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Callow vs Hallow - What's the difference?

callow | hallow |

As adjectives the difference between callow and hallow

is that callow is (obsolete) bald while hallow is .

As nouns the difference between callow and hallow

is that callow is a callow young bird while hallow is (archaic|or|dialectal) a saint; a holy person; an apostle or hallow can be a shout, cry; a hulloo.

As a verb hallow is

to make holy, to sanctify or hallow can be to shout, especially to urge on dogs for hunting.

callow

English

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • (obsolete) Bald.
  • Unfledged (of a young bird).
  • * Dryden
  • And in the leafy summit spy'd a nest, / Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed.
  • Immature, lacking in life experience.
  • Those three young men are particularly callow youths.
  • Lacking color or firmness (of some kinds of insects or other arthropods, such as spiders, just after ecdysis). Teneral.
  • Shallow or weak-willed.
  • Unburnt (of a brick)
  • Noun

  • A callow young bird.
  • A callow or teneral phase of an insect or other arthropod, typically shortly after ecdysis, while the skin still is hardening, the colours have not yet become stable, and as a rule, before the animal is able to move effectively.
  • Anagrams

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    hallow

    English

    Etymology 1

    (wikipedia hallow) From (etyl) . More at (l), (l).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic, or, dialectal) A saint; a holy person; an apostle.
  • All Hallows''' Eve'' (or Halloween), the night before ''All '''Hallows Day (now more commonly known as "All Saints Day").
    Derived terms
    * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l), (l) * (l) * (l), (l) * (l)

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) . More at (l).

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make holy, to sanctify.
  • *
  • Etymology 3

    From (etyl) halowen, from , probably conflated with (etyl) halloer.

    Alternative forms

    * (l), (l), (l) (obsolete) * (l), (l)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To shout, especially to urge on dogs for hunting.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A shout, cry; a hulloo.
  • * 1777 , Robin Hood's Chase , reprinted in
  • Then away they went from merry Sherwood / And into Yorkshire he did hie / And the King did follow, with a hoop and a hallow / But could not come him nigh.
  • *
  • I told them, the sherriff could not be admitted on board this time of night, on which they set up a hallow and rowed as fast as they could towards the vessel's bows.

    Etymology 4

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
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