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"Section F, G and H"


2. Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations,
allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous; perfidious; as, a
false friend, lover, or subject; false to
promises.


I to myself was false, ere thou to
me.
Milton.


3. Not according with truth or reality; not
true; fitted or likely to deceive or disappoint; as, a false
statement.


4. Not genuine or real; assumed or designed
to deceive; counterfeit; hypocritical; as, false tears;
false modesty; false colors; false
jewelry.


False face must hide what the false heart doth
know.
Shak.


5. Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy;
erroneous; as, a false claim; a false conclusion; a
false construction in grammar.


Whose false foundation waves have swept
away.
Spenser.


6. Not essential or permanent, as parts of a
structure which are temporary or supplemental.


7. (Mus.


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