androgyne, adj., androgynal, androgynous.
androïde, n.m., android, automaton.
andromède, n.f., (astron.) Andromeda.
andropogon, n.m., (bot.) camel’s hay.
âne, n.m., ass, jackass, donkey; blockhead, ignorant fool, idiot; vice (instrument). Fait en dos d’—; (arch.) made with a shelving ridge; hog’s-back. Coq-à-l’—; cock-and-bull story. Promenade à —; donkey-ride. Pont aux —s; asses’ bridge. C’est le pont aux —s; every fool knows that. À laver la tête d’un —, on perd sa lessive; there is no washing a blackamoor white. Faute d’un point, Martin perdit son —; a miss is as good as a mile. Il ne sera jamais qu’un —; he will be an ass as long as he lives. Conte de peau d’—; fairy tale. On ne saurait faire boire un — qui n’a pas soif; you may take a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink. Têtu comme un —; as stubborn as a mule. Sérieux comme un — qu’on étrille; as grave as a judge. Tête d’—; ass’s head. Bonnet d’—; fool’s cap; (ich.) bull-head, miller’s-thumb, cottus.
anéantir, v.a., to annihilate, to put out of existence, to destroy; to reduce to nothing, to prostrate, to thunderstrike, to dumfound.
s’anéantir, v.r., to be annihilated or destroyed, to come to nothing; to cease to be, to humble oneself.
anéantissement (-mān), n.m., annihilation, annihilating; abjection, humiliation; prostration, depression; destruction, destroying, ruin, overthrow.
anecdote, n.f., anecdote.
anecdotier (-tié), n.m., anecdote-teller, monger.