A French-English Military Dictionary - Sturmpanzer.com

Iciiticulaire 239 lever
lenticulaire, a., lenticular.
len tille, f., lentil; pendulum bob; (opt.) lens, mi
croscope, magnifying lens; (nav.) deck light;
bi-concave, double concave lens;
bi-convexe, double convex lens;
concave-convexe convergent*, convexo-concave
lens;
concave-convexe divergente, concavo-convex
lens;
concave-plane, plano-concave lens;
concavo-concave, double-concave lens;
concavo-convexe, concavo-convex lens;
convergent^, converging lens;
convexe-concave, convexo-concave, c
vexo-concave lens;
convexe-plane, plano-convex lens;
convcxo-convexe, double-convex lens;
divergente, diverging lens;
de pendule, pendulum bob;
plan-concave, plano-concave lens;
plan-convexe, plano-convexe, plano-convex
lens.
lesion, f., wound, lesion.
lessivage, m., lixiviation;
de la poudre, (powd.) extraction of saltpeter
from damaged powder;
h la vapeur, steaming (of wood, to drive out
sap).
lessivation, f., lixiviation.
Icssive, f., lye; lixiviation.
lessiver, v. a., to extract; to lixiviate.
lest, m., ballast (balloons and ships);
alltr en , to go in ballast;
en beton, permanent ballast;
d'eau, water ballast;
enfer, iron ballast;
en pierres, stone ballast;
en sable, sand ballast;
sur , sur son , in ballast;
volant, shifting ballast.
lestage, m., ballasting.
leste, a., brisk, lively, smart, crack, ship-shape,
leste, p. p., ballasted; (art.) filled with sand (of a
projectile, to bring up its weight when no
burster is used).
lester, v. a., to ballast.
lesteur, m., ballast lighter (boat and workman);
ballast heaver.
lettre, f., letter; letter of the alphabet; (in pi ) letters,
literature;
administrative, official letter, letter from a
department;
de change, bill of exchange;
chargee, registered letter;
en chiffres, cipher letter;
circulaire, circular; circular letter;
collective, (Fr. a.) circular letter addressed
by the minister of war to corps commanders,
heads of services, etc., inviting their action in
certain cases made and provided;
de commandement, ( Fr. a.) letter of appointment
to command (of any unit comprising the
three arms, of an army, or of al 1 the armies) ;
de compagnie, (mil.) designating letter of a
company of infantry;
(s) decreance, credentials; letter of credit;
de credit, letter of credit;
d' envoi, letter of-transmittal; sdemarque, (nav.) letters of mark;
de mer, (ship's) register;
militaire, (mil. ) official letter;
nutte. nonsignificant letter in a cipher message;
.9 numerales, letters used in the Roman nota-
tion;
particuliere, private letter;
derappel, letter of recall;
dereowj, unclaimedletterat the post-office;
recommandee, v. chargee;
de represailles, (nav.) letter of reprisals;
de sante, (med.) health certificate, clean bill
of health;
lettre de sene, (sm. a.).distinguishingletterstamped
on rifle barrels to indicate place of manufacture;
de service, (mil.) official letter; letter of appointment,
informing an officer either of his
promotion or of his assignment to certain duties
or Junctions ;
s de signaux, (nav.) signal letters;
en toutcs^ s, in full (i. e., of words, without
abbreviations; of numbers, in words, not in
de voiture, waybill.
leurre, m., decoy.
leurrer, v. a., to decoy.
levage, m., raising, hoisting.
levain, m., yeast.
levant, m.. the east; the Levant; (in the French
ports of the Mediterranean) east wind.
le"ve, f., (mach.) wiper, tappet.
leve, m , (top., drawing, man.) v. lever; p. p., (mil.)
called into service.
levfie, f., raising, act of raising; removing, removal,,
removal of funds, stores, etc. (from a depository);
rising (of a congress, meeting); harvest; arrest
of a prohibition, cancellation of an arrest, of a
punishment; collection (of a duty); (mach.)
cam; cog; lifter; wiper; throw, course (as of a
piston); lift, stroke, length of stroke; (mil.)
levy, levying, raising, formation, of troops, of
a body of troops; soldiers levied; (man.) act of
raising the lance in ring riding; (top., drawing)
v. lever;
d'arret, (mil.) termination of arrest, of confinement
;
d'un blocus, (mil., nav.) raising of a blockade;
des boites, collection of mail from letter
boxes;
de ooucliers, unsuccessful attack; much ado
about nothing;
de camp, (mil.) breaking of camp;
d'ecrou, termination of confinement in a jail,
either by expiration of sentence or by transfer
of the prisoner;
faire une , to embank;
en masse, (mil.) raising of the population for
the national defense; general uprising of a nation
in self-defense;
de piston, (mach.) piston stroke;
de scelles, (law) removal of seals;
d'un siege, (mil.) raising of a siege;
de terre, (fort., etc.) embankment;
de troupes, (mil.) levying of troops (no longer
an official term).
leve-gazon, m., turf-spade.
lever, v. a. r., to lift, raise, raise up, heave; to
get, pull, take hold; to remove, clear away,
break up, relieve; to recall (a permission,
an order); to rise (wind, sun, sea); to raise
(a quarantine); to clear up (of the weather);
(mil.) to raise, levy (troops, armies, a
regiment, etc.); to break (camp); to raise
(a siege, a blockade); to revoke (an order);
to relieve (a guard, a sentry, a post); (cord.)
to remove, take off (a stopper, a service);
(top.) to survey, to sketch, to plot, to make
a plan;
I'ancre, (nav.) to weigh, hoist, anchor;
Us arrets, (mil.) to release from arrest;
le blocus, (mil, nav.) to raise the blockade;
le camp, (mil.) to break camp;
la comigne, to revoke orders;
une contribution, (mil.) to levy a contribution;
I'etendard, to proclaim war;
unefourrure, (cord.) to take off a service;
la garde, (mil.) to relieve guard;
un objet, (surv.) to take a bearing on an
object;
le piquet, to retire precipitately, "to pull up
stakes";
un plan, to draw up, make, a plan, a ground
plan; to plot;
un poste, (mil, sig.) to break up a station;