Definition of fall

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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..

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Shed :: Shed (v. i.) To fall in drops; to pour.
Case :: Case (n.) That which befalls, comes, or happens; an event; an instance; a circumstance, or all the circumstances; condition; state of things; affair; as, a strange case; a case of injustice; the case of the Indian tribes..
Descend :: Descend (v. i.) To fall in pitch; to pass from a higher to a lower tone.
Precipitation :: Precipitation (n.) A falling, flowing, or rushing downward with violence and rapidity..
Fallen :: Fallen (p. p.) of Fal.
Swoop :: Swoop (n.) To fall on at once and seize; to catch while on the wing; as, a hawk swoops a chicken..
Gasometer :: Gasometer (n.) An apparatus for holding and measuring of gas; in gas works, a huge iron cylinder closed at one end and having the other end immersed in water, in which it is made to rise or fall, according to the volume of gas it contains, or the pressure required..
Cadent :: Cadent (a.) Falling.
On :: On (prep.) To or against the surface of; -- used to indicate the motion of a thing as coming or falling to the surface of another; as, rain falls on the earth..
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..
Fallacy :: Fallacy (n.) Deceptive or false appearance; deceitfulness; that which misleads the eye or the mind; deception.
Befalling :: Befalling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Befal.
Infallibleness :: Infallibleness (n.) The state or quality of being infallible; infallibility.
Twifallow :: Twifallow (v. t.) To plow, or fallow, a second time (land that has been once fallowed)..
Furfuration :: Furfuration (n.) Falling of scurf from the head; desquamation.
Bubale :: Bubale (n.) A large antelope (Alcelaphus bubalis) of Egypt and the Desert of Sahara, supposed by some to be the fallow deer of the Bible..
Wamble-cropped :: Wamble-cropped (a.) Sick at the stomach; also, crestfallen; dejected..
Inequality :: Inequality (n.) Unevenness; want of levelness; the alternate rising and falling of a surface; as, the inequalities of the surface of the earth, or of a marble slab, etc..
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..
Thryfallow :: Thryfallow (v. t.) To plow for the third time in summer; to trifallow.
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