A shaking, trembling, or concussion of the earth, due to subterranean causes, often accompanied by a rumbling noise. The wave of shock sometimes traverses half a hemisphere, destroying cities and many thousand lives; - called also earthdin, earthquave, and earthshock.
Like, or characteristic of, an earthquake; loud; startling.
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.
A lost scent; act of losing the scent.
Failure to serve the ball into the proper court.
A defective point in an electric circuit due to a crossing of the parts of the conductor, or to contact with another conductor or the earth, or to a break in the circuit.
A dislocation caused by a slipping of rock masses along a plane of facture; also, the dislocated structure resulting from such slipping.
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.
