Word Meanings - TRIFALLOW - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Related words: (words related to TRIFALLOW)

• THIRD
  third, G. dritte, Icel. , Goth. , L. tertius, Gr. t. See Three, and 1. Next after the second; coming after two others; -- the ordinal of three; as, the thirdhour in the day. "The third night." Chaucer. 2. Constituting or being one of three equal
• SOWAR
  In India, a mounted soldier.
• SOWINS
  See SOWENS
• SOWDANESSE
  A sultaness. Chaucer.
• THIRDLY
  In the third place. Bacon.
• SOWL
  See I
• BEFORETIME
  Formerly; aforetime. dwelt in their tents, as beforetime. 2 Kings xiii. 5.
• SOWN
  p. p. of Sow.
• BEFOREHAND
  1. In a state of anticipation ore preoccupation; in advance; -- often followed by with. Agricola . . . resolves to be beforehand with the danger. Milton. The last cited author has been beforehand with me. Addison. 2. By way of preparation,
• THIRDINGS
  The third part of the corn or grain growing on the ground at the tenant's death, due to the lord for a heriot, as within the manor of Turfat in Herefordshire.
• THIRD-PENNY
  A third part of the profits of fines and penalties imposed at the country court, which was among the perquisites enjoyed by the earl.
• THIRD RAIL
  The third rail used in the third-rail system. An electric railway using such a rail.
• SOWANS
  See SOWENS
• SOWL; SOWLE
  To pull by the ears; to drag about. hak.
• THIRD-BOROUGH
  An under constable. Shak. Johnson.
• SOWER
  One who, or that which, sows.
• SOWCE
  See SOUSE
• SOWBANE
  The red goosefoot , -- said to be fatal to swine.
• SOWNE
  To sound. Chaucer.
• THIRD-RAIL SYSTEM
  A system in which a third rail is used for carrying the current for operating the motors, the rail being insulated from the ground and the current being taken off by means of contact brushes or other devices.
• THEREBEFORE; THEREBIFORN
  Before that time; beforehand. Many a winter therebiforn. Chaucer.
• RESOWN
  To resound. Chaucer.
• LEASOW
  A pasture.
• DISOWN
  1. To refuse to own or acknowledge as belonging to one's self; to disavow or deny, as connected with one's self personally; as, a parent can hardly disown his child; an author will sometimes disown his writings. 2. To refuse to acknowledge
• CASSOWARY
  A large bird, of the genus Casuarius, found in the east Indies. It is smaller and stouter than the ostrich. Its head is armed with a kind of helmet of horny substance, consisting of plates overlapping each other, and it has a group of long sharp
• DISOWNMENT
  Act of disowning.
• SOW
  To sew. See Sew. Chaucer.