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"Section F, G and H"

In a fallible
manner.


Fall"ing (?), a. & n. from
Fall, v. i.


Falling away, Falling off,
etc. See To fall away, To fall off, etc., under
Fall, v. i.
-- Falling
band
, the plain, broad, linen collar turning down over
the doublet, worn in the early part of the 17th century.
--
Falling sickness (Med.), epilepsy.
Shak. -- Falling star. (Astron.)
See Shooting star. -- Falling
stone
, a stone falling through the atmosphere; a
meteorite; an aërolite.
-- Falling tide,
the ebb tide. -- Falling weather, a
rainy season.
[Colloq.] Bartlett.


Fal*lo"pi*an (?), a. [From
Fallopius, or Fallopio, a physician of Modena, who died
in 1562.] (Anat.) Pertaining to, or discovered by,
Fallopius; as, the Fallopian tubes or oviducts, the ducts or
canals which conduct the ova from the ovaries to the
uterus.


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