| (n.) | Defect; want; lack; default. | |
| (n.) | Anything that fails, that is wanting, or that impairs excellence; a failing; a defect; a blemish. | |
| (n.) | A moral failing; a defect or dereliction from duty; a deviation from propriety; an offense less serious than a crime. | |
| (n.) | A dislocation of the strata of the vein. | |
| (n.) | In coal seams, coal rendered worthless by impurities in the seam; as, slate fault, dirt fault, etc. | |
| (n.) | A lost scent; act of losing the scent. | |
| (n.) | Failure to serve the ball into the proper court. | |
| (v. t.) | To charge with a fault; to accuse; to find fault with; to blame. | |
| (v. t.) | 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. | |
| (v. i.) | To err; to blunder, to commit a fault; to do wrong. |
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