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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Regulator :: Regulator (n.) A member of a volunteer committee which, in default of the lawful authority, undertakes to preserve order and prevent crimes; also, sometimes, one of a band organized for the comission of violent crimes..
Complain :: Complain (v. i.) To give utterance to expression of grief, pain, censure, regret. etc.; to lament; to murmur; to find fault; -- commonly used with of. Also, to creak or squeak, as a timber or wheel..
Defalcator :: Defalcator (n.) A defaulter or embezzler.
Shift :: Shift (v. t.) A breaking off and dislocation of a seam; a fault.
Redhibitory :: Redhibitory (a.) Of or pertaining to redhibition; as, a redhibitory action or fault..
Recriminate :: Recriminate (v. i.) To return one charge or accusation with another; to charge back fault or crime upon an accuser.
Throw :: Throw (n.) The amount of vertical displacement produced by a fault; -- according to the direction it is designated as an upthrow, or a downthrow..
Emend :: Emend (v. t.) To purge of faults; to make better; to correct; esp., to make corrections in (a literary work); to alter for the better by textual criticism, generally verbal..
Overthrow :: Overthrow (n.) A faulty return of the ball by a fielder, so that the striker makes an additional run..
Misdo :: Misdo (v. i.) To do wrong; to commit a fault.
Ideal :: Ideal (a.) Reaching an imaginary standard of excellence; fit for a model; faultless; as, ideal beauty..
Excuse :: Excuse (v. t.) That which excuses; that which extenuates or justifies a fault.
Lack :: Lack (v. t.) To blame; to find fault with.
Captious :: Captious (a.) Apt to catch at faults; disposed to find fault or to cavil; eager to object; difficult to please.
Blameful :: Blameful (a.) Faulty; meriting blame.
Hypermetropy :: Hypermetropy (n.) A condition of the eye in which, through shortness of the eyeball or fault of the refractive media, the rays of light come to a focus behind the retina; farsightedness; -- called also hyperopia. Cf. Emmetropia..
Faulted :: Faulted (imp. & p. p.) of Faul.
Condign :: Condign (a.) Deserved; adequate; suitable to the fault or crime.
Perfect :: Perfect (a.) Brought to consummation or completeness; completed; not defective nor redundant; having all the properties or qualities requisite to its nature and kind; without flaw, fault, or blemish; without error; mature; whole; pure; sound; right; correct..
Error :: Error (n.) A moral offense; violation of duty; a sin or transgression; iniquity; fault.
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