tern Germany. parallel with the upper
Rhine; pronounced: _voge_).
vote, _m._ vote.
voter, _v._ to vote.
votre (vos, _pl.), poss. adj. pr._ your.
votre, _poss. adj. pr._ (usually with the article), yours.
vouer, _v._ to devote, consecrate, dedicate.
vouloir, _v._ to wish, will, be willing, require, decree, start,
expert; -- bien, be willing, be willing to, accept; -- bien
de; be willing to accept; -- dire, mean; en -- a, have a
grudge against, be angry with; que voulez-vous?, what do you wish?,
what do you expect?; veuillez, be good enough to.
vous, _conj. and disj. pr._ you, to you.
vous-meme (s), _pr._ you, yourself, yourselves.
voute, _f._ vault, arch.
vouter, _v._ to vault.
voyage, _m._ voyage, journey, trip, traveling, travels.
voyager, _v._ to travel.
voyageur, _m._ traveler.
vrai, -e, _adj._ true, real; bien --, really; dire --, to
speak the truth.
vraiment, _adv._ truly, really.
vraisemblance, _f._ likelihood, probability (_s_ pronounced as in
sembler).
vue, _f._ view, sight; perdre de --, to lose sight of.
vulgaire, _adj._ vulgar, low, common.
vulnerable, _adj._ vulnerable.

W

w, this letter does not belong to the French alphabet, it occurs
only in foreign words.
wachtman, _m._ watchman (German).
wagon, _m._ railway-car; -- a minerai, ore or mining car.
Walewska, _see_ Gallitzin.
Wilfrid, Wilfrid.

Y

y, _adv. and conj. pr._ there, to or at or in it, to or at or in
them, about it, to him, etc., here.
ya, _adv._ yes (German).
yatagan, _m._ yataghan (long Turkish dagger).
yeux, _see_ oeil.
Ypsilanti (Alexandre), Alexander Ypsilanti (or Hypsilanti), a Greek
who became an officer in the Russian army; in 1820 he became the head of
the Greek Hetreria, a secret society founded in Odessa for the purpose
of liberating Greece from the Turks, and in 1821 he led an insurrection
against the Turks in the Danube provinces and inaugurated the Greek war
for independence; after a number of mistakes (_cf. the deroute de
Skouliani_) and humiliating defeats, and after having been dismissed
from the Russian army, he died in poverty (1792-1828).

Z

Zaatcha, Algerian oasis near Biskra (captured by the French in 1849).
Zahn, proper name (_Zahn_ = tooth, in German).
zebeks (zebecks or zebecs), _m. pl._ there is a Turkish word
(_zebek; or zebeik_;) with an obscene meaning, probably Gautier found
this unknown word and thought that it meant "aldquo;attendant," it should be so
translated. There is a similar word in T