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<A NAME="falla">
<B>falla, </B>noun, pl. <B>-las.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a celebration in Spain that honors a patron saint. Fallas include parades, fireworks, and street dancing. </DL>
<A NAME="falla">
<B>fal-la, </B>noun. <B>=fa-la.</B></DL>
<A NAME="fallacious">
<B>fallacious, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>that causes disappointment; deceptive; misleading. <BR> <I>Ex. a fallacious peace. Yet how fallacious is all earthly bliss (William Cowper).</I> (SYN) delusive, false. <DD><B> 2. </B>logically unsound; erroneous. <BR> <I>Ex. It is fallacious reasoning to base a general rule on just two or three instances.</I> (SYN) sophistical. adv. <B>fallaciously.</B> noun <B>fallaciousness.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="fallacy">
<B>fallacy, </B>noun, pl. <B>-cies.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a false idea; mistaken belief; an error. <BR> <I>Ex. It is a fallacy to suppose that riches always bring happiness.</I> (SYN) delusion. <DD><B> 2. </B>a mistake in reasoning; misleading or unsound argument. (SYN) sophistry. <DD><B> 3. </B>unsoundness; falsity; delusive or deceptive character. <DD><B> 4. </B>(Logic.) any one of a number of errors in reasoning that make an argument unsound and any conclusion untrustworthy or false. </DL>
<A NAME="fallal">
<B>fallal</B> or <B>fal-lal, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> a useless bit of finery. <DD><I>adj. </I> affected; foppish. Also, <B>fallol.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="fallalery">
<B>fallalery, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> fallals collectively; finery. <BR> <I>Ex. dancing and flirting and fallalery (George Meredith).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="fallback">
<B>fallback, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the act or process of falling back or behind; lag. <DD><B> 2. </B>some person or thing to turn to for help or support; recourse; resort. <BR> <I>Ex. As a fallback, the liberals cling to the hope that Rep. Brooks [might] accept an appointment (Wall Street Journal).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="fallcankerworm">
<B>fall cankerworm,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the caterpillar of a geometrid moth, widespread in the northern United States, that hatches in the early spring from eggs laid on trees the preceding fall. It is very destructive to fruit and shade trees. </DL>
<A NAME="falldandelion">
<B>fall dandelion,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a fall-blooming composite plant with flowers like the spring dandelion, naturalized in the United States from Europe. </DL>
<A NAME="fallen">
<B>fallen, </B>verb, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>verb </I> the past participle of <B>fall.</B> <BR> <I>Ex. Much rain has fallen.</I> <DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>dropped. <BR> <I>Ex. fallen arches, a fallen market.</I> (SYN) decreased, depreciated. <DD><B> 2. </B>down on the ground; down flat. <BR> <I>Ex. a fallen tree.</I> (SYN) prostrate. <DD><B> 3. </B>that has become bad or worse; degraded. <BR> <I>Ex. a fallen woman.</I> (SYN) debased. <DD><B> 4. </B>(Figurative.) overthrown; ruined; destroyed. <BR> <I>Ex. a fallen fortress, a fallen dynasty.</I> <DD><B> 5. </B>dead. <BR> <I>Ex. fallen heroes.</I> <DD><B> 6. </B>shrunken; decreased. <BR> <I>Ex. fallen cheeks.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="fallenangel">
<B>fallen angel,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> any one of the angels who were cast out of heaven when Lucifer rebelled against God. </DL>
<A NAME="faller">
<B>faller, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a person who falls. <DD><B> 2. </B>a part of a machine that operates by falling, as in certain stamping or spinning machines. <DD><B> 3. </B>a man who cuts down trees, especially in logging. </DL>
<A NAME="fallfish">
<B>fallfish, </B>noun, pl. <B>-fishes</B> or (collectively) <B>-fish.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> any one of several freshwater, cyprinoid fishes, especially one of the eastern United States; silver chub. </DL>
<B>fall guy,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) a person left to face blame or consequences of something; scapegoat. <BR> <I>Ex. Things go all wrong, comically, thanks to the influence of a seedily incompetent fall guy (London Times).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="fallibilism">
<B>fallibilism, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Philosophy.) the principle that no statement can be completely verified and therefore accepted as true beyond all doubt. </DL>
<A NAME="fallibilist">
<B>fallibilist, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> a person who believes in or supports the principle of fallibilism. <DD><I>adj. </I> <B>=fallibilistic.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="fallibilistic">
<B>fallibilistic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with or based on fallibilism. </DL>
<A NAME="fallibility">
<B>fallibility, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a fallible condition or quality. </DL>
<A NAME="fallible">
<B>fallible, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>liable to be deceived or mistaken; liable to err. <DD><B> 2. </B>liable to be erroneous, inaccurate, or false; unreliable. <BR> <I>Ex. Strong emotion can make human judgment fallible.</I> noun <B>fallibleness.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="fallibly">
