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falconiformes
  • n  chiefly diurnal carnivorous birds having hooked beaks and long talons with opposable hind toe: falcons; hawks; eagles; ospreys; caracaras; vultures
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falkland islands
  • n  a group of over 100 islands in the southern Atlantic off the coast of Argentina; a British Crown Colony
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falkner
  • n  United States novelist (originally Falkner) who wrote about people in the southern United States (1897-1962)
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fall
  • n  the season when the leaves fall from the trees
    in the fall of 1973
  • n  a sudden drop from an upright position
  • n  the lapse of mankind into sinfulness because of the sin of Adam and Eve
  • n  a downward slope or bend
  • n  a lapse into sin; a loss of innocence or of chastity
    a fall from virtue
  • n  a sudden decline in strength or number or importance
    the fall of the House of Hapsburg
  • n  a movement downward
    the rise and fall of the tides
  • n  the act of surrendering (usually under agreed conditions)
  • n  the time of day immediately following sunset
    they finished before the fall of night
  • n  when a wrestler's shoulders are forced to the mat
  • n  a free and rapid descent by the force of gravity
  • n  a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity
    when that became known the price of their stock went into free fall
  • v  descend in free fall under the influence of gravity
  • v  move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way
    The barometer is falling
  • v  pass suddenly and passively into a state of body or mind
    fall into a trap
    fall asleep
    fall prey to an imposter
    fall into a strange way of thinking
  • v  come under, be classified or included
    fall into a category
  • v  fall from clouds
    rain, snow and sleet were falling
  • v  suffer defeat, failure, or ruin
    We must stand or fall
    fall by the wayside
  • v  die, as in battle or in a hunt
    Several deer have fallen to the same gun
  • v  touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly
  • v  be captured
  • v  occur at a specified time or place
    Christmas falls on a Monday this year
    The accent falls on the first syllable
  • v  decrease in size, extent, or range
  • v  yield to temptation or sin
  • v  lose office or power
  • v  to be given by assignment or distribution
  • v  move in a specified direction
    The line of men fall forward
  • v  be due
    payments fall on the 1st of the month
  • v  lose one's chastity
    a fallen woman
  • v  to be given by right or inheritance
  • v  come into the possession of
  • v  fall to somebody by assignment or lot
  • v  be inherited by
  • v  slope downward
    The hills around here fall towards the ocean
  • v  lose an upright position suddenly
  • v  drop oneself to a lower or less erect position
  • v  fall or flow in a certain way
  • v  assume a disappointed or sad expression
  • v  be cast down
  • v  come out; issue
  • v  be born, used chiefly of lambs
  • v  begin vigorously
  • v  go as if by falling
  • v  come as if by falling
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fall-blooming hydrangea
  • n  deciduous shrub or small tree with pyramidal flower clusters
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fall-board
  • n  the hinged protective covering that protects the keyboard of a piano when it is not being played
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fall armyworm
  • n  larva of a migratory American noctuid moth; destroys grasses and small grains
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