Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of fall is as below...

Misfall :: Misfall (v. t.) To befall, as ill luck; to happen to unluckily..

Flap :: Flap (n.) To move, as something broad and flaplike; as, to flap the wings; to let fall, as the brim of a hat..

Overfall :: Overfall (n.) A cataract; a waterfall.

Drop :: Drop (n.) To pour or let fall in drops; to pour in small globules; to distill.

Recadency :: Recadency (n.) A falling back or descending a second time; a relapse.

Rainfall :: Rainfall (n.) A fall or descent of rain; the water, or amount of water, that falls in rain; as, the average annual rainfall of a region..

Swoopstake :: Swoop (n.) A falling on and seizing, as the prey of a rapacious bird; the act of swooping..

Swoop :: Swoop (n.) To fall on at once and seize; to catch while on the wing; as, a hawk swoops a chicken..

Anticlimax :: Anticlimax (n.) A sentence in which the ideas fall, or become less important and striking, at the close; -- the opposite of climax. It produces a ridiculous effect..

Mow :: Mow (v. t.) To cut down; to cause to fall in rows or masses, as in mowing grass; -- with down; as, a discharge of grapeshot mows down whole ranks of men..

Tail :: Tail (n.) The side of a coin opposite to that which bears the head, effigy, or date; the reverse; -- rarely used except in the expression heads or tails, employed when a coin is thrown up for the purpose of deciding some point by its fall..

Strappado :: Strappado (n.) A military punishment formerly practiced, which consisted in drawing an offender to the top of a beam and letting him fall to the length of the rope, by which means a limb was often dislocated..

Viviparous :: Viviparous (a.) Producing young in a living state, as most mammals, or as those plants the offspring of which are produced alive, either by bulbs instead of seeds, or by the seeds themselves germinating on the plant, instead of falling, as they usually do; -- opposed to oviparous..

Premature :: Premature (a.) Happening, arriving, existing, or performed before the proper or usual time; adopted too soon; too early; untimely; as, a premature fall of snow; a premature birth; a premature opinion; premature decay..

Unfailable :: Unfailable (a.) Infallible.

Well :: Well (v. i.) The lower part of a furnace, into which the metal falls..

Sophistical :: Sophistical (a.) Of or pertaining to a sophist; embodying sophistry; fallaciously subtile; not sound.

Puteal :: Puteal (n.) An inclosure surrounding a well to prevent persons from falling into it; a well curb.

Fall :: Fall (n.) Formerly, a kind of ruff or band for the neck; a falling band; a faule..

Drip :: Drip (v. i.) To fall in drops; as, water drips from the eaves..

Random Fonts

Most Popular