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A bank, shore, or coast. [Archaic] Spenser. From the green rivage many a fall Of diamond rillets musical. Tennyson.

An American chub (Semotilus bullaris); the fallfish.

To fall or tumble; -- with over; as, a stream rolls over a precipice.

ful tale; a sort of novel, especially one which treats of surprising adventures usually befalling a hero or a heroine; a tale of extravagant adventures, of love, and the like. "Romances that been royal." Chaucer. Upon these three columns -- chivalry, gallantry, and religion -- repose the fictions of the Middle Ages, es…

own purposes. This term is loosely applied to all the styles of Western Europe, from the fall of the Western Roman Empire to the appearance of Gothic architecture.

a roof; hence, the roof itself. Now for me the woods may wither, now for me the rooftree fall. Tennyson.

A falling of dew. [R.]

of (a rope) through its leading block, or to haul up (a tackle which hangs loose) by its fall. Totten. (b) To collect together (cattle) by riding around them, as on cattle ranches. [Western U.S.]

nything worthless; valueless stuff; trash; especially, fragments of building materials or fallen buildings; ruins; débris. What rubbish and what offal! Shak. he saw the town's one half in rubbish lie. Dryden. Rubbish pulley. See Gin block, under Gin.

The act of falling or tumbling down; fall. [Obs.] "His ruin startled the other steeds." Chapman.

To cause to fall; to cast down. On the other side they saw that perilous rock Threatening itself on them to ruinate. Spenser.

To continue without falling due; to hold good; as, a note has thirty days to run.

The suffix used to form the third person singular indicative of English verbs; as in the falls, tells, sends.

f things consumed on the altar; to offer sacrifice. O teacher, some great mischief hath befallen To that meek man, who well had sacrificed. Milton.

The Eustachian tube, or the Fallopian tube.

as their distinguishing mark. Their special rights and privileges were abolished with the fall of feudalism in 1871.

Wearing sandals. The measured footfalls of his sandaled feet. Longfellow.

The grand adversary of man; The Devil, or Prince of darkness; the chief of the fallen angels; the archfiend. I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven. Luke x. 18.

A tree which has fallen into a stream so that its branches project above the surface, rising and falling with a rocking or swaying motion in the current. [U.S.]

ine own tears Do scald like molten lead. Shak. Here the blue flames of scalding brimstone fall. Cowley.