Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter F - Page 5
Faldfee (n.) (O. Eng. Law) A fee or rent paid by a tenant for the privilege of faldage on his own ground. -- Blount.
Falding (n.) A frieze or rough-napped cloth. [Obs.]
Faldistory (n.) The throne or seat of a bishop within the chancel. [Obs.]
Faldstool (n.) A folding stool, or portable seat, made to fold up in the manner of a camo stool. It was formerly placed in the choir for a bishop, when he offciated in any but his own cathedral church. -- Fairholt.
Note: In the modern practice of the Church of England, the term faldstool is given to the reading desk from which the litany is read. This esage is a relic of the ancient use of a lectern folding like a camp stool.
Falernian (a.) Of or pertaining to Mount Falernus, in Italy; as, Falernianwine.
Falk (n.) (Zool.) The razorbill. [Written also falc, and faik.] [Prov. Eng.]
Fell (imp.) of Fall.
Fallen (p. p.) of Fall.
Falling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fall.
Fall (v. i.) To Descend, either suddenly or gradually; particularly, to descend by the force of gravity; to drop; to sink; as, the apple falls; the tide falls; the mercury falls in the barometer.
I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven. -- Luke x. 18.
Fall (v. i.) To cease to be erect; to take suddenly a recumbent posture; to become prostrate; to drop; as, a child totters and falls; a tree falls; a worshiper falls on his knees.
I fell at his feet to worship him. -- Rev. xix. 10.
Fall (v. i.) To find a final outlet; to discharge its waters; to empty; -- with into; as, the river Rhone falls into the Mediterranean.
Fall (v. i.) To become prostrate and dead; to die; especially, to die by violence, as in battle.
A thousand shall fall at thy side. -- Ps. xci. 7.
He rushed into the field, and, foremost fighting, fell. -- Byron.
Fall (v. i.) To cease to be active or strong; to die away; to lose strength; to subside; to become less intense; as, the wind falls.
Fall (v. i.) To issue forth into life; to be brought forth; -- said of the young of certain animals. -- Shak.
Fall (v. i.) To decline in power, glory, wealth, or importance; to become insignificant; to lose rank or position; to decline in weight, value, price etc.; to become less; as, the falls; stocks fell two points.
I am a poor fallen man, unworthy now To be thy lord and master. -- Shak.
The greatness of these Irish lords suddenly fell and vanished. -- Sir J. Davies.
Fall (v. i.) To be overthrown or captured; to be destroyed.
Heaven and earth will witness, If Rome must fall, that we are innocent. -- Addison.
Fall (v. i.) To descend in character or reputation; to become degraded; to sink into vice, error, or sin; to depart from the faith; to apostatize; to sin.
Let us labor therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief. -- Heb. iv. 11.
Fall (v. i.) To become insnared or embarrassed; to be entrapped; to be worse off than before; asm to fall into error; to fall into difficulties.
Fall (v. i.) To assume a look of shame or disappointment; to become or appear dejected; -- said of the countenance.
Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell. -- Gen. iv. 5.
I have observed of late thy looks are fallen. -- Addison.
Fall (v. i.) To sink; to languish; to become feeble or faint; as, our spirits rise and fall with our fortunes.
Fall (v. i.) To pass somewhat suddenly, and passively, into a new state of body or mind; to become; as, to fall asleep; to fall into a passion; to fall in love; to fall into temptation.
Fall (v. i.) To happen; to to come to pass; to light; to befall; to issue; to terminate.
The Romans fell on this model by chance. -- Swift.
Sit still, my daughter, until thou know how the matter will fall. -- Ruth. iii. 18.
They do not make laws, they fall into customs. -- H. Spencer.
Fall (v. i.) To come; to occur; to arrive.
The vernal equinox, which at the Nicene Council fell on the 21st of March, falls now [1694] about ten days sooner. -- Holder.
Fall (v. i.) To begin with haste, ardor, or vehemence; to rush or hurry; as, they fell to blows.
They now no longer doubted, but fell to work heart and soul. -- Jowett (Thucyd. ).
Fall (v. i.) To pass or be transferred by chance, lot, distribution, inheritance, or otherwise; as, the estate fell to his brother; the kingdom fell into the hands of his rivals.
Fall (v. i.) To belong or appertain.
If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget them all. -- Pope.
Fall (v. i.) To be dropped or uttered carelessly; as, an unguarded expression fell from his lips; not a murmur fell from him.
To fall abroad of (Naut.), To strike against; -- applied to one vessel coming into collision with another.
To fall among, To come among accidentally or unexpectedly.
To fall astern (Naut.), To move or be driven backward; to be left behind; as, a ship falls astern by the force of a current, or when outsailed by another.
