FALSED

Etymology

Adjective

falsed (comparative more falsed, superlative most falsed)

(obsolete) Feigned, fake.

Anagrams

• Fadels

Source: Wiktionary

FALSE

False, a. [Compar. Falser; superl. Falsest.] Etym: [L. falsus, p.p. of fallere to deceive; cf. OF. faus, fals, F. faux, and AS. fals fraud. See Fail, Fall.]

1. Uttering falsehood; unveracious; given to deceit; dishnest; as, a false witness.

2. Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous; perfidious; as, a false friend, lover, or subject; false to promises. I to myself was false, ere thou to me. Milton.

3. Not according with truth or reality; not true; fitted or likely to deceive or disappoint; as, a false statement.

4. Not genuine or real; assumed or designed to deceive; counterfeit; hypocritical; as, false tears; false modesty; false colors; false jewelry. False face must hide what the false heart doth know. Shak.

5. Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous; as, a false claim; a false conclusion; a false construction in grammar. Whose false foundation waves have swept away. Spenser.

6. Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.

7. (Mus.)

Definition: Not in tune. False arch (Arch.), a member having the appearance of an arch, though not of arch construction.

– False attic, an architectural erection above the main cornice, concealing a roof, but not having windows or inclosing rooms.

– False bearing, any bearing which is not directly upon a vertical support; thus, the weight carried by a corbel has a false bearing.

– False cadence, an imperfect or interrupted cadence.

– False conception (Med.), an abnormal conception in which a mole, or misshapen fleshy mass, is produced instead of a properly organized fetus.

– False croup (Med.), a spasmodic affection of the larynx attended with the symptoms of membranous croup, but unassociated with the deposit of a fibrinous membrane.

– False door or window (Arch.), the representation of a door or window, inserted to complete a series of doors or windows or to give symmetry.

– False fire, a combustible carried by vessels of war, chiefly for signaling, but sometimes burned for the purpose of deceiving an enemy; also, a light on shore for decoying a vessel to destruction.

– False galena. See Blende.

– False imprisonment (Law), the arrest and imprisonment of a person without warrant or cause, or contrary to law; or the unlawful detaining of a person in custody.

– False keel (Naut.), the timber below the main keel, used to serve both as a protection and to increase the shio's lateral resistance.

– False key, a picklock.

– False leg. (Zoöl.) See Proleg.

– False membrane (Med.), the fibrinous deposit formed in croup and diphtheria, and resembling in appearance an animal membrane.

– False papers (Naut.), documents carried by a ship giving false representations respecting her cargo, destination, ect., for the purpose of deceiving.

– False passage (Surg.), an unnatural passage leading off from a natural canal, such as the urethra, and produced usually by the unskillful introduction of instruments.

– False personation (Law), the intentional false assumption of the name and personality of another.

– False pretenses (Law), false representations concerning past or present facts and events, for the purpose of defrauding another.

– False rail (Naut.), a thin piece of timber placed on top of the head rail to strengthen it.

– False relation (Mus.), a progression in harmony, in which a certain note in a chord appears in the next chord prefixed by a flat or sharp.

– False return (Law), an untrue return made to a process by the officer to whom it was delivered for execution.

– False ribs (Anat.), the asternal rebs, of which there are five pairs in man.

– False roof (Arch.), the space between the upper ceiling and the roof. Oxford Gloss.

– False token, a false mark or other symbol, used for fraudulent purposes.

– False scorpion (Zoöl.), any arachnid of the genus Chelifer. See Book scorpion.

– False tack (Naut.), a coming up into the wind and filling away again on the same tack.

– False vampire (Zoöl.), the Vampyrus spectrum of South America, formerly erroneously supposed to have blood-sucking habits; -- called also vampire, and ghost vampire. The genuine blood-sucking bats belong to the genera Desmodus and Diphylla. See Vampire.

– False window. (Arch.) See False door, above.

– False wing. (Zoöl.) See Alula, and Bastard wing, under Bastard.

– False works (Civil Engin.), construction works to facilitate the erection of the main work, as scaffolding, bridge centering, etc.

False, adv.

Definition: Not truly; not honestly; falsely. "You play me false." Shak.

False, v. t. Etym: [L. falsare to falsify, fr. falsus: cf. F. fausser. See False, a.]

1. To report falsely; to falsify. [Obs.] Chaucer.

2. To betray; to falsify. [Obs.] [He] hath his truthe falsed in this wise. Chaucer.

3. To mislead by want of truth; to deceive. [Obs.] In his falsed fancy. Spenser.

4. To feign; to pretend to make. [Obs.] "And falsed oft his blows." Spenser.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

FALSED

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Adjective

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FALSE

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