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nce between. Sir M. Hale. To assimilate our law to the law of Scotland. John Bright. Fast falls a fleecy; the downy flakes Assimilate all objects. Cowper.

To agree; to be in accordance; to be adapted; to suit; to fall into a class or place. Mitford.

f the reckoning, to be behind the position given by the reckoning. -- To drop astern, to fall or be left behind. -- To go astern, to go backward, as from the action of currents or winds.

To start up; to befall; to escape; to shun. [Obs.] Spenser.

live in the heavenly bodies or the aërial regions, and represented in the Middle Ages as fallen angels, spirits of the dead, or spirits originating in fire.

To fall upon with force; to assail, as with force and arms; to assault. "Attack their lines." Dryden.

The third season of the year, or the season between summer and winter, often called "the fall." Astronomically, it begins in the northern temperate zone at the autumnal equinox, about September 23, and ends at the winter solstice, about December 23; but in popular language, autumn, in America, comprises September, Octo…

A large mass or body of snow and ice sliding swiftly down a mountain side, or falling down a precipice.

To cause to descend; to lower; to let fall; to doff. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A mischance causing a person's death without felony, as by drowning, or falling into the fire.

the parties in interest for the benefit of all. It is called general average, because it falls upon the gross amount of ship, cargo, and freight at risk and saved by the sacrifice. Kent. -- Particular average signifies the damage or partial loss happening to the ship, or cargo, or freight, in consequence of some fort…

To plow again, in the fall; -- said of prairie land broken up in the spring. [Western U.S.]

To slide back; to fall away; esp. to abandon gradually the faith and practice of a religion that has been professed.

Slipping back; falling back into sin or error; sinning. Turn, O backsliding children, saith the Lord. Jer. iii. 14.

On the back, or with the back downward. Thou wilt fall backward. Shak.

To support on a narrow base, so as to keep from falling; as, to balance a plate on the end of a cane; to balance one's self on a tight rope.

containing only powder. -- Ball cock, a faucet or valve which is opened or closed by the fall or rise of a ball floating in water at the end of a lever. -- Ball gudgeon, a pivot of a spherical form, which permits lateral deflection of the arbor or shaft, while retaining the pivot in its socket. Knight. -- Ball lever…

cury in the tube descends until balanced by the weight of the atmosphere, and its rise or fall under varying conditions is a measure of the change in the atmospheric pressure. At the sea level its ordinary height is about 30 inches (760 millimeters). See Sympiesometer. Nichol. Aneroid barometer. See Aneroid barometer,…

he weather, as a deep vial of liquid holding in suspension some substance which rises and falls with atmospheric changes.

A four-wheeled carriage, with a falling top, a seat on the outside for the driver, and two double seats on the inside arranged so that the sitters on the front seat face those on the back seat.