The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary: Section M, N, and O

book lies on the table, which stands on the floor of a house on an

island.

I stood on the bridge at midnight.

Longfellow.

2. To or against the surface of; -- used to indicate the motion of a thing as coming or falling to the surface of another; as, rain falls on the earth.

Whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken.

Matt. xxi. 44.

3. Denot...