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Having a moderate depth of hold; -- said of a vessel.

Weak in intellect; foolish; empty-headed. South.

Incapable of deep feeling. Tennyson.

Shallow-brained.

Having a flush deck, or with only a moderate depression amidships; -- said of a vessel.

In a shallow manner.

Quality or state of being shallow.

low and work in summer, in order to prepare for wheat or other crop; to plow and let lie fallow.

Any one of numerous species of swifts which resemble the true swallows in form and habits, as the common American chimney swallow, or swift.

Having a tail like that of a swallow; hence, like a swallow's tail in form; having narrow and tapering or pointed skirts; as, a swallow- tailed coat.

One who swallows; also, a glutton. Tatler.

The European sapphirine gurnard (Trigla hirundo). It has large pectoral fins.

A swallow-tailed coat. This Stultz coat, a blue swallowtail, with yellow buttons. Thackeray.

officinale) of the Milkweed family, at one time used in medicine; -- also called white swallowwort. African swallowwort, a plant of the genus Stapelia.

plants, or from other sources, resembling the fat of animals of the sheep and ox kinds. Tallow candle, a candle made of tallow. -- Tallow catch, a keech. See Keech. [Obs.] -- Tallow chandler, one whose occupation is to make, or to sell, tallow candles. -- Tallow chandlery, the trade of a tallow chandler; also, the p…

One who has a sickly, pale complexion. Shak.

Having a sickly complexion; pale. Burton.

An animal which produces tallow.

The act, or art, of causing animals to produce tallow; also, the property in animals of producing tallow.

Having the qualities of tallow.