Fakir
a Mohammedan religious mendicant. Among Anglo-Indians, and even among the Hindus, it is often used for a native mendicant of any faith; but specifically it is one of the Mohammedan FALCON religion; a Hindu mendicant being better called a Gosavee. Mohammendan fakirs in the East either live in communities or are solitary. The latter wander from place to place, are of filthy habits, and are regarded by the unthinking Mohammedan multitude as men of great sanctity.
In the United States, fakir is a slang name given to one of the numerous street merchants and mountebanks.
FALAISE (fa-lais'), a town of France, department of Calvados, 15 miles from Caen. The castle, which stands on a precipice, and in which William the Conqueror was born in 1024, is in ruins, with the exception of a tower.