falling noun. ['fɔ:lɪŋ] ME.
[from FALL verb + -ING¹.]
1. The action of FALL verb; an instance of this. Also falling-off, falling-out, etc. ME.
(as) easy as falling off a log colloq. very easy.
■ Shakespeare Hamlet O Hamlet, what a falling off was there.
■ W. C. Wells The falling of the mercury in the barometer.
■ Longfellow The silent falling of snow.
■ F. D. Davison The business of falling, hauling and sawing pine logs.
■ P. Kurth Their abrupt falling-out had done nothing to alter her conviction.

2. A thing which falls or has fallen. Now rare. LME.

3. A hollow, a declivity. M16-E18.

Comb.:
falling sickness arch. epilepsy.

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falling ppl adjective. ['fɔ:lɪŋ] ME.
[from FALL verb + -ING².]
1. That falls. ME.

2. Prosody & Phonetics. Of a foot, rhythm, etc.: having the stress at the beginning, decreasing in stress. M19.
Special collocations: falling band a collar which falls flat around the neck, fashionable during the 17th cent. falling diphthong: see DIPHTHONG noun 1. falling leaf Aerobatics a manoeuvre in which an aeroplane is stalled and side-slipped while losing height. falling star a meteor, a shooting star. falling weather dial. & US rain, snow, or hail.

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