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FALLIBPLITY, f. Liablenefs to be deceived * un¬ 
certainty; poffibility of error.—There is a great deal of 
fallibility in the teftimony of men ; yet fome things we may 
be almoft as certain of, as that the fun fhines, or that five 
twenties make an hundred. Watts. 
FAL'LIBLF, adj. \_fallo , Lat.] Liable to error; fuch 
as may be deceived.—Do not falfify your refolution with 
hopes that ar e fallible : to-morrow you mud die,. Shake- 
J'peare. 
FALL'ING, or Falling in ,f. Indentings oppofed to 
prominence.—It Ihews the nole and eyebrows, with the 
feveral prominences, and fallings in of the features, much 
more diftinftly than any other kind of figure. Addifon. 
FALLINGBOS'TEL,a town of G ermany, in the circle 
of Lower Saxony, and principality of Luneburg-Zell : 
fourteen miles north-eafl of Rethem. 
FALI/ING EVIL, f. A difeafe in horfes. 
FALL'ING OFF, f. A fea term, the movement of the 
head of a fhip to leeward. 
< 1 * ALL'ING SICK'NESS,/! The epilepfy ; adifeafein 
which the patient is without any warning deprived at 
once of his lenfes, and falls down. See Medicine. —Did 
Ctefar fwoon ?—He fell down in the market-place, and 
foam’d at mouth, and was fpeechlefs.-—He hath the fal. 
kng Jicknefs. Shakefpearc. —The dogfilher is goodagainft the 
falling Jicknefs. Walton. 
FALL'ING SPRING, a branch of James River, in 
Virginia, where it is called Jackfon’s river, riling in the 
mountain twenty miles fouth-weft of the Warm Spring. 
The water falls over the rock two hundred feet, which is 
about fifty feet higher than the fall of the Niagara. Be¬ 
tween the falling fheet of water, and the rock below, a 
man may walk acrofs dry. 
FALLO'PIAN, adj. [from Fallopius.'] In anatomy, be¬ 
longing to two remarkable tubes or dudts in the womb. 
FALLO'PIUS (Gabriel) , an eminent anatomill, born at 
Modena in 1523. He purfued his ftudies, partly in Ferrara, 
where among other preceptors he attended upon Antony 
Mufla Braffavola, and partly at Padua, where he is faid to 
have been a difciple of the great Vefalius. He was profefior 
firfi: in Ferrara, which he quitted in 1548 for Pifa. After 
remaining there for three years, he removed to Padua, 
where lie was profeffor of forgery, anatomy, and materia 
medico, and had alfo the infpedtion of the botanical gar¬ 
den. In thefe various employments, and the compolition 
of his valuable works, he fully occupied a life which, to 
the lofs of fcience, was cut fhort at an early period. He 
died of a pleurify in 1562. He was the firfi who wrote 
accurately on the vefiels and bones of the foetus. He 
greatly improved the defeription of the female organs, 
and particularly of the tubes of the uterus, which, have 
fince borne his name. Among his pofthumous w orks are 
home others upon anatomical topics, but of no great con- 
fequence. In the praifiice of phyfic, the moft valuable of 
the writings of Fallopius is his treatife De Morbo Gallico, 
Patv. 1564, 4to. often reprinted. It contains the fub- 
fiunce of his lectures on that difeafe, and is the refult of 
much experience. His work De Medicamentis Simplicibus 
Purgantibus, 4to. edited by his difciple Marcolinus in 
1566, is chiefly formed upon the old theory of the dif¬ 
ferent humours and their feveral attractions. In furgery 
Fallopius was a great pradtitioner and obferver, but his 
works in that branch being pofihumous, are come to 11s 
in an imperfect ftate. They contain, however, many va¬ 
luable remarks and improvements of his own. They are, 
De Ulceribus & de Tumoribus prater Naturam, lib. II. Venet. 
1563, 4to. De Vulneribus in gencrc, &c. 1571, qto. Com¬ 
ment in Hippocrat. de Vulneribus Capitis, Venet. 1566, 4to. 
De Decoratione, Patav. 1566, 4:0, De Luxstionibus G? Frac- 
turis, &c. The entire works of Fallopius were printed at 
Venice in 1584, folio; and more complete in 1606, three 
volumes folio. 
