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Gigantic hinds, as foon as work was done, 
To their huge pots of boiling pulfe would run ; 
Fall to, with eager joy, on homely food. Dryden. 
To apply himfelf to.—They fell ta.raifing money under 
pretence of the relief of Ireland. Clarendon. 
T know thee not, old man ; fall to thy prayers: 
How ill white hairs'become a fool and judice ! Shahcfpcare. 
To Fall under. To be fubjeft to ; to become the fub¬ 
jeft of.—The idea of the painter and the fculptor is un¬ 
doubtedly that perfect and excellent example of the 
mind, by imitation of which imagined form, all things 
are reprefented which fall under human fight. Dryden. — 
To be ranged with ; to be reckoned with.—No rules that 
relate to padoral can affect the Georgies, which fall under 
that clafs of poetry which confifts in giving plain inftruc- 
tions to the reader. Addifon. 
To Fall upon. To attack ; to invade; to affault.— An 
infection in a town fir it falls upon children, weak confiitu- 
tions, or thofe that are fubjeft to other difeafes ; but, 
fpreading further, feizes upon the molt healthy. Temple. 
—To attempt.—I do not intend to fall upon nice philofo- 
phical difquifitions about the nature of time. Holder. —To 
rufh againlt.—At the fame time that the dorm be&ts upon the 
whole fpecies we are falling foul upon one another. Addifon. 
Fall is one of thofe general words of which it is very 
difficult to afeertain or detail the full fignification. It 
retains in mod of its fenfes fome part of its primitive 
meaning, and implies cither literally or figuratively de- 
icent, violence, or fuddennefs. In many of its fenfes it 
is oppofed to rife ; but in others has no counterpart or 
co-relative. 
To FALL, &. a. To drop ; to let fall: 
If that the earth could teem with woman’s tears, 
Each drop, (lie falls, would prove a crocodile. Shakfpcare. 
To fink ; to deprefs; the contrary to raife. —If a man 
would endeavour to raife or fall his voice (till by half 
notes, like the flops of a lute, or by whole notes alone 
without halfs, as far as an eighth, he will not be able to 
frame his voice unto it. Bacon. —To diminifh ; to let fink ; 
oppofed to raije. —Upon ledenifig interePc to four per cent. 
you fall the price of y’our native commodities, or lefiTen 
your trade, or elle prevent not the high ufe. Locke. —To 
yean ; to bring forth : 
They then conceiving, did in yeaning time, 
/^//party-coloured lambs, and thofe were Jacob’s. Shakefp. 
FALL, f The aft of dropping from on high : 
High o’er their heads a mould’ring rock is plac’d, 
That promifes a fall, and fliakes at every blad. Dryden. 
The aft of tumbling from an ereft podure. The violence 
fullered in dropping from on high.—My fon coming into 
his marriage-chamber, happened to have a fall, and died. 
2 Efdr. x. 48.—Death ; overthrow ; defiruCtion incurred. 
—Our fathers were given to the fword, and for a fpoil, 
and had a great fall before our enemies. Judith viii. 19,— 
I will begin to pray for myfelf and for them; for I fee 
the falls ok us that dwell in the land. 2 Ffdr. viii. 17.— 
.Ruin ; dilfolution : 
Paul’s, the late theme of fuch a nuife, whofe flight 
Has bravely reach’d and foar’d above thy height ; 
Now (halt thou (land, though fword, or time, or fire, 
Or zeal more fierce than they, thy fall confpire. Denham. 
Downfall; lofs of greatnefs ; declenfion from eminence ; 
degradation; (late of being depofed from a high flation ; 
plunge from happinefs or greatnefs into mifery or mean- 
nefs, or from virtue to corruption ; in a fenfe like this we 
fay the fall of man, and the fall of angels : 
He, carelefs now of int’refl, fame, or fate. 
Perhaps forgets that Oxford e’er was great; 
Or deeming meaned what we greatefl call, 
Beholds thee glorious only in thy fall. Pope to Parnell. 
