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   table mat
         n 1: a pad for use under a hot dish to protect a table [syn:
               {table mat}, {hot pad}]

English Dictionary: table-mountain pine	by the DICT Development Group
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table mustard n pungent powder or paste prepared from ground mustard seeds Synonym(s): mustard, table mustard
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table napkin n a small piece of table linen that is used to wipe the mouth and to cover the lap in order to protect clothing Synonym(s): napkin, table napkin, serviette
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table wine n wine containing not more than 14 percent alcohol usually served with a meal
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table-mountain pine n a small two-needled upland pine of the eastern United States (Appalachians) having dark brown flaking bark and thorn-tipped cone scales Synonym(s): table-mountain pine, prickly pine, hickory pine, Pinus pungens
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tablemate n someone you dine with [syn: tablemate, {dining companion}]
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tapeline n measuring instrument consisting of a narrow strip (cloth or metal) marked in inches or centimeters and used for measuring lengths; "the carpenter should have used his tape measure" Synonym(s): tape, tapeline, tape measure
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tefillin n (Judaism) either of two small leather cases containing texts from the Hebrew Scriptures (known collectively as tefillin); traditionally worn (on the forehead and the left arm) by Jewish men during morning prayer Synonym(s): phylactery, tefillin
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Teflon n a material used to coat cooking utensils and in industrial applications where sticking is to be avoided Synonym(s): Teflon, polytetrafluoroethylene
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theophylline n a colorless crystalline alkaloid derived from tea leaves or made synthetically; used in medicine as a bronchial dilator Synonym(s): theophylline, Elixophyllin, Slo-Bid, Theobid
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top billing n the advertisement of a star's name at the top of a theatrical poster
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tabellion \Ta*bel"lion\, n. [L. tabellio, fr. tabella a tablet, a writing, document, dim. of tabula a board: cf. F. tabellion. See {Table}.] A secretary or notary under the Roman empire; also, a similar officer in France during the old monarchy.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
(c) (Mach.) Any collection and arrangement in a condensed form of many particulars or values, for ready reference, as of weights, measures, currency, specific gravities, etc.; also, a series of numbers following some law, and expressing particular values corresponding to certain other numbers on which they depend, and by means of which they are taken out for use in computations; as, tables of logarithms, sines, tangents, squares, cubes, etc.; annuity tables; interest tables; astronomical tables, etc. (d) (Palmistry) The arrangement or disposition of the lines which appear on the inside of the hand. Mistress of a fairer table Hath not history for fable. --B. Jonson. 5. An article of furniture, consisting of a flat slab, board, or the like, having a smooth surface, fixed horizontally on legs, and used for a great variety of purposes, as in eating, writing, or working. We may again Give to our tables meat. --Shak. The nymph the table spread. --Pope. 6. Hence, food placed on a table to be partaken of; fare; entertainment; as, to set a good table. 7. The company assembled round a table. I drink the general joy of the whole table. --Shak. 8. (Anat.) One of the two, external and internal, layers of compact bone, separated by diplo[89], in the walls of the cranium. 9. (Arch.) A stringcourse which includes an offset; esp., a band of stone, or the like, set where an offset is required, so as to make it decorative. See {Water table}. 10. (Games) (a) The board on the opposite sides of which backgammon and draughts are played. (b) One of the divisions of a backgammon board; as, to play into the right-hand table. (c) pl. The games of backgammon and of draughts. [Obs.] --Chaucer. This is the ape of form, monsieur the nice, That, when he plays at tables, chides the dice. --Shak. 11. (Glass Manuf.) A circular plate of crown glass. A circular plate or table of about five feet diameter weighs on an average nine pounds. --Ure. 12. (Jewelry) The upper flat surface of a diamond or other precious stone, the sides of which are cut in angles. 13. (Persp.) A plane surface, supposed to be transparent and perpendicular to the horizon; -- called also {perspective plane}. 14. (Mach.) The part of a machine tool on which the work rests and is fastened. {Bench table}, {Card table}, {Communion table}, {Lord's table}, etc. See under {Bench}, {Card}, etc. {Raised table} (Arch. & Sculp.), a raised or projecting member of a flat surface, large in proportion to the projection, and usually rectangular, -- especially intended to receive an inscription or the like. {Roller table} (Horology), a flat disk on the arbor of the balance of a watch, holding the jewel which rolls in and out of the fork at the end of the lever of the escapement. {Round table}. See Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction. {Table anvil}, a small anvil to be fastened to a table for use in making slight repairs. {Table base}. (Arch.) Same as {Water table}. {Table bed}, a bed in the form of a table. {Table beer}, beer for table, or for common use; small beer. {Table bell}, a small bell to be used at table for calling servants. {Table cover}, a cloth for covering a table, especially at other than mealtimes. {Table diamond}, a thin diamond cut with a flat upper surface. {Table linen}, linen tablecloth, napkins, and the like. {Table money} (Mil. or Naut.), an allowance sometimes made to officers over and above their pay, for table expenses. {Table rent} (O. Eng. Law), rent paid to a bishop or religious, reserved or appropriated to his table or housekeeping. --Burrill. {Table shore} (Naut.), a low, level shore. {Table talk}, conversation at table, or at meals. {Table talker}, one who talks at table. {Table tipping}, {Table turning}, certain movements of tables, etc., attributed by some to the agency of departed spirits, and by others to the development of latent vital or spriritual forces, but more commonly ascribed to the muscular force of persons in connection with the objects moved, or to physical force applied otherwise. {Tables of a girder} [or] {chord} (Engin.), the upper and lower horizontal members. {To lay on the table}, in parliamentary usage, to lay, as a report, motion, etc., on the table of the presiding officer, -- that is, to postpone the consideration of, by a vote. {To serve tables} (Script.), to provide for the poor, or to distribute provisions for their wants. --Acts vi. 2. {To turn the tables}, to change the condition or fortune of contending parties; -- a metaphorical expression taken from the vicissitudes of fortune in gaming. {Twelve tables} (Rom. Antiq.), a celebrated body of Roman laws, framed by decemvirs appointed 450 years before Christ, on the return of deputies or commissioners who had been sent to Greece to examine into foreign laws and institutions. They consisted partly of laws transcribed from the institutions of other nations, partly of such as were altered and accommodated to the manners of the Romans, partly of new provisions, and mainly, perhaps, of laws and usages under their ancient kings. --Burrill.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
(c) (Mach.) Any collection and arrangement in a condensed form of many particulars or values, for ready reference, as of weights, measures, currency, specific gravities, etc.; also, a series of numbers following some law, and expressing particular values corresponding to certain other numbers on which they depend, and by means of which they are taken out for use in computations; as, tables of logarithms, sines, tangents, squares, cubes, etc.; annuity tables; interest tables; astronomical tables, etc. (d) (Palmistry) The arrangement or disposition of the lines which appear on the inside of the hand. Mistress of a fairer table Hath not history for fable. --B. Jonson. 5. An article of furniture, consisting of a flat slab, board, or the like, having a smooth surface, fixed horizontally on legs, and used for a great variety of purposes, as in eating, writing, or working. We may again Give to our tables meat. --Shak. The nymph the table spread. --Pope. 6. Hence, food placed on a table to be partaken of; fare; entertainment; as, to set a good table. 7. The company assembled round a table. I drink the general joy of the whole table. --Shak. 8. (Anat.) One of the two, external and internal, layers of compact bone, separated by diplo[89], in the walls of the cranium. 9. (Arch.) A stringcourse which includes an offset; esp., a band of stone, or the like, set where an offset is required, so as to make it decorative. See {Water table}. 10. (Games) (a) The board on the opposite sides of which backgammon and draughts are played. (b) One of the divisions of a backgammon board; as, to play into the right-hand table. (c) pl. The games of backgammon and of draughts. [Obs.] --Chaucer. This is the ape of form, monsieur the nice, That, when he plays at tables, chides the dice. --Shak. 11. (Glass Manuf.) A circular plate of crown glass. A circular plate or table of about five feet diameter weighs on an average nine pounds. --Ure. 12. (Jewelry) The upper flat surface of a diamond or other precious stone, the sides of which are cut in angles. 13. (Persp.) A plane surface, supposed to be transparent and perpendicular to the horizon; -- called also {perspective plane}. 14. (Mach.) The part of a machine tool on which the work rests and is fastened. {Bench table}, {Card table}, {Communion table}, {Lord's table}, etc. See under {Bench}, {Card}, etc. {Raised table} (Arch. & Sculp.), a raised or projecting member of a flat surface, large in proportion to the projection, and usually rectangular, -- especially intended to receive an inscription or the like. {Roller table} (Horology), a flat disk on the arbor of the balance of a watch, holding the jewel which rolls in and out of the fork at the end of the lever of the escapement. {Round table}. See Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction. {Table anvil}, a small anvil to be fastened to a table for use in making slight repairs. {Table base}. (Arch.) Same as {Water table}. {Table bed}, a bed in the form of a table. {Table beer}, beer for table, or for common use; small beer. {Table bell}, a small bell to be used at table for calling servants. {Table cover}, a cloth for covering a table, especially at other than mealtimes. {Table diamond}, a thin diamond cut with a flat upper surface. {Table linen}, linen tablecloth, napkins, and the like. {Table money} (Mil. or Naut.), an allowance sometimes made to officers over and above their pay, for table expenses. {Table rent} (O. Eng. Law), rent paid to a bishop or religious, reserved or appropriated to his table or housekeeping. --Burrill. {Table shore} (Naut.), a low, level shore. {Table talk}, conversation at table, or at meals. {Table talker}, one who talks at table. {Table tipping}, {Table turning}, certain movements of tables, etc., attributed by some to the agency of departed spirits, and by others to the development of latent vital or spriritual forces, but more commonly ascribed to the muscular force of persons in connection with the objects moved, or to physical force applied otherwise. {Tables of a girder} [or] {chord} (Engin.), the upper and lower horizontal members. {To lay on the table}, in parliamentary usage, to lay, as a report, motion, etc., on the table of the presiding officer, -- that is, to postpone the consideration of, by a vote. {To serve tables} (Script.), to provide for the poor, or to distribute provisions for their wants. --Acts vi. 2. {To turn the tables}, to change the condition or fortune of contending parties; -- a metaphorical expression taken from the vicissitudes of fortune in gaming. {Twelve tables} (Rom. Antiq.), a celebrated body of Roman laws, framed by decemvirs appointed 450 years before Christ, on the return of deputies or commissioners who had been sent to Greece to examine into foreign laws and institutions. They consisted partly of laws transcribed from the institutions of other nations, partly of such as were altered and accommodated to the manners of the Romans, partly of new provisions, and mainly, perhaps, of laws and usages under their ancient kings. --Burrill.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Table \Ta"ble\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Tableed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Tableing}.] 1. To form into a table or catalogue; to tabulate; as, to table fines. 2. To delineate, as on a table; to represent, as in a picture. [Obs.] Tabled and pictured in the chambers of meditation. --Bacon. 3. To supply with food; to feed. [Obs.] --Milton. 4. (Carp.) To insert, as one piece of timber into another, by alternate scores or projections from the middle, to prevent slipping; to scarf. 5. To lay or place on a table, as money. --Carlyle. 6. In parliamentary usage, to lay on the table; to postpone, by a formal vote, the consideration of (a bill, motion, or the like) till called for, or indefinitely. 7. To enter upon the docket; as, to table charges against some one. 8. (Naut.) To make board hems in the skirts and bottoms of (sails) in order to strengthen them in the part attached to the boltrope.
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Tableman \Ta"ble*man\, n.; pl. {Tablemen}. A man at draughts; a piece used in playing games at tables. See {Table}, n., 10. [R.] --Bacon.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tableman \Ta"ble*man\, n.; pl. {Tablemen}. A man at draughts; a piece used in playing games at tables. See {Table}, n., 10. [R.] --Bacon.
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Tablement \Ta"ble*ment\, n. (Arch.) A table. [Obs.] Tablements and chapters of pillars. --Holland.
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Tabling \Ta"bling\, n. 1. A forming into tables; a setting down in order. 2. (Carp.) The letting of one timber into another by alternate scores or projections, as in shipbuilding. 3. (Naut.) A broad hem on the edge of a sail. --Totten. 4. Board; support. [Obs.] --Trence in English (1614). 5. Act of playing at tables. See {Table}, n., 10. [Obs.] {Tabling house}, a gambling house. [Obs.] --Northbrooke.
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Tabling \Ta"bling\, n. 1. A forming into tables; a setting down in order. 2. (Carp.) The letting of one timber into another by alternate scores or projections, as in shipbuilding. 3. (Naut.) A broad hem on the edge of a sail. --Totten. 4. Board; support. [Obs.] --Trence in English (1614). 5. Act of playing at tables. See {Table}, n., 10. [Obs.] {Tabling house}, a gambling house. [Obs.] --Northbrooke.
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Tapeline \Tape"line`\, n. A painted tape, marked with linear dimensions, as inches, feet, etc., and often inclosed in a case, -- used for measuring.
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Taplings \Tap"lings\, n. pl. The strong double leathers by which the two parts of a flail are united. --Halliwell.
