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† ˈfulciment Obs.
[ad. late L. fulcīmentum, f. fulcīre: see fulcrum and -ment.]
A prop or support; usually spec. a fulcrum.
1648Wilkins Math. Magic i. xii. 80 If we conceive the same dis-proportion betwixt their several distances in the former faculties, from the fulciment, or center of gravity, they would both equiponderate. 1657Tomlinson Renou's Disp. 258 Boughs which without fulciments would lay along the ground. 1695W. Alingham Geom. Epit. 54 The fulciment or point of bearing comes nearer the middle of the Oar. 1710Brit. Apollo III. No. 56. 2/1 In this Position of the Body the Fulciment..is the Legs. 1759tr. Duhamel's Husb. i. vii. (1762) 17 And a weight, or fulciment, as he calls it.
fig.1796W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. XIX. 518 A fulciment is wanting to the lever of revolution. |
