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Word Meanings - DECIDENCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A falling off. Sir T. Browne.

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  • FALLALS; FAL-LALS
    Gay ornaments; frippery; gewgaws. Thackeray.
  • FALLER
    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. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, falls.
  • FALLOW
    Left untilled or unsowed after plowing; uncultivated; as, fallow ground. Fallow chat, Fallow finch , a small European bird, the wheatear . See Wheatear. (more info) vaal fallow, faded, OHG. falo, G. falb, fahl, Icel. fölr, and prob. to Lith.
  • FALLOPIAN
    Pertaining to, or discovered by, Fallopius; as, the Fallopian tubes or oviducts, the ducts or canals which conduct the ova from the ovaries to the uterus.
  • FALLENCY
    An exception. Jer. Taylor.
  • FALLEN
    Dropped; prostrate; degraded; ruined; decreased; dead. Some ruined temple or fallen monument. Rogers.
  • FALLFISH
    A fresh-water fish of the United States ; - - called also silver chub, and Shiner. The name is also applied to other allied species.
  • FALLING
    from Fall, v. i. Falling away, Falling off, etc. See To fall away, To fall off, etc., under Fall, v. i. -- Falling band, the plain, broad, linen collar turning down over the doublet, worn in the early part of the 17th century. -- Falling sickness
  • FALLIBLY
    In a fallible manner.
  • FALLAX
    Cavillation; a caviling. Cranmer.
  • FALLOWNESS
    A well or opening, through the successive floors of a warehouse or manufactory, through which goods are raised or lowered. Bartlett.
  • FALLACIOUS
    Embodying or pertaining to a fallacy; illogical; fitted to deceive; misleading; delusive; as, fallacious arguments or reasoning. -- Fal*la"cious*ly, adv. -Fal*la"cious*ness, n.
  • FALL
    G. fallen, Icel. Falla, Sw. falla, Dan. falde, Lith. pulti, L. fallere to deceive, Gr. sfa`llein to cause to fall, Skr. sphal, 1. To Descend, either suddenly or gradually; particularly, to descend by the force of gravity; to drop; to sink; as,
  • FALLACY
    An argument, or apparent argument, which professes to be decisive of the matter at issue, while in reality it is not; a sophism. Syn. -- Deception; deceit; mistake. -- Fallacy, Sophistry. A fallacy is an argument which professes to be decisive,
  • FALLOWIST
    One who favors the practice of fallowing land. Sinclair.
  • FALLIBLE
    Liable to fail, mistake, or err; liable to deceive or to be deceived; as, all men are fallible; our opinions and hopes are fallible.
  • FALLIBILITY
    The state of being fallible; liability to deceive or to be deceived; as, the fallibity of an argument or of an adviser.
  • FALLOW DEER
    A European species of deer , much smaller than the red deer. In summer both sexes are spotted with white. It is common in England, where it is often domesticated in the parks.
  • THRYFALLOW
    To plow for the third time in summer; to trifallow. Tusser.
  • UNFALLIBLE
    Infallible. Shak.
  • MISFALL
    To befall, as ill luck; to happen to unluckily. Chaucer.
  • BEFALL
    To happen to. I beseech your grace that I may know The worst that may befall me. Shak.
  • INFALLIBLY
    In an infallible manner; certainly; unfailingly; unerringly. Blair.
  • RAINFALL
    A fall or descent of rain; the water, or amount of water, that falls in rain; as, the average annual rainfall of a region. Supplied by the rainfall of the outer ranges of Sinchul and Singaleleh. Hooker.
  • JAW-FALLEN
    Dejected; chopfallen.
  • CRESTFALLEN
    1. With hanging head; hence, dispirited; dejected; cowed. Let it make thee crestfullen; Ay, and allay this thy abortive pride. Shak. 2. Having the crest, or upper part of the neck, hanging to one side; -- said of a horse.
  • PITFALLING
    Entrapping; insnaring. "Full of . . . contradiction and pitfalling dispenses." Milton.
  • TRIFALLOW
    To plow the third time before sowing, as land. Mortimer.
  • DOWNFALLEN
    Fallen; ruined. Carew.
  • DOWNFALLING
    Falling down.

 

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