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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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FALSIFICATION n. 3 definitions

The act of falsifying, or making false; a counterfeiting; the giving to a thing an appearance of something which it is not. To counterfeit the living image of king in his person exceedeth all falsifications. Bacon.

FALSIFICATOR n.

A falsifier. Bp. Morton.

One who falsifies, or gives to a thing a deceptive appearance; a liar.

FALSIFY v. 9 definitions

To make false; to represent falsely. The Irish bards use to forge and falsify everything as they list, to please or displease any man. Spenser.

That which is evidently false; an assertion or statement the falsity of which is plainly apparent; -- opposed to truism.

FALSITY n. 2 definitions

The quality of being false; coutrariety or want of conformity to truth. Probability does not make any alteration, either in the truth or falsity of things. South.

FALTER v. 7 definitions

To hesitate; to speak brokenly or weakly; to stammer; as, his tongue falters. With faltering speech and visage incomposed. Milton.

FALTERING a. 2 definitions

Hesitating; trembling. "With faltering speech." Milton. -- n.

A series of strata, of the Middle Tertiary period, of France, abounding in shells, and used by Lyell as the type of his Miocene subdivision.

Fallow. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A curved fold or process of the dura mater or the peritoneum; esp., one of the partitionlike folds of the dura mater which extend into the great fissures of the brain.

FAMBLE n. 2 definitions

A hand [Slang & Obs.] "We clap our fambles." Beau. & Fl.

FAME n. 4 definitions

Public report or rumor. The fame thereof was heard in Pharaoh's house. Gen. xlv. 16.

Without fame or renown. -- Fame"less*ly, adv.

FAMILIAR a. 8 definitions

Of or pertaining to a family; domestic. "Familiar feuds." Byron.

FAMILIARITY n. 2 definitions

The state of being familiar; intimate and frequent converse, or association; unconstrained intercourse; freedom from ceremony and constraint; intimacy; as, to live in remarkable familiarity.

FAMILIARIZATION n.

The act or process of making familiar; the result of becoming familiar; as, familiarization with scenes of blood.

FAMILIARIZE v. 2 definitions

To make familiar or intimate; to habituate; to accustom; to make well known by practice or converse; as, to familiarize one's self with scenes of distress.

FAMILIARLY adv.

In a familiar manner.

FAMILIARNESS n.

Familiarity. [R.]