aveu, n.m., avowal, confession, acknowledgment, admission; approbation, consent, recognition. Homme sans —; vagrant, vagabond. Faire l’— de; to confess.
aveugle, adj., blind, sightless; deluded; ignorant, implicit. — de naissance or né; born blind. Obéissance —; implicit obedience. Changer son cheval borgne contre un —; to change from bad to worse. La fortune est —; fortune is blind.
aveugle, n.m.f., blind person. Un — y mordrait; a blind man would see it. C’est un — qui en conduit un autre; it is the blind leading the blind. Crier comme un — qui a perdu son bâton; to cry out before one is hurt.
aveuglement, n.m., blindness, infatuation.
aveuglément, adv., blindly, rashly, implicitly.
aveugler, v.a., to blind, to make blind; to put out the eyes of; to dazzle; to delude; to obscure, to cloud; (nav.) to fother. La passion aveugle l’entendement; passion obscures the understanding. — une voie d’eau; (nav.) to fother a leak. La trop grande lumière aveugle; too much light dazzles the eyes.
s’aveugler, v.r., to blind one’s self, to shut one’s eyes to, to be blinded, to deceive one’s self.
à l’aveuglette, adv., (fam.) groping in the dark. Aller —; to go groping along, blindly, rashly.
avicule, n.f., (mol.). V. aronde.
avide, adj., greedy of, eager for, thirsting for; voracious; covetous, rapacious. Un homme —; a covetous man. — de gain; eager for gain.