Word Meanings - FALLER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

Related words: (words related to FALLER)

• FALLALS; FAL-LALS
  Gay ornaments; frippery; gewgaws. Thackeray.
• FULL-FORMED
  Full in form or shape; rounded out with flesh. The full-formed maids of Afric. Thomson.
• MACHINER
  One who or operates a machine; a machinist.
• FULL HOUSE
  A hand containing three of a kind and a pair, as three kings and two tens. It ranks above a flush and below four of a kind.
• 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.
• FULLAM
  A false die. See Fulham.
• MOTIONER
  One who makes a motion; a mover. Udall.
• MOTIONIST
  A mover.
• FULL-GROWN
  Having reached the limits of growth; mature. "Full-grown wings." Lowell.
• 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.
• FULLER
  One whose occupation is to full cloth. Fuller's earth, a variety of clay, used in scouring and cleansing cloth, to imbibe grease. -- Fuller's herb , the soapwort , formerly used to remove stains from cloth. -- Fuller's thistle or weed
• ARRESTIVE
  Tending to arrest. McCosh.
• FULL-BLOOMED
  Like a perfect blossom. "Full-bloomed lips." Crashaw.
• FULL-DRIVE
  With full speed.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• 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.
• STAMPING
  from Stamp, v. Stamping ground, a place frequented, and much trodden, by animals, wild or domesticated; hence , the scene of one's labors or exploits; also, one's favorite resort. -- Stamping machine, a machine for forming metallic articles or
• FULL-BUTT
  With direct and violentop position; with sudden collision. L'Estrange.
• DEVICEFUL
  Full of devices; inventive. A carpet, rich, and of deviceful thread. Chapman.
• THREAD
  wire, thread, OHG. drat, Icel. a thread, Sw. tråd, Dan. traad, and 1. A very small twist of flax, wool, cotton, silk, or other fibrous substance, drawn out to considerable length; a compound cord consisting of two or more single yarns doubled,
• GRAMME MACHINE
  A kind of dynamo-electric machine; -- so named from its French inventor, M. Gramme. Knight.
• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• ENSTAMP
  To stamp; to mark as It is the motive . . . which enstamps the character. Gogan.
• THRYFALLOW
  To plow for the third time in summer; to trifallow. Tusser.
• BURRING MACHINE
  A machine for cleansing wool of burs, seeds, and other substances.
• EXCITO-MOTION
  Motion excited by reflex nerves. See Excito-motory.
• UNFALLIBLE
  Infallible. Shak.
• NERVIMOTION
  The movement caused in the sensory organs by external agents and transmitted to the muscles by the nerves. Dunglison.
• 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.
• DOUBTFULLY
  In a doubtful manner. Nor did the goddess doubtfully declare. Dryden.