _v.r._, to tire one’s lungs; (fig.) to vociferate, to shout one’s self hoarse.

*=épousailles=, _n.f.pl._, espousals, nuptials.

=épouse=, _n.f._, spouse, bride, wife, consort.

=épousé=, =-e=, _part._, married, wedded.

=épousée=, _n.f._, bride, wife.

=épouser=, _v.a._, to marry, to take in marriage, to wed, to espouse, to embrace, to take up. _— une héritière_; to marry an heiress. _— les intérêts d’autrui_; to espouse the interests of others.

_s’_=épouser=, _v.r._, to marry each other.

=épouseur=, _n.m._, marrying man; intended husband.

=époussetage=, _n.m._, dusting.

=épousseter= (é-pous-té), _v.a._, to dust, to wipe off the dust; to beat the dust out of; to leather, to dust (beat). _— quelqu’un_; to dust any one’s jacket for him.

_s’_=épousseter=, _v.r._, to wipe the dust off one’s self.

=époussette=, _n.f._, dusting-rag, duster.

=épouti=, _n.m._, orts (in cloth).

=époutieuse= (-tieuz), _n.f._, picker, cleaner, burler (of cloth).

=époutir=, _v.a._, to pick, to clean (cloth).

=épouvantable=, _adj._, frightful, dreadful, tremendous, shocking, horrible; appalling. _À un degré —_; to a frightful degree.

=épouvantablement=, _adv._, frightfully, dreadfully, tremendously.

*=épouvantail=, _n.m._, scare-crow; bugbear; (orni.) sea-swallow. _C’est un — de chenevière_; she is a perfect scarecrow.

=épouvante=, _n.f._, terror, dismay, affright. _Porter l’— dans le pays ennemi_; to spread terror in the enemy’s country. _L’— les a pris_; they were seized with dismay. _Frapper d’—_; to dismay, to affright.

=épouvantement=, _n.m._, terror, affright.

=épouvanter=, _v.a._, to terrify, to frighten, to appall, to scare.

_s’_=épouvanter=, _v.r._, to be frightened _or_ terrified; to take fright.

=époux=, _n.m._, spouse, husband, bridegroom. _pl._, husband and wife. _Futur —_; intended husband.

=épreindre= (épreignant, épreint), _v.a._, to squeeze out, to press, to express.

=épreinte=, _n.f._, tenesmus; straining; (fig.) pressure (chiefly used in _pl._).

_s’_=éprendre=, _v.r._, to become enamored of; to fall in love with.

=épreuve=, _n.f._, trial, proof, test, ordeal, examination; (print.) proof, revise. _J’en ai fait l’—_; I have tried it, made a trial of it. _Passer par de rudes —s_; to go through hard trials. _Mettre à l’—_; to make a trial of, to put to the test. _À l’— du feu_; fire-proof. _A l’— des balles_; ball-proof. _À l’— de l’eau_; waterproof. _À toute —_; trusty, well-tried, faithful, devoted. _Courage à toute —_; courage proof against everything. _— judiciaire_; ordeal. _Temps d’—_; probation. _— chargée_; (print.) foul proof. _— peu chargée_; (print.) clean proof. _Corriger une —_; (print.) to correct a proof. _Première — d’auteur_; (print.) reader’s proof. _Seconde — d’auteur_; (print.) revise. _Troisième — d’auteur_; (print.) second revise. _— avant la lettre_; (engr.) proof before letters. _Tirer une —_; (print.) to pull a proof.

=épris=, =-e=, _adj._, in love, taken with, smitten, charmed with. _Il en est —_; he is smitten with her.

=éprouver=, _v.a._, to try, to prove; to put to the proof; to feel, to experience, to meet with; to go through. _— la fidélité de quelqu’un_; to try any one’s fidelity. _— une douleur_; to feel a pain. _— des malheurs_; to meet with misfortunes. _— un canon_; to test a cannon. _S’— à_; to try one’s hand at.

=éprouvette=, _n.f._, gauge; steam-gauge; test-glass; eprouvette (for testing gunpowder).

_sel d’_=epsom=, _n.m._, Epsom salts.

=eptacorde=, _n.m._ _V._ =heptacorde=.

=eptagone=, _n.m._ _V._ =heptagone=.

