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  • English Word Fallacious Definition Embodying or pertaining to a fallacy; illogical; fitted to deceive; misleading; delusive; as, fallacious arguments or reasoning.
  • English Word Fallacy Definition Deceptive or false appearance; deceitfulness; that which misleads the eye or the mind; deception.
  • English Word Fallacy Definition An argument, or apparent argument, which professes to be decisive of the matter at issue, while in reality it is not; a sophism.
  • English Word Fallals Definition Gay ornaments; frippery; gewgaws.
  • English Word Fallax Definition Cavillation; a caviling.
  • English Word Fallen Definition of Fall
  • English Word Fallen Definition Dropped; prostrate; degraded; ruined; decreased; dead.
  • English Word Fallency Definition An exception.
  • English Word Faller Definition One who, or that which, falls.
  • English Word Faller Definition A part which acts by falling, as a stamp in a fulling mill, or the device in a spinning machine to arrest motion when a thread breaks.
  • English Word Fallfish Definition A fresh-water fish of the United States (Semotilus bullaris); -- called also silver chub, and Shiner. The name is also applied to other allied species.
  • English Word Fallibility Definition The state of being fallible; liability to deceive or to be deceived; as, the fallibity of an argument or of an adviser.
  • English Word Fallible Definition Liable to fail, mistake, or err; liable to deceive or to be deceived; as, all men are fallible; our opinions and hopes are fallible.
  • English Word Fallibly Definition In a fallible manner.
  • English Word Falling Definition of Fall
  • English Word Falling Definition from Fall, v. i.
  • English Word Fallopian Definition Pertaining to, or discovered by, Fallopius; as, the Fallopian tubes or oviducts, the ducts or canals which conduct the ova from the ovaries to the uterus.
  • English Word Fallow Definition Pale red or pale yellow; as, a fallow deer or greyhound.
  • English Word Fallow Definition Left untilled or unsowed after plowing; uncultivated; as, fallow ground.
  • English Word Fallow Definition Plowed land.
  • English Word Fallow Definition Land that has lain a year or more untilled or unseeded; land plowed without being sowed for the season.
  • English Word Fallow Definition The plowing or tilling of land, without sowing it for a season; as, summer fallow, properly conducted, has ever been found a sure method of destroying weeds.
  • English Word Fallow Definition To plow, harrow, and break up, as land, without seeding, for the purpose of destroying weeds and insects, and rendering it mellow; as, it is profitable to fallow cold, strong, clayey land.
  • English Word Fallow deer Definition A European species of deer (Cervus dama), much smaller than the red deer. In summer both sexes are spotted with white. It is common in England, where it is often domesticated in the parks.
  • English Word Fallowed Definition of Fallow
  • English Word Fallowing Definition of Fallow
  • English Word Fallowist Definition One who favors the practice of fallowing land.
  • English Word Fallowness Definition A well or opening, through the successive floors of a warehouse or manufactory, through which goods are raised or lowered.
  • English Word Falness Definition See Fullness.
  • English Word Falsary Definition A falsifier of evidence.