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Fallacies
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Fallacy
() Deceptive or false appearance; deceitfulness; that which misleads the eye or the mind; deception.
Fallacy
() An argument, or apparent argument, which professes to be decisive of the matter at issue, while in reality it is not; a sophism.
Fallals
() Gay ornaments; frippery; gewgaws.
Fallax
() Cavillation; a caviling.
Fallen
() Dropped; prostrate; degraded; ruined; decreased; dead.
Fallency
() An exception.
Faller
() One who, or that which, falls.
Faller
() 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.
Fallfish
() 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.
Fallibility
() The state of being fallible; liability to deceive or to be deceived; as, the fallibity of an argument or of an adviser.
Fallible
() Liable to fail, mistake, or err; liable to deceive or to be deceived; as, all men are fallible; our opinions and hopes are fallible.
Fallibly
() In a fallible manner.
Falling
() from Fall, v. i.
Fallopian
() 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.
Fallow
() Pale red or pale yellow; as, a fallow deer or greyhound.
Fallow
() Left untilled or unsowed after plowing; uncultivated; as, fallow ground.
Fallow
() Plowed land.
Fallow
() Land that has lain a year or more untilled or unseeded; land plowed without being sowed for the season.
Fallow
() 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.
Fallowed
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Fallowing
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Fallow
() 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.
Fallow deer
() 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.
Fallowist
() One who favors the practice of fallowing land.
Fallowness
() A well or opening, through the successive floors of a warehouse or manufactory, through which goods are raised or lowered.
Falsary
() A falsifier of evidence.
False
() Uttering falsehood; unveracious; given to deceit; dishnest; as, a false witness.
False
() Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous; perfidious; as, a false friend, lover, or subject; false to promises.
False
() Not according with truth or reality; not true; fitted or likely to deceive or disappoint; as, a false statement.
False
() Not genuine or real; assumed or designed to deceive; counterfeit; hypocritical; as, false tears; false modesty; false colors; false jewelry.
False
() Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous; as, a false claim; a false conclusion; a false construction in grammar.
False
() Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
False
() Not in tune.
False
() Not truly; not honestly; falsely.
False
() To report falsely; to falsify.
False
() To betray; to falsify.
False
() To mislead by want of truth; to deceive.
False
() To feign; to pretend to make.
False-faced
() Hypocritical.
False-heart
() False-hearted.
False-hearted
() Hollow or unsound at the core; treacherous; deceitful; perfidious.
Falsehood
() Want of truth or accuracy; an untrue assertion or representation; error; misrepresentation; falsity.
Falsehood
() A deliberate intentional assertion of what is known to be untrue; a departure from moral integrity; a lie.
Falsehood
() Treachery; deceit; perfidy; unfaithfulness.
Falsehood
() A counterfeit; a false appearance; an imposture.
Falsely
() In a false manner; erroneously; not truly; perfidiously or treacherously.
Falseness
() The state of being false; contrariety to the fact; inaccuracy; want of integrity or uprightness; double dealing; unfaithfulness; treachery; perfidy; as, the falseness of a report, a drawing, or a singer's notes; the falseness of a man, or of his word.
Falser
() A deceiver.
Falsettos
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