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FALMOUTH, a port town of Cornwall , on a line bay of theEnglish channel, 10 miles S. of Truro . Lon. 4. 57. \V. Lat. 50.8. N. i 1 is^h water on the day of the change and full of the moonat thirty minutes past five in the afternoon.
Falmouth, a township of Antigua , on the S. shore.
Falmouth, a town of Jamaica , called also the Point, on the S.side of Martha Brae harbour.
Falm iUth, a town of the United States , in the district ofMaine , Cumberland county, seated on Casco Bay, 120 milesN. N. E. of Boston .
Falmouth, a town of Pennsylvania, in Lancaster county , 20miles W. of Lanca ter,
FALSE ACTION, if brought against one, whereby he is castinto prison, and dies pending the suit, the law gives no remedy inthis case, because the truth or falsehood of the matter cannot ap-pear before it is tried : and if the plaintiff is barred, or non-suitedat common law, regulaily all the punishment is amercement.
False Bay, a bay lying E. of the Cape of Good Hope ; fre-quented by vessels during the prevalence of the N.W. winds,which begm to blow in May, and render it dangerous to remainin 'Fable Bay. Lon. 18. 33. E. Lat. 34. 10. S.
False Cate Horn, the S. W. point of Terra del Fuego.
False Imprisonment, is a trespass committed against a person,by arresting and imprisoning him without just cause, contrary tolaw ; or where a man is unlawfully detained without legal process:and it is also used for a writ which is brought for this trespass. Ifa person be any way unlawfully detained, it is false imprisonment;and considerable damages are recov erable in those actions.
False News , Spreading of, in order to make discord be-tween the king and nobility, or concerning any great man of therealm, is punishable by common law with line and imprisonment;which is confirmed by statutes Westm. 1. 3 Edw. 1. c. 34. 2Rich. II. stat. 1. cap. 5. and 12 Rich. II. cap. II.
FALSI CRIMEN, in the civil law, is Iraudulent subornationor concealment, with design to darken or hide the truth, and makethings appear otherwise than they are. The crimen falsi is commit-ted, 1. By words, as when a witness swears falsely. 2. By writing,as when a man antedates a coiilr-ct, or the like. 3. By deed, aswhen he sells by false weights and measures.
FALSIFYING A RECORD, signifies shewing it to be erro-neous. Thus lawyers teach, that a person purchasing land of an-other, who is afterwards outlawed of felony, <kc. may falsify therecord, not-only as to the time wherein the felony is supposed tohave been committed, but also as to the point of the offence. Butwhere a man is found guilty by verdict, a purchaser cannot falsifyas to the offence; though be may for the time where the party isfound guilty generally in the indictment, because the time is notmaterial upon evidence.
FALS'l ER, a fertile island of Denmark , at the entrance of theBaltic, S. ot Zealand, 60 miles in circumference. Nyekioping,and Stubbekioping, are the chief towns.
FALSTERBO, a sea-port town of Sweden , in the province ofSchonen, 22 miles S. S. W. of Lund.
FALUGA, a town of Asiatic Turkey, in the Arabian Irak, 25miles S. E. of Bagdad.
Kaluga, a small island near the \V, coast of Sardinia , 12 milesS. of Cape Argentera.
FALX, in anatomy, a process of the dura mater placed betweenthe two hemispheres of the brain, and resembling a reaper’s sickle.
KAMA CLAMOSA, in the judicial procedure of the churchof Scotland, a ground of action before, a presbytery against one ofits members, independent of any regular complaint by a particularaccuser. Any person of a good character may give to the presby-tery a complaint against one of their members; but the presbyteryis not to proceed to the citation of the person accused, until theaccu-er under his hand gives in the complaint, with some accountof its probability, and undertakes to make out the libel, under thepain of being considered as a slanderer. When such an accusationis brought before them, they are obliged candidly to examine theaffair.
FAJUACUST A, or FAMAGUSTA , a city of Asiatic Turkey,on the E. coast of Cyprus , anciently called Kama Augusta. It is^8 odies^W. of Tripoli in Syria .
