Definition of fault

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Fault (n.) A lost scent; act of losing the scent.

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Jump :: Jump (n.) A dislocation in a stratum; a fault.
Excuse :: Excuse (v. t.) That which excuses; that which extenuates or justifies a fault.
Decry :: Decry (v. t.) To cry down; to censure as faulty, mean, or worthless; to clamor against; to blame clamorously; to discredit; to disparage..
Peccant :: Peccant (a.) Wrong; defective; faulty.
Transgression :: Transgression (n.) The act of transgressing, or of passing over or beyond any law, civil or moral; the violation of a law or known principle of rectitude; breach of command; fault; offense; crime; sin..
Reprehend :: Reprehend (v. t.) To reprove or reprimand with a view of restraining, checking, or preventing; to make charge of fault against; to disapprove of; to chide; to blame; to censure..
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 (n.) Fault; offense; ill deed; wrong act; failure in virtue or wisdom.
Heterophemist :: Heterophemist (n.) One liable to the fault of heterophemy.
Peccadillo :: Peccadillo (n.) A slight trespass or offense; a petty crime or fault.
Hade :: Hade (v. i.) To deviate from the vertical; -- said of a vein, fault, or lode..
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..
Captious :: Captious (a.) Apt to catch at faults; disposed to find fault or to cavil; eager to object; difficult to please.
Submission :: Submission (n.) Acknowledgement of a fault; confession of error.
Monitor :: Monitor (n.) Hence, specifically, a pupil selected to look to the school in the absence of the instructor, to notice the absence or faults of the scholars, or to instruct a division or class..
Victim :: Victim (n.) A person or living creature destroyed by, or suffering grievous injury from, another, from fortune or from accident; as, the victim of a defaulter; the victim of a railroad accident..
Nagging :: Nagging (a.) Fault-finding; teasing; persistently annoying; as, a nagging toothache..
Ordure :: Ordure (n.) Defect; imperfection; fault.
Expose :: Expose (v. t.) To disclose the faults or reprehensible practices of; to lay open to general condemnation or contempt by making public the character or arts of; as, to expose a cheat, liar, or hypocrite..
Carping :: Carping (a.) Fault-finding; censorious caviling. See Captious.
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