mendicité, n.f., beggary, mendicity; beggars; vagrancy. La — est interdite; begging is forbidden, or no begging allowed.
mendier, v.a. and n., to beg; to beg for; (b.s.) to solicit meanly, to implore. Il mendie son pain; he begs his bread. — sa vie; to live by begging.
mené, -e, part. adj., led. — par sa femme; henpecked.
meneau, n.m., (arch.) mullion.
menée, n.f., underhand dealing, secret practice, plot, conspiracy; track. Suivre la —; (hunt.) to follow the track.
mener, v.a., to carry, to conduct, to lead, to drive (a carriage), to bring; to direct, to head, to command, to guide, to sway, to influence; to introduce, to take, to take along with; to amuse; to lead about, to manage, to steer; to handle; to humbug, to bamboozle. — les bêtes aux champs; to drive the cattle to the fields. — paître les vaches; to take, to drive, cows to pasture. — quelqu’un en prison; to convey any one to jail. — un enfant par la lisière; to have a child in leading-strings. — quelqu’un à la baguette; to rule any one with a tight hand. — tambour battant; to carry it with a high hand over. — un grand train; to make a great show. — le branle; to take the lead. Menez-moi chez le ministre; introduce me to the minister. — de front; to have several things on hand. — bien sa barque; to manage one’s affairs well.
mener, v.n., to drive; to lead, to conduct, to go. Ce chemin mène à la ville; this road leads to the town. Cela ne mène à rien; that leads to nothing, that is of no use.
ménestrel, n.m., minstrel.
ménétrier, n.m., village fiddler.
meneur, n.m., driver; agent for wet-nurses; leading man, ringleader.