Fall, fawl, s

the act of falling; descent by gravity; tumbling from an erect posture; death; destruction; overthrow; downfall; declension of greatne ,power, or dominion; ruin; diminution; decrease of price or value; a sinking of tone; cadence; declivity; descent of water; a cascade; a cataract; the outlet or discharge ofa river or current of water into the ocean or intoa lake orpond; the distance which anything falls; the fall of the leaf; autumn; that which falls; a falling; the act of felling or cutting down [U.S.]; that part of a tackle to which the power is applied in hoisting (Naut.) The Fall, the act in which the parents of the human race first a erted their own free will and sundered themselves and the race from that state of innocence the distinctive mark of which was unreasoning,implicit, childlike trust in higher will, so called,as,in the orthodox regard, alapse from goodne .