To fall away. (a) To lose flesh; to become lean or emaciated; to pine.
To fall away. (b) To renounce or desert allegiance; to revolt or rebel.
To fall away. (c) To renounce or desert the faith; to apostatize.
"These . . . for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away." -- Luke viii. 13.
To fall away. (d) To perish; to vanish; to be lost. "How . . . can the soul . . . fall away into nothing?" -- Addison.
To fall away. (e) To decline gradually; to fade; to languish, or become faint. "One color falls away by just degrees, and another rises insensibly." -- Addison.
To fall back. (a) To recede or retreat; to give way.
To fall back. (b) To fail of performing a promise or purpose; not to fulfill.
To fall back upon or To fall back on. (a) (Mil.) To retreat for safety to (a stronger position in the rear, as to a fort or a supporting body of troops).
To fall back upon or To fall back on. (b) To have recourse to (a reserved fund, a more reliable alternative, or some other available expedient or support).
To fall calm, To cease to blow; to become calm.
To fall down. (a) To prostrate one's self in worship. "All kings shall fall down before him." -- Ps. lxxii. 11.
To fall down. (b) To sink; to come to the ground. "Down fell the beauteous youth." -- Dryden.
To fall down. (c) To bend or bow, as a suppliant.
To fall down. (d) (Naut.) To sail or drift toward the mouth of a river or other outlet.
To fall flat, To produce no response or result; to fail of the intended effect; as, his speech fell flat.
To fall foul of. (a) (Naut.) To have a collision with; to become entangled with.
To fall foul of. (b) To attack; to make an assault upon.
To fall from, To recede or depart from; not to adhere to; as, to fall from an agreement or engagement; to fall from allegiance or duty.
To fall from grace (M. E. Ch.), To sin; to withdraw from the faith.
To fall home (Ship Carp.), To curve inward; -- said of the timbers or upper parts of a ship's side which are much within a perpendicular.
To fall in. (a) To sink inwards; as, the roof fell in.
To fall in. (b) (Mil.) To take one's proper or assigned place in line; as, to fall in on the right.
To fall in. (c) To come to an end; to terminate; to lapse; as, on the death of Mr. B., the annuuity, which he had so long received, fell in.
To fall in. (d) To become operative. "The reversion, to which he had been nominated twenty years before, fell in." -- Macaulay.
To fall into one's hands, To pass, often suddenly or unexpectedly, into one's ownership or control; as, to spike cannon when they are likely to fall into the hands of the enemy.
To fall in with. (a) To meet with accidentally; as, to fall in with a friend.
To fall in with. (b) (Naut.) To meet, as a ship; also, to discover or come near, as land.
To fall in with. (c) To concur with; to agree with; as, the measure falls in with popular opinion.
To fall in with. (d) To comply; to yield to. "You will find it difficult to persuade learned men to fall in with your projects." -- Addison.
To fall off. (a) To drop; as, fruits fall off when ripe.
To fall off. (b) To withdraw; to separate; to become detached; as, friends fall off in adversity. "Love cools, friendship falls off, brothers divide." -- Shak.
To fall off. (c) To perish; to die away; as, words fall off by disuse.
To fall off. (d) To apostatize; to forsake; to withdraw from the faith, or from allegiance or duty.
Those captive tribes . . . fell off From God to worship calves. -- Milton.
To fall off. (e) To forsake; to abandon; as, his customers fell off.
To fall off. (f) To depreciate; to change for the worse; to deteriorate; to become less valuable, abundant, or interesting; as, a falling off in the wheat crop; the magazine or the review falls off. "O Hamlet, what a falling off was there!" -- Shak.
To fall off. (g) (Naut.) To deviate or trend to the leeward of the point to which the head of the ship was before directed; to fall to leeward.
To fall on. (a) To meet with; to light upon; as, we have fallen on evil days.
To fall on. (b) To begin suddenly and eagerly. "Fall on, and try the appetite to eat." -- Dryden.
To fall on. (c) To begin an attack; to assault; to assail. "Fall on, fall on, and hear him not." -- Dryden.
To fall on. (d) To drop on; to descend on.
To fall out. (a) To quarrel; to begin to contend.
A soul exasperated in ills falls out With everything, its friend, itself. -- Addison.
To fall out. (b) To happen; to befall; to chance. "There fell out a bloody quarrel betwixt the frogs and the mice." -- L'Estrange.
To fall out. (c) (Mil.) To leave the ranks, as a soldier.
To fall over. (a) To revolt; to desert from one side to another.
To fall over. (b) To fall beyond. -- Shak.
To fall short, To be deficient; as, the corn falls short; they all fall short in duty.
