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[Eng. sallow, a.; -ish.] Rather sallow; somewhat sallow in color. săl-low-ne , subst . [Eng. sallow ; -ne .) The quality or state of being sallow; palene tinged with a dark yellow color. săl-lỹ, s . [Fr. saillie , prop. fem. of sailli , pa. par. of saillir =to go out, to sally (q. v.); Sp.salida; Port. sahida ; Ital. salita .] I. Ordinary Language : *1. A leaping forth; a darting, a spring, a bound. "I make a sudden sally And sparkle out among the fern." Tennyson: The Brook, 24. 2. A rushing or bursting forth; a breaking out; a sudden eruption; specifically, a sudden breaking or rushing out of troops from a besieged place to attack the besiegers. 3. An excursion, a trip, a run. "Every one shall know a country better, that makes often sallies into it, and traverses it up and down."Locke. 4. A spring or darting of intellect, fancy, or imagi. nation; a flight of fancy, liveline , wit, or the like. 5. An act of levity or extravagance; a frolic, an escapade; wild gayety. "We find people very brisk and active in seasons of joy, breaking out continually into wanton and extravagant sallies ."-Search: Light of Nature, vol. i., pt. ii., xxi. IMG:content-0911.png:[blocks in formation] "As to the hunted hart, the sallying spring." Thomson: Summer, 474. Săl-lỹ Lunn, subst . [See def.] A tea-cake; so called from Sally Lunn, the pastry-cook of Bath, England, who used to cry them about in a basket at the close of the eighteenth century. Dalmer, the baker, bought her receipt, and made a song about the buns. "Tell cook to butter the Sally Lunns on both sides." Field : Oct. 27, 1883.