Definition of fall

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Fall (v. t.) To pass or be transferred by chance, lot, distribution, inheritance, or otherwise; as, the estate fell to his brother; the kingdom fell into the hands of his rivals..

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Baroscope :: Baroscope (n.) Any instrument showing the changes in the weight of the atmosphere; also, less appropriately, any instrument that indicates -or foreshadows changes of the weather, as a deep vial of liquid holding in suspension some substance which rises and falls with atmospheric changes..
Crazy :: Crazy (a.) Characterized by weakness or feebleness; decrepit; broken; falling to decay; shaky; unsafe.
Roach :: Roach (n.) An American chub (Semotilus bullaris); the fallfish.
Swilled :: Swig (v. t.) To pull upon (a tackle) by throwing the weight of the body upon the fall between the block and a cleat.
Powder :: Powder (n.) The fine particles to which any dry substance is reduced by pounding, grinding, or triturating, or into which it falls by decay; dust..
Incur :: Incur (v. t.) To meet or fall in with, as something inconvenient, harmful, or onerous; to put one's self in the way of; to expose one's self to; to become liable or subject to; to bring down upon one's self; to encounter; to contract; as, to incur debt, danger, displeasure/ penalty, responsibility, etc..
Fallowist :: Fallowist (n.) One who favors the practice of fallowing land.
Dose :: Dose (n.) A sufficient quantity; a portion; as much as one can take, or as falls to one to receive..
Shower :: Shower (v. i.) To rain in showers; to fall, as in a hower or showers..
Dashpot :: Dashpot (n.) A pneumatic or hydraulic cushion for a falling weight, as in the valve gear of a steam engine, to prevent shock..
Sequence :: Sequence (n.) Any succession of chords (or harmonic phrase) rising or falling by the regular diatonic degrees in the same scale; a succession of similar harmonic steps.
Parietine :: Parietine (n.) A piece of a fallen wall; a ruin.
Halfer :: Halfer (n.) A male fallow deer gelded.
Dropping :: Dropping (n.) That which falls in drops; the excrement or dung of animals.
Befalling :: Befalling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Befal.
Dripping :: Dripping (n.) That which falls in drops, as fat from meat in roasting..
Faule :: Faule (n.) A fall or falling band.
Swap :: Swap (v. t.) To fall or descend; to rush hastily or violently.
Guillotine :: Guillotine (n.) A machine for beheading a person by one stroke of a heavy ax or blade, which slides in vertical guides, is raised by a cord, and let fall upon the neck of the victim..
Icefall :: Icefall (n.) A frozen waterfall, or mass of ice resembling a frozen waterfall..
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