To fall through, To come to nothing; to fail; as, the engageent has fallen through.
To fall to, To begin. "Fall to, with eager joy, on homely food." -- Dryden.
To fall under. (a) To come under, or within the limits of; to be subjected to; as, they fell under the jurisdiction of the emperor.
To fall under. (b) To come under; to become the subject of; as, this point did not fall under the cognizance or deliberations of the court; these things do not fall under human sight or observation.
To fall under. (c) To come within; to be ranged or reckoned with; to be subordinate to in the way of classification; as, these substances fall under a different class or order.
To fall upon. (a) To attack. [See To fall on.]
To fall upon. (b) To attempt; to have recourse to. "I do not intend to fall upon nice disquisitions." -- Holder.
To fall upon. (c) To rush against.
Note: Fall primarily denotes descending motion, either in a perpendicular or inclined direction, and, in most of its applications, implies, literally or figuratively, velocity, haste, suddenness, or violence. Its use is so various, and so mush diversified by modifying words, that it is not easy to enumerate its senses in all its applications.
Fall (v. t.) To let fall; to drop. [Obs.]
For every tear he falls, a Trojan bleeds. -- Shak.
Fall (v. t.) To sink; to depress; as, to fall the voice. [Obs.]
Fall (v. t.) To diminish; to lessen or lower. [Obs.]
Upon lessening interest to four per cent, you fall the price of your native commodities. -- Locke.
Fall (v. t.) To bring forth; as, to fall lambs. [R.] -- Shak.
Fall (v. t.) To fell; to cut down; as, to fall a tree. [Prov. Eng. & Local, U.S.]
Fall (n.) The act of falling; a dropping or descending be the force of gravity; descent; as, a fall from a horse, or from the yard of ship.
Fall (n.) The act of dropping or tumbling from an erect posture; as, he was walking on ice, and had a fall.
Fall (n.) Death; destruction; overthrow; ruin.
They thy fall conspire. -- Denham.
Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall. -- Prov. xvi. 18.
Fall (n.) Downfall; degradation; loss of greatness or office; termination of greatness, power, or dominion; ruin; overthrow; as, the fall of the Roman empire.
Beholds thee glorious only in thy fall. -- Pope.
Fall (n.) The surrender of a besieged fortress or town ; as, the fall of Sebastopol.
Fall (n.) Diminution or decrease in price or value; depreciation; as, the fall of prices; the fall of rents.
Fall (n.) A sinking of tone; cadence; as, the fall of the voice at the close of a sentence.
Fall (n.) Declivity; the descent of land or a hill; a slope.
Fall (n.) Descent of water; a cascade; a cataract; a rush of water down a precipice or steep; -- usually in the plural, sometimes in the singular; as, the falls of Niagara.
Fall (n.) The discharge of a
river or current of water into the ocean, or into a lake or pond; as, the fall
of the Po into the Gulf of Venice. -- Addison.
Fall (n.) Extent of descent; the distance which anything falls;
as, the water of a stream has a fall of five feet.
Fall (n.) The season when leaves fall from trees; autumn.
What crowds of patients the town doctor kills, Or how, last fall, he raised the weekly bills. -- Dryden.
Fall (n.) That which falls; a falling; as, a fall of rain; a heavy fall of snow.
Fall (n.) The act of felling or cutting down. "The fall of timber." -- Johnson.
Fall (n.) Lapse or declension from innocence or goodness. Specifically: The first apostasy; the act of our first parents in eating the forbidden fruit; also, the apostasy of the rebellious angels.
Fall (n.) Formerly, a kind of ruff or band for the neck; a falling band; a faule. -- B. Jonson.
Fall (n.) That part (as one of the ropes) of a tackle to which the power is applied in hoisting.
Fall herring (Zool.), A herring of the Atlantic ({Clupea mediocris); -- also called tailor herring, and hickory shad.
To try a fall, To try a bout at wrestling. -- Shak.
Fall (n.) The season when the leaves fall from the trees; "in the fall of 1973" [syn: fall, autumn].
Fall (n.) A sudden drop from an upright position; "he had a nasty spill on the ice" [syn: spill, tumble, fall].
Fall (n.) The lapse of mankind into sinfulness because of the sin of Adam and Eve; "women have been blamed ever since the Fall".
Fall (n.) A downward slope or bend [syn: descent, declivity, fall, decline, declination, declension, downslope] [ant: acclivity, ascent, climb, raise, rise, upgrade].
Fall (n.) A lapse into sin; a loss of innocence or of chastity; "a fall from virtue".
Fall (n.) A sudden decline in strength or number or importance; "the fall of the House of Hapsburg" [syn: fall, downfall] [ant: rise].
