1. fallow - Noun
2. fallow - Adjective
3. fallow - Verb
4. fallow - Adjective Satellite
Pale red or pale yellow; as, a fallow deer or greyhound.
Left untilled or unsowed after plowing; uncultivated; as, fallow ground.
Plowed land.
Land that has lain a year or more untilled or unseeded; land plowed without being sowed for the season.
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.
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.
Source: Webster's dictionaryA soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period. John Lothrop Motley
The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture. Joseph Addison
In my work, there's a tremendous amount of rejection and waves of fertile and fallow times. Marlo Thomas
Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period. Felicity Kendal
If the mind is wearied by study, or the body worn with sickness, It is well to lie fallow for a while, in the vacancy of sheer amusement; But when thou prosprest in health, and thine intellect can soar untired, To seek uninstructive pleasure is to slumber on the couch of indolence. Martin Farquhar Tupper
Prepare the fallow field well enough and you'll be free to go off and gather the hemp ties. Sicilian Proverb