Fallopius, Gabriel

a celebrated Italian anatomist, profe or at Pisa and Modena, B. 1523. He was the first to give exact descriptions of the organ of hearing, of the organization of the fœtus, and of the tubes of the uterus, since called by his name. D. 1562. Fallow, a . [A. S. fealo , falu , fealewe ; Ger. falb ; It. falbo ; Fr. fauve , from Lat. fulvus , deep or reddish yellow, tawny.] Pale red or pale yellow; yellowish.. Ploughed, but not sowed; unsowed; left to rest after a year or more of tillage; left unsowed after ploughing; uncultivated. "Shall the cause of saints lie fallow ?"-Hudibras. n. ( Agric .) Lands are said to be under fallow when under cultivation, whether with or without a crop. A naked fallow is one in which the soil remains a whole year without any crop whatever; and a turnip or green crop fullow is one in which the lands, after being without a crop from harvest till the beginning of the following suminer, and being properly labored during that period, are sown with turnips or other similar crops in rows, and the ground cultivated in the intervals. Fallowing was practised by the Romans on all soils, and has been continued through the dark ages, in all the cultivated parts of Europe, so as to have become, till lately, a general habit in the treatment of arable lands. The practice of taking two corn crops, and then allowing the land to rest or lie fallow, was till the commencement Fallow field, in Pennsylvania, a township of Wash-| ington co.