(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.
Mallow
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Mallows
Example Sentences:
(1) Now recovering with relatives away from the Levels – which are likely to remain flooded for weeks, possibly even months – Mallows does not know when, or if, she will see her farmhouse again.
(2) Nuvacron residues on 45-day-old mallow were less on mallow than on cotton or beans.
(3) Sevin was higher in 1-h residues on cotton and beans than on mallow.
(4) The 1-hour residue was higher on younger bean leaves than on mallow and cotton with very few exceptions (nuvacron, malathion and sevin: 2.125, 11.75 and 95 ppm on cotton leaves; 2.25 and 145 ppm on Jew's mallow and 3.750, 32.500 and 250 ppm on common bean leaves, respectively).
(5) The Environment Agency expressed sympathy for Mallows and said it had tried to help her – but had so far decided against building banks around her property because of the cost, around £70,000.
(6) 1-h deposits of malathion were higher on mallow than on cotton or beans (nuvacron, malathion and sevin; 2.3, 200 and 140 ppm on cotton leaves, 1.90, 191.15 and 92.86 ppm on mallow leaves, 2.25, 21.5 and 137.5 ppm on common bean leaves, respectively).
(7) The empty dirt path stretched towards it, through wild mallow flowers and nodding daisies.
(8) The def in Mallow was found to be 5.15 and the Met Need Index 14%.
(9) Mallow did not retain insecticides as long as did cotton and beans.
(10) For Mallows the future is as murky as the floodwater that still lies a metre-deep in her farmhouse.
(11) Mallows is angry at the Environment Agency, believing it deliberately floods the moor – and thus her house – to protect others and argues it ought to buy her out if it will not or cannot keep her home dry.
(12) The water on the road to Mallows's home was so deep that firefighters had to leave their engine a mile away and haul a boat through the water to the front door.
(13) 295 5-year-old children were examined in Mallow, a non-fluoridated town in North Cork to ascertain the dental status of children commencing first level education.
(14) They decided the best way to get Mallows out would be to carry her out down the stairs and through the flooded ground floor.
(15) Residues as determined by bioassay using Daphnia or mosquito larvae were in agreement with each other in most cases except sevin residues at 1 h and 8 days after treatment of mallow.
(16) Mallows moved with her late husband David to the Somerset Levels in the early 70s and they raised their family there.
(17) Dysphagia for solids of some degree was seen postoperatively in 26 patients and this was also demonstrated by delay in transit of a marsh-mallow swallow test.
(18) The complex extract and the polysaccharide isolated from the roots of marsh mallow were tested for antitussive activity in unanaesthetized cats of both sexes.
(19) Back in spring after the second wettest April on record in Somerset, Mallows's home was flooded and she had to move out to rented accommodation in Glastonbury.
(20) A week after she was hoisted on to the shoulders of six firefighters and carried "like a coffin" through the floodwater from her remote Somerset farmhouse, 90-year-old Diana Mallows is still struggling to find the right words to sum up her feelings.