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Fallow [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Pale red or pale yellow; as a fallow deer.

2. Unsowed; not tilled; left to rest after a year or more of tillage; as fallow ground; a fallow field.

3. Break up your fallow ground. Jeremiah 4:3 .

4. Left unsowed after plowing. The word is applied to the land after plowing.

5. Unplowed; uncultivated.

6. Unoccupied; neglected. [Not in use.]

7. Let the cause lie fallow

Fallow [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Land that has lain a year or more untilled or unseeded. It is also called fallow when plowed without being sowed.

2. The plowing of fallows is a benefit to land.

3. The plowing or tilling of land, without sowing it, for a season. Summer fallow properly conducted, has ever been found a sure method of destroying weeds.

4. By 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.

5. A green fallow in England, is that where land is rendered mellow and clean from weeks, by means of some green crop, as turnips, potatoes, etc.

Fallow [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To fade; to become yellow. obsolete

Fallow [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To plow, harrow and break land without seeding it, for the purpose of destroying weeds and insects, and rendering it mellow. It is found for the interest of the farmer to fallow cold, strong, clayey land.

Fallow [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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

Fallow [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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

2. Plowed land.

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

4. 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.

5. 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 deer Webster's Dictionary 1913

A European species of deer (Cervus dama), much smaller than the red deer. In summer both sexes are spotted with white. It is common in England, where it is often domesticated in the parks.

Fallow-crop [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

The crop taken from fallowed ground.

Fallow-finch [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A small bird, the oenanthe or wheat-ear.

Fallowed [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Plowed and harrowed for a season, without being sown.

Fallowed [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Fallowing [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

The operation of plowing and harrowing land without sowing it. fallowing is found to contribute to the destruction of snails and other vermin.

Fallowing [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Plowing and harrowing land without sowing it.

Fallowing [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Fallowist [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. One who favors the practice of fallowing land.

2. On this subject, a controversy has arisen between two sects, the fallowists and the anti-fallowists. [Unusual.]

Fallowist [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One who favors the practice of fallowing land.

Fallowness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A fallow state; barrenness; exemption from bearing fruit.

Fallowness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A well or opening, through the successive floors of a warehouse or manufactory, through which goods are raised or lowered.

Unproductiveness Roget’s Thesaurus §169

N. unproductiveness, infertility, sterility, infecundity, masturbation, impotence, unprofitableness, waste, desert, sahara, wild, wilderness, howling wilderness

V. be - unproductive, hang fire, flash in the pan, come to nothing, sterilize, addle, disable, inactivate

Adj. unproductive, acarpous, inoperative, barren, addled, infertile, unfertile, unprolific, arid, sterile, unfruitful, infecund, sine prole, fallow, teemless, issueless, fruitless, unprofitable, null and void, of no effect

Yellowness Roget’s Thesaurus §436

N. yellow, or, gamboge, cadmium-yellow, chrome-yellow, indian-yellow king's-yellow, lemonyellow, orpiment, yellow ocher, claude tint, aureolin, xanthein, xanthin, zaofulvin, crocu s, saffron, topaz, xanthite, yolk, jaundice, london fog|, yellowness, icterus, xantho- cyanopia|, xanthopsia

Adj. yellow, aureate, golden, flavous|, citrine, fallow, fulvous, fulvid, sallow, luteous, tawny, creamy, sandy, xanthic, xanthous, jaundiced- auricomous, gold-colored, citron-colored, saffron-colored, lemon-colored, lemon yellow, sulphur-colored, amber-colored, straw-colored, primrose-colored, creamcolored, xanthocarpous, xanthochroid, xanthopous, yellow as a quince, yellow as a guinea, yellow as a crow's foot, warm, advancing

Nonpreparation Roget’s Thesaurus §674

N. non-preparation, absence of preparation, want of preparation, inculture|, inconcoction|, improvidence, immaturity, crudity, rawness, abortion, disqualification, nature, state of nature, virgin soil, unweeded garden, neglect, rough copy, germ, raw material, improvisation

V. be unprepared, want preparation, lack preparation, lie fallow, s'embarquer sans biscuits, live from hand to mouth, dismantle, undress, extemporize, improvise, ad lib

