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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