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Entry 6 senses · 3 variants Webster, 1913

Fallow

/fălʹō/ · Fal·low · IPA /ˈfæloʊ/
01 a. Pale red or pale yellow; as, a fallow deer or greyhound.
  1. 1.
    Pale red or pale yellow; as, a fallow deer or greyhound.
  2. 2.
    Left untilled or unsowed after plowing; uncultivated; as, fallow ground.
Phrases & compounds
Fallow chat — a small European bird, the wheatear (Saxicola œnanthe). See Wheatear.
02 n. Plowed land.
  1. 1.
    Plowed land.[Obs.]
    “Who . . . pricketh his blind horse over the fallows.” — Chaucer.
  2. 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.” — Mortimer.
  3. 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.” — Sinclair.
Phrases & compounds
Fallow crop — the crop taken from a green fallow.
Green fallow — fallow whereby land is rendered mellow and clean from weeds, by cultivating some green crop, as turnips, potatoes, etc.
03 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 i…
imp. & p. p. Fallowed; p. pr. & vb. n. Fallowing
  1. 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.