=épucer=, _v.a._, to catch the fleas of; to clear of fleas.

_s’_=épucer=, _v.r._, to catch one’s fleas.

=épuisable=, _adj._, exhaustible.

=épuisé=, =-e=, _part._, exhausted; drained; spent; worn out; used up; threadbare; out of print; done up. _Terre —e_; exhausted ground. _L’édition est épuisée_; the book is out of print.

=épuisement= (é-puiz-mān), _n.m._, draining; draining off; exhaustion. _L’— des finances_; the low state of the finances. _Tuyau d’—_; exhausting-pipe.

=épuiser=, _v.a._, to exhaust, to spend, to drain, to use up; to eat up, to consume. _— une matière_; to exhaust a subject. _Leurs ressources étaient épuisées_; their resources were exhausted.

_s’_=épuiser=, _v.r._, to be exhausted, to waste, to wear out, to exhaust one’s self; to sell off, to get out of print.

=épuisette=, _n.f._, scoop, hand-net, landing-net.

=épulide= _or_ =épulie=, _n.f._, (surg.) epulis.

=épulons=, _n.m.pl._, (antiq.) epulones.

=épulotique=, _n.m._ and _adj._, (pharm.) epulotic.

☉=épurati-f=, =-ve=, _adj._, depurating; purifying; refining.

=épuration=, _n.f._, purification, purifying, refining, refinement. _— du sang_; purifying of the blood.

=épuratoire=, _adj._, purifying.

=épure=, _n.f._, (arch.) diagram, draught, working-drawing (of a building).

=épurement=, _n.m._, purifying.

=épurer=, _v.a._, to purify, to clear, to clarify, to refine; to purge. _— de l’eau bourbeuse_; to clear muddy water. _— de l’or_; to refine gold.

_s’_=épurer=, _v.r._, to be purified, to grow finer, more refined (of style, language).

=épurge=, _n.f._, (bot.) caper-spurge.

=équarrir=, _v.a._, (tech.) to square; to cut up.

=équarrissage=, _n.m._, (carp.) squareness; squaring; scantling; flaying and cutting up (horses). _Dix pouces d’—_; ten inches square. _Bois d’—_; squared timber. _Clos d’—_; knacker’s yard.

=équarrissement=, _n.m._, (tech.) squaring.

=équarrisseur=, _n.m._, knacker.

=équarrissoir=, _n.m._, rimer; knacker’s knife.

=équateur= (é-koua-), _n.m._, equator, equinoctial line; (country) Ecuador.

=équation= (é-koua-), _n.f._, (alg.) equation. _— du premier degré_; (alg.) simple equation. _Poser une —_; to state an equation. _Montre à —_; chronometer.

=équatorial=, =-e= (é-koua-), _adj._, equatorial. _n.m._, equatorial telescope (instrument).

=équerre=, _n.f._, set square; square rule. _Dresser à l’—_; to square. _À fausse —_; out of square; bevel. _Courbe à —_; (nav.) square knee.

=équerrer=, _v.a._, to square, to bevel.

=équestre= (é-kuèstr) _adj._, equestrian.

=équiangle= (é-kui-) _adj._, (geom.) equiangular.

=équidifférent=, =-e= (é-kui-), _adj._, equidifferent.

=équidistant=, =-e= (é-kui-), _adj._, (geom.) equidistant.

=équilatéral=, =-e= (é-kui-), _adj._, (geom.) equilateral.

=équilatère= (é-kui-), _adj._, (l.u.) (geom.) equilateral.

=équilboquet=, _n.m._, mortise-gauge.

=équilibre=, _n.m._, equilibrium, equipoise, poise, balance. _Mettre en —_; to poise. _Faire l’—_; to make things equal. _Perdre l’—_; to lose one’s equilibrium, one’s balance.

=équilibrer=, _v.a._, to poise; to place in equilibrium. _S’—_; to balance (of things).

=équilibriste=, _n.m.f._, acrobat.

=équille=, _n.f._, (pisc.) sand-eel.

=équinoxe=, _n.m._, equinox. _Vents d’—_; equinoctial wind.

=équinoxial=, =-e=, _adj._, equinoctial. _Ligne —e_; equinoctial line.

