ergoter, v.n., to cavil, to wrangle, to chop logic. Il ergote sur tout; he finds fault with everything.

ergoterie (èr-go-trî), n.f., caviling; quibbling, quibble.

ergoteu-r, n.m., -se, n.f., caviler, quibbler.

ergotisme, n.m., caviling, quibbling, quibble; (med.) ergotism.

éridan, n.m., (astron.) Eridanus.

ériger, v.a., to erect, to raise, to rear, to set up, to institute.

s’ériger, v.r., to erect one’s self into; to set up for, to pose as, to pretend to be; to be erected, raised, built. S’— en censeur public; to set up for a public censor.

*érigne or érine, n.f., (surg.) hook.

érigone, n.f., (astron.) Virgo.

ermin, n.m., customs duty (in the Levant).