I have two boys Seek Percy and thyself about the field; But seeing thou fallest on me so luckily, I will thee. assay Id. Henry IV. If have you any other request to make, hide it not; for ye shall find we will not make your countenance Bacon. to full by the answer ye shall receive. The greatness of an estate, in bulk and territory, doth fall under measure; and the greatness of finances and revenue doth fall under computation. Id. If a man would endeavour to raise or fall his voice still by half notes, like the stops of a lute, or by whole notes alone without halfs, as far as an eight, he will not be able to frame his voice unto it. Id. Natural History. He fell at difference with Ludovico Sfortia, who carried the keys which brought him in, and shut him Bacon's Henry VII. When the price of corn falleth, men generally break no more ground than will supply their own turn. out. The greatness of these Irish lords suddenly fell and vanished, when their oppressions and extortions were taken away. Davies. These, by obtruding the beginning of a change for the entire work of new life, will fall under the former guilt. Hammond. That the Israelites might see the hand of Moses had a greater stroke in the fight than all theirs, the success must rise and fall with it: Amalek rose, and Israel fell, with his hand falling; Amalek fell, and Israel rises, with his hand raised. Bp. Hall's Contemplations. Perhaps thou talkest of me, and do'st enquire Of my restraint: why here I live alone; And vitiest this my miserable fall. Daniel's Civil War. Id. They then conceiving, did in yeaning time Fall party-coloured lambs, and those were Jacob's. They brought scandal He was stirred, And something spoke in choler, ill and hasty; In sweet musick is such art, Killing care and grief of heart, I am fallen upon the mention of mercuries. Id. Boyle. When about twenty, upon the falseness of a lover, she fell distracted. Temple. The odd hours at the end of the solar year, are not indeed fully six, but are deficient 10,'44"; which deficiency, in 134 years, collected, amounts to a whole day and hence may be seen the reason why the vernal equinox, which at the time of the Nicene council fell upon the 21st of March, falls now about ten days Holder on Time. High o'er their heads a mouldering rock is placed, That promises a fall, and shakes at every blast. sooner. Dryden. I am willing to fall this argument: 'tis free for every man to write or not to write in verse, as he thinks it is or is not his talent, or as he imagines the audience will receive it. Id. Since both cannot possess what both pursue, I'm grieved, my friend, the chance should fall on you. Id. Upon lessening interest to four per cent. you fall the price of your native commodities, or lessen your trade, or else prevent not the high use. Id. Rents will fall, and incomes every day lessen, 'till industry and frugality, joined to a well ordered trade, shall restore to the kingdom the riches it had formerly. Id. All liquid bodies are diffusive; for their parts, being in motion, have no connexion one with another, but glide and fall off any way, as gravity and the air presseth them. Burnet. What men could do, : Is done already heaven and earth will witness, If Rome must fall, that we are innocent. Addison. We must immediately fall into our subject, and treat every part of it in a lively manner. Id. It shows the nose and eyebrows, with the several prominences and fallings in of the features, much more distinctly than any other kind of figure. Id. You shall see a great estate fall to you, which you would have lost the relish of, had you known yourself born to it. Id. Portius himself oft falls in tears before me As if he mourned his rival's success. I have observed of late thy looks are fallen, O'ercast with gloomy cares and discontent. Id. Id. Id. For as his own bright image he surveyed, A kind refreshing sleep is fallen upon him : Exalted Socrates! divinely brave! Id. Cato. Creech's Juvenal. The best men fall under the severest pressures. Wake. He died calmly, and with all the easiness of a man falling asleep. Atterbury. From the pound weight, as Pliny tells us, the As fell to two ounces in the first Punick war; when Hannibal invaded Italy, to one ounce; then, by the Papirian law, to half an ounce. Id. Cæsar therefore gave orders to build his gallies on the Loir, and the rivers that fall into it. Id. Birds and fowls, that rest one foot to ease the other, naturally lay their heads under their wings, that the centre of gravity may fall upon the foot they stand on. Cheyne. I fell in love with the character of Pomponius Atticus; I longed to imitate him. Blount to Pope. He, careless now, of interest, fame, or fate, Perhaps