FAL'LOW, adj. [palejje, Saxon.] Pile red, or pale 
yellow.—The king, who was excefiively aftedted to hunt¬ 
ing, had a great defire to make a great park for red as 
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well as fallow deer between Richmond and Hampton-court. 
Clarendon. 
How does your fallow greyhound, fir ? 
I heard fay, he was out-run at Cotfale. Shakefpeare. 
Unfowed ; left to- red after the years of tillage. [Sup. 
pofed to be fo called from the colourof naked ground.]—. 
The ridges of the fallow field lay truverfed, fo as the Eng¬ 
lish mult crofs them in prefenting the charge. Hayward .—. 
Plowed, but not lowed ; plowed as prepared for a fecond 
aration.—Her predeceflors, in their cottrle of government; 
did but fometimescaft up the ground; and fo leaving it 
fallow, it became quickly overgrown with weeds. Howel. 
Unplowed ; uncultivated : — 
Her fallow lees 
The darnel, hemlock, and rank fumitory, 
Doth root upon. Shakefpeare. 
Unoccupied ; neglected : 
Shall faints in civil blood filed wallow 
Of faints, and let the caufe lie fallow ? Hudibras. 
FAL'LOW, f. Ground plowed in order to be plowed 
again.—The plowing of fallows is a benefit to land. Mor¬ 
timer. —Ground lying at refi : 
Around are fallows, meads, and paftures fair ; 
A little garden, and a limpid brook, 
By nature’s own contrivance feems difpos’d. Rowe. 
To FAL'LOW, v. n. To plow in order to a fecond plow¬ 
ing.-—Begin to plow up fallows : this firfi fallowing ought 
to be very fhallow. Mortimer. 
FAL'LOWITELD, a town of United America, in the 
fiate of Pennfylvania : thirty miles weft of Philadelphia. 
FAL'LOWNESS, f. Barrennefs ; an exemption from 
bearing fruit : 
Like one, who, in her third widowhood, doth profefs 
Herfelf a nun, ty’d to retirednefs, 
S’ aftedts my mufe now a chafte fallownefs. Donne. 
FALLS, a townfliip of the American States, in Bucks 
county, Pennfylvania. 
FAL'MOUTH, a conftderable fea-port town in the 
countyof Cornwall, diftant 284 ru les from London. The 
river Fale runs into the Englilh channel at this place, and 
from which the town derives its name. It has fo corarao- 
diousa harbour, that (hips of the greateft burden can come 
up to its quay; and there is fuch a fhelter in the many 
creeks belonging to it, that the whole royal navy may ride 
fafe here in any wind, it being, next to Milford Haven, the 
beft road for (hipping in Great-Britain. The town is well- 
built, and its trade has conliderably increafed fince the 
eftablifliment of the packet-boats for Spain, Portugal, and 
the Weft-Indies, which not only bring vaft quantities of 
gold in fpecie and in bars on account of the merchants in 
London, but the Falmouth merchants trade with the Por- 
tuguefe in fliips of their own ; and they have a great Ihare 
alio in the gainful pilchard fifhery. The town is corpo¬ 
rate, being governed by a mayor and aldermen. The 
cuftom-hotife for moft of the Cornifli towns, as well as for 
the head-colledtor, is fettled here, where the duties, in¬ 
cluding thofe of the other ports, are very confiderable. 
The entrance to Falmouth harbour is defended by two 
caftles; the eafternmoft, which Hands on a point of land 
about three miles acrofs the harbour, is called St. Mawe’s; 
and the welternmoft, which is about a mile and a half from 
Falmouth, is called Pendennis : they were both built by 
Henry VIII. and the latter, which Hands on very high 
ground, and is very ftrong, received confiderable additions 
in the reign of queen Elizabeth. Pendennis-caftle was 
beiieged by Cromwell ; the garrifon, which was then 
commanded by lir Peter Killigrew, made a very gallant 
defence, and held a long liege, and there are Hill to be 
feed the remains of Cromwell’s lines, &c. about a quar¬ 
ter of a mile from Falmouth. Near the middle of the en¬ 
trance into Falmouth harbour is a large rock called the 
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