Faliscan 
Faliscan (fa-lis'kan), o. and n. [< L. J-'alit>ci, 
prop. pi. of Fdliacitfitor *!'<! Irxiciis, au adj. prob. 
associated with Falernun: see Falcniian.] I. a. 
Of or pertaining to Falerii, an ancient city of 
Etruria, or to its dialect, which was related to 
Latin. 
Tin- Faliscan and the Latin [alphabets], wedged in be- 
tween the Etruscan add the Oscan. 
Isaac Taylor, The Alphabet, II. 127. 
II. . A native or an inhabitant of Falerii. 
falk (fak)i n. [Sc., also faith.] A name of the 
razor-billed auk, Alea torcla. Montagu. 
fall 1 (fal), >.; piet. fell, \>p. fallen, ppr. falliiii/. 
[Early mod. E. falle; < tSE. fallen (pret./fe/,/eM, 
fil,ful, pi. fellen,fillen,felle, fille, etc., pp. fallen, 
falle), < AS.feallan (pret. fedll, pi. feollon, pp. 
feallen) = ONorth./a = OS.fallan = OFnes. 
/aHa = MD. D. fallen = OHG.fallan, MHG. G. 
fallen = Icel.falla = Sw.falla = Dan. ftilde, fall 
(not in Goth., where the'word for 'fall' is tlriii- 
san: see dross, drizzle^, v.); akin to ~L.fallere, 
deceive, pass, falli, be deceived, err (whence ult. 
E.fail 1 , q. v. ), = Gr. o-0<i/i/tf tv, make to fall, throw 
down, overthrow, defeat, baffle (cf. deriv. o0o>- 
^a,aslip,stumble, false step, fall). Hence fell 1 , 
v.t.~\ I. in trans. 1. To descend from a higher to 
a lower place or position through loss or lack 
of support ; drop down by or as by the power 
of gravity, or by impulse; come down by tum- 
bling or loss of balance, or by force of a push, 
cast, stroke, or thrust: as, meteors /M to the 
earth ; water falls over a dam ; the mantle fell 
from his shoulders ; the blow fell with crushing 
force. 
Also zif the Bawme be fyn, it schalle/oWfto the botme 
of the Vesselle, as thoughe it were Quyksylver. 
Mandeville, Travels, p. 52. 
At three there fell a great storm of rain, which laid the 
wind. Winthmp, Hist. New England, I. 19. 
There can be no doubt that in a vacuum all bodies of 
whatever size or material would .fall precisely in the same 
time. R. S. Ball, Exper. Mechanics, p. 239. 
2. To sink from a higher to a lower level; be 
or become lower; settle or sink down; go 
down ; pass off or away ; ebb : as, the river is 
falling (that is, becoming lower from diminu- 
tion of the volume of water) ; the thermometer 
falls (that is, the mercury sinks in the tube) ; 
the ground rises and falls (apparently, to one 
viewing or passing over it, from inequality of 
surface, or actually, from an earthquake) ; the 
dew/aM* (according to popular belief). 
Infect her beauty, 
You fen-suck'd fogs, drawn by the powerful sun, 
To fall and blister. Shale., Lear, li. 4. 
Either you or I must perish this night, before the sun 
falls. Sydney Smith, To the Countess Grey. 
Many a weary year had passed since the burning of Grand- 
Pre, 
When on the falling tide the freighted vessels departed. 
Longfellow, Evaugeline, li. 1. 
3. To descend from a higher, or more perfect, 
or more intense, etc., state or grade to one that 
is lower, or less perfect, etc. ; deteriorate ; sink 
or decrease in amount, condition, estimation, 
character, etc.; become degraded or be reduced 
in any way, as through loss, misfortune, perse- 
cution, misconduct, etc. : as, prices have fallen; 
the city fell into bankruptcy ; to fall into pov- 
erty, disgrace, apostasy, bondage, etc. ; to fall 
from grace or favor; to fall from allegiance; to 
fall into bad company. 
Labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man 
/all after the same example of unbelief. Heb. iv. 11. 
Repair thy wit, good youth ; or it will/att 
To cureless ruin. Shak., M. of V., iv. 1. 
The Duke in the Morning sends a Letter to the King, 
Srotesting his Fidelity and Sincerity, only he desires the 
uke of Somerset may be delivered, to stand or fall by 
the Judgment of his Peers. Baker, Chronicles, p. 193. 
We fall not from virtue, like Vulcan from heaven, in a 
day. Sir T. Browne, Christ. Mor., i. 30. 
Then the wind/eM, with night, and there was calm. 
il. Arnold, Balder Dead. 
Find 
That he has fallen to hell while yet he lives. 
William Morris, Earthly Paradise, III. 329. 
4. To come down as from a fixed or standing 
position ; be overthrown or prostrated ; hence, 
to be slain; perish; come to ruin or destruc- 
tion. 
Sure, he is more than man ; and, if tie fall, 
The best of virtue, fortitude, would die with him. 
Fletcher (and another), Love's Cure, i. 3. 
How can I see the gay, the brave, the young, 
Fall in the cloud of war and lie unsung ! 
Addison, The Campaign. 
5. To pass into a new state or condition ; enter 
upon a different state of being, action, or feel- 
ing; come to be, or to be engaged or fixed: as, 
to jail heir to an estate ; to fall a victim ; to 
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full asleep, ill, in love, etc. ; to fall calm, as 
the wind ; to fall into a snare, into a rage, etc. ; 
the troops fell into line. 
The places of one or two of their ministers being fallen 
void. Hooker, Eccles. Polity, Pref., ii. 
The mist multitude . . . fell a lusting. Num. xi. 4. 
For David . . . fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fa- 
thers, and saw corruption. Acts xiii. 36. 
The interpreter of the Arab language I had taken with 
me, who was an Armenian, faltinff ill, I was obliged to 
send for another to Girge. 
Pococke, Description of the East, I. 85. 
It happened this evening that vie fell into a very pleas- 
ing walk. Addison, Spectator. 
Can a man commit a more heinous offence against an- 
uther than to/a(( in love with the same woman? 
Sheridan, The Rivals, iii. 4. 
Many of the women who go forth to meet their hus- 
bands or sons receive the melancholy tidings of their hav- 
ing fallen victims to privation and fatigue. 
E. W. Lane, Modem Egyptians, II. 177. 
They 
Fell upon talk of the fair lands that lay 
Across the seas. 
William Morris, Earthly Paradise, II. 274. 
6. To pass away or off ; discharge its contents; 
disembogue, as a river: as, the Bhpne/c</fe into 
the Mediterranean ; the Ohio falls into the Mis- 
sissippi. 
This sea is fresh water in many places, in others as salt 
as the great Ocean ; it hath many great rivers which fall 
into it. Capt. John Smith, True Travels, I. 40. 
7. To pass or come as if by falling or dropping ; 
move, lapse, settle, or become fixed, with refer- 
ence to an object or to a state or relation : as, 
the castle falls to his brother; misfortune fell 
to his lot ; the subject falls under this head. 
"Thenne Reddite," quath God, "that to Cesar falleth." 
Piers Plow-man (A), i. 60. 
This is the land that shall/aU unto you. Num. xxxiv. 2. 
If to her share some female errors fall, 
Look on her face, and you'll forget them all. 
Pope, R. of the L., ii. 17. 
This additional taxation of beer had been planned so as 
to fall, as near as might be, upon private brewing and 
brewing for sale equally. 
S. Domll, Taxes in England, IV. 127. 
Sweet sleep xipon his wearied spirit fell. 
William Morris, Earthly Paradise, I. 420. 
The relations and experiences of real men and women 
rarely fall in such symmetrical order as to make an artis- 
tic whole. . W. Cable, The Century, XXXVII. 110. 
