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A boy; fellow; esp., a serving boy or man; a waiter; -- in Eng. chiefly applied to French waiters.

The seventh month of the French republican calendar [1792 -- 1806]. It began March 21 and ended April 19. See VendÉmiaire.

The Marxian socialism and programme of reform through revolution as advocated by the French political leader Jules Basile Guesde (pron. ged) (1845- ). -- Guesd"ist (#), n. & a.

A member of the moderate republican party formed in the French legislative assembly in 1791. The Girondists were so called because their leaders were deputies from the department of La Gironde.

en, rapid cast of the eye; to snatch a momentary or hasty view. The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven. Shak.

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.

dra Rodioei, that of Martinique is the Colubrina ferruginosa. -- Green iron ore (Min.) dufrenite. -- Green laver (Bot.), an edible seaweed (Ulva latissima); -- called also green sloke. -- Green lead ore (Min.), pyromorphite. -- Green linnet (Zoöl.), the greenfinch. -- Green looper (Zoöl.), the cankerworm. -- Gree…

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.