The Collaborative International Dictionary
Falling \Fall"ing\, a. & n. from Fall, v. i.
Falling away, Falling off, etc. See To fall away, To fall off, etc., under Fall, v. i.
Falling band, the plain, broad, linen collar turning down over the doublet, worn in the early part of the 17th century.
Falling sickness (Med.), epilepsy.
--Shak.
Falling star. (Astron.) See Shooting star.
Falling stone, a stone falling through the atmosphere; a meteorite; an a["e]rolite.
Falling tide, the ebb tide.
Falling weather, a rainy season. [Colloq.]
--Bartlett.
Usage examples of "falling stone".
Abruptly one would plummet like a falling stone, catching itself in midfall, rising again as if scanning for prey, finally darting inward to pick some hapless creature off the face of the Wall in one of the zones of the upper levels.
Their beasts growled and snarled now, the sound like the rumble of falling stone or the grumbling of floodwater filling up the passage.
The lightning fell again, and thunder rumbled around the walls of the keep like falling stone.
And after I had spent many hours there, another came to stand in my place, and later another and another, each new singer or musician making a music which the others imitated, taking the new song out from small circle to big circle, like the ripples in a pond from a falling stone.
Without fear, she clung tightly to a huge iron link as die ship plummeted downward like a falling stone, then pointed its bow up and soared toward the sky.
But now and again a late-falling stone or chunk of ice clattered down, and the four clutched themselves up against the wall until it hurtled past.
Our methods are based in loving-kindness but they proceed with the absolute certainty of a falling stone, and with the result equally preordained.