Word Meanings - FALLOWIST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who favors the practice of fallowing land. Sinclair.

Related words: (words related to FALLOWIST)

• 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.
• PRACTICER
  1. One who practices, or puts in practice; one who customarily performs certain acts. South. 2. One who exercises a profession; a practitioner. 3. One who uses art or stratagem. B. Jonson.
• PRACTICED
  1. Experienced; expert; skilled; as, a practiced marksman. "A practiced picklock." Ld. Lytton. 2. Used habitually; learned by practice.
• PRACTICE
  A easy and concise method of applying the rules of arithmetic to questions which occur in trade and business. (more info) also, practique, LL. practica, fr. Gr. Practical, and cf. Pratique, 1. Frequently repeated or customary action;
• FALLOWNESS
  A well or opening, through the successive floors of a warehouse or manufactory, through which goods are raised or lowered. Bartlett.
• FALLOWIST
  One who favors the practice of fallowing land. Sinclair.
• FALLOW DEER
  A European species of deer , much smaller than the red deer. In summer both sexes are spotted with white. It is common in England, where it is often domesticated in the parks.
• THRYFALLOW
  To plow for the third time in summer; to trifallow. Tusser.
• TRIFALLOW
  To plow the third time before sowing, as land. Mortimer.
• TWIFALLOW
  To plow, or fallow, a second time (land that has been once fallowed).
• MALPRACTICE
  Evil practice; illegal or immoral conduct; practice contrary to established rules; specifically, the treatment of a case by a surgeon or physician in a manner which is contrary to accepted rules and productive of unfavorable results.
• THRIFALLOW
  See TUSSER
• SUMMER-FALLOW
  To plow and work in summer, in order to prepare for wheat or other crop; to plow and let lie fallow.
• MISPRACTICE
  Wrong practice.
• MALEPRACTICE
  See MALPRACTICE