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(<i>n.</i>) A gap, slipping, or gradual fading; as, a lapse in judgment\; an unobserved or imperceptible progress or passing away; -- restricted usually to immaterial things, or to figurative uses.<p>2. (<i>n.</i>) A slip; an error; a fault; a failing in duty; a slight deviation from truth or rectitude.<p>3. (<i>n.</i>) The termination of a right or privilege through neglect to exercise it within the limited time, or through failure of some contingency; hence, the devolution of a right or privilege.<p>4. (<i>n.</i>) A fall or apostasy.<p>5. (<i>v. i.</i>) To pass slowly and smoothly downward, backward, or away; to slip downward, backward, or away; to glide; -- mostly restricted to figurative uses.<p>6. (<i>v. i.</i>) To slide or slip in moral conduct; to fail in duty; to fall from virtue; to deviate from rectitude; to commit a fault by inadvertence or mistake.<p>7. (<i>v. i.</i>) To fall or pass from one proprietor to another, or from the original destination, by the omission, negligence, or failure of some one, as a patron, a legatee, etc.<p>8. (<i>v. i.</i>) To become ineffectual or void; to fall.<p>9. (<i>v. t.</i>) To let slip; to permit to devolve on another; to allow to pass.<p>10. 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