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scontinuation of parts, made either by bubbles or by shaking the glass, the whole mercury falls. Sir I. Newton.

arate into integrant parts; to reduce to fragments or to powder; to break up, or cause to fall to pieces, as a rock, by blows of a hammer, frost, rain, and other mechanical or atmospheric influences. Marlites are not disintegrated by exposure to the atmosphere, at least in six years. Kirwan.

isjointed columns; to disjoint and edifice. Some half-ruined wall Disjointed and about to fall. Longfellow.

ng; to be unaccommodating to. Those . . . who slight and disoblige their friends, shall infallibly come to know the value of them by having none when they shall most need them. South. My plan has given offense to some gentlemen, whom it would not be very safe to disoblige. Addison.

f his adversaries. Chaucer. I dispraised him before the wicked, that the wicked might not fall in love with him. Shak.

risy. Let love be without dissimulation. Rom. xii. 9. Dissimulation . . . when a man lets fall signs and arguments that he is not that he is. Bacon. Simulation is a pretense of what is not, and dissimulation a concealment of what is. Tatler.

To fade away; to fall to nothing; to lose power. The charm dissolves apace. Shak.

To drop; to fall in drops; to trickle. Soft showers distilled, and suns grew warm in vain. Pope.

The act of falling in drops, or the act of pouring out in drops.

to differences or distinguishing circumstance. Maids, women, wives, without distinction, fall. Dryden.

To part; to fall asunder; to become separated. The joints of the body politic do separate and disunite. South.

To break friendship; to fall out. Shak.

A sum of money to be divided and distributed; the share of a sum divided that falls to each individual; a distribute sum, share, or percentage; -- applied to the profits as appropriated among shareholders, and to assets as apportioned among creditors; as, the dividend of a bank, a railway corporation, or a bankrupt est…

To foretell; to predict; to presage. Darest thou . . . divine his downfall Shak.

. Like a tragedy queen, he has dizened her out. Goldsmith. To-morrow when the masks shall fall That dizen Nature's carnival. Emerson.

Having in the head a sensation of whirling, with a tendency to fall; vertiginous; giddy; hence, confused; indistinct. Alas! his brain was dizzy. Drayton.

A female deer or antelope; specifically, the female of the fallow deer, of which the male is called a buck. Also applied to the female of other animals, as the rabbit. See the Note under Buck.

r portion. So sure the dole, so ready at their call, They stood prepared to see the manna fall. Dryden. Heaven has in store a precious dole. Keble.

One of the pieces with which the game of dominoes is played. Hoyle. fall like dominoes. To fall sequentially, as when one object in a line, by falling against the next object, causes it in turn to fall, and that second object causes a third to fall, etc.; the process can be repeated an indefinite number of times. Deriv…

A sufficient quantity; a portion; as much as one can take, or as falls to one to receive.