The Inconsolable Season
(In early use more fully “fall of the leaf” or “fall of the year”.)
A season of maturity, or of incipient decay.
Of a city or fortress: the fact of coming into the power of an enemy by capture or surrender.
A succumbing to temptation, in a stronger sense, moral ruin.
What befalls or happens to a person; one’s fortune, ‘case’ or condition, lot, appointed duty, etc.
An arrest (criminals’ slang).
Fall-wind: a sudden gust.
The cry given when a whale is sighted, or seen to blow, or harpooned. The chase of a whale or school of whales. When they see whales, they call into the ship, fall, fall.
Of clothes: to slip off.
In a moral sense: to yield to temptation, to sin, esp. of a woman: to surrender her chastity.
To become pregnant.
Of a building: to drop to pieces toward the interior or inwardly.
Of a cliff: to drop in fragments into the sea.
Transitive senses: to let fall, drop, to shed (tears); to cast, shed (leaves); to bring down (a weapon).
Of a vessel: to fail to keep her head to the wind. Let her have plenty of helm, to come and fall off freely with the sea.
To decay, to pine away, to vanish.
