The state of being fallible; liability to deceive or to be deceived; as, the fallibity of an argument or of an adviser.
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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.
a noticeable decline in performance; as, a falloff in automobile sales.
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.
the radioactive particles that settle to the ground after a nuclear explosion.
To plow, harrow, and break up, as land, without seeding, for the purpose of destroying weeds and insects, and rendering it mellow; as, it is profitable to fallow cold, strong, clayey land.
One who favors the practice of fallowing land.
A well or opening, through the successive floors of a warehouse or manufactory, through which goods are raised or lowered.
A falsifier of evidence.
To report falsely; to falsify.
Hypocritical.
False-hearted.
Hollow or unsound at the core; treacherous; deceitful; perfidious.
Want of truth or accuracy; an untrue assertion or representation; error; misrepresentation; falsity.
In a false manner; erroneously; not truly; perfidiously or treacherously.
The state of being false; contrariety to the fact; inaccuracy; want of integrity or uprightness; double dealing; unfaithfulness; treachery; perfidy; as, the falseness of a report, a drawing, or a singer's notes; the falseness of a man, or of his word.
A deceiver.
A false or artificial voice; that voice in a man which lies above his natural voice; the male counter tenor or alto voice. See Head voice, under Voice.
Capable of being falsified, counterfeited, or corrupted.
The act of falsifying, or making false; a counterfeiting; the giving to a thing an appearance of something which it is not.
A falsifier.
One who falsifies, or gives to a thing a deceptive appearance; a liar.
To tell lies; to violate the truth.
That which is evidently false; an assertion or statement the falsity of which is plainly apparent; -- opposed to truism.
The quality of being false; coutrariety or want of conformity to truth.
Sir John Falstaff, a celebrated character in Shakespeare's historical play " Henry IV." (1st and 2d parts), and also in " The Merry Wives of Windsor." He is a very fat, sensual, and witty old knight; a swindler, drunkard, and good-tempered liar; and something of a coward. Falstaff was originally called Sir John Oldcastle. The first actor of the part was John Heminge.
Of or pertaining to Falstaff, a character in Shakespeare's plays.
Hesitation; trembling; feebleness; an uncertain or broken sound; as, a slight falter in her voice.
Hesitating; trembling. Falter; halting; hesitation.
A series of strata, of the Middle Tertiary period, of France, abounding in shells, and used by Lyell as the type of his Miocene subdivision.
Fallow.
A curved fold or process of the dura mater or the peritoneum; esp., one of the partitionlike folds of the dura mater which extend into the great fissures of the brain.
A hand.
To report widely or honorably.
Without fame or renown.
relating to or having the characteristics of a family; as, children of the same familial background; familial aggregation.
An intimate; a companion.
to make familiar or acquainted; same as familiarize.
The state of being familiar; intimate and frequent converse, or association; unconstrained intercourse; freedom from ceremony and constraint; intimacy; as, to live in remarkable familiarity.
The act or process of making familiar; the result of becoming familiar; as, familiarization with scenes of blood.
To make familiar or intimate; to habituate; to accustom; to make well known by practice or converse; as, to familiarize one's self with scenes of distress; we familiarized ourselves with the new surroundings.
having become familiar.
serving to familiarize.
In a familiar manner.
Familiarity.
Of or pertaining to a family or household; domestic.
The tenets of the Familists.
One of a fanatical Antinomian sect originating in Holland, and existing in England about 1580, called the Family of Love, who held that religion consists wholly in love.
A community in which many persons unite as in one family, and are regulated by certain communistic laws and customs.
Pertaining to Familists.
The collective body of persons who live in one house, and under one head or manager; a household, including parents, children, and servants, and, as the case may be, lodgers or boarders.
General scarcity of food; dearth; a want of provisions; destitution.
To die of hunger; to starve.
State of being famished.
The state or quality of being famous.
Celebrated in fame or public report; renowned; mach talked of; distinguished in story; -- used in either a good or a bad sense, chiefly the former; often followed by for; as, famous for erudition, for eloquence, for military skill; a famous pirate.
Renowned.
