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Found 5 hits - Term: sallow, Database: *, Strategy: exact
[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
sallow \sal"low\ sa^l"l-o, n. oe. salwe, as. sealh; akin
   to ohg. salaha, g. salweide, icel. selja, l. salix, ir. sail,
   saileach, gael. seileach, w. helyg, gr. "eli`kh.
   1. the willow; willow twigs. poetic --tennyson.
      1913 webster

            and bend the pliant sallow to a shield. --fawkes.
      1913 webster

            the sallow knows the basketmaker's thumb. --emerson.
      1913 webster

   2. bot. a name given to certain species of willow,
      especially those which do not have flexible shoots, as
      salix caprea, salix cinerea, etc.
      1913 webster

   sallow thorn bot., a european thorny shrub hippophae
      rhamnoides much like an elaeagnus. the yellow berries
      are sometimes used for making jelly, and the plant affords
      a yellow dye.
      1913 webster
see also:
salix caprea salix cinerea sallow thorn hippophae rhamnoides 
[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
sallow \sal"low\, a. compar. sallower; superl. sallowest.
   as. salu; akin to d. zaluw, ohg. salo, icel. s"olr
   yellow.
   having a yellowish color; of a pale, sickly color, tinged
   with yellow; as, a sallow skin. --shak.
   1913 webster
see also:
sallower sallowest 
[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
sallow \sal"low\, v. t.
   to tinge with sallowness. poetic
   1913 webster

         july breathes hot, sallows the crispy fields. --lowell.
   1913 webster

[4] : WordNet (r) 2.0
sallow
     adj : unhealthy looking syn: sickly
     n : any of several old world shrubby broad-leaved willows having
         large catkins; some are important sources for tanbark and
         charcoal
     v : cause to become sallow; "the illness has sallowed her face"
see also:
sickly 
[5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
99 moby thesaurus words for "sallow":
   achromatic, achromic, anemic, ashen, ashy, aureate, auric, beige,
   bled white, bloodless, buff, buff-yellow, cadaverous, canary,
   canary-yellow, chloranemic, citron, citron-yellow, colorless,
   cream, creamy, dead, deadly pale, deathly pale, dim, dimmed, dingy,
   discolored, dull, exsanguinated, exsanguine, exsanguineous, faded,
   faint, fallow, flat, flaxen, ghastly, gilded, gilt, gold,
   gold-colored, golden, gray, haggard, hueless, hypochromic,
   icterous, jaundiced, lackluster, leaden, lemon, lemon-yellow,
   livid, lurid, lusterless, luteolous, lutescent, mat, mealy, muddy,
   neutral, ocherish, ocherous, ochery, ochreous, ochroid, ochrous,
   ochry, or, pale, pale as death, pale-faced, pallid, pasty,
   primrose, primrose-colored, primrose-yellow, saffron,
   saffron-colored, saffron-yellow, sand-colored, sandy, sickly,
   straw, straw-colored, tallow-faced, toneless, uncolored, wan,
   washed-out, waxen, weak, whey-faced, white, xanthic, xanthous,
   yellow, yellowish





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