falwe
English
Adjective
falwe (not comparable)
- Obsolete form of fallow.
Noun
falwe (plural falwes)
- Obsolete form of fallow.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Chaucer to this entry?)
Verb
falwe (third-person singular simple present falwes, present participle falweing, simple past and past participle falweed)
- (obsolete) To fade, wither, die, grow fallow.
- c. 1210 MS. Cotton Caligula A IX f.246.
- Tharuore mon thu the bi-thench; / Al schal falewi thi grene;
- c. 1210 MS. Cotton Caligula A IX f.246.
- (obsolete) To turn pale or white (of the face or hair).
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for falwe in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)