Definition of fall

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Fall (v. t.) To cease to be erect; to take suddenly a recumbent posture; to become prostrate; to drop; as, a child totters and falls; a tree falls; a worshiper falls on his knees..

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Infallibilist :: Infallibilist (n.) One who accepts or maintains the dogma of papal infallibility.
Stand :: Stand (n.) To adhere to fixed principles; to maintain moral rectitude; to keep from falling into error or vice.
Halfer :: Halfer (n.) A male fallow deer gelded.
Squab :: Squab (adv.) With a heavy fall; plump.
Turn :: Turn (n.) A fall off the ladder at the gallows; a hanging; -- so called from the practice of causing the criminal to stand on a ladder which was turned over, so throwing him off, when the signal was given..
Founder :: Founder (v. i.) To fall; to stumble and go lame, as a horse..
Watershoot :: Watershoot (n.) That which serves to guard from falling water; a drip or dripstone.
Concussion :: Concussion (n.) A condition of lowered functional activity, without visible structural change, produced in an organ by a shock, as by fall or blow; as, a concussion of the brain..
Straggler :: Straggler (n.) One who straggles, or departs from the direct or proper course, or from the company to which he belongs; one who falls behind the rest; one who rambles without any settled direction..
Heave :: Heave (v. i.) To rise and fall with alternate motions, as the lungs in heavy breathing, as waves in a heavy sea, as ships on the billows, as the earth when broken up by frost, etc.; to swell; to dilate; to expand; to distend; hence, to labor; to struggle..
Headlong :: Headlong (a. & adv.) With the head foremost; as, to fall headlong..
Fallowness :: Fallowness (n.) A well or opening, through the successive floors of a warehouse or manufactory, through which goods are raised or lowered..
Footfall :: Footfall (n.) A setting down of the foot; a footstep; the sound of a footstep.
Swinger :: Swingel (n.) The swinging part of a flail which falls on the grain in thrashing; the swiple.
Depose :: Depose (v. t.) To let fall; to deposit.
Collapse :: Collapse (n.) A falling together suddenly, as of the sides of a hollow vessel..
Crestfallen :: Crestfallen (a.) With hanging head; hence, dispirited; dejected; cowed..
Rapid :: Rapid (a.) The part of a river where the current moves with great swiftness, but without actual waterfall or cascade; -- usually in the plural; as, the Lachine rapids in the St. Lawrence..
Gospel :: Gospel (v.) Anything propounded or accepted as infallibly true; as, they took his words for gospel..
Balance :: Balance (n.) To support on a narrow base, so as to keep from falling; as, to balance a plate on the end of a cane; to balance one's self on a tight rope..
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