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flic is (aid to ffiee j when dire&ly down, file is faid to Jllmi, 
When (lie fneeses, it is called foiling. When fiie i.iifes 
her feathers, and (hakes herfelf, (lie is fuid to rouze. 
When, aider mantling, (he crolfes her wings together over 
her back, (he is faid 10 warble. 
When a falcon feizes, (he is faid to bind. When, after 
feizing, (he pulls olf the feathers, (he is faid to plume. 
When flie raifes a fowl aloft, and at length defcends with 
it to the ground, it is called miffing. When, being aloft, 
flie defcends to (trike her prey, it is called Jlooping . When 
(he fiies out too far from the game, (lie is faid to rake , 
When, for fa king her proper game, (lie flies at pies, 
crows, &c. it is called check. When, milling' the fowl, 
flie betakes herfelf to tlie next check, fhe is faid to fly on 
head. The bird or game (he fiies at is called the quarry. 
The dead body of a bird killed by the falcon, is called a 
pelt. When (lie flies away with the quarry, fire is (aid to 
carry. When, in (looping, flie turns two or three times 
on the wing, to recover herfelf ere (lie feizes, it is called 
canceliering. When fhe hits the prey, yet does not trufs 
it, it is called rujf. The making a falcon tame and gentle, 
is culled reclaiming. The bringing her to endure com¬ 
pany, manning her. An old (launch falcon, ufed to fly 
and fet example to a young one, is called a make-hawk. 
The reclaiming, manning, breaking, or training up a 
falcon to the fport, conlilts in a number of little practices 
and observances, calculated to familiarize the falconer to 
jiis bird, to procure its love, and enfure its obedience.— 
When a young falcon comes readily to the lure, a pair 
of luring-bells are to be put upon her ; and the more apt 
•flie is to range out, or fiy wild, the larger nmft the bells 
be. Having ufed her to this, and fhe being fliarp fet, 
side out into feme large field unencumbered with trees, 
with your hawk on your fifl ; then having loofened her 
hood, which mull be ufed during the time of her train¬ 
ing, vvhiflle foftly to provoke her to fiy ; unhood her, 
and let her ily with her head into the wind ; for by that 
means (he will be the better able to get upon the wing, 
and will naturally foar upwards, flying a circle. After 
(he has flown three or four turns, then lure her with your 
voice, calling the lure about your head, having firft tied a 
young pallet to it; and if your falcon come in and ap¬ 
proach near you, reward her by letting her kill it, and by 
giving her the pinion or liver. 
You will often find, that when (lie flies from the fifty 
file will take (land on the ground : this is a fault which 
is very common with young falcons. To remedy this, 
fright her up ; and when you have forced her to take a 
turn or two., take her down to the lure and feed her. 
But if this fliould not do, you muft have in readinefs a 
duck healed, fo that (lie may fee no way but backwards, 
and that will make her mount the higher. Hold this 
duck in your hand, by one of the wings near the body ; 
then lure with the voice to make the falcon turn her 
head, and when (lie is at a reafoliable pitch, call the duck 
juft under her ; when, if (he (hike, permit her to kill it, 
and reward her by giving her fonie of the entrails. After 
you have practifed this for fome time, your hawk will 
leave the (land, and, delighted to be on the wing, will be 
very obedient. 
The annexed Engraving reprefents the trained falcon 
perched on the hand of the falconer, confined by the 
leafh or thong, with a figure alio of the hood which the 
falconers put upon the bird’s bead when they train her 
for the chace. After being thus domefticated, the falcon 
becomes fond of the fcciety of man, is very docile, and 
acquires a wonderful dexterity in attacking and feizing 
herons and other birds, hares, rabbits, &c. When the 
falcon attacks birds or any animal on the ground, the 
direition of its flight is in the arc of a circle ; but, for 
feizing birds on the wing, he riles conliderably above 
them, and wheels about till by lus excellent light he is 
lure of his aim, then darts upon them with the fwiftnefs 
of an arrow, and never quits his prey til! he brings it to 
the ground, where he holds jt till the falconer comes up 
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and rewards him with a part. It was fome times the 
cuftopi with falconers to fet the prey at liberty ; a heron, 
for inftance, if not too much wounded, with a ft Iyer chain 
and ticket round its leg, denoting the year when it was 
taken, that thus the age of fucli birds might in fome 
meafure be afeertained. The fame was likewife done 
with eagles and falcons, turned adrift on purpofe into the 
woods and forefts, even after having been long ufed for 
the fport. 
