·adj & ·noun from Fall, ·vi.
II. Falling ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of Fall.
·adj Shedding tears; tender. ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
When the mercury of the barometer is sinking in the tube. ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
When the top-sides are inclined within the perpendicular; opposite of wall-sided. (See tumbling home...
The opposite of griping, or coming up to the wind; it is the movement or direction of the ship's hea...
When the top-sides project beyond a perpendicular, as in flaring. ...
Meteors which have very much the appearance of real stars. They were falsely regarded as foreboders ...
, or ebb of tide. This phrase, implying a previous flow of tide towards high-water, requires here ...