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The state of being falcate; a bend in the form of a sickle. Sir T. Browne.

alse; falsehood; a lie; a false assertion. Men often swallow falsities for truths. Sir T. Brown.

.] Kirwan. AA farraginous concurrence of all conditions, tempers, sexes, and ages. Sir T. Browne.

o take firm hold; to clinch; to cling. A horse leech will hardly fasten on a fish. Sir T. Browne.

The year sixty-three is conceived to carry with it the most considerable fatality. Ser T. Browne. By a strange fatality men suffer their dissenting. Eikon Basilike.

Of or pertaining to ashes. [Obs.] Light and favollous particles. Sir T. Browne.

Of the color of a fawn; light yellowish brown.

A black, greenish, or brownish mineral of the chrysolite group. It is a silicate of iron.

alsities for truths, dubiosities for certainties, possibilities for feasibilities. Sir T. Browne.

Like feathers. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

The act of fenerating; interest. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

A mineral of a brownish black color, essentially a tantalo- niobate of yttrium, erbium, and cerium; -- so called after Robert Ferguson.

The act of keeping holiday; cessation from work. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Partaking of, made of, or pertaining to, iron; like iron. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Pertaining to, or derived from, a ferricyanide. Ferricyanic acid (Chem.), a brown crystalline substance, H6(CN)12Fe2, obtained from potassium ferricyanide, and regarded as the type of the ferricyanides; -- called also hydro-ferricyanic acid, hydrogen ferricyanide, etc.

Limestone containing a large percentage of iron carbonate, and hence turning brown on exposure.

Resembling iron rust in appearance or color; brownish red, or yellowish red.

To fertilize; to fecundate. Sir T. Browne.

Haste; hurry. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

A festival; a festive celebration. Sir T. Browne.