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▪ I. phalange1|ˈfælændʒ|
Also 6 falange, fallange; phalangue, 7 phalang.
[a. Fr. phalange, in 13th c. phalenge (Hatz.-Darm.), = It. falange, ad. L. phalange-m, acc. of phalanx.]
†1. = phalanx 1. Obs.
1560Whitehorne Arte Warre (1573) 29 b, Calld, of the Romanes, a Legion; of Greekes, a Fallange. 1569T. Stocker tr. Diod. Sic. ii. xxxix. 90 He placed..the Elephantes..before the Phalange or maine battail. 1585T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. iii. iii. 73 The Macedonian Phalangue. 1689T. Plunket Char. Gd. Commander, etc. 29/1 The Macedons still march'd in great Phalanges, And kept that order several Parasanges.
2. = phalanx 3, 4.
1864H. Spencer Biol. iii. §135 Here is a digit with its full number of phalanges, and there a digit, of which one phalange has been arrested in its growth. 1864Sala in Daily Tel. 25 Feb., The delicate and taper finger of woman is plunged up to its topmost phalange into every political pie. 1893Syd. Soc. Lex., Phalange... Also, in Entomol., a joint of the tarsus in Insecta. Also, in Bot., a mass of stamens partly joined together by their filaments.
Add:3. (With capital initial.) Also (pl. form) ‖ phalanges. [Shortened f. F. Phalanges Libanaises Lebanese phalanges.] A right-wing Maronite party in Lebanon, founded in 1936 by Pierre Jumayyil. Now chiefly attrib., esp. as Phalange party. Cf. Phalangist n.2 2.
1957N. A. Ziadeh Syria & Lebanon viii. 195 The Phalanges recognised the leader as the supreme executive with a somewhat führer-type position and authority. 1958D. Stewart Turmoil in Beirut 13 There was, among the Moslems, an extremist group, the Najjadé Party, comparable to the Phalanges among the Christians. 1975Economist 5 July 53/3 The right-wing Maronite Phalange party insisted on being included. 1981Ibid. 24 Jan. 43/2 These [parties] include the Christian Phalange in Lebanon, the Umma in Sudan, the Neo-Destour in Tunisia. 1987N.Y. Times 17 May i. 4/2 The Voice of Lebanon, the radio station of the President's Phalange Party.
▪ II. phalange2
Also 6 phalanga, phalang.
[= F. phalange, It. falangio, ad. L. phalangium, a. Gr. ϕαλάγγιον, in same senses.]
†1. = phalangium l. Obs.
1551Turner Herbal i. D iv, Good against the bytinges of phalanges & scorpiones. 1587Greene Carde of Fancie Wks. (Grosart) IV. 112 He that is venomed by the Phalanga, feeleth such painefull passions, as he runneth mad. 1666J. Davies Hist. Caribby Isles 82 Other kinds of great Flies..in these Islands, and which some call Phalanges. 1694Motteux Rabelais iv. lxvii. (1737) 265 Phalangs, Sloe⁓worms, Horn-worms.
2. An arachnid of the genus phalangium, or family Phalangidæ; a phalangid.
1876E. Schuyler Turkistan xi. II. 123 The phalange (Solpuga araneoides and S. intrepida) is of a yellowish or reddish brown, also with long hair, and when walking seems as large as one's two fists. |