8. To come to pass or to an issue ; befall ; hap- 
pen. 
Vn-to hem alle his chier was after one, 
Now here, now there, as/fffc by aventure. 
Political Poems, etc. (ed. Furnivall), p. 57. 
It fell ance upon a day, 
This guid lord went from home. 
Young Akin (Child's Ballads, I. 181). 
Sit still, my daughter, until thou know how the matter 
will/otf. Ruth iii. 18. 
Thy lot li fallen, make the best of it. 
HiirtMi, Anat. of Mel., p. 344. 
The vernal equinox, which at the Nicene council fell on 
the 21st of March, falls now about ten days sooner. 
Holder, Time. 
Do thy worst ; 
And foul fall him that blenches first ! 
Scott, Marmlon, vi. 12. 
9. To come by chance or unexpectedly. 
A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, 
and/fW among thieves. Luke x. 30. 
Who would have held it possible that to fly from Baby- 
lon we should fall into such a Babel? 
Howell, Letters, ii. 62. 
I came to the knowledge of the most epidemic ill of this 
sort }>y falling into a coffee-house, where I saw my friend 
the upholsterer, whose crack towards politics I have here- 
tofore mentioned. Steele, Tatler, No. 178. 
10. To be dropped in birth; be brought forth 
or born : now used only of lambs and some other 
young animals. 
Let wives with child 
Pray that their burthens may not fall this day. 
Shak., K. John, iii. 1. 
11. To hang; droop; be arranged or disposed 
like the pendent folds of a curtain or garment. 
Thus taught, down falls the plumage of his pride. 
Cowper, Charity, 1. 345. 
I would comb my hair till my ringlets would/aH . . . 
From under my starry sea-bud crown 
Low adown and around. 
Tennyson, The Mermaid. 
A long mantle, . . . the folds fallingAovm and envelop- 
ing the feet, complete[s] the dress. 
Fairholt, Costume, I. 100. 
12f. To be fit or meet. 
Thenne seid I thus, "Itfallith me to cesse 
Eyther to ryme, or ditees for to maake." 
Political Poems, etc. (ed. Furnivall), p. 53. 
For it fallith as well to ffodis [lads] of four and twenty 
3eris, 
Or yonge men of yistirday to jeue good redis [counsels], 
As be-cometh a kow to hoppe in a cage ! 
Kicharrl the Redeless, iii. 262. 
fall 
13. To be required or necessary; be appropri- 
ate or suitable to a subject or an occasion. 
[Scotch.] 
What falls to be said of the social and religious aspects 
of Islam in modern times will be given under the two 
great divisions of Sunnites and Shi'ites. 
Encyc. Brit., XVI. 545. 
Falling branch. See branch. Falling rhythm. Same 
as dMeendtna rhythm (which see, under drxrnvlin'i). -- The 
curtain fails. See curtain.- To fall aboard of. BM 
aboard'. To fall afoul Of. See afoul.- To fall astern 
(nutit.), to drop behind. 
Then the Vice-admirall fell on startle, staying for the 
Admirall that came up againe to him. 
Capt. John Smith, True Travels, I. 53. 
TO fall away, (a) To lose flesh ; become lean or ema- 
ciated ; pine. 
In a Lent diet people commonly fall aicay. 
Arbuthnot, Aliments. 
(V) To decline gradually; languish or become faint ; fade; 
perish. 
She fell away in her first age's spring. 
Spenser, Daphnaida, i. 
One colour falls away by just degrees, and another rises 
insensibly. Addition. 
(c) To renounce or desert allegiance, faith, or duty ; apos- 
tatize ; backslide. 
To such as fell not away from Christ through former 
persecutions, he giveth due and deserved praise. 
Hooker, Eccles. Polity, v. 65. 
To fall back, (a) To recede ; give way ; retrograde ; re- 
treat. 
1'ofall back will be far worse than never to have begun ; 
but I hope better of thee. 
