fall trap (faltrap)

A trap which operates by falling, as a deadfall. See deadfall. We walk in a world of plots, strings universally spread of deadly gins and fall - traps baited by the gold of Pitt. Carlyle, French Rev., III. vi. 1. fall-under (fâl'un'der), n. The distance which the bottom of the body of a railway-carriage curves in from a vertical line let fall from the sides or ends. Also called turn - under. Car Builder's Dict. [Eng.] falst, a. An obsolete form of false. falsarium (fal-sā'ri-um), n. Same as fauchard. falsaryt (fal'sā-ri), n. [L. falsarius, a forger of written documents, If I translate nonnulli sacerdotes sundrie priestes, yee crie oute, a corrupter, a falsarie . I should have saide certaine priestes, or som me priestes: but I should not in any wise have saide sundrie. Bp. Jewell, To Harding, Oct., 1567. Alike you calumniate, when you make Mr. Mason a fal sary, as though he had cited some unauthentic records. Sheldon, Miracles, p. 133. false (fâls), a. and n. [I. a. Such an act makes marriage vows As false as dicers' oaths. Shak ., Hamlet, iii. 4. Of good and evil much they argued then,.. Vain wisdom all, and false philosophy. Milton , P. L., ii. 565. IMG:content-1061.png:[blocks in formation] But, in so doing, we should, in my opinion, have been false to our own characters, false to our duty, and false to our country. D. Webster, Speech at Buffalo, July, 1833. 4. Containing or conveying deception, falsehood, or treachery; adapted or intended to mislead: said of things. This man had not onely a daring but a villainous unmercifull looke, a false countenance, but very well spoken and dangerously insinuating. Evelyn , Diary, May 10, 1671. Thus heavenly hope is all serene, But earthly hope, how bright so e'er, Still fluctuates o'er this changing scene, As false and fleeting as 'tis fair. 2130 6. Not genuine; being other than it appears to be; not real; made in imitation, or to serve the purpose of the genuine article - ( a ) with intent to defraud or deceive; spurious: as, false coin; (b) for the sake of mere appearance or for use or convenience; artificial: as, a false buttonhole; false teeth. Take a ve el, and make a false bottom of coarse canva : fill it with earth above the canva . Bacon, Nat. Hist. A noble spirit ever casts Such doubts, as false coin, from it. Shak., Hen. VIII., iii. 1. 7. Technically, in bot. and zoöl., having some superficial resemblance to some other plant or animal: used like the Latin quasi-, or Greek pseudo-, in composition. See quasi-, pseudo -.— 8. In music, not in tune; inaccurate in pitch; singing or playing out of tune.-9. In her., open or voided: said of some bearings: as, a false cro ; a false roundel (an annulet); a false escutcheon (a bordure, or sometimes an orle). False amnion, asphodel, balance, etc. See the nouns. False bedding, in geol., an irregular lamination or bedding not infrequently exhibited by strata, especially of sandstone, in which the different beds are made up of parts inclining in various directions not coincident with the general stratification of the ma . This indicates that the material was deposited under the influence of currents shifting in position and varying in force. Also called cro - bedding, current - bedding, and flow - and - plunge structure. False beech-drops, bottom, braziletto, etc. See the nouns. - False bray. [From Welsh bre, or Scotch brae.] (at) Raised ground; a slope. (b) In fort., an artificial mound or bank of earth forming part of a fortification. And made those strange approaches by false - brays, Reduits, half-moons, horn-works, and such close ways. B. Jonson, Underwoods, p. 446. IMG:content-1062.png:[blocks in formation] Yef any other hadde it done a-noon he wolde the Iugement haue falsed . Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 470. 3. To violate by want of veracity; falsify. I mot reherce Hir tales alle, be they bettre or werse, Or elles falsen som of my mateere. Chaucer, Prol. to Miller's Tale, 1. 67. I highly prize thy powrs; and, by my sword, For you sand kingdoms will not false my word. Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, ii., The Vocation. 4. To render false, treacherous, or dishonest. 