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Webster 1828 Edition


Fulcre

FUL'CRE

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Noun.
[L.]
1.
A prop or support.
2.
In mechanics, that by which a lever is sustained.
3.
In botany, the part of a plant which serves to support or defend it, or to facilitate some necessary secretion, as a stipule, a bracte, a tendril, a gland, &c.