Section F, G and H

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"Section F, G and H"

" Addison. -- To fall off.
(a) To drop; as, fruits fall off when
ripe. (b) To withdraw; to separate; to
become detached; as, friends fall off in adversity. "Love
cools, friendship falls off, brothers divide." Shak.
(c) To perish; to die away; as, words fall
off by disuse. (d) To apostatize; to
forsake; to withdraw from the faith, or from allegiance or
duty.

Those captive tribes . . . fell off

From God to worship calves.

Milton.

(e) To forsake; to abandon; as, his customers
fell off. (f) To depreciate; to
change for the worse; to deteriorate; to become less valuable,
abundant, or interesting; as, a falling off in the wheat crop;
the magazine or the review falls off. "O Hamlet, what a
falling off was there!" Shak. (g)
(Naut.) To deviate or trend to the leeward of the point to
which the head of the ship was before directed; to fall to
leeward. -- To fall on. (a)
To meet with; to light upon; as, we have fallen on evil
days.

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