Part 73

=farce=, _n.f._, (cook.) stuffing, forced meat; farce (thea.); drollery; tomfoolery; practical joke; waggish trick, prank. _Tirez le rideau, la — est jouée_; let down the curtain, the farce is ended. _Faire une — à quelqu’un_; to play any one a trick. _Faire ses —s_; to sow one’s wild oats.

=farceur=, _n.m._, farce player; droll person; dog (pers.), rogue, practical joker; humbug. _Faire le —_; to play the fool.

=farci=, =-e=, _adj._, _part._, stuffed; crammed, filled with.

=farcin=, _n.m._, (vet.) farcin, farcy.

=farcineu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, affected with farcy.

=farcir=, _v.a._, to stuff, to cram, to fill.

_se_ =farcir=, _v.r._, to stuff, to cram, to be filled.

=farcissure=, _n.f._, (cook.) stuffing.

=fard=, _n.m._, paint, rouge; varnish; disguise, dissimulation. _Parlez-moi sans —_; speak to me without disguise. _Se mettre du — à la figure_; to paint, to rouge one’s face. _Sans —_; plainly, frankly.

=fardage=, _n.m._, (nav.) dunnage.

=fardé=, =-e=, _part._, painted.

=fardeau=, _n.m._, burden, load, weight; mash (for brewing); mass (mining). _Imposer un — à quelqu’un_; to put a burden upon any one. _S’imposer un —_; to take a burden upon one’s self.

=farder=, _v.a._, to paint (the face); (fig.) to varnish, to gloss over.

_se_ =farder=, _v.r._, to paint one’s face, to paint.

=farder=, _v.n._, to sink, to give way; (nav.) to swell out (of sails). _Ce mur commence à —_; this wall is beginning to sink.

=fardier=, _n.m._, truck, trolley; dray (for stones).

=farfadet=, _n.m._, goblin, elf; (fig.) trifler.

*=farfouiller=, _v.a._ and _n._, to rummage.

=faribole=, _n.f._, idle story, trifle.

=farinacé=, =-e=, _adj._, farinaceous.

=farine=, _n.f._, flour, meal; farina. _Fleur de —_; flour. _Folle —_; mill-dust. _Marchand de —_; flour-dealer. _Gens de même —_; birds of a feather. _Donner dans la —_; (paint.) to paint in a wishy-washy manner. _D’un sac à charbon il ne saurait sortir de blanche —_; (prov.) what can you expect from a pig but a grunt? _or_ you can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear.

=fariner=, _v.a._, to flour, to meal.

=farinet=, _n.m._, one-faced die.

=farineu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, white with flour; mealy, farinaceous.

=farinier=, _n.m._, flour-dealer.

=farinière=, _n.f._, meal-tub, flour-bin.

=farlouse=, _n.f._, (orni.) titlark, titling.

=far-niente=, _n.m._, (_n.p._) far-niente, doing nothing, pleasant idleness, repose.

=faro=, _n.m._, faro (Belgian beer).

=farouch= _or_ =farouche=, _n.m._, (agri.) clover, clover grass.

=farouche=, _adj._, wild; fierce; sullen; unsociable; shy. _Regard —_; fierce look. _Cette femme est bien —_; that woman is very shy.

=farrago=, _n.m._, farrago.

=fasce=, _n.f._, (her.) fesse.

=fascé=, =-e=, _adj._, (her.) fessy.

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

=fasciculaire=, _adj._, (bot.) fascicular.

=fascicule=, _n.m._, (bot.) fascicle, small bundle (of plants, herbs); part (number of a work).

=fasciculé=, =-e=, _adj._, (bot.) fasciculate, fasciculated.

=fascié=, =-e=, _adj._, fasciated.

=fascinage=, _n.m._, (fort.) fascine work; the making of fascines.

=fascinat-eur=, =-rice=, _adj._, fascinating.

=fascination=, _n.f._, fascination.

=fascine=, _n.f._, (fort.) fascine; fagot, hurdle, bavin.

=fasciner=, _v.a._, to fascinate.

=faséole=, _n.f._, phasel, kidney-bean.

=fashion=, _n.f._, fashion; fashionable world.

=fashionable=, _n.m.f._ and _adj._, fashionable; beau, belle; swell.

