falcation

English

Etymology

From falcate +‎ -ion?

Noun

falcation (countable and uncountable, plural falcations)

1. (archaic) The state of being falcate; a bend in the form of a sickle.
   • 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:

     the Locuſs have Antenna or long horns before, with a long falcation or forcipated tail behind

References

• “falcation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• factional