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Amigo 18 amigo [Sp; fern, amiga], friend. a minori ad maius [L], from the less to the greater. amiral [Fr; pi amiraux], admiral. amissum quod nescitur non amittitur [L], the loss that is unknown is no loss at all: Publilius Syrus. amitié [Fr], friendship; amity; kindness. —amitié, doux repos de l'âme, friendship, sweet resting place of the soul: Lamartine. amoché [Fr], wounded: Fr. mil. slang. à moi! [Fr], help! here! à moitié [Fr], half; by half; by halves; in part. amok [Mai], crazed with murderous frenzy; to run amok.

L'anglaise [Fr], in the English style or fashion. à la parisienne [Fr], in the Parisian style or fashion. à la portée de tout le monde [Fr], within reach of everyone. à la presse vont les fous [Fr], fools go in crowds. à la provençale [Fr], with garlic or onions: cookery. à la russe [Fr], in the Russian style or fashion. à la sourdine [Fr], secretly; by stealth; on the sly; music, with the mute. à la suédoise [Fr], in the Swedish style or fashion. à la Tkrtuffe [Fr], in the style of (or like) Tartuffe, the hypocritical hero of Molière 's comedy; hypocritically.

Bathtub; a theater box on a level with the stalls. 34 35 Banddeckel bail [Hind], ox; bullock. Written also byle. —bail-gari, ox cart; bullock wagon: India. S. bain-marie [Fr; pi. bains-marie], a saucepan of boiling water in which a bowl or other vessel is immersed to heat its contents: cookery. baïonnette au canon! : mil. bairagi [Hind], Hindu religious mendicant. Called also vairagi. bairam [Ar], a Muslim festival. baisser le drapeau [Fr], to lower the colors. baisser le pavillon [Fr], to strike one's flag; surrender.

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