Fail"ing, n.
1.
A failing short; a becoming deficient; failure; deficiency; imperfection; weakness; lapse; fault; infirmity; as, a mental failing.
And ever in her mind she cas about
For that unnoticed failing in herself.
Tennyson.
2.
The act of becoming insolvent of bankrupt.
Syn. -- See Fault.
© Webster 1913.