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Sallow
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Part of speech: noun (n.)
1. The willow; willow twigs. [Poetic] Tennyson. And bend the pliant sallow to a shield. Fawkes. The sallow knows the basketmaker's thumb. Emerson.
2. A name given to certain species of willow, especially those which do not have flexible shoots, as Salix caprea, S. cinerea, etc. 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.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 3
Part of speech: verb (v.)
To tinge with sallowness. [Poetic] July breathes hot, sallows the crispy fields. Lowell.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 3 of 3
Part of speech: adjective (a.)
Having a yellowish color; of a pale, sickly color, tinged with yellow; as, a sallow skin. Shak.