Word Meanings - SUMMER-FALLOW - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To plow and work in summer, in order to prepare for wheat or other crop; to plow and let lie fallow.

Related words: (words related to SUMMER-FALLOW)

• OTHERGUISE; OTHERGUESS
  Of another kind or sort; in another way. "Otherguess arguments." Berkeley.
• SUMMERSTIR
  To summer-fallow.
• SUMMERHOUSE
  A rustic house or apartment in a garden or park, to be used as a pleasure resort in summer. Shak.
• OTHER
  andar, Icel. annarr, Sw. annan, Dan. anden, Goth. an, Skr. antara: cf. L. alter; all orig. comparatives: cf. Skr. anya other. sq. 1. Different from that which, or the one who, has been specified; not the same; not identical; additional; second
• ORDERLY
  1. Conformed to order; in order; regular; as, an orderly course or plan. Milton. 2. Observant of order, authority, or rule; hence, obedient; quiet; peaceable; not unruly; as, orderly children; an orderly community. 3. Performed in good
• OTHERNESS
  The quality or state of being other or different; alterity; oppositeness.
• WHEATSTONE'S BRIDGE
  See BRIDGE
• WHEATBIRD
  A bird that feeds on wheat, especially the chaffinch.
• FALLOWNESS
  A well or opening, through the successive floors of a warehouse or manufactory, through which goods are raised or lowered. Bartlett.
• OTHERGATES
  In another manner. He would have tickled you othergates. Shak.
• WHEATSEL BIRD
  The male of the chaffinch.
• SUMMERLINESS
  The quality or state of being like summer. Fuller.
• ORDERLINESS
  The state or quality of being orderly.
• ORDER
  1. Regular arrangement; any methodical or established succession or harmonious relation; method; system; as: Of material things, like the books in a library. Of intellectual notions or ideas, like the topics of a discource. Of periods of time or
• PREPARER
  One who, or that which, prepares, fits, or makes ready. Wood.
• OTHERWISE
  1. In a different manner; in another way, or in other ways; differently; contrarily. Chaucer. Thy father was a worthy prince, And merited, alas! a better fate; But Heaven thought otherwise. Addison. 2. In other respects. It is said, truly, that
• ORDERING
  Disposition; distribution; management. South.
• WHEATEN
  Made of wheat; as, wheaten bread. Cowper.
• SUMMERTREE
  A summer. See 2d Summer.
• SUMMER
  A large stone or beam placed horizontally on columns, piers, posts, or the like, serving for various uses. Specifically: The lintel of a door or window. The commencement of a cross vault. A central floor timber, as a girder, or a piece reaching
• NOTOTHERIUM
  An extinct genus of gigantic herbivorous marsupials, found in the Pliocene formation of Australia.
• THRYFALLOW
  To plow for the third time in summer; to trifallow. Tusser.
• ISOGEOTHERMAL; ISOGEOTHERMIC
  Pertaining to, having the nature of, or marking, isogeotherms; as, an isogeothermal line or surface; as isogeothermal chart. -- n.
• SMOTHER
  Etym: 1. To destroy the life of by suffocation; to deprive of the air necessary for life; to cover up closely so as to prevent breathing; to suffocate; as, to smother a child. 2. To affect as by suffocation; to stife; to deprive of air by a thick
• ISOTHEROMBROSE
  A line connecting or marking points on the earth's surface, which have the same mean summer rainfall.
• MIDSUMMER
  The middle of summer. Shak. Midsummer daisy , the oxeye daisy.
• IMBORDER
  To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.
• ANOTHER-GUESS
  Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
• UNMOTHERED
  Deprived of a mother; motherless.
• ISOTHERMAL
  Relating to equality of temperature. Having reference to the geographical distribution of temperature, as exhibited by means of isotherms; as, an isothermal line; an isothermal chart. Isothermal line. An isotherm. A line drawn on a diagram
• EEL-MOTHER
  The eelpout.
• ISOTHERMOBATHIC
  Of or pertaining to an isothermobath; possessing or indicating equal temperatures in a vertical section, as of the ocean.
• MOTHER-OF-PEARL
  The hard pearly internal layer of several kinds of shells, esp. of pearl oysters, river mussels, and the abalone shells; nacre. See Pearl.
• MISORDER
  To order ill; to manage erroneously; to conduct badly. Shak.
• MOTHER'S DAY
  A day appointed for the honor and uplift of motherhood by the loving remembrance of each person of his mother through the performance of some act of kindness, visit, tribute, or letter. The founder of the day is Anna Jarvis, of Philadelphia, who
• STEPMOTHER
  The wife of one's father by a subsequent marriage.
• 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.
• DINOTHERE; DINOTHERIUM
  A large extinct proboscidean mammal from the miocene beds of Europe and Asia. It is remarkable fora pair of tusks directed downward from the decurved apex of the lower jaw.
• MOTHERING
  A rural custom in England, of visiting one's parents on Midlent Sunday, -- supposed to have been originally visiting the mother church to make offerings at the high altar.