=fasier=, _v.n._, (nav.) (of sails) to shiver. _Mettre à —_; (nav.) to spill.

=faste=, _n.m._, (_n.p._) pomp, ostentation, display, vain show, pageantry.

=fastes=, _n.m.pl._, fasti, annals; records.

=fastidieusement= (-eûz-mān), _adv._, tediously, irksomely.

=fastidieu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, irksome, tedious, wearisome, tiresome, dull.

=fastigié=, =-e=, _adj._, fastigiate, fastigiated.

=fastueusement= (-eûz-mān), _adv._, magnificently, ostentatiously, pompously, splendidly, gorgeously.

=fastueu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, ostentatious, pompous, gorgeous, showy; sumptuous; stately.

=fat= (fat), _n._ and _adj._ _m._, fop, coxcomb; foppish. _En —_; foppishly. _C’est un —_; he is a coxcomb.

=fatal=, =-e=, _adj._, fatal; inevitable. _Terme —_; (jur.) expiration of a delay. _Ces remèdes ont été —s au malade_; those remedies proved fatal to the patient.

=fatalement= (fa-tal-mān), _adv._, fatally; inevitably.

=fatalisme=, _n.m._, fatalism.

=fataliste=, _n.m.f._, fatalist.

=fatalité=, _n.f._, fatality.

=fatidique=, _adj._, fatidical.

=fatigant=, =-e=, _adj._, fatiguing, toilsome, irksome, wearisome, tiresome, tedious.

=fatigue=, _n.f._, fatigue, toil, hardship, weariness. _Excéder de —_; to wear out with fatigue, to tire out. _Un homme de —_; a man capable of resisting fatigue. _Supporter la —_; to stand fatigue. _Rompre à la —_; to accustom to fatigue. _Tomber de —_; to be worn out with fatigue.

=fatigué=, =-e=, _part._, fatigued, jaded; (paint.) overworked. _Des chevaux —s_; jaded horses.

=fatiguer= (-ghé), _v.a._, to fatigue, to tire, to weary, to harass, to tease; (paint.) to overwork. _La lecture fatigue la vue_; reading fatigues the sight. _— un champ_; to impoverish a field. _— une salade_; to mix a salad.

_se_ =fatiguer=, _v.r._, to fatigue one’s self; to tire one’s self out; to be jaded; to tire.

=fatiguer=, _v.n._, to tire; to be fatiguing; (nav.) to work. _— à l’ancre_; (nav.) to ride hard. _Ne pas — à l’ancre_; (nav.) to ride easy. _Ne pas — à cheval_; (man.) to ride easy.

=fatras=, _n.m._, rubbish, trash, stuff, medley, litter, confusion; balderdash.

=fatrassier=, _n.m._, untidy person.

=fatuité=, _n.f._, fatuity, self-conceit, foppishness. _Quelle —!_ what a piece of impertinence!

=faubert=, _n.m._, (nav.) swab, mop.

=fauberter=, _v.a._, (nav.) to swab, to mop.

=fauberteur=, _n.m._, (nav.) swabber.

=faubourg= (fô-boor), _n.m._, outskirt, suburb, slums. _Le — Saint-Germain ne l’entendait pas ainsi_; the old French aristocracy did not see it in that light.

=faubourien=, =-ne= (-iin, -è-n), _adj._, suburban; low.

=faubourien=, _n.m._, dweller in a suburb.

=fauchage=, _n.m._, mowing.

=fauchaison=, _n.f._, mowing-time.

=fauchard=, _n.m._, sickle.

=fauche=, _n.f._, mowing; mowing-time.

=fauchée=, _n.f._, day’s mowing.

=faucher=, _v.a._, to reap, to mow, to cut down.

=faucher=, _v.n._, (man.) to throw the fore-legs sideways in walking (of a horse).

=fauchet=, _n.m._, hay-rake.

=fauchette=, _n.f._, (gard.) small hedge-knife, border-shears.

=faucheur=, _n.m._, mower, reaper; field-spider.

=faucheur= _or_ =faucheux=, _n.m._, field-spider.

*=faucille=, _n.f._, sickle, reaping-hook.

=faucillon=, _n.m._, bill-hook.

