Sallow \Sal"low\ (s[a^]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.
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And bend the pliant sallow to a shield. --Fawkes.
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The sallow knows the basketmaker's thumb. --Emerson.
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2. (Bot.) A name given to certain species of willow,
especially those which do not have flexible shoots, as
Salix caprea, Salix cinerea, etc.
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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.
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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["o]lr
yellow.]
Having a yellowish color; of a pale, sickly color, tinged
with yellow; as, a sallow skin. --Shak.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Sallow \Sal"low\, v. t.
To tinge with sallowness. [Poetic]
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July breathes hot, sallows the crispy fields. --Lowell.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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"
WordNet (r) 2.0
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
grey sallow, sickly
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