Winthrop, Hist. New England, I. 412. 
The Nabob . . . advanced with his army in a threaten- 
ing manner, . . . but when he saw the resolute front which 
the English presented, he fell back in alarm. 
Macaulay, Lord ('live. 
(6) To have recourse : followed by upon, and referring 
usually to some support or expedient already once tried. 
The old habit of falling back upon considerations of ex- 
pediency a habit which men followed long before it was 
apotheosized by Paley will still have influence. 
H. Spencer, Social Statics, p. 504. 
(c) To fail of performing a promise or purpose. To fall 
behind, to slacken in pace or progress ; be outstripped ; 
lose ground. 
Recorded times of horses and cyclists show that after 
about twenty miles the horse slowly but surely falls be- 
hind. Bury and llillier, Cycling, p. 40. 
To fall down. () To be prostrated ; sink to the ground. 
Domifell the beauteous youth. Dryden. 
(b) To prostrate one's self, as in worship or supplication. 
Summe of hem falle doun nndre the Wheles of the 
Chare, and lat the Chare gon over hem ; so that thei ben 
dede anon. Mandeville, Travels, p. 175. 
All kings shall/alt down before him. Ps. Ixxii. 11. 
(c) ffaut., to sail or pass toward the mouth of a river or 
other outlet ; drop down. 
The White Augel/eH doum for Plimouth, but, the wind 
not serving, she came to an anchor by Long Island. 
Winthrop, Hist. New England, I. 71. 
To fall flat. See /od.-To fall foul. See/owd.-To 
fall from grace. See grace. to fall home, (a) To fall 
into the right place; drop into or rest at the point intend- 
ed. (/') In ship-carp., to incline inward from the perpen- 
dicular : said of the top sides of a ship : same as to tumble 
home (which see, under tumble). To fall in. (a) To come 
in ; join ; take place or position : as, to fall in on the right. 
We met two small ships, which falling in among us, and 
the Admiral coming under our lee, we let him pass. 
Winthrop, Hist. New England, I. 10. 
(ft) To come to an end; terminate; lapse: as, an annuity 
which/aU* in when the annuitant dies. 
The very day I put it on, old Lord Mallowford was burnt 
to death in his bed, and all the post-obits fell in. 
Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby, li. 
(c) To bend or sink inward. 
Yachts with the falling-in top sides of a man of war. 
Sci. Amer., N. S., LVII. 11. 
(rf) To sink or become lean or hollow : as, her cheeks have 
fallen in. 
When I knew him he was all fallen away and fallen in; 
crooked and shrunken ; buckled into a stiff waistcoat for 
support. R. L. Stevenson, Talk and Talkers, ii. 
To fall In with, (a) To meet or come into company with 
casually, as a person or a ship ; arrive at or meet with acci- 
dentally, as an object of interest. 
There is a gay captain here who put a jest on me lately, 
at the expense of my country, and I only want to fall in 
with the gentleman to call him out. 
Sheridan, The Rivals, iii. 4. 
(6) To concur or accord with ; comply with ; be agreeable 
or favorable to : as, to fall in irith one's assertions ; the 
measure falls in with popular demands. 
The libeller falls in with this humour, and gratifies this 
baseness of temper, which is naturally an enemy to extra- 
ordinary merit. Steele, Taller, No. 92. 
He pursues it [a whim) the more pertinaciously as it 
falls in with his interest. Goldsmith, Flianor. 
To fall of accord. See accord. To fall off. (o) To 
withdraw; separate; be detached or estranged ; withdraw 
from association, allegiance, or the like : as, friends fall 
ojfin adversity. 
That field in Sicily of which Diodorus speaks, where 
the perfumes arising from the place make all dogs that 
hunt in it to fall off, and to lose their hottest scent. 
/. Walton, Complete Angler, p. 177. 
Those captive tribes . . . fell of 
From God to worship calves. Milton, P. R., iii. 415. 
