sallow

sallow
    adj 1: unhealthy looking [syn: {sallow}, {sickly}]
    n 1: any of several Old World shrubby broad-leaved willows
         having large catkins; some are important sources for
         tanbark and charcoal
    v 1: cause to become sallow; "The illness has sallowed her face"
    

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.
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            And bend the pliant sallow to a shield. --Fawkes.
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            The sallow knows the basketmaker's thumb. --Emerson.
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   2. (Bot.) A name given to certain species of willow,
      especially those which do not have flexible shoots, as
      {Salix caprea}, {Salix cinerea}, etc.
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   {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.
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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.
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Sallow \Sal"low\, v. t.
   To tinge with sallowness. [Poetic]
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         July breathes hot, sallows the crispy fields. --Lowell.
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99 Moby Thesaurus words for "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