falses
plural of false
• fasels
Source: Wiktionary
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. (Zoƶl.) 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 (Zoƶl.), 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 (Zoƶl.), 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. (Zoƶl.) 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
25 December 2024
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