EYE 



SUPPLEMENT. 



FEU 



ETELETEER, a pointed instrument for 

 piercing eyelet-holes. 



EYE OF A DOME, the aperture at the top 

 for admitting light. 



EVE OF A VOLUTE, the circle in the 

 centre of a volute. 



ETE-PIECES, those lenticular arrange- 

 ments by which the eye is enabled to 

 examine the image formed at the focus of 

 object glasses of telescopes and micro- 

 scopes, Ac. 



EYSELE, an old name for vine-ar. 



EYEBKIGUT, Euphratia Offlcinalis, 



remedy for weak eyes, and < 

 dieuts of British herb tobacco. 



>f the ingre- 



FAOOT-YRW, a genus of plants indige 

 nous in Central Asia, known as the Buck 

 wheat. 



KAK <', a single circle of any rope or cable 

 lying coiled. 



FALCATED, crescent-shaped ; applied to 

 the appearance of the moon in her first 

 and fourth quarter, when she, as described ii 

 Hudibras, " on silver horiis hangs out her 

 light.' 



FALCHTOX, a broad-Maded sword, with 

 convex edge increasing in breadth toward 

 the point. It was more particularly a 



characteristic weapoi 

 century. 



of the thirteenth 



FALCIFORM PROCESS, a process of the 

 dura mater, extending from the tentoriun 

 to the crMa galli, between the hemisphere 

 of the brain. 



FALCULATE, a curved elongated am 

 sharp-pointed claw. 



FALLACY is DICTIONT, a term in logic 

 applied to that class of fallacies in which the 

 conclusion is not Justified by the premises 

 though at first sight it may appear to be so 

 A fallacy of this kind occurs in the great 

 aphorism of Epicurus : " Nothing but matter 

 can touch or be touched." Here the premiss 

 includes matter and touch, and the conclu 

 sion the correlative limitation of the two 

 The fallacy is in the comprehensive sense in 



lay therefore touch matter. This is la 

 act the connecting point between th meta- 

 hysical and the physical, the oversight of 

 which, both by Epicurus and Bishop Berkeley, 

 ed to the denial of anything but matter by 

 he former, and the denial of the existence of 

 matter by the latter. [J. A. S.] 



FALLACY KXTIIA IMCTIO.N KM, a fallacy 

 which is exterior to the language or terms, 

 ud reside, in the matter or fact-. 



FALLOW, an agricultural term applied to 

 irable lands not under crop. A " Naked 

 Fallow" signifies, rested fur a whole year 

 without any cropping ; a " Winter Fallow " 

 is a resting of the land from the autumnal 

 reaping of one year to the spring seed time 

 of the next. This is also sometimes called 

 a " Green Crop Fallow," when green crop 

 follows grain. 



FALLOW DEET, the popular name of 

 .he Cervus Dama, Lin. 



FALSE CADENCE, a cadence in music in 

 which the bass, instead of rising a fourth or 

 'ailing a fifth, rises only a tone or semitone. 



FAMILY, the household or persons, free 

 or bound, who were under the will aud 



ithority of one man, among the Romans, 

 whether in estate or household : also that 

 division of the gent which gave the cogno- 

 men or family name. 



FAN VAI:LTINI:, the name given to that 

 remarkably fine style of perpendicularGothic 

 consisting of Voussoirs rising concentrically 

 rom the springing up towards the centre, and 

 meeting or cutting into each other, or 

 finished with a pendant forming a sort of 

 _milarly ornamented keystone, as exempli- 

 fied in the Peterborough and E:y cathedrals, 



PASTERN'S EVF, the name still given to 

 Shrove Tuesday in Scotland. 



FKATHF.KINI:, turning the blade of an 

 oar into a horizontal position between the 



In man is not matter, but one of the met 

 physical senses exercised through matter 

 If, therefore, in the cont ict with matter, as 

 in the case of the hand touching an object 



the sense of touch be also present, then the of commerce. 



metaphysical is in contact with the physical 

 or, in other words, matter with the imma 

 terial. The fallacy lies in the words toucJ 

 and touched, which Epicurus uses in their 



strokes in rowing. 



the religious festivals or holidays 

 of the Romans. 



FKRN HOOT, the medicinal root of the 

 Aspi'iium Fllix ^fas, a celebrated vermifuge, 

 especially found to be efficacious in cases of 

 tapeworm. The dose is two drachms of the 



which the word " touch " is here used. Touch dry root powdered, along with or followed by 



j pur?e. 



FEHOSIA. the elephant or wood apple of 

 India, F. Elephantum. Its trunk, when 

 wounded, exudes the East India gum arable 



FKRKIC Acrr>, a teroxideof Iron, formed 

 in combination with potash. It is unstable, 

 not found free. 



FERRUGO, the rust disease in plants, 



st comprehensive meaning.forgetting at the consisting of several species of parasitical 

 same time that in this comprehensiveness! fungi of the order Pucciniaei. 

 touch is a. sense, as well as a mere contact of FEDILL.BA, one of the climbing Cu.cii.r- 

 matter with matter. Hence the Epicurean j>os-\bitacece of tropical America, F Cr 

 tulate is a fallacy in dictions, because the It is known under the name of Cacoon, or 

 metaphysical may touch orbe in contact with Seq'^, in Jamaica, as an antidote to poison* 

 matter; and something more thin matter It is erm-tic and purgative. 



