Obs. Forms: 1 fealuwian, fealewian, fealwian, 3–4 falewe(n, 3 falewi, falwy, falowen, (south. dial. 3 valewen, valuwen, 4 valouwe), 4–5 falwe, 4–6 falow. [OE. fealuwian, fealewian, fealwian, f. fealo, fealu FALLOW a.1 Cf. OHG. falewên.] a. To become pale or yellow; hence, to fade, wither. b. Of the face, etc.: To blanch, grow pale.

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  a.  a. 1000.  Salomon & Sat., 313 (Gr.).

        Lytle hwile
leaf beoð grene,
ðonne hy eft fealewiað.

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c. 1205.  Lay., 16414. Faȝeden þa feldes & þat gras falewede.

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a. 1310.  in Wright’s, Lyric P., xxix. 89.

        Thah thou be whyt ant bryth on ble,
  falewen shule thy floures.

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a. 1400.  Legends of the Holy Rood (1871), 132.

        Mi fruit þat is so holi halwed,
In a feeld is fouled and falwed.

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1584.  T. Bastard, Chrestoleros, II. xiv. (1598), 35.

        Here lies a bounch of haire deepe falowed,
Of fayre long hayre, trilling a downe the brest,
With goodly flakes and peakes; now all is dead,
The shaking, and the count’nance, and the crest.

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  fig.  a. 1225.  Ancr. R., 132. Þe blisse of heouene, þet neuer ne valeweð, auh is euer grene.

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a. 1310.  in Wright, Lyric P., xv. 50.

        Careful mon, y-cast in care,
Y falewe as flour y-let forth-fare.

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c. 1375.  Sc. Leg. Saints, Johannes, 175.

        Bot florysand a quhile ȝe be,
þat ȝe ma eftirwart falow.

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  b.  c. 1205.  Lay., 30987. Faleweden nebbes.

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a. 1300.  E. E. Poems (1862), 20. His [Christ’s] fair lere falowiþ.

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1340.  Ayenb., 81. Þis uayrhede … fayleþ and ualouweþ ase þet flour of þe uelde.

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a. 1400.  Death & its Precursors, 15, in Rel. Ant., I. 65. His hew shal falewen.

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c. 1440.  Sir Gowther, 62. Al falwyd hire faire chere.

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