FAI.D, or Fal'oa, f. in old records, a fiteep-fold. 
FAI.D'AGE, f. f faldagium, barbarous Larin.] A pri¬ 
vilege which anciently feveral lords referved to then - 
felves of (etting up folds for ftteep, in any fields within 
their manors, the better to manure them ; and this not 
only with their own, but their tenants’ Iheep. This faldar,- 
in fome places they call a foldcourfe or freehold. Harris. 
FALD'FEE, _/i A competition paid anciently by te¬ 
nants for the privilege of faldage. 
FAL'DING, /. A kind of coarfe cloth. 
FAL'DISDORY, J\ [of pylbe, a hedge, and ■prop, 
Sax. a place.] The bilhop’s leat or throne within the 
chancel. 
FALD'STOOL, or Foldstooi., f. A kind of ftool 
placed at the Couth fide of the altar, at which the kings 
of England kneel at their coronation. 
FALE, a river of England, in the county of Cornwall, 
which riles about five miles fouth-eaft from St. Columb 
Major, and runs into the fea at Falmouth. 
FALE'MI, a river of Africa, which runs into the Se¬ 
negal twenty miles weft of Gallant. 
FALE'RA, f. in falconry, a difeafe in hawks. 
FALE'RIA, anciently a town of Picenum, now Falle- 
rona, of which the inhabitants were called Falericnfes. Pliny. 
FALE'RJf, anciently a town of Hetruria, on the weft 
of the Tiber j Falifci, the people of the town and terri¬ 
tory. The territory was famous for its rich paftures ; 
hence the gramen Falifcum in authors. Eutropius and 
Frontinus call the town Falifci ; which, according to the 
laft, was fqrnamed Colonia Junonia. The Falifci are called 
Aequi by Virgil ; becaufe they afforded fupplemental laws 
to the two tables. Servius. 
FALE'RN,/! in falconry, a difeafe in hawks, in which 
their talons grow white. 
FALER'NIAN, adj. [from Falernus.] Belonging to Fa- 
lernus ; belonging to the wine of the Faternus. 
FALER'NIAN, J. [from the adj.] The wine of the 
Falernus. 
FALER'NUM, f. [from Falernus.'] Falernian wine; 
mufeadine. 
FALER'NUS, a fertile mountain and plain of Cam¬ 
pania, famous for its wine, which the Roman poets have 
greatly celebrated. Livy. 
FALE'SlA, f- m old records, a hill or down by the 
fea fide. 
FA'LIN, a river of Chinefe Tartary, which runs into 
the Sea of Japan. Lat. 43. 5. N. Ion. 151.2. K. Ferro, 
FA'LIOS, a town of Afiatic Turkey, on the Black Sea : 
twenty-four miles weft of Amafieh. 
FALIS'CI, a people of Hetruria, originally a Macedo. 
nian colony. When they were befieged by Camillus, -a 
fchool-mafter went out of the gates of the city with his 
pupils and betrayed them into the hands of the Roman 
enemy, that by inch a polfeftion he might eafily oblige 
the place to furrender. Camillus heard the pfopbfal with 
indignation, and ordered the man to be ftripped naked 
and whipped back to the town by thole whom his perfidy 
wifhed to betray. This inftance of generofity operated 
upon the people fo powerfully, that they furre'ndered to 
the Romans. Plutarch. 
FALK. (John Peter), one of the feientific travellers 
employed by the late emprefs of Ruflia to explore her 
vaft dominions, born in Wellrogothia in Sweden, in 5727- 
He ftudied medicine at the unrverfity of U-pfal, and went 
through a courfe of botany under the celebrated Linnaeus, 
to whole Ion he was tutor; and through his recommen¬ 
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