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fall

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, föll, [common to all idioms except ], a fall:—defined in law, þat er fall ef maðr styðr niðr kné eðr hendi, ii. 8, Ísl. ii. 246, 76, 143: the proverb, fall er farar heill, a fall bodes a lucky journey, vi. 414 (of king Harold at Stamford-bridge), viii. 85, 403, ; sá er annarr orðs-kviðr at fall er farar heill, ok festir þú nú fætr í landi, i. 231, Caesar’s ‘teneo te, Africa;’ falls er ván að fornu tré, 539; stirð eru gamalla manna föll; flas er falli næst, flurry is nigh falling: föll berask á e-n, one begins to reel, stagger. iii. 429; koma e-m til falls, to cause one to fall, 34; reiddi hann til falls, he reeled, 220. 2. a fall, death in battle, caedes, i. 11, 43, 89, 280, 37, 106, 219, passim; the proverb, í flótta er fall vest, viii. 117; val-fall, strages; mann-fall, loss of men in battle.
β. the ‘fall,’ a plague in cattle or beasts, murrain, 655. 2, i. 97, 245, 456.γ. the carcase of a slaughtered animal; baulu-fall, sauðar-fall, nauts-fall, hrúts-fall, 483.3. in compds, brot-fall, the falling sickness, epilepsy; blóð-fall, klæða-föll, bloody flux; lima-fall, paresis.
β. childbirth, in the phrase, vera komin að falli, to be in an advanced state, (komin að burði is used of sheep, cows.)
4. the fall or rush of water; vatns-fall, a waterfall, large river; sjávar-föll, tides; að-fall, flood-tide; út-fall, ebb-tide; boða-fall, a breaker, ii. 51.5. in a case, casus, 180, 206: quantity, 159, 160, 126: a fault, a defective verse, dropping of syllables, iii. 426.II. downfall, ruin, decay; fall engla, the fall of the angels, 80; til falls ok upprisu margra í Ísrael, Luke ii. 34; hafa sér e-t til falls, to run risk of ruin, 30; gózin eru at falli komin, the estates are dilapidated, ; á-fall, a shock; frá-fall, death; ó-fall, mishap; jarð-fall, an earth-slip.
2. a sin, transgression, i. 686, 77 (Fr.)3. a law term, breach, failure, non-fulfilment, in eið-fall, vegar-fall, 416; messu-fall, orð-fall, veizlu-fall.4. a case, occasion.
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