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Word Meanings - PROLAPSE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The falling down of a part through the orifice with which it is naturally connected, especially of the uterus or the rectum. Dunglison.

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  • FALLALS; FAL-LALS
    Gay ornaments; frippery; gewgaws. Thackeray.
  • CONNECTOR
    One who, or that which, connects; as: A flexible tube for connecting the ends of glass tubes in pneumatic experiments. A device for holding two parts of an electrical conductor in contact.
  • FALLER
    A part which acts by falling, as a stamp in a fulling mill, or the device in a spinning machine to arrest motion when a thread breaks. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, falls.
  • FALLOW
    Left untilled or unsowed after plowing; uncultivated; as, fallow ground. Fallow chat, Fallow finch , a small European bird, the wheatear . See Wheatear. (more info) vaal fallow, faded, OHG. falo, G. falb, fahl, Icel. fölr, and prob. to Lith.
  • CONNECTIVELY
    In connjunction; jointly.
  • WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
    Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
  • FALLOPIAN
    Pertaining to, or discovered by, Fallopius; as, the Fallopian tubes or oviducts, the ducts or canals which conduct the ova from the ovaries to the uterus.
  • CONNECTEDLY
    In a connected manner.
  • FALLENCY
    An exception. Jer. Taylor.
  • FALLEN
    Dropped; prostrate; degraded; ruined; decreased; dead. Some ruined temple or fallen monument. Rogers.
  • THROUGH
    thuru, OFries. thruch, D. door, OHG. durh, duruh, G. durch, Goth. ; 1. From end to end of, or from side to side of; from one surface or limit of, to the opposite; into and out of at the opposite, or at another, point; as, to bore through a piece
  • FALLFISH
    A fresh-water fish of the United States ; - - called also silver chub, and Shiner. The name is also applied to other allied species.
  • WHICH
    the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
  • UTERUS
    The organ of a female mammal in which the young are developed previous to birth; the womb. Note: The uterus is simply an enlargement of the oviduct, and in the lower mammals there is one on each side, but in the higher forms the two become more
  • FALLING
    from Fall, v. i. Falling away, Falling off, etc. See To fall away, To fall off, etc., under Fall, v. i. -- Falling band, the plain, broad, linen collar turning down over the doublet, worn in the early part of the 17th century. -- Falling sickness
  • FALLIBLY
    In a fallible manner.
  • FALLAX
    Cavillation; a caviling. Cranmer.
  • CONNECTIVE
    Connecting, or adapted to connect; involving connection. Connection tissue See Conjunctive tissue, under Conjunctive.
  • FALLOWNESS
    A well or opening, through the successive floors of a warehouse or manufactory, through which goods are raised or lowered. Bartlett.
  • NATURALLY
    In a natural manner or way; according to the usual course of things; spontaneously.
  • THRYFALLOW
    To plow for the third time in summer; to trifallow. Tusser.
  • UNFALLIBLE
    Infallible. Shak.
  • MISFALL
    To befall, as ill luck; to happen to unluckily. Chaucer.
  • BEFALL
    To happen to. I beseech your grace that I may know The worst that may befall me. Shak.
  • DISCONNECT
    To dissolve the union or connection of; to disunite; to sever; to separate; to disperse. The commonwealth itself would . . . be disconnected into the dust and powder of individuality. Burke. This restriction disconnects bank paper and the precious
  • DISCONNECTION
    The act of disconnecting, or state of being disconnected; separation; want of union. Nothing was therefore to be left in all the subordinate members but weakness, disconnection, and confusion. Burke.
  • INFALLIBLY
    In an infallible manner; certainly; unfailingly; unerringly. Blair.
  • DELTA CONNECTION
    One of the usual forms or methods for connecting apparatus to a three-phase circuit, the three corners of the delta or triangle, as diagrammatically represented, being connected to the three wires of the supply circuit.
  • RAINFALL
    A fall or descent of rain; the water, or amount of water, that falls in rain; as, the average annual rainfall of a region. Supplied by the rainfall of the outer ranges of Sinchul and Singaleleh. Hooker.
  • JAW-FALLEN
    Dejected; chopfallen.
  • CRESTFALLEN
    1. With hanging head; hence, dispirited; dejected; cowed. Let it make thee crestfullen; Ay, and allay this thy abortive pride. Shak. 2. Having the crest, or upper part of the neck, hanging to one side; -- said of a horse.

 

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