'Tis gold Which buys admittance; oft it doth; yea, and makes Diana's rangers false themselves. Shak., Cymbeline, ii. 3. 5. To feign, as a blow; aim by way of a feint. Sometimes athwart, sometimes he strook him strayt, And falsed oft his blowes t' illude him with such bayt. Spenser, F. Q., II. v. 9. To false a doom. See doom . II, in trans. To be false; deceive; practise deceit. Accused though I be without desart, Sith none can proue, beleeue it not for true; For neuer yet, since first ye had my hart, Entended I to false or be vntrue. Putten ham , Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 191. False chord, harmony, triad, in music, a chord, etc., incorrectly constructed or performed. - False con cep False edge, in a flat sword-blade, that edge of the blade, tion, core, croup, dandelion, etc. See the nouns. - falsedomt, n. [ME. falsdom; escutcheon. See escutcheon. - False feet. See foot. False fifth, fire, front, etc. See the nouns. - False galena. Same as blende. - False heraldry, anything in a delineation or blazon contrary to the established rules of heraldry, especially the charging of color upon color or metal upon metal. This, however, occurs in a very few ancient examples, as in the escutcheon of the crusader kings of Jerusalem, which bear five golden cro es on a silver field.False hermit, a hermit-crab of the genus Hypo concha. -False hoof, imprisonment, keel, etc. See the nouns. - False intonation, in music, inaccuracy of pitch; wrong sharping or flatting. - False membrane, molar, pelvis, etc. See the nouns. - False note or tone, in music, an in correct note or tone, either in composition or in performance.- False relation, in music, the occurrence in succe ive chords, but in different voices, of any tone and one of its chromatic derivatives, as in fig. 1: it is usually very 1 2 objectionable. The false relation disappears when the chromatic change is located in a single voice, as in fig. 2. - False return, in law, an untrue return made to a pro ce by the officer to whom it was delivered for execution. False rib, roof, etc. See the nouns. - False station, in surv., any station which is nece ary in the survey, but does not appear in the plan. - False stem ( naut. ), same as cutwater, 1.- False string, vertebra, etc. See the nouns.- False window, door, etc., in arch., an imi tation window, door, etc., introduced to secure symmetry in design, or a true window, etc., which has been up so as no longer to serve its original purpose. False wing. See alula. - False work, in eng in., a temporary structure by the aid of which a permanent one is erected. - Figure of the rule of false. See rule. = Syn. 1. Untruthful, disingenuous, perfidious, dishonorable.-4. Deceptive, misleading, fallacious. II. n. A falsehood; that which is false. I coude almost Falsehood. [ false + face + Let courts and cities be Made all of false fac'd soothing! Shak ., Cor., i. 9. falseheadt, n. An obsolete variant of falsehood . Whan the emperour it herde seine [heard say] And knewe the false head of the vice, He said, he wolde do justice. Gower , Conf. Amant., i. false-heartt (falsʼhärt), a. False-hearted. I am thy king, and thou a false - heart traitor. Shak., 2 Hen. VI., v. 1. false-hearted (fâlsʼhärted), a. Having a false or treacherous heart; deceitful; perfidious. The traiterous or treacherous, who have misled others, are severely punished; and the neutrals and falschearted friends and followers, who have started aside like a broken bow, he noted. Bacon . false-hearted ne (fâls härted-nes), n. Perfidiousne ; treachery. There was no hypocrisy or false - hearted ne in all this. Stilling fleet . falsehedt, n. An obsolete variant of falsehood . falsehood (fâls'hud), n. [ falshod , also falshed, -hede (= OFries..falskhede , falschhede = D. valschheid = MHG. valschheit , G. falschheit = Dan. falskhed = Sw. falskhet ), falsene ; false + -hood .] 