Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Facula

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

FAC'ULA. Diminutive of Fax. A small or common kind of torch; also, a strip or lath of resinous wood, out of which torches were made, by tying them up into bundles. Cato, R. R. 37. 3.