Crossword clues for callow
callow
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Old \Old\, a. [Compar. Older; superl. Oldest.] [OE. old, ald, AS. ald, eald; akin to D. oud, OS. ald, OFries. ald, old, G. alt, Goth. alpeis, and also to Goth. alan to grow up, Icel. ala to bear, produce, bring up, L. alere to nourish. Cf. Adult, Alderman, Aliment, Auld, Elder.]
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Not young; advanced far in years or life; having lived till toward the end of the ordinary term of living; as, an old man; an old age; an old horse; an old tree.
Let not old age disgrace my high desire.
--Sir P. Sidney.The melancholy news that we grow old.
--Young. Not new or fresh; not recently made or produced; having existed for a long time; as, old wine; an old friendship. ``An old acquaintance.''
--Camden.Formerly existing; ancient; not modern; preceding; original; as, an old law; an old custom; an old promise. ``The old schools of Greece.''
--Milton. ``The character of the old Ligurians.''
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Continued in life; advanced in the course of existence; having (a certain) length of existence; -- designating the age of a person or thing; as, an infant a few hours old; a cathedral centuries old.
And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How old art thou?
--Cen. xlvii. 8.Note: In this use old regularly follows the noun that designates the age; as, she was eight years old.
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Long practiced; hence, skilled; experienced; cunning; as, an old offender; old in vice.
Vane, young in years, but in sage counsel old.
--Milton. Long cultivated; as, an old farm; old land, as opposed to new land, that is, to land lately cleared.
Worn out; weakened or exhausted by use; past usefulness; as, old shoes; old clothes.
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More than enough; abundant. [Obs.]
If a man were porter of hell gate, he should have old turning the key.
--Shak. Aged; antiquated; hence, wanting in the mental vigor or other qualities belonging to youth; -- used disparagingly as a term of reproach.
Old-fashioned; wonted; customary; as of old; as, the good old times; hence, colloquially, gay; jolly.
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Used colloquially as a term of cordiality and familiarity. ``Go thy ways, old lad.'' --Shak. Old age, advanced years; the latter period of life. Old bachelor. See Bachelor,
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Old Catholics. See under Catholic.
Old English. See under English. n.,
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Old Nick, Old Scratch, the devil. Old lady (Zo["o]l.), a large European noctuid moth ( Mormo maura). Old maid.
A woman, somewhat advanced in years, who has never been married; a spinster.
(Bot.) A West Indian name for the pink-flowered periwinkle ( Vinca rosea).
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A simple game of cards, played by matching them. The person with whom the odd card is left is the old maid. Old man's beard. (Bot.)
The traveler's joy ( Clematis Vitalba). So named from the abundant long feathery awns of its fruit.
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The Tillandsia usneoides. See Tillandsia. Old man's head (Bot.), a columnar cactus ( Pilocereus senilis), native of Mexico, covered towards the top with long white hairs. Old red sandstone (Geol.), a series of red sandstone rocks situated below the rocks of the Carboniferous age and comprising various strata of siliceous sandstones and conglomerates. See Sandstone, and the Chart of Geology. Old school, a school or party belonging to a former time, or preserving the character, manner, or opinions of a former time; as, a gentleman of the old school; -- used also adjectively; as, Old-School Presbyterians. Old sledge, an old and well-known game of cards, called also all fours, and high, low, Jack, and the game. Old squaw (Zo["o]l.), a duck ( Clangula hyemalis) inhabiting the northern parts of both hemispheres. The adult male is varied with black and white and is remarkable for the length of its tail. Called also longtailed duck, south southerly, callow, hareld, and old wife. Old style. (Chron.) See the Note under Style. Old Testament. See Old Testament under Testament, and see tanak. Old wife. [In the senses b and c written also oldwife.]
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A prating old woman; a gossip.
Refuse profane and old wives' fables.
--1 Tim. iv. 7. (Zo["o]l.) The local name of various fishes, as the European black sea bream ( Cantharus lineatus), the American alewife, etc.
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(Zo["o]l.) A duck; the old squaw.
