(a.) Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth.
(n.) A kind of duck. See Old squaw.
Example Sentences:
(1) More importantly, it's eminently understandable in a callow youth.
(2) Julian Callow of Barclays Capital Change is largely down to the impact of import price changes.
(3) In that same National season, he teamed with Simon Callow (as Face) and Josie Lawrence (as Doll Common) in a co-production by Bill Alexander for the Birmingham Rep of Ben Jonson’s trickstering, two-faced masterpiece The Alchemist ; he was a comically pious Subtle in sackcloth and sandals.
(4) The World Cup winner and World Cup star respectively could not have taken kindly to being overlooked for a callow rookie.
(5) His 1990 BBC play Old Flames starred Stephen Fry and Simon Callow as former schoolmates who find themselves sucked into a vortex of anonymous persecution.
(6) But Blair, the callow young lawyer, elected with him in Margaret Thatcher's landslide year of 1983, was always a protégée.
(7) Ishiguro's flawed but introspective narrators are always fascinating portraits of unusual characters: in A Pale View from the Hills, the narrator is a Japanese widow living in England, The Remains of the Day is narrated by the butler of an Nazi-sympathising English aristocrat, and a callow English private detective is the central character in When We Were Orphans.
(8) Wood will feature in a BBC2 documentary celebrating the career of her regular on-screen collaborator Julie Walters, and the channel will also air Rik Mayall: Lord of Misrule, narrated by Simon Callow, which the BBC says will feature rare and unseen archive footage of the comedian who died in June, along with contributions from actors and comedians including Simon Pegg, Lenny Henry, Ben Elton and Alexei Sayle.
(9) While in the Telegraph, Simon Callow declares that Dickens is " our first and favourite literary superstar ".
(10) Actors including Joanna Lumley, Sam West, Ralph Fiennes , Alan Rickman, Mark Rylance and Simon Callow have recorded video messages to David Cameron highlighting the plight of political prisoners held under the autocratic regime of the Belarusian dictator, Alexander Lukashenko.
(11) The website features literary manuscripts, workhouse menus and newspaper articles, along with videos of the actor Simon Callow reading extracts from some of Dickens's best-known works.
(12) Other alumni include the actor Simon Callow, former Conservative MP Jerry Hayes and rugby union star Michael Swift.
(13) Alan Ayckbourn, then a callow 20-year-old playing Stanley in an early production of the play in Scarborough, also had the temerity to ask Pinter for some biographical details of the mysterious concert pianist.
(14) Jude Law, Michael Morpurgo, Antony Gormley, Patrick Stewart, Carol Ann Duffy, Vanessa Redgrave, Simon Callow, Brian Eno, Lindsey German, Jeremy Corbyn MP, Tony Benn, Timothy West, Dominic Cooke, AL Kennedy, Janie Dee, Neil Faulkner, Heathcote Williams, Dame Harriet Walter, Tim Pigott-Smith, Roger Lloyd Pack, Alan Rickman, Ken Loach, Ralph Steadman, Ken Livingstone, Rob Montgomery, Duncan Heining, Chris Nineham, Kate Hudson, Jan Woolf, Peter Kennard, Andy de la Tour, Evan Parker, Robert Wyatt, Colin Towns, Chris Searle, Neil Yates, Steve Berry, Leo Aylen, Danny Thompson, Terry Jones, Kika Markham, Susan Wooldridge, Tony Haynes, Mike Dibb, Nic France, Leon Rosselson, Barry Miles, Liane Aukin, Alistair Beaton • "When should these commemorations end?"
(15) That is the age differential between one of the game's established legends and a rising prospect who was 15 when he first fought for money in 2005, stopping a similarly callow Abraham González in four rounds in front of a small audience in the Arena Chololo Larios, Tonala, a city on the edge of Guadalajara, not far from where he was born.
