Obs. [f. L. falc-em sickle: see -ATION.]
1. The condition of being falcate; concr. a falcate outgrowth or appendage, hook.
1646. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., V. iii. 236. The Locusts have Antennæ or long horns before, with a long falcation or forcipated tayle behinde; and being ordained for saltation, their hinder legs to far exceed the other.
1714. Derham, Astro-Theol., V. i. (1715), 107. In whose [the Moon and Venus’] Falcations the dark part of their Globes may be perceived.
2. (See quot.).
1656. Blount, Glossogr., Falcation, a mowing or cutting with Bill or Hook.
1721–1800. in Bailey.
