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The grain left after harvest or gleaning; also, nuts which have fallen to the ground. [Prov. Eng.]

In some degree or measure; a little. His giantship is gone, somewhat crestfallen. Milton. Somewhat back from the village street. Longfellow.

s and profits of them the debt was satisfied; -- called also a pocket judgment. It is now fallen into disuse. Tomlins. Bouvier. -- Statute mile. See under Mile. -- Statute of limitations (Law), a statute assigned a certain time, after which rights can not be enforced by action. -- Statute staple, a bond of record ac…

A device attached to a mowing machine for raising the uncut fallen grain and marking the limit of the swath.

The ruins of the fallen roof resulting from the removal of the pillars and stalls. Raymond.

n storie, As olde bookes maken us memorie, Of him that stood in great prosperitee And is yfallen out of high degree Into misery and endeth wretchedly. Chaucer. All our tragedies are of kings and princes. Jer. Taylor. tragedy is poetry in its deepest earnest; comedy is poetry in unlimited jest. Coleridge.…

is the utmost that any tyrant ever pretended. Milton. His giantship is gone somewhat crestfallen, Stalking with less unconscionable strides. Milton.

A subordinate cliff on a shore, consisting of material that has fallen from the higher cliff above.

. Milton. Over which dusky draperies are hanging, and voluminous curtains have long since fallen. De Quincey.

Sick at the stomach; also, crestfallen; dejected. [Slang]

A sapling left standing in a fallen wood. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

mperature and pressure, while shaded areas indicate the sections over which rain has just fallen. Other lines inclose areas where the temperature has fallen or risen markedly. In tabular form are shown changes of pressure and of temperature, maximum and minimum temperatures, and total rain for each weather station sinc…

Whitlow. [Obs.] "The nails fallen off by whitflaws." Herrick.

A whit; a bit; a jot. [Obs.] She was fallen asleep a little wight. Chaucer.