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Of the nature of tallow; resembling tallow; greasy.

See Thryfallow, and Trifallow. [R.] Tusser.

To plow for the third time in summer; to trifallow. [R.] [Written also thrifallow.] Tusser.

To plow the third time before sowing, as land. Mortimer.

To plow, or fallow, a second time (land that has been once fallowed).

To profane; to desecrate. The vanity unhallows the virtue. L'Estrange.

Not consecrated; hence, profane; unholy; impious; wicked. In the cause of truth, no unhallowed violence . . . is either necessary or admissible. E. D. Griffin.

o tumble and roll about; to move lazily or heavily in any medium; to flounder; as, swine wallow in the mire. I may wallow in the lily beds. Shak.

One who, or that which, wallows.

Flat; insipid. [Obs.] Overbury.

; that which is taken away by way of reduction; deduction; decrease; a rebate or discount allowed.

, whose musky seeds are used in perfumery and to flavor coffee; -- sometimes called musk mallow.

To bear patiently; to tolerate; to put up with. She could not abide Master Shallow. Shak.

To swallow up; to engulf; to overwhelm; to cause to disappear as if by swallowing up; to use up; to include. "Dark oblivion soon absorbs them all." Cowper. The large cities absorb the wealth and fashion. W. Irving.

Capable of being absorbed or swallowed up. Kerr.

Absorbing; swallowing; absorptive. Absorbent ground (Paint.), a ground prepared for a picture, chiefly with distemper, or water colors, by which the oil is absorbed, and a brilliancy is imparted to the colors.

Swallowing, engrossing; as, an absorbing pursuit. -- Ab*sorb"ing, adv.

ecies, found in the torrid and temperate zones of both continents; -- called also Indian mallow.

ng. Univ.), the taking of several together, or at smaller intervals than usual or than is allowed by the rules.

Shaped like a shallow; saucer-shaped; as, an acetabuliform calyx. Gray.