=faucon=, _n.m._, (orni.) falcon; hawk.

=fauconneau=, _n.m._, ☉(artil.) falconet; (orni.) young hawk.

=fauconnerie= (fô-co-n-rî), _n.f._, falconry, hawking.

=fauconnier=, _n.m._, falconer. _Monter à cheval en —_; to mount a horse on the off-side.

=fauconnière=, _n.f._, hawking-pouch, saddle-bag.

=faufiler=, _v.a._, to tack, to baste (needlework).

_se_ =faufiler=, _v.r._, to insinuate one’s self, to ingratiate one’s self; to intrude one’s self; to curry favor with. _Il se faufile partout_; he intrudes himself everywhere.

=faulx=, _n.f._ _V._ =faux=.

=faune=, _n.m._, (myth.) faun.

=faune=, _n.f._, (zoöl.) fauna.

=faussaire=, _n.m.f._, forger. _Poursuivre comme —_; to prosecute for forgery.

=faussement= (fôs-mān), _adv._, falsely, erroneously, wrongfully, untruly.

=fausser=, _v.a._, to bend; to warp; to strain; to falsify; to pervert; to violate, to break; (mus.) to put out of tune; to strain (a lock, a key). _— une cuirasse_; to indent a cuirass. _— sa parole_; to violate one’s word. _— compagnie à quelqu’un_; to give any one the slip.

_se_ =fausser=, _v.r._, to bend; to be warped _or_ perverted.

=fausset=, _n.m._, spigot, peg; (mus.) falsetto. _Chanter en —_; to sing in falsetto. _Trou de —_; vent-hole.

=fausseté= (fôs-té), _n.f._, falsity, falseness, falsehood, duplicity, insincerity, deceitfulness, treachery.

=faute=, _n.f._, fault, mistake, error; want, scarcity, dearth. _A — de_; (jur.) in default of. _Faire une —_; to make a mistake. _Ne pas se faire — de_; not to be sparing of; to deny one’s self nothing. _Relever une —_; to point out a mistake. _Surprendre quelqu’un en —_; to find any one at fault. _À qui la —?_ whose fault is it? _— de_; for want of. _— d’orthographe_; wrong spelling. _— d’inattention_; slip. _— d’impression_; misprint. _Ne vous en faites pas —_; do not spare it. _Il est mort — de secours_; he died for want of help. _Sans —_; without fail. _— de mieux_; for want of something better. _Rien ne vous fera —_; you will want for nothing.

*=fauteuil=, _n.m._, arm-chair; chair (speaker’s, president’s seat); academic chair (of the French Academy). _— à la Voltaire_; reclining arm-chair. _Occuper le —_; to fill the chair.

=faut-eur=, _n.m._, =-rice=, _n.f._, abettor, favorer, fomentor. _Être — de_; to abet. _Les —s d’un crime_; the abettors of a crime.

=fauti-f=, =-ve=, _adj._, faulty; at fault; defective, incorrect.

=fauve=, _adj._, fawn-colored, tawny. _Bêtes —s_; fallow-deer, stag, etc.; wild beasts.

=fauve=, _n.m.sing._, (hunt.) deer, fallow-deer. _Chasser le —_; to hunt wild animals.

=fauveau=, _n.m._, fawn-colored ox.

=fauvette=, _n.f._, (orni.) warbler. _Petite —_; garden-warbler, redwing. _— babillarde_; white-throat. _— à tête noire_; blackcap.

=faux= (fô), _n.f._, scythe; (anat.) falx.

=fau-x=, =-sse=, _adj._, false, untrue, erroneous, wrong; spurious; unsound; base, counterfeit; artificial, imitation; fictitious, mock, sham, pretended; insincere, double, treacherous, deceitful; (mus.) out of tune; forged. _Acte —_; (jur.) forgery. _— témoin_; false witness. _Chose —sse_; untruth. _—sse doctrine_; erroneous doctrine. _—sse monnaie_; counterfeit money. _— brave_; braggadocio, swaggerer. _—sse démarche_; wrong step. _Voix —sse_; voice out of tune. _— brillant_; tinsel. _—sse équerre_; bevel. _—sse fenêtre_; blank or sham window. _— comme un jeton_; false as Judas. _Faire — bond_; not to keep an engagement. _Faire —sse route_; to take the wrong road; to be on the wrong track. _Faire un — pas_; to stumble; (fig.) to make a slip.

