autre, pron., another, other, else. Nul — n’y aurait consenti; nobody else would have consented to it. Un — le fera; another will do it. Tout — l’aurait fait; any other would have done it. Les uns se plaisent à une chose, les —s à une —; some delight in one thing and some in another. L’un l’—; one another, each other. L’un et l’—; both. L’un ou l’—; either. Ni l’un ni l’—; neither. L’un et l’— vous ont obligé; both have obliged you. Les uns et les —s; all. Ni l’un ni l’— ne valent rien; both are good for nothing. À l’un ou à l’—; to either. Ni pour l’un ni pour l’—; for neither. On les a payés l’un et l’—; both have been paid. À l’envi l’un de l’—; in emulation of one another. Entre —s; among other people or among other things. De côté et d’—; up and down. De part et d’—; on both sides, on all sides. C’est un — homme; he is no more the same man. Il ne fait — chose que jouer; he does nothing but play. C’est — chose; it is quite another thing. C’est une — paire de manches; that’s a horse of another color. Nous —s Français, nous mangeons beaucoup de pain; we French people eat a great deal of bread. Causer de choses et d’—s; to talk of different things. Il dit d’une façon et il fait d’une —; he says one thing and does another. L’un vaut l’—; they are much of a muchness; or one is as bad as the other. Comme dit l’—; as somebody says; as the saying is. Il n’en fait point d’—s; he does nothing else, these are his pranks. L’un dans l’—, l’un portant l’—; one with another; on an average. Il en sait bien d’—s; he knows a trick worth two of that. J’en ai vu bien d’—s; I have outlived worse things than that. À d’—s! pshaw! I know better, you must not tell that to me, tell it to the marines.
autrefois, adv., formerly, in former times; of old.
autrement, adv., otherwise; after another manner, another way; else; or else. Faisons —; let us go to work another way. Entrez, — je fermerai la porte; come in, or else I’ll shut the door. C’est un homme qui n’est pas — riche; he is a man who is not over rich.
autrichien, -ne, adj., n.m.f., Austrian.
autruche, n.f., (orni.) ostrich. Avoir un estomac d’—; to have the stomach of an ostrich; to digest anything.
autrui, n.m., pron., others, other people. Dépendre d’—; to depend on others. Faire à — ce que nous voudrions qu’on nous fît; to do by others as we would be done by. Le bien d’—; another’s property. Mal d’— n’est que songe; we make light of the ills of others.
auvent, n.m., shed, penthouse, lean-to.
auvernat, n.m., Orléans wine.
aux (pl. of au), art., to the. V. à.
auxdits, auxdites, adj.m.f.pl., to the said.