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Tea \Tea\, n. [Chin. tsh[be], Prov. Chin. te: cf. F. th[82].] 1. The prepared leaves of a shrub, or small tree ({Thea, [or] Camellia, Chinensis}). The shrub is a native of China, but has been introduced to some extent into some other countries. Note: Teas are classed as green or black, according to their color or appearance, the kinds being distinguished also by various other characteristic differences, as of taste, odor, and the like. The color, flavor, and quality are dependent upon the treatment which the leaves receive after being gathered. The leaves for green tea are heated, or roasted slightly, in shallow pans over a wood fire, almost immediately after being gathered, after which they are rolled with the hands upon a table, to free them from a portion of their moisture, and to twist them, and are then quickly dried. Those intended for black tea are spread out in the air for some time after being gathered, and then tossed about with the hands until they become soft and flaccid, when they are roasted for a few minutes, and rolled, and having then been exposed to the air for a few hours in a soft and moist state, are finally dried slowly over a charcoal fire. The operation of roasting and rolling is sometimes repeated several times, until the leaves have become of the proper color. The principal sorts of green tea are Twankay, the poorest kind; Hyson skin, the refuse of Hyson; Hyson, Imperial, and Gunpowder, fine varieties; and Young Hyson, a choice kind made from young leaves gathered early in the spring. Those of black tea are Bohea, the poorest kind; Congou; Oolong; Souchong, one of the finest varieties; and Pekoe, a fine-flavored kind, made chiefly from young spring buds. See {Bohea}, {Congou}, {Gunpowder tea}, under {Gunpowder}, {Hyson}, {Oolong}, and {Souchong}. --K. Johnson. Tomlinson. Note: [bd]No knowledge of . . . [tea] appears to have reached Europe till after the establishment of intercourse between Portugal and China in 1517. The Portuguese, however, did little towards the introduction of the herb into Europe, and it was not till the Dutch established themselves at Bantam early in 17th century, that these adventurers learned from the Chinese the habit of tea drinking, and brought it to Europe.[b8] --Encyc. Brit. 2. A decoction or infusion of tea leaves in boiling water; as, tea is a common beverage. 3. Any infusion or decoction, especially when made of the dried leaves of plants; as, sage tea; chamomile tea; catnip tea. 4. The evening meal, at which tea is usually served; supper. {Arabian tea}, the leaves of {Catha edulis}; also (Bot.), the plant itself. See {Kat}. {Assam tea}, tea grown in Assam, in India, originally brought there from China about the year 1850. {Australian}, [or] {Botany Bay}, {tea} (Bot.), a woody clambing plant ({Smilax glycyphylla}). {Brazilian tea}. (a) The dried leaves of {Lantana pseodothea}, used in Brazil as a substitute for tea. (b) The dried leaves of {Stachytarpheta mutabilis}, used for adulterating tea, and also, in Austria, for preparing a beverage. {Labrador tea}. (Bot.) See under {Labrador}. {New Jersey tea} (Bot.), an American shrub, the leaves of which were formerly used as a substitute for tea; redroot. See {Redroot}. {New Zealand tea}. (Bot.) See under {New Zealand}. {Oswego tea}. (Bot.) See {Oswego tea}. {Paraguay tea}, mate. See 1st {Mate}. {Tea board}, a board or tray for holding a tea set. {Tea bug} (Zo[94]l.), an hemipterous insect which injures the tea plant by sucking the juice of the tender leaves. {Tea caddy}, a small box for holding tea. {Tea chest}, a small, square wooden case, usually lined with sheet lead or tin, in which tea is imported from China. {Tea clam} (Zo[94]l.), a small quahaug. [Local, U. S.] {Tea garden}, a public garden where tea and other refreshments are served. {Tea plant} (Bot.), any plant, the leaves of which are used in making a beverage by infusion; specifically, {Thea Chinensis}, from which the tea of commerce is obtained. {Tea rose} (Bot.), a delicate and graceful variety of the rose ({Rosa Indica}, var. {odorata}), introduced from China, and so named from its scent. Many varieties are now cultivated. {Tea service}, the appurtenances or utensils required for a tea table, -- when of silver, usually comprising only the teapot, milk pitcher, and sugar dish. {Tea set}, a tea service. {Tea table}, a table on which tea furniture is set, or at which tea is drunk. {Tea taster}, one who tests or ascertains the quality of tea by tasting. {Tea tree} (Bot.), the tea plant of China. See {Tea plant}, above.
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Evil \E*vil\a. [OE. evel, evil, ifel, uvel, AS. yfel; akin to OFries, evel, D. euvel, OS. & OHG. ubil, G. [81]bel, Goth. ubils, and perh. to E. over.] 1. Having qualities tending to injury and mischief; having a nature or properties which tend to badness; mischievous; not good; worthless or deleterious; poor; as, an evil beast; and evil plant; an evil crop. A good tree can not bring forth evil fruit. --Matt. vii. 18. 2. Having or exhibiting bad moral qualities; morally corrupt; wicked; wrong; vicious; as, evil conduct, thoughts, heart, words, and the like. Ah, what a sign it is of evil life, When death's approach is seen so terrible. --Shak. 3. Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or calamity; unpropitious; calamitous; as, evil tidings; evil arrows; evil days. Because he hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel. --Deut. xxii. 19. The owl shrieked at thy birth -- an evil sign. --Shak. Evil news rides post, while good news baits. --Milton. {Evil eye}, an eye which inflicts injury by some magical or fascinating influence. It is still believed by the ignorant and superstitious that some persons have the supernatural power of injuring by a look. It almost led him to believe in the evil eye. --J. H. Newman. {Evil speaking}, speaking ill of others; calumny; censoriousness. {The evil one}, the Devil; Satan. Note: Evil is sometimes written as the first part of a compound (with or without a hyphen). In many cases the compounding need not be insisted on. Examples: Evil doer or evildoer, evil speaking or evil-speaking, evil worker, evil wishing, evil-hearted, evil-minded. Syn: Mischieveous; pernicious; injurious; hurtful; destructive; wicked; sinful; bad; corrupt; perverse; wrong; vicious; calamitous.
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Theophilanthropic \The`ophil`anthrop"ic\, a. Pertaining to theophilanthropy or the theophilanthropists.
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Theophilanthropism \The`ophilan"thro*pism\, n. The doctrine of the theophilanthropists; theophilanthropy.
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Theophilanthropist \The`ophilan"thro*pist\, n. [Cf. F. th[82]ophilanthrope.] (Eccl. Hist.) A member of a deistical society established at Paris during the French revolution.
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Theophilanthropy \The`ophilan"thro*py\, n. [Gr. [?] God + E. philanthropy.] Theophilanthropism. --Macaulay.
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Tipple \Tip"ple\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Tippled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Tippling}.] [From tip a small end, or a word akin to it; cf. Norw. tipla to tipple, to drip, Prov. E. tip, tiff, tift, a draught of liquor, dial. G. zipfeln to eat and drink in small parts. See {Tip} a point, and cf. {Tipsy}.] To drink spirituous or strong liquors habitually; to indulge in the frequent and improper used of spirituous liquors; especially, to drink frequently in small quantities, but without absolute drunkeness. Few of those who were summoned left their homes, and those few generally found it more agreeable to tipple in alehouses than to pace the streets. --Macaulay.
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Tippling-house \Tip"pling-house`\, n. A house in which liquors are sold in drams or small quantities, to be drunk on the premises.
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Avail \A*vail"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Availed} ([?]); p. pr. & vb. n. {Availing}.] [OE. availen, fr. F. [?] (L. ad) + valoir to be worth, fr. L. valere to be strong, to be worth. See {Valiant}.] 1. To turn to the advantage of; to be of service to; to profit; to benefit; to help; as, artifices will not avail the sinner in the day of judgment. O, what avails me now that honor high ! --Milton. 2. To promote; to assist. [Obs.] --Pope. {To avail one's self of}, to make use of; take advantage of. Then shall they seek to avail themselves of names. --Milton. I have availed myself of the very first opportunity. --Dickens.
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Bill \Bill\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Billed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Billing}.] 1. To strike; to peck. [Obs.] 2. To join bills, as doves; to caress in fondness. [bd]As pigeons bill.[b8] --Shak. {To bill and coo}, to interchange caresses; -- said of doves; also of demonstrative lovers. --Thackeray.
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Blame \Blame\ (bl[amac]m), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Blamed} (bl[amac]md); p. pr. & vb. n. {Blaming}.] [OE. blamen, F. bl[83]mer, OF. blasmer, fr. L. blasphemare to blaspheme, LL. also to blame, fr. Gr. blasfhmei^n to speak ill, to slander, to blaspheme, fr. bla`sfhmos evil speaking, perh, for blapsi`fhmos; bla`psis injury (fr. bla`ptein to injure) + fh`mh a saying, fr. fa`nai to say. Cf. {Blaspheme}, and see {Fame}.] 1. To censure; to express disapprobation of; to find fault with; to reproach. We have none to blame but ourselves. --Tillotson. 2. To bring reproach upon; to blemish. [Obs.] She . . . blamed her noble blood. --Spenser. {To blame}, to be blamed, or deserving blame; in fault; as, the conductor was to blame for the accident. You were to blame, I must be plain with you. --Shak.
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Blow \Blow\, v. t. 1. To force a current of air upon with the mouth, or by other means; as, to blow the fire. 2. To drive by a current air; to impel; as, the tempest blew the ship ashore. Off at sea northeast winds blow Sabean odors from the spicy shore. --Milton. 3. To cause air to pass through by the action of the mouth, or otherwise; to cause to sound, as a wind instrument; as, to blow a trumpet; to blow an organ. Hath she no husband That will take pains to blow a horn before her? --Shak. Boy, blow the pipe until the bubble rise, Then cast it off to float upon the skies. --Parnell. 4. To clear of contents by forcing air through; as, to blow an egg; to blow one's nose. 5. To burst, shatter, or destroy by an explosion; -- usually with up, down, open, or similar adverb; as, to blow up a building. 6. To spread by report; to publish; to disclose. Through the court his courtesy was blown. --Dryden. His language does his knowledge blow. --Whiting. 7. To form by inflation; to swell by injecting air; as, to blow bubbles; to blow glass. 8. To inflate, as with pride; to puff up. Look how imagination blows him. --Shak. 9. To put out of breath; to cause to blow from fatigue; as, to blow a horse. --Sir W. Scott. 10. To deposit eggs or larv[91] upon, or in (meat, etc.). To suffer The flesh fly blow my mouth. --Shak. {To blow great guns}, to blow furiously and with roaring blasts; -- said of the wind at sea or along the coast. {To blow off}, to empty (a boiler) of water through the blow-off pipe, while under steam pressure; also, to eject (steam, water, sediment, etc.) from a boiler. {To blow one's own trumpet}, to vaunt one's own exploits, or sound one's own praises. {To blow out}, to extinguish by a current of air, as a candle. {To blow up}. (a) To fill with air; to swell; as, to blow up a bladder or bubble. (b) To inflate, as with pride, self-conceit, etc.; to puff up; as, to blow one up with flattery. [bd]Blown up with high conceits engendering pride.[b8] --Milton. (c) To excite; as, to blow up a contention. (d) To burst, to raise into the air, or to scatter, by an explosion; as, to blow up a fort. (e) To scold violently; as, to blow up a person for some offense. [Colloq.] I have blown him up well -- nobody can say I wink at what he does. --G. Eliot. {To blow upon}. (a) To blast; to taint; to bring into discredit; to render stale, unsavory, or worthless. (b) To inform against. [Colloq.] How far the very custom of hearing anything spouted withers and blows upon a fine passage, may be seen in those speeches from [Shakespeare's] Henry V. which are current in the mouths of schoolboys. --C. Lamb. A lady's maid whose character had been blown upon. --Macaulay.
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Blunder \Blun"der\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Blundered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Blundering}.] [OE. blunderen, blondren, to stir, confuse, blunder; perh. allied to blend to mix, to confound by mixture.] 1. To make a gross error or mistake; as, to blunder in writing or preparing a medical prescription. --Swift. 2. To move in an awkward, clumsy manner; to flounder and stumble. I was never distinguished for address, and have often even blundered in making my bow. --Goldsmith. Yet knows not how to find the uncertain place, And blunders on, and staggers every pace. --Dryden. {To blunder on}. (a) To continue blundering. (b) To find or reach as if by an accident involving more or less stupidity, -- applied to something desirable; as, to blunder on a useful discovery.
