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Definition of Fallowness
1. n. A well or opening, through the successive floors of a warehouse or manufactory, through which goods are raised or lowered.
Definition of Fallowness
1. Noun. The state or quality of being fallow. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fallowness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fallowness
Literary usage of Fallowness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Book of Elizabethan Verse by William Stanley Braithwaite (1908)
"Line 25, The Muses' garden, with pendantic weeds, etc.: Cf. Donne's Letter to Mr.
Rowland Woodward: cc So affects my muse now, a chaste fallowness, ..."
2. The School World (1905)
"... by the tutor against the seething discontent and ennui which becomes boisterous
in many boys after the third or fourth week of a forced " fallowness. ..."
3. A French-English Dictionary for Chemists by Austin McDowell Patterson (1921)
"Jachère,/, fallow, fallowness; fallow land. jacinthe, /. hyacinth. jada'ique, a.
relating to or resembling jade. jade, tu. jade. Jadeite, /. (Min. ..."
4. The Path to Rome by Hilaire Belloc (1902)
"In this way you experience a singular repose, after which fallowness I am sure
one is fitter for action and judgment. ..."
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