Definition of falling

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Falling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fal.

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Incidence :: Incidence (n.) A falling on or upon; an incident; an event.
Recadency :: Recadency (n.) A falling back or descending a second time; a relapse.
Inversion :: Inversion (n.) Said of a subject, or phrase, when the intervals of which it consists are repeated in the contrary direction, rising instead of falling, or vice versa..
Dropping :: Dropping (n.) The action of causing to drop or of letting drop; falling.
Inequality :: Inequality (n.) Unevenness; want of levelness; the alternate rising and falling of a surface; as, the inequalities of the surface of the earth, or of a marble slab, etc..
Bracket :: Bracket (n.) An architectural member, plain or ornamental, projecting from a wall or pier, to support weight falling outside of the same; also, a decorative feature seeming to discharge such an office..
Sleet :: Sleet (n.) Hail or snow, mingled with rain, usually falling, or driven by the wind, in fine particles..
Stay :: Stay (v. i.) To stop from motion or falling; to prop; to fix firmly; to hold up; to support.
Welter :: Welter (n.) A rising or falling, as of waves; as, the welter of the billows; the welter of a tempest..
Reclined :: Reclined (a.) Falling or turned downward; reclinate.
Swoopstake :: Swoop (n.) A falling on and seizing, as the prey of a rapacious bird; the act of swooping..
Distillation :: Distillation (n.) The act of falling in drops, or the act of pouring out in drops..
Roration :: Roration (n.) A falling of dew.
Stake :: Stake (v. t.) A stick inserted upright in a lop, eye, or mortise, at the side or end of a cart, a flat car, or the like, to prevent goods from falling off..
Escheat :: Escheat (n.) The falling back or reversion of lands, by some casualty or accident, to the lord of the fee, in consequence of the extinction of the blood of the tenant, which may happen by his dying without heirs, and formerly might happen by corruption of blood, that is, by reason of a felony or attainder..
Bonnet :: Bonnet (n.) A roofing over the cage of a mine, to protect its occupants from objects falling down the shaft..
Under :: Under (prep.) Denoting relation to something that exceeds in rank or degree, in number, size, weight, age, or the like; in a relation of the less to the greater, of inferiority, or of falling short..
Crack :: Crack (n.) A sharp, sudden sound or report; the sound of anything suddenly burst or broken; as, the crack of a falling house; the crack of thunder; the crack of a whip..
Descension :: Descension (n.) The act of going downward; descent; falling or sinking; declension; degradation.
Unpleasantry :: Unpleasantry (n.) A state of disagreement; a falling out.
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