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Fall \Fall\ (f[add]l), v. i. [imp. {Fell}; p. p. {Fallen}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Falling}.] [AS. feallan; akin to D. vallen, OS. & OHG. fallan, G. fallen, Icel. Falla, Sw. falla, Dan. falde, Lith. pulti, L. fallere to deceive, Gr. sfa`llein to cause to fall, Skr. sphal, sphul, to tremble. Cf. {Fail}, {Fell}, v. t., to cause to fall.] 1. 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. I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven. --Luke x. 18. 2. 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. I fell at his feet to worship him. --Rev. xix. 10. 3. To find a final outlet; to discharge its waters; to empty; -- with into; as, the river Rhone falls into the Mediterranean. 4. To become prostrate and dead; to die; especially, to die by violence, as in battle. A thousand shall fall at thy side. --Ps. xci. 7. He rushed into the field, and, foremost fighting, fell. --Byron. 5. To cease to be active or strong; to die away; to lose strength; to subside; to become less intense; as, the wind falls. 6. To issue forth into life; to be brought forth; -- said of the young of certain animals. --Shak. 7. 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. I am a poor falle man, unworthy now To be thy lord and master. --Shak. The greatness of these Irish lords suddenly fell and vanished. --Sir J. Davies. 8. To be overthrown or captured; to be destroyed. Heaven and earth will witness, If Rome must fall, that we are innocent. --Addison. 9. 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. Let us labor therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief. --Heb. iv. 11. 10. To become insnared or embarrassed; to be entrapped; to be worse off than before; asm to fall into error; to fall into difficulties. 11. To assume a look of shame or disappointment; to become or appear dejected; -- said of the countenance. Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell. --Gen. iv. 5. I have observed of late thy looks are fallen. --Addison. 12. To sink; to languish; to become feeble or faint; as, our spirits rise and fall with our fortunes. 13. 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. 14. To happen; to to come to pass; to light; to befall; to issue; to terminate. The Romans fell on this model by chance. --Swift. Sit still, my daughter, until thou know how the matter will fall. --Ruth. iii. 18. They do not make laws, they fall into customs. --H. Spencer. 15. To come; to occur; to arrive. The vernal equinox, which at the Nicene Council fell on the 21st of March, falls now [1694] about ten days sooner. --Holder. 16. To begin with haste, ardor, or vehemence; to rush or hurry; as, they fell to blows. They now no longer doubted, but fell to work heart and soul. --Jowett (Thucyd. ). 17. 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. 18. To belong or appertain. If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget them all. --Pope. 19. To be dropped or uttered carelessly; as, an unguarded expression fell from his lips; not a murmur fell from him. {To fall abroad of} (Naut.), to strike against; -- applied to one vessel coming into collision with another. {To fall among}, to come among accidentally or unexpectedly. {To fall astern} (Naut.), to move or be driven backward; to be left behind; as, a ship falls astern by the force of a current, or when outsailed by another. {To fall away}. (a) To lose flesh; to become lean or emaciated; to pine. (b) To renounce or desert allegiance; to revolt or rebel. (c) To renounce or desert the faith; to apostatize. [bd]These . . . for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away.[b8] --Luke viii. 13. (d) To perish; to vanish; to be lost. [bd]How . . . can the soul . . . fall away into nothing?[b8] --Addison. (e) To decline gradually; to fade; to languish, or become faint. [bd]One color falls away by just degrees, and another rises insensibly.[b8] --Addison. {To fall back}. (a) To recede or retreat; to give way. (b) To fail of performing a promise or purpose; not to fulfill. {To fall back upon}. (a) (Mil.) To retreat for safety to (a stronger position in the rear, as to a fort or a supporting body of troops). (b) To have recourse to (a reserved fund, or some available expedient or support). {To fall calm}, to cease to blow; to become calm. {To fall down}. (a) To prostrate one's self in worship. [bd]All kings shall fall down before him.[b8] --Ps. lxxii. 11. (b) To sink; to come to the ground. [bd]Down fell the beauteous youth.[b8] --Dryden. (c) To bend or bow, as a suppliant. (d) (Naut.) To sail or drift toward the mouth of a river or other outlet. {To fall flat}, to produce no response or result; to fail of the intended effect; as, his speech fell flat. {To fall foul of}. (a) (Naut.) To have a collision with; to become entangled with (b) To attack; to make an assault upon. {To fall from}, to recede or depart from; not to adhere to; as, to fall from an agreement or engagement; to fall from allegiance or duty. {To fall from grace} (M. E. Ch.), to sin; to withdraw from the faith. {To fall home} (Ship Carp.), to curve inward; -- said of the timbers or upper parts of a ship's side which are much within a perpendicular. {To fall in}. (a) To sink inwards; as, the roof fell in. (b) (Mil.) To take one's proper or assigned place in line; as, to fall in on the right. (c) To come to an end; to terminate; to lapse; as, on the death of Mr. B., the annuuity, which he had so long received, fell in. (d) To become operative. [bd]The reversion, to which he had been nominated twenty years before, fell in.[b8] --Macaulay. {To fall into one's hands}, to pass, often suddenly or unexpectedly, into one's ownership or control; as, to spike cannon when they are likely to fall into the hands of the enemy. {To fall in with}. (a) To meet with accidentally; as, to fall in with a friend. (b) (Naut.) To meet, as a ship; also, to discover or come near, as land. (c) To concur with; to agree with; as, the measure falls in with popular opinion. (d) To comply; to yield to. [bd]You will find it difficult to persuade learned men to fall in with your projects.[b8] --Addison. {To fall off}. (a) To drop; as, fruits fall off when ripe. (b) To withdraw; to separate; to become detached; as, friends fall off in adversity. [bd]Love cools, friendship falls off, brothers divide.[b8] --Shak. (c) To perish; to die away; as, words fall off by disuse. (d) To apostatize; to forsake; to withdraw from the faith, or from allegiance or duty. Those captive tribes . . . fell off From God to worship calves. --Milton. (e) To forsake; to abandon; as, his customers fell off. (f) To depreciate; to change for the worse; to deteriorate; to become less valuable, abundant, or interesting; as, a falling off in the wheat crop; the magazine or the review falls off. [bd]O Hamlet, what a falling off was there![b8] --Shak. (g) (Naut.) To deviate or trend to the leeward of the point to which the head of the ship was before directed; to fall to leeward. {To fall on}. (a) To meet with; to light upon; as, we have fallen on evil days. (b) To begin suddenly and eagerly. [bd]Fall on, and try the appetite to eat.[b8] --Dryden. (c) To begin an attack; to assault; to assail. [bd]Fall on, fall on, and hear him not.[b8] --Dryden. (d) To drop on; to descend on. {To fall out}. (a) To quarrel; to begin to contend. A soul exasperated in ills falls out With everything, its friend, itself. --Addison. (b) To happen; to befall; to chance. [bd]There fell out a bloody quarrel betwixt the frogs and the mice.[b8] --L'Estrange. (c) (Mil.) To leave the ranks, as a soldier. {To fall over}. (a) To revolt; to desert from one side to another. (b) To fall beyond. --Shak. {To fall short}, to be deficient; as, the corn falls short; they all fall short in duty. {To fall through}, to come to nothing; to fail; as, the engageent has fallen through. {To fall to}, to begin. [bd]Fall to, with eager joy, on homely food.[b8] --Dryden. {To fall under}. (a) To come under, or within the limits of; to be subjected to; as, they fell under the jurisdiction of the emperor. (b) To come under; to become the subject of; as, this point did not fall under the cognizance or deliberations of the court; these things do not fall under human sight or observation. (c) To come within; to be ranged or reckoned with; to be subordinate to in the way of classification; as, these substances fall under a different class or order. {To fall upon}. (a) To attack. [See {To fall on}.] (b) To attempt; to have recourse to. [bd]I do not intend to fall upon nice disquisitions.[b8] --Holder. (c) To rush against. Note: Fall primarily denotes descending motion, either in a perpendicular or inclined direction, and, in most of its applications, implies, literally or figuratively, velocity, haste, suddenness, or violence. Its use is so various, and so mush diversified by modifying words, that it is not easy to enumerate its senses in all its applications.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fall \Fall\ (f[add]l), v. i. [imp. {Fell}; p. p. {Fallen}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Falling}.] [AS. feallan; akin to D. vallen, OS. & OHG. fallan, G. fallen, Icel. Falla, Sw. falla, Dan. falde, Lith. pulti, L. fallere to deceive, Gr. sfa`llein to cause to fall, Skr. sphal, sphul, to tremble. Cf. {Fail}, {Fell}, v. t., to cause to fall.] 1. 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. I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven. --Luke x. 18. 2. 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. I fell at his feet to worship him. --Rev. xix. 10. 3. To find a final outlet; to discharge its waters; to empty; -- with into; as, the river Rhone falls into the Mediterranean. 4. To become prostrate and dead; to die; especially, to die by violence, as in battle. A thousand shall fall at thy side. --Ps. xci. 7. He rushed into the field, and, foremost fighting, fell. --Byron. 5. To cease to be active or strong; to die away; to lose strength; to subside; to become less intense; as, the wind falls. 6. To issue forth into life; to be brought forth; -- said of the young of certain animals. --Shak. 7. 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. I am a poor falle man, unworthy now To be thy lord and master. --Shak. The greatness of these Irish lords suddenly fell and vanished. --Sir J. Davies. 8. To be overthrown or captured; to be destroyed. Heaven and earth will witness, If Rome must fall, that we are innocent. --Addison. 9. 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. Let us labor therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief. --Heb. iv. 11. 10. To become insnared or embarrassed; to be entrapped; to be worse off than before; asm to fall into error; to fall into difficulties. 11. To assume a look of shame or disappointment; to become or appear dejected; -- said of the countenance. Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell. --Gen. iv. 5. I have observed of late thy looks are fallen. --Addison. 12. To sink; to languish; to become feeble or faint; as, our spirits rise and fall with our fortunes. 13. 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. 14. To happen; to to come to pass; to light; to befall; to issue; to terminate. The Romans fell on this model by chance. --Swift. Sit still, my daughter, until thou know how the matter will fall. --Ruth. iii. 18. They do not make laws, they fall into customs. --H. Spencer. 15. To come; to occur; to arrive. The vernal equinox, which at the Nicene Council fell on the 21st of March, falls now [1694] about ten days sooner. --Holder. 16. To begin with haste, ardor, or vehemence; to rush or hurry; as, they fell to blows. They now no longer doubted, but fell to work heart and soul. --Jowett (Thucyd. ). 17. 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. 18. To belong or appertain. If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget them all. --Pope. 19. To be dropped or uttered carelessly; as, an unguarded expression fell from his lips; not a murmur fell from him. {To fall abroad of} (Naut.), to strike against; -- applied to one vessel coming into collision with another. {To fall among}, to come among accidentally or unexpectedly. {To fall astern} (Naut.), to move or be driven backward; to be left behind; as, a ship falls astern by the force of a current, or when outsailed by another. {To fall away}. (a) To lose flesh; to become lean or emaciated; to pine. (b) To renounce or desert allegiance; to revolt or rebel. (c) To renounce or desert the faith; to apostatize. [bd]These . . . for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away.[b8] --Luke viii. 13. (d) To perish; to vanish; to be lost. [bd]How . . . can the soul . . . fall away into nothing?[b8] --Addison. (e) To decline gradually; to fade; to languish, or become faint. [bd]One color falls away by just degrees, and another rises insensibly.[b8] --Addison. {To fall back}. (a) To recede or retreat; to give way. (b) To fail of performing a promise or purpose; not to fulfill. {To fall back upon}. (a) (Mil.) To retreat for safety to (a stronger position in the rear, as to a fort or a supporting body of troops). (b) To have recourse to (a reserved fund, or some available expedient or support). {To fall calm}, to cease to blow; to become calm. {To fall down}. (a) To prostrate one's self in worship. [bd]All kings shall fall down before him.[b8] --Ps. lxxii. 11. (b) To sink; to come to the ground. [bd]Down fell the beauteous youth.[b8] --Dryden. (c) To bend or bow, as a suppliant. (d) (Naut.) To sail or drift toward the mouth of a river or other outlet. {To fall flat}, to produce no response or result; to fail of the intended effect; as, his speech fell flat. {To fall foul of}. (a) (Naut.) To have a collision with; to become entangled with (b) To attack; to make an assault upon. {To fall from}, to recede or depart from; not to adhere to; as, to fall from an agreement or engagement; to fall from allegiance or duty. {To fall from grace} (M. E. Ch.), to sin; to withdraw from the faith. {To fall home} (Ship Carp.), to curve inward; -- said of the timbers or upper parts of a ship's side which are much within a perpendicular. {To fall in}. (a) To sink inwards; as, the roof fell in. (b) (Mil.) To take one's proper or assigned place in line; as, to fall in on the right. (c) To come to an end; to terminate; to lapse; as, on the death of Mr. B., the annuuity, which he had so long received, fell in. (d) To become operative. [bd]The reversion, to which he had been nominated twenty years before, fell in.[b8] --Macaulay. {To fall into one's hands}, to pass, often suddenly or unexpectedly, into one's ownership or control; as, to spike cannon when they are likely to fall into the hands of the enemy. {To fall in with}. (a) To meet with accidentally; as, to fall in with a friend. (b) (Naut.) To meet, as a ship; also, to discover or come near, as land. (c) To concur with; to agree with; as, the measure falls in with popular opinion. (d) To comply; to yield to. [bd]You will find it difficult to persuade learned men to fall in with your projects.[b8] --Addison. {To fall off}. (a) To drop; as, fruits fall off when ripe. (b) To withdraw; to separate; to become detached; as, friends fall off in adversity. [bd]Love cools, friendship falls off, brothers divide.[b8] --Shak. (c) To perish; to die away; as, words fall off by disuse. (d) To apostatize; to forsake; to withdraw from the faith, or from allegiance or duty. Those captive tribes . . . fell off From God to worship calves. --Milton. (e) To forsake; to abandon; as, his customers fell off. (f) To depreciate; to change for the worse; to deteriorate; to become less valuable, abundant, or interesting; as, a falling off in the wheat crop; the magazine or the review falls off. [bd]O Hamlet, what a falling off was there![b8] --Shak. (g) (Naut.) To deviate or trend to the leeward of the point to which the head of the ship was before directed; to fall to leeward. {To fall on}. (a) To meet with; to light upon; as, we have fallen on evil days. (b) To begin suddenly and eagerly. [bd]Fall on, and try the appetite to eat.