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A dislocation in a stratum; a fault.

kind heart. Yet was he kind, or if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was his fault. Goldsmith.

Blame; cause of blame; fault; crime; offense. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A fault in speaking or in composition, which consists in too frequent use of the letter l, or in doubling it erroneously.

A slip; an error; a fault; a failing in duty; a slight deviation from truth or rectitude. To guard against those lapses and failings to which our infirmities daily expose us. Rogers.

To impute; to charge; to allege. God layeth not folly to them. Job xxiv. 12. Lay the fault on us. Shak.

A fault.

By means of; by the fault of; because of. [Obs.] See Along of, under 3d Along.

eth many friends. Prov. xix. 4. I will neither plead my age nor sickness in excuse of the faults which I have made. Dryden.

Faulty or imperfect nutrition.

Ill behavior; evil conduct; fault. Shak.

To do wrong; to commit a fault. I have misdone, and I endure the smart. Dryden.

A wrong done; a fault or crime; an offense; as, it was my misdoing.

hap; mischance. Consider why the change was wrought, You 'll find his misfortune, not his fault. Addison.

To lay in a wrong place; to ascribe to a wrong source. The fault is generally mislaid upon nature. Locke.

Mistake; error; fault. Shak. He did without any great miss in the hardest points of grammar. Ascham.

An apprehending wrongly; a misconception; a misunderstanding; a fault in opinion or judgment; an unintentional error of conduct. Infallibility is an absolute security of the understanding from all possibility of mistake. Tillotson.

One who admonishes; one who warns of faults, informs of duty, or gives advice and instruction by way of reproof or caution. You need not be a monitor to the king. Bacon.

The fault of improperly uniting in one bill distinct and independent matters, and thereby confounding them. Burrill.

l be read by a multitude of people; the multitude of stars; a multitude of cares. It is a fault in a multitude of preachers, that they uttery neglect method in their harangues. I. Watts. A multitude of flowers As countless as the stars on high. Longfellow.