Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA short Dacian sword resembling a sickle. · A curved fold or process of the dura mater or the peritoneum, especially one of the partition-like folds of the dura mater which extend into the great fissures of the brain. · A chelicera. · A snake's poison fang.
From Latin falx (“sickle”). Doublet of dalk.
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