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The suffix used to form the third person singular indicative of English verbs; as in falls, tells, sends.
A subdivision in the lower Silurian system of America; -- so named from Trenton Falls, in New York. The rocks are mostly limestones, and the period is divided into the Trenton, Utica, and Cincinnati epochs. See the Chart of Geology.
A subdivision or the American Upper Silurian system, embracing the Medina, Clinton, and Niagara epoch. The rocks of the Niagara epoch, mostly limestones, are extensively distributed, and at Niagara Falls consist of about eighty feet of shale supporting a greater thickness of limestone, which is gradually undermined by the removal of the shale. See Chart of Geology.
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A calyx which separates from the flower, and falls off in a single piece, as in the Australian Eucalypti.
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The part, or fate, which falls to one, as it were, by chance, or without his planning.
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A mist, or very fine rain, which sometimes falls from a clear sky a few moments after sunset.
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The doctrine that the soul falls asleep at death, and does not wake until the resurrection of the body.
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One who straggles, or departs from the direct or proper course, or from the company to which he belongs; one who falls behind the rest; one who rambles without any settled direction.
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The swinging part of a flail which falls on the grain in thrashing; the swiple.
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Fig.: Something white like snow, as the white color (argent) in heraldry; something which falls in, or as in, flakes.
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A fall or descent of rain; the water, or amount of water, that falls in rain; as, the average annual rainfall of a region.
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An instrument for measuring the rain that falls; a rain gauge.
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The fine particles to which any dry substance is reduced by pounding, grinding, or triturating, or into which it falls by decay; dust.
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A low four-wheeled carriage used in Russia. The carriage box rests on two long, springy poles which run from the fore to the hind axletree. When snow falls, the wheels are taken off, and the body is mounted on a sledge.
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The lower part of a furnace, into which the metal falls.
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The part of the foot upon which such a depression falls.
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The number of degrees which, if added to a specified arc, make it 180ยก; the quantity by which an arc or an angle falls short of 180 degrees, or an arc falls short of a semicircle.
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A falling out, happening, or coming to pass; hence, that which falls out or happens; occurrence; incident.
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A nervous affection, occurring almost exclusively in women, in which the emotional and reflex excitability is exaggerated, and the will power correspondingly diminished, so that the patient loses control over the emotions, becomes the victim of imaginary sensations, and often falls into paroxism or fits.
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To or against the surface of; -- used to indicate the motion of a thing as coming or falling to the surface of another; as, rain falls on the earth.
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