[b8] --Dryden. (c) To begin an attack; to assault; to assail. [bd]Fall on, fall on, and hear him not.[b8] --Dryden. (d) To drop on; to descend on. {To fall out}. (a) To quarrel; to begin to contend. A soul exasperated in ills falls out With everything, its friend, itself. --Addison. (b) To happen; to befall; to chance. [bd]There fell out a bloody quarrel betwixt the frogs and the mice.[b8] --L'Estrange. (c) (Mil.) To leave the ranks, as a soldier. {To fall over}. (a) To revolt; to desert from one side to another. (b) To fall beyond. --Shak. {To fall short}, to be deficient; as, the corn falls short; they all fall short in duty. {To fall through}, to come to nothing; to fail; as, the engageent has fallen through. {To fall to}, to begin. [bd]Fall to, with eager joy, on homely food.[b8] --Dryden. {To fall under}. (a) To come under, or within the limits of; to be subjected to; as, they fell under the jurisdiction of the emperor. (b) To come under; to become the subject of; as, this point did not fall under the cognizance or deliberations of the court; these things do not fall under human sight or observation. (c) To come within; to be ranged or reckoned with; to be subordinate to in the way of classification; as, these substances fall under a different class or order. {To fall upon}. (a) To attack. [See {To fall on}.] (b) To attempt; to have recourse to. [bd]I do not intend to fall upon nice disquisitions.[b8] --Holder. (c) To rush against. Note: Fall primarily denotes descending motion, either in a perpendicular or inclined direction, and, in most of its applications, implies, literally or figuratively, velocity, haste, suddenness, or violence. Its use is so various, and so mush diversified by modifying words, that it is not easy to enumerate its senses in all its applications.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fall \Fall\ (f[add]l), v. i. [imp. {Fell}; p. p. {Fallen}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Falling}.] [AS. feallan; akin to D. vallen, OS. & OHG. fallan, G. fallen, Icel. Falla, Sw. falla, Dan. falde, Lith. pulti, L. fallere to deceive, Gr. sfa`llein to cause to fall, Skr. sphal, sphul, to tremble. Cf. {Fail}, {Fell}, v. t., to cause to fall.] 1. 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. I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven. --Luke x. 18. 2. 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. I fell at his feet to worship him. --Rev. xix. 10. 3. To find a final outlet; to discharge its waters; to empty; -- with into; as, the river Rhone falls into the Mediterranean. 4. To become prostrate and dead; to die; especially, to die by violence, as in battle. A thousand shall fall at thy side. --Ps. xci. 7. He rushed into the field, and, foremost fighting, fell. --Byron. 5. To cease to be active or strong; to die away; to lose strength; to subside; to become less intense; as, the wind falls. 6. To issue forth into life; to be brought forth; -- said of the young of certain animals. --Shak. 7. 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. I am a poor falle man, unworthy now To be thy lord and master. --Shak. The greatness of these Irish lords suddenly fell and vanished. --Sir J. Davies. 8. To be overthrown or captured; to be destroyed. Heaven and earth will witness, If Rome must fall, that we are innocent. --Addison. 9. 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. Let us labor therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief. --Heb. iv. 11. 10. To become insnared or embarrassed; to be entrapped; to be worse off than before; asm to fall into error; to fall into difficulties. 11. To assume a look of shame or disappointment; to become or appear dejected; -- said of the countenance. Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell. --Gen. iv. 5. I have observed of late thy looks are fallen. --Addison. 12. To sink; to languish; to become feeble or faint; as, our spirits rise and fall with our fortunes. 13. 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. 14. To happen; to to come to pass; to light; to befall; to issue; to terminate. The Romans fell on this model by chance. --Swift. Sit still, my daughter, until thou know how the matter will fall. --Ruth. iii. 18. They do not make laws, they fall into customs. --H. Spencer. 15. To come; to occur; to arrive. The vernal equinox, which at the Nicene Council fell on the 21st of March, falls now [1694] about ten days sooner. --Holder. 16. To begin with haste, ardor, or vehemence; to rush or hurry; as, they fell to blows. They now no longer doubted, but fell to work heart and soul. --Jowett (Thucyd. ). 17. 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. 18. To belong or appertain. If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget them all. --Pope. 19. To be dropped or uttered carelessly; as, an unguarded expression fell from his lips; not a murmur fell from him. {To fall abroad of} (Naut.), to strike against; -- applied to one vessel coming into collision with another. {To fall among}, to come among accidentally or unexpectedly. {To fall astern} (Naut.), to move or be driven backward; to be left behind; as, a ship falls astern by the force of a current, or when outsailed by another. {To fall away}. (a) To lose flesh; to become lean or emaciated; to pine. (b) To renounce or desert allegiance; to revolt or rebel. (c) To renounce or desert the faith; to apostatize. [bd]These . . . for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away.[b8] --Luke viii. 13. (d) To perish; to vanish; to be lost. [bd]How . . . can the soul . . . fall away into nothing?[b8] --Addison. (e) To decline gradually; to fade; to languish, or become faint. [bd]One color falls away by just degrees, and another rises insensibly.[b8] --Addison. {To fall back}. (a) To recede or retreat; to give way. (b) To fail of performing a promise or purpose; not to fulfill. {To fall back upon}. (a) (Mil.) To retreat for safety to (a stronger position in the rear, as to a fort or a supporting body of troops). (b) To have recourse to (a reserved fund, or some available expedient or support). {To fall calm}, to cease to blow; to become calm. {To fall down}. (a) To prostrate one's self in worship. [bd]All kings shall fall down before him.[b8] --Ps. lxxii. 11. (b) To sink; to come to the ground. [bd]Down fell the beauteous youth.[b8] --Dryden. (c) To bend or bow, as a suppliant. (d) (Naut.) To sail or drift toward the mouth of a river or other outlet. {To fall flat}, to produce no response or result; to fail of the intended effect; as, his speech fell flat. {To fall foul of}. (a) (Naut.) To have a collision with; to become entangled with (b) To attack; to make an assault upon. {To fall from}, to recede or depart from; not to adhere to; as, to fall from an agreement or engagement; to fall from allegiance or duty. {To fall from grace} (M. E. Ch.), to sin; to withdraw from the faith. {To fall home} (Ship Carp.), to curve inward; -- said of the timbers or upper parts of a ship's side which are much within a perpendicular. {To fall in}. (a) To sink inwards; as, the roof fell in. (b) (Mil.) To take one's proper or assigned place in line; as, to fall in on the right. (c) To come to an end; to terminate; to lapse; as, on the death of Mr. B., the annuuity, which he had so long received, fell in. (d) To become operative. [bd]The reversion, to which he had been nominated twenty years before, fell in.[b8] --Macaulay. {To fall into one's hands}, to pass, often suddenly or unexpectedly, into one's ownership or control; as, to spike cannon when they are likely to fall into the hands of the enemy. {To fall in with}. (a) To meet with accidentally; as, to fall in with a friend. (b) (Naut.) To meet, as a ship; also, to discover or come near, as land. (c) To concur with; to agree with; as, the measure falls in with popular opinion. (d) To comply; to yield to. [bd]You will find it difficult to persuade learned men to fall in with your projects.[b8] --Addison. {To fall off}. (a) To drop; as, fruits fall off when ripe. (b) To withdraw; to separate; to become detached; as, friends fall off in adversity. [bd]Love cools, friendship falls off, brothers divide.[b8] --Shak. (c) To perish; to die away; as, words fall off by disuse. (d) To apostatize; to forsake; to withdraw from the faith, or from allegiance or duty. Those captive tribes . . . fell off From God to worship calves. --Milton. (e) To forsake; to abandon; as, his customers fell off. (f) To depreciate; to change for the worse; to deteriorate; to become less valuable, abundant, or interesting; as, a falling off in the wheat crop; the magazine or the review falls off. [bd]O Hamlet, what a falling off was there![b8] --Shak. (g) (Naut.) To deviate or trend to the leeward of the point to which the head of the ship was before directed; to fall to leeward. {To fall on}. (a) To meet with; to light upon; as, we have fallen on evil days. (b) To begin suddenly and eagerly. [bd]Fall on, and try the appetite to eat.[b8] --Dryden. (c) To begin an attack; to assault; to assail. [bd]Fall on, fall on, and hear him not.[b8] --Dryden. (d) To drop on; to descend on. {To fall out}. (a) To quarrel; to begin to contend. A soul exasperated in ills falls out With everything, its friend, itself. --Addison. (b) To happen; to befall; to chance. [bd]There fell out a bloody quarrel betwixt the frogs and the mice.[b8] --L'Estrange. (c) (Mil.) To leave the ranks, as a soldier. {To fall over}. (a) To revolt; to desert from one side to another. (b) To fall beyond. --Shak. {To fall short}, to be deficient; as, the corn falls short; they all fall short in duty. {To fall through}, to come to nothing; to fail; as, the engageent has fallen through. {To fall to}, to begin. [bd]Fall to, with eager joy, on homely food.[b8] --Dryden. {To fall under}. (a) To come under, or within the limits of; to be subjected to; as, they fell under the jurisdiction of the emperor. (b) To come under; to become the subject of; as, this point did not fall under the cognizance or deliberations of the court; these things do not fall under human sight or observation. (c) To come within; to be ranged or reckoned with; to be subordinate to in the way of classification; as, these substances fall under a different class or order. {To fall upon}. (a) To attack. [See {To fall on}.] (b) To attempt; to have recourse to. [bd]I do not intend to fall upon nice disquisitions.[b8] --Holder. (c) To rush against. Note: Fall primarily denotes descending motion, either in a perpendicular or inclined direction, and, in most of its applications, implies, literally or figuratively, velocity, haste, suddenness, or violence. Its use is so various, and so mush diversified by modifying words, that it is not easy to enumerate its senses in all its applications.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fall \Fall\ (f[add]l), v. i. [imp. {Fell}; p. p. {Fallen}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Falling}.] [AS. feallan; akin to D. vallen, OS. & OHG. fallan, G. fallen, Icel. Falla, Sw. falla, Dan. falde, Lith. pulti, L. fallere to deceive, Gr. sfa`llein to cause to fall, Skr. sphal, sphul, to tremble. Cf. {Fail}, {Fell}, v. t., to cause to fall.] 1. 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. I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven. --Luke x. 18. 2. 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. I fell at his feet to worship him. --Rev. xix. 10. 3. To find a final outlet; to discharge its waters; to empty; -- with into; as, the river Rhone falls into the Mediterranean. 4. To become prostrate and dead; to die; especially, to die by violence, as in battle. A thousand shall fall at thy side. --Ps. xci. 7. He rushed into the field, and, foremost fighting, fell. --Byron. 5. To cease to be active or strong; to die away; to lose strength; to subside; to become less intense; as, the wind falls. 6. To issue forth into life; to be brought forth; -- said of the young of certain animals. --Shak. 7. 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. I am a poor falle man, unworthy now To be thy lord and master. --Shak. The greatness of these Irish lords suddenly fell and vanished. --Sir J. Davies. 8. To be overthrown or captured; to be destroyed. Heaven and earth will witness, If Rome must fall, that we are innocent. --Addison. 9. 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. Let us labor therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief. --Heb. iv. 11. 10. To become insnared or embarrassed; to be entrapped; to be worse off than before; asm to fall into error; to fall into difficulties. 11. To assume a look of shame or disappointment; to become or appear dejected; -- said of the countenance. Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell. --Gen. iv. 5. I have observed of late thy looks are fallen. --Addison. 12. To sink; to languish; to become feeble or faint; as, our spirits rise and fall with our fortunes. 13. 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. 14. To happen; to to come to pass; to light; to befall; to issue; to terminate. The Romans fell on this model by chance. --Swift. Sit still, my daughter, until thou know how the matter will fall. --Ruth. iii. 18. They do not make laws, they fall into customs. --H. Spencer. 15. To come; to occur; to arrive. The vernal equinox, which at the Nicene Council fell on the 21st of March, falls now [1694] about ten days sooner. --Holder. 16. To begin with haste, ardor, or vehemence; to rush or hurry; as, they fell to blows. They now no longer doubted, but fell to work heart and soul. --Jowett (Thucyd. ). 17. 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. 18. To belong or appertain. If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget them all. --Pope. 19. To be dropped or uttered carelessly; as, an unguarded expression fell from his lips; not a murmur fell from him. {To fall abroad of} (Naut.), to strike against; -- applied to one vessel coming into collision with another. {To fall among}, to come among accidentally or unexpectedly. {To fall astern} (Naut.), to move or be driven backward; to be left behind; as, a ship falls astern by the force of a current, or when outsailed by another. {To fall away}. (a) To lose flesh; to become lean or emaciated; to pine. (b) To renounce or desert allegiance; to revolt or rebel. (c) To renounce or desert the faith; to apostatize. [bd]These . . . for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away.[b8] --Luke viii. 13. (d) To perish; to vanish; to be lost. [bd]How . . . can the soul . . . fall away into nothing?[b8] --Addison. (e) To decline gradually; to fade; to languish, or become faint. [bd]One color falls away by just degrees, and another rises insensibly.[b8] --Addison. {To fall back}. (a) To recede or retreat; to give way. (b) To fail of performing a promise or purpose; not to fulfill. {To fall back upon}. (a) (Mil.) To retreat for safety to (a stronger position in the rear, as to a fort or a supporting body of troops). (b) To have recourse to (a reserved fund, or some available expedient or support). {To fall calm}, to cease to blow; to become calm. {To fall down}. (a) To prostrate one's self in worship. [bd]All kings shall fall down before him.[b8] --Ps. lxxii. 11. (b) To sink; to come to the ground. [bd]Down fell the beauteous youth.