forgets that Oxford e'er was great; Or, deeming meanest what we greatest call, Beholds thee glorious only in thy fall. Pope. Pope to Parnel. The swain, in barren deserts, with surprize Sees lilies spring, and sudden verdure rise; And starts, amidst the thirsty wilds, to hear New falls of water murmuring in his ear, If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget them all. Id. Ulysses let no partial favours fall, The people's parent, he protected all. Id. Odyssey. In their spiritual and temporal courts the labour falls to their vicars-general, proctors, apparitors, and Swift. seneschals. I had more leisure, and disposition, than have since fallen to my share. Id. Id. Some expressions fell from him, not very favourable to the people of Ireland. Some were hurt by the falls they got by leaping upon the ground. Gulliver's Travels. See the leaves around us falling, Dry and withered to the ground, Blighted when like us you fell, "Tis alas! the truth we tell. Bp. Horne. Darwin. Fallen, fallen, a silent heap! her heroes all Sunk in their urus; behold the pride of pomp, The throne of nations, fallen! obscured in dust; Up Juan sprung to Haidee's bitter shriek, Id. To fall away. To decline gradually; to fade; to languish; to apostatise; to sink into wickedness; to perish; to be lost; to revolt. The fugitives fell away to the king of Babylon. 2 Kings. Say not thou, it is through the Lord that I fell away; for thou oughtest not to do the things that he hateth. Ecclus. xv. These for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away. Luke viii. 13. Still propagate; for still they fall away : "Tis prudence to prevent entire decay. Dryden's Virgil. In a curious brede of needlework one colour falls away by such just degrees, and another rises so insensibly, that we see the variety, without being able to distinguish the total vanishing of the one from the first appearance of the other. Addison. Watery vegetables are proper, and fish rather than flesh in a Lent diet people commonly fall away. Arbuthnot on Diet. To fall back pose; recede. We have often fallen back from our resolutions. To fail of a promise or pur Taylor. To fall down. (Down is sometimes added to tall, though it adds little to the signification.) To prostrate himself in adoration; to sink; not to stand; to bend as a suppliant. He that herith and doith not is lyk to a man bildinge his hous on erthe withouten foundement, into which the flood was hurlid; and anoon it fel doun, and the fallyng doun of that hous was maad gret. Wiclif. Luk 6. Shall I fall down to the stock of a tree? Isaiah xliv. 11. All kings shall fall down before him; all nations shall serve him. Psalm 1xxii. 11. As she was speaking, she fell down for faintness. Esther xv. Is very likely to fall from him. Shakspeare. Henry VI. The emperor being much solicited by the Scots not to be a help to ruin their kingdom, fell by degrees from the king of England. Hayward. from virtue; and, at the first, are so gently led by Through many insensible declinations, do we fall vice that we cannot believe our accusers. Bp. Hall. To fall in. To concur; to coincide; to comply; to yield to. Our fine young ladies readily fall in with the direction of the graver sort. Spectator. It is a double misfortune to a nation, which is thus given to change, when they have a sovereign that is prone to fall in with all the turns and veerings of the people. Addison. Any single paper that falls in with the popular taste, and pleases more than ordinary, brings one in Id. a great return of letters. Objections fall in here, and are the clearest and most convincing arguments of the truth. Woodward. His reasonings in this chapter seem to fall in with each other; yet, upon a closer investigation, we shall find them proposed with great variety and distinction. Atterbury. When the war was begun, there soon fell in other incidents at home, which made the continuance of it necessary. Swift. That prince applied himself first to the church of England; and, upon their refusal to fall in with his measures, made the like advances to the dissenters.' Id. Paradise Lost. Languages need recruits to supply the place of those words that are continually falling off through Felton. disuse. To fall on. To make an assault; to begin the attack: to begin eagerly to do any thing. Ech that schal falle on that stoon schal be so brisid, but on whom it schal falle it schal alto breke him. Wiclif. Luk. 20. They fell on, I made good my place; at length they came to the broomstaff with me; I defied 'em still. Shakspeare. Henry VIII. Fall on, fall on, and hear him not; But spare his person for his father's sake. Dryden. Draw all; and when I give the word, fall