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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: sallow
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
sallow
v : cause to become sallow;
“The illness has sallowed her face”
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Sallow
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,
S. cinerea, etc.
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Sallow thorn (Bot.), a European thorny shrub (
Hippophae rhamnoides
) much like an El[ae]agnus. The yellow berries
are sometimes used for making jelly, and the plant affords
a yellow dye.
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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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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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