méticuleu-x, -se, adj., over-scrupulous, fastidious, nice.
métier (-tié), n.m., trade, handicraft, business, calling, craft, profession; loom, frame; framework. — à bas; stocking-frame. — à tisser; power frame. — à broder; tambour-frame. — à la main; hand-loom. De son —; by trade, by profession. Homme de —; mechanic, handicraftsman. Avoir le cœur au —; to have one’s heart in anything. Il n’a pas le cœur au —; his heart is not in it. Le — des armes; the profession of arms. Il est du —; he is in the same trade, he belongs to the same fraternity; he is of the craft. C’est un tour de son —; that’s a trick of his. Jouer, or servir, un tour de son —; to play a trick. Chacun son —, et les vaches sont bien gardées; every one to his trade. Faire — de; to make a trade of. Faire au —; to work on a frame. Corps de —; corporation, guild. Sur le —; (fig.) on the stocks.
méti-f, -ve, adj. V. métis.
métis (-tîs), -se, n. and adj., creole, mongrel; of mongrel breed, half-bred, cross-bred; hybrid; mixed. Toile —se; union cloth. Se tenir —; (fig.) to trim one’s sails; to steer a middle course (Montaigne).
métissage, n.m., cross-breeding.
métisser, v.a., to cross (animals).
métonomasie, n.f., metonomasy.
métonymie, n.f., (rhet.) metonymy.
métope, n.f., (arch.) metope.
métoposcopie, n.f., metoposcopy.