Definition of fault

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Fault (n.) In coal seams, coal rendered worthless by impurities in the seam; as, slate fault, dirt fault, etc..

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Chide :: Chide (v. i.) To utter words of disapprobation and displeasure; to find fault; to contend angrily.
Pick-fault :: Pick-fault (n.) One who seeks out faults.
Multifariousness :: Multifariousness (n.) The fault of improperly uniting in one bill distinct and independent matters, and thereby confounding them..
Jump :: Jump (n.) A dislocation in a stratum; a fault.
Confess :: Confess (v. t.) To make acknowledgment or avowal in a matter pertaining to one's self; to acknowledge, own, or admit, as a crime, a fault, a debt..
Reprove :: Reprove (v. t.) To express disapprobation of; as, to reprove faults..
Chargeable :: Chargeable (a.) That may be charged, laid, imposed, or imputes; as, a duty chargeable on iron; a fault chargeable on a man..
Default :: Default (v. t.) To fail to perform or pay; to be guilty of neglect of; to omit; as, to default a dividend..
Underlay :: Underlay (v. i.) To incline from the vertical; to hade; -- said of a vein, fault, or lode..
Amendment :: Amendment (n.) An alteration or change for the better; correction of a fault or of faults; reformation of life by quitting vices.
Incriminate :: Incriminate (v. t.) To accuse; to charge with a crime or fault; to criminate.
Overthrow :: Overthrow (n.) A faulty return of the ball by a fielder, so that the striker makes an additional run..
Fault :: Fault (v. t.) To charge with a fault; to accuse; to find fault with; to blame.
Defaulter :: Defaulter (n.) One who fails to perform a duty; a delinquent; particularly, one who fails to account for public money intrusted to his care; a peculator; a defalcator..
Dislocation :: Dislocation (n.) The displacement of parts of rocks or portions of strata from the situation which they originally occupied. Slips, faults, and the like, are dislocations..
Demerit :: Demerit (n.) That which deserves blame; ill desert; a fault; a vice; misconduct; -- the opposite of merit.
Vice :: Vice (n.) A moral fault or failing; especially, immoral conduct or habit, as in the indulgence of degrading appetites; customary deviation in a single respect, or in general, from a right standard, implying a defect of natural character, or the result of training and habits; a harmful custom; immorality; depravity; wickedness; as, a life of vice; the vice of intemperance..
Emendately :: Emendately (adv.) Without fault; correctly.
Misdoing :: Misdoing (n.) A wrong done; a fault or crime; an offense; as, it was my misdoing..
Inculpableness :: Inculpableness (n.) Blamelessness; faultlessness.
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