=faux=, _n.m._, falsehood, forgery; false. _Discerner le vrai d’avec le —_; to discern truth from falsehood. _Crime de —_; crime of forgery. _Un —_; a forgery. _Commettre un —_; to commit a forgery. _Poursuivre pour —_; to prosecute for forgery. _Arguer de —_; to accuse, to tax, as false. _S’inscrire en — contre une chose_; to deny the truth of an assertion.

=faux=, _adv._, erroneously, falsely, wrongfully; (mus.) out of tune. _Il chante —_; he sings out of tune. _À —_; falsely, unjustly. _Être accusé à —_; to be accused unjustly. _Porter à —_; (arch.) to be out of perpendicular, not to be upright. _Cette poutre porte à —_; that post is out of the perpendicular.

=faux-fuyant=, _n.m._, (_—-—s_) by-place; subterfuge, evasion, creep-hole.

=favelotte=, _n.f._, horse-bean.

=faveur=, _n.f._, favor, boon; interest; vogue; grace; ribbon. _À la — de_; by favor of, under cover of. _En — de_; in behalf of, in favor of. _Être en —_; to be in favor, in vogue. _Prendre —_; to get _or_ come into favor, into vogue. _Mettre en —_; to bring into favor, into vogue.

=favonette=, _n.f._, everlasting pea.

=favorable=, _adj._, favorable, propitious; fair. _Le ciel vous soit —!_ heaven befriend you!

=favorablement=, _adv._, favorably, propitiously.

=favori=, =-te=, _n._ and _adj._, favorite.

=favori=, _n.m._, whisker.

=favoriser=, _v.a._, to favor, to befriend, to countenance; to aid, to assist; to endow; to protect; to promote, to further, to facilitate.

=favoritisme=, _n.m._, favoritism.

=fayard= (fa-iar), _n.m._, (bot.) (pop.) beech.

=fayence=, etc. _V._ =faïence=, etc.

☉=féage=, _n.m._, feoffment.

☉=féal=, =-e=, _adj._, trusty, faithful.

☉=féal=, _n.m._, trusty, faithful friend. _À nos amis et féaux_; to our trusty and well-beloved friends.

☉=féauté=, _n.f._, fealty.

=fébricitant=, =-e=, _n._ and _adj._, (med.) feverish; fever-patient.

=fébrifuge=, _n.m._ and _adj._, antifebrile.

=fébrile=, _adj._, febrile, feverish.

=fécal=, =-e=, _adj._, fecal. _Matière —_; feces, excrement.

=fèces=, _n.f.pl._, (pharm.) sediment; (med.) feces.

=fécial=, _n.m._ and _adj._, (Rom. antiq.) fecial.

=fécond=, =-e=, _adj._, fecund, fruitful, prolific; copious, abundant, fertile, rich, teeming, voluminous. _Mine —e_; rich mine. _Avoir l’esprit —_; to have a fertile imagination. _Être — en_; to teem with.

=fécondant=, =-e=, _adj._, fertilizing, genial.

=fécondation=, _n.f._, fecundation, impregnation; fructification; fertilization.

=féconder=, _v.a._, to fecundate, to impregnate; to make fruitful, to fertilize.

=fécondité=, _n.f._, fecundity, fruitfulness, fertility.

=fécule=, _n.f._, fecula.

=féculence=, _n.f._, feculency.

=féculent=, =-e=, _adj._, feculent.

=féculerie=, _n.f._, manufactory of fecula.

=fédéral=, =-e=, _adj._, federal.

=fédéraliser=, _v.a._, (neologism) to make federate. _Se —_, _v.r._, to federalize.

=fédéralisme=, _n.m._, federalism.

=fédéraliste=, _n.m._, federalist.

=fédérati-f=, =-ve=, _adj._, federate, federative. _Alliance —ve_; federative alliance.

=fédération=, _n.f._, federation, alliance.

=fédéré=, =-e=, _n._ and _adj._, federate, ally.

_se_ =fédérer=, _v.r._, to federate; to combine; to band together; to take united action.

