Sallow, 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.].

The willow; willow twigs. Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
"And bend the pliant sallow to a shield." [1913 Webster]

"The sallow knows the basketmaker's thumb." [1913 Webster]
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 Elæagnus. The yellow berries are sometimes used for making jelly, and the plant affords a yellow dye.

Sallow, a. [AS. salu; akin to D. zaluw, OHG. salo, Icel. sölr yellow.].

Having a yellowish color; of a pale, sickly color, tinged with yellow; as, a sallow skin. Shak. [1913 Webster]

Sallow, v. t.

To tinge with sallowness. [1913 Webster]

"July breathes hot, sallows the crispy fields." [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

Sallow, adj. & v.
--adj. (sallower, sallowest) (of the skin or complexion, or of a person) of a sickly yellow or pale brown.
--v.tr. & intr. make or become sallow.

Derivative

sallowish adj. sallowness n.

Sallow, n.
1 a willow-tree, esp. one of a low-growing or shrubby kind.
2 the wood or a shoot of this.

Derivative

sallowy adj.

Etymology

OE salh salg- f. Gmc, rel. to OHG salaha, ON selja, L salix

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THESAURUS

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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ROGET THESAURUS

Sallow

Achromatism

N achromatism, decoloration, discoloration, pallor, pallidness, pallidity, paleness, etiolation, neutral tint, monochrome, black and white, uncolored &c (color), colorless, achromatic, aplanatic, etiolate, etiolated, hueless, pale, pallid, palefaced, tallow-faced, faint, dull, cold, muddy, leaden, dun, wan, sallow, dead, dingy, ashy, ashen, ghastly, cadaverous, glassy, lackluster, discolored, light-colored, fair, blond, white, pale as death, pale as ashes, pale as a witch, pale as a ghost, pale as a corpse, white as a corpse.

Yellowness

N yellowness, yellow, or, gamboge, cadmium-yellow, chrome-yellow, Indian-yellow king's-yellow, lemonyellow, orpiment, yellow ocher, Claude tint, aureolin, xanthein, xanthin, zaofulvin, crocus, saffron, topaz, xanthite, yolk, jaundice, London fog, yellowness, icterus, xantho- cyanopia, xanthopsia, yellow, aureate, golden, flavous, citrine, fallow, fulvous, fulvid, sallow, luteous, tawny, creamy, sandy, xanthic, xanthous, jaundiced, auricomous, gold-colored, citron-colored, saffron-colored, lemon-colored, lemon yellow, sulphur-colored, amber-colored, straw-colored, primrose- colored, creamcolored, xanthocarpous, xanthochroid, xanthopous, yellow as a quince, yellow as a guinea, yellow as a crow's foot, warm, advancing.

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