[b8] --Dryden. (c) To bend or bow, as a suppliant. (d) (Naut.) To sail or drift toward the mouth of a river or other outlet. {To fall flat}, to produce no response or result; to fail of the intended effect; as, his speech fell flat. {To fall foul of}. (a) (Naut.) To have a collision with; to become entangled with (b) To attack; to make an assault upon. {To fall from}, to recede or depart from; not to adhere to; as, to fall from an agreement or engagement; to fall from allegiance or duty. {To fall from grace} (M. E. Ch.), to sin; to withdraw from the faith. {To fall home} (Ship Carp.), to curve inward; -- said of the timbers or upper parts of a ship's side which are much within a perpendicular. {To fall in}. (a) To sink inwards; as, the roof fell in. (b) (Mil.) To take one's proper or assigned place in line; as, to fall in on the right. (c) To come to an end; to terminate; to lapse; as, on the death of Mr. B., the annuuity, which he had so long received, fell in. (d) To become operative. [bd]The reversion, to which he had been nominated twenty years before, fell in.[b8] --Macaulay. {To fall into one's hands}, to pass, often suddenly or unexpectedly, into one's ownership or control; as, to spike cannon when they are likely to fall into the hands of the enemy. {To fall in with}. (a) To meet with accidentally; as, to fall in with a friend. (b) (Naut.) To meet, as a ship; also, to discover or come near, as land. (c) To concur with; to agree with; as, the measure falls in with popular opinion. (d) To comply; to yield to. [bd]You will find it difficult to persuade learned men to fall in with your projects.[b8] --Addison. {To fall off}. (a) To drop; as, fruits fall off when ripe. (b) To withdraw; to separate; to become detached; as, friends fall off in adversity. [bd]Love cools, friendship falls off, brothers divide.[b8] --Shak. (c) To perish; to die away; as, words fall off by disuse. (d) To apostatize; to forsake; to withdraw from the faith, or from allegiance or duty. Those captive tribes . . . fell off From God to worship calves. --Milton. (e) To forsake; to abandon; as, his customers fell off. (f) To depreciate; to change for the worse; to deteriorate; to become less valuable, abundant, or interesting; as, a falling off in the wheat crop; the magazine or the review falls off. [bd]O Hamlet, what a falling off was there![b8] --Shak. (g) (Naut.) To deviate or trend to the leeward of the point to which the head of the ship was before directed; to fall to leeward. {To fall on}. (a) To meet with; to light upon; as, we have fallen on evil days. (b) To begin suddenly and eagerly. [bd]Fall on, and try the appetite to eat.[b8] --Dryden. (c) To begin an attack; to assault; to assail. [bd]Fall on, fall on, and hear him not.[b8] --Dryden. (d) To drop on; to descend on. {To fall out}. (a) To quarrel; to begin to contend. A soul exasperated in ills falls out With everything, its friend, itself. --Addison. (b) To happen; to befall; to chance. [bd]There fell out a bloody quarrel betwixt the frogs and the mice.[b8] --L'Estrange. (c) (Mil.) To leave the ranks, as a soldier. {To fall over}. (a) To revolt; to desert from one side to another. (b) To fall beyond. --Shak. {To fall short}, to be deficient; as, the corn falls short; they all fall short in duty. {To fall through}, to come to nothing; to fail; as, the engageent has fallen through. {To fall to}, to begin. [bd]Fall to, with eager joy, on homely food.[b8] --Dryden. {To fall under}. (a) To come under, or within the limits of; to be subjected to; as, they fell under the jurisdiction of the emperor. (b) To come under; to become the subject of; as, this point did not fall under the cognizance or deliberations of the court; these things do not fall under human sight or observation. (c) To come within; to be ranged or reckoned with; to be subordinate to in the way of classification; as, these substances fall under a different class or order. {To fall upon}. (a) To attack. [See {To fall on}.] (b) To attempt; to have recourse to. [bd]I do not intend to fall upon nice disquisitions.[b8] --Holder. (c) To rush against. Note: Fall primarily denotes descending motion, either in a perpendicular or inclined direction, and, in most of its applications, implies, literally or figuratively, velocity, haste, suddenness, or violence. Its use is so various, and so mush diversified by modifying words, that it is not easy to enumerate its senses in all its applications.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fall \Fall\ (f[add]l), v. i. [imp. {Fell}; p. p. {Fallen}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Falling}.] [AS. feallan; akin to D. vallen, OS. & OHG. fallan, G. fallen, Icel. Falla, Sw. falla, Dan. falde, Lith. pulti, L. fallere to deceive, Gr. sfa`llein to cause to fall, Skr. sphal, sphul, to tremble. Cf. {Fail}, {Fell}, v. t., to cause to fall.] 1. 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. I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven. --Luke x. 18. 2. 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. I fell at his feet to worship him. --Rev. xix. 10. 3. To find a final outlet; to discharge its waters; to empty; -- with into; as, the river Rhone falls into the Mediterranean. 4. To become prostrate and dead; to die; especially, to die by violence, as in battle. A thousand shall fall at thy side. --Ps. xci. 7. He rushed into the field, and, foremost fighting, fell. --Byron. 5. To cease to be active or strong; to die away; to lose strength; to subside; to become less intense; as, the wind falls. 6. To issue forth into life; to be brought forth; -- said of the young of certain animals. --Shak. 7. 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. I am a poor falle man, unworthy now To be thy lord and master. --Shak. The greatness of these Irish lords suddenly fell and vanished. --Sir J. Davies. 8. To be overthrown or captured; to be destroyed. Heaven and earth will witness, If Rome must fall, that we are innocent. --Addison. 9. 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. Let us labor therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief. --Heb. iv. 11. 10. To become insnared or embarrassed; to be entrapped; to be worse off than before; asm to fall into error; to fall into difficulties. 11. To assume a look of shame or disappointment; to become or appear dejected; -- said of the countenance. Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell. --Gen. iv. 5. I have observed of late thy looks are fallen. --Addison. 12. To sink; to languish; to become feeble or faint; as, our spirits rise and fall with our fortunes. 13. 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. 14. To happen; to to come to pass; to light; to befall; to issue; to terminate. The Romans fell on this model by chance. --Swift. Sit still, my daughter, until thou know how the matter will fall. --Ruth. iii. 18. They do not make laws, they fall into customs. --H. Spencer. 15. To come; to occur; to arrive. The vernal equinox, which at the Nicene Council fell on the 21st of March, falls now [1694] about ten days sooner. --Holder. 16. To begin with haste, ardor, or vehemence; to rush or hurry; as, they fell to blows. They now no longer doubted, but fell to work heart and soul. --Jowett (Thucyd. ). 17. 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. 18. To belong or appertain. If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget them all. --Pope. 19. To be dropped or uttered carelessly; as, an unguarded expression fell from his lips; not a murmur fell from him. {To fall abroad of} (Naut.), to strike against; -- applied to one vessel coming into collision with another. {To fall among}, to come among accidentally or unexpectedly. {To fall astern} (Naut.), to move or be driven backward; to be left behind; as, a ship falls astern by the force of a current, or when outsailed by another. {To fall away}. (a) To lose flesh; to become lean or emaciated; to pine. (b) To renounce or desert allegiance; to revolt or rebel. (c) To renounce or desert the faith; to apostatize. [bd]These . . . for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away.[b8] --Luke viii. 13. (d) To perish; to vanish; to be lost. [bd]How . . . can the soul . . . fall away into nothing?[b8] --Addison. (e) To decline gradually; to fade; to languish, or become faint. [bd]One color falls away by just degrees, and another rises insensibly.[b8] --Addison. {To fall back}. (a) To recede or retreat; to give way. (b) To fail of performing a promise or purpose; not to fulfill. {To fall back upon}. (a) (Mil.) To retreat for safety to (a stronger position in the rear, as to a fort or a supporting body of troops). (b) To have recourse to (a reserved fund, or some available expedient or support). {To fall calm}, to cease to blow; to become calm. {To fall down}. (a) To prostrate one's self in worship. [bd]All kings shall fall down before him.[b8] --Ps. lxxii. 11. (b) To sink; to come to the ground. [bd]Down fell the beauteous youth.[b8] --Dryden. (c) To bend or bow, as a suppliant. (d) (Naut.) To sail or drift toward the mouth of a river or other outlet. {To fall flat}, to produce no response or result; to fail of the intended effect; as, his speech fell flat. {To fall foul of}. (a) (Naut.) To have a collision with; to become entangled with (b) To attack; to make an assault upon. {To fall from}, to recede or depart from; not to adhere to; as, to fall from an agreement or engagement; to fall from allegiance or duty. {To fall from grace} (M. E. Ch.), to sin; to withdraw from the faith. {To fall home} (Ship Carp.), to curve inward; -- said of the timbers or upper parts of a ship's side which are much within a perpendicular. {To fall in}. (a) To sink inwards; as, the roof fell in. (b) (Mil.) To take one's proper or assigned place in line; as, to fall in on the right. (c) To come to an end; to terminate; to lapse; as, on the death of Mr. B., the annuuity, which he had so long received, fell in. (d) To become operative. [bd]The reversion, to which he had been nominated twenty years before, fell in.[b8] --Macaulay. {To fall into one's hands}, to pass, often suddenly or unexpectedly, into one's ownership or control; as, to spike cannon when they are likely to fall into the hands of the enemy. {To fall in with}. (a) To meet with accidentally; as, to fall in with a friend. (b) (Naut.) To meet, as a ship; also, to discover or come near, as land. (c) To concur with; to agree with; as, the measure falls in with popular opinion. (d) To comply; to yield to. [bd]You will find it difficult to persuade learned men to fall in with your projects.[b8] --Addison. {To fall off}. (a) To drop; as, fruits fall off when ripe. (b) To withdraw; to separate; to become detached; as, friends fall off in adversity. [bd]Love cools, friendship falls off, brothers divide.[b8] --Shak. (c) To perish; to die away; as, words fall off by disuse. (d) To apostatize; to forsake; to withdraw from the faith, or from allegiance or duty. Those captive tribes . . . fell off From God to worship calves. --Milton. (e) To forsake; to abandon; as, his customers fell off. (f) To depreciate; to change for the worse; to deteriorate; to become less valuable, abundant, or interesting; as, a falling off in the wheat crop; the magazine or the review falls off. [bd]O Hamlet, what a falling off was there![b8] --Shak. (g) (Naut.) To deviate or trend to the leeward of the point to which the head of the ship was before directed; to fall to leeward. {To fall on}. (a) To meet with; to light upon; as, we have fallen on evil days. (b) To begin suddenly and eagerly. [bd]Fall on, and try the appetite to eat.[b8] --Dryden. (c) To begin an attack; to assault; to assail. [bd]Fall on, fall on, and hear him not.[b8] --Dryden. (d) To drop on; to descend on. {To fall out}. (a) To quarrel; to begin to contend. A soul exasperated in ills falls out With everything, its friend, itself. --Addison. (b) To happen; to befall; to chance. [bd]There fell out a bloody quarrel betwixt the frogs and the mice.[b8] --L'Estrange. (c) (Mil.) To leave the ranks, as a soldier. {To fall over}. (a) To revolt; to desert from one side to another. (b) To fall beyond. --Shak. {To fall short}, to be deficient; as, the corn falls short; they all fall short in duty. {To fall through}, to come to nothing; to fail; as, the engageent has fallen through. {To fall to}, to begin. [bd]Fall to, with eager joy, on homely food.[b8] --Dryden. {To fall under}. (a) To come under, or within the limits of; to be subjected to; as, they fell under the jurisdiction of the emperor. (b) To come under; to become the subject of; as, this point did not fall under the cognizance or deliberations of the court; these things do not fall under human sight or observation. (c) To come within; to be ranged or reckoned with; to be subordinate to in the way of classification; as, these substances fall under a different class or order. {To fall upon}. (a) To attack. [See {To fall on}.] (b) To attempt; to have recourse to. [bd]I do not intend to fall upon nice disquisitions.[b8] --Holder. (c) To rush against. Note: Fall primarily denotes descending motion, either in a perpendicular or inclined direction, and, in most of its applications, implies, literally or figuratively, velocity, haste, suddenness, or violence. Its use is so various, and so mush diversified by modifying words, that it is not easy to enumerate its senses in all its applications.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fall \Fall\ (f[add]l), v. i. [imp. {Fell}; p. p. {Fallen}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Falling}.] [AS. feallan; akin to D. vallen, OS. & OHG. fallan, G. fallen, Icel. Falla, Sw. falla, Dan. falde, Lith. pulti, L. fallere to deceive, Gr. sfa`llein to cause to fall, Skr. sphal, sphul, to tremble. Cf. {Fail}, {Fell}, v. t., to cause to fall.] 1. 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. I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven. --Luke x. 18. 2. 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. I fell at his feet to worship him. --Rev. xix. 10. 3. To find a final outlet; to discharge its waters; to empty; -- with into; as, the river Rhone falls into the Mediterranean. 4. To become prostrate and dead; to die; especially, to die by violence, as in battle. A thousand shall fall at thy side. --Ps. xci. 7. He rushed into the field, and, foremost fighting, fell. --Byron. 5. To cease to be active or strong; to die away; to lose strength; to subside; to become less intense; as, the wind falls. 6. To issue forth into life; to be brought forth; -- said of the young of certain animals. --Shak. 7. 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. I am a poor falle man, unworthy now To be thy lord and master. --Shak. The greatness of these Irish lords suddenly fell and vanished. --Sir J. Davies. 8. To be overthrown or captured; to be destroyed. Heaven and earth will witness, If Rome must fall, that we are innocent. --Addison. 9. 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. Let us labor therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief. --Heb. iv. 11. 10. To become insnared or embarrassed; to be entrapped; to be worse off than before; asm to fall into error; to fall into difficulties. 11. To assume a look of shame or disappointment; to become or appear dejected; -- said of the countenance. Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell. --Gen. iv. 5. I have observed of late thy looks are fallen. --Addison. 12. To sink; to languish; to become feeble or faint; as, our spirits rise and fall with our fortunes. 13. 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. 14. To happen; to to come to pass; to light; to befall; to issue; to terminate. The Romans fell on this model by chance. --Swift. Sit still, my daughter, until thou know how the matter will fall. --Ruth. iii. 18. They do not make laws, they fall into customs. --H. Spencer. 15. To come; to occur; to arrive. The vernal equinox, which at the Nicene Council fell on the 21st of March, falls now [1694] about ten days sooner. --Holder. 16. To begin with haste, ardor, or vehemence; to rush or hurry; as, they fell to blows. They now no longer doubted, but fell to work heart and soul. --Jowett (Thucyd. ). 17. 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. 