marché, n.m., market, market-place; market-time; bargain, purchase, price, rate; sale; agreement, contract, treaty. — au blé, aux herbes, au poisson; corn, grass, fish-market. Bon —; cheapness. Conclure un —; to strike a bargain. Acheter, vendre, à bon —; to buy, to sell cheap. Avoir bon — de; to easily get the better of. Faire bon — d’une chose; to hold anything cheap, not to spare; to think little of. Mettre le — à la main à quelqu’un; to offer any one to break off a bargain; to make any one take it or leave it. Vous n’en serez pas quitte à si bon —; you shall not get off so easily. On n’a jamais bon — de mauvaise marchandise; the best is cheapest. Il le paiera plus cher qu’au —; he shall smart for it, he shall repent it or rue it. — d’or; excellent bargain, great bargain. Meilleur — or à meilleur —; cheaper. C’est un — donné; it is absolutely given away. Par-dessus le —; into the bargain. Le — tient tous les jours; the market is held every day. Cours du —; market-price. Est-ce — fuit? is it a bargain?
marche-palier, n.f., landing step.
marchepied (marsh-pié), n.m., stepping-stone; towing-path; foot-board, footstool; step (of a coach, altar). pl., (nav.) foot-ropes of the yards. Servir de —; to serve as a stepping-stone.
marcher, v.n., to walk, to step; to tread; to go, to travel, to march, to wade; to sail, to run, to ply; to move on, to advance, to progress; to go on; to flow, to run, to rank. — en avant, en arrière, à reculons; to walk forward, to walk backward. — à grands pas, sur la pointe du pied; to stride along, to walk on tiptoe. — à quatre pattes; to go on all-fours. — à pas de loup; to walk with stealthy steps. — sur les traces de quelqu’un; to follow in any one’s footsteps. — sur les talons de quelqu’un; to tread on any one’s heels. — sur des épines; to tread on thorns. — de front; to march abreast. — droit; to walk straight. Faire —; to get along, to set going. Je le ferai — droit; I will take care that he behaves well. Cette montre marche bien; this watch keeps good time. Ce navire marche bien; this vessel sails well or is very fast. — sur quelque chose; to tread upon anything. — égal à; to be equal to. — à l’ennemi; to march against the enemy. — à tâtons; to grope or feel one’s way.
marcher, n.m., walking, walk; gait, step, pace, treading, tread; ground (on which one walks).
marcher, v.a., (hat-making) to press, to felt, to full, to tread.
marcheu-r, n.m., -se, n.f., pedestrian, walker, (nav.) sailer. Bon —; (nav.) fast-sailing, swift-sailing, vessel; fast sailer.
marcottage, n.m., (hort.) layering.
marcotte, n.f., (hort.) layer.
marcotter, v.a., (hort.) to layer (vines, etc.).