essentiel, -le (-cièl), adj., essential, material. C’est là le point —; that is the main point.
essentiel (-cièl), n.m., essential, essential point, main point, main thing.
essentiellement (-sièl-mān), adv., essentially, materially.
essette, n.f., hammer-axe.
esseulé, -e, adj., (fam., l.u.) solitary, abandoned.
essieu, n.m., axle-tree; pin (of a block), écartement des —x; wheel base (motor).
essor, n.m., flight; soaring, soar; strain; swing, play, scope, impulse, impulsion. Donner l’— à; to give wings to, to give scope to. L’— du génie; the soaring of genius. Prendre son —; to take one’s flight.
essorant, -e, adj., (her.) soaring. Un oiseau —; (her.) a soaring bird.
essorer, v.a., to hang in the air in order to dry.
s’essorer, v.r., to soar aloft.