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ng to tapestry produced in the so-called Gobelin works, which have been maintained by the French Government since 1667.

A German title of nobility, equivalent to earl in English, or count in French. See Earl.

A kind of dynamo-electric machine; -- so named from its French inventor, M. Gramme. Knight.

(b) See Paris green (below). -- Gaignet's green (Chem.) a green pigment employed by the French artist, Adrian Gusgnet, and consisting essentially of a basic hydrate of chromium. -- Methyl green (Chem.), an artificial rosaniline dyestuff, obtained as a green substance having a brilliant yellow luster; -- called also…

A kind of French fancy dress goods. Knight.

A French girl or young married woman of the lower class; more frequently, a young working woman who is fond of gallantry. Sterne.

The name by which Jean Grolier de Servier (1479-1565), a French bibliophile, is commonly known; -- used in naming a certain style of binding, a design, etc.

2. General met an emissary . . . sent . . . to ascertain the feelings of the habitans or French yeomanry. W. Irwing.

An inhabitant or resident; -- a name applied to and denoting farmers of French descent or origin in Canada, especially in the Province of Quebec; -- usually in plural. The habitants or cultivators of the soil. Parkman.

Power; armed force. My lord, my lord, the French have gathered head. Shak.

e. (b) Improperly, certain views or principles erroneously ascribed to Father Hecker in a French translation of Elliott's Life of Hecker. They were condemned as "Americanism" by the Pope, in a letter to Cardinal Gibbons, January 22, 1899.

A celebrated French wine, both white and red, of the Department of Drôme.

oic or epic poetry, being in English, German, and Italian the iambic of ten syllables; in French the iambic of twelve syllables; and in classic poetry the hexameter.

er metal, resembling a horn in shape. "Wind his horn under the castle wall." Spenser. See French horn, under French.

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

An obscure sect of French Familists.

To stake; to wager; to pledge. [Obs.] Against the which he has imponed, as I take it, six French rapiers and poniards. Shak.

A French fop or dandy of the time of the Directory; hence, any fop.

Capable of being insured against loss, damage, death, etc.; proper to be insured. The French law annuls the latter policies so far as they exceed the insurable interest which remained in the insured at the time of the subscription thereof. Walsh.

A verb ending, originally appearing in certain verbs of French origin; as, abolish, cherish, finish, furnish, garnish, impoverish.