FALCATED

, one of the phases of the planets, vulgarly called horned. The astronomers say, the moon, or any planet, is Falcated, when the enlightened part appears in form of a crescent, like a sickle, or reaping-hook, which by the Latins is called falx. The moon is Falcated while she moves from the 3d quarter to the conjunction, and so on from hence to the first quarter; the bright part appearing then like a crescent, viz during the first and last quarters. But during the 2d and 3d quarters, the light part appears gibbous, and the dark part Falcated.

FALCON or Faucon, and Falconet or FAUCONET, certain old species of cannon, now long disused.