| fault |
noun |
Defect; want; lack; default., Anything that fails, that is wanting, or that impairs excellence; a failing; a defect; a blemish., A moral failing; a defect or dereliction from duty; a deviation from propriety; an offense less serious than a crime., A dislocation of the strata of the vein., In coal seams, coal rendered worthless by impurities in the seam; as, slate fault, dirt fault, etc., A lost scent; act of losing the scent., Failure to serve the ball into the proper court., To charge with a fault; to accuse; to find fault with; to blame., To interrupt the continuity of (rock strata) by displacement along a plane of fracture; — chiefly used in the p. p.; as, the coal beds are badly faulted., To err; to blunder, to commit a fault; to do wrong. |