18. To belong or appertain. If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget them all. --Pope. 19. To be dropped or uttered carelessly; as, an unguarded expression fell from his lips; not a murmur fell from him. {To fall abroad of} (Naut.), to strike against; -- applied to one vessel coming into collision with another. {To fall among}, to come among accidentally or unexpectedly. {To fall astern} (Naut.), to move or be driven backward; to be left behind; as, a ship falls astern by the force of a current, or when outsailed by another. {To fall away}. (a) To lose flesh; to become lean or emaciated; to pine. (b) To renounce or desert allegiance; to revolt or rebel. (c) To renounce or desert the faith; to apostatize. [bd]These . . . for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away.[b8] --Luke viii. 13. (d) To perish; to vanish; to be lost. [bd]How . . . can the soul . . . fall away into nothing?[b8] --Addison. (e) To decline gradually; to fade; to languish, or become faint. [bd]One color falls away by just degrees, and another rises insensibly.[b8] --Addison. {To fall back}. (a) To recede or retreat; to give way. (b) To fail of performing a promise or purpose; not to fulfill. {To fall back upon}. (a) (Mil.) To retreat for safety to (a stronger position in the rear, as to a fort or a supporting body of troops). (b) To have recourse to (a reserved fund, or some available expedient or support). {To fall calm}, to cease to blow; to become calm. {To fall down}. (a) To prostrate one's self in worship. [bd]All kings shall fall down before him.[b8] --Ps. lxxii. 11. (b) To sink; to come to the ground. [bd]Down fell the beauteous youth.[b8] --Dryden. (c) To bend or bow, as a suppliant. (d) (Naut.) To sail or drift toward the mouth of a river or other outlet. {To fall flat}, to produce no response or result; to fail of the intended effect; as, his speech fell flat. {To fall foul of}. (a) (Naut.) To have a collision with; to become entangled with (b) To attack; to make an assault upon. {To fall from}, to recede or depart from; not to adhere to; as, to fall from an agreement or engagement; to fall from allegiance or duty. {To fall from grace} (M. E. Ch.), to sin; to withdraw from the faith. {To fall home} (Ship Carp.), to curve inward; -- said of the timbers or upper parts of a ship's side which are much within a perpendicular. {To fall in}. (a) To sink inwards; as, the roof fell in. (b) (Mil.) To take one's proper or assigned place in line; as, to fall in on the right. (c) To come to an end; to terminate; to lapse; as, on the death of Mr. B., the annuuity, which he had so long received, fell in. (d) To become operative. [bd]The reversion, to which he had been nominated twenty years before, fell in.[b8] --Macaulay. {To fall into one's hands}, to pass, often suddenly or unexpectedly, into one's ownership or control; as, to spike cannon when they are likely to fall into the hands of the enemy. {To fall in with}. (a) To meet with accidentally; as, to fall in with a friend. (b) (Naut.) To meet, as a ship; also, to discover or come near, as land. (c) To concur with; to agree with; as, the measure falls in with popular opinion. (d) To comply; to yield to. [bd]You will find it difficult to persuade learned men to fall in with your projects.[b8] --Addison. {To fall off}. (a) To drop; as, fruits fall off when ripe. (b) To withdraw; to separate; to become detached; as, friends fall off in adversity. [bd]Love cools, friendship falls off, brothers divide.[b8] --Shak. (c) To perish; to die away; as, words fall off by disuse. (d) To apostatize; to forsake; to withdraw from the faith, or from allegiance or duty. Those captive tribes . . . fell off From God to worship calves. --Milton. (e) To forsake; to abandon; as, his customers fell off. (f) To depreciate; to change for the worse; to deteriorate; to become less valuable, abundant, or interesting; as, a falling off in the wheat crop; the magazine or the review falls off. [bd]O Hamlet, what a falling off was there![b8] --Shak. (g) (Naut.) To deviate or trend to the leeward of the point to which the head of the ship was before directed; to fall to leeward. {To fall on}. (a) To meet with; to light upon; as, we have fallen on evil days. (b) To begin suddenly and eagerly. [bd]Fall on, and try the appetite to eat.[b8] --Dryden. (c) To begin an attack; to assault; to assail. [bd]Fall on, fall on, and hear him not.[b8] --Dryden. (d) To drop on; to descend on. {To fall out}. (a) To quarrel; to begin to contend. A soul exasperated in ills falls out With everything, its friend, itself. --Addison. (b) To happen; to befall; to chance. [bd]There fell out a bloody quarrel betwixt the frogs and the mice.[b8] --L'Estrange. (c) (Mil.) To leave the ranks, as a soldier. {To fall over}. (a) To revolt; to desert from one side to another. (b) To fall beyond. --Shak. {To fall short}, to be deficient; as, the corn falls short; they all fall short in duty. {To fall through}, to come to nothing; to fail; as, the engageent has fallen through. {To fall to}, to begin. [bd]Fall to, with eager joy, on homely food.[b8] --Dryden. {To fall under}. (a) To come under, or within the limits of; to be subjected to; as, they fell under the jurisdiction of the emperor. (b) To come under; to become the subject of; as, this point did not fall under the cognizance or deliberations of the court; these things do not fall under human sight or observation. (c) To come within; to be ranged or reckoned with; to be subordinate to in the way of classification; as, these substances fall under a different class or order. {To fall upon}. (a) To attack. [See {To fall on}.] (b) To attempt; to have recourse to. [bd]I do not intend to fall upon nice disquisitions.[b8] --Holder. (c) To rush against. Note: Fall primarily denotes descending motion, either in a perpendicular or inclined direction, and, in most of its applications, implies, literally or figuratively, velocity, haste, suddenness, or violence. Its use is so various, and so mush diversified by modifying words, that it is not easy to enumerate its senses in all its applications.
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Fall \Fall\ (f[add]l), v. i. [imp. {Fell}; p. p. {Fallen}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Falling}.] [AS. feallan; akin to D. vallen, OS. & OHG. fallan, G. fallen, Icel. Falla, Sw. falla, Dan. falde, Lith. pulti, L. fallere to deceive, Gr. sfa`llein to cause to fall, Skr. sphal, sphul, to tremble. Cf. {Fail}, {Fell}, v. t., to cause to fall.] 1. 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. I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven. --Luke x. 18. 2. 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. I fell at his feet to worship him. --Rev. xix. 10. 3. To find a final outlet; to discharge its waters; to empty; -- with into; as, the river Rhone falls into the Mediterranean. 4. To become prostrate and dead; to die; especially, to die by violence, as in battle. A thousand shall fall at thy side. --Ps. xci. 7. He rushed into the field, and, foremost fighting, fell. --Byron. 5. To cease to be active or strong; to die away; to lose strength; to subside; to become less intense; as, the wind falls. 6. To issue forth into life; to be brought forth; -- said of the young of certain animals. --Shak. 7. 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. I am a poor falle man, unworthy now To be thy lord and master. --Shak. The greatness of these Irish lords suddenly fell and vanished. --Sir J. Davies. 8. To be overthrown or captured; to be destroyed. Heaven and earth will witness, If Rome must fall, that we are innocent. --Addison. 9. 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. Let us labor therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief. --Heb. iv. 11. 10. To become insnared or embarrassed; to be entrapped; to be worse off than before; asm to fall into error; to fall into difficulties. 11. To assume a look of shame or disappointment; to become or appear dejected; -- said of the countenance. Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell. --Gen. iv. 5. I have observed of late thy looks are fallen. --Addison. 12. To sink; to languish; to become feeble or faint; as, our spirits rise and fall with our fortunes. 13. 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. 14. To happen; to to come to pass; to light; to befall; to issue; to terminate. The Romans fell on this model by chance. --Swift. Sit still, my daughter, until thou know how the matter will fall. --Ruth. iii. 18. They do not make laws, they fall into customs. --H. Spencer. 15. To come; to occur; to arrive. The vernal equinox, which at the Nicene Council fell on the 21st of March, falls now [1694] about ten days sooner. --Holder. 16. To begin with haste, ardor, or vehemence; to rush or hurry; as, they fell to blows. They now no longer doubted, but fell to work heart and soul. --Jowett (Thucyd. ). 17. 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. 18. To belong or appertain. If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget them all. --Pope. 19. To be dropped or uttered carelessly; as, an unguarded expression fell from his lips; not a murmur fell from him. {To fall abroad of} (Naut.), to strike against; -- applied to one vessel coming into collision with another. {To fall among}, to come among accidentally or unexpectedly. {To fall astern} (Naut.), to move or be driven backward; to be left behind; as, a ship falls astern by the force of a current, or when outsailed by another. {To fall away}. (a) To lose flesh; to become lean or emaciated; to pine. (b) To renounce or desert allegiance; to revolt or rebel. (c) To renounce or desert the faith; to apostatize. [bd]These . . . for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away.[b8] --Luke viii. 13. (d) To perish; to vanish; to be lost. [bd]How . . . can the soul . . . fall away into nothing?[b8] --Addison. (e) To decline gradually; to fade; to languish, or become faint. [bd]One color falls away by just degrees, and another rises insensibly.[b8] --Addison. {To fall back}. (a) To recede or retreat; to give way. (b) To fail of performing a promise or purpose; not to fulfill. {To fall back upon}. (a) (Mil.) To retreat for safety to (a stronger position in the rear, as to a fort or a supporting body of troops). (b) To have recourse to (a reserved fund, or some available expedient or support). {To fall calm}, to cease to blow; to become calm. {To fall down}. (a) To prostrate one's self in worship. [bd]All kings shall fall down before him.[b8] --Ps. lxxii. 11. (b) To sink; to come to the ground. [bd]Down fell the beauteous youth.[b8] --Dryden. (c) To bend or bow, as a suppliant. (d) (Naut.) To sail or drift toward the mouth of a river or other outlet. {To fall flat}, to produce no response or result; to fail of the intended effect; as, his speech fell flat. {To fall foul of}. (a) (Naut.) To have a collision with; to become entangled with (b) To attack; to make an assault upon. {To fall from}, to recede or depart from; not to adhere to; as, to fall from an agreement or engagement; to fall from allegiance or duty. {To fall from grace} (M. E. Ch.), to sin; to withdraw from the faith. {To fall home} (Ship Carp.), to curve inward; -- said of the timbers or upper parts of a ship's side which are much within a perpendicular. {To fall in}. (a) To sink inwards; as, the roof fell in. (b) (Mil.) To take one's proper or assigned place in line; as, to fall in on the right. (c) To come to an end; to terminate; to lapse; as, on the death of Mr. B., the annuuity, which he had so long received, fell in. (d) To become operative. [bd]The reversion, to which he had been nominated twenty years before, fell in.[b8] --Macaulay. {To fall into one's hands}, to pass, often suddenly or unexpectedly, into one's ownership or control; as, to spike cannon when they are likely to fall into the hands of the enemy. {To fall in with}. (a) To meet with accidentally; as, to fall in with a friend. (b) (Naut.) To meet, as a ship; also, to discover or come near, as land. (c) To concur with; to agree with; as, the measure falls in with popular opinion. (d) To comply; to yield to. [bd]You will find it difficult to persuade learned men to fall in with your projects.[b8] --Addison. {To fall off}. (a) To drop; as, fruits fall off when ripe. (b) To withdraw; to separate; to become detached; as, friends fall off in adversity. [bd]Love cools, friendship falls off, brothers divide.[b8] --Shak. (c) To perish; to die away; as, words fall off by disuse. (d) To apostatize; to forsake; to withdraw from the faith, or from allegiance or duty. Those captive tribes . . . fell off From God to worship calves. --Milton. (e) To forsake; to abandon; as, his customers fell off. (f) To depreciate; to change for the worse; to deteriorate; to become less valuable, abundant, or interesting; as, a falling off in the wheat crop; the magazine or the review falls off. [bd]O Hamlet, what a falling off was there![b8] --Shak. (g) (Naut.) To deviate or trend to the leeward of the point to which the head of the ship was before directed; to fall to leeward. {To fall on}. (a) To meet with; to light upon; as, we have fallen on evil days. (b) To begin suddenly and eagerly. [bd]Fall on, and try the appetite to eat.[b8] --Dryden. (c) To begin an attack; to assault; to assail. [bd]Fall on, fall on, and hear him not.[b8] --Dryden. (d) To drop on; to descend on. {To fall out}. (a) To quarrel; to begin to contend. A soul exasperated in ills falls out With everything, its friend, itself. --Addison. (b) To happen; to befall; to chance. [bd]There fell out a bloody quarrel betwixt the frogs and the mice.[b8] --L'Estrange. (c) (Mil.) To leave the ranks, as a soldier. {To fall over}. (a) To revolt; to desert from one side to another. (b) To fall beyond. --Shak. {To fall short}, to be deficient; as, the corn falls short; they all fall short in duty. {To fall through}, to come to nothing; to fail; as, the engageent has fallen through. {To fall to}, to begin. [bd]Fall to, with eager joy, on homely food.[b8] --Dryden. {To fall under}. (a) To come under, or within the limits of; to be subjected to; as, they fell under the jurisdiction of the emperor. (b) To come under; to become the subject of; as, this point did not fall under the cognizance or deliberations of the court; these things do not fall under human sight or observation. (c) To come within; to be ranged or reckoned with; to be subordinate to in the way of classification; as, these substances fall under a different class or order. {To fall upon}. (a) To attack. [See {To fall on}.] (b) To attempt; to have recourse to. [bd]I do not intend to fall upon nice disquisitions.[b8] --Holder. (c) To rush against. Note: Fall primarily denotes descending motion, either in a perpendicular or inclined direction, and, in most of its applications, implies, literally or figuratively, velocity, haste, suddenness, or violence. Its use is so various, and so mush diversified by modifying words, that it is not easy to enumerate its senses in all its applications.
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Oat \Oat\ ([omac]t), n.; pl. {Oats} ([omac]ts). [OE. ote, ate, AS. [amac]ta, akin to Fries. oat. Of uncertain origin.] 1. (Bot.) A well-known cereal grass ({Avena sativa}), and its edible grain; -- commonly used in the plural and in a collective sense. 2. A musical pipe made of oat straw. [Obs.] --Milton. {Animated oats} or {Animal oats} (Bot.), A grass ({Avena sterilis}) much like oats, but with a long spirally twisted awn which coils and uncoils with changes of moisture, and thus gives the grains an apparently automatic motion. {Oat fowl} (Zo[94]l.), the snow bunting; -- so called from its feeding on oats. [Prov. Eng.] {Oat grass} (Bot.), the name of several grasses more or less resembling oats, as {Danthonia spicata}, {D. sericea}, and {Arrhenatherum avenaceum}, all common in parts of the United States. {To feel one's oats}, to be conceited ro self-important. [Slang] {To sow one's wild oats}, to indulge in youthful dissipation. --Thackeray. {Wild oats} (Bot.), a grass ({Avena fatua}) much resembling oats, and by some persons supposed to be the original of cultivated oats.
