FALMOUTH, a sea-port town of Antigua, on the south shore, between English Harbour and Rendezvous Bay, seven miles south-east of St. John's.

FALMOUTH, a town of Jamaica, called also the Point, on the south side of Martha Brae Harbour. Long. 61° 28′ W., lat. 17° 9′ N.

FALMOUTH, a town of the United States, in the district of Maine, Cumberland county, seated on Casco Bay, 120 miles N. N. E. of Boston.

FALMOUTH, a township of Massachusetts, in Barnstaple county, fifty miles south-east by south of Boston, on the north-east of Vineyard Sound. It was burnt by the British in 1775.

FALMOUTH, a township of Nova Scotia, in Hants county, opposite Windsor, twenty-eight miles north-west of Halifax.

FALMOUTH, a town of Pennsylvania, in Lancaster county, twenty miles west of Lancaster. FALMOUTH, a town of Virginia, in Stafford county, on the north bank of the Rappahannock; twenty-three miles south-west of Dumfries. FALSE, adj., adv. & v. a.) FALSEFACED, adj.

FALSE HEART,

FALSE HEARTED,

FALSE HOOD, n. s.

Sax. Falre; Fr. faux, fausse; Ital. Span. and Port. falso; Goth. fals

FALSEHEART'EDNESS, n. s. (from fela, to cover

FALSELY, adv. FALSE'NESS, n. s. FALSE'R, FALSIFIABLE, adj. FALSIFICATION, n. s. FALSIFIER,

FAL'SIFY, v. a. & v. n. FAL'SITY, n. s.

or conceal, says Mr. Thomson); Lat. falsus; deceived. Untrue; supposititious; deceitful; dishonest; treacherous; not according to rule: as an adverb, not truly, honestly, or exactly (a barbarism). To false is an obsolete verb, expressing, to make false (a pledge or promise implied); to deceive; evade: falsefaced, falseheart, and falsehearted, all mean deceitful, the first being applied to ap pearances, the last two to motives: as our great bard says,False face must hide what the false heart doth know.' Falsehood, falseness, and falsity, are want of, or contrariety to truth; duplicity sometimes falsehood and falsity express simply want of verbal truth; sometimes intentional deception; a lie; counterfeit ; imposture. See the extract from Dr. Paley. (We only hope it will be felt that his list of non-criminal falsehoods is sufficiently copious). Falsifiable is liable to be counterfeited: falsification, the act of counterfeiting or making any thing appear what it is not, as well as that of making the falsehood of any deceitful thing appear; confutation: to falsify is used also in these different senses, viz. it signifies to confute; to counterfeit, forge, or corrupt; as well as to violate a pledge given: as a neuter verb it meaus to tell falsehoods. Dryden's labored defence (see below) of his use of the verb active, seems almost needless: a shield is falsified when it is pierced, in the same sense as an argument when it is confuted, i. e. the falshood of its assumed character is made to appear. Dr. Johnson says, 'Dryden, with all this effort, was not able to naturalise the new signification, which I have never seen copied, except once by some obscure

nameless' writer, and which, indeed deserves not
barbarous use of falsify as a substantive, first
to be received.' We have copied a far more
Fletcher.
quoted by Mr. Todd, from Beaumont and

In your answers there remains falshood. Job.
Falsifying the balance by deceit.
Amos.

Can you on him such falsities obtrude?
And as a mortal the most wise delude? Sandys.
Such end had the kid; for he would weaned be
Of craft coloured with simplicity;

And such end, pardie, does all them remain,
That of such falser's friendship been fain. Spenser.
The Irish bards use to forge and falsify every thing
as they list, to please or displease any man, Id.

Fair seemly pleasance each to other makes,
With goodly purposes there as they sit ;
And in his falsed fancy he her takes
To be the fairest light that lived yet.

Id. Facrie Queene.

Id Coriolanus.

I am thy king, and thou a falsehearted traitor.
Id. King Henry VI. p. 11.

To counterfeit the dead image of a king in his coin is an high offence; but to counterfeit the living image of a king in his person, exceedeth all falsifications ; except it should be that of a Mahomet, that counterfeits Divine honour. Id.

Club and coffee-house gentlemen, petty merchants of small conceits, who have an empty habit of prating without meaning, always aim at wit, and generally make false fire. Saville. For how can that be false which every tongue Of every mortal man affirms for true?

Which truth hath in all ages been so strong, As, loadstone like, all hearts it ever drew. Davies. Men are spunges, which, to pour out, receive; Who know false play, rather than lose, deceive.

Donne.

Piety is opposed to hypocrisy and insincerity, and all falseness or foulness of intention, especially to personated devotion. Hammond's Fundamentals. To seek to the second means, with neglect of the first, is the fruit of a false faith.

Bp. Hall's Contemplations. Artificer of fraud; he was the first That practised falsehood under saintly show.

I used the word falsify, in this place, to mean that the shield of Turnus was not proof against the spears and javelins of the Trojans, which had pierced it through and through in many places. The words which accompany this new one, makes my meaning plain : Ma si l' Usbergo d' Ambi era perfetto, Che mai poter falsarlo in nessum canto.

