Definition of fall

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Fall (v. t.) To fell; to cut down; as, to fall a tree..

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Stumble :: Stumble (v. i.) To fall into a crime or an error; to err.
Lob :: Lob (v. t.) To let fall heavily or lazily.
Fall :: Fall (v. t.) To happen; to to come to pass; to light; to befall; to issue; to terminate.
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.
Fall :: Fall (v. t.) To assume a look of shame or disappointment; to become or appear dejected; -- said of the countenance.
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..
Sustentation :: Sustentation (n.) The act of sustaining, or the state of being sustained; preservation from falling; support; sustenance; maintenance..
Supralapsarian :: Supralapsarian (n.) One of that class of Calvinists who believed that God's decree of election determined that man should fall, in order that the opportunity might be furnished of securing the redemption of a part of the race, the decree of salvation being conceived of as formed before or beyond, and not after or following, the lapse, or fall. Cf. Infralapsarian..
Overset :: Overset (v. t.) To cause to fall, or to tail; to subvert; to overthrow; as, to overset a government or a plot..
Undulating :: Undulating (a.) Rising and falling like waves; resembling wave form or motion; undulatory; rolling; wavy; as, an undulating medium; undulating ground..
Resolution :: Resolution (n.) The passing of a dissonant into a consonant chord by the rising or falling of the note which makes the discord.
Acceleration :: Acceleration (n.) The act of accelerating, or the state of being accelerated; increase of motion or action; as, a falling body moves toward the earth with an acceleration of velocity; -- opposed to retardation..
Fortune :: Fortune (n.) That which befalls or is to befall one; lot in life, or event in any particular undertaking; fate; destiny; as, to tell one's fortune..
Curtate :: Curtate (a.) Shortened or reduced; -- said of the distance of a planet from the sun or earth, as measured in the plane of the ecliptic, or the distance from the sun or earth to that point where a perpendicular, let fall from the planet upon the plane of the ecliptic, meets the ecliptic..
Top-chain :: Top-chain (n.) A chain for slinging the lower yards, in time of action, to prevent their falling, if the ropes by which they are hung are shot away..
Serein :: Serein (n.) A mist, or very fine rain, which sometimes falls from a clear sky a few moments after sunset..
Fell :: Fell () imp. of Fall.
Labile :: Labile (a.) Liable to slip, err, fall, or apostatize..
Giddy :: Giddy (superl.) Having in the head a sensation of whirling or reeling about; having lost the power of preserving the balance of the body, and therefore wavering and inclined to fall; lightheaded; dizzy..
Ant-lion :: Ant-lion (n.) A neuropterous insect, the larva of which makes in the sand a pitfall to capture ants, etc. The common American species is Myrmeleon obsoletus, the European is M. formicarius..
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