FAME, iu the heathen mythology, a goddess, celebrated
chiefly by the poets. She is feigned to have been the last of therace of Titans produced by the Earth , to have her palace in theair, and to have a vast number of eyes, ears, and tongues. She ismentioned by Hesiod, and particularly described by Ovid andVirgil.
FAMES CANINA, an excessive appetite. See Bulimy.
KAMI A, orAFAMIA, the modern name of one of the an-cient Apameas.
FAMILIARS, in the Inquisition, persons who assist in appre-hending such as are accused, and carrying them to prison. '1 heyare assistants to the inquisitor, and called familiars, because theybelong to his family, in some provinces of Italy they are calledcross-hearers, and in others the scholars of St. Peter the martyr;and they wear a cross before them on the outside garment. Theyare properlv bailiffs of the inquisition; and the vile office isesteemed so honourable, that noblemen in Portugal have beenambitious of it. Nor is this surprising, when il is considered thatInnocent III . granted very large indulgences and privileges tothese familiars; and that the same plenary indulgence is grantedby the pope to every single exercise of this office, as was grantedby the Lateran council to those who succoured the Holy Land.When several persons are to he taken up at the same time, thesefamiliars are commanded to order matters so, that they may know-nothing of one another’s being apprehended; and it is related, thata father, with his three sons, and three daughters, who lived toge-ther in the same house, were carried prisoners to the inquisition,without knowing any thing of one another’s being there till sevenyears afterwards, when they that were alive were released by anact of faith.
FAMILY, [ familia , Lat.] denotes the persons that live toge-ther in one house, under the direction of one head or chief mana-ger. It also signifies the kindred or lineage of a person, and isused by old writers for a hide or portion of land sufficient tomaintain one family.
Family, in natural history, a term used by authors to expressany order of animals, or other natural productions' of the sameclass.
Family Lake, a lake of N. America . Lou. 93. 20. W. Lat.52. 35. N.
FAMINE, or F’AMENE, in geography, a territory in the\V. part of the latd duchy of Luxemburg ; now included in thedepartment of Forets. Marche and Roche are the chief towns.
Famine, Port, a bay of South America, in the Straits of Ma-gellan . Lon. 71.26. W. Lat. 53. 43. S.
Famine, Port, a fortress on the N. E. coast of Patagonia,where a Spanish garrison perished for want: whence the name ofthe fort and bay. Lon. 70. 20. W. Lat. 55. 44. S.
FAN, a well known contrivance employed c hiefly by femalesto raise wind, cool the air by agitating it, and defend their com-plexion. This kind of toy was introduced into Britain from theEast, where it is very generally used for shading the face from thesun, and guarding it. against troublesome insects. Although thepractice of fanning he sanctioned by fashion, it does not appearto be conducive to health, nor consistent with the operations ofnature, because the evaporations of perspirable matter on the hu-man skin has a greater tendency to cool the body, than the inces-sant fanning, wiping, and rubbing, of the lace. Nevertheless fansmay he useful for affording protection against the rays of the sun,for which purpose, however, parasols will be more convenient
Fan E also an implement of husbandry employed in winnow-ing corn.
FANANO, a town of Modena, in Italy, 25 miles S. of Mo-dena .
FANATICS, wild, enthusiastic visionary persons, who pretendto extraordinary revelation and inspiration, above what is writtenin the sacred scripture. The ancients called those lanatici, whopassed their time in fana, temples, and being or pretending to he,often seized with a kind of enthusiasm, as if inspired by the divi-nity, shewed wild and antic gestures. Prudentius represents themas cutting and slashing their arms with knives. Shaking, the headwas also common among the fanatici; for Lampridius informs us,that the emperor Heliogahalus was arrived to that pitch of mad-ness, as to shake his head with the gashed fanatics. lienee thosewho wish to throw an opprobrium on religion, have, with, equalinjustice and impropriety, applied the epithet to anabaptists, qua-i kers, methodists, See. The conduct of these people fully evince-
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