Declenfion of greatnefs, power or dominion.*==’Till the 
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empire came to be fettled in Charles the Great, the fall 
of the Romans’ huge dominion concurring with other uni- 
verfal evils, caufed thofe times to be days of much afflic¬ 
tion and trouble throughout the world. Honker .—Dimi¬ 
nution ; decreafe of value.—That the improvement of 
Ireland is the principal caufe why our lands in purchafe 
rife not, as naturally they fihould, with the falfof. our in- 
terefl, appears evidently from the effect the Jail ox intered 
hath had upon houfes in London. Child. —Declination 01 
diminution of found ; cadence ; clofe of raufic : 
That drain again ; it had a dying fall: 
O, it came o’er my ear, like the fweet fouth 
That breathes upon a bank of violets, 
Stealing and giving odours. Shakefpearc. 
Declivity; deep defeent.—Waters when beat upon the 
fhore, ordraitened, as Che falls of bridges, ordafhed againti 
themfelves by winds, give a roaring noife. Bacon. —Cata* 
raft ; cafcade ; rufli of water down a deep place : 
Down through the crannies of the living walls 
The crydal dreams defeend in murm’ring v /iz&. Dryden. 
The outlet of a current into any other water_Before the 
fall of the Po into the gulph, it receives into its channel 
confiderablo rivers. Addifon. —Autumn ; the fall of the 
leaf; the time when the leaves drop from the trees : 
What crowds of patients the town doftor kills, 
Of how lad fall he rais’d the weekly bills. Dryden. 
Any thing that comes down in great quantities.—Upon a 
great fall of rain the current carried away a huge heap of 
apples. V Ff range. —The act of felling or cutting down ; 
as, the fall of timber. Something which ladies at one pe¬ 
riod wore about their necks, indead of ruffs. It is fup- 
pofied to be not unlike a falling band.—There is Inch a 
deal of pinning thefie rail's, when the fine clean fill. is 
worth all. Maflon's Malcontent. 
FALL, a river of Scotland, which rifes in the fouth- 
wed part of Perthfhire, and runs into Loch Lomond, in 
the north part of Dumbartonfhire. 
FALL of Fyres, a celebrated cafcade in the High¬ 
lands of Scotland. See Fyres. 
FALLA'CIOUS, adj. [fallax, Lat. falladeux, Fr.jj 
Producing midake ; fophidical. It is never ufed of men, 
but of writings, propofitions, or things.—The Jews be¬ 
lieved and allented to tilings neither evident nor certain, 
nor yet fo much as probable, but actually falfe and falla¬ 
cious ; fuch as the abfurd doftrines and dories of their rab- 
bies. South. —Deceitful ; mocking expectation : 
Falfe philofophy inspires 
Fallacious hope. Milton. 
FALLA'CIOUSLY, adv. Sophidically ; with purpofe 
to deceive ; witli unfound reafoning.—We (hall fo far 
encourage contradiction, as to promife not to oppofe any 
pen that fhall fallaciovjl.y refute us. Brown. 
FALLA'CIOUSNESS, f. Tendency to deceive; in- 
conclufi venefs. 
FAL'LACY,yi [fallacia, Lat. fallace, Fr.j Sophifm ; 
logical artifice; deceit; deceitful argument; delufory 
mode of ratiocination.—All men, who can fee an inch 
before them, may eatiiy deteft grofs fallacies. Dryden. 
FALLAF AJEE'A, one of the Friendly I Hands, in the 
Southern Pacific Ocean. Lat. 20. 30. S. Ion. 185. i<>. E. 
Greenwich. 
FAL'LAX, f. [Latin.] Fallacy. A philofophical 
term.—This appearance, though it feem of drength rather 
logical, than rhetorical, yet is very oft a fallax. Bacon. 
FALL'EN, a river of Ireland, which runs into the 
Shannon, three miles north of Lanefborough, in the 
county of Longford. 
FALL'EN CITY, or Old Jerusalem, a range of 
rocks among the Virgin ifiles in the Wed-Indies, fouth-vved 
of Virgin Gorda. Lat. 18.10. N. Ion. 62. 53. W. 
FAL'LERN, a town of Sweden, in the province of 
Smaland, noted for its mineral fpring ; three miles from 
Wexio. 
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