=fée=, _n.f._, fairy; fay. _Comme une —_; fairy-like. _C’est la — Carabosse_; she’s an old hag.

=féerie=, _n.f._, fairy scene, enchantment; fairy-land.

=féerique=, _adj._, fairy-like; enchanting, wonderful, marvelous, magical.

=feindre= (feignant, feint), _v.a._, to feign, to dissemble, to disguise, to pretend, to imagine, to sham. _— une maladie_; to sham illness.

=feindre=, _v.n._, to feign, to sham. _Il possède l’art de —_; he is an adept in the art of dissembling.

=feint=, =-e=, _part._, feigned, make-believe, pretended, sham. _Amitié —e_; pretended friendship.

=feinte=, _n.f._, feint; pretense, dissimulation; artifice; invention; (mus.) accidental; (print.) friar; (pisc.) shad. _User de —_; to dissemble. _Il fit une —_; (fenc.) he made a feint. _Sans —_; frankly.

=feintier=, _n.m._, shad-net.

☉=feintise=, _n.f._, feint, pretense, sham.

=feld-maréchal=, _n.m._, field-marshal.

=feldspath=, _n.m._, (min.) feldspar, feldspath.

=feldspathique=, _adj._, (min.) feldspathic.

=fêlé=, =-e=, _part._, cracked (of glass); (pers.) crack-brained; delicate (of the chest). _C’est un cerveau —_; he is a hare-brained fellow. _Les pots —s sont ceux qui durent le plus_; threatened men live longest.

=fêler=, _v.a._, to crack (glass).

_se_ =fêler=, _v.r._, to crack _or_ get cracked (of glass).

=félicitation=, _n.f._, felicitation, congratulation. _Lettre de —_; letter of congratulation.

=félicité=, _n.f._, felicity, bliss, happiness.

=féliciter=, _v.a._, to congratulate, to felicitate, to wish joy.

_se_ =féliciter=, _v.r._, to congratulate one’s self, to be pleased _or_ satisfied.

=félin=, =-e=, _adj._, feline.

=fellah=, _n.m._, (_—s_) fellah (Egyptian peasant).

=félon=, =-ne=, _n._ and _adj._, (l.u.) traitor; felon; felonious.

=félonie=, _n.f._, (feudalism) felony, disloyalty, treason.

=felouque=, _n.f._, (nav.) felucca (boat).

=fêlure=, _n.f._, crack, chink, fissure.

=femelle=, _n.f._ and _adj._, female; she, hen. [Applied _only_ to animals except in a bad sense.] (pers.) loose woman, creature.

=féminin=, =-e=, _adj._, feminine, female, womanish, woman-like, effeminate. _Genre —_; feminine gender. _Sexe —e_; female sex.

=féminin=, _n.m._, (gram.) feminine.

=féminiser=, _v.a._, (gram.) to make feminine, to render effeminate.

=femme= (famme), _n.f._, woman; wife, married woman, attendant; lady. _Une — auteur_; an authoress. _Mari et —_; man and wife. _Une — sage_; a well-conducted woman. _Une sage-—_; a midwife. _— de chambre_; waiting-woman, lady’s maid. _— de charge_; housekeeper. _— de journée_, _— de ménage_; char-woman. _— en puissance de mari_ or _— couverte_; (jur.) feme-covert. _Avoir —_; to have a wife. _Avoir — et enfants_; to have a wife and children. _Prendre —_; to take a wife. _Bonne —_; good, obliging woman; old woman; simple, superstitious woman.

=femmelette= (fa-mlèt), _n.f._, silly, weak woman; effeminate man.

=fémoral=, =-e=, _adj._, (anat.) femoral.

=fémur=, _n.m._, (anat.) femur, thigh-bone; (vet.) hurl-bone. _Tête du —_; head _or_ apophysis of the femur.

=fenaison=, _n.f._, hay-time, hay-harvest; hay-making.

=fendage=, _n.m._, splitting, cleaving.

=fendant=, _n.m._, hector, bully. _Faire le —_; to play the bully.

=fenderie= (fan-drî), _n.f._, slitting (of iron into rods); slitting-mill.

=fendeur=, _n.m._, cleaver, slitter, splitter. _— de roues_; wheel-cutter.

