falwe

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English

Adjective

falwe (not comparable)

  1. Obsolete form of fallow.

Noun

falwe (plural falwes)

  1. 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 falwing, simple past and past participle falwed)

  1. (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;
  2. (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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)