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Unknown. [Obs.] "French of Paris was to her unknow." Chaucer.

having originally the sound of oo as in room, becoming before the 4th century b. c. that French u or Ger. ü. Its equivalent in English is u or y.

To use; to exercise; to inure; to accustom by practice. [Obs.] The French soldiers . . . from their youth have been practiced and ured in feats of arms. Sir T. More.

To be worth; to be equal to in value. [Obs.] The peace between the French and us not values The cost that did conclude it. Shak.

ance to any act or conduct; outside show; gloss. And set a double varnish on the fame The Frenchman gave you. Shak. Varnish tree (Bot.), a tree or shrub from the juice or resin of which varnish is made, as some species of the genus Rhus, especially R. vernicifera of Japan. The black varnish of Burmah is obtained from t…

The first month of the French republican calendar, dating from September 22, 1792.

The sixth month of the calendar adopted by the first French republic. It began February 19, and ended March 20. See Vend.

An ancient French song, or short poem, wholly in two rhymes, and composed in short lines, with a refrain. Of such matter made he many lays, Songs, complains, roundels, virelayes. Chaucer. To which a lady sung a virelay. Dryden.

An old French variety of pear, of little value.

in of light and translucent material intended to be secured directly to the woodwork of a French casement window or a glazed door.

In Continental armies, esp. the French, a sutler.

In Continental armies, especially in the French army, a woman accompanying a regiment, who sells provisions and liquor to the soldiers; a female sutler.

Of or relating to Voltaire, the French author. J. Morley.

One of a picked company of irregular riflemen in each regiment of the French infantry.

A kind of rolling walk. One taught the toss, and one the new French wallow. Dryden.

Having the appearance of that which is seen in pictures by Antoine Watteau, a French painter of the eighteenth century; --said esp. of women's garments; as, a Watteau bodice.

e belonging to a body of light infantry armed with rifles, resembling the chasseur of the French army. [Written also jager.]

r fear; to yaup. A little herd of England's timorous deer, Mazed with a yelping kennel of French curs Shak. At the least flourish of a broomstick or ladle, he would fly to the door with a yelping precipitation. W. Irving.

a fellow; especially, a partner in marriage. Phil. iv. 3. The two languages [English and French] became yokefellows in a still more intimate manner. Earle. Those who have most distinguished themselves by railing at the sex, very often choose one of the most worthless for a companion and yokefellow. Addison.…

ess, seems the tendency of the German; zeal, zealotry, of the English; fanaticism, of the French. Coleridge.