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Falling or rushing headlong; rushing swiftly, violently, or recklessly; moving precipitately. They leave their little lives Above the clouds, precipitant to earth. J. Philips. Should he return, that troop so blithe and bold, Precipitant in fear would wing their flight. Pope.

Falling, flowing, or rushing, with steep descent; headlong. Precipitate the furious torrent flows. Prior.

A falling, flowing, or rushing downward with violence and rapidity. The hurry, precipitation, and rapid motion of the water, returning . . . towards the sea. Woodward.

To oppress; to bear hard upon. Press not a falling man too far. Shak.

A falling down; a prolapsus. [R.] Parr.

Falling from its proper place.

The falling down of a part through the orifice with which it is naturally connected, especially of the uterus or the rectum. Dunglison.

To support, or prevent from falling, by placing something under or against; as, to prop up a fence or an old building; (Fig.) to sustain; to maintain; as, to prop a declining state. Shak. Till the bright mountains prop the incumbent sky. Pope. For being not propp'd by ancestry. Shak. I prop myself upon those few suppor…

The act of falling down, or of bowing in humility or adoration; primarily, the act of falling on the face, but usually applied to kneeling or bowing in reverence and worship. A greater prostration of reason than of body. Shak.

obstructions. Swift o'er the rolling pebbles, down the hills, Louder and louder purl the falling rills. Pope.

An inclosure surrounding a well to prevent persons from falling into it; a well curb. Weale.

A breach of concord, amity, or obligation; a falling out; a difference; a disagreement; an antagonism in opinion, feeling, or conduct; esp., an angry dispute, contest, or strife; a brawl; an altercation; as, he had a quarrel with his father about expenses. I will bring a sword upon you that shall avenge the quarrel of…

indicates the third or cube root of a. -- Radical stress (Elocution), force of utterance falling on the initial part of a syllable or sound. -- Radical vessels (Anat.), minute vessels which originate in the substance of the tissues.

n. "Whereat he inly raged." Milton. When one so great begins to rage, he a hunted Even to falling. Shak.

Water falling in drops from the clouds; the descent of water from the clouds in drops. Rain is water by the heat of the sun divided into very small parts ascending in the air, till, encountering the cold, it be condensed into clouds, and descends in drops. Ray. Fair days have oft contracted wind and rain. Milton.…

sphere opposite to the sun by the refraction and reflection of the sun's rays in drops of falling rain.

Loose; disjointed; falling to pieces; out of repair. There came . . . my lord the cardinal, in his ramshackle coach. Thackeray.

A falling back or descending a second time; a relapse. W. Montagu.

A falling back; a backsliding. Hammond.

a falling back or relapse into prior criminal habits, esp. after conviction and punishment.