Every district and every chef-lieu had every year an assembly of deputies who named a permanent committee for three years.

He mounted the polished stairs gingerly, gave one look at the bedroom part-way up, touched his cap, and said: "That will do for the chef-major.

Proficient N. proficient, expert, adept, dab; dabster^, crackerjack; connoisseur &c (scholar) 492; master, master hand; prima donna [Sp.], first fiddle, top gun, chef de cuisine, top sawyer; protagonist; past master; mahatma. picked man; medallist, prizeman^. veteran; old stager, old campaigner, old soldier, old file, old hand; man of business, man of the world.

He made very few changes, merely taking the young Count de Lasteyrie, now Marquis de Lasteyrie, grandnephew of the Marquis de Lafayette, son of M. Jules de Lasteyrie, a senator and devoted friend of the Orleans family, as his chef de cabinet.

Fabre d'Eglantine, chef des fripons.

EMPEREUR, m., chef d'un empire.

The old-time huge joints, trussed hares, whole sucking pigs, &c., are fast vanishing from our tables, and the smart chef exerts himself to produce as many recherche and mysterious little made dishes as possible.

His cousin is, besides, named chef du conseil des finances; a very honourable, very dignified, and very idle place, and never filled since the Duc de Bethune had it.

I hunted up the chef de gare, and asked him if I could be sure of being able to return if I went up to Paris.

Les tribus d'Israël avaient pour chef un juge; La terre, où l'homme errait sous la tente, inquiet Des empreintes de pieds de géant qu'il voyait, Était encor mouillée et molle du déluge.

"Really excellent curry your chef makes, Tilchester.

Kruft, chef du materiel at Quai d'Orsay.

MONARQUE, m., chef d'une monarchie.

Fried macaroni, as the P.M.G. chef remarks in an inspired passage, is delicious if properly prepared with hot milk and quickly fried in hot fat.

RÉGNER, gouverner un État comme chef suprême; dominer.

CAPITAINE, m., chef d'une troupe.

PRÉSIDENT, E, chef d'une assemblée, d'un état républicain, d'un tribunal, etc. PRESQUE, à peu près, pas tout à fait.

Au moment où le chef veut qu'on parte, il fait frapper trois coups.

"Le conseil de guerre, séant à Lyon, a condamné hier le principal chef du complot bonapartiste, monsieur Henri de Flavigneul, un jeune homme de vingt-cinq ans!" LA COMTESSE.

PATRON, m. chef d'une entreprise commerciale.

The bowl with its strange-looking contents arrested, of course, the attention of the observant Dodd, and, poking it inquiringly with a long-handled spoon, he turned to Viushin, who, as chef-de-cuisine, was supposed to know all about it, and demanded: "What's this you've got?" "That?" answered Viushin, promptly, "that's kasha" (hasty pudding made of rice).

Henrietta and I were very anxious to see the ceremony at the Elysee, and asked Mollard, Introducteur des Ambassadeurs and chef du Protocolea most important man on all official occasions, if he couldn't put us somewhere in a corner, where we could see, without taking any part.