FPage 23
- English Word Fall Definition Descent of water; a cascade; a cataract; a rush of water down a precipice or steep; -- usually in the plural, sometimes in the singular; as, the falls of Niagara.
- English Word Fall Definition The discharge of a river or current of water into the ocean, or into a lake or pond; as, the fall of the Po into the Gulf of Venice.
- English Word Fall Definition Extent of descent; the distance which anything falls; as, the water of a stream has a fall of five feet.
- English Word Fall Definition The season when leaves fall from trees; autumn.
- English Word Fall Definition That which falls; a falling; as, a fall of rain; a heavy fall of snow.
- English Word Fall Definition The act of felling or cutting down.
- English Word Fall Definition Lapse or declension from innocence or goodness. Specifically: The first apostasy; the act of our first parents in eating the forbidden fruit; also, the apostasy of the rebellious angels.
- English Word Fall Definition Formerly, a kind of ruff or band for the neck; a falling band; a faule.
- English Word Fall Definition That part (as one of the ropes) of a tackle to which the power is applied in hoisting.
- English Word Fallacies Definition of Fallacy
- English Word Fallacious Definition Embodying or pertaining to a fallacy; illogical; fitted to deceive; misleading; delusive; as, fallacious arguments or reasoning.
- English Word Fallacy Definition Deceptive or false appearance; deceitfulness; that which misleads the eye or the mind; deception.
- English Word Fallacy Definition An argument, or apparent argument, which professes to be decisive of the matter at issue, while in reality it is not; a sophism.
- English Word Fallals Definition Gay ornaments; frippery; gewgaws.
- English Word Fallax Definition Cavillation; a caviling.
- English Word Fallen Definition of Fall
- English Word Fallen Definition Dropped; prostrate; degraded; ruined; decreased; dead.
- English Word Fallency Definition An exception.
- English Word Faller Definition One who, or that which, falls.
- English Word Faller Definition A part which acts by falling, as a stamp in a fulling mill, or the device in a spinning machine to arrest motion when a thread breaks.