féminin, n.m., (gram.) feminine.
féminiser, v.a., (gram.) to make feminine, to render effeminate.
femme (famme), n.f., woman; wife, married woman, attendant; lady. Une — auteur; an authoress. Mari et —; man and wife. Une — sage; a well-conducted woman. Une sage-—; a midwife. — de chambre; waiting-woman, lady’s maid. — de charge; housekeeper. — de journée, — de ménage; char-woman. — en puissance de mari or — couverte; (jur.) feme-covert. Avoir —; to have a wife. Avoir — et enfants; to have a wife and children. Prendre —; to take a wife. Bonne —; good, obliging woman; old woman; simple, superstitious woman.
femmelette (fa-mlèt), n.f., silly, weak woman; effeminate man.
fémoral, -e, adj., (anat.) femoral.
fémur, n.m., (anat.) femur, thigh-bone; (vet.) hurl-bone. Tête du —; head or apophysis of the femur.
fenaison, n.f., hay-time, hay-harvest; hay-making.
fendage, n.m., splitting, cleaving.
fendant, n.m., hector, bully. Faire le —; to play the bully.
fenderie (fan-drî), n.f., slitting (of iron into rods); slitting-mill.