In a famous manner; in a distinguished degree; greatly; splendidly.
The state of being famous.
Domestic; familiar.
To serve.
A collegian of inferior rank or position, corresponding to the sizar at Cambridge.
To move as with a fan.
Having the nerves or veins arranged in a radiating manner; -- said of certain leaves, and of the wings of some insects.
Having an expanded, or fan-shaped, tail; as, the fan-tailed pigeon.
A Chinese gambling game in which coins or other small objects are placed upon a table, usually under a cup, and the players bet as to what remainder will be left when the sum of the counters is divided by four.
A lighthouse, or the apparatus placed in it for giving light.
A person affected by excessive enthusiasm, particularly on religious subjects; one who indulges wild and extravagant notions of religion.
Characteristic of, or relating to, fanaticism; fanatic.
Excessive enthusiasm, unreasoning zeal, or wild and extravagant notions, on any subject, especially religion, politics or ideology; religious frenzy.
To cause to become a fanatic.
Fanaticism.
Formed or conceived by the fancy; unreal; as, a fancied wrong.
One who is governed by fancy.
Full of fancy; guided by fancy, rather than by reason and experience; whimsical; as, a fanciful man forms visionary projects.
Having no fancy; without ideas or imagination.
Adapted to please the fancy or taste, especially when of high quality or unusually appealing; ornamental; as, fancy goods; fancy clothes.
Free from the power of love.
Love-sick.
A lovemonger; a whimsical lover.
Ornamental work with a needle or hook, as embroidery, crocheting, netting, etc.
imp. of Find.
A lively dance, in 3-8 or 6-8 time, much practiced in Spain and Spanish America. Also, the tune to which it is danced.
A weathercock.
A dry measure in Spain and Spanish America, varying from 1/ to 2/ bushels; also, a measure of land.
A flourish of trumpets, as in coming into the lists, etc.; also, a short and lively air performed on hunting horns during the chase.
A bully; a hector; a swaggerer; an empty boaster.
A swaggering; vain boasting; ostentation; a bluster.
A species of gecko having the toes expanded into large lobes for adhesion. The Egyptian fanfoot (Phyodactylus gecko) is believed, by the natives, to have venomous toes. Any moth of the genus Polypogon.
The tusk of an animal, by which the prey is seized and held or torn; a long pointed tooth; esp., one of the usually erectile, venomous teeth of serpents. Also, one of the falcers of a spider.
Having fangs or tusks; as, a fanged adder. Also used figuratively.
To fashion.
New made; hence, gaudy; showy; vainly decorated. [Obs., except with the prefix new.] See Newfangled.
Quality of being fangled.
Destitute of fangs or tusks.
A quantity of wares, as raw silk, etc., from one hundred weight.
A small flag sometimes carried at the head of the baggage of a brigade.
Resembling a fan; folded up like a fan, as certain leaves; plicate.
Same as Fanon.
One who fans.
A term applied to various articles, A peculiar striped scarf worn by the pope at mass, and by eastern bishops. A maniple.
see fantod.
State of worry or excitement; fidget; fuss; also, indisposition; pet; sulks.
A variety of the domestic pigeon, so called from the shape of the tail. Any bird of the Australian genus Rhipidura, in which the tail is spread in the form of a fan during flight. They belong to the family of flycatchers. the fantail goldfish.
a type of goldfish bred artificially, having a realtively short oval body and a tail with four lobes arrayed somewhat like a folding fan, as though forming a part of the surface of a cone. Called also fantail.
A continuous composition, not divided into what are called movements, or governed by the ordinary rules of musical design, but in which the author's fancy roves unrestricted by set form.
Filled with fancies or imaginations.
Same as Phantasm.
One whose manners or ideas are fantastic.
A person given to fantastic dress, manners, etc.; an eccentric person; a fop.
The quality of being fantastic.
Fanciful; unreal; whimsical; capricious; fantastic.
Fantastically.
In a fantastic manner.
The quality of being fantastical; fancifulness; whimsicality.
Fantastically.
Fantasticalness.
A fantastic.
To have a fancy for; to be pleased with; to like; to fancy.
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