Barboter, to dabble, paddle Barioler, to make a medley or mixture of

Battre la semelle, to warm one's feet (by striking the soles against each other) Bifurqué, forked

Bigarrer, to intersperse, make a medley of

Bise, north wind

Boiserie, wainscoting

Bonnet-à-poil, bearskin

Bosselé, bruised, embossed

Bouffi, puffed up

Bourbeux, miry, muddy
Bourrasque, a sudden squall
Bourrelet, pad
Braise, wood-cinders

Bretelle, strap, brace-band

Bretelles en tricot à damier, straps
knitted in a checked pattern
Brimborions, baubles, knicknacks
Broncher, to stumble

Brouhaha, uproar, hubbub
Broussailles, brushwood
Bruire, to rustle, roar, rattle
Bûche, blockhead, log of wood
Buraliste, office-keeper

Cabotin, strolling player
Cabriole, caper, leap
Cahot, a jolting or jolt
Cantonnier, road-labourer
Carcasse, skeleton
Carène, keel

Carrefour, cross-road

Cauchemar, nightmare

Cauteleux, crafty, cunning

Chandeleur, Candlemas

Doyen, the oldest member (of a family)

Dresser, (in law) to draw up a report
Drôle, rogue, scoundrel

S'Écailler, to chip off, peel, &c.
Ecarquillé, open-eyed

Echancrure, a sloping or hollowing Echelon, stepping-stone, round of a ladder

Écran, fire-screen

Ecrou, entry in a gaol-book Egout, fall of running waters, or projecting arch

Éminemment, eminently, in a high, an eminent degree

Emmagasiner, to place in a warehouse

Emmaillotter, to swaddle
Émousser, to blunt

Enclouer, to spike (guns). S'enclouer, (of horses) to tread on a nail

En museau, muzzled
Enroué, hoarse

S'Entrechoquer, to interfere, clash, to strike against each other Envergure, spread of the wings, extended (birds)

S'Eparpiller, to scatter, disperse
Épopée, heroic poem

Escabeau, stool

Escarcelle, purse

Escargot, winding staircase

Escarpolette, swing

Escroqué, swindled, cheated

Essieu, axle-tree, axle
Essor, play, scope, survey
Étain, pewter

Etape, halting-place (for baiting)

Etriqué, scanty, curtailed

Fermoir, clasp

Fétu, thing of little value Feutre, old hat, a packing Fileuse, spinster

Foisonner, to abound, increase
Fouetter, to horsewhip, flog
Fougue, heat, impetuosity, passion
Fraiser, to plait

Franc étrier (A), at full speed
Frôlement, rustling
Fronde, sling

Frondeur, fault-finder

Futaie, forest

Gabier, (naval) top-man
Gâchette, tumbler

Galonner, to lace with gold, &c.
Gamme, scale
Gerçure, cleft, crack
Giboulé, showered
Gilet, waistcoat, vest

Glands, fruit of a chestnut-tree
Goulotte, gullet
Grabat, truckle-bed
Gréement, rigging
Greffer, to graft

Grelotter, to quake, shiver
Grève, strand
Guenilles, rags, tatters
Gueux, beggar, scoundrel
Guichet, wicket, grating
Guichetier, turnkey
Guimbarde, Jew's harp
Guindé, hoisted, raised
Se Guinder, to be strained

Hallier en hallier, from hedge to hedge

Hangar, shed

Nabot, dwarf

Nanti, provided, stocked
Navrer, to wound
Nénufar, water-lily
Nez camard, snub-nose
Niais, simple, silly, foolish

Orfévre, goldsmith, silversmith

Paginer, to page, folio (books)
Palier, landing-place
Palonnier, swing-bar (of a car-
riage)

Pansement, grooming, dressing (of a horse)

Paratonnerre, lightning-conductor
Parquer, to pen up (cattle), to lodge
Patache, (naval) patache
Paysagiste, landscape-painter
Pécore, stupid person
Perler, to bead

Péripétie, catastrophe, event
Pétiller, to crackle
Phthisique, consumptive
Piailler, to bawl, squall out
Piaulement, whining
Picoter, to torment, tease
Pignons, gable-ends

Pilier d'estaminet, pillar of a smoking-room

Pinçon, mark in the skin where one has been pinched

Piqueur, outrider

Pivert, wood-pecker