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l or expected manner, or to be altogether cut off from supply; to be lacking; as, streams fail; crops fail. As the waters fail from the sea. Job xiv. 11. Till Lionel's issue fails, his should not reign. Shak.

Fault; failure; omission. [Obs.] Bp. Fell.

A failing short; a becoming deficient; failure; deficiency; imperfection; weakness; lapse; fault; infirmity; as, a mental failing. And ever in her mind she cas about For that unnoticed failing in herself. Tennyson.

A soft silk, heavier than a foulard and not glossy.

Cessation of supply, or total defect; a failing; deficiency; as, failure of rain; failure of crops.

To cause fail. [Obs.]

Failure; miscarriage. [Obs.] Possibility of defailance in degree or continuance. Comber.

Failure. [Obs.] Barrow.

An oversight in pleading, or the acknowledgment of a mistake or oversight. Blackstone.

Infallible. [Obs.] "This unfailable word of truth." Bp. Hall.

Not failing; not liable to fail; inexhaustible; certain; sure. Dryden. -- Un*fail"ing*ly, adv. -- Un*fail"ing*ness, n.

To be defeated, or come to naught; to fall through; to fail; as, a writ abates. To abate into a freehold, To abate in lands (Law), to enter into a freehold after the death of the last possessor, and before the heir takes possession. See Abatement, 4.

maturity, or anything which in its progress, before it is matured or perfect; a complete failure; as, his attempt. proved an abortiori.

Coming to naught; failing in its effect; miscarrying; fruitless; unsuccessful; as, an abortive attempt. "An abortive enterprise." Prescott.

Gain to an heir or legatee, failure of a coheir to the same succession, or a co-legatee of the same thing, to take his share. Wharton. Kent.

To increase; to augment. And though power failed, her courage did accrue. Spenser.

mity to truth, or to some standard of requirement, the result of care or pains; free from failure, error, or defect; exact; as, an accurate calculator; an accurate measure; accurate expression, knowledge, etc.

ic point of a starch solution acted upon by an amylolytic enzyme is the point at which it fails to give any color with iodine.

To settle, as the estate of one who dies without a will, or whose will fails of an executor.

ator has appointed no executor, or where his appointment of an executor for any cause has failed, as by death, incompetency, refusal to act, etc.