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||Fau`bourg" (fō`b&oomac;r"; E.
fō"b&oomac;rg), n. [F.] A suburb of a
French city; also, a district now within a city, but formerly without
its walls.

Fau"cal (?), a. [L. fauces
throat.] Pertaining to the fauces, or opening of the throat;
faucial; esp., (Phon.) produced in the fauces, as
certain deep guttural sounds found in the Semitic and some other
languages.

Ayin is the most difficult of the
faucals.

||Fau"ces (?), n. pl. [L.]
1. (Anat.) The narrow passage from the
mouth to the pharynx, situated between the soft palate and the base
of the tongue; -- called also the isthmus of the fauces. On
either side of the passage two membranous folds, called the
pillars of the fauces, inclose the tonsils.

2. (Bot.) The throat of a calyx,
corolla, etc.

3. (Zoöl.) That portion of the
interior of a spiral shell which can be seen by looking into the
aperture.


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