Found 2 items, similar to Sallow.
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. [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, S. cinerea, etc. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] Sallow \Sal"low\, v. t. To tinge with sallowness. [Poetic] [1913 Webster] July breathes hot, sallows the crispy fields. --Lowell. [1913 Webster]