FALLOW
\fˈalə͡ʊ], \fˈaləʊ], \f_ˈa_l_əʊ]\
Definitions of FALLOW
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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cultivated land that is not seeded for one or more growing seasons
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undeveloped but potentially useful; "a fallow gold market"
By Princeton University
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cultivated land that is not seeded for one or more growing seasons
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undeveloped but potentially useful; "a fallow gold market"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Pale red or pale yellow; as, a fallow deer or greyhound.
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Left untilled or unsowed after plowing; uncultivated; as, fallow ground.
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Plowed land.
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Land that has lain a year or more untilled or unseeded; land plowed without being sowed for the season.
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The plowing or tilling of land, without sowing it for a season; as, summer fallow, properly conducted, has ever been found a sure method of destroying weeds.
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To plow, harrow, and break up, as land, without seeding, for the purpose of destroying weeds and insects, and rendering it mellow; as, it is profitable to fallow cold, strong, clayey land.
By Oddity Software
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Pale red or pale yellow; as, a fallow deer or greyhound.
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Left untilled or unsowed after plowing; uncultivated; as, fallow ground.
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Plowed land.
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Land that has lain a year or more untilled or unseeded; land plowed without being sowed for the season.
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The plowing or tilling of land, without sowing it for a season; as, summer fallow, properly conducted, has ever been found a sure method of destroying weeds.
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To plow, harrow, and break up, as land, without seeding, for the purpose of destroying weeds and insects, and rendering it mellow; as, it is profitable to fallow cold, strong, clayey land.
By Noah Webster.
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To keep untilled.
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Plowed but not sown for the season; untilled; of a pale yellow or reddish-yellow color.
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Land plowed but left unseeded.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Pale red or pale yellow; as, a fallow deer; left to rest after tillage; untilled; uncultivated; neglected; "Break up your fallow ground."-Jer. iv. 3; "Her predecessors did but sometimes cast up the ground; and so leaving it fallow, it became quickly overgrown with weeds."-Howell; unoccupied; neglected; unused.
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Land that has lain a year or more untilled or unseeded; land ploughed without being sowed; the ploughing or tilling of land, without sowing it, for a season; as, summer fallow, properly conducted, has ever been found a sure method of destroying weeds; "By a complete summer fallow, land is rendered tender and mellow."-Sir J. Sinclair.
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A green fallow, in England, fallow where land is rendered mellow and clean from weeds by means of some green crop, as turnips, potatoes, etc.
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To plough, harrow, and break land without seeding it, for the purpose of destroying weeds and insects and rendering it mellow; as, it is found to be for the interest of the farmer to fallow cold, strong, clayey land. In U. S. to summer-fallow land is to plough and cultivate it continually during the summer, in preparation for sowing wheat in the autumn. Some of the most progressive American farmers condemn summer-fallowing. They contend that, owing to evaporation under the summer heat, the practice is eventually detrimental to the soil.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To make, keep, or become fallow.
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Left unseeded after being plowed; uncultivated; neglected.
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Pale - yellow or pale - red.
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Land left fallow; also, cleared woodland.
By James Champlin Fernald
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Pale red or pale yellow; untilled; left to rest after tillage; not tilled; left unsowed after ploughing; uncultivated; unoccupied; neglected.
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Land that has lain a year or more untilled or unseeded; the ploughing or tilling of land, without sowing it, for a season.
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To plough, harrow, and break land without seeding it. A green fallow, fallow where land is rendered mellow and clean from weeds by some green crop, as turnips, &c.
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To fade; to become yellow.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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Applied to one of the deer kind of a brownish bay colour.
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Applied to land which has lain a year or more untilled; land ploughed but not seeded for the season; neglected.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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n. Land that has lain a year or more untilled or unsown; — the ploughing or tilling of land without sowing it for a season.
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Pale red, or pale yellow; unsowed, left to rest after the years of tillage; plowed, but not sowed; unplowed, uncultivated; unoccupied, neglected.
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Ground plowed in order to be plowed again; round lying at rest.
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To plow in order to a second plowing.
By Thomas Sheridan
