enfant, n.m.f., child; infant; native; (jur.) issue. — adoptif; adopted child. L’— prodigue; the prodigal son. L’— à naître; the child unborn. — trouvé; foundling. — naturel; natural child. Un — de famille; a young gentleman. — de la balle; child that follows his father’s profession, or chip of the old block. Un — à la mamelle; an infant at the breast. Un — mort-né; a still-born child. Discours d’—; childish language. — de chœur; chorister. Les —s perdus; (milit.) the forlorn hope. Faire l’—; to play the child; to behave like a child. C’est bien l’— de sa mère; he is a chip of the old block. En travail d’—; in labor. C’est un bon —; he is a good child, he is a good fellow. Les —s de France; the children of the King of France, the children of the eldest son of the King of France. Petits enfants; little children. Petits-enfants; grandchildren.
enfantement (ān-fān-tmān), n.m., childbirth.
enfanter, v.a., to bear, to bring forth; to produce; to beget; to bring to light; to give birth to.
enfantillage, n.m., child’s play, childishness.
enfantin, -e, adj., infantine, childish.
enfariner, v.a., to flour, to sprinkle with flour. Être enfariné de quelque science; to have a smattering of some science. Être enfariné d’une mauvaise doctrine; to be prepossessed in favor of a bad doctrine. Il est venu nous dire cela la gueule enfarinée; (triv.) he came, full of stupid confidence, to tell us that.
enfer (an-fèr), n.m., hell; infernal, or lower, regions. Au fond de l’—; in the depths of hell. Les peines de l’—; the torments of hell. L’— s’est déchaîné contre moi; hell is let loose against me. Tison d’—; hell-hound. Un feu d’—; a scathing fire.
enfermé, n.m., close, confined air. Sentir l’—; to smell close.
enfermer, v.a., to shut, to shut in; to shut up; to lock up; to inclose; to coop up, to conceal; to comprehend, to comprise. C’est un homme à —; that man ought to be confined in a mad-house. — à clef; to keep under lock and key. — un parc de murailles; to wall in a park.
s’enfermer, v.r., to lock one’s self up, to seclude one’s self; to lock, to lock up (of a thing).