Adj. unprepared &c, without preparation, incomplete, rudimental, embryonic, abortive, immature, unripe, kachcha, raw, green, crude, coarse, rough cast, rough hewn, in the rough, unhewn, unformed, unfashioned, unwrought, unlabored, unblown, uncooked, unboiled, unconcocted, unpolished, unhatched, unfledged, unnurtured, unlicked, untaught, uneducated, uncultivated, untrained, untutored, undrilled, unexercised, deckle-edged, precocious, premature, undigested, indigested, unmellowed, unseasoned, unleavened, unrehearsed, unscripted, extemporaneous, improvised, spontaneous, ad lib, ad libitem, fallow, unsown, untilled, natural, in a state of nature, undressed, in dishabille, en deshabille, unqualified, disqualified, unfitted, ill-digested, unbegun, unready, unarranged, unorganized, unfurnished, unprovided, unequipped, untrimmed, out of gear, out of order, dismantled, shiftless, improvident, unthrifty, thriftless, thoughtless, unguarded, happy-go-lucky, caught napping, unpremeditated

Adv. extempore

Inaction Roget’s Thesaurus §681

N. inaction, passiveness, abstinence from action, noninterference, nonintervention, fabian policy, conservative policy, neglect, inactivity, rest, quiescence, want of occupation, inoccupation, idle hours, time hanging on one's hands, dolce far niente, sinecure, featherbed, featherbedding, cushy job, no- show job, soft snap, soft thing

V. not do, not act, not attempt, be inactive, abstain from doing, do nothing, hold, spare, not stir, not move, not lift a finger, not lift a foot, not lift a peg, fold one's arms, fold one's hands, leave alone, let alone, let be, let pass, let things take their course, let it have its way, let well alone, let well enough alone, quieta non movere, stare super antiquas vias, rest and be thankful, live and let live, lie rest upon one's oars, laisser aller, faire, stand aloof, refrain keep oneself from doing, remit one's efforts, relax one's efforts, desist, stop, pause, wait, lie in wait, bide one's time, take time, tide it over, cool one's heels, kick one's heels, while away the time, while away tedious hours, pass the time, fill up the time, beguile the time, talk against time, let the grass grow under one's feet, waste time, lie by, lie on the shelf, lie in ordinary, lie idle, lie to, lie fallow, keep quiet, slug, have nothing to do, whistle for want of thought, undo, do away with, take down, take to pieces, destroy

Adj. not doing, not done, undone, passive, unoccupied, unemployed, out of employ, out of work, fallow, desaeuvre

Adv. re infecta, at a stand, les bras croisis, with folded arms, with the hands in the pockets, with the hands behind one's back, pour passer le temps

Int. so let it be, stop, &c. 142, hands off, phr, cunctando restituit rem "if it ain't broke don't fix it", stare decisis

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4 KJV and 3 BSB verses contain “Fallow”

Exodus 23:11

But the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie still; that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, and with thy oliveyard.

but in the seventh year you must let it rest and lie fallow, so that the poor among your people may eat from the field and the wild animals may consume what they leave. Do the same with your vineyard and olive grove.

Deuteronomy 14:5

The hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow deer, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the wild ox, and the chamois.

the deer, the gazelle, the roe deer, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope, and the mountain sheep.

1 Kings 4:23

Ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and an hundred sheep, beside harts, and roebucks, and fallowdeer, and fatted fowl.

ten fat oxen, twenty range oxen, and a hundred sheep, as well as deer, gazelles, roebucks, and fattened poultry.

Nehemiah 10:31

And if the people of the land bring ware or any victuals on the sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy it of them on the sabbath, or on the holy day: and that we would leave the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt.

When the people of the land bring merchandise or any kind of grain to sell on the Sabbath day, we will not buy from them on a Sabbath or holy day. Every seventh year we will let the fields lie fallow, and will cancel every debt.

Proverbs 13:23

Much food is in the tillage of the poor: but there is that is destroyed for want of judgment.

Abundant food is in the fallow ground of the poor, but without justice it is swept away.

Jeremiah 4:3

For thus saith the LORD to the men of Judah and Jerusalem, Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns.

For this is what the LORD says to the men of Judah and Jerusalem: “Break up your unplowed ground, and do not sow among the thorns.

Hosea 10:12

Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the LORD, till he come and rain righteousness upon you.

Sow for yourselves righteousness and reap the fruit of loving devotion; break up your unplowed ground. For it is time to seek the LORD until He comes and sends righteousness upon you like rain.