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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.

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.

Liable to fail, mistake, or err; liable to deceive or to be deceived; as, all men are fallible; our opinions and hopes are fallible.

In a fallible manner.

from Fall, v. i. Falling away, Falling off, etc. See To fall away, To fall off, etc., under Fall, v. i. -- Falling band, the plain, broad, linen collar turning down over the doublet, worn in the early part of the 17th century. -- Falling sickness (Med.), epilepsy. Shak. -- Falling star. (Astron.) See Shooting star.…

Pertaining to, or discovered by, Fallopius; as, the Fallopian tubes or oviducts, the ducts or canals which conduct the ova from the ovaries to the uterus.

Pale red or pale yellow; as, a fallow deer or greyhound. Shak.

A European species of deer (Cervus dama), much smaller than the red deer. In summer both sexes are spotted with white. It is common in England, where it is often domesticated in the parks.

One who favors the practice of fallowing land. [R.] Sinclair.

A well or opening, through the successive floors of a warehouse or manufactory, through which goods are raised or lowered. [U.S.] Bartlett.

A fall or throw on the back in wrestling.

To happen to. I beseech your grace that I may know The worst that may befall me. Shak.