Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In North Africa, Arabia, India, and neighboring countries, a small copper coin of various values ranging from one fourth to one tenth of a cent.
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Examples
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Even us, the retarded romanians like a nice falus, wraped in a great material.
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Neniom da pluvo falus; kontrauxe, la malsekajxo en la aero ankoraux restus tie, en la formo de densaj mallumaj cxiamaj nuboj.
A Complete Grammar of Esperanto Ivy Kellerman Reed 1922
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Profuit inferto latices infundere comu Lenscos; ea vifa falus morientibus una.
P. Virgilii Maronis Opera Virgil, Gilbert Wakefield 1796
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Una falus, ambobus erit Mihi parvus lulus Sit comes, et longe fervet veftigia conjunx.
P. Virgilii Maronis opera: emendabat et notulis illustr. G. Wakefield Virgil, Publius Vergilius Maro 1796
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Sin Abfumta falus, et te, pater optume Teucrf Pontus habet Libyse, nec fpes jam reilat luli;
P. Virgilii Maronis opera: emendabat et notulis illustr. G. Wakefield Virgil, Publius Vergilius Maro 1796
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«Slavinnis; cfto brachium noftrum in manc, & falus noftta in temporc tribuli - tionis» Hymnus*
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Is, qui, cum Quaeftor Im - peratoris eplftolam 'legi/Tet, ne Jiifcere quidem contra ant turpilfimis & intolerabilibus poftulatis obfiftere auderet; is Senatus, cui peregrinis & braccatis oppleto, publica falus parum cordi erat, fi fibi modo cuique eflet bene.
Joannis Luzac Oratio de eruditione altrice virtutis civilis præsertim in civitate libera Jan Luzac 1785
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Itaqr/i premo Medico » in cujus manu falus, & vita hominis eft, omnino damnatur.
Adm. rev. p. F. Lucii Ferraris ... Prompta Bibliotheca canonica, juridica, moralis, theologica ... 1782
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Nae tu, imperator, nimio noftri amore nefcifti ad fecuritatem nobis uere prouidere, qui non omnia tecum arma mouilti; cum tua con - feruatio falus noftra fit. v Et quid opus erat ipfi £
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Hora eft jam nos de fomno surgcre*, iiunc enim pr6pior eOf noflra falus, quim ciim crcdf - phets pri4ires.
Diurnale Noviomense. ad usum regalis ecclesiæ S. Quintini accommodatum. Pars hiemalis (æstiva). 1774
hernesheir commented on the word falus
One for the coin listers.
January 31, 2013