Fall (n.) A movement downward; "the rise and fall of the tides" [ant: ascension, ascent, rise, rising]
Fall (n.) The act of surrendering (usually under agreed conditions); "they were protected until the capitulation of the fort" [syn: capitulation, fall, surrender].
Fall (n.) The time of day immediately following sunset; "he loved the twilight"; "they finished before the fall of night" [syn:
twilight, dusk, gloaming, gloam, nightfall, evenfall, fall, crepuscule, crepuscle].
Fall (n.) When a wrestler's shoulders are forced to the mat [syn: fall, pin].
Fall (n.) A free and rapid descent by the force of gravity; "it was a miracle that he survived the drop from that height" [syn:
drop, fall].
Fall (n.) A sudden sharp decrease in some quantity; "a drop of 57 points on the Dow Jones index"; "there was a drop in pressure in the pulmonary artery"; "a dip in prices"; "when that became known the price of their stock went into free fall" [syn: drop, dip, fall, free fall].
Fall (v.) Descend in free fall under the influence of gravity; "The branch fell from the tree"; "The unfortunate hiker fell into a crevasse".
Fall (v.) Move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way; "The temperature is going down"; "The barometer is falling"; "The curtain fell on the diva"; "Her hand went up and then fell again" [syn: descend, fall, go down, come down]
[ant: arise, ascend, come up, go up, lift, move up, rise, uprise].
Fall (v.) Pass suddenly and passively into a state of body or mind; "fall into a trap"; "She fell ill"; "They fell out of favor"; "Fall in love"; "fall asleep"; "fall prey to an imposter"; "fall into a strange way of thinking"; "she fell to pieces after she lost her work".
Fall (v.) Come under, be classified or included; "fall into a category"; "This comes under a new heading" [syn: fall, come].
Fall (v.) Fall from clouds; "rain, snow and sleet were falling"; "Vesuvius precipitated its fiery, destructive rage on Herculaneum" [syn: precipitate, come down, fall].
Fall (v.) Suffer defeat, failure, or ruin; "We must stand or fall"; "fall by the wayside".
Fall (v.) Die, as in battle or in a hunt; "Many soldiers fell at Verdun"; "Several deer have fallen to the same gun"; "The shooting victim fell dead".
Fall (v.) Touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly; "Light fell on her face"; "The sun shone on the fields"; "The light struck the golden necklace"; "A strange sound struck my ears" [syn: fall, shine, strike].
Fall (v.) Be captured; "The cities fell to the enemy".
Fall (v.) Occur at a specified time or place; "Christmas falls on a Monday this year"; "The accent falls on the first syllable".
Fall (v.) Decrease in size, extent, or range; "The amount of homework decreased towards the end of the semester"; "The cabin pressure fell dramatically"; "her weight fell to under a hundred pounds"; "his voice fell to a whisper" [syn: decrease, diminish, lessen, fall] [ant: increase].
Fall (v.) Yield to temptation or sin; "Adam and Eve fell".
Fall (v.) Lose office or power; "The government fell overnight"; "The Qing Dynasty fell with Sun Yat-sen".
Fall (v.) To be given by assignment or distribution; "The most difficult task fell on the youngest member of the team"; "The onus fell on us"; "The pressure to succeed fell on the youngest student".
Fall (v.) Move in a specified direction; "The line of men fall forward".
Fall (v.) Be due; "payments fall on the 1st of the month".
Fall (v.) Lose one's chastity; "a fallen woman".
Fall (v.) To be given by right or inheritance; "The estate fell to the oldest daughter".
Fall (v.) Come into the possession of; "The house accrued to the oldest son" [syn: accrue, fall].
Fall (v.) Fall to somebody by assignment or lot; "The task fell to me"; "It fell to me to notify the parents of the victims" [syn: fall, light].
Fall (v.) Be inherited by; "The estate fell to my sister"; "The land returned to the family"; "The estate devolved to an heir
that everybody had assumed to be dead" [syn: fall, return, pass, devolve].
Fall (v.) Slope downward; "The hills around here fall towards the ocean".
Fall (v.) Lose an upright position suddenly; "The vase fell over and the water spilled onto the table"; "Her hair fell across her forehead" [syn: fall, fall down].
Fall (v.) Drop oneself to a lower or less erect position; "She fell back in her chair"; "He fell to his knees".
Fall (v.) Fall or flow in a certain way; "This dress hangs well"; "Her long black hair flowed down her back" [syn: hang, fall, flow].
Fall (v.) Assume a disappointed or sad expression; "Her face fell when she heard that she would be laid off"; "his crest fell".
