payement (pè-mān), n.m., payment. Jour de —; pay-day. Non-—, (—-—s) non-payment.
payen, -ne, adj. V. païen.
payer, v.a., to pay, to pay for, to pay off, to pay away, to recompense, to reward, to requite; to expiate, to atone for, to satisfy, to indemnify. — trop; to overpay. — argent comptant; to pay cash down. Se faire —; to get paid, to get one’s money. Qui répond paye; the bail must pay. — quelqu’un d’ingratitude; to reward any one with ingratitude. — de belles paroles; to pay with fine speeches. — le tribut à la nature; to pay the debt of nature. — en même monnaie; to pay in like coin. — les violons; to pay the piper. — d’effronterie; to brazen it out. — d’audace; to face it out. Il me la payera; he shall pay for it; I’ll be revenged on him for it. Vous en payerez la folle enchère; you shall pay dear for your rashness. — de sa personne; to expose one’s self to danger; to risk one’s skin; (fig.) to exert one’s self. Être payé pour savoir; to know a thing to one’s cost. Ce n’est pas payé; (at billiards, etc.), that’s hard lines (when a stroke has just been missed).
se payer, v.r., to be satisfied; to be bought, to treat one’s self to. Se — de raisons; to be satisfied with reasons. Cela ne peut pas se —; that cannot be bought, that cannot be had for money. Je ne me paye pas de mauvaises raisons; nothing but good reasons will satisfy me. Je me paierai un habit neuf; I shall treat myself to a new coat.
payeu-r, n.m., -se, n.f., paymaster; payer.
pays (pè-yee), n.m., country, fatherland, birthplace, native place, home; part of the country, place, district; (pop.) fellow-countryman. Gagner du —; to get on, to make progress. Courir le —; to ramble, to rove about. Battre le —; to wander about; (mil.) to scour the country. Être en — de connaissance; to be among friends. Savoir la carte du —; to know one’s ground, one’s people. — perdu; out-of-the-way place, waste, desert. — natal; native country. De quel — êtes-vous? what countryman are you? Avoir le mal du —; to be home-sick. Nul n’est prophète en son —; no man is a prophet in his own country. Il est bien de son —; he is very simple, very credulous. À vue de —; at first sight, by guess. Faire voir du — à quelqu’un; to lead any one a dance. — ruiné vaut mieux que — perdu; half a loaf is better than no bread.
paysage (pè-i-zaj), n.m., landscape, scenery; landscape-painting.
paysag-er, -ère, adj., rustic, country.
paysagiste (pè-i-za-jist), n.m., landscape-painter.