=équipage=, _n.m._, equipage, carriage; turnout; equipment; dress; gear, tackle, implements; plight; crew. _Avoir son —_, _rouler —_; to keep one’s carriage. _Être dans un triste —_; to be badly equipped. _Être en triste —_; to be in a sad plight. _— de Jean de Paris_; brilliant equipage. _— de Bohème_; sorry equipage. _Maître d’—_; (nav.) boatswain.

=équipe=, _n.f._, (nav.) train of boats; manning; set, gang (of workmen). _Chef d’—_; foreman. _Homme d’—_; boatman, oarsman, porter. _Faire l’—_; to manage; to man (a boat).

=équipée=, _n.f._, prank; freak, frolic.

=équipement= (é-kip-mān), _n.m._, outfit, fitting out, equipment, accoutrement; manning. _Petit —_; kit.

=équiper=, _v.a._, to equip, to fit out, to stock, to furnish, to man; to ill-treat, to pay out. _— une flotte_; to fit out a fleet.

_s’_=équiper=, _v.r._, to fit one’s self out; to dress up; to titivate one’s self; to rig one’s self out.

=équipet=, _n.m._, (nav.) locker.

=équipollence=, _n.f._, (l.u.) equipollence.

☉=équipollent=, _n.m._, equipollent, equivalent. _À l’—_; in proportion.

=équipollent=, =-e=, _adj._, equipollent, equivalent.

☉=équipoller=, _v.a._, to be equivalent, to be of the like value; to balance.

=équipondérance= (é-kui-), _n.f._, equiponderance.

=équitable=, _adj._, equitable, upright, just, fair.

=équitablement=, _adv._, equitably, justly, fairly.

=équitant=, =-e= (é-kui-), _adj._, (bot.) (of leaves) equitant.

=équitation= (é-kui-), _n.f._, equitation, riding, horsemanship.

=équité=, _n.f._, equity, justice.

=équivalemment= (-la-mān), _adv._, (l.u.) equivalently.

=équivalence=, _n.f._, equivalence.

=équivalent=, =-e=, _adj._, equivalent.

=équivalent=, _n.m._, equivalent.

=équivaloir=, _v.n._, to be equivalent, to be tantamount to.

=équivalve=, _adj._, (conch.) equivalve.

=équivoque=, _adj._, equivocal, ambiguous, doubtful, uncertain. _Un homme —_; a man of doubtful character.

=équivoque=, _n.f._, equivocation; ambiguity; evasion, shuffling; (paint.) defect, fault. _User d’—s_; to equivocate.

=équivoquer=, _v.n._, to equivocate, to speak ambiguously, to quibble, to shuffle.

_s’_=équivoquer=, _v.r._, to use one word for another, to make a slip, to be mistaken.

=érable=, _n.m._, maple, maple-tree. _— blanc_; sycamore. _— à sucre_; sugar-maple. _— moucheté_; birds’-eye maple.

=éradicati-f=, =-ve=, _adj._, eradicative.

=éradication=, _n.f._, eradication.

=érafler=, _v.a._, to scratch slightly, to graze.

=éraflure=, _n.f._, slight scratch, graze.

*=éraillé=, =-e=, _part._, frayed, fretted; bloodshot (of the eyes); (nav.) (of cables and ropes) chafed, galled; (of the voice) rough, hoarse, husky.

*=éraillement=, _n.m._, (med.) eversion of the eyelids; fraying, fretting, unweaving; huskiness, hoarseness.

*=érailler=, _v.a._, to fray, to fret, to unweave.

*_s’_=érailler=, _v.r._, to fray; (nav.) to chafe; to become bloodshot (of the eyes); to become husky, hoarse (of the voice). _La gaze est sujette à s’—_; gauze is apt to fray.

*=éraillure=, _n.f._, fret, fraying; chafing, gall.

=ératé=, =-e=, _part._, spleened; sprightly, lively, gay, arch, shrewd. _Un petit garçon —_; a sprightly little boy.

=érater=, _v.a._, to pull out the spleen; to spleen.

_s’_=érater=, _v.r._, to run one’s self out of breath, to lose one’s breath through running.

=ère=, _n.f._, era, epoch.

=érèbe=, _n.m._, (myth.) Erebus.

