Definition of fall

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Fall (n.) Downfall; degradation; loss of greatness or office; termination of greatness, power, or dominion; ruin; overthrow; as, the fall of the Roman empire..

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In :: In (prep.) With reference to movement or tendency toward a certain limit or environment; -- sometimes equivalent to into; as, to put seed in the ground; to fall in love; to end in death; to put our trust in God..
Layland :: Layland (n.) Land lying untilled; fallow ground.
Fall :: Fall (n.) That part (as one of the ropes) of a tackle to which the power is applied in hoisting.
Ley :: Ley (a.) Fallow; unseeded.
Mattowacca :: Mattowacca (n.) An American clupeoid fish (Clupea mediocris), similar to the shad in habits and appearance, but smaller and less esteemed for food; -- called also hickory shad, tailor shad, fall herring, and shad herring..
Doe :: Doe (n.) A female deer or antelope; specifically, the female of the fallow deer, of which the male is called a buck. Also applied to the female of other animals, as the rabbit. See the Note under Buck..
Baroscope :: Baroscope (n.) Any instrument showing the changes in the weight of the atmosphere; also, less appropriately, any instrument that indicates -or foreshadows changes of the weather, as a deep vial of liquid holding in suspension some substance which rises and falls with atmospheric changes..
Relieve :: Relieve (v. t.) To lift up; to raise again, as one who has fallen; to cause to rise..
Astert :: Astert (v. t.) To start up; to befall; to escape; to shun.
Tear-falling :: Tear-falling (a.) Shedding tears; tender.
Skelp :: Skelp (n.) A squall; also, a heavy fall of rain..
Crumble :: Crumble (v. t.) To break into small pieces; to cause to fall in pieces.
Autumn :: Autumn (n.) The third season of the year, or the season between summer and winter, often called the fall. Astronomically, it begins in the northern temperate zone at the autumnal equinox, about September 23, and ends at the winter solstice, about December 23; but in popular language, autumn, in America, comprises September, October, and November..
Well :: Well (v. i.) The lower part of a furnace, into which the metal falls..
Shank :: Shank (v. i.) To fall off, as a leaf, flower, or capsule, on account of disease affecting the supporting footstalk; -- usually followed by off..
Sophistry :: Sophistry (n.) The practice of a sophist; fallacious reasoning; reasoning sound in appearance only.
Supplemented :: Supplement (v. t.) The number of degrees which, if added to a specified arc, make it 180¡; the quantity by which an arc or an angle falls short of 180 degrees, or an arc falls short of a semicircle..
Post-captain :: Post-captain (n.) A captain of a war vessel whose name appeared, or was posted, in the seniority list of the British navy, as distinguished from a commander whose name was not so posted. The term was also used in the United States navy; but no such commission as post-captain was ever recognized in either service, and the term has fallen into disuse..
Feeder :: Feeder (n.) A small lateral lode falling into the main lode or mineral vein.
Delapsion :: Delapsion (n.) A falling down, or out of place; prolapsion..
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