fall vb. (3 is used with various complements)
1.
(of a river) to discharge itself, fig. Lucr. 653.
2.
to shrink, become
lean
H5 V. ii. 167
“A good leg will
fall”
; cf. “fall away”
(below).
3.
to come to be, get
(into a condition), become
Mer.V. IV. i. 267
“I am fallen to this for
you,”
Tw.N. IV. ii. 94
“how fell you beside
your five wits?,”
2H6 I. i. 254
“be fall'n at
jars,”
H8 II. i. 35
“fell to himself”
(=regained self-control),
Cæs. IV. iii. 154
“she fell
distract.”
4.
to let fall, drop
Tp. II. i. 304
“To it”
(viz. your hand) “on
Gonzalo,”
AYL. III. v. 5
“F-s not the axe upon
the humbled neck,”
R3 V. iii. 136
“ thy edgeless
sword,”
Lucr. 1551
“every tear he
f-s”
; to give birth to
Mer.V. I. iii. 89
“Fall parti-colour'd
lambs.”
5.
to happen, come to
pass; also, to turn out (in a particular way) MND. V. i. 189,
Mer.V. I. ii. 95
“An the worst that ever
fell,”
Cæs. III. i. 146,
243,
Ham. IV. vii. 70
“It falls right.”
6.
to happen to, befall
John I. i. 78
“Fair the bones that
took the pains for me!,”
Ant. III. vii. 39
“No disgrace Shall fall
you,”
Ven. 472.
