sallow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsæl.oʊ/
ipa: /ˈsæl.əʉ/
rhymes: -æləʊ
Forms: form: sallows
form: salley
Etymology: From Middle English salow, salwe, from Old English sealh, from Proto-West Germanic *salh, from Proto-Germanic *salhaz, masculine variant of *salhō, *salhijǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *sh₂lk-, *sh₂lik-.
See also Low German Sal, Saal; Swedish sälg; also Welsh helyg, Latin salix (and also a doublet of the thence derived English borrowing salix) probably originally a borrowing from some other language.
Senses: examples: text: c. 1553, Humphrey Llwyd (translator), The Treasury of Healthe, London: William Coplande, Remedies, Chapter 44,
I[f] a man eate the flowers of a sallow or wyllowe tree, or of a Poplet tree, they wyl make cold al the heate of carnall lust in hym.
text: And fast beside a little brooke did pas
Of muddie water, that like puddle stanke,
By which few crooked sallowes grew in ranke:
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 75:
text: […] it came into my Mind, That the Twigs of that Tree from whence I cut my Stakes that grew, might possibly be as tough as the Sallows, and Willows, and Osiers in England […]
ref: 1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], →OCLC, pages 125-126:
text: Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn / Among the river sallows, borne aloft / Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies; [...]
ref: 1819 September 19, John Keats, “To Autumn”, in Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], published 1820, →OCLC, stanza 3, page 139:
text: Now, everything irritated him: the two sallows, one all gold and perfume and murmur, one silver-green and bristly, reminded him, that here he had taught her about pollination.
ref: 1914, D. H. Lawrence, “The Shades of Spring”, in The Prussian Officer and Other Stories, London: Duckworth, page 158:
glosses: A European willow, Salix caprea, that has broad leaves, large catkins and tough wood.
examples