callow

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Of a person: having no hair; bald, bare, hairless.
(quote-book)|page=25|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=ukQQB5XCYWAC&pg=PA25|oclc=306702|passage=Then there was a little Chinese in full azure costume, with long gesticulating arms, and large callow head, who pertinaciously threw in his squeaky plea for (w) in the most unsyntactical French.
(quote-journal)|volume=III (8th Series; volume CCXC overall)|issue=3756|page=24|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/sim_living-age_1916-07-01_290_3756/page/24/mode/1up|column=2|oclc=145394525|passage=There was a sense abroad as he spoke that the world was rocking together to great music, and this callow-headed professor by the table had caught a note of it.
(quote-journal)|volume=|issue=|page=225|column=1|oclc=793924257|passage=This time it held a callow-headed baby in a pink frock.
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Of a brick: unburnt.
Of a young bird, or (part of) its body: having not developed feathers yet; featherless, unfledged; hence, of other animals or their bodies: having no fur or hair; furless, hairless, unfurred.
(RQ:Ovid Golding Metamorphosis) ''Calais'' and ''Zetes'' had no beard upon their chin, / They both were callow. But aſſone as haire did once begin / In likeneſſe of a yellow Downe upon their cheekes to ſprout, / Then (euen as comes to paſſe in Birdes) the feathers budded out / Togither on their pinyons too, and ſpreaded round about / On both their ſides.|footer=Describing the (w), the twin sons of (w), the Greek god of the north wind. In some stories, Calaïs and Zetes have wings and are able to fly.
(RQ:Plutarch Holland Morals) be ſomevvhat ſlovv of apprehenſion and idle vvithall, are verie troubleſome unto their teachers, and importune them overmuch: (..) reſembling herein young callovv birds vvhich are not yet fethered and fledg'd, but alvvaies gaping tovvard the bill of the damme, and ſo by their good vvils vvould have nothing given them, but that vvhich hath beene chevved and prepared already.
(RQ:Dryden Metamorphoses)
(RQ:Thomson Spring)
(RQ:Southey Thalaba) young in the refreshing bath / Sported all wantonness; / Dipt down their callow heads, / Filled the swoln membrane from their plumeless throat / Pendant, (..)
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(quote-book)|location=London|publisher=L. Upcott Gill,(nb...)|pages=104–105|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=uUEDAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA104|oclc=12167642|passage=When first born it (quote-gloss) is indeed more feeble and incapable of voluntary action of any kind than a callow bird, blind and hairless, covered with a delicate pink skin, through which many of the blood vessels can be distinctly seen, about an inch in length, and no more like the future kangaroo than a mouse—a transparent little gelatinous creature so fragile that it cannot be handled however carefully without danger to its life.
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(quote-book)|year_published=1889|page=5|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/cu31924024784328/page/5/mode/1up|oclc=28552259|passage=Its (quote-gloss) congener of the land (''A''(quote-gloss) ''agrestis'') breeds in myriads over the adjoining meadows, hollowing out its nest just enough under the sward for its hairless callow young to be clear of the dangerous scythe-blade.
Lacking life experience; immature, inexperienced, naive; also, of or relating to something immature or inexperienced.

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(quote-song) (as El Gallo)|title=Try to Remember|album=(w): The Original Cast Album of the Award-winning International Musical|location=New York, N.Y.|publisher=MGM Records|oclc=1099317813|passage=Try to remember the kind of September / When you were a tender and callow fellow / Try to remember and if you remember / Then follow
(quote-av)|season=1|number=3|oclc=244305745|passage=Bernard, there are only 630 MPs, if one party has just over 300 MPs it forms a government—of that 300, 100 are too old and too silly, 100 are too young and too callow, which leaves just about a hundred MPs to fill 100 government posts.
(RQ:Guardian) Lanier isn't that interested in culprits, though he finds all of Silicon Valley pretty callow).
(RQ:Guardian) had frozen. Alexander-Arnold|(quote-gloss) Alexander-Arnold saw it, caught (w)'s eyes and pinged the perfect cross for a double-take of a winning goal. This was a 20-year-old local lad, product of down the road, out-thinking Barcelona, making them look like callow, pigeon-chested schoolboys.
In the cycle of an animal: newly born or hatched; juvenile.

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Of land: having no vegetation; bare.
(quote-book) Theatre|Sheldonian Theater(nb...)|section=paragraph 66|page=243|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/naturalhistoryo00plot/page/243/mode/1up|oclc=8547422|passage=Theſe ''Lands'' are not ''ſvvardy'' enough to bear clean ''tillage'', nor ''callovv'' or light enough to lie to get ''ſvvard'', (..)
(synonym of) and so lacks colour or firmness.
An alluvial flat.
The upper layer of rubble in a quarry which has to be removed to reach the material to be mined.
A young bird which has not developed feathers yet; a nestling.
A person lacking life experience; an immature or naive person.
Of land: low-lying and near a river, and thus regularly submerged.
(quote-book)|location=Dublin|publisher=(...) and Campbell?|year_published=1 April 1811|page=192|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/op1242912-1001/page/n225/mode/1up|oclc=45359865|passage=The Bogs that extend along the western part of this District do not lie close to the Shannon, as those on the east side do along the banks of the Inny; they are separated from the river by a long tract of high, dry, callow land, subject, immediately near the river, to being overflowed in winter, but affording meadow, pasture, and in some places good arable land.
(senseid) A low-lying meadow near a river which is regularly submerged.

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(quote-book); London: and Blackett|Hurst & Blackett,(nb...); Edinburgh; London: (publishing house)|William Blackwood & Sons|page=6|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=iGENAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA6|oclc=559878594|passage=The crops of hay carried off by the floods, or rendered utterly valueless, were not the only losses sustained by the landholders. The extensive callows upon which they grazed their cattle during the autumn and early winter, were unavailable this season.