Summer-fallow

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• Fallow

  ·noun Plowed land. II. Fallow ·adj Pale red or pale yellow; as, a fallow deer or greyhound. III. F...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Summer

  ·v One who sums; one who casts up an <<Account>>. II. Summer ·vi To pass the summer; to spend the w...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Fallow deer

  ·- A European species of deer (Cervus dama), much smaller than the red deer. In summer both sexes ar...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Fallow-deer

  Deut. 14:5 (R.V., "Wild goat"); 1 Kings 4:23 (R.V., "roebucks"). This animal, called in Hebrew yahmu...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• Fallow-ground

  The expression, "Break up your fallow ground" (Hos. 10:12; Jer. 4:3) means, "Do not sow your seed am...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• Fallow Deer

  (called fallow from its reddish-brown color) (Heb. yachmur). The Hebrew word, which is mentioned onl...

  William Smith's Bible Dictionary

• summer-bird

  n. the Old Colonists' name for the Wood-swallows. See Swallow. In Tasmania it isapplied to a specie...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• summer country

  n. In New Zealand (South Island), country which can be used in summer only; mountainland in Otago a...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• indian summer

  A period of warm weather late in autumn, when it is said, the Indians go hunting to supply themselve...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• summer-goos

  the Gossamer. North. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• summer-blink

  A transient gleam of sunshine in bad weather. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• summer couts

  A northern name for the aurora borealis. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• summer solstice

  See cancer. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book