=érecteur=, _n.m._ and _adj._, (anat.) erector (muscle).

=érectile=, _adj._, (anat.) erectile.

=érection=, _n.f._, erection, erecting; establishment, raising.

=éreinter=, _v.a._, to break any one’s back; to tire out, to knock up, to do up; to beat unmercifully (fig.); to cut to pieces; to lash with satire; to slay.

_s’_=éreinter=, _v.r._, to break one’s back, to tire one’s self out, to be knocked up; to drudge, to toil and moil.

=érémitique=, _adj._, hermitical, eremitical.

=érésipélateu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, (med.) erysipelatous.

=érésipèle=, _n.m._, (med.) erysipelas, St. Anthony’s fire; (vet.) wild-fire.

=éréthisme=, _n.m._, (med.) erethismus.

=ergastule=, _n.f._, (Rom. antiq.) slaves’ prison.

=ergo=, _conj._, (log.) ergo; then, therefore. _—-glu_, _—-gluc_; (fam., jest.) ergo, nothing at all; and what then.

=ergot=, _n.m._, spur (of certain birds); (agri.) ergot, spur; (pharm.) ergota, horn-seed; (nav.) taggle; dew-claw (of a dog); (vet.) ergot. _Monter sur ses —s_; to ride the high horse. _Être sur ses —s_; to keep one’s distance; to be stand-offish. _— de coq_; cock’s-spur.

=ergotage=, _n.m._ _V._ =ergoterie=.

=ergoté=, =-e=, _adj._, spurred, having a dew-claw (of a dog). _Un coq bien —_; a well-spurred cock. _Seigle —_; spurred rye.

=ergoter=, _v.n._, to cavil, to wrangle, to chop logic. _Il ergote sur tout_; he finds fault with everything.

=ergoterie= (èr-go-trî), _n.f._, caviling; quibbling, quibble.

=ergoteu-r=, _n.m._, =-se=, _n.f._, caviler, quibbler.

=ergotisme=, _n.m._, caviling, quibbling, quibble; (med.) ergotism.

=éridan=, _n.m._, (astron.) Eridanus.

=ériger=, _v.a._, to erect, to raise, to rear, to set up, to institute.

_s’_=ériger=, _v.r._, to erect one’s self into; to set up for, to pose as, to pretend to be; to be erected, raised, built. _S’— en censeur public_; to set up for a public censor.

*=érigne= _or_ =érine=, _n.f._, (surg.) hook.

=érigone=, _n.f._, (astron.) Virgo.

=ermin=, _n.m._, customs duty (in the Levant).

=erminette= _or_ =herminette=, _n.f._, (carp.) adz.

=ermitage=, _n.m._, hermitage.

=ermite=, _n.m._, hermit, recluse. _Pâtes d’—_; dry walnuts.

=érodé=, =-e=, _adj._, (tech.) eroded, gnawed.

=érosi-f=, =-ve=, _adj._, erosive.

=érosion=, _n.f._, erosion.

=érotique=, _adj._, erotic.

=érotomanie=, _n.f._, erotomania, nymphomania.

=erpétologie=, _n.f._, erpetology.

=errant=, =-e= (èr-rān, -t), _adj._, wandering; lost, fugitive, roving, errant; rambling. _Chevalier —_; knight-errant. _Le juif —_; the wandering Jew.

=errant=, _n.m._, lost sheep.

=errata= (èr-ra-ta), _n.m._, (_—_) errata.

=erratique=, _adj._, (med., astron.) erratic.

=erratum=, _n.m._, (_—_) erratum. _V._ =errata=.

=erre=, _n.f._, course, way; (nav.) way (of a ship). _pl._, track (of a stag). _Aller grand’—_; to go very fast. _Marcher sur les —s de quelqu’un_; to tread in any one’s footsteps.

=errements= (èr-mān), _n.m.pl._, traces, track, manner, way, proceedings; vagaries, follies. _Reprendre les anciens — d’une affaire_ or _suivre les vieux —_; to fall into the old track again.

=errer= (èr-ré), _v.n._, to wander, to ramble, to stray, to range, to rove, to stroll, to roll; to err, to mistake, to be mistaken, to go astray. _— partout_; to ramble about. _— çà et là_; to ramble about, to stroll up and down, to wander to and fro. _Aller errant_; to wander up and down.

