Fall

·vt To belong or appertain.

II. Fall ·noun The act of felling or cutting down.

III. Fall ·noun Death; destruction; overthrow; ruin.

IV. Fall ·vt To bring forth; as, to fall lambs.

V. Fall ·vt To let fall; to Drop.

VI. Fall ·noun The season when leaves fall from trees; autumn.

VII. Fall ·vt To be overthrown or captured; to be destroyed.

VIII. Fall ·noun Declivity; the descent of land or a hill; a slope.

IX. Fall ·vt To Diminish; to lessen or lower.

X. Fall ·vt To Fell; to cut down; as, to fall a tree.

XI. Fall ·noun That which falls; a falling; as, a fall of rain; a heavy fall of snow.

XII. Fall ·noun Formerly, a kind of ruff or band for the neck; a falling band; a faule.

XIII. Fall ·noun The surrender of a besieged fortress or town ; as, the fall of Sebastopol.

XIV. Fall ·noun A sinking of tone; cadence; as, the fall of the voice at the close of a sentence.

XV. Fall ·vt To begin with haste, ardor, or vehemence; to rush or hurry; as, they fell to blows.

XVI. Fall ·noun That part (as one of the ropes) of a tackle to which the power is applied in hoisting.

XVII. Fall ·vt To issue forth into life; to be brought forth;

— said of the young of certain animals.

XVIII. Fall ·vt To Sink; to Depress; as, to fall the voice.

XIX. Fall ·vt To Come; to Occur; to Arrive.

XX. Fall ·noun The act of dropping or tumbling from an erect posture; as, he was walking on ice, and had a fall.

XXI. Fall ·noun Diminution or decrease in price or value; depreciation; as, the fall of prices; the fall of rents.

XXII. Fall ·vt To assume a look of shame or disappointment; to become or appear dejected;

— said of the countenance.

XXIII. Fall ·noun Extent of descent; the distance which anything falls; as, the water of a stream has a fall of five feet.

XXIV. Fall ·vt To become prostrate and dead; to Die; especially, to die by violence, as in battle.

XXV. Fall ·vt To be dropped or uttered carelessly; as, an unguarded expression fell from his lips; not a murmur fell from him.

XXVI. Fall ·noun 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.

XXVII. Fall ·noun 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.

XXVIII. Fall ·vt To become insnared or embarrassed; to be entrapped; to be worse off than before; asm to fall into error; to fall into difficulties.

XXIX. Fall ·vt To Sink; to Languish; to become feeble or faint; as, our spirits rise and fall with our fortunes.

XXX. Fall ·vt To cease to be active or strong; to die away; to lose strength; to Subside; to become less intense; as, the wind falls.

XXXI. Fall ·vt To find a final outlet; to discharge its waters; to Empty;

— with into; as, the river Rhone falls into the Mediterranean.

XXXII. Fall ·noun Downfall; degradation; loss of greatness or office; termination of greatness, power, or dominion; ruin; overthrow; as, the fall of the Roman empire.

XXXIII. Fall ·noun 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.

XXXIV. Fall ·vt 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.

XXXV. Fall ·noun 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.

XXXVI. Fall ·vt To Happen; to to come to pass; to Light; to Befall; to Issue; to Terminate.

XXXVII. Fall ·vt 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.

XXXVIII. Fall ·vt 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.

XXXIX. Fall ·vt 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.

XL. Fall ·vt 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.

XLI. Fall ·vt 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.