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The art of training falcons or hawks to pursue and attack wild fowl or game.

A curved and sharp-pointed claw.

Curved and sharppointed, like a falcula, or claw of a falcon.

A privilege of setting up, and moving about, folds for sheep, in any fields within manors, in order to manure them; -- often reserved to himself by the lord of the manor. Spelman.

A fee or rent paid by a tenant for the privilege of faldage on his own ground. Blount.

A frieze or rough-napped cloth. [Obs.]

The throne or seat of a bishop within the chancel. [Obs.]

placed in the choir for a bishop, when he offciated in any but his own cathedral church. Fairholt.

Of or pertaining to Mount Falernus, in Italy; as, Falernianwine.

The razorbill. [Written also falc, and faik.] [Prov. Eng.]

dually; particularly, to descend by the force of gravity; to drop; to sink; as, the apple falls; the tide falls; the mercury falls in the barometer. I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven. Luke x. 18.

Embodying or pertaining to a fallacy; illogical; fitted to deceive; misleading; delusive; as, fallacious arguments or reasoning. -- Fal*la"cious*ly, adv. -Fal*la"cious*ness, n.

Deceptive or false appearance; deceitfulness; that which misleads the eye or the mind; deception. Winning by conquest what the first man lost, By fallacy surprised. Milton.

Gay ornaments; frippery; gewgaws. [Colloq.] Thackeray.

Cavillation; a caviling. [Obs.] Cranmer.

Dropped; prostrate; degraded; ruined; decreased; dead. Some ruined temple or fallen monument. Rogers.

An exception. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

One who, or that which, falls.

A fresh-water fish of the United States (Semotilus bullaris); - - called also silver chub, and Shiner. The name is also applied to other allied species.

The state of being fallible; liability to deceive or to be deceived; as, the fallibity of an argument or of an adviser.