écobuer, v.a., to weed a field and burn the weeds.
écœurement, n.m., disgust; sickening; anguish of heart.
écœurer, v.a., to disgust; to sicken; (fig.) to shock; to dishearten.
écofrai or écofroi, n.m., (tech.) cutting-board.
écoinçon or écoinson, n.m., (mas., carp.) diagonal, angle-tie; angle stuff-bead; (carp.) jamb (of doors); (carp.) reveal (of windows).
écolage, n.m., schooling.
écolâtre, n.m., (theol.) doctor, teacher.
école, n.f., school; college; scholastic philosophy; sect; training, practice; blunder. Petite —; day-school. Maître d’—; schoolmaster. Camarade d’—; schoolfellow. — de droit; law-school. — de marine; naval school. — d’équitation, — de natation; riding-school, swimming-school. — communale; parish-school. Cela sent l’—; that savors of pedantry. Faire —; to be at the head of a school or sect; or to be fundamental (of a doctrine); to found a school (of art, literature). Dire les nouvelles de l’—; to tell tales out of school. Faire l’— buissonnière; to play truant. Faire une —; (backgammon) to blunder in pegging one’s points. Envoyer à l’—; to peg. Faire une —; to commit a stupid blunder. Basse —; ordinary horsemanship. Haute —; high horsemanship.
écoli-er, n.m., -ère, n.f., schoolboy, schoolgirl, pupil, scholar, learner, a tyro. En —; boy-like. Prendre le chemin des —s; to go a roundabout way; to loiter. Ce n’est qu’un —; he is but a novice. Tour d’—; schoolboy trick. Papier —; exercise-paper.
écolleter, v.a., to cut off, to round off.