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FALL
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English
English : variant of Fall.Variant spelling of German Faul.
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French
French : habitational name from any of several places named Dury, in Aisne, Pas-de-Calais, and Somme.French and Swiss German : topographic name for someone who lived by a stream, du ry ‘from the stream’. Because ry has fallen out of use, the name has been translated as Rice, the French word for ‘rice’, riz, being a homophone.English : either a habitational name from Dury in Lydford, Devon, or of French origin (see 1), the surname having been taken to England by the Huguenots.
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English
English : topographic name for someone who lived near a meadow, pasture, or patch of (fallow) arable land, Middle English leye.Americanized spelling of German Lehmann.German : variant of Lay 3.
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English (Midlands)
English (Midlands) : probably an anecdotal nickname meaning ‘fall in the well’.
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Tamil
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The day of the full Moon in the Hindu month of Phaalgun which falls between february and march, Born in Falgun
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Muslim
Raindrops that fall intermittently
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English
English : topographic name for someone who lived by a field that was untilled or used for pasture, from Middle English leye ‘meadow’, ‘pasture’, ‘fallow’ + feld ‘open country’, ‘field’, or a habitational name from Leyfield in Nottinghamshire, which has the same meaning.
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American, Australian, Gaelic, German, Irish
Leader; Superiority; Of a Ruling Family Superiority; Descendant of Fallamhan; In Charge; Descended from a Ruler
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Scottish or Irish
Scottish or Irish : reduced form of McFall.English : topographic name for someone who lived by a waterfall, declivity, or forest clearing, Middle English fall (from Old English (ge)fall ‘a felling of trees’, Old Norse fall ‘forest clearing’).German : topographic name from Middle High German val ‘fall (of trees)’; in some cases ‘waterfall’ or ‘landslide’, or a habitational name from a minor place named with this word, or in Tyrol from Ladine val ‘valley’.African : unexplained.
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English and Scottish (of Norman origin)
English and Scottish (of Norman origin) : habitational name from Falaise in Calvados, France, the birthplace of William the Conqueror. The place is so named from Old French falaise ‘cliff’ (a word of Germanic origin).Scottish and northern Irish : reduced form of McFalls.
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English (Hampshire)
English (Hampshire) : unexplained.
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Irish or Scottish
Irish or Scottish : reduced form of McFaul.English : variant of Fall 2.South German : from a byname for a weakling, from Middle High German vūl, voul ‘frail’, ‘decayed’, ‘foul’, ‘weak’. Later the term took on the meaning ‘lazy’ and in some cases the surname may have arisen from this sense.
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English
English : from a Middle English personal name, Elyat, Elyt. This represents at least two Old English personal names which have fallen together: the male name A{dh}elgēat (composed of the elements a{dh}el ‘noble’ + Gēat, a tribal name; see Jocelyn), and the female personal name A{dh}elḡ{dh} (composed of the elements a{dh}el ‘noble’ + ḡ{dh} ‘battle’). The Middle English name seems also to have absorbed various other personal names of Old English or Continental Germanic origin, as for example Old English Ælfweald (see Ellwood).English : from a pet form of Ellis.Scottish : Anglicized form of the originally distinct Gaelic surname Elloch, Eloth, a topographic name from Gaelic eileach ‘dam’, ‘mound’, ‘bank’. Compare Eliot.
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English
English : habitational name from any of various places named Fawley, in Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, and Hampshire. The first is probably so named from Old English as fealu ‘fallow’ (probably used in the sense ‘fallow deer’) + lēah ‘woodland clearing’, while the last two are from either Old English fealu ‘fallow-colored’ or fealg ‘plowed land’ + lēah.
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English
English : topographic name for someone who lived by a patch of fallow land, Middle English falwe (Old English f(e)alg). This word was used to denote both land left uncultivated for a time to recover its fertility and land recently brought into cultivation.The name is also borne by Ashkenazic Jews, as an Americanized form of one or more like-sounding Jewish surnames.
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English
English : nickname for a cheerful or boisterous person, from Middle English ga(i)le ‘jovial’, ‘rowdy’, from Old English gÄl ‘light’, ‘pleasant’, ‘merry’, which was reinforced in Middle English by Old French gail. Compare Gail 2.English : from a Germanic personal name introduced into England from France by the Normans in the form Gal(on). Two originally distinct names have fallen together in this form: one was a short form of compound names with the first element gail ‘cheerful’, ‘joyous’. Compare Gaillard, the other was a byname from the element walh ‘stranger’, ‘foreigner’.English : metonymic occupational name for a jailer, topographic name for someone who lived near the local jail, or nickname for a jailbird, from Old Northern French gaiole ‘jail’ (Late Latin caveola, a diminutive of classical Latin cavea ‘cage’).Portuguese : from galé ‘galleon’, ‘war ship’, presumably a metonymic occupational name for a shipwright or a mariner.Slovenian : from a pet form of the personal name Gal (Latin Gallus), formed with the suffix -e, usually denoting a young person.
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English (Yorkshire)
English (Yorkshire) : habitational name from Horsefall in West Yorkshire, so named from Old English hors ‘horse’ (perhaps a byname) + fall ‘clearing’, ‘place where the trees have been felled’ (from fellan ‘to fell’, causative of feallan ‘to fall’).
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English (Yorkshire)
English (Yorkshire) : variant spelling of Fallis.Spanish : probably nickname from the plural of Falla.Jewish (Sephardic) : borrowing of the Spanish surname.
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English
English : habitational name from any of various places, for example in Devon, Dorset, Essex, Kent, and Warwickshire, so named from Old English lang, long ‘long’ + dūn ‘hill’.Samuel Langdon, Harvard College president in 1774–80, was born in Boston, MA, in 1723 but lived out his years in Hampton Falls, NH. Three of his children left descendants. His grandfather Philip (b. 1646) had came from Braunton in Devon, England, and was married in Andover, Essex Co., MA, in 1684, according to family historians.
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English
English : from a Norman personal name that appears in Middle English as Geffrey and in Old French as Je(u)froi. Some authorities regard this as no more than a palatalized form of Godfrey, but early forms such as Galfridus and Gaufridus point to a first element from Germanic gala ‘to sing’ or gawi ‘region’, ‘territory’. It is possible that several originally distinct names have fallen together in the same form.
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a.
Embodying or pertaining to a fallacy; illogical; fitted to deceive; misleading; delusive; as, fallacious arguments or reasoning.
n.
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.
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The season when leaves fall from trees; autumn.
a. & n.
from Fall, v. i.
adv.
In a fallible manner.
pl.
of Fallacy
n.
Left untilled or unsowed after plowing; uncultivated; as, fallow ground.
v. t.
To plow and work in summer, in order to prepare for wheat or other crop; to plow and let lie fallow.
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The state of being fallible; liability to deceive or to be deceived; as, the fallibity of an argument or of an adviser.
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That which falls; a falling; as, a fall of rain; a heavy fall of snow.
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Pale red or pale yellow; as, a fallow deer or greyhound.
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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.
imp. & p. p.
of Fallow
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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.
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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.
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One who favors the practice of fallowing land.
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Formerly, a kind of ruff or band for the neck; a falling band; a faule.
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Liable to fail, mistake, or err; liable to deceive or to be deceived; as, all men are fallible; our opinions and hopes are fallible.
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One who, or that which, falls.
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of Fallow