A temporary failure; a slip.
A decline or fall in standards.
A common-law rule that if the person to whom property is willed were to die before the testator, then the gift would be ineffective.
A pause in continuity.
A marked decrease in air temperature with increasing altitude because the ground is warmer than the surrounding air.
A fall or apostasy.
An interval of time between events.
A termination of a right etc., through disuse or neglect.
memory lapse
To fall away gradually; to subside.
To slip into a bad habit that one is trying to avoid.
To become void.
To fall into error or heresy.
To fall or pass from one proprietor to another, or from the original destination, by the omission, negligence, or failure of somebody, such as a patron or legatee.
An error; a blunder.
A pitch which was intended to be pitched in a hard-to-hit location, but instead ends up in an easy-to-hit place.
To understand wrongly, taking one thing or person for another.