=erreur= (èr-reur), _n.f._, error, illusion, mistake, blunder. _Sauf —_; errors excepted. _Être dans l’—_; to be mistaken. _Tirer quelqu’un de son —_; to convince any one of his error. _—!_ not a bit of it! _— n’est pas compte_; misreckoning is no payment.

=errhin=, _n.m._, (med.) errhine.

=errhin=, =-e=, _adj._, (med.) errhine.

=erroné=, =-e= (èr-ro-né), _adj._, erroneous, mistaken, false, unsound, untrue.

=erronément=, _adv._, erroneously.

=ers= (èr), _n.m._, tare, vetch, lentil.

=erse=, _n.f._, (nav.) iron cringle. _—s de poulies_; block-strops.

=erse=, _adj._, Erse (Gaelic, Irish, Scotch).

=erseau=, _n.m._, cringle.

=érubescent=, =-e=, _adj._, erubescent, reddening.

=érucage=, =érucago=, _or_ =érucague= (-kag), _n.f._, (bot.) rocket.

=éructation=, _n.f._, eructation, belching.

=éructer=, _v.a._, (l.u.) to eructate, to belch.

=érudit=, =-e=, _adj._, erudite, learned.

=érudit=, _n.m._, scholar, learned man.

=érudition=, _n.f._, learning, erudition, scholarship.

=érugineu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, eruginous.

=erupti-f=, =-ve=, _n.f._, (med.) eruptive.

=éruption=, _n.f._, act of breaking forth, eruption; cutting (of teeth).

=érysipélateu-x=, =-se=, _adj._ _V._ =érésipélateux=.

=érysipèle=, _n.m._ _V._ =érésipèle=.

=ès=, _art._, (contraction of _en les_), in, of; (before certain names of towns), _Saint-Germain — Laye_. _Maître — arts_; master of arts.

=escabeau=, _n.m._, stool.

=escabelle=, _n.f._, stool. _Déranger les —s à_; (fig.) to upset (any one’s) calculations; to baffle _or_ foil (any one).

=escache=, _n.f._, scatch, bit (for horses).

=escadre=, _n.f._, (nav.) squadron, fleet. _Chef d’—_; commodore; flag-officer.

*=escadrille=, _n.f._, (nav.) small squadron, flotilla.

=escadron=, _n.m._, (milit.) squadron (of horse). _Chef d’—_; major.

=escadronner=, _v.n._, to manœuvre (of cavalry).

=escalade=, _n.f._, scaling (a wall); (milit.) escalade.

=escalader=, _v.a._, to scale, to climb over; (milit.) to escalade. _S’—_; to be scaled.

=escale=, _n.f._, (nav.) putting in, calling. _Faire — dans un port_; to put into a port, to touch at, to call at (a port).

=escalier=, _n.m._, staircase, stairs, flight of stairs, steps. _— en limaçon_; winding staircase. _— dérobé_; private staircase. _— de commandement_; (nav.) companion-ladder.

=escalin=, _n.m._, Dutch (sixpenny piece).

=escalope=, _n.f._, split-bean; (pisc.) scallop; (cook.) a kind of stew.

=escamotage=, _n.m._, juggling, sleight of hand; legerdemain; prigging, filching.

=escamote=, _n.f._, juggler’s ball.

=escamoter=, _v.a._, to juggle, to juggle away; to pilfer, to shuffle out of, to ease of. _On lui a escamoté sa bourse_; they eased him of his purse.

=escamoteur=, _n.m._, juggler, conjurer; fleecer, pilferer; pickpocket.

=escamper=, _v.n._, to scamper away.

=escampette=, _n.f._, scampering. _Il a pris de la poudre d’—_; he has scampered away.

=escapade=, _n.f._, prank, freak, spree, frolic, lark. _Faire une —_; to have a lark.

=escape=, _n.f._, (arch.) scape.

*=escarbille=, _n.f._, coal cinder, clinker.

=escarbot=, _n.m._, (ent.) horn-beetle.

=escarboucle=, _n.f._, (min.) carbuncle.

=escarcelle=, _n.f._, (jest.) purse, money-bag. _Il a rempli son —_; he has filled his purse.

