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The close of the day. Swift.

A quarrel; a falling out. [Prov. Eng.]

A cataract; a waterfall. [Obs.]

A pit deceitfully covered to entrap wild beasts or men; a trap of any kind. Sir T. North.

Entrapping; insnaring. [R.] "Full of . . . contradiction and pitfalling dispenses." Milton.

A fall or descent of rain; the water, or amount of water, that falls in rain; as, the average annual rainfall of a region. Supplied by the rainfall of the outer ranges of Sinchul and Singaleleh. Hooker.

plow and work in summer, in order to prepare for wheat or other crop; to plow and let lie fallow.

Shedding tears; tender. [Poetic] "Tear-falling pity." Shak.

See Thryfallow, and Trifallow. [R.] Tusser.

To plow for the third time in summer; to trifallow. [R.] [Written also thrifallow.] Tusser.

A lean-to. See Lean-to.

To plow the third time before sowing, as land. Mortimer.

See To-fall. [Eng.]

To plow, or fallow, a second time (land that has been once fallowed).

Infallible. Shak.

A fall, or perpendicular descent, of the water of a river or stream, or a descent nearly perpendicular; a cascade; a cataract.

ee itself, or a portion of a forest prostrated by a violent wind, etc. "They became a windfall upon the sudden." Bacon.

Blown down by the wind.

To be defeated, or come to naught; to fall through; to fail; as, a writ abates. To abate into a freehold, To abate in lands (Law), to enter into a freehold after the death of the last possessor, and before the heir takes possession. See Abatement, 4.

Alongside; as, close aboard. Naut.: To fall aboard of, to strike a ship's side; to fall foul of. -- To haul the tacks aboard, to set the courses. -- To keep the land aboard, to hug the shore. -- To lay (a ship) aboard, to place one's own ship close alongside of (a ship) for fighting.