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11. Extent of descent; the distance which
anything falls; as, the water of a stream has a fall of five
feet.

12. The season when leaves fall from trees;
autumn.

What crowds of patients the town doctor kills,

Or how, last fall, he raised the weekly bills.

13. That which falls; a falling; as, a
fall of rain; a heavy fall of snow.

14. The act of felling or cutting down.
"The fall of timber." Johnson.

15. Lapse or declension from innocence or
goodness. Specifically: The first apostasy; the act of our first
parents in eating the forbidden fruit; also, the apostasy of the
rebellious angels.

16. Formerly, a kind of ruff or band for the
neck; a falling band; a faule. B. Jonson.

17. That part (as one of the ropes) of a
tackle to which the power is applied in hoisting.

Fall herring (Zoöl.), a herring
of the Atlantic (Clupea mediocris); -- also called tailor
herring, and hickory shad.


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