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Pulse \Pulse\, n. [OE. pous, OF. pous, F. pouls, fr. L. pulsus (sc. venarum), the beating of the pulse, the pulse, from pellere, pulsum, to beat, strike; cf. Gr. [?] to swing, shake, [?] to shake. Cf. {Appeal}, {Compel}, {Impel}, {Push}.] 1. (Physiol.) The beating or throbbing of the heart or blood vessels, especially of the arteries. Note: In an artery the pulse is due to the expansion and contraction of the elastic walls of the artery by the action of the heart upon the column of blood in the arterial system. On the commencement of the diastole of the ventricle, the semilunar valves are closed, and the aorta recoils by its elasticity so as to force part of its contents into the vessels farther onwards. These, in turn, as they already contain a certain quantity of blood, expand, recover by an elastic recoil, and transmit the movement with diminished intensity. Thus a series of movements, gradually diminishing in intensity, pass along the arterial system (see the Note under {Heart}). For the sake of convenience, the radial artery at the wrist is generally chosen to detect the precise character of the pulse. The pulse rate varies with age, position, sex, stature, physical and psychical influences, etc. 2. Any measured or regular beat; any short, quick motion, regularly repeated, as of a medium in the transmission of light, sound, etc.; oscillation; vibration; pulsation; impulse; beat; movement. The measured pulse of racing oars. --Tennyson. When the ear receives any simple sound, it is struck by a single pulse of the air, which makes the eardrum and the other membranous parts vibrate according to the nature and species of the stroke. --Burke. {Pulse glass}, an instrument consisting to a glass tube with terminal bulbs, and containing ether or alcohol, which the heat of the hand causes to boil; -- so called from the pulsating motion of the liquid when thus warmed. {Pulse wave} (Physiol.), the wave of increased pressure started by the ventricular systole, radiating from the semilunar valves over the arterial system, and gradually disappearing in the smaller branches. the pulse wave travels over the arterial system at the rate of about 29.5 feet in a second. --H. N. Martin. {To feel one's pulse}. (a) To ascertain, by the sense of feeling, the condition of the arterial pulse. (b) Hence, to sound one's opinion; to try to discover one's mind.
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Fill \Fill\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Filled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Filling}.] [OE. fillen, fullen, AS. fyllan, fr. full full; akin to D. vullen, G. f[81]llen, Icel. fylla, Sw. fylla, Dan. fylde, Goth. fulljan. See {Full}, a.] 1. To make full; to supply with as much as can be held or contained; to put or pour into, till no more can be received; to occupy the whole capacity of. The rain also filleth the pools. --Ps. lxxxiv. 6. Jesus saith unto them, Fill the waterpots with water. Anf they filled them up to the brim. --John ii. 7. 2. To furnish an abudant supply to; to furnish with as mush as is desired or desirable; to occupy the whole of; to swarm in or overrun. And God blessed them, saying. Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas. --Gen. i. 22. The Syrians filled the country. --1 Kings xx. 27. 3. To fill or supply fully with food; to feed; to satisfy. Whence should we have so much bread in the wilderness, as to fillso great a multitude? --Matt. xv. 33. Things that are sweet and fat are more filling. --Bacon. 4. To possess and perform the duties of; to officiate in, as an incumbent; to occupy; to hold; as, a king fills a throne; the president fills the office of chief magistrate; the speaker of the House fills the chair. 5. To supply with an incumbent; as, to fill an office or a vacancy. --A. Hamilton. 6. (Naut.) (a) To press and dilate, as a sail; as, the wind filled the sails. (b) To trim (a yard) so that the wind shall blow on the after side of the sails. 7. (Civil Engineering) To make an embankment in, or raise the level of (a low place), with earth or gravel. {To fill in}, to insert; as, he filled in the figures. {To fill out}, to extend or enlarge to the desired limit; to make complete; as, to fill out a bill. {To fill up}, to make quite full; to fill to the brim or entirely; to occupy completely; to complete. [bd]The bliss that fills up all the mind.[b8] --Pope. [bd]And fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ.[b8] --Col. i. 24.
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{To fling about}, to throw on all sides; to scatter. {To fling away}, to reject; to discard. Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition. --Shak. {To fling down}. (a) To throw to the ground; esp., to throw in defiance, as formerly knights cast a glove into the arena as a challenge. This question so flung down before the guests, . . . Was handed over by consent of all To me who had not spoken. --Tennyson. (b) To overturn; to demolish; to ruin. {To fling in}, to throw in; not to charge in an account; as, in settling accounts, one party flings in a small sum, or a few days' work. {To fling off}, to baffle in the chase; to defeat of prey; also, to get rid of. --Addison. {To fling open}, to throw open; to open suddenly or with violence; as, to fling open a door. {To fling out}, to utter; to speak in an abrupt or harsh manner; as, to fling out hard words against another. {To fling up}, to relinquish; to abandon; as, to fling up a design.
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{To fling about}, to throw on all sides; to scatter. {To fling away}, to reject; to discard. Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition. --Shak. {To fling down}. (a) To throw to the ground; esp., to throw in defiance, as formerly knights cast a glove into the arena as a challenge. This question so flung down before the guests, . . . Was handed over by consent of all To me who had not spoken. --Tennyson. (b) To overturn; to demolish; to ruin. {To fling in}, to throw in; not to charge in an account; as, in settling accounts, one party flings in a small sum, or a few days' work. {To fling off}, to baffle in the chase; to defeat of prey; also, to get rid of. --Addison. {To fling open}, to throw open; to open suddenly or with violence; as, to fling open a door. {To fling out}, to utter; to speak in an abrupt or harsh manner; as, to fling out hard words against another. {To fling up}, to relinquish; to abandon; as, to fling up a design.
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{To fling about}, to throw on all sides; to scatter. {To fling away}, to reject; to discard. Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition. --Shak. {To fling down}. (a) To throw to the ground; esp., to throw in defiance, as formerly knights cast a glove into the arena as a challenge. This question so flung down before the guests, . . . Was handed over by consent of all To me who had not spoken. --Tennyson. (b) To overturn; to demolish; to ruin. {To fling in}, to throw in; not to charge in an account; as, in settling accounts, one party flings in a small sum, or a few days' work. {To fling off}, to baffle in the chase; to defeat of prey; also, to get rid of. --Addison. {To fling open}, to throw open; to open suddenly or with violence; as, to fling open a door. {To fling out}, to utter; to speak in an abrupt or harsh manner; as, to fling out hard words against another. {To fling up}, to relinquish; to abandon; as, to fling up a design.
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{To fling about}, to throw on all sides; to scatter. {To fling away}, to reject; to discard. Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition. --Shak. {To fling down}. (a) To throw to the ground; esp., to throw in defiance, as formerly knights cast a glove into the arena as a challenge. This question so flung down before the guests, . . . Was handed over by consent of all To me who had not spoken. --Tennyson. (b) To overturn; to demolish; to ruin. {To fling in}, to throw in; not to charge in an account; as, in settling accounts, one party flings in a small sum, or a few days' work. {To fling off}, to baffle in the chase; to defeat of prey; also, to get rid of. --Addison. {To fling open}, to throw open; to open suddenly or with violence; as, to fling open a door. {To fling out}, to utter; to speak in an abrupt or harsh manner; as, to fling out hard words against another. {To fling up}, to relinquish; to abandon; as, to fling up a design.
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{To fling about}, to throw on all sides; to scatter. {To fling away}, to reject; to discard. Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition. --Shak. {To fling down}. (a) To throw to the ground; esp., to throw in defiance, as formerly knights cast a glove into the arena as a challenge. This question so flung down before the guests, . . . Was handed over by consent of all To me who had not spoken. --Tennyson. (b) To overturn; to demolish; to ruin. {To fling in}, to throw in; not to charge in an account; as, in settling accounts, one party flings in a small sum, or a few days' work. {To fling off}, to baffle in the chase; to defeat of prey; also, to get rid of. --Addison. {To fling open}, to throw open; to open suddenly or with violence; as, to fling open a door. {To fling out}, to utter; to speak in an abrupt or harsh manner; as, to fling out hard words against another. {To fling up}, to relinquish; to abandon; as, to fling up a design.
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{To fling about}, to throw on all sides; to scatter. {To fling away}, to reject; to discard. Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition. --Shak. {To fling down}. (a) To throw to the ground; esp., to throw in defiance, as formerly knights cast a glove into the arena as a challenge. This question so flung down before the guests, . . . Was handed over by consent of all To me who had not spoken. --Tennyson. (b) To overturn; to demolish; to ruin. {To fling in}, to throw in; not to charge in an account; as, in settling accounts, one party flings in a small sum, or a few days' work. {To fling off}, to baffle in the chase; to defeat of prey; also, to get rid of. --Addison. {To fling open}, to throw open; to open suddenly or with violence; as, to fling open a door. {To fling out}, to utter; to speak in an abrupt or harsh manner; as, to fling out hard words against another. {To fling up}, to relinquish; to abandon; as, to fling up a design.
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{To fling about}, to throw on all sides; to scatter. {To fling away}, to reject; to discard. Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition. --Shak. {To fling down}. (a) To throw to the ground; esp., to throw in defiance, as formerly knights cast a glove into the arena as a challenge. This question so flung down before the guests, . . . Was handed over by consent of all To me who had not spoken. --Tennyson. (b) To overturn; to demolish; to ruin. {To fling in}, to throw in; not to charge in an account; as, in settling accounts, one party flings in a small sum, or a few days' work. {To fling off}, to baffle in the chase; to defeat of prey; also, to get rid of. --Addison. {To fling open}, to throw open; to open suddenly or with violence; as, to fling open a door. {To fling out}, to utter; to speak in an abrupt or harsh manner; as, to fling out hard words against another. {To fling up}, to relinquish; to abandon; as, to fling up a design.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fling \Fling\, v. i. 1. To throw; to wince; to flounce; as, the horse began to kick and fling. 2. To cast in the teeth; to utter abusive language; to sneer; as, the scold began to flout and fling. 3. To throw one's self in a violent or hasty manner; to rush or spring with violence or haste. And crop-full, out of doors he flings. --Milton. I flung closer to his breast, As sword that, after battle, flings to sheath. --Mrs. Browning. {To fling out}, to become ugly and intractable; to utter sneers and insinuations.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
{To fling about}, to throw on all sides; to scatter. {To fling away}, to reject; to discard. Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition. --Shak. {To fling down}. (a) To throw to the ground; esp., to throw in defiance, as formerly knights cast a glove into the arena as a challenge. This question so flung down before the guests, . . . Was handed over by consent of all To me who had not spoken. --Tennyson. (b) To overturn; to demolish; to ruin. {To fling in}, to throw in; not to charge in an account; as, in settling accounts, one party flings in a small sum, or a few days' work. {To fling off}, to baffle in the chase; to defeat of prey; also, to get rid of. --Addison. {To fling open}, to throw open; to open suddenly or with violence; as, to fling open a door. {To fling out}, to utter; to speak in an abrupt or harsh manner; as, to fling out hard words against another. {To fling up}, to relinquish; to abandon; as, to fling up a design.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
{Cylinder face} (Steam Engine), the flat part of a steam cylinder on which a slide valve moves. {Face of an anvil}, its flat upper surface. {Face of a bastion} (Fort.), the part between the salient and the shoulder angle. {Face of coal} (Mining), the principal cleavage plane, at right angles to the stratification. {Face of a gun}, the surface of metal at the muzzle. {Face of a place} (Fort.), the front comprehended between the flanked angles of two neighboring bastions. --Wilhelm. {Face of a square} (Mil.), one of the sides of a battalion when formed in a square. {Face of a} {watch, clock, compass, card etc.}, the dial or graduated surface on which a pointer indicates the time of day, point of the compass, etc. {Face to face}. (a) In the presence of each other; as, to bring the accuser and the accused face to face. (b) Without the interposition of any body or substance. [bd]Now we see through a glass darkly; but then face to face.[b8] 1 --Cor. xiii. 12. (c) With the faces or finished surfaces turned inward or toward one another; vis [85] vis; -- opposed to {back to back}. {To fly in the face of}, to defy; to brave; to withstand. {To make a face}, to distort the countenance; to make a grimace. --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fly \Fly\ (fl[imac]), v. i. [imp. {Flew} (fl[umac]); p. p. {Flown} (fl[omac]n); p. pr. & vb. n. {Flying}.] [OE. fleen, fleen, fleyen, flegen, AS. fle[a2]gan; akin to D. vliegen, OHG. fliogan, G. fliegen, Icel. flj[umac]ga, Sw. flyga, Dan. flyve, Goth. us-flaugjan to cause to fly away, blow about, and perh. to L. pluma feather, E. plume. [root]84. Cf. {Fledge}, {Flight}, {Flock} of animals.] 1. To move in or pass thorugh the air with wings, as a bird. 2. To move through the air or before the wind; esp., to pass or be driven rapidly through the air by any impulse. 3. To float, wave, or rise in the air, as sparks or a flag. Man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward. --Job v. 7. 4. To move or pass swiftly; to hasten away; to circulate rapidly; as, a ship flies on the deep; a top flies around; rumor flies. Fly, envious Time, till thou run out thy race. --Milton. The dark waves murmured as the ships flew on. --Bryant. 