*_se_ fendiller, _v.r._, to slit; to chink; to crack.

=fendoir=, _n.m._, cleaver; chopper.

=fendre=, _v.a._, to cleave, to split, to rive, to crack, to cut open, to rend, to rip; to break; to burst. _— du bois_; to cleave wood. _Un navire qui fend l’eau_; a ship that plows the sea. _— les airs_; to cleave the air. _— la presse_; to break through the crowd.

_se_ =fendre=, _v.r._, to cleave, to burst asunder, to split, to slit; to chap, to chink, to rive, to gape; (fenc.) to lunge.

=fendre=, _v.n._, to be ready to split; to break, to burst. _La tête me fend_; my head is ready to split.

=fendu=, =-e=, _part._, cleft, split, cloven. _Bien —_; long-legged. _Des yeux bien —s_; large, well-shaped eyes.

=fêne=, _n.f._ _V._ =faîne=.

=fenestré=, =-e=, _adj._ _V._ =fenêtré=.

=fenêtrage=, _n.m._, fenestration, windows, lights.

=fenêtre=, _n.f._, window, casement; (anat.) aperture. _— à châssis_; sash-window. _— en baie_, _en saillie_; bay, bow, window; (Gothic arch.) oriel-window, oriel. _— à coulisse_, _en guillotine_; sash-window. _— en éventail_; fan-light. _— en ogive_; (arch.) Gothic window. _Condamner une —_; to block up a window. _Fausse —_; sham _or_ blind window. _Regarder par la —_; to look out of the window. _Jeter par la —_; to throw out of the window, to be a spendthrift, to squander one’s money.

=fenêtré=, =-e=, _adj._, windowed; fenestrated.

*=fenil=, _n.m._, hayloft.

*=fenouil=, _n.m._, fennel; fennel-seed. _— puant_; anet. _— de mer_; sea-samphire. _— de porc_; sulphur-wort, hog’s-fennel.

*=fenouillet=, _n.m._, (bot.) fennel-apple.

*=fenouillette=, _n.f._, fennel-apple; fennel-water.

=fente=, _n.f._, slit, chink, cleft, chap, flaw; gap, cranny, crevice; (min.) rent; cleavage; (nav.) spring; (dress) placket hole.

=fenton=, _n.m._, iron-cramp, iron-tie.

=fenugrec=, _n.m._, (bot.) fenugreek.

=féodal=, =-e=, _adj._, feudal.

=féodalement=, _adv._, feudally.

=féodalité=, _n.f._, feudality, feudalism.

=fer= (fèr), _n.m._, iron; head, point; sword, brand, steel; tag; (nav.) spindle (of vanes). _pl._, iron-work; irons, chains, fetters. _— battu_; wrought-iron. _— fondu_; cast-iron. _— impur_; iron-ore. _— doux_; soft iron. _— aigre_; brittle iron. _— laminé_; rolled iron. _— oligiste_, _spéculaire_; (min.) iron-glance. _— rouverin_; red-scar iron. _— de carillon_; bar-iron. _Le — d’une pique_; the head of a pike. _— de lacet_, _— d’aiguillette_; tag of a lace. _Le — et le feu_; fire and sword. _— en barres_; bar-iron. _— à cheval_; horse-shoe; (fort.) horse-shoe; (man.) horse-shoe bat. _— à marquer_; marking-iron. _— dur_; hard iron. _— à cheval cramponné_, _— à cheval relevé_; horse-shoe with calkins. _— de fenderie_; slit iron. _— de fonte_; cast iron. _— à glace_; frost shoe. _— de lance_; (arch.) stanchion. _— à repasser_; iron, box-iron, flat-iron. _— à souder_; soldering-iron. _Bande_, _pièce_, _de —_; (tech.) strap. _Bois de —_; iron-wood. _Fil de —_; wire, iron-wire. _Fonte de —_; cast iron. _Limaille de —_; iron dust, iron filings. _Marchand de —_; dealer in iron, ironmonger. _Mine de —_; (min.) iron-ore. _Minerai de —_; iron-ore; iron-stone. _Ouvrage en —_; iron-work. _Scorie de —_; iron-dross. _Usine de —_; iron-works. _À tête de —_; strong-headed, resolute, determined. _— d’arc-boutant_; (nav.) goose-neck of a boom. _— de gaffe_; (nav.) boat-hook. _— à calfat_, _— de calfat_; calker’s iron, calking-iron. _Petits —s_; punches (book-bind.). _Avoir toujours quelque — qui cloche_; to have always some screw loose. _Il y a quelque — qui cloche_; there’s a hitch somewhere. _Battre le —_; to fence, to tilt. _Battre le — pendant qu’il est chaud_; to strike the iron while it is hot, to make hay while the sun shines. _Être aux —s_, _être dans les —s_; to be fettered, bound, to be in chains; to be in prison, in captivity. _Être condamné à cinq ans de —s_; (milit.) to be condemned to five years’ imprisonment. _Employer le — et le feu_; to use the knife and cautery; to employ violent means. _Être un corps de —_; to be made of iron. _Mettre les —s au feu_; to put the irons into the fire, to fall to work. _Porter le — et la flamme dans_; to ravage with fire and sword. _Tomber les quatre —s en l’air_; to fall upon one’s back, to be struck all of a heap. _Ne tenir ni à — ni à clou_; to be badly fastened, badly arranged. _Cela ne vaut pas les quatre —s d’un chien_; that is not worth a fig, a straw, a rap. _Cet enfant userait du —_; that child would wear out nails. _Être sur le —_; (nav.) to be at anchor. _Notre navire était depuis trois jours sur le —_; our ship had been lying at anchor for three days.