(16) Julian Callow, chief European economist at Barclays We interpret this as a clear sign the ECB is prepared to change policy significantly at its September meeting, in terms of purchasing debt without claiming seniority subject to the EFSF being deployed to buy government debt.
(17) • Simon Callow in Juvenalia is at the Assembly Hall, Edinburgh until 25 August.
(18) foliosociety.com • 'We found a glitterball and a DJ, let rip and got stonking drunk' – Simon Callow on the first night of Juvenalia
(19) Had England suffered defeat to a callow Wales side on the eve of the World Cup finals as T&T did here in Graz, Eriksson would have been firefighting after the match.
(20) Sometimes, Oldham looked like a callow teenager; at others, wild and woolly like a lonesome pilgrim.
Fallow
Definition:
(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.
Example Sentences:
(1) Dytiscidae, Anisoptera, and Zygoptera were more abundant in fallow or mature fields.
(2) The fallow-deer is less discussed because the low number of investigations.
(3) Repeat examination of blood from the three fallow deer for 30 days postexposure failed to reveal observable piro-plasms.
(4) The commission is also proposing that 30% of direct payments to farmers be "green" or reward those growing a greater variety of crops, leaving land fallow or extending hedgerows.
(5) ZTJ 151, S. saprophyticus SS 877, Enterococcus faecium EF1 and E. faecalis EFG2 were isolated from the rumen wall and contents of lambs, calves and fallow deer, Enterococcus gallinarum EG10 and E. avium EA12 were isolated from the caecum of Japanese quail.
(6) For example, improved farming practices, such as the use of cover crops on fallowed fields or wetland construction near streams and rivers, have the potential of reducing sediment and phosphorus concentration from fertilizer runoff.
(7) Similar inclusion bodies were also found in the ruminal epithelium of fallow deer subjected to overfeeding by supplementary food.
(8) There are queues at communal water tanks and the irrigated fields plump with crops abruptly give way to hard-baked soil forced to sit fallow.
(9) The HIT method was used to examine blood serums of the game in Moravia (roebuck, red deer, fallow deer, mouflon, wild boar, brown hare) for the presence of antibodies to arboviruses of these groups: alphavirus (Sindbis-SIN), flavivirus (West Nile-WN), tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) and Bunyamwera (Tahyna-TAH, Calovo-CVO).
(10) The humus synthesis processes were most active in the wheat and lucerne plots, they were less effective in the fallow and virgin soils.
(11) Four adult male fallow deer were investigated for 1-4 consecutive years to study the relationships between annual changes in testis volume, sperm quality and antler status.
(12) Weinstein knows how to push a movie all the way to the top and after a few fallow years he's rediscovered his magic touch and found the funds to put his money where his mouth is.
(13) Animal species included black-tailed deer (Odocoileus hemionus columbianus), mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus), sika deer (Cervus nippon nippon), fallow deer (Dama dama), and pronghorn antelope (Antilocapra americana).
(14) An adult, captive European spotted fallow deer (Cervus dama) was submitted for necropsy due to sudden death.
(15) Some lukewarm romances and underperforming comedies – Four Christmases, How Do You Know, Water for Elephants, This Means War – as well as the well-intentioned but flawed political thriller Rendition meant that the second half of the 2000s and early 2010s was a largely fallow period.
(16) The patient presented a polyvalent IgE sensitization in prick skin tests and RAST to several animals' dander and epithelia, but RAST inhibition experiments showed a cross-reactivity only between fallow deer and horse allergen extracts.
(17) A policy of "set aside", where farmers are paid to leave land fallow, has attempted to remedy this, but overproduction persists.
(18) Though fallow deer is considered very resistant to infectious diseases and parasites, diseases of different kind occur in enclosed pastures.
(19) These results provide good evidence of the correlation between low birthweight and perinatal mortality in fallow deer on Australian deer farms.
(20) The allele frequencies allow a clear discrimination between the hybrid population and the red deer population, whereas the fallow deer are fixed for the allele which is most common in red deer.