falcation
English
Noun
falcation (countable and uncountable, plural falcations)
- (archaic) The state of being falcate; a bend in the form of a sickle.
- 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
- the Locuſs have Antenna or long horns before, with a long falcation or forcipated tail behind
References
- “falcation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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