fallow

[Fal·low]

Something that is fallow is left unused. If you’re smart but lazy, someone might say you have a fallow mind.

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Pale red or pale yellow; as, a fallow deer or greyhound.

Noun
cultivated land that is not seeded for one or more growing seasons

Adjective S.
undeveloped but potentially useful; "a fallow gold market"

Adjective S.
left unplowed and unseeded during a growing season; "fallow farmland"

a.
Pale red or pale yellow; as, a fallow deer or greyhound.

n.
Left untilled or unsowed after plowing; uncultivated; as, fallow ground.

n.
Plowed land.

n.
Land that has lain a year or more untilled or unseeded; land plowed without being sowed for the season.

n.
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.

n.
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.

Fallow

Fal"low , a. [AS. fealu, fealo, pale yellow or red; akin to D. vaal fallow, faded, OHG. falo, G. falb, fahl, Icel. f'94lr, and prob. to Lith. palvas, OSlav. plav white, L. pallidus pale, pallere to be pale, Gr. gray, Skr. palita. Cf. Pale, Favel, a., Favor.] 1. Pale red or pale yellow; as, a fallow deer or greyhound. Shak. 2. [Cf. Fallow, n.] Left untilled or unsowed after plowing; uncultivated; as, fallow ground. Fallow chat, Fallow finch (Zo'94l.), a small European bird, the wheatear (Saxicola '91nanthe). See Wheatear.

Fallow

Fal"low, n. [So called from the fallow, or somewhat yellow, color of naked ground; or perh. akin to E. felly, n., cf. MHG. valgen to plow up, OHG. felga felly, harrow.] 1. Plowed land. [Obs.]

Who . . . pricketh his blind horse over the fallows.

2. Land that has lain a year or more untilled or unseeded; land plowed without being sowed for the season.

The plowing of fallows is a benefit to land.

3. 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.

Be a complete summer fallow, land is rendered tender and mellow. The fallow gives it a better tilth than can be given by a fallow crop.

Fallow crop, the crop taken from a green fallow. [Eng.] -- Green fallow, fallow whereby land is rendered mellow and clean from weeds, by cultivating some green crop, as turnips, potatoes, etc. [Eng.]

Fallow

Fal"low , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fallowed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Fallowing.] [From Fallow, n.] 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.

Pale red or pale yellow; as, a fallow deer or greyhound.

Plowed land.

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.

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Usage Examples

If only we could persuade galleries to observe a fallow period in which, for two months every other year, new and old works of art could be sold in back rooms and all main galleries would be devoted to revisiting shows gone by.

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Other Usage Examples

Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period.