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Webster's English Dictionary

fault

n. [OE. faut, faute, F. faute (cf. It., Sp., & Pg. falta), fr. a verb meaning to want, fail, freq., fr. L. fallere to deceive. See Fail, and cf. Default.]1. Defect; want; lack; default. ()

One, it pleases me, for fault of a better, to call my friend. (Shak.)

2. Anything that fails, that is wanting, or that impairs excellence; a failing; a defect; a blemish. ()

As patches set upon a little breach Discredit more in hiding of the fault. (Shak.)

3. A moral failing; a defect or dereliction from duty; a deviation from propriety; an offense less serious than a crime. ()

4. (Geol. & Mining) A dislocation of the strata of the vein. (Raymond.)

5. (Hunting) A lost scent; act of losing the scent. ()

Ceasing their clamorous cry till they have singled, With much ado, the cold fault cleary out. (Shak.)

6. (Tennis) Failure to serve the ball into the proper court. ()

7. (Elec.) 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. ()

8. (Geol. & Mining) A dislocation caused by a slipping of rock masses along a plane of facture; also, the dislocated structure resulting from such slipping. ()

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At fault, unable to find the scent and continue chase; hence, in trouble or embarrassment, and unable to proceed; puzzled; thrown off the track. -- To find fault, to find reason for blaming or complaining; to express dissatisfaction; to complain; -- followed by with before the thing complained of; but formerly by at. Matter to find fault at. Robynson (More's Utopia). ()

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v. t. 1. To charge with a fault; to accuse; to find fault with; to blame. ()

For that I will not fault thee. (Old Song.)

2. (Geol.) 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. ()

If after Samuel's death the people had asked of God a king, they had not faulted. (Latimer.)