What is to come short of a result or object aimed at or desired ; to be baffled or frusrated. Our envious foe hath failed. Milton called?
fail — To come short of a result or object aimed at or desired ; to be baffled or frusrated. Our envious foe hath failed. Milton. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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