sallow

Noun · Verb · Adjective
Synonyms: sickly

WordNet 3.0

Noun (1)

  1. any of several Old World shrubby broad-leaved willows having large catkins; some are important sources for tanbark and charcoal

Verb (1)

  1. cause to become sallow“The illness has sallowed her face”

Adjective (1)

  1. unhealthy lookingSynonyms: sickly
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

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]

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, Salix cinerea, etc. [1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]

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