on. Dryden. Oedipus. Some coarse cold sallad is before thee set; Bread with the bran, perhaps, and broken meat; Fall on, and try thy appetite to eat. Dryden. Pers. He pretends, among the rest, to quarrel with me, to have fallen foul on priesthood. Dryden. To fall over. To revolt; to desert from one side to the other. And dost thou now fall over to my foes? Thou wear a lion's hide! doff it, for shame, And hang a calve's skin on those recreant limbs. Shakspeare. King John. To fall out. To quarrel; to jar; to grow conmuch deceived in others, because we first deceived tentious: to happen; to befall. It many times falls out, that we deem ourselves ourselves. Sir P. Sidney. Little needed those proofs to one who would have At the same time that the storm bears upon the French, falláce; Ital. fallacia; Span. and Port. falacéa; Lat. fallacia, fallax, fallen out with herself, rather than make any conjec- deceitful. A deceit; sophism; logomachy; deceitful or unfounded argument. Fallacious is misleading or deceitful. tures to Zelmane's speeches. A soul exasperated in ills, falls out Id. Addison's Cato. It has been my misfortune to live among quarrelsome neighbours: there is but one thing can make us fall out, and that is the inheritance of lord Strut's Arbuthnot's John Bull. estate. To fall to. To begin eagerly to eat; to apply himself to. Having been brought up an idle horseboy, he will never after fall to labour: but is only made fit for the halter. Spenser. I know thee not, old man; fall to thy prayers: How ill white hairs become a fool and jester. Shakspeare. Seven times already hath Israel mutinied against Moses, and seven times hath either been threatened or punished; yet now they fall to it afresh. Bp. Hall's Contemplations. They fell to raising money under pretence of the relief of Ireland. Clarendon. They would needs fall to the practice of those virtues which they before learned. Sidney. The men were fashioned in a larger mould, Pope. To fall under. To be subject to; to become the subject of. To be ranged with; to be reckoned with. We know the effects of heat will be such as will scarce fall under the conceit of men, if the force of it be altogether kept in. Bacon's Nat. Hist. Those things which are wholly in the choice of another, fall under our deliberation. Taylor. The idea of the painter and the sculptor is undoubtedly that perfect and excellent example of the mind, by imitation of which imagined form all things are represented which fall under human sight. Dryden's Dufresnoy. No rules that relate to pastoral can affect the Georgicks, which fall under that class of poetry which consists in giving plain instructions to the reader. Addison on the Georgicks. To fall upon. To attack; to invade; to assault; to rush against; to attempt. I do not intend to fall upon nice philosophical disquisitions about the nature of time. Holder. Auria falling upon the gallies, had with them a cruel and deadly fight. Knolles. Until I know this sure uncertainty, I'll entertain the favoured fallacy. Shakspeare. It were a mere fallacy and mistaking, to ascribe that to the force of imagination upon another body, which is the force of imagination upon the proper body. Bacon. The force of that fallacious fruit, Milton's Paradise Lost. Id. We shall so far encourage contradiction, as to promise not to oppose any pen that shall fallaciously refute us. Browne. The inconstant opinions, uncertam resolutions, mutable affections, and fallacious pretences of men, upon which the accomplishment of most projects rely, may easily deceive and disappoint us. Barrow. Most princes make themselves another thing from the people by a fallacy of argument, thinking themselves most kings when the subject is most basely subjected. All men, who can see an inch before them, may casily detect gross fallacies. Dryden. Sidney. The Jews believed and assented to things neither evident nor certain, nor yet so much as probable, but actually false and fallacious; such as the absurd doctrines and stories of their rabbies. South's Sermons. We have seen how fallaciously the author has stated the cause, by supposing that nothing but unlimited mercy, or unlimited punishment, are the methods that can be made use of. Addison. But as a scale by which the soul ascends FALLACY, in philosophy, false appearance. The Epicureans deny that there is any such thing as a fallacy of the senses. According to them, all our sensations and perceptions, both of sense and phantasy, are true; whence they make sense the primary criterion of truth. The Cartesians, on the other hand, maintain, that we should suspect as false, or at most as dubious, every thing that presents itself to us by means only of the external senses, because