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Of or pertaining to France or its inhabitants. French bean (Bot.), the common kidney bean (Phaseolus vulgaris). -- French berry (Bot.), the berry of a species of buckthorn (Rhamnus catharticus), which affords a saffron, green or purple pigment. -- French casement (Arch.) See French window, under Window. -- French ch…

To make French; to infect or imbue with the manners or tastes of the French; to Gallicize. Burke.

A French mode or characteristic; an idiom peculiar to the French language. Earle.

A native or one of the people of France.

th. ga-), which, as a prefix, made no essential addition to the meaning, as in aware. (5) French à (L. ad to), as in abase, achieve. (6) L. a, ab, abs, from, as in avert. (7) Greek insep. prefix a without, or privative, not, as in abyss, atheist; akin to E. un-.

The French word answering to the English abbot, the head of an abbey; but commonly a title of respect given in France to every one vested with the ecclesiastical habit or dress.

A member of an academy, or society for promoting science, art, or literature, as of the French Academy, or the Royal Academy of arts.

ment of the arts and sciences, and literature, or some particular art or science; as, the French Academy; the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; academies of literature and philology.

e spoken accent; (b) a mark to indicate the quality of sound of the vowel marked; as, the French accents.

To join; to couple. [R.] The Englishmen accoupled themselves with the Frenchmen. Hall.

Willing; ready to agree or consent. [Colloq.] These Frenchmen give unto the said captain of Calais a great sum of money, so that he will be but content and agreeable that they may enter into the said town. Latimer.

A dance in moderate twofold time, invented by the French in the reign of Louis XIV.; -- now mostly found in suites of pieces, like those of Bach and Handel.

for receiving indorsements, when the back of the bill itself is already full; a rider. [A French usage] Abbott.

-- usually applied to sovereigns or states; a confederate. The English soldiers and their French allies. Macaulay.

instrument of the saxhorn family, used exclusively in military music, often replacing the French horn. Grove.

instrument of the saxhorn family, used exclusively in military music, often replacing the French horn. Grove.

A variety of wheat from which starch is produced; -- called also French rice.

A pecuniary punishment or fine; a reparation or recantation. Amende honorable(#). (Old French Law) A species of infamous punishment in which the offender, being led into court with a rope about his neck, and a lighted torch in his hand, begged pardon of his God, the court, etc. In popular language, the phrase now denot…

principles of anatomy, as in art. The stretched and vivid anatomism of their [i. e., the French] great figure painters. The London Spectator.

One of the senior members of the Inns of Court or of Chancery. Council of Ancients (French Hist.), one of the two assemblies composing the legislative bodies in 1795. Brande.