Ariosto, cant. xxvi. Falsar cannot otherwise be turned than by falsified: for, his shield was falsed, is not English. I might indeed have contented myself with saying, his shield was pierced, and bored, and stuck with javelins. Id.

The heart of man looks fair, but when we come to lay any weight upon it, the ground is false under us. L'Estrange.

Boasters are naturally falsifiers, and the people of all others, that put their shams the worst together.

The poet invents this fiction, to prevent posterity from searching after this isle, and to preserve his story from detection of falsification. Broome.

There are falsehoods which are not lies; that is, which are not criminal: as, where no one is deceived; which is the case in parables, fables, novels, jests, tales to create mirth, ludicrous embellishments of a story, where the declared design of the speaker is not to inform but to divert, &c. In such instances no confidence is destroyed, because none was reposed.

Paley. Moral Philosophy.

Our Saviour's prophecy stands good in the destruction of the temple, and the dissolution of the Jewish economy, when Jews and Pagans united all their endeavours, under Julian the apostate, to baffle and falsify the prediction. Addison.

Such as are treated ill, and upbraided falsely, find out an intimate friend that will hear their complaints, and endeavour to sooth their secret resentments.

Id. Spectator. He knows that to be inconvenient, which we falsely think convenient for us. Smalridge's Sermons. The prince is in no danger of being betrayed by the falseness, or cheated by the avarice of such a servant. Rogers.

False happiness is like false money, it passes for a

time as well as the true, and serves some ordinary occasions; but, when it is brought to the touch, we find the lightness and alloy, and feel the loss. Pope. This superadds treachery to all the other pestilent ingredients of the crime; 'tis the falsifying the most important trust. Decay of Piety.

When Satire flies abroad on falsehood's wing, Short is her life, and impotent her sting; But, when to truth allied, the wound she gives Sinks deep, and to remotest ages lives. Churchill. It is more from carelessness about truth, than from intentional lying, that there is so much falsehood in the world. Johnson.

FALSE BAY, a bay lying east of the Cape of Good Hope; frequented by vessels during the prevalence of the north-west winds, which begin to blow in May, and render it dangerous to remain in Table Bay. It is terminated on the east by False Cape, and on the west by the Cape of Good Hope. It is eighteen miles wide at its entrance; and the two capes bear due east and west from each other.

FALSE IMPRISONMENT is a trespass committed against a person by arresting and imprisoning him without just cause, contrary to law; or where a man is unlawfully detained without legal process: it is also used for a writ which is brought for this trespass. If a person be any way unlawfully detained it is false imprisonment: and considerable damages are recoverable in those actions. See IMPRISONMENT.

ALSE NEWS, SPREADING OF, in order to make discord between the king and nobility, or concerning any great man of the realm, is punishable by common law with fine and imprisonment; which is confirmed by statutes Westm. 1, 3 Edw. I. cap. 34; 2 Rich. II. stat. 1, cap. 5: and 12 Rich. II. cap. 11.

FALSI CRIMEN, in the civil law, is fraudulent subornation or concealment, with design to darken or hide the truth and make things appear otherwise than they are. The crimen falsi is committed, 1. By words, as when a witness swears falsely. 2 By writing, as when a man antedates a contract, or the like. 3. By deed, as when he sells by false weights and mea

sures.

FALSIFYING A RECORD signifies showing it to be erroneous. Thus lawyers teach, that a person purchasing land of another, who is afterwards outlawed of felony, &c., may falsify the record, not only as to the time wherein the felony is supDosed to have been committed, but also as to the point of the offence. But, where a man is found guilty by verdict, a purchaser cannot falsify as to the offence, though he may for the time where the party is found guilty generally in the indictment, because the time is not material upon evidence.

FALSTER, an island of the Baltic belonging to Denmark, is separated from the east end of Laaland by Guldborg Sound, and from Man by

Grensund. It is eight leagues long, and from one to four broad, containing 150 square miles and 15,000 inhabitants. The south point, called Gieddesby Head, is high and remarkable. It is well watered and fertile, exporting 40,000 tons of corn, and, from the great quantity of fruit it produces, is called the Orchard of Denmark. It has a mineral spring, celebrated for its cures. The towns are Stubbekabing on the north, and Nykobing on the west: the latter is considered the chief place, and has a royal castle; it has besides thirteen villages. The Trindel Reef, with but eight feet water, runs out to the south-east of the island.

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FALTER, v. a. & v. n. Į Isl. vaulttur, a FALTERINGLY. stammerer; Span. faltar, fortè à Lat. fallendo, Minsheu. To fail frequently in utterance; to stammer; hesitate; hence to fail generally: the use of falter, as an active verb, we should imagine to be a corruption from filter, in the instance Dr. Johnson supplies.

Trembling every joynt did inly quake,

to shake.

And faltering tongue at last these words seemed forth
Spenser's Faerie Queene.
This earth shall have a feeling; and these stones
Prove armed soldiers, ere her native king
Shall falter under foul rebellious arms. Shakspeare

The pale assistants on each other stared,
With gaping mouths for issuing words prepared;
The still-born sounds upon the palate hung,
And died imperfect on the faltering tongue. Dryden.

