Part 4158

<p><b>5.</b> <def>To baffie or escape; <as>as, to <ex>falsify</ex> a blow</as>.</def>

<i>Bulter.</i>

<p><b>6.</b> <fld>(Law)</fld> <def>To avoid or defeat; to prove false, as a judgment.</def>

<i>Blackstone.</i>

<p><b>7.</b> <fld>(Equity)</fld> <def>To show, in accounting, (an inem of charge inserted in an account) to be wrong.</def>

<i>Story. Daniell.</i>

<p><b>8.</b> <def>To make false by multilation or addition; to tamper with; <as>as, to <ex>falsify</ex> a record or document</as>.</def>

<h1>Falsify</h1> <Xpage=540>

<hw>Fal"si*fy</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To tell lies; to violate the truth.</def>

<blockquote>It is absolutely and universally unlawful to lie and <b>falsify</b>.

<blockquote>South.

<h1>Falsism</h1> <Xpage=540>

<hw>Fals"ism</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>That which is evidently false; an assertion or statement the falsity of which is plainly apparent; -- opposed to <i>truism</i>.</def>

<h1>Falsity</h1> <Xpage=540>

<hw>Fal"si*ty</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>;<plu>pl. <plw>Falsities</plw> <tt>(#)</tt></plu>. <ety>[L. <ets>falsitas</ets>: cf. F. <ets>fausset\'82</ets>, OF. also, <ets>falsit\'82</ets>. See <er>False</er>, <tt>a.</tt>]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The quality of being false; coutrariety or want of conformity to truth.</def>

<blockquote>Probability does not make any alteration, either in the truth or <b>falsity</b> of things. <i>South.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>That which is false; falsehood; a lie; a false assertion.</def>

<blockquote>Men often swallow <b>falsities</b> for truths. <i>Sir T. Brown.</i></blockquote>

<syn>Syn. -- Falsehood; lie; deceit.</syn> <usage> -- <er>Falsity</er>, <er>Falsehood</er>, <er>Lie</er>. <i>Falsity</i> denotes the state or quality of being false. A <i>falsehood</i> is a false declaration designedly made. A <i>lie</i> is a gross, unblushing falsehood. The <i>falsity</i> of a person's assertion may be proved by the evidence of others and thus the charge of <i>falsehood</i> be fastened upon him.</usage>

<h1>Falter</h1> <Xpage=540>

<hw>Fal"ter</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To thrash in the chaff; also, to cleanse or sift, as barley.</def> <mark>[Prov. Eng.]</mark>

<i>Halliwell.</i>

<h1>Falter</h1> <Xpage=540>

<hw>Fal"ter</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Faltered</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Faltering</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[OE. <ets>falteren</ets>, <ets>faltren</ets>, prob. from <ets>fault</ets>. See <er>Fault</er>, <ets>v</ets>. & <tt>n.</tt>]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To hesitate; to speak brokenly or weakly; to stammer; <as>as, his tongue <ex>falters</ex></as>.</def>

<blockquote>With <b>faltering</b> speech and visage incomposed. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To tremble; to totter; to be unsteady.</def> "He found his legs <i>falter</i>."

<i>Wiseman.</i>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To hesitate in purpose or action.</def>