Old World, the Eastern Hemisphere.
Syn: Aged; ancient; pristine; primitive; antique; antiquated; old-fashioned; obsolete. See Ancient.
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English calu "bare, bald," from Proto-Germanic *kalwa- (cognates: Middle Dutch calu, Dutch kaal, Old High German kalo, German Kahl), from PIE root *gal- (1) "bald, naked" (cognates: Russian golyi "smooth, bald"). From young birds with no feathers, meaning extended to any young inexperienced thing or creature (1570s). Apparently not related to Latin calvus "bald."
Wiktionary
a. 1 (context obsolete English) bald. 2 unfledged (of a young bird). 3 immature, lacking in life experience. 4 Lacking color or firmness (of some kinds of insects or other arthropods, such as spiders, just after ecdysis). teneral. 5 shallow or weak-willed. 6 unburnt (of a brick) n. 1 A callow young bird. 2 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.
WordNet
adj. lacking experience of life; "a callow youth of seventeen" [syn: inexperienced, naive, unsophisticated]
Wikipedia
Callow is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Christos Callow (born 1955), Greek singer
- Eleanor Callow (born 1927), former Canadian baseball player
- Henry Callow (died 2006), Manx judge
- June Callow, fictional character in Black Mirror
- Kenneth Callow (1901–1983), British biochemist
- Michael Callow, fictional character in Black Mirror
- Paul Callow, convicted Canadian rapist
- Simon Callow (born 1949), English actor
- William Callow, (1812–1908), British painter
- William G. Callow (born 1921), American judge
Callow is a Dream Doom/Ghost Western duo based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Its members are Red Moses (vocals, guitar) and Sami Knowles (drums, keyboard, vocals). They are known for their lo-fi home recordings and evocative live shows.
Callow may refer to:
Usage examples of "callow".
He was a callow youth with a simple idea of lawbreaking and had suffered no setbacks in the wars of love.
Lady Envy had elected to make a detour through her warren, northwestward a hundred and twenty leagues to the city of Callows, to replenish her supplies.
Leaving this Galo Bastido positionless and mostly likely penniless, for he did not look like a man who would swallow his pride and accept a lesser rank under the auspices of some callow youth.
The rational mind has difficulty in accepting the fact that they were not untutored half-wits, scatterbrained spinsters or callow adolescents, but the solidest of citizens, often with good education and considerable means doctors, lawyers, weavers, carpenters, journalists, chemists and businessmen.
Touching these solemn ancientries, and there, The silent River ranging tide-mark high And the callow, grey-faced Hospital, With the strange glimmer and glamour of a dream!
I was surrounded by the stale smut of clubmen, stories to disturb callow youth, ads for transparencies, truedup dice and bustpads, proprietary articles and why wear a truss with testimonial from ruptured gentleman.
But a Wellearn transformed, bigger, huskier, and infinitely more self-confident than the callow youth who had set forth in spring.
In many cases, the matrons of great clans were accompanied by younger cloneling daughters and nieces, too callow for real power, but the right age for procreation.
I had heard the song before, sung by a maiden in the Ozarks, when I was a callow youth.
His eyes were callow and uncertain as they looked out from between his bandit mask and his police cap.
Bashar, on the other hand, was callow and rash and saw in the intifadah an opportunity to demonstrate to Israel and the other Arab states that he was not someone to be trifled with.
D'Arle's wife was dressed as a veiled woman of Callows, while the girl had selected - outrageously - the minimal garb of a Barghast warmaiden.
Its parodies of Tudor speech lapse sometimes into a callow satisfaction in that idiom--Mark hugely enjoys his nathlesses and beshrews and marrys.
He'd been far too callow and untutored to have had any right to expect to walk away from battlefields at Thouvars or Graziani or Brissel, or those early tourneys at Aulensburg or Landeston in Valensa.
He did feel a little lightheaded, relieved that it was over, that Crowley was dead, never to darken their horizon again, and eager, buoyed with anticipation like some callow youth at the realization that she was his.