·noun Defect; want; lack; default.
II. Fault ·noun A lost scent; act of losing the scent.
III. Fault ·noun A dislocation of the strata of the vein.
IV. Fault ·noun Failure to serve the ball into the proper court.
V. Fault ·vi To Err; to blunder, to commit a fault; to do wrong.
VI. Fault ·noun Anything that fails, that is wanting, or that impairs excellence; a failing; a defect; a blemish.
VII. Fault ·noun In coal seams, coal rendered worthless by impurities in the seam; as, slate fault, dirt fault, ·etc.
VIII. Fault ·vt To charge with a fault; to Accuse; to find fault with; to Blame.
IX. Fault ·noun A moral failing; a defect or dereliction from duty; a deviation from propriety; an offense less serious than a crime.
X. Fault ·add. ·noun A dislocation caused by a slipping of rock masses along a plane of facture; also, the dislocated structure resulting from such slipping.
XI. Fault ·vt 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.
XII. Fault ·add. ·noun A defective point in an electric circuit due to a crossing of the parts of the conductor, or to contact with another conductor or the earth, or to a break in the circuit.