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Decau, or defect from decay; deterioration; as, the failure of memory or of sight.

e; 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. "O Hamlet, what a falling off was there!" Shak. (g) (Naut.) To deviate or trend to the leew…

In a manner proceeding from, or determined by, fate. Bentley.

immutable law of the universe; inevitable necessity; the force by which all existence is determined and conditioned. Necessity and chance Approach not me; and what I will is fate. Milton. Beyond and above the Olympian gods lay the silent, brooding, everlasting fate of which victim and tyrant were alike the instruments…

Invested with the power of determining destiny. [Obs.] "The fated sky." Shak.

al features of landscape; also, a kind of geomancy dealing with these influences, used in determining sites for graves, houses, etc.

Of a definite form or figure. Plants are all figurate and determinate, which inanimate bodies are not. Bacon.

Having a determinate form.

The act of giving figure or determinate form; determination to a certain form. Bacon.

s to form or mold; to make an image of, either palpable or ideal; also, to fashion into a determinate form; to shape. If love, alas! be pain I bear, No thought can figure, and no tongue declare.Prior.

To arrive at, as a conclusion; to determine as true; to establish; as, to find a verdict; to find a true bill (of indictment) against an accused person. To find his title with some shows of truth. Shak. To find out, to detect (a thief); to discover (a secret) -- to solve or unriddle (a parable or enigma); to understand…

A small wooden vessel or cask of indeterminate size, -- used for butter, lard, etc. [U.S.]

tly. Fit rod (Shipbuilding), a gauge rod used to try the depth of a bolt hole in order to determine the length of the bolt required. Knight.

as a metallic substance. Bacon. To fix on, to settle the opinion or resolution about; to determine regarding; as, the contracting parties have fixed on certain leading points.

Firm-footed; determined. [Slang, U.S.]

Not funded; not fixed, invested, or determined; as, floating capital; a floating debt. Trade was at an end. Floating capital had been withdrawn in great masses from the island. Macaulay. Floating anchor (Naut.), a drag or sea anchor; drag sail. -- Floating battery (Mil.), a battery erected on rafts or the hulls of shi…

ow in one direction and now in another; to be wavering or unsteady; to be irresolute or undetermined; to vacillate.

An unnatural or excessive flow of blood or fluid toward any organ; a determination.

Previous contrivance or determination; predetermination. He makes this difference to arise from the forecast and predetermination of the gods themselves. Addison.

rs. Browning. Foregone conclusion, one which has preceded argument or examination; one predetermined.