Part 4138

<blockquote>Take heed now that ye <b>fail</b> not to do this. <i>Ezra iv. 22.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Either my eyesight <b>fails</b>, or thou look'st pale. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>7.</b> <def>To come short of a result or object aimed at or desired ; to be baffled or frusrated.</def>

<blockquote>Our envious foe hath <b>failed</b>. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>8.</b> <def>To err in judgment; to be mistaken.</def>

<blockquote>Which ofttimes may succeed, so as perhaps Shall grieve him, if I <b>fail</b> not. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>9.</b> <def>To become unable to meet one's engagements; especially, to be unable to pay one's debts or discharge one's business obligation; to become bankrupt or insolvent.</def>

<h1>Fail</h1> <Xpage=537>

<hw>Fail</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To be wanting to ; to be insufficient for; to disappoint; to desert.</def>

<blockquote>There shall not <b>fail</b> thee a man on the throne. <i>1 Kings ii. 4.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To miss of attaining; to lose.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<blockquote>Though that seat of earthly bliss be <b>failed</b>. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Fail</h1> <Xpage=537>

<hw>Fail</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OF. <ets>faille</ets>, from <ets>failir</ets>. See <er>Fail</er>, <tt>v. i.</tt>]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Miscarriage; failure; deficiency; fault; -- mostly superseded by <i>failure</i> or <i>failing</i>, except in the phrase <i>without fail</i>.</def> "His highness' <i>fail</i> of issue."

<i>Shak.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Death; decease.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Shak.</i>

<h1>Failance</h1> <Xpage=537>

<hw>Fail"ance</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Of. <ets>faillance</ets>, fr. <ets>faillir</ets>.]</ety> <def>Fault; failure; omission.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Bp. Fell.</i>

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<hw>Fail"ing</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A failing short; a becoming deficient; failure; deficiency; imperfection; weakness; lapse; fault; infirmity; <as>as, a mental <ex>failing</ex></as>.</def>

<blockquote>And ever in her mind she cas about For that unnoticed <b>failing</b> in herself. <i>Tennyson.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The act of becoming insolvent of bankrupt.</def>

<syn>Syn. -- See <er>Fault</er>.</syn>

<h1>Faille</h1> <Xpage=537>

<hw>Faille</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F.]</ety> <def>A soft silk, heavier than a foulard and not glossy.</def>

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