Definition of fall

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Fall (n.) That part (as one of the ropes) of a tackle to which the power is applied in hoisting.

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Salpinx :: Salpinx (n.) The Eustachian tube, or the Fallopian tube..
Heteroscian :: Heteroscian (n.) One who lives either north or south of the tropics, as contrasted with one who lives on the other side of them; -- so called because at noon the shadows always fall in opposite directions (the one northward, the other southward)..
Deliquium :: Deliquium (n.) A melting or dissolution in the air, or in a moist place; a liquid condition; as, a salt falls into a deliquium..
Sophistical :: Sophistical (a.) Of or pertaining to a sophist; embodying sophistry; fallaciously subtile; not sound.
Sophister :: Sophister (v. t.) To maintain by sophistry, or by a fallacious argument..
Orthocenter :: Orthocenter (n.) That point in which the three perpendiculars let fall from the angles of a triangle upon the opposite sides, or the sides produced, mutually intersect..
Befortune :: Befortune (v. t.) To befall.
Spiller :: Spill (v. i.) To be shed; to run over; to fall out, and be lost or wasted..
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..
Cadent :: Cadent (a.) Falling.
Sophistry :: Sophistry (n.) The practice of a sophist; fallacious reasoning; reasoning sound in appearance only.
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..
Hold :: Hold (n. i.) Not to fall away, desert, or prove recreant; to remain attached; to cleave;-often with with, to, or for..
Downfall :: Downfall (n.) A sudden fall; a body of things falling.
Bellows :: Bellows (n. sing. & pl.) An instrument, utensil, or machine, which, by alternate expansion and contraction, or by rise and fall of the top, draws in air through a valve and expels it through a tube for various purposes, as blowing fires, ventilating mines, or filling the pipes of an organ with wind..
Infallibleness :: Infallibleness (n.) The state or quality of being infallible; infallibility.
Fall :: Fall (v. t.) To become prostrate and dead; to die; especially, to die by violence, as in battle..
Astert :: Astert (v. t.) To start up; to befall; to escape; to shun.
#NAME? :: -s () The suffix used to form the third person singular indicative of English verbs; as in falls, tells, sends..
Club :: Club (v. t.) To throw, or allow to fall, into confusion..
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