le pere, father.
perfide, treacherous, disloyal, la perfidie, treachery, le peril, peril, danger, perilleux, perilous, perir, to perish, die. permettre (permettant, per- mis, permets, permis), to permit, allow, le perron, steps.
persecuter, to persecute. le persecuteur, persecutor.
persister (a) , to persist (in) . le personnage, personage, char- acter.
la personne, person, (ne) personne, m., no one, no- body. la perte, loss.
pervers, perverse, ill-dis- posed, la peryersit^, perversity.
petit, small.
la petite-fille, granddaughter, les petits-enfants, m., grand- children.
p6trifier, to petrify, turn to stone ; petrifi6 d’etonne- ment, dumfounded. petrir, to knead, peu, little ; un peu, a little, rather ; a peu pres, more or less.
le peuple, people, la peur, fear ; avoir peur, to be afraid ; faire peur (a), to frighten ; de peur de, for fear of. peut-etre, perhaps. la pie, magpie, le pied, foot ; a pied, on foot, le piege, snare, trap ; tendre un piege (a), to set a trap (for).
la pierre, stone, les pierreries, /., jewels, le pieu, stake. le pilier, pillar. le pipeau, bird-call, pipe.
��piquer, to prick, sting; to anger, nettle, vex ; to stick ; to excite ; to spur, ride quickly ; se piquer (de), to take pride (in). pire, worse ; worst. pirouetter, to turn.
la pitie, pity, compassion ; avoir pitie de, to take pity on ; faire pitie (a), to excite the compassion (of).
le pivot, spindle, axis.
la place, room ; spot ; faire place (a), to be succeeded
(by).
placer, to place ; se placer, to take one’s stand.
plaindre (plaignant, plaint, plains, plaignis), to pity; se plaindre, to complain. \a. plaine, plain.
la plainte, complaint, lamenta- tion ; former plainte (centre), to bring an action (against).
plaire (plaisant, plu, plais, plus) (a), to please; s’il vous plait, if you please ; se plaire (a or dans), to take pleasure (in).
plaisant, diverting, comical.
plaisanter, to joke, jest,
jeer (at).
la plaisanterie, joke, jest, le plaisir, pleasure, delight ; faire plaisir (a), to please.
plait, see plaire.
planter, to plant, fix. le plat, dish, course.
plein (de), full (of); filled (with).
plenier, plenary, full, solemn.
pleurer, to weep, cry. les pleurs, m., tears.
pleuvoir (pleuvant.plu, pleut, plut,pleuvra),torain; faire pleuvoir, to shower.
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