Gallow vs Callow - What's the difference?
gallow | callow |
(obsolete) to frighten
* 1605': The wrathful skies / '''Gallow the very wanderers of the dark / And make them keep their caves. — William Shakespeare, ''King Lear III.ii
(obsolete) Bald.
Unfledged (of a young bird).
* Dryden
Immature, lacking in life experience.
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)
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.
In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between gallow and callow
is that gallow is (obsolete) to frighten while callow is (obsolete) bald.As a verb gallow
is (obsolete) to frighten.As an adjective callow is
(obsolete) bald.As a noun callow is
a callow young bird.gallow
English
Verb
(en verb)See also
* gallowscallow
English
Adjective
(en-adj)- And in the leafy summit spy'd a nest, / Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed.
- Those three young men are particularly callow youths.