Fall (v.) Be cast down; "his eyes fell".
Fall (v.) Come out; issue; "silly phrases fell from her mouth".
Fall (v.) Be born, used chiefly of lambs; "The lambs fell in the afternoon".
Fall (v.) Begin vigorously; "The prisoners fell to work right away".
Fall (v.) Go as if by falling; "Grief fell from our hearts".
Fall (v.) Come as if by falling; "Night fell"; "Silence fell" [syn: fall, descend, settle].
Fallacious (a.) Embodying or pertaining to a fallacy; illogical; fitted to deceive; misleading; delusive; as, fallacious arguments or Fal*la"cious*ly,+adv.+-{Fal*la"cious*ness"> reasoning. -- Fal*la"cious*ly, adv. -{Fal*la"cious*ness, n.
Fallacious (a.) Containing or based on a fallacy; "fallacious reasoning"; "an unsound argument" [syn: fallacious, unsound].
Fallacious (a.) Intended to deceive; "deceitful advertising"; "fallacious testimony"; "smooth, shining, and deceitful as thin ice" -- S.T.Coleridge; "a fraudulent scheme to escape paying taxes" [syn: deceitful, fallacious, fraudulent].
Fallacious (a.) Based on an incorrect or misleading notion or information; "fallacious hope".
Fallacies (n. pl. ) of Fallacy.
Fallacy (n.) Deceptive or false appearance; deceitfulness; that which misleads the eye or the mind; deception.
Winning by conquest what the first man lost, By fallacy surprised. -- Milton.
Fallacy (n.) (Logic) An argument, or apparent argument, which professes to be decisive of the matter at issue, while in reality it is not; a sophism.
Syn: Deception; deceit; mistake.
Usage: Fallacy, Sophistry. A fallacy is an argument which professes to be decisive, but in reality is not; sophistry is also false reasoning, but of so specious and subtle a kind as to render it difficult to expose its fallacy. Many fallacies are obvious, but the evil of sophistry lies in its consummate art. "Men are apt to suffer their minds to be misled by fallacies which gratify their passions. Many persons have obscured and confounded the nature of things by their wretched sophistry; though an act be never so sinful, they will strip it of its guilt." -- South.
Fallacy (n.) A misconception resulting from incorrect reasoning [syn: fallacy, false belief].
Fallals (n. pl.) Gay ornaments; frippery; gewgaws. [Colloq.] -- Thackeray.
Fall armyworm (n.) 草地貪夜蛾（學名：Spodoptera frugiperda），又稱秋行軍蟲（英語：Fall armyworm）、秋粘蟲、草地夜蛾，是夜蛾科夜盜蛾屬的一種蛾。本種原產於美洲，但近年來逐漸散播至非洲、亞洲等地，在農業上屬於害蟲，可損害多種農作物，造成嚴重的經濟損失。本種可能正發生同域種化，即漸分化成兩個不同的物種 [1]；另外本種的另一特徵為幼蟲有同類相食的行為 [2]。
The fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda) is a species in the order of Lepidoptera and is the larval life stage of a fall armyworm moth. The term "armyworm" can refer to several species, often describing the large-scale invasive behavior of the species' larval stage. It is regarded as a pest and can damage and destroy a wide variety of crops, which causes large economic damage. Its scientific name derives from frugiperda, which is Latin for lost fruit, named because of the species' ability to destroy crops. [1] Because of its propensity for destruction, the fall armyworm's habits and possibilities for crop protection have been studied in depth. It is also a notable case for studying sympatric speciation, as it appears to be diverging into two species currently. [2] Another remarkable trait of the larva is that they practice cannibalism.
The fall armyworm is active at a different time of year than the true armyworm, another species in the order Lepidoptera and family Noctuidae, but of the genus Mythimna. Outbreaks of the true armyworm usually occur during the early part of the summer; the fall armyworm does most damage in the late summer in the southern part of the United States, and early fall in the northern regions. [3]
Fallax (n.) Cavillation; a caviling. [Obs.] -- Cranmer.
Fallen (a.) Dropped; prostrate; degraded; ruined; decreased; dead.
Some ruined temple or fallen monument. -- Rogers.
Fallen (a.) Having dropped by the force of gravity; "fallen leaves covered the forest floor"; "sat on a fallen tree trunk".
Fallen (a.) Having fallen in or collapsed; "a fallen building".
Fallen (a.) Having lost your chastity; "a fallen woman".
Fallen (a.) Killed in battle; "to honor fallen soldiers".
Fallency (n.) An exception. [Obs.] -- Jer. Taylor.
Faller (n.) One who, or that which, falls.
