Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Plural of
falx .
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Examples
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"'Et curvae rigidum falces conflantur in ensem,"'said Camors, continuing the broken quotation.
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Laomedonteae luimus periuria Troiae. iam pridem nobis caeli te regia, Caesar, 80 inuidet atque hominum queritur curare triumphos, quippe ubi fas uersum atque nefas; tot bella per orbem, tam multae scelerum facies, non ullus aratro dignus honos, squalent abductis arua colonis, et curuae rigidum falces conflantur in ensem.
Solem quis dicere falsum audeat? Vergil 1912
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In other she carries it in her falces until the young are hatched.
A Book of Natural History Young Folks' Library Volume XIV. Various 1891
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The spider never moved while I was plucking or twirling the leaf, and it was only when I placed the tip of my little finger on it, that I observed that it was a spider, when it, without any displacement of itself, flashed its falces into my flesh.
A Book of Natural History Young Folks' Library Volume XIV. Various 1891
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They did nothing so vulgar and natural as to make use of their falces, and never once actually touched each other, but the fight was none the less deadly.
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Their long, shiny black, sickle-shaped falces are dangerous weapons.
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"'Et curvae rigidum falces conflantur in ensem,"'said Camors, continuing the broken quotation.
Monsieur De Camors — Complete Octave Feuillet 1855
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The falces, or reaping-hook claws, of the great crab-spider are of enormous size, and ai-e sometimes set in gold and used as toothpicks, from the idea that they possess some medicinal virtue to cure the toothache.
The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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Sf • falces veruncidatas, velroflrabiSj vel denticulatas nominat, quibus medius cul* ms fecetur; fed hae pertinent ad tertlum modum Varro« sds, Deinceps Columella: multimergis alii peFHnibusfpicam
Scriptorvm rei rvsticae vetervm latinorvm tomvs primvs-[qvartvs].. 1794
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Vae, ficut alyeus maris aqyis operitur: de pade univerfali iaeer genresi cùm tundent gladios fiios in ligones, & haftas liias in falces 8cc.
Lux in tenebris, hoc est prophetiæ donum quô Deus Ecclesiam Evangelicam, in regno Bohemiæ ... Christoph Kotter , Krystyna Poniatowska 1657
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