Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Same as falcate: the form of word commonly used of the disk of a planet when less than half of it is illuminated.
Wiktionary
Etymologies
- Latin falcatus ("sickle-shaped") (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Wildlife officials say a male falcated duck, a bird common in China, was first spotted at the refuge on Dec. 8.”
The Huffington Post: Falcated Duck, Rare Asian Bird, Makes Appearance In California
“The last streak of light had faded from the west, and a pale lustre kindling in the eastern portions of the sky, became brighter and brighter till the white falcated moon was lifted up above the horizon; while uncountable stars appeared to reflect their brilliancy in the waters below.”
“The word "moon-sickle," reminds me of a passage in Harris, as quoted by Johnson, under the word "falcated.”
“The enlightened part of the moon appears in the form of a sickle or reaping-hook, which is while she is moving from the conjunction to the opposition, or from the new moon to the full: but from full to a new again, the enlightened part appears gibbous, and the dark _falcated_.”
“Tusseh silk moth [1], which feeds on the country almond (_Terminalia catappa_) and the palma Christi or Castor-oil plant; it is easily distinguishable from the Atlas, which has a triangular wing, whilst its is falcated, and the transparent spots are covered with a curious thread-like division drawn across them.”
“Most falcated ducks breed and live in China, and smaller populations live in Japan, North Korea and South Korea.”
“The word "moon-sickle" reminds me of a passage in Harris, as quoted by Johnson, under the word "falcated.”
“The enlightened part of the moon appears in the form of a sickle or reaping-hook, which is while she is moving from the conjunction to the opposition, or from the new moon to the full: but from full to a new again the enlightened part appears gibbous, and the dark falcated.”
“The EBA contains twenty restricted-range birds, seventeen of which are found nowhere else on Earth and five of which (Palawan peacock-pheasant [Polyplectron emphanum], grey imperial-pigeon [Ducula pickeringii], blue-headed racquet-tail [Prioniturus platenae], falcated wren-babbler [Ptilocichla falcata], and Palawan flycatcher [Ficedula platenae]) are considered vulnerable.”
“[wing] is falcated, and the transparent spots are covered with a curious thread-like division drawn across them.”
Lists
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Selected Terms from Falconer's New Un...
1815 edition; ed. William Burney (London: Chatham Publishing, 2006).
widows' men, ballatoon, boomkin, leefange, falconet, maculae, lepus, koff, pardo, periagua, dingass, saik and 238 more...
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Bird Wirds: Adjectives
Adjectives used in actual (non-taxonomic) bird names, past and present.
roseate, glossy, whooping, neotropic, pelagic, ferruginous, crested, whiskered, marbled, tufted, horned, eared and 818 more...
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"... something in the form of a sickle, or reaping-hook: thus the moon is said to be falcated when she appears horned, which happens while she moves from the third quarter to the conjunction, and so on from thence to the first quarter; the bright part appearing then like a crescent, viz. during the first and last quarters: but during the second and third quarters, the light part appears gibbous, and the dark part falcated."
—Falconer's New Universal Dictionary of the Marine (1816), 143 Oct 11, 2008