5. To run from danger; to attempt to escape; to flee; as, an enemy or a coward flies. See Note under {Flee}. Fly, ere evil intercept thy flight. --Milton. Whither shall I fly to escape their hands ? --Shak. 6. To move suddenly, or with violence; to do an act suddenly or swiftly; -- usually with a qualifying word; as, a door flies open; a bomb flies apart. {To fly about} (Naut.), to change frequently in a short time; -- said of the wind. {To fly around}, to move about in haste. [Colloq.] {To fly at}, to spring toward; to rush on; to attack suddenly. {To fly in the face of}, to insult; to assail; to set at defiance; to oppose with violence; to act in direct opposition to; to resist. {To fly off}, to separate, or become detached suddenly; to revolt. {To fly on}, to attack. {To fly open}, to open suddenly, or with violence. {To fly out}. (a) To rush out. (b) To burst into a passion; to break out into license. {To let fly}. (a) To throw or drive with violence; to discharge. [bd]A man lets fly his arrow without taking any aim.[b8] --Addison. (b) (Naut.) To let go suddenly and entirely; as, to let fly the sheets.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fly \Fly\ (fl[imac]), v. i. [imp. {Flew} (fl[umac]); p. p. {Flown} (fl[omac]n); p. pr. & vb. n. {Flying}.] [OE. fleen, fleen, fleyen, flegen, AS. fle[a2]gan; akin to D. vliegen, OHG. fliogan, G. fliegen, Icel. flj[umac]ga, Sw. flyga, Dan. flyve, Goth. us-flaugjan to cause to fly away, blow about, and perh. to L. pluma feather, E. plume. [root]84. Cf. {Fledge}, {Flight}, {Flock} of animals.] 1. To move in or pass thorugh the air with wings, as a bird. 2. To move through the air or before the wind; esp., to pass or be driven rapidly through the air by any impulse. 3. To float, wave, or rise in the air, as sparks or a flag. Man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward. --Job v. 7. 4. To move or pass swiftly; to hasten away; to circulate rapidly; as, a ship flies on the deep; a top flies around; rumor flies. Fly, envious Time, till thou run out thy race. --Milton. The dark waves murmured as the ships flew on. --Bryant. 5. To run from danger; to attempt to escape; to flee; as, an enemy or a coward flies. See Note under {Flee}. Fly, ere evil intercept thy flight. --Milton. Whither shall I fly to escape their hands ? --Shak. 6. To move suddenly, or with violence; to do an act suddenly or swiftly; -- usually with a qualifying word; as, a door flies open; a bomb flies apart. {To fly about} (Naut.), to change frequently in a short time; -- said of the wind. {To fly around}, to move about in haste. [Colloq.] {To fly at}, to spring toward; to rush on; to attack suddenly. {To fly in the face of}, to insult; to assail; to set at defiance; to oppose with violence; to act in direct opposition to; to resist. {To fly off}, to separate, or become detached suddenly; to revolt. {To fly on}, to attack. {To fly open}, to open suddenly, or with violence. {To fly out}. (a) To rush out. (b) To burst into a passion; to break out into license. {To let fly}. (a) To throw or drive with violence; to discharge. [bd]A man lets fly his arrow without taking any aim.[b8] --Addison. (b) (Naut.) To let go suddenly and entirely; as, to let fly the sheets.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
2. Drawn out or extended in time; continued through a considerable tine, or to a great length; as, a long series of events; a long debate; a long drama; a long history; a long book. 3. Slow in passing; causing weariness by length or duration; lingering; as, long hours of watching. 4. Occurring or coming after an extended interval; distant in time; far away. The we may us reserve both fresh and strong Against the tournament, which is not long. --Spenser. 5. Extended to any specified measure; of a specified length; as, a span long; a yard long; a mile long, that is, extended to the measure of a mile, etc. 6. Far-reaching; extensive. [bd] Long views.[b8] --Burke. 7. (Phonetics) Prolonged, or relatively more prolonged, in utterance; -- said of vowels and syllables. See {Short}, a., 13, and Guide to Pronunciation, [sect][sect] 22, 30. Note: Long is used as a prefix in a large number of compound adjectives which are mostly of obvious meaning; as, long-armed, long-beaked, long-haired, long-horned, long-necked, long-sleeved, long-tailed, long- worded, etc. {In the long run}, in the whole course of things taken together; in the ultimate result; eventually. {Long clam} (Zo[94]l.), the common clam ({Mya arenaria}) of the Northern United States and Canada; -- called also {soft-shell clam} and {long-neck clam}. See {Mya}. {Long cloth}, a kind of cotton cloth of superior quality. {Long clothes}, clothes worn by a young infant, extending below the feet. {Long division}. (Math.) See {Division}. {Long dozen}, one more than a dozen; thirteen. {Long home}, the grave. {Long measure}, {Long mater}. See under {Measure}, {Meter}. {Long Parliament} (Eng. Hist.), the Parliament which assembled Nov. 3, 1640, and was dissolved by Cromwell, April 20, 1653. {Long price}, the full retail price. {Long purple} (Bot.), a plant with purple flowers, supposed to be the {Orchis mascula}. --Dr. Prior. {Long suit} (Whist), a suit of which one holds originally more than three cards. --R. A. Proctor. {Long tom}. (a) A pivot gun of great length and range, on the dock of a vessel. (b) A long trough for washing auriferous earth. [Western U.S.] (c) (Zo[94]l.) The long-tailed titmouse. {Long wall} (Coal Mining), a working in which the whole seam is removed and the roof allowed to fall in, as the work progresses, except where passages are needed. {Of long}, a long time. [Obs.] --Fairfax. {To be}, [or] {go}, {long of the market}, {To be on the long side of the market}, etc. (Stock Exchange), to hold stock for a rise in price, or to have a contract under which one can demand stock on or before a certain day at a stipulated price; -- opposed to {short} in such phrases as, to be short of stock, to sell short, etc. [Cant] See {Short}. {To have a long head}, to have a farseeing or sagacious mind.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Play \Play\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Played}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Playing}.] [OE. pleien, AS. plegian, plegan, to play, akin to plega play, game, quick motion, and probably to OS. plegan to promise, pledge, D. plegen to care for, attend to, be wont, G. pflegen; of unknown origin. [root]28. Cf. {Plight}, n.] 1. To engage in sport or lively recreation; to exercise for the sake of amusement; to frolic; to spot. As Cannace was playing in her walk. --Chaucer. The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play! --Pope. And some, the darlings of their Lord, Play smiling with the flame and sword. --Keble. 2. To act with levity or thoughtlessness; to trifle; to be careless. [bd]Nay,[b8] quod this monk, [bd]I have no lust to pleye.[b8] --Chaucer. Men are apt to play with their healths. --Sir W. Temple. 3. To contend, or take part, in a game; as, to play ball; hence, to gamble; as, he played for heavy stakes. 4. To perform on an instrument of music; as, to play on a flute. One that . . . can play well on an instrument. --Ezek. xxxiii. 32. Play, my friend, and charm the charmer. --Granville. 5. To act; to behave; to practice deception. His mother played false with a smith. --Shak. 6. To move in any manner; especially, to move regularly with alternate or reciprocating motion; to operate; to act; as, the fountain plays. The heart beats, the blood circulates, the lungs play. --Cheyne. 7. To move gayly; to wanton; to disport. Even as the waving sedges play with wind. --Shak. The setting sun Plays on their shining arms and burnished helmets. --Addison. All fame is foreign but of true desert, Plays round the head, but comes not to the heart. --Pope. 8. To act on the stage; to personate a character. A lord will hear your play to-night. --Shak. Courts are theaters where some men play. --Donne. {To play into a person's hands}, to act, or to manage matters, to his advantage or benefit. {To play off}, to affect; to feign; to practice artifice. {To play upon}. (a) To make sport of; to deceive. Art thou alive? Or is it fantasy that plays upon our eyesight. --Shak. (b) To use in a droll manner; to give a droll expression or application to; as, to play upon words.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Play \Play\, v. t. 1. To put in action or motion; as, to play cannon upon a fortification; to play a trump. First Peace and Silence all disputes control, Then Order plays the soul. --Herbert. 2. To perform music upon; as, to play the flute or the organ. 3. To perform, as a piece of music, on an instrument; as, to play a waltz on the violin. 4. To bring into sportive or wanton action; to exhibit in action; to execute; as, to play tricks. Nature here Wantoned as in her prime, and played at will Her virgin fancies. --Milton. 5. To act or perform (a play); to represent in music action; as, to play a comedy; also, to act in the character of; to represent by acting; to simulate; to behave like; as, to play King Lear; to play the woman. Thou canst play the rational if thou wilt. --Sir W. Scott. 6. To engage in, or go together with, as a contest for amusement or for a wager or prize; as, to play a game at baseball. 7. To keep in play, as a hooked fish, in order to land it. {To play off}, to display; to show; to put in exercise; as, to play off tricks. {To play one's cards}, to manage one's means or opportunities; to contrive. {Played out}, tired out; exhausted; at the end of one's resources. [Colloq.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Card \Card\, n. [F. carte, fr. L. charta paper, Gr. [?] a leaf of paper. Cf. {Chart}.] 1. A piece of pasteboard, or thick paper, blank or prepared for various uses; as, a playing card; a visiting card; a card of invitation; pl. a game played with cards. Our first cards were to Carabas House. --Thackeray. 2. A published note, containing a brief statement, explanation, request, expression of thanks, or the like; as, to put a card in the newspapers. Also, a printed programme, and (fig.), an attraction or inducement; as, this will be a good card for the last day of the fair. 3. A paper on which the points of the compass are marked; the dial or face of the mariner's compass. All the quartere that they know I' the shipman's card. --Shak. 4. (Weaving) A perforated pasteboard or sheet-metal plate for warp threads, making part of the Jacquard apparatus of a loom. See {Jacquard}. 5. An indicator card. See under {Indicator}. {Business card}, a card on which is printed an advertisement or business address. {Card basket} (a) A basket to hold visiting cards left by callers. (b) A basket made of cardboard. {Card catalogue}. See {Catalogue}. {Card rack}, a rack or frame for holding and displaying business or visiting card. {Card table}, a table for use inplaying cards, esp. one having a leaf which folds over. {On the cards}, likely to happen; foretold and expected but not yet brought to pass; -- a phrase of fortune tellers that has come into common use; also, according to the programme. {Playing card}, cards used in playing games; specifically, the cards cards used playing which and other games of chance, and having each pack divided onto four kinds or suits called hearts, diamonds, clubs, and spades. The full or whist pack contains fifty-two cards. {To have the cards in one's own hands}, to have the winning cards; to have the means of success in an undertaking. {To play one's cards well}, to make no errors; to act shrewdly. {To play snow one's cards}, to expose one's plants to rivals or foes. {To speak by the card}, to speak from information and definitely, not by guess as in telling a ship's bearing by the compass card. {Visiting card}, a small card bearing the name, and sometimes the address, of the person presenting it.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Plow \Plow\, Plough \Plough\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Plowed} (ploud) or {Ploughed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Plowing} or {Ploughing}.] 1. To turn up, break up, or trench, with a plow; to till with, or as with, a plow; as, to plow the ground; to plow a field. 2. To furrow; to make furrows, grooves, or ridges in; to run through, as in sailing. Let patient Octavia plow thy visage up With her prepared nails. --Shak. With speed we plow the watery way. --Pope. 3. (Bookbinding) To trim, or shave off the edges of, as a book or paper, with a plow. See {Plow}, n., 5. 4. (Joinery) To cut a groove in, as in a plank, or the edge of a board; especially, a rectangular groove to receive the end of a shelf or tread, the edge of a panel, a tongue, etc. {To plow in}, to cover by plowing; as, to plow in wheat.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pull \Pull\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pulled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Pulling}.] [AS. pullian; cf. LG. pulen, and Gael. peall, piol, spiol.] 1. To draw, or attempt to draw, toward one; to draw forcibly. Ne'er pull your hat upon your brows. --Shak. He put forth his hand . . . and pulled her in. --Gen. viii. 9. 2. To draw apart; to tear; to rend. He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he hath made me desolate. --Lam. iii. 11. 3. To gather with the hand, or by drawing toward one; to pluck; as, to pull fruit; to pull flax; to pull a finch. 4. To move or operate by the motion of drawing towards one; as, to pull a bell; to pull an oar. 5. (Horse Racing) To hold back, and so prevent from winning; as, the favorite was pulled. 6. (Print.) To take or make, as a proof or impression; -- hand presses being worked by pulling a lever. 7. (Cricket) To strike the ball in a particular manner. See {Pull}, n., 8. Never pull a straight fast ball to leg. --R. H. Lyttelton. {To pull and haul}, to draw hither and thither. [bd] Both are equally pulled and hauled to do that which they are unable to do. [b8] --South. {To pull down}, to demolish; to destroy; to degrade; as, to pull down a house. [bd] In political affairs, as well as mechanical, it is easier to pull down than build up.[b8] --Howell. [bd] To raise the wretched, and pull down the proud.[b8] --Roscommon. {To pull a finch}. See under {Finch}. {To pull off}, take or draw off.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Topple \Top"ple\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Toppled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Toppling}.] [From {Top} summit.] To fall forward; to pitch or tumble down. Though castles topple on their warders' heads. --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Twifallow \Twi"fal`low\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Twifallowed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Twifallowing}.] [AS. twi- (see {Twice}) two + fallow.] To plow, or fallow, a second time (land that has been once fallowed).
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
The Plains, OH (CDP, FIPS 76568) Location: 39.36557 N, 82.13398 W Population (1990): 2644 (1135 housing units) Area: 6.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 45780 The Plains, VA (town, FIPS 78192) Location: 38.86277 N, 77.77360 W Population (1990): 219 (97 housing units) Area: 0.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 22171
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
tupling A {program transformation} where several results are returned from a single traversal of a data structure. E.g. mean l = sum l / length l ==> mean l = s/n where (s,n) = sumLen l sumLen [] = (0,0) sumLen (x:xs) = (s+x, n+1) where (s,n) = sumLen xs In {procedural} languages this technique is known as {horizontal loop combination} because it uses one loop to calculate several results. Another form of tupling transformation is used to avoid repeated evaluation where a function generates several identical calls to itself. By analysing the pattern of recursion (see {descent function}) it is possible to arrange for these identical calls to share results. E.g. fib 0 = 1 fib 1 = 1 fib n = fib (n-1) + fib (n-2) ==> fib n = v where (_,v) = fibt n fibt 0 = (1,1) fibt n = (u+v,u) where (u,v) = fibt (n-1) (1995-01-12)