(n.) Defect; want; lack; default.
(n.) Anything that fails, that is wanting, or that impairs
excellence; a failing; a defect; a blemish.
(n.) A moral failing; a defect or dereliction from duty; a
deviation from propriety; an offense less serious than a crime.
(n.) A dislocation of the strata of the vein.
(n.) In coal seams, coal rendered worthless by impurities in the
seam; as, slate fault, dirt fault, etc.
(n.) A lost scent; act of losing the scent.
(n.) Failure to serve the ball into the proper court.
(v. t.) To charge with a fault; to accuse; to find fault with; to
blame.
(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.
(v. i.) To err; to blunder, to commit a fault; to do wrong.
