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Natter :: Natter (v. i.) To find fault; to be peevish.

Fault :: Fault (n.) Defect; want; lack; default.

Fault :: Fault (v. t.) To interrupt the continuity of (rock strata) by displacement along a plane of fracture; -- chiefly used in the p. p.; as, the coal beds are badly faulted..

Rub :: Rub (n.) Imperfection; failing; fault.

Punish :: Punish (v. t.) To inflict a penalty for (an offense) upon the offender; to repay, as a fault, crime, etc., with pain or loss; as, to punish murder or treason with death..

Exculpation :: Exculpation (n.) The act of exculpating from alleged fault or crime; that which exculpates; excuse.

Demerit :: Demerit (n.) That which deserves blame; ill desert; a fault; a vice; misconduct; -- the opposite of merit.

Wardmote :: Wardmote (n.) Anciently, a meeting of the inhabitants of a ward; also, a court formerly held in each ward of London for trying defaults in matters relating to the watch, police, and the like..

Faultiness :: Faultiness (n.) Quality or state of being faulty.

Confidence :: Confidence (n.) Having an excess of assurance; bold to a fault; dogmatical; impudent; presumptuous.

Chide :: Chide (p. pr. & vb. n.) To rebuke; to reprove; to scold; to find fault with.

Exculpatory :: Exculpatory () Clearing, or tending to clear, from alleged fault or guilt; excusing..

Condign :: Condign (a.) Deserved; adequate; suitable to the fault or crime.

Faultily :: Faultily (adv.) In a faulty manner.

Fault :: Fault (n.) A dislocation of the strata of the vein.

Default :: Default (n.) A failing or failure; omission of that which ought to be done; neglect to do what duty or law requires; as, this evil has happened through the governor's default..

Downthrow :: Downthrow (n.) The sudden drop or depression of the strata of rocks on one side of a fault. See Throw, n..

Heterophemist :: Heterophemist (n.) One liable to the fault of heterophemy.

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..

Decry :: Decry (v. t.) To cry down; to censure as faulty, mean, or worthless; to clamor against; to blame clamorously; to discredit; to disparage..

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