Definition of fall

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Fall (v. t.) To be overthrown or captured; to be destroyed.

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Insolvent :: Insolvent (a.) Not solvent; not having sufficient estate to pay one's debts; unable to pay one's debts as they fall due, in the ordinary course of trade and business; as, in insolvent debtor..
Point :: Point (n.) One of the points of the compass (see Points of the compass, below); also, the difference between two points of the compass; as, to fall off a point..
Fall :: Fall (v. t.) To begin with haste, ardor, or vehemence; to rush or hurry; as, they fell to blows..
Downfall :: Downfall (n.) A sudden descent from rank or state, reputation or happiness; destruction; ruin..
Accidental :: Accidental (n.) Those fortuitous effects produced by luminous rays falling on certain objects so that some parts stand forth in abnormal brightness and other parts are cast into a deep shadow.
Plump :: Plump (a.) To drop or fall suddenly or heavily, all at once..
Fall :: Fall (v. t.) To belong or appertain.
Infallibilist :: Infallibilist (n.) One who accepts or maintains the dogma of papal infallibility.
Overset :: Overset (v. t.) To cause to fall, or to tail; to subvert; to overthrow; as, to overset a government or a plot..
Degenerate :: Degenerate (v. i.) To fall off from the normal quality or the healthy structure of its kind; to become of a lower type.
Occasive :: Occasive (a.) Of or pertaining to the setting sun; falling; descending; western.
Drip :: Drip (v. i.) To let fall drops of moisture or liquid; as, a wet garment drips..
Infralapsarian :: Infralapsarian (n.) One of that class of Calvinists who consider the decree of election as contemplating the apostasy as past and the elect as being at the time of election in a fallen and guilty state; -- opposed to Supralapsarian. The former considered the election of grace as a remedy for an existing evil; the latter regarded the fall as a part of God's original purpose in regard to men.
Fall :: Fall (n.) 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..
Shack :: Shack (v. t.) To shed or fall, as corn or grain at harvest..
Roll :: Roll (v. i.) To fall or tumble; -- with over; as, a stream rolls over a precipice..
Depauperate :: Depauperate (a.) Falling short of the natural size, from being impoverished or starved..
Picea :: Picea (n.) A genus of coniferous trees of the northen hemisphere, including the Norway spruce and the American black and white spruces. These trees have pendent cones, which do not readily fall to pieces, in this and other respects differing from the firs..
Expense :: Expense (n.) That which is expended, laid out, or consumed; cost; outlay; charge; -- sometimes with the notion of loss or damage to those on whom the expense falls; as, the expenses of war; an expense of time..
Recoil :: Recoil (n.) A starting or falling back; a rebound; a shrinking; as, the recoil of nature, or of the blood..
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