fallfish (falfish)

A cyprinoid fish, Semotilus bullaris, having an elongate robust body, the dorsal fin just behind the ventrals, and of a steel blue color above and generally silvery on the sides and belly. In the males in spring the belly and lower fins are rosy or crimson. The species is abundant east of the Alleghanies, and is the largest of the eastern American cyprinoids, reaching a length of 18 inches. Also fall-gate (fal'gāt), n. A gate acro a public road, made so as to rise and fall. [Prov. Eng.] fallibility (fal-i-bil'i-ti), n. [F. fail lib i lité = Sp. falibilidad = Pg. fallibilidade = It. fallibi lità, ceive or to be deceived: as, the fallibility of an argument, of reasoning, or of a person. All human Laws are but the offspring of that frailty, that fallibility , and imperfection which was in thir Authors. Milton , Eikon ok las tes, xxvii. fallible (fal'i-bl), a. [= F. faillible = Sp. fali ble = Pg. fallivel = It. fall i bile, Tried not before a fallible tribunal, but the awful throne of Heaven. Goldsmith, English Clergy. For they were but men, frail, fallible men. Story , Speech, Salem, Sept. 18, 1828. 2. Liable to be erroneous or false; subject to inaccuracy or fallaciousne : said of arguments, statements, etc. IMG:content-1057.png:[blocks in formation] Sir P. Sidney, Arcadia, iii. 3. In pathol., displacement of a part or organ downward: as, falling of the womb or of the eyelid. See prolapsus, ptosis.