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A French lyceum, or secondary school supported by the French government, for preparing students for the university.

My lady; -- a French title formerly given to ladies of quality; now, in France, given to all married women. Chaucer.

A French title of courtesy given to a girl or an unmarried lady, equivalent to the English Miss. Goldsmith.

The philosophical system of Malebranche, an eminent French metaphysician. The fundamental doctrine of his system is that the mind can not have knowledge of anything external to itself except in its relation to God.

atus to the Bessemer process for decarbonizing cast iron. So called from Pierre Manhès, a French metallurgist, who invented it.

A French mastiff.

A high explosive similar to lyddite, consisting principally of picric acid, used in the French military service.

a morbid condition of the semicircular canals of the internal ear. Named after Ménière, a French physician.

The tenth month of the French republican calendar dating from September 22, 1792. It began June 19, and ended July 18. See VendÉmiaire.

Surrounded by the land; mediterranean. And on the midland sea the French had awed. Dryden.

A basic sulphate of iron; -- so named from Monsel, a Frenchman.

A Frenchman. [Contemptuous] Shak.

utions for training feeble-minded children, and dating back especially to the work of the French-American physician Edouard O. Seguin (1812- 80).

Applied to certain consonants having a "liquid" or softened sound; e.g., in French, l or ll and gn (like the lli in million and ni in minion); in Italian, gl and gn; in Spanish, ll and ñ; in Portuguese, lh and nh.

of great bulk. I should have been a mountain of mummy. Shak. The Mountain (La montagne) (French Hist.), a popular name given in 1793 to a party of extreme Jacobins in the National Convention, who occupied the highest rows of seats.

A musketeer, esp. one of the French royal musketeers of the 17th and 18th centuries, conspicuous both for their daring and their fine dress.

is the mullet of the Romans. It is noted for the brilliancy of its colors. See Surmullet. French mullet. See Ladyfish (a).

A French gold coin of twenty francs, or about $3.86.

lived near the site of the city of Natchez, Mississippi. In 1729 they were subdued by the French; the survivors joined the Creek Confederacy.

tional guard, a body of militia, or a local military organization, as in Paris during the French Revolution, or as certain bodies of militia in other European countries and in the United States. -- National salute, a salute consisting of as many guns as there are States in the Union. [U.S.]