Faller (n.) (Mach.) A part which acts by falling, as a stamp in a fulling mill, or the device in a spinning machine to arrest motion when a thread breaks.
Faller (n.) A person who fells trees [syn: lumberman, lumberjack, logger, feller, faller].
Faller (n.) A person who falls; "one of them was safe but they were unable to save the faller"; "a faller among thieves".
Fallfish (n.) (Zool.) A fresh-water fish of the United States (Semotilus bullaris); -- called also silver chub, and Shiner. The name is also applied to other allied species.
Fallibility (n.) The state of being fallible; liability to deceive or to be deceived; as, the fallibity of an argument or of an adviser.
Fallibility (n.) The likelihood of making errors [ant: infallibility].
Fallible (a.) Liable to fail, mistake, or err; liable to deceive or to be deceived; as, all men are fallible; our opinions and hopes are fallible.
Fallible (a.) Likely to fail or make errors; "everyone is fallible to some degree" [ant: infallible].
Fallible (a.) Wanting in moral strength, courage, or will; having the attributes of man as opposed to e.g. divine beings; "I'm only a fallible human"; "frail humanity" [syn: fallible, frail, imperfect, weak].
Fallibly (adv.) In a fallible manner.
Falling (a. & n.) from Fall, v. i.
Falling (a.) Decreasing in amount or degree; "falling temperature".
Falling (a.) Becoming lower or less in degree or value; "a falling market"; "falling incomes" [ant: rising].
Falling (a.) Coming down freely under the influence of gravity; "the eerie whistle of dropping bombs"; "falling rain" [syn: dropping, falling].
Fallopian (a.) (Anat.) Pertaining to, or discovered by, Fallopius; as, the Fallopian tubes or oviducts, the ducts or canals which conduct the ova from the ovaries to the uterus.
Fallow (a.) Pale red or pale yellow; as, a fallow deer or greyhound. -- Shak.
Fallow (a.) Left untilled or unsowed after plowing; uncultivated; as, fallow ground.
Fallow chat, Fallow finch (Zool.), A small European bird, the wheatear ({Saxicola [oe]nanthe). See Wheatear.
Fallow (n.) Plowed land. [Obs.]
Who . . . pricketh his blind horse over the fallows. -- Chaucer.
Fallow (n.) Land that has lain a year or more untilled or unseeded; land plowed without being sowed for the season.
The plowing of fallows is a benefit to land. -- Mortimer.
Fallow (n.) The plowing or tilling of land, without sowing it for a season; as, summer fallow, properly conducted, has ever been found a sure method of destroying weeds.
Be a complete summer fallow, land is rendered tender and mellow. The fallow gives it a better tilth than can be given by a fallow crop. -- Sinclair.
Fallow crop, The crop taken from a green fallow. [Eng.]
Green fallow, Fallow whereby land is rendered mellow and clean from weeds, by cultivating some green crop, as turnips, potatoes, etc. [Eng.]
Fallowed (imp. & p. p.) of Fallow
Fallowing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fallow
Fallow (n.) To plow, harrow, and break up, as land, without seeding, for the purpose of destroying weeds and insects, and rendering it mellow; as, it is profitable to fallow cold, strong, clayey land.
Fallow (a.) Left unplowed and unseeded during a growing season; "fallow farmland".
Fallow (a.) Undeveloped but potentially useful; "a fallow gold market".
Fallow (n.) Cultivated land that is not seeded for one or more growing seasons.
Fallow deer (n.) (Zool.) 黇鹿 A European species of deer ({Cervus dama), much smaller than the red deer. In summer both sexes are spotted with white. It is common in England, where it is often domesticated in the parks.
Fallow deer (n.) Small Eurasian deer [syn: fallow deer, Dama dama].
Fallowist (n.) One who favors the practice of fallowing land. [R.] -- Sinclair.
Fallowness (n.) A well or opening, through the successive floors of a warehouse or manufactory, through which goods are raised or lowered. [U.S.] -- Bartlett.
Falsary (n.) A falsifier of evidence. [Obs.] -- Sheldon.
False (a.) Uttering falsehood; unveracious; given to deceit; dishnest; as, a false witness.
False (a.) Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous; perfidious; as, a false friend, lover, or subject; false to promises.
I to myself was false, ere thou to me. -- Milton.
False (a.) Not according with truth or reality; not true; fitted or likely to deceive or disappoint; as, a false statement.
False (a.) Not genuine or real; assumed or designed to deceive; counterfeit; hypocritical; as, false tears; false modesty; false colors; false jewelry.
False face must hide what the false heart doth know. -- Shak.
False (a.) Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous; as, a false claim; a false conclusion; a false construction in grammar.
Whose false foundation waves have swept away. -- Spenser.