<B>fallibly, </B>adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD> in a fallible manner; mistakenly; deceptively. </DL>
<A NAME="fallingband">
<B>falling band,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a type of band or collar made to turn over and lie upon the shoulders, worn especially by the Puritans in the 1600's. <DD><B> 2. </B>a kind of veil worn by women, especially one hanging from the front of a bonnet. </DL>
<A NAME="fallingdiphthong">
<B>falling diphthong,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a diphthong that receives the main stress on the first element, as the element <I>o</I> of the diphthong <I>oi</I> in the word <I>oil.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="fallingdoor">
<B>falling door,</B> <B>=flap door.</B></DL>
<A NAME="fallingoff">
<B>falling-off, </B>noun, pl. <B>fallings-off.</B> <B>=fall-off.</B></DL>
<A NAME="fallingout">
<B>falling-out, </B>noun, pl. <B>fallings-out.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a disagreement; quarrel. <BR> <I>Ex. The boys had a falling-out but soon made up.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="fallingsickness">
<B>falling sickness</B> or <B>evil,</B> <B>=epilepsy.</B></DL>
<A NAME="fallingstar">
<B>falling star,</B> <B>=meteor.</B></DL>
<A NAME="fallline">
<B>fall line,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a line which marks the end of layers of hard rock of a plateau and the beginning of a softer rock layer of the coastal plain. There are many waterfalls and rapids along this line. <DD><B> 2. </B>a natural downhill course in skiing; the straight line from the skier to the bottom of a slope. </DL>
<A NAME="fallline">
<B>Fall Line,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a fall line running north and south to the east of the Appalachian Mountains. Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Richmond were built along the Fall Line to take advantage of the available water power. </DL>
<A NAME="falloff">
<B>fall-off, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a decrease. <BR> <I>Ex. a fall-off in production.</I> </DL>
<B>fallopian tubes,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a pair of slender tubes through which ova from the ovaries pass to the uterus. </DL>
<A NAME="fallotstetralogy">
<B>Fallot's tetralogy,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a combination of four congenital defects of the heart interfering with the passage of blood. <BR> <I>Ex. One of the commonest forms of blue-baby disorder [is] Fallot's tetralogy (Time).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="fallout">
<B>fallout, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the radioactive particles or dust that fall to earth after a nuclear explosion. Fallout may be assumed always to be dangerously radioactive. <BR> <I>Ex. Fallout sifting down ... will affect every living person (Stuart Chase).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>the falling of these particles to the earth, especially in a widening pattern immediately surrounding, or downwind from, the point of explosion. <DD><B> 3. </B>a by-product or residue of something, usually unexpected; spin-off. <BR> <I>Ex. A sublime piece of technological fallout from space technology is a means of purifying foul-smelling sewage and converting it into sterile drinking water (New Scientist).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="falloutshelter">
<B>fallout shelter,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an underground shelter to protect occupants from radioactive fallout. </DL>
<A NAME="fallow">
<B>fallow</B> (1), adjective, noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>plowed but not seeded for a season or more. <BR> <I>Ex. We'll let the north forty acres lie fallow next spring.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) (of the mind) uncultivated; inactive. <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>land plowed and left without planting it for a season or more. <DD><B> 2. </B>the plowing of land without seeding it for a season to destroy weeds or improve the soil. <BR> <I>Ex. Your fallow adds to your fertility (Edmund Burke).</I> <DD><I>v.t. </I> to plow and break up (land) without seeding; lay fallow. noun <B>fallowness.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="fallow">
<B>fallow</B> (2), adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> pale yellowish-brown. <BR> <I>Ex. a fallow dog.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="fallowchat">
<B>fallow chat,</B> <B>=wheatear.</B></DL>
<A NAME="fallowdeer">
<B>fallow deer,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a small deer of Europe and Asia, having a yellowish-brown coat that is spotted with white in the summer. </DL>
<A NAME="falls">
<B>falls, </B>noun pl.<DL COMPACT><DD> See under <B>fall.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="falltrap">
<B>fall trap,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a trap which operates by falling, such as a deadfall. </DL>
<A NAME="fallwind">
<B>fall wind,</B> <B>=katabatic wind.</B></DL>
<A NAME="faln">
<B>FALN,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> Puerto Rican Armed Forces of National Liberation (Spanish, <I>Fuerzas Armadas de Liberacion Nacional Puertoriqueno</I>). </DL>
