callow
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Is callow a Scrabble word?
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (masonry) Of a brick: unburnt.
2. (zoology)Examples: "[…] Calais and Zetes had no beard upon their chin, / They both were callow. But aſſone as haire did once begin / In likeneſſe of a yellow Downe upon their cheekes to ſprout, / Then (euen as comes to paſſe in Birdes) the feathers budded out / Togither on their pinyons too, and ſpreaded round about / On both their ſides."; "[T]hey [who] be ſomevvhat ſlovv of apprehenſion and idle vvithall, are verie troubleſome unto their teachers, and importune them overmuch: […] reſembling herein young callovv birds vvhich are not yet fethered and fledg'd, but alvvaies gaping tovvard the bill of the damme, and ſo by their good vvils vvould have nothing given them, but that vvhich hath beene chevved and prepared already."; "A Snake of Size immenſe aſcends a Tree, / And in the leafie Summit, ſpy'd a Neſt, / VVhich o'er her Callovv Young, a Sparrovv preſs'd."
3. (zoology)Examples: "Those three young men are particularly callow youths."; "Try to remember the kind of September / When you were a tender and callow fellow / Try to remember and if you remember / Then follow"; "Bernard, there are only 630 MPs, if one party has just over 300 MPs it forms a government—of that 300, 100 are too old and too silly, 100 are too young and too callow, which leaves just about a hundred MPs to fill 100 government posts."Synonyms: green, wet behind the ears, artless, callow, childlike, clueless, credulous, dewy-eyedAntonyms: experienced, childishfiguratively
4. (zoology)Examples: "a callow bee"broadly
5. (zoology)Synonyms: teneralbroadly
6. (obsolete) Of land: having no vegetation; bare.Examples: "[T]heſe Lands are not ſvvardy enough to bear clean tillage, nor callovv or light enough to lie to get ſvvard, […]"obsolete
noun (English)
1. (entomology) Synonym of teneral (“an insect or other arthropod such as a spider which has just undergone ecdysis (“shedding of the exoskeleton”) and so lacks colour or firmness”).Synonyms: teneralcountableuncountable
2. (geology) An alluvial flat.countableuncountable
3. (UK, regional, mining, archaic) The upper layer of rubble in a quarry which has to be removed to reach the material to be mined.UKarchaiccountableregionaluncountable
4. (obsolete)countableobsoleteuncountable
5. (obsolete)countablefigurativelyobsoleteuncountable
6. (obsolete)Synonyms: topsoilEast-Angliacountableobsoleteuncountable
adj (English)
1. (Ireland) Of land: low-lying and near a river, and thus regularly submerged.Examples: "The Bogs that extend along the western part of this District do not lie close to the Shannon, as those on the east side do along the banks of the Inny; they are separated from the river by a long tract of high, dry, callow land, subject, immediately near the river, to being overflowed in winter, but affording meadow, pasture, and in some places good arable land."Ireland
noun (English)
1. (Ireland) A low-lying meadow near a river which is regularly submerged.Examples: "Near-synonyms: bog, fen, marsh, swamp, mire, moor, slough"; "The crops of hay carried off by the floods, or rendered utterly valueless, were not the only losses sustained by the landholders. The extensive callows upon which they grazed their cattle during the autumn and early winter, were unavailable this season."Synonyms: flood meadow, water meadowIreland
Definition source: Wiktionary