faltrank

See fall trank. faluccot, n. An obsolete variant of felucca. faluns (fä'lönz), n. pl. [F. dial.] In geol., strata of Miocene Tertiary age occurring in Touraine, France. They occur in widely extended but isolated patches, rarely more than fifty feet thick, and have long been used as a fertilizer. The rock consists of a coarse breccia of shells and shell-fragments, mixed with sand, and in places pa ing into limestone. It also contains numerous bones of mammals, of species indicating a warmer climate than that of the region at the present time. falwelt, a. A Middle English form of fallow1. falwe2t, a. and n. A Middle English form of fallow2. falx (falks), n.; pl. falces (fal'sēz). [L., a sickle: see falcate, falcon, etc.] 1. A metal implement, of a form suitable for a pruning-hook, sometimes found among ancient remains.-2. In an at., something which is falcate or falciform; specifically, a fold of the dura mater separating parts of the brain. See falx cere bri and falx cerebelli, below.-3. In herpet., one of the poison-fangs of a serpent: so called from its shape: generally used in the plural.-4. In entom., one of the jointed appendages der the front of a spider's cephalothorax, used to seize and kill un its prey. It consists of two parts, the base and the pointed and curved fang, which folds down in a groove of the base. A duct Head and Anterior Part (including two pairs of legs) of a Tarantula (Tarantula front shows two large and four shall simple carol in ens is), enlarged. falces. The eyes. ble, perhaps a var. of wamble (cf. early ME. famplen, a verb once occurring, appar. meaning put into' (the mouth of an infant), 'feed'), + crop.] The rumen, paunch, or first stomach of a ruminant; a farding-bag. famel (fam), n. [ fame , fame Pr. Sp. Pg. It. fama , fāma , the common talk, a report, personified Rumor; public opinion, good or bad fame (= Gr. φήμη , a voice (of mysterious source), a prophetic voice, oraGr. cle, a rumor, reputation, etc.), far i φάναι , speak, say: see fable , fate .] 1. A public report or rumor. [Obsolete or archaic.] Alle thing is sche trowith with-out fame That goddis lawe techith truthe to be, And bidith therbi for ony blame. Hymns to Virgin , etc. (E. E. T. S.), p. 116. The fame thereof was heard in Pharaoh's house, saying, Joseph's brethren are come. Gen. xlv. 16. Rebels, figured by the giants, and seditious fames and libels, are but brothers and sisters, masculine and feminine. Bacon , Fragment of an E ay on Fame (ed. 1887). There goes a fame , and that seconded by most of our own Historians, though not those the ancientest, that Const an tine was born in this Iland. Milton , Hist. Eng., ii. 2. Report or opinion widely diffused; renown; notoriety; celebrity, favorable or unfavorable, but especially the former; reputation: as, the fame of Washington; literary fame : rarely used in the plural. Death is ineuitable and the fame of vertue immortall. Quoted in Booke of Precedence (E. E. T. S., extra ser.), [Forewords, p. iii. A you sand glorious actions, that might claim Triumphant laurels, and immortal fame . Add is on, The Campaign. He who would win good fame , said an old law, must hold his own against two foes and even against three; it is only from four that he may fly without shame. J. R. Green, Conq. of Eng., p. 54. This is he [Dante] who among literary fames finds only two that for growth and immutability can parallel his own. Lowell, Among my Books, 2d ser., p. 3. House of ill fame. See house . Syn. 2. Honor , Renown , Glory (see glory ); reputation, credit, notoriety. famel (fam), v . t.; pret. and pp. famed , ppr. faming. [ famen , make famous, more frequently make infamous, defame. Cf. ML. The field, where thou art famed runs through both joints, opening at the tip of the fang, and is connected with a poison-gland in the cephalothorax. famare , fama , fame.] 1. To report. The falces are also called cheliceræ and, incorrectly, man dibles. In some species the two organs are united. The term is extended to the similar or corresponding mouthparts of other arachnidans. Without any perceptible displacement of itself, it [a spider) flashed its falces into my flesh. H. O. Forbes, Eastern Archipelago, p. 216. 5. In echinoderms, a rotula; one of the mouthparts of a sea-urchin. See cut under Echinoi dea.-6t. A certain grip or trick in wrestling. Or by the girdles grasp'd, they practise with the hip, The forward, backward falx , the mare, the turn, the trip. Drayton, Polyolbion, i. 244. Falx cerebelli, a fold of the dura mater between the lateral lobes of the cerebellum. - Falx cerebri, the longitudinal vertical falcate fold of the dura mater between the hemispheres of the cerebrum. It is o ified in some animals. To have wrought such wonders. Milton , S. A., 1. 1094. 2. To make famous. Your second birth Will fame old Lethe's flood. B. Jonson, Masque of Christmas. Fam'd in Misfortune, and in Ruin great. Prior, Ode to the Queen, st. 9. familiar (equiv. to familiaricus, domestic) of familia, a family: see family.] Domestic. [Rare.] Why, thou lookst as like a married man already, with as grave a fatherly famelick countenance as ever I saw. Otway, The Atheist (1684).