How far idiots are concerned in the want or weakness of any or all faculties, an exact observation of their several ways of faltering would discover.

Locke.

He changes, gods! and falters at the question : His fears, his words, his look declare him guilty.

Smith. Barley for malt must be bold, dry, sweet, and clean faltered from foulness, seeds, and oats.

Mortimer's Husbandry. He found his legs falter. Wiseman's Surgery. How melts my beating heart! as I behold Each lovely nymph, our island's boast and pride, Push on the generous steed, that strokes along, O'er rough, o'er smooth, nor heeds the steepy hill, Nor falters in the extended vale below. Somervile.

Johnson.

These arts in vain our rugged natives try,
Strain out with faltering diffidence a lye,
And gain a kick for aukward flattery.
The bright tear starting in the impassioned eyes
Of silent gratitude; the smiling gaze
Of gratulation faltering while he tries

With voice of transport to proclaim thy praise.
Beattie.
For well did she know that my heart meant no wrong;
But trusted its task to a faultering tongue,
It sunk at the thought but of giving her pain:
Which erred from the feelings it could not explain.
Sheridan.

Then, soft as Elim's well, The precious tears of new-born freedom fell, And he, whose hardened heart alike had borne The house of bondage and the oppressor's frown, The stubborn slave, by hope's new beams subdued, In faltering accents sobbed his gratitude.

Bp. Heber. FALUGA, a town in the pachalic of Bagdad, on the west bank of the Euphrates, whence an arm of that river issues to join the Tigris. twenty-five miles south of Bagdad.

It is

I courted fame but as a spur to brave And honest deeds; and who despises fume, Will soon renounce the virtues that deserve it. Mallet. Happy are those princes who are educated by men who are at once virtuous and wise, and have been for some time in the school of affliction; who weigh happiness against glory, and teach their royal pupils the real value of fame. Goldsmith.

If parliament were to consider the sporting with reputation of as much importance as sporting on manors, and pass an act for the preservation of fame, there are many would thank them for the bill. Sheridan,

His British fame; the popular celebrity of his despicable work, had preceded him, and rendered a particular report to his co-plotters unnecessary.

Cheetham's Life of Paine. FAMILIAR, adj. & n. s. Fr. familier, faFAMILIARLY, adv. mille; Ital. famigFAMILIARIZE, v. a. liare, famiglia; FAMILLE, (Fr.) Span. and Port. FAMILY, n. s. & adj. familiar, familia; Lat. familiaris, familia. Domestic; relating to a family hence affable; unceremonious; intimate with; frequent; easy as a substantive, an intimate friend, acquaintance, or supposed attendant spirit: to familiarise is to make easy by habit or custom: a family, Lat. familia, from famul, or famulus, a servant, anciently and properly the servants belonging to one common master,' says Ainsworth. Those who dwell together; hence those who descend from a common stock or progenitor (for they commonly dwell together), and a course of descent or genealogy; and, in a very correct sense, a tribe, class, or species. En famille is a French phrase for in the manner of a family.

The governor came to us, and, after salutations, said familiarly, that he was come to visit us, and called for a chair, and sat him down. Bacon.

There be two great families of things, sulphureous and mercurial, inflammable and not inflammable, mature and crude, oily and watry. Id.

A poor man found a priest familiar with his wife, and because he spake it abroad, and could not prove it, the priest sued him for defamation. Camden.

It is mischief enough, if they can be drawn to a less dislike of ill; which now, by long acquaintance, is grown so familiar to their eyes, that they cannot think it so loathsome, as at the first view.

Bp. Hall. God loves at once familiarity and fear; familiarity in our conversation, and fear in his commands. Id. Contemplations.

Or changed at length, and to the place conformed In temper and in nature, will receive Familiar the fierce heat, and void of pain.

The genius smiled upon me with a look of coinpassion and affability that familiarized him to my imagination, and at once dispelled all fear and apprehensions. Id. Spectator.

When he finds himself avoided and neglected by his familiars, this affects him. Rogers. We contract at last such an intimacy and familiarity with them, as makes it difficult and irksome for us to Atterbury. call off our minds. Pope.

They range familiar to the dome.
They say any mortals may enjoy the most intimate
familiarities with these gentle spirits.
Id.
Horace still charms with graceful negligence,
And without method talks us into sense;
Will, like a friend, familiarly conve
The truest notions in the easiest wa

If thy ancient but ignoble blood
Has crept through scoundrels ever since the flood,
Go and complain thy family is young,
Nor own thy fathers have been fools so long.

Id.

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Id.

A man must first govern himself, ere he be fit to govern a family. and his family, ere he be fit to bear the government in the commonwealth. Raleigh.

Lesser mists and fogs than those which covered Greece with so long darkness, do familiarly present our senses with as great alterations in the sun and Id, History.

moon.

One idea which is familiar to the mind, connected with others which are new and strange, will bring those new ideas into easy remembrance. Watts.

Prudent men lock up their motives; letting familiars have a key to their heart, as to their garden. Shenstone.

That he became at last ridiculously cautious, and would scarcely answer the most plain and familiar question without previously asking me. Franklin.