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Defect; want; lack; default. |
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Anything that fails, that is wanting, or that impairs
excellence; a failing; a defect; a blemish. |
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A moral failing; a defect or dereliction from duty; a
deviation from propriety; an offense less serious than a crime. |
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A dislocation of the strata of the vein. |
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In coal seams, coal rendered worthless by impurities in the
seam; as, slate fault, dirt fault, etc. |
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A lost scent; act of losing the scent. |
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Failure to serve the ball into the proper court. |
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To charge with a fault; to accuse; to find fault with; to
blame. |
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To interrupt the continuity of (rock strata) by
displacement along a plane of fracture; -- chiefly used in the p. p.;
as, the coal beds are badly faulted. |
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To err; to blunder, to commit a fault; to do wrong. |
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