Fault(n.) Defect; want; lack; default.
Fault(n.) Anything that fails, that is wanting, or that impairs excellence; a failing; a defect; a blemish.
Fault(n.) A moral failing; a defect or dereliction from duty; a deviation from propriety; an offense less serious than a crime.
Fault(n.) A dislocation of the strata of the vein.
Fault(n.) In coal seams, coal rendered worthless by impurities in the seam; as, slate fault, dirt fault, etc.
Fault(n.) A lost scent; act of losing the scent.
Fault(n.) Failure to serve the ball into the proper court.
Fault(v. i.) To err; to blunder, to commit a fault; to do wrong.
Fault(v. t.) To charge with a fault; to accuse; to find fault with; to blame.
Fault(v. t.) 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.
Faulted(imp. & p. p.) of Fault
Faultful(a.) Full of faults or sins.
Faulting(n.) The state or condition of being faulted; the process by which a fault is produced.
Faulting(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fault
Words within faulted