[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

mattowacca \mat`towac"ca\, n. indian name. zool.
   an american clupeoid fish clupea mediocris, similar to
   the shad in habits and appearance, but smaller and less
   esteemed for food; -- called also hickory shad, tailor
   shad, fall herring, and shad herring.
   1913 webster
see also:
clupea mediocris hickory shad tailor shad fall herring shad herring 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

fall \fall\, n.
   1. the act of falling; a dropping or descending be the force
      of gravity; descent; as, a fall from a horse, or from the
      yard of ship.
      1913 webster

   2. the act of dropping or tumbling from an erect posture; as,
      he was walking on ice, and had a fall.
      1913 webster

   3. death; destruction; overthrow; ruin.
      1913 webster

            they thy fall conspire.               --denham.
      1913 webster

            pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit
            before a fall.                        --prov. xvi.
                                                  18.
      1913 webster

   4. downfall; degradation; loss of greatness or office;
      termination of greatness, power, or dominion; ruin;
      overthrow; as, the fall of the roman empire.
      1913 webster

            beholds thee glorious only in thy fall. --pope.
      1913 webster

   5. the surrender of a besieged fortress or town; as, the fall
      of sebastopol.
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   6. diminution or decrease in price or value; depreciation;
      as, the fall of prices; the fall of rents.
      1913 webster

   7. a sinking of tone; cadence; as, the fall of the voice at
      the close of a sentence.
      1913 webster

   8. declivity; the descent of land or a hill; a slope.
      1913 webster

   9. descent of water; a cascade; a cataract; a rush of water
      down a precipice or steep; -- usually in the plural,
      sometimes in the singular; as, the falls of niagara.
      1913 webster

   10. the discharge of a river or current of water into the
       ocean, or into a lake or pond; as, the fall of the po
       into the gulf of venice. --addison.
       1913 webster

   11. extent of descent; the distance which anything falls; as,
       the water of a stream has a fall of five feet.
       1913 webster

   12. the season when leaves fall from trees; autumn.
       1913 webster

             what crowds of patients the town doctor kills,
             or how, last fall, he raised the weekly bills.
                                                  --dryden.
       1913 webster

   13. that which falls; a falling; as, a fall of rain; a heavy
       fall of snow.
       1913 webster

   14. the act of felling or cutting down. "the fall of timber."
       --johnson.
       1913 webster

   15. lapse or declension from innocence or goodness.
       specifically: the first apostasy; the act of our first
       parents in eating the forbidden fruit; also, the apostasy
       of the rebellious angels.
       1913 webster

   16. formerly, a kind of ruff or band for the neck; a falling
       band; a faule. --b. jonson.
       1913 webster

   17. that part as one of the ropes of a tackle to which the
       power is applied in hoisting.
       1913 webster

   fall herring zool., a herring of the atlantic clupea
      mediocris; -- also called tailor herring, and hickory
      shad.

   to try a fall, to try a bout at wrestling. --shak.
      1913 webster
see also:
fall herring clupea mediocris tailor herring hickory shad to try a fall 

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