Definition of fault

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

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Lack :: Lack (v. t.) To blame; to find fault with.
Incriminate :: Incriminate (v. t.) To accuse; to charge with a crime or fault; to criminate.
Debt :: Debt (n.) A duty neglected or violated; a fault; a sin; a trespass.
Decry :: Decry (v. t.) To cry down; to censure as faulty, mean, or worthless; to clamor against; to blame clamorously; to discredit; to disparage..
Culprit :: Culprit (p. p.) One quilty of a fault; a criminal.
Recriminate :: Recriminate (v. i.) To return one charge or accusation with another; to charge back fault or crime upon an accuser.
Weakness :: Weakness (n.) That which is a mark of lack of strength or resolution; a fault; a defect.
Criticism :: Criticism (n.) The rules and principles which regulate the practice of the critic; the art of judging with knowledge and propriety of the beauties and faults of a literary performance, or of a production in the fine arts; as, dramatic criticism..
Twit :: Twit (v. t.) To vex by bringing to notice, or reminding of, a fault, defect, misfortune, or the like; to revile; to reproach; to upbraid; to taunt; as, he twitted his friend of falsehood..
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..
Excuser :: Excuser (n.) One who offers excuses or pleads in extenuation of the fault of another.
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..
Default :: Default (v. t.) To leave out of account; to omit.
Defalcator :: Defalcator (n.) A defaulter or embezzler.
Fault :: Fault (n.) Failure to serve the ball into the proper court.
Faulting :: Faulting (n.) The state or condition of being faulted; the process by which a fault is produced.
Fail :: Fail (v. i.) Miscarriage; failure; deficiency; fault; -- mostly superseded by failure or failing, except in the phrase without fail..
Defective :: Defective (a.) Wanting in something; incomplete; lacking a part; deficient; imperfect; faulty; -- applied either to natural or moral qualities; as, a defective limb; defective timber; a defective copy or account; a defective character; defective rules..
Ideal :: Ideal (a.) Reaching an imaginary standard of excellence; fit for a model; faultless; as, ideal beauty..
Punish :: Punish (v. t.) To impose a penalty upon; to afflict with pain, loss, or suffering for a crime or fault, either with or without a view to the offender's amendment; to cause to suffer in retribution; to chasten; as, to punish traitors with death; a father punishes his child for willful disobedience..
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