merci, adv., thank you, I have had quite enough, I’d rather not.
merci-er, n.m., -ère, n.f., mercer, haberdasher. Petit —; haberdasher.
mercredi, n.m., Wednesday. — des Cendres; Ash-Wednesday.
mercure, n.m., (astron.) Mercury; quick-silver.
mercuriale, n.f., harangue, lecture, reprimand, curtain lecture, censure, rebuke; rating; averages, average prices of grain; (bot.) mercurialis.
mercuriel, -le, adj., mercurial. Onguent —; mercurial ointment.
merde, n.f., dirt, dung; excrements (of man and animals). —! you be blowed!
mère, n.f., mother; (of animals) dam; (fig.) cause, source, reason. Belle-—, (—s-—s) mother-in-law; step-mother. Grand’—, (— —s), (pop.) —-grand, (—s-—) grandmother. Dure-—, (n.p.) dura mater. Pie-—, (n.p.) pia mater. Eau —; mother water. L’oisiveté est la — de tous les vices; idleness is the mother of all vices. — nourrice; foster-mother. La — patrie; the mother-country. Notre — commune; our mother-earth.
mère, adj., mother; chief, primitive. — goutte; unpressed wine. — laine; fine wool.
méreau, n.m., counter, ticket, check.