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; public or private enemy; unfriendliness; animosity. Hostility being thus suspended with France. Hayward.

horizontally or vertically in a mortise cut completely through the jacket. It is made in France.

In France, the mansion or town residence of a person of rank or wealth.

A French Protestant of the period of the religious wars in France in the 16th century.

The religion of the Huguenots in France.

ven's plagues Have humbled to all strokes. Shak. The genius which humbled six marshals of France. Macaulay.

worms, or larvæ of caddice flies (Phryganea). It is found in Miocene strata of Auvergne, France, and some other localities.

o nominate; to appoint. [Obs.] We institute your Grace To be our regent in these parts of France. Shak.

Gognizant; aware; communicate. [Obs.] Intelligent of seasons. Milton. Which are to France the spies and speculations Intelligent of our state. Shak.

One of a society of violent agitators in France, during the revolution of 1789, who held secret meetings in the Jacobin convent in the Rue St. Jacques, Paris, and concerted measures to control the proceedings of the National Assembly. Hence: A plotter against an existing government; a turbulent demagogue.…

Of or pertaining to the Jacobins of France; revolutionary; of the nature of, or characterized by, Jacobinism. Burke. -- Jac`o*bin"ic*al*ly, adv.

To taint with, or convert to, Jacobinism. France was not then jacobinized. Burke.

ardy, deep crimson rose of the remontant class; -- so named after General Jacqueminot, of France.

To deceive by trick or artifice. Is't possible the spells of France should juggle Men into such strange mysteries Shak.

1. A range of mountains between France and Switzerland.

us keta) of inferior value, which in the autumn runs up all the larger rivers between San Francisco and Kamchatka.

To fasten or secure firmly; to fasten or tighten with keys or wedges. Francis. To key up. (a) (Arch.) To raise (the whole ring of an arch) off its centering, by driving in the keystone forcibly. (b) (Mus.) To raise the pitch of. (c) Hence, fig., to produce nervous tension in.

son. Alencon lace, a kind of point lace, entirely of needlework, first made at Alencon in France, in the 17th century. It is very durable and of great beauty and cost. -- Bone lace, Brussels lace, etc. See under Bone, Brussels, etc. -- Gold lace, or Silver lace, lace having warp threads of silk, or silk and cotton, a…

A German nobleman of a rank corresponding to that of an earl in England and of a count in France.

n foreign service in the 15th and 16th centuries; a soldier of fortune; -- a term used in France and Western Europe.