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