Fault

1. To err; to blunder, to commit a fault; to do wrong.
2. A lost scent; act of losing the scent.
3. Defect; want; lack; default.
4. A moral failing; a defect or dereliction from duty; a deviation from propriety; an offense less serious than a crime.
5. A dislocation of the strata of the vein.
6. Anything that fails, that is wanting, or that impairs excellence; a failing; a defect; a blemish.
7. 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.
8. To charge with a fault; to accuse; to find fault with; to blame.
9. Failure to serve the ball into the proper court.
10. In coal seams, coal rendered worthless by impurities in the seam; as, slate fault, dirt fault, etc.