False (a.) Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
False (a.) (Mus.) Not in tune.
False arch (Arch.), A member having the appearance of an arch, though not of arch construction.
False attic, An architectural erection above the main cornice, concealing a roof, but not having windows or inclosing rooms.
False bearing, Any bearing which is not directly upon a vertical support; thus, the weight carried by a corbel has a false bearing.
False cadence, An imperfect or interrupted cadence.
False conception (Med.), An abnormal conception in which a mole, or misshapen fleshy mass, is produced instead of a properly organized fetus.
False croup (Med.), A spasmodic affection of the larynx attended with the symptoms of membranous croup, but unassociated with the deposit of a fibrinous membrane.
False door or False window (Arch.), The representation of a door or window, inserted to complete a series of doors or windows or to give symmetry.
False fire, () A combustible carried by vessels of war, chiefly for signaling, but sometimes burned for the purpose of deceiving an enemy; also, a light on shore for decoying a vessel to destruction.
False galena. See Blende.
False imprisonment (Law), The arrest and imprisonment of a person without warrant or cause, or contrary to law; or the unlawful detaining of a person in custody.
False keel (Naut.), The timber below the main keel, used to serve both as a protection and to increase the shio's lateral resistance.
False key, A picklock.
False leg. (Zool.) See Proleg.
False membrane (Med.), The fibrinous deposit formed in croup and diphtheria, and resembling in appearance an animal membrane.
False papers (Naut.), Documents carried by a ship giving false representations respecting her cargo, destination, etc., for the purpose of deceiving.
False passage (Surg.), An unnatural passage leading off from a natural canal, such as the urethra, and produced usually by the unskillful introduction of instruments.
False personation (Law), The intentional false assumption of the name and personality of another.
False pretenses (Law), False representations concerning past or present facts and events, for the purpose of defrauding another.
False rail (Naut.), A thin piece of timber placed on top of the head rail to strengthen it.
False relation (Mus.), A progression in harmony, in which a certain note in a chord appears in the next chord prefixed by a flat or sharp.
False return (Law), An untrue return made to a process by the officer to whom it was delivered for execution.
False ribs (Anat.), The asternal rebs, of which there are five pairs in man.
False roof (Arch.), The space between the upper ceiling and the roof. -- Oxford Gloss.
False token, A false mark or other symbol, used for fraudulent purposes.
False scorpion (Zool.), Any arachnid of the genus Chelifer. See Book scorpion.
False tack (Naut.), A coming up into the wind and filling away again on the same tack.
False vampire (Zool.), The Vampyrus spectrum of South America, formerly erroneously supposed to have blood-sucking habits; -- called also vampire, and ghost vampire. The genuine blood-sucking bats belong to the genera Desmodus and Diphylla. See Vampire.
False window. (Arch.) See False door, above.
False wing. (Zool.) See Alula, and Bastard wing, under Bastard.
False works (Civil Engin.), Construction works to facilitate the erection of the main work, as scaffolding, bridge centering, etc.
False (adv.) Not truly; not honestly; falsely. "You play me false." -- Shak.
False (v. t.) To report falsely; to falsify. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
False (v. t.) To betray; to falsify. [Obs.]
[He] hath his truthe falsed in this wise. -- Chaucer.
False (v. t.) To mislead by want of truth; to deceive. [Obs.]
In his falsed fancy. -- Spenser.
False (v. t.) To feign; to pretend to make. [Obs.] "And falsed oft his blows." -- Spenser.
False (adv.) In a disloyal and faithless manner; "he behaved treacherously"; "his wife played him false" [syn: faithlessly, traitorously, treacherously, treasonably, false].
False (a.) Not in accordance with the fact or reality or actuality; "gave false testimony under oath"; "false tales of bravery" [ant: true].
False (a.) Arising from error; "a false assumption"; "a mistaken view of the situation" [syn: false, mistaken].
False (a.) Erroneous and usually accidental; "a false start"; "a false alarm".
False (a.) Deliberately deceptive; "false pretenses".
False (a.) Inappropriate to reality or facts; "delusive faith in a wonder drug"; "delusive expectations"; "false hopes" [syn: delusive, false].
False (a.) Not genuine or real; being an imitation of the genuine article; "it isn't fake anything; it's real synthetic fur"; "faux pearls"; "false teeth"; "decorated with imitation palm leaves"; "a purse of simulated alligator hide" [syn: fake, false, faux, imitation, simulated].
False (a.) Designed to deceive; "a suitcase with a false bottom".
False (a.) Inaccurate in pitch; "a false (or sour) note"; "her singing was off key" [syn: false, off-key, sour].
