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Definition of Fallow
1. Noun. Cultivated land that is not seeded for one or more growing seasons.
2. Adjective. Left unplowed and unseeded during a growing season. "Fallow farmland"
3. Adjective. Undeveloped but potentially useful. "A fallow gold market"
Definition of Fallow
1. a. Pale red or pale yellow; as, a fallow deer or greyhound.
2. n. Plowed land.
3. v. t. 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.
Definition of Fallow
1. Noun. (agriculture uncountable) Ground ploughed and harrowed but left unseeded for one year. ¹
2. Noun. (agriculture uncountable) Uncultivated land. ¹
3. Noun. (agriculture obsolete countable) An area of fallow land. ¹
4. Adjective. (context: of agricultural land) Ploughed but left unseeded for more than one planting season. ¹
5. Adjective. Inactive; undeveloped. ¹
6. Verb. (transitive) To make land fallow for agricultural purposes. ¹
7. Adjective. A pale red or yellow, light brown; dun. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fallow
1. to plow and leave unseeded [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Medical Definition of Fallow
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1. 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.
2. Pale red or pale yellow; as, a fallow deer or greyhound.
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Fallow
Literary usage of Fallow
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Nature by Norman Lockyer, Nature Publishing Group (1875)
"on the geographical distribution of the fallow Deer in present and in past
time (NATURE, vol. xi. p. 71), and the careful criticism which it has called ..."
2. On the Agricultural Community of the Middle Ages: And Inclosures of the by Erwin Nasse, Cobden Club (London, England) (1871)
"Evidently it was not yet in the power of the tenant to bestow a careful cultivation
on the whole of the fallow acreage ; thus he was limited to two ..."
3. The Cyclopædia;: Or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature.by Abraham Rees by Abraham Rees (1819)
"1 General proportion, fallow 2, wheat 2.75, oats! and beans 2.5, barley and rye
0.75, roots i, > clover i, together J io According to this ..."
4. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"It must be borne in mind that the chief use of fallow is to liberate material
... For summer fallow, the land should be plowed deeply about the last of May. ..."
5. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People by Chambers, W. and R., publ (1876)
"Since the general introduction of green crops, the term fallow has departed in
some measure ... These crops are sown on what was formerly the fallow-break, ..."
6. History of English Poetry from the 12th to the Close of the 16th Century by Charles Dudley Warner, Thomas Warton, Geo. C. Rand & Avery, William Carew Hazlitt, Richard Price (1871)
"... T. The fallow kite, I. Whatever idea may have been attached to " pedan," it is
... and fallow." " Let tha ymb worn daga " Then after fome days (he) let ..."
7. Bulletin by United States Bureau of Plant Industry, Division of Plant Industry, Queensland (1910)
"In an area such as the prairie region represented, where the amount of rainfall
is rather limited, there would he an accumulation in the fallow plat of both ..."
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