lientérique, adj., lienteric.
lier, v.a., to bind, to bind down; to fasten, to tie, to tie down, to tie up; to join; to thicken; to link, to connect, to enter into, to engage in. C’est un fou à —; he ought to be put into a strait-jacket. — une sauce; to thicken a sauce. — des notes; (mus.) to slur notes. — commerce avec quelqu’un; to establish relations with any one.
se lier, v.r., to bind; to tie; to thicken; to become acquainted with; to become intimate with; to form a connection.
lierre, n.m., (bot.) ivy. — terrestre; ground-ivy. — grimpant; tree-ivy.
liesse, n.f., mirth, gayety, merriment.
lieu, n.m., place, spot, ground; family; cause, reason, occasion. pl., premises, water-closet. En tout —; everywhere. En aucun —; nowhere. En quelque — que ce soit; anywhere. Au — que; instead of which, whereas. En son — et place; in one’s place. Se porter sur les —x; to go to the spot. En premier —; in the first place. En dernier —; lastly, alternately. S’allier en bon —; to marry into a good family. — commun; commonplace topic, commonplace subject. Il n’y a pas — de craindre; there is no cause to fear. Vous avez donné — à cela; you are the occasion of it. Donner — à; to give rise to. Il m’a tenu — de père; he has been a father to me. Avoir —; to take place, to happen. —x d’aisances; water-closet. Être au — et place de quelqu’un; to represent any one. Au — de; in the place of, instead of, in lieu of. Au — que; whereas, when on the contrary, while. Y avoir —; there to be occasion or necessity. Tenir — de; to fill the place of; to do instead of.
lieue, n.f., league (two and a half miles English).
lieur, n.m., binder, hay-trusser.
lieutenance (lieu-tnāns), n.f., lieutenancy.
lieutenant, n.m., lieutenant. — en premier, en second; first lieutenant, second lieutenant. Sous-—, (—-—s) ensign, sub-lieutenant.