Emily Dickinson Lexicon

fall (-ing, -s), v. [OE faellan.] (webplay: act, Adam, against, angels, arrow, attempt, become, bend, book, broken, brother, care, cease, clouds, come, cools, days, dejection, die, different, down, dread, drop, earth, enemies, enter, erect, face, fail, faint, Far, fathers, fear, feet, first, forget, friendship, full, glory, gravity, great, Gulf of Mexico, hands, head, heaven, hill, hopes, horse, ill, interesting, joy, knowest, land, lords, love, lower, men, mice, mind, mixt, nations, nothing, observed, off, ounces, outsailed, pass, power, ranks, rejected, remain, revolt, rises, river, ruined, sea, shame, shoot, sick, side, Since, snow, solid, soul, sound, stand, steep, still, sword, tells, throw, tide, tree, tumble, two, war, wind, withdraw, witness, worst, youth).

1. Drop; descend; decline; plummet; go down in motion; come to the ground; (see Genesis 45:24); [fig.] sound; utter.
2. Die; depart from this life; wound mortally by violence; (see Leviticus 26:7).
3. Apostatize; succumb to temptation; lapse into sin or folly; (see Leviticus 19:29).
4. Lower; come down; [fig.] subside; come to an end.
5. Faint; pass out; drops down from an erect posture; (see Genesis 2:21).
6. Come to pass; approach; (see Ruth 3:18).