=escargot=, _n.m._, snail, edible snail.

=escarmouche=, _n.f._, skirmish; brush. _— de route_; (milit.) running fight. _Aller à l’—_; to go out skirmishing; (fig.) caviling, bickering.

=escarmoucher=, _v.n._, to skirmish; (fig.) to cavil, to bicker.

=escarmoucheur=, _n.m._, skirmisher; caviler.

=escarole=, _n.f._, (bot.) endive.

=escarotique=, _n.m._ and _adj._, (med.) escharotic, caustic.

=escarpe=, _n.f._, (fort.) scarp, escarp.

=escarpé=, =-e=, _adj._, steep, precipitous, rugged, cragged; (nav.) bluffy.

=escarpement=, _n.m._, (fort.) escarpment, steepness.

=escarper=, _v.a._, to cut steep _or_ vertically; (milit.) to escarp; (fig.) to do for.

=escarpin=, _n.m._, pump (shoe). _Jouer de l’—_; to run away, to take to one’s heels, to bolt.

=escarpolette=, _n.f._, swing, see-saw. _Il a la tête à l’—_; he is a hare-brained fellow.

=escarre=, _n.f._, (med.) eschar; slough; ☉(fig.) gap.

=escaveçade=, _n.f._, (man.) jerk (with the cavesson).

=escient=, _n.m._, (l.u.) knowledge. _À son —_; to his knowledge, wittingly. _À bon —_; in good earnest; wittingly, knowingly.

=esclaire=, _n.m._, (hawking) bird of prey.

=esclandre=, _n.m._, fracas, uproar; scandal, exposure, scene. _Faire —_; to make a scene, to cause an uproar.

=esclavage=, _n.m._, slavery; bondage; thralldom; inthrallment; drudgery. _Réduire à l’—_; to enslave, to reduce to slavery.

=esclave=, _n.m.f._, slave; bondman; drudge. _Commandeur d’—s_; slave-driver. _Propriétaire d’—s_; slave-owner. _On est — dans cette maison_; one is a very drudge in that house (_i.e._ the work is endless in).

=esclave=, _adj._, slavish. _Avoir une âme —_; to have a slavish, base disposition.

=escobard=, _n.m._, equivocator, shuffler.

=escobarder=, _v.n._, to equivocate, to prevaricate, to shuffle.

=escobarderie=, _n.f._, prevarication, shuffling, subterfuge.

☉=escoffion=, _n.m._, cap, hair-net.

=escogriffe=, _n.m._, sharper, shark, sponger; tall, lank, ungainly fellow.

=escompte= (ès-cont), _n.m._, discount. _À —_; at a discount. _Faire l’—_; to discount.

=escompter= (ès-conté), _v.a._, to discount, to cash; (fig.) to anticipate, to forestall. _— un billet_, _un effet_; to cash a bill.

=escompteur= (ès-kon-teur), _n.m._, (com.) discounter.

=escope=, _n.f._ _V._ =écope=.

=escopette=, _n.f._, carbine.

=escopetterie=, _n.f._, volley of carbines, etc.

=escopettier=, _n.m._, rifleman.

=escorte=, _n.f._, escort; (nav.) convoy (fig.); retinue, train, attendants. _Servir d’— à_; to serve as an escort to, to guard. _Bâtiment d’—_; convoy-ship.

=escorter=, _v.n._, to escort; to accompany, to attend. _— la caisse militaire_; to escort the military chest.

=escot=, _n.m._, kind of serge; (nav.) skeet.

=escouade=, _n.f._, (milit.) squad; gang.

=escourgée=, _n.f._, scourge; lash; lashing.

=escourgeon= (-jon), _n.m._, winter-barley.

=escousse=, _n.f._, (l.u.) spring, run, start. _Prendre son —_; to take one’s spring.

=escrime=, _n.f._, fencing. _Salle d’—_; fencing-school. _Être hors d’—_; to be put off one’s guard; to be at one’s wits’ end.

=escrimer=, _v.n._, to fence; to spar; to have a trial of skill.

_s’_=escrimer=, _v.r._, to strive; to try; to dabble in; to have some knowledge of. _Il s’escrime toujours, mais rien n’y fait_; he keeps on pegging away, but nothing comes of it.