1. The fact or quality of be- ing false; falsene ; dishonest purpose or in- tention; treachery; deceitfulne ; perfidy: op- posed to truthfulne . And whan the worth i men of the Contree hadden perceyved this sotylle falshod of this Gatholonabes, the i a embled hem with force, and a ayleden his Castelle. Mandeville, Travels, p. 280. One of the evils of cowardice is that it tends to falsehood . Fear is the mother of lies. J. F. Clarke, Self-Culture, p. 331. A you sand olde stories the alegge Of wommen lost thorgh fals and fooles bost. 2. That which is false; a false representation Chaucer, Troilus, iii. 298. in word or deed; an untruth; a lie: as, the tale But set the truth and set the right aside, For they with wrong or falsehood will not fare, And put two wrongs together to be tride, Or else two falses , of each equall share. Spenser, F. Q., V. ii. 48. Bp. Heber, Heavenly Hope and Earthly Hope. false, to play one false, to act falsely or treacherous- In spite of false lights on the shore, Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea. Long fellow , Euilding of the ship. 5. Irregular; not according to rule or usage: as, false syntax or quantity. His false vsurped powr & money falselyer exacted. Joye, Expos. of Daniel, xii. Shak ., L. L. L., v. 1. O, I smell false Latin. The heralds tell us that certain scutcheons and bearings denote certain conditions, and that to put colours on colours, or metals on metals, is false blazonry. Macaulay, Moore's Byron, ly in regard to something, or toward a person; use deceptive or perfidious methods or practices; be untrue to falset (fals), v. [ one. false, deceive, also make or become weak, fail (cf. OFries. falschia = D.ver - valschen =OHG.gi falscōn, MHG. velschen, G. fälschen = Dan. for falske Sw. för - falska, make false), IMG:content-1063.png:[blocks in formation] The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: Dictionary But faith, fanatic faith, once welded fast To some dear falsehood , hugs it to the last. King . Thou speak'st it falsely , as I love mine honour. Shak., All's Well, v. 3. Of couetyse falsely men may muse There bene fett is, and wrongely hyr at-wyzte Of suche occac[i]on where she is nat to wyghte. etc.), false: see false , a.] I. n. The highest or smallest register or quality in both male and female voices: so called because in its untrained His crest is rash'd away; his ample shield Is falsify'd , and round with jav'lins fill'd. Dryden, Æneid. and because at best it is usually intractable. The term is somewhat loosely applied to other registers or qualities; it is much more obvious in the male voice than in the female. Physiologically, it results from a partial vibration of the vocal cords. the falsetto.-2. A umed; med; constrained; un- naturally high-pitched; tched; false. [Rare.] Influenced by the falsetto sentiment which found its most notable illustration in "Paul and Virginia." Men and Manners in America One Hundred Years Ago , [p. 14. falsi crimen (fal'si krī'men). [L.] In law , the crime of what is false; the crime of fraud. Specifically-( a ) In civil law , a fraudulent subornation or concealment, with design to darken or conceal the truth, or make things appear otherwise than they really are, as in swearing falsely, antedating a contract, or selling by false weights. (b) In modern common law , forgery. It is absolutely and universally unlawful to lie and fal- sify. South , Sermons. I am charged, I know, with gilding fact by fraud; I falsified and fabricated, wrote Myself down roughly richer than I prove. Upon his guard who hath fidlers in his head To which his feet must ever be a dancing? Beside, a falsify may spoil his cringe, Or making of a leg, in which consists Much of his court-perfection. ing falsified, counterfeited, or corrupted. falsification (falsi-fi-kā'shon), n . [OF. (and F.) falsification = Sp. falsificacion = Pg. falsi- ficação = It. falsificazione , falsificatio (n-), ( falsificare , falsify: see falsify .] 1. The act of falsifying or making false; false represen- tation; the act of deceptively altering, adul- terating, counterfeiting, misrepresenting, etc.: v.] Lying; falsehood. as, the falsification of weights and measures, of goods, or of coin; falsification of a record, or of an author's meaning. By misconstruction of the sense, or by falsification of Hooker , Eccles. Polity, the words. high offence; but to counterfeit the living image of a king in his person exceed eth the falsifications . 