french

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• transitive verb To cut (green beans, for example) into thin strips before cooking.
• transitive verb To trim fat or bone from (a chop, for example).
• transitive verb Slang To give a French kiss to.
• transitive verb Vulgar Slang To perform oral sex on.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To prepare according to the French mode.
• To dress, as a chop, by partly freeing the bones.
• In metallurgy, to carry out the last step in the refining of metallic antimony, by which ‘bowl metal’ is converted into ‘star metal.’
• [lowercase] In botany, to appear distorted and unnatural, owing to some abnormal condition of the plant. See frenching.
• Pertaining to France, a country of western Europe, or to its inhabitants. Often abbreviated Fr.
• Foreign; from a distant or foreign land; hence, strange; uncommon; rare.
• a variety of grenadine used for ladies' dresses and very durable.
• Baldness produced by what was called the French disease (morbus Gallicus). Hence used with equivocation.
• noun The language spoken by the people of France.
• noun Collectively, the people of France.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• proper noun The language spoken in France.
• proper noun Collectively, the people of France.
• adjective Of or pertaining to France or its inhabitants.
• adjective (Bot.) the common kidney bean (Phaseolus vulgaris).
• adjective (Bot.) the berry of a species of buckthorn (Rhamnus catharticus), which affords a saffron, green or purple pigment.
• adjective (Arch.) See French window, under Window.
• adjective (Min.) a variety of granular talc; -- used for drawing lines on cloth, etc. See under Chalk.
• adjective (Bot.) The Primula Auricula. See Bear's-ear.
• adjective (Naut.) a mode of coiling a rope by running it backward and forward in parallel bends, so that it may run freely.
• adjective (Bot.) a plant of the genus Hedysarum (H. coronarium); -- called also garland honeysuckle.
• adjective a metallic wind instrument, consisting of a long tube twisted into circular folds and gradually expanding from the mouthpiece to the end at which the sound issues; -- called in France cor de chasse.
• adjective an informal, hasty, or secret departure; esp., the leaving a place without paying one's debts.
• adjective (Zoöl.) the European great spotted woodpecker (Dryobstes major); -- called also wood pie.
• adjective The glossy surface produced by the application of the above.
• adjective a dyestuff obtained from lichens and used for coloring woolen and silken fabrics, without the aid of mordants.
• adjective rouge.
• adjective amelcorn.
• adjective (Arch.) a modified form of mansard roof having a nearly flat deck for the upper slope.
• adjective a dyer's mixture of protochloride of tin and logwood; -- called also plum tub.
• adjective See under Window.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• verb transitive To prepare food by cutting it into strips.
• verb transitive To kiss (another person) while inserting one’s tongue into the other person's mouth.
• verb intransitive To kiss in this manner.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• adjective of or pertaining to France or the people of France
• noun the people of France
• noun the Romance language spoken in France and in countries colonized by France
• verb cut (e.g, beans) lengthwise in preparation for cooking
• noun United States sculptor who created the seated marble figure of Abraham Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. (1850-1931)