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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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10,825 words match “ALS”

CORPORALSHIP n.

A corporal's office.

CORRIVALSHIP n.

Corivalry. [R.] By the corrivalship of Shager his false friend. Sir T. Herbert.

FALLALS; FAL-LALS n.

Gay ornaments; frippery; gewgaws. [Colloq.] Thackeray.

A falsifier of evidence. [Obs.] Sheldon.

FALSE a. 12 definitions

Uttering falsehood; unveracious; given to deceit; dishnest; as, a false witness.

Hypocritical. Shak.

False-hearted. Shak.

FALSE-HEARTED a.

Hollow or unsound at the core; treacherous; deceitful; perfidious. Bacon. -- False"*heart`ed*ness, n. Bp. Stillingfleet.

FALSEHOOD n. 4 definitions

t of truth or accuracy; an untrue assertion or representation; error; misrepresentation; falsity. Though it be a lie in the clock, it is but a falsehood in the hand of the dial when pointing at a wrong hour, if rightly following the direction of the wheel which moveth it. Fuller.

In a false manner; erroneously; not truly; perfidiously or treacherously. "O falsely, falsely murdered." Shak. Oppositions of science, falsely so called. 1 Tim. vi. 20. Will ye steal, murder . . . and swear falsely Jer. vii. 9.

The state of being false; contrariety to the fact; inaccuracy; want of integrity or uprightness; double dealing; unfaithfulness; treachery; perfidy; as, the falseness of a report, a drawing, or a singer's notes; the falseness of a man, or of his word.

A deceiver. [Obs.] Spenser.

A false or artificial voice; that voice in a man which lies above his natural voice; the male counter tenor or alto voice. See Head voice, under Voice.

The crime of falsifying.

Capable of being falsified, counterfeited, or corrupted. Johnson.

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.