aunaie, n.f., an alder-plot, grove of alders.
☉aune, n.f., ell; (fig.) measure, standard. Acheter à l’—; to buy by the ell. Mesurer les autres à son —; to measure another man’s peck by one’s own bushel. Les hommes ne se mesurent pas à l’—; one must not judge of a man’s merit by his stature. Il sait ce qu’en vaut l’—; he knows it to his cost, by experience. En avoir tout du long de l’—; to get it with a vengeance.
aune, n.m., alder-tree.
aunée or aulnée, n.f., (bot.) elecampane.
auner, v.a., to measure; to judge of, to value.
auneur, n.m., alnager, measurer.
auparavant, adv., before, first; heretofore, previously; ere now. Longtemps —; a long time before.
auprès, prep., near, by; close to; close by; near to; with, in, over; to, in comparison with. Sa maison est — de la mienne; his house is close to mine. Être — d’un seigneur; to live with a nobleman. Excusez-le — de son père; excuse him to his father. Il cherche à me nuire — de vous; he endeavors to lower me in your esteem. Être bien — de quelqu’un; to be in anybody’s good books. Elle peut tout — de lui; she can do anything with him. Votre mal n’est rien — du sien; your distress is nothing to his. Vivre — de ses parents; to live with one’s parents.
auprès, adv., by, hard by, close to.
aurate, n.m., (chem.) aurate.