=fer= (cheptel de), _n.m._ _V._ =cheptel=.

=fer-blanc=, _n.m._, (_—s-—s_) tin, tin-plate, latten.

=ferblanterie=, _n.f._, tin-ware.

=ferblantier= (-tié), _n.m._, tinman.

=fer-chaud=, _n.m._, (_n.p._) (med.) cardialgia, heartburn, pyrosis.

=féret=, _n.m._, (min.) hematite.

=férial=, =-e=, _adj._, (ecc.) ferial (of the days).

=férie=, _n.f._, day of rest, holiday; (antiq.) (_pl._) feriæ; (ecc.) feria.

=férié=, =-e=, _adj._, of holidays. _Jour —_; holiday, general holiday.

☉=férir=, _v.a._, to strike. _Sans coup —_; without striking a blow [only _now_ used in this expression].

=ferlage=, _n.m._, (nav.) furling.

=ferler=, _v.a._, (nav.) to furl.

=fermage=, _n.m._, rent (of a farm); farming, leasing; rent; (jur.) rent-charge. _Refus de payer le —_; denial of rent.

=fermant=, =-e=, _adj._, closing (with lock and key).

=ferme=, _n.f._, farm, farm-house, homestead; farming; letting out on lease. _— école_; agricultural college; (carp.) trussed girder; main couple; truss; (carp.) rib (of centerings, roofs); (thea.) set-piece. _— triangulaire_; (carp.) truss. _Emplacement de —_; farmstead. _Régisseur de —_; farm-bailiff. _Maîtresses —s_; (carp.) principal rafters bearing on the girders. _—s de remplage_; (carp.) middle rafters. _Prendre à —_; to farm. _Donner_, _bailler_, _à —_; to let, to farm, to farm out. _Monter une —_; to stock a farm. _Bail à —_; lease of ground.

=ferme=, _adj._, firm, steady, fast; fixed, steadfast; strong, stout; stiff; unshaken, constant, resolute. _Être — à cheval_; to sit firm in the saddle. _D’un ton —_; in a decided tone. _Avoir le poignet —_; to have a strong wrist.

=ferme=, _adv._, firmly, fast, hard. _Frapper —_; to strike hard. _Tenir —_; to hold fast.

=ferme!= _int._, cheer up! courage! go it!

=fermement=, _adv._, firmly, steadily, fixedly, steadfastly, strongly, stoutly.

=ferment=, _n.m._, ferment; leaven; yeast.

=fermentable=, _adj._, fermentable.

=fermentati-f=, =-ve=, _adj._, fermentative.

=fermentation=, _n.f._, fermentation, working; (fig.) ferment.

=fermenter=, _v.a._, to ferment, to rise, to work. _La pâte fermente_; the dough is rising.

=fermentescible=, _adj._, fermentable.