déférant, -e, adj., complying, condescending, yielding.
déférence, n.f., deference, regard, respect.
déférent, adj.m., deferent. Cercle —; (anc. astron.) deferent. Canal —; (anat.) deferent.
déférer, v.a., to confer, to bestow; to tender, to inform against. — le serment à quelqu’un; to tender an oath to, to bring before any one, to put any one on his oath. — quelqu’un en justice; to impeach any one in court. — quelqu’un à l’inquisition; to report any one to the inquisition.
déférer, v.n., to defer, to yield, to comply, to condescend. — aux sentiments des autres; to defer to the sentiments of others. — à quelqu’un; to pay deference to one.
déferler, v.a., (nav.) to unfurl.
déferler, v.n., to break into foam, to roll in (of the sea). La lame déferle; the wave bursts into foam, rolls in shore.
déferrer, v.a., to unshoe (a horse); to nonplus, to confound.
se déferrer, v.r., to come off, to fall off, to lose a shoe; to be nonplused or confounded. Mon lacet se déferre; the tag is coming off my lace.
défet, n.m., waste sheet (in bookselling).