they frequently deceive us; and that our senses, as being fallacious, were never given us by nature for the discovery of truth, or the contemplation of the principles of things; but only for pointing out to us what things are convenient or hurtful to our bodies. The Peripatetics keep a middle course. They say, that, if a sensible object be taken in its common or general view, the sense cannot be deceived about it; but that, if the object be taken under its specific view, the sense may be mistaken about it, from the want of the dispositions necessary to a just sensation, as a disorder in the organ, or any thing uncommon in the medium: thus, in some disorders of the eye, all objects appear yellow: a stick in water appears broken or crooked, &c. FALLIBLE, adj. French, faillible, from FALLIBILITY, n. 8. Lat. fallo; Gr. σpaw. Ainsworth. To slip or slide. Liable to error, or to be deceived. Do not falsify your resolution with hopes that are fallible: to-morrow you must die. Shakspeare. He that creates to himself thousands of little hopes, uncertain in the promise, fallible in the event, and depending upon a thousand circumstances, often fails in his expectations. Taylor. Our intellectual or rational powers need some assistance, because they are so frail and fallible in the present state. Watts. There is a great deal of fallibility in the testimony of men; yet some things we may be almost as certain of, as that the sun shines, or that five twenties make a hundred. Id. To take our religious sentiments only from his gospel, in opposition to all the authoritative dictates of men, who are weak and fallible as ourselves. Mason. FALLOPIAN TUBES. See ANATOMY. FALLOPIUS (Gabriel), a celebrated physician and anatomist, born at Modena in 1523, and descended of a noble family. He made several discoveries in anatomy, one of which was that of the vessels, called after him the Fallopian tubes. He travelled through the greatest part of Europe: was made professor of anatomy at Pisa in 1548, and at Padua in 1551, where he died in 1562, azed thirty-nine. His writings, which are numerous, were first printed separately, and afterwards collected under the title of Opera genuina omnia, tam practica quam theoretica, in tres tomos distributa.' They were printed at Venice in 1585, and in 1606; at Francfort in 1600, and in 1606, in folio. FALLOW, adj. n. s. & Sax. Faleye; Isl. FALLOWNESS, n. s. [v. a. faulur; Bel. faal; Swed. fal; Lat. fulvus, a pale yellow. A fallow field' is so called, according to Minsheu, 'because it looketh of fallow color.' This, however, seems doubtful, as there is a Saxon noun fealga, a kind of plough; and Teut. falgen is to plough; Arab. falaha, is also ploughing; tillage; and the Falahs or Foulahs of Africa,' as Mr. Thomson observes, are boors.' Pale, yellow, or red; unsowed; ploughed but not sowed: hence unoccupied; neglected. As a substantive, fallow is ground in any of these last-mentioned tates. To fallow is to plough in order to a second aration; to grow yellow; fade. Fallowness is barrenness; fruitlessness. How does your fallow greyhound, sir? Shakspeare. Then o'er the fallowed ground How leisurely they work, and many a pause The' harmonious concert breaks, till more assured, With joy redoubled the low vallies ring. Somerville. FALMOUTH, a town of Cornwall, on a fine bay of the English Channel. The town consists principally of one street, extending nearly a mile along the beach, and is tolerably well built. It is the richest sea-port and market town of the county, and larger than any three of its other boroughs. It has so commodious a harbour, that ships of the greatest burden come up to its quay. It is guarded by the castles of St. Mawes and Pendennis, on high rocks at the entrance; both of which are now strongly fortified, and garrisoned by invalids, with an establishment for a governor at £300 per annum, and a deputy governor at £91. The roadstead is deep, and the shelter afforded by the number of creeks in it is so good, that the whole British navy may ride safely here in any wind, it being, next to Plymouth and Milford Haven, the best road for shipping on our coasts. It is well built; and its trade is considerably increased since the establishment of packet boats for Spain, Portugal, and the West Indies. The custom-house for most of the Cornish towns, as well as the head collector, is settled here, where the duties, including those of the other ports, are very considerable. A considerable pilchard fishery is carried on here. It is a corporation, governed by a mayor and alderman; and has a market on Thursday, and fairs July 27th and October 30th. Falmouth is ten miles south of Truro, and 269 west by south of London. |