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Pale red or pale yellow; as, a fallow deer or greyhound. Shak.

A European species of deer (Cervus dama), much smaller than the red deer. In summer both sexes are spotted with white. It is common in England, where it is often domesticated in the parks.

One who favors the practice of fallowing land. [R.] Sinclair.

A well or opening, through the successive floors of a warehouse or manufactory, through which goods are raised or lowered. [U.S.] Bartlett.

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

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).

telope (Alcelaphus bubalis) of Egypt and the Desert of Sahara, supposed by some to be the fallow deer of the Bible.

The male of deer, especially fallow deer and antelopes, or of goats, sheep, hares, and rabbits.

To become free from clouds or fog; to become fair; -- often fallowed by up, off, or away. So foul a sky clears without a strom. Shak. Advise him to stay till the weather clears up. Swift.

One of several that jointly sign a written instrument, as a treaty. Fallows.

An instrument designed for transmitting pictures by telegraph. Fallows.

A female deer or antelope; specifically, the female of the fallow deer, of which the male is called a buck. Also applied to the female of other animals, as the rabbit. See the Note under Buck.

Fallow. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Rich harvest; plenty; abundance. [Archaic] Lowell. That from the seedness the bare fallow brings To teeming foison. Shak.

A male fallow deer gelded. Pegge (1814).

To work at; to work; to till; to cultivate by toil. The most excellent lands are lying fallow, or only labored by children. W. Tooke.

Land lying untilled; fallow ground. [Obs.] Blount.