2. A showing to be false or erroneous; confu- tation: as, the falsification of a prediction; the falsification of a charge.-3. In law : (a) The offense of falsifying a record. See falsify , IMG:content-1065.png:[blocks in formation] The cast, ne the couytise, come not of me, In pes & prosper i tie to put me to wer, But of falsyng & flatery with thi fer cast. Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 11328. [ false +-ism. Cf. tru- falsism (fal's izm), n. ism.] A clear or self-evident falsity; a state- ment or a ertion the falsity of which is plainly apparent: opposed to truism . [Rare.] falsifier (fal'si-fi-er), n. 1. One who falsifies, counterfeits, or gives to a thing a deceptive false hat which appearance; specifically, one who makes false That punishment which is appointed for the forgers and falsifiers of the king's crown. Ascham , Toxophilus, i. 2. One who invents falsehoods; a liar. Boasters are naturally falsifiers , and the people, of all others, that put their shams the worst together. 3. One who proves a thing to be false. [Rare.] falsify (fâl'si-fi), v.; pret. and pp. falsified , ppr. falsifying. [OF. (and F.) falsifier = Sp. Pg. falsificar =It. falsificare , falsificare , make false, corrupt, counterfeit, falsify (LL. falsifi- cat us , as adj.), falsificus , that acts falsely, making false, falsus , false, + facere , make. The older verb in E. is false.] I. trans. 1. To make false or deceptive; cause to vary from truth or genuinene ; change so as to de- ceive; sophisticate; adulterate; misrepresent: as, to falsify accounts, weights and measures, or commodities; to falsify a person's meaning. Making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and fal- Amos viii. 5. sifying the balances by deceit. Bardes which use to forge and falsifye everything as they list, to please or displease any man. Spenser, State of Ireland. 2. To make a false representation of; counter- feit; forge. Here also we saw the Steel Dyes of the Paduan Brothers, by which they stampt and falsified the best ancient Med- als so well that they are not to be distinguisht but by put- ting them into those Molds. Jews and Pagans united all their endeavours... to baffle and falsify the prediction. Add is on . 4. To violate; break by falsehood or treachery: as, to falsify one's faith or word. As soon as he had got them within his reach, he falsified his faith. 5. To cause to fail or become false; baffle; make usele : as, to falsify a person's aim. By falsities and lies the greatest part Of mankind they corrupted to forsake God their Creator. Falstaffian (fal's taf-i-an), a . Resembling Fal- staff, the fat tknight knight in Shakspere's "Henr and "Merry Wives of Windsor"; hence, cor- pulent; convivial; boasting; lying brazenly; coarsely jovial, etc. With a Falstafian figure, a ripe voice, and a broad and Athenœum, No. 3156, p. 509. comical face. falter1 (fal'ter), v. i. [Formerly also faulter ; falteren , faltren , tremble, totter, stam- mer, give way, a freq. verb (with suffix -erl), prob.OF. * falter (not found) = Sp. Pg. faltar IMG:content-1066.png:[blocks in formation] Has Nature, in her calm, majestic march, Faltered with age at last? Bryant , The Ages, v. 2. To fail in accuracy, distinctne , or regular- ity of exercise or function; fail or waver from physical or moral weakne , emotion, etc. Here, indeed, the power of distinct conception of space and distance falters . Is . Taylor . Why wilt thou shame me to confe to thee How far I falter'd from my quest and vow? Tennyson, Holy Grail. Whittier, Divine Compa ion. Made me most happy, faltering "I am thine." Tennyson, Gardener's Daughter. IMG:content-1067.png:[blocks in formation] Nature speaks her own meaning with an indistinct and grope'; ult. connected with AS. folm , the hand, faltering voice. J. Caird. =Syn. 3. Stutter, etc. See stammer. falter1 (fâl'ter), n. [ The falter of an idle shepherd's pipe. the palm of the hand: see fumble .] A hand. [Old slang.] We clap our fambles . Fletcher, Beggars' Bush, ii. 1. Hold your fambles and your stamps. Middle ton and Dekker , Roaring Girl, v. 1. Lowell . famble-crop (fam'bl-krop), n. [E.dial.; fam