Sallow
['sæləʊ] or ['sælo]
Definition
(noun.) any of several Old World shrubby broad-leaved willows having large catkins; some are important sources for tanbark and charcoal.
(verb.) cause to become sallow; 'The illness has sallowed her face'.
(adj.) unhealthy looking .
Inputed by Bess--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The willow; willow twigs.
(n.) A name given to certain species of willow, especially those which do not have flexible shoots, as Salix caprea, S. cinerea, etc.
(superl.) Having a yellowish color; of a pale, sickly color, tinged with yellow; as, a sallow skin.
(v. t.) To tinge with sallowness.
Editor: Moore
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Yellow (as from illness), yellowish; of a pale, sickly color.
Checker: Wyatt
Definition
adj. of a pale yellowish colour.—v.t. to tinge with a sallow colour.—adj. Sall′owish somewhat sallow.—ns. Sall′ow-kitt′en a kind of puss-moth; Sall′ow-moth a British moth of a pale-yellow colour; Sall′owness.—adj. Sall′owy.
n. a tree or low shrub of the willow kind—(Scot.) Sauch.—adj. Sall′owy abounding in sallows.
Editor: Xenia
Examples
- Riviere's sallow skin. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- She put her hand on the arm of her care-worn, sallow father, and frothing her light draperies, proceeded over the eternal red carpet. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Her complexion was sallow and unhealthy, her cheeks thin, her features sharp, and her whole form emaciated. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Two young ladies appeared before me; one very tall, almost as tall as Miss Ingram--very thin too, with a sallow face and severe mien. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- As I entered, a sallow Malay attendant had hurried up with a pipe for me and a supply of the drug, beckoning me to an empty berth. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Paul, for light enough still lingered to show the velvet blackness of his close-shorn head, and the sallow ivory of his brow) looked in. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- However, she is married; I saw her wedding-ring on that wonderful left hand, otherwise I should have thought the sallow Geistlicher was her father. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
Editor: Rufus