maigrir, v.n., to grow lean, to become lean; to grow thin, to become thin; to fall away, to waste away. Il maigrit à vue d’œil; he grows perceptibly thinner.
*mail, n.m., mallet; mall (game); mall, promenade (place).
*maille, n.f., mesh; stitch; ring, link; mail; speck (on the wings of partridges); web (in the eye); haw (in the eyes of animals); doit, stiver. Cotte de —s; coat of mail. Ils ont toujours — à partir ensemble; they have always a crow to pluck with each other, a bone to pick with one another. N’avoir ni sou ni —; not to have a farthing, to have nothing to bless one’s self with.
maillé, -e, adj., stitched; mailed; speckled, spotted. Fer —; wire-netting.
*maillechort, n.m., German silver; nickel silver.
*mailler, v.a., to stitch; to lattice, to mail.
se mailler, v.r., to grow, or get, speckled.
mailler, n.m., pack-horse, sumpter horse.
*maillet, n.m., mallet, beetle.
*mailloche, n.f., mallet, beetle.