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Falling or turned downward; reclinate.

A starting or falling back; a rebound; a shrinking; as, the recoil of nature, or of the blood.

tch, serving to receive the earth that may crumble off or be washed down, and prevent its falling into the ditch. Wilhelm.

A sliding or falling back, especially into a former bad state, either of body or morals; backsliding; the state of having fallen back. Alas! from what high hope to what relapse Unlooked for are we fallen! Milton.

Marked by a relapse; falling back; tending to return to a former worse state. Relapsing fever (Med.), an acute, epidemic, contagious fever, which prevails also endemically in Ireland, Russia, and some other regions. It is marked by one or two remissions of the fever, by articular and muscular pains, and by the presence…

The passing of a dissonant into a consonant chord by the rising or falling of the note which makes the discord. Joint resolution. See under Joint, a. -- Resolution of a force or motion (Mech.), the separation of a single force or motion into two or more which have different directions, and, taken together, are an equi…

e from the beginning of the rebellion. Clarendon. For brethern to debate and rip up their falling out in the ear of a common enemy . . . is neither wise nor comely. Milton.

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…

A falling of dew. [R.]

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

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

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.]

of the scalp characterized by pustules (the dried discharge of which forms scales) and by falling out of the hair.

A loose sleeveless vestment falling in front and behind, worn by certain religious orders and devout persons.

Going or falling in various directions; not united or agregated; divided among many; as, scattering votes.

An opening cut through the waterway and bulwarks of a ship, so that water falling on deck may flow overboard; -- called also scupper hole.

hopes, like seeled doves for want of better light, mount till they end their flight with falling. J. Reading.

Any succession of chords (or harmonic phrase) rising or falling by the regular diatonic degrees in the same scale; a succession of similar harmonic steps.

Darkness; obscurity; -- often in the plural. The shades of night were falling fast. Longfellow.

o cast the shell, or exterior covering; to fall out of the pod or husk; as, nuts shell in falling.