=escrimeur=, _n.m._, fencer.

=escroc= (ès-krô), _n.m._, sharper, swindler, blackleg.

=escroquer=, _v.a._, to swindle, to cheat.

=escroquerie= (ès-kro-krî), _n.f._, swindling, swindle, cheating.

=escroqueu-r=, _n.m._, =-se=, _n.f._, cheat, swindler.

=escubac=. _V._ =scubac=.

=esculape=, _n.m._, (_—s_) Æsculapius; (fam.) a clever physician.

=esculent=, =-e=, _adj._, (l.u.) edible, eatable, esculent.

=escurial=, _n.m._, Escurial.

=ésope=, _n.m._, (_—s_) Æsop; (fam.) hunchback. _C’est un —_; he is a hunchback.

=ésotérique=, _adj._, esoteric.

=espace=, _n.m._, space, room, place, volume. _—s imaginaires_; imaginary space. _Court — de temps_; short space of time.

=espace=, _n.f._, (print.) space.

=espacement= (ès-pas-mān), _n.m._, (arch.) interval, interspace, spread; (print.) spacing.

=espacer=, _v.a._, to leave a space between; to separate, to place apart; to plant at regular intervals; (print.) to space.

=espade=, _n.f._, tewing-beetle (for hemp).

=espader=, _v.a._, to tew hemp.

=espadeur=, _n.m._, hemp-beater.

=espadon=, _n.m._, espadon, broadsword; two-handed sword; (ich.) swordfish.

=espadonner=, _v.n._, to fight with the broadsword.

=espadot=, _n.m._, boat-hook.

=espadrille=, _n.f._, bathing shoe, sandal.

*=espagnol=, =-e=, _n._ and _adj._, Spaniard; Spanish. _La langue —e_; the Spanish tongue.

*=espagnol=, _n.m._, Spanish (language).

*=espagnolette=, _n.f._, baize; French window fastening.

=espalier=, _n.m._, (hort.) espalier; fruit-wall; (nav.) stroke-oar. _Venir en —_; to grow on an espalier.

=espalmer=, _v.a._, (nav.) to grave.

=esparcet=, _n.m._, =esparcette=, _n.f._, French honeysuckle; esparcet; sainfoin.

=espargoute=, _n.f._ _V._ =spergule=.

=espars=, _n.m.pl._, (nav.) spars.

=espèce=, _n.f._, species, kind, sort; nature; breed; case at issue, case in point, (jur.) case. _pl._, specie, ready money, hard cash; (theol.) element. _L’— humaine_; mankind. _Payer en —s_; to pay in cash. _—s sonnantes_; hard cash, cash down.

=espérance=, _n.f._, hope, confidence, trust, expectation. _Dans l’—_; in expectation. _Se nourrir d’—_; to feed on hope. _Vivre d’—_; to live on hope. _Répondre à ses —s_; to answer one’s expectations.

=espérer=, _v.a._, to hope, to hope for, to expect; to trust. _Il espère une meilleure fortune_; he hopes for a better fortune. _Je n’espère plus rien_; I have no further hopes.

=espérer=, _v.n._, to hope, to hope for, to be hopeful of; to put one’s trust in. _J’espère bien_; I hope so indeed. _En voilà une, j’espère_; that’s one, if you like.

=espiègle=, _n.m.f._ and _adj._, frolicsome child; frolicsome, waggish, arch, roguish.

=espièglerie=, _n.f._, frolic, roguish _or_ playful trick, waggishness.

=espingole=, _n.f._, blunderbuss.

=espion=, _n.m._, =-ne=, _n.f._, spy; (at races) touter.

=espionnage=, _n.m._, espionage; spy system, spying.

=espionner=, _v.a._, to spy, to pry into.

=esplanade=, _n.f._, esplanade, parade.

=espoir=, _n.m._, hope, expectance. _Avoir l’— de_; to be in hopes of. _Mettre son — dans_; to set one’s hopes on. _Sans —_; hopeless.

=espolin=, _n.m._ _V._ =époullin=.

=esponton=, _n.m._, spontoon, half-pike.

=espouleur=, _n.m._ _V._ =époulleur=.

=espoulin=, _n.f._ _V._ =époullin=.

=espringale=, _n.f._, springal (a kind of sling).