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Word Meanings - DEVOLUTION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act of rolling down. The devolution of earth down upon the valleys. Woodward. 2. Transference from one person to another; a passing or devolving upon a successor. The devolution of the crown through a . . . channel known and conformable

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1. The act of rolling down. The devolution of earth down upon the valleys. Woodward. 2. Transference from one person to another; a passing or devolving upon a successor. The devolution of the crown through a . . . channel known and conformable to old constitutional requisitions. De Quincey.

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  • FALLALS; FAL-LALS
    Gay ornaments; frippery; gewgaws. Thackeray.
  • REVERSION
    The returning of an esttate to the grantor or his heirs, by operation of law, after the grant has terminated; hence, the residue of an estate left in the proprietor or owner thereof, to take effect in possession, by operation of law, after
  • 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. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, falls.
  • ELAPS
    A genus of venomous snakes found both in America and the Old World. Many species are known. See Coral snake, under Coral.
  • PROGRESSIONAL
    Of or pertaining to progression; tending to, or capable of, progress.
  • PROGRESS
    to go forth or forward; pro forward + gradi to step, go: cf. F. 1. A moving or going forward; a proceeding onward; an advance; specifically: In actual space, as the progress of a ship, carriage, etc. In the growth of an animal or plant; increase.
  • FALLOW
    Left untilled or unsowed after plowing; uncultivated; as, fallow ground. Fallow chat, Fallow finch , a small European bird, the wheatear . See Wheatear. (more info) vaal fallow, faded, OHG. falo, G. falb, fahl, Icel. fölr, and prob. to Lith.
  • GLIDING MACHINE
    A construction consisting essentially of one or more aëroplanes for gliding in an inclined path from a height to the ground.
  • REVERSIONER
    One who has a reversion, or who is entitled to lands or tenements, after a particular estate granted is terminated. Blackstone.
  • 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.
  • DEVOLUTION
    1. The act of rolling down. The devolution of earth down upon the valleys. Woodward. 2. Transference from one person to another; a passing or devolving upon a successor. The devolution of the crown through a . . . channel known and conformable
  • PROGRESSION
    Regular or proportional advance in increase or decrease of numbers; continued proportion, arithmetical, geometrical, or harmonic. (more info) 1. The act of moving forward; a proceeding in a course; motion onward. 2. Course; passage; lapse
  • FALLENCY
    An exception. Jer. Taylor.
  • FALLEN
    Dropped; prostrate; degraded; ruined; decreased; dead. Some ruined temple or fallen monument. Rogers.
  • FALLFISH
    A fresh-water fish of the United States ; - - called also silver chub, and Shiner. The name is also applied to other allied species.
  • GLIDDEN
    p. p. of Glide. Chaucer.
  • PROGRESSIST
    One who makes, or holds to, progress; a progressionist.
  • FALLING
    from Fall, v. i. Falling away, Falling off, etc. See To fall away, To fall off, etc., under Fall, v. i. -- Falling band, the plain, broad, linen collar turning down over the doublet, worn in the early part of the 17th century. -- Falling sickness
  • ELAPSE
    To slip or glide away; to pass away silently, as time; -- used chiefly in reference to time. Eight days elapsed; at length a pilgrim came. Hoole.
  • LAPSED
    1. Having slipped downward, backward, or away; having lost position, privilege, etc., by neglect; -- restricted to figurative uses. Once more I will renew His lapsed powers, though forfeit. Milton. 2. Ineffectual, void, or forfeited; as, a lapsed
  • THRYFALLOW
    To plow for the third time in summer; to trifallow. Tusser.
  • UNFALLIBLE
    Infallible. Shak.
  • PROLAPSE
    The falling down of a part through the orifice with which it is naturally connected, especially of the uterus or the rectum. Dunglison.
  • DELAPSE
    To pass down by inheritance; to lapse. Which Anne derived alone the right, before all other, Of the delapsed crown from Philip. Drayton.
  • MISFALL
    To befall, as ill luck; to happen to unluckily. Chaucer.
  • BEFALL
    To happen to. I beseech your grace that I may know The worst that may befall me. Shak.
  • INFALLIBLY
    In an infallible manner; certainly; unfailingly; unerringly. Blair.
  • RAINFALL
    A fall or descent of rain; the water, or amount of water, that falls in rain; as, the average annual rainfall of a region. Supplied by the rainfall of the outer ranges of Sinchul and Singaleleh. Hooker.
  • JAW-FALLEN
    Dejected; chopfallen.

 

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