Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for FAL-CADE'
FA'KIR, or FA-QUIRFALC'ATE, or FALC'A-TED
FAL-CADE', n. [L. falx, a sickle or sythe.]
A horse is said to make a falcade, when he throws himself on his haunches two or three times, as in very quick curvets; that is, a falcade is a bending very low. – Harris.
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