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r increased by bands of pirates and adventurers. It took a prominent part in fighting the French during their hostilities with Anam, 1873-85.

half an inch from you. Swift. From this time there ensues a long blank in the history of French legislation. Hallam. I was ill. I can't tell how long -- it was a blank. G. Eliot.

To heat the blood of; to exasperate. [Obs.] The auxiliary forces of the French and English were much blooded one against another. Bacon.

The hero of a mediæval French nursery legend, who, leaving home, enjoined his young wife not to open a certain room in his castle. She entered it, and found the murdered bodies of his former wives. -- Also used adjectively of a subject which it is forbidden to investigate. The Bluebeard chamber of his mind, into which…

oidery made with a complicated sewing machine, said to have been originally invented by a Frenchman of the name of Bonnaz. The work is done either in freehand or by following a perforated design.

The red cap adopted by the extremists in the French Revolution, which became a sign of patriotism at that epoch; hence, a revolutionist; a Red Republican.

to be so called from Boston, Massachusetts, and to have been invented by officers of the French army in America during the Revolutionary war.

The spirit or principles of a French political movement identified with Gen. Georges Boulanger (d. 1891), whose militarism and advocacy of revenge on Germany attracted to him a miscellaneous party of monarchists and Republican malcontents. -- Bou*lan"gist (#), n.

The French middle class, particularly such as are concerned in, or dependent on, trade.

An old French dance tune in common time.

Deceitful. [Obs.] Since Frenchmen are so braid, Marry that will, I live and die a maid. Shak.

haracters are represented by tangible points or dots. It was invented by Louis Braille, a French teacher of the blind.

A French gambling game somewhat like poker.

In French games, a double pair royal.

In French games, a pair royal composed of 2 cards in the hand and the card turned.

A warrant from the government, granting a privilege, title, or dignity. [French usage].

A kind of soft French cream cheese; -- so called from the district in France where it is made; --called also fromage de Brie.

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The second month of the calendar adopted by the first French republic. It began thirty days after the autumnal equinox. See Vendemiaire.

the last fortnight there have been prodigious shoals of volunteers gone over to bully the French, upon hearing the peace was just signing. Tatler.