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A rope used in hoisting the anchor to the cathead. Totten.

aving the lower chap or jaw drooping, -- an indication of humiliation and dejection; crestfallen; discouraged. See Chopfallen.

Having the lower chop or jaw depressed; hence, crestfallen; dejected; dispirited;downcast. See Chapfallen.

With hanging head; hence, dispirited; dejected; cowed. Let it make thee crestfullen; Ay, and allay this thy abortive pride. Shak.

The falling of dew; the time when dew begins to fall.

A sudden fall; a body of things falling. Those cataracts or downfalls aforesaid. Holland. Each downfall of a flood the mountains pour. Dryden.

Fallen; ruined. Carew.

Falling down.

Beginning of evening. "At the quiet evenfall." Tennyson.

setting down of the foot; a footstep; the sound of a footstep. Shak. Seraphim, whose footfalls tinkled on the tufted floor. Poe

A frozen waterfall, or mass of ice resembling a frozen waterfall. Coleridge.

One who accepts or maintains the dogma of papal infallibility.

The quality or state of being infallible, or exempt from error; inerrability. Infallibility is the highest perfection of the knowing faculty. Tillotson. Papal infallibility (R. C. Ch.), the dogma that the pope can not, when acting in his official character of supreme pontiff, err in defining a doctrine of Christian fai…

Not fallible; not capable of erring; entirely exempt from liability to mistake; unerring; inerrable. Dryden.

The state or quality of being infallible; infallibility. Bp. Hall.

In an infallible manner; certainly; unfailingly; unerringly. Blair.

Depression of the jaw; hence, depression of spirits. M. Griffith (1660).

Dejected; chopfallen.

Sighting or making land when at sea. A good landfall (Naut.), the sighting of land in conformity with the navigator's reckoning and expectation.

To befall, as ill luck; to happen to unluckily. [Obs.] Chaucer.