False (a.) Adopted in order to deceive; "an assumed name"; "an assumed cheerfulness"; "a fictitious address"; "fictive sympathy"; "a pretended interest"; "a put-on childish voice"; "sham modesty" [syn: assumed, false, fictitious, fictive, pretended, put on, sham].
False (a.) (Used especially of persons) Not dependable in devotion or affection; unfaithful; "a false friend"; "when lovers prove untrue" [syn: false, untrue].
FALSE, () A small, compiled extensible language with lambda abstractions by W. van Oortmerssen.
False-faced (a.) Hypocritical. -- Shak.
False-heart (a.) False-hearted. -- Shak.
False-hearted (a.) Hollow or unsound at the core; treacherous; deceitful; perfidious. -- Bacon. -- False"-heart`ed*ness, n. -- Bp. Stillingfleet.
Falsehood (n.) [U] 虛假；謬誤；謊言；說謊Want of truth or accuracy; an untrue assertion or representation; error; misrepresentation; falsity.
Though it be a lie in the clock, it is but a falsehood in the hand of the dial when pointing at a wrong hour, if rightly following the direction of the wheel which moveth it. -- Fuller.
Falsehood (n.) A deliberate intentional assertion of what is known to be untrue; a departure from moral integrity; a lie.
Falsehood (n.) Treachery; deceit; perfidy; unfaithfulness.
Betrayed by falsehood of his guard. -- Shak.
Falsehood (n.) A counterfeit; a false appearance; an imposture.
For his molten image is falsehood. -- Jer. x. 14.
No falsehood can endure Touch of celestial temper. -- Milton.
Syn: Falsity; lie; untruth; fiction; fabrication. See Falsity.
Falsehood (n.) A false statement [syn: falsehood, falsity, untruth] [ant: true statement, truth].
Falsehood (n.) The act of rendering something false as by fraudulent changes (of documents or measures etc.) or counterfeiting [syn: falsification, falsehood].
Falsehood. () A willful act or declaration contrary to truth. It is committed either by the willful act of the party, or by dissimulation, or by words. It is willful, for example, when the owner of a thing sells it twice, by different contracts to different individuals, unknown to them; for in this the seller must willfully declare the thing is his own, when he knows that itis not so. It is committed by dissimulation when a creditor, having an understanding with his former debtor, sells the land of the latter, although he has been paid the debt which was due to him.
Falsehood. () Falsehood by word is committed when a witness swears to what he knows not to be true. Falsehood is usually attendant on crime. Roscoe, Cr. Ev. 362.
Falsehood. () A slander must be false to entitle the plaintiff to recover damages. But whether a libel be true or false the writer or publisher may be indicted for it. Bul N. P. 9; Selw. N. P. 1047, note 6; 5 Co. 125; Hawk. B. 1, c. 73, s. 6. Vide Dig. 48, 10, 31; Id. 22, 6, 2; Code, 9, 22, 20.
Falsehood. () It is a general rule, that if a witness testifies falsely as to any one material fact, the whole of his testimony must be rejected but still the jury may consider whether the wrong statement be of such character, as to entitle the witness to be believed in other respects. 5 Shepl. R. 267. See Lie.
Falsely (adv.) 錯誤地；不正確地；虛假地；不誠實地；無根據地 In a false manner; erroneously; not truly; perfidiously or treacherously. "O falsely, falsely murdered." -- Shak.
Oppositions of science, falsely so called. -- 1 Tim. vi. 20.
Will ye steal, murder . . . and swear falsely ? -- Jer. vii. 9.
Falsely (adv.) In an insincerely false manner; "a seduction on my part would land us with the necessity to rise, bathe and dress, chat falsely about this and that, and emerge into the rest of the evening as though nothing had happened".
Falsely (adv.) In an incorrect manner; "to credit Lister with the first formulation of the basic principle of stratigraphy would be to bestow credit falsely" [syn: falsely, incorrectly].
Falseness (n.) The state of being false; contrariety to the fact; inaccuracy; want of integrity or uprightness; double dealing; unfaithfulness; treachery; perfidy; as, the falseness of a report, a drawing, or a singer's notes; the falseness of a man, or of his word.
Falseness (n.) The state of being false or untrue; "argument could not determine its truth or falsity" [syn: falsity, falseness] [ant: the true, trueness, truth, verity].
Falseness (n.) Unfaithfulness by virtue of being unreliable or treacherous [syn: faithlessness, falseness, fickleness, inconstancy].
Falseness (n.) The quality of not being open or truthful; deceitful or hypocritical [syn: insincerity, falseness, hollowness] [ant: sincerity].
Falser (n.) A deceiver. [Obs.] -- Spenser.