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.
Wiktionary
n. (context archaic English) epilepsy.
Wikipedia
Falling Sickness was a Riverside, California based punk band, consisting of Fritz Aragon (vocals, guitar), Zach Howe (vocals, bass), Gabe Gil (vocals), and Mike Angel (drums). After six years of being an unsigned band and playing mostly local shows, Falling Sickness were signed to Hopeless Records in 1995. Their debut record Right on Time was released soon after in January 1996. The record which chronicled the first six years of the band is "about drinking, daydreaming and fucking up; a testament of our youth. After all, when we started [Gabe] was only 17 and Fritz was 14". Their next, and final, record as a band, Because the World Has Failed Us Both was released in February 1998 also on Hopeless Records. 'Because the World Has Failed Us Both' is "about our growing up" and focuses more on worldly politics rather than the teenage politics of 'Right On Time'. In 2000, Falling Sickness disbanded. Since then, Fritz and Angel have formed the band Dogs of Ire 2000-2010. Fritz and his brother, Brenton, are currently in a thrash punk/hc project called MOXIEBEAT on their own label, Ethospine Noise, which has 24 releases to date.
Lead singer, Gabe Gil, died on September 8, 2015 at the age of 43 due to organ failure.
Usage examples of "falling sickness".
Culpepper gives us a list of most extraordinary cures performed by its agency, and Gerard remarks that: 'there be some who think that this herbe being but carryed about one, doth help the falling sickness, especially the leaves of the plant which have not yet borne flowers, and gathered when the sun is in Virgo and the moon in Aries, which thing notwithstanding is vaine and superstitious.
It is good against the jaundice and falling sickness (epilepsy), and taken in wine expelleth the gravel from the reins and kindeys.
The falling sickness had not killed him, but the strength had never truly returned to his left side.
Wallace, fiercely intelligent but ever sickly, had died of the falling sickness, sometimes called king's evil.
Wallace, fiercely intelligent but ever sickly, had died of the falling sickness, sometimes called king’.