Word Meanings - FALLOW - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Left untilled or unsowed after plowing; uncultivated; as, fallow ground. Fallow chat, Fallow finch , a small European bird, the wheatear . See Wheatear. (more info) vaal fallow, faded, OHG. falo, G. falb, fahl, Icel. fölr, and prob. to Lith.

Additional info about word: FALLOW

Left untilled or unsowed after plowing; uncultivated; as, fallow ground. Fallow chat, Fallow finch , a small European bird, the wheatear . See Wheatear. (more info) vaal fallow, faded, OHG. falo, G. falb, fahl, Icel. fölr, and prob. to Lith. palvas, OSlav. plavpallidus pale, pallere to be pale, Gr. 1. Pale red or pale yellow; as, a fallow deer or greyhound. Shak. 2. Etym:

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• FADAISE
  A vapid or meaningless remark; a commonplace; nonsense.
• AFTERCAST
  A throw of dice after the game in ended; hence, anything done too late. Gower.
• GROUNDWORK
  That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden.
• AFTER
  To ward the stern of the ship; -- applied to any object in the rear part of a vessel; as the after cabin, after hatchway. Note: It is often combined with its noun; as, after-bowlines, after- braces, after-sails, after-yards, those on the mainmasts
• GROUNDEN
  p. p. of Grind. Chaucer.
• AFTERPAINS
  The pains which succeed childbirth, as in expelling the afterbirth.
• PLOWFOOT; PLOUGHFOOT
  An adjustable staff formerly attached to the plow beam to determine the depth of the furrow. Piers Plowman.
• SMALLISH
  Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
• FALLOW
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• GROUNDNUT
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• PLOWGATE; PLOUGHGATE
  The Scotch equivalent of the English word plowland. Not having one plowgate of land. Sir W. Scott.
• GROUNDLESS
  Without ground or foundation; wanting cause or reason for support; not authorized; false; as, groundless fear; a groundless report or assertion. -- Ground"less*ly, adv. -- Ground"less*ness, n.
• AFTERSHAFT
  The hypoptilum.
• AFTERPIECE
  The heel of a rudder. (more info) 1. A piece performed after a play, usually a farce or other small entertainment.
• FADGE
  To fit; to suit; to agree. They shall be made, spite of antipathy, to fadge together. Milton. Well, Sir, how fadges the new design Wycherley. (more info) unit, G. fügen, or AS. afægian to depict; all perh. form the same
• PLOWTAIL; PLOUGHTAIL
  The hind part or handle of a plow.
• PLOWLAND; PLOUGLAND
  the quantity of land allotted for the work of one plow; a hide. (more info) 1. Land that is plowed, or suitable for tillage.
• AFTER DAMP
  An irrespirable gas, remaining after an explosion of fire damp in mines; choke damp. See Carbonic acid.
• AFTER-NOTE
  One of the small notes occur on the unaccented parts of the measure, taking their time from the preceding note.
• FINCHBACKED
  Streaked or spotted on the back; -- said of cattle.
• MISGROUND
  To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall.
• SNOWPLOW; SNOWPLOUGH
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• THRYFALLOW
  To plow for the third time in summer; to trifallow. Tusser.
• TRENCH-PLOW; TRENCH-PLOUGH
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• UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
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• PLAYGROUND
  A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school.
• DISMALLY
  In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
• HAWFINCH
  The common European grosbeak ; -- called also cherry finch, and coble.
• FOREGROUND
  On a painting, and sometimes in a bas-relief, mosaic picture, or the like, that part of the scene represented, which is nearest to the spectator, and therefore occupies the lowest part of the work of art itself. Cf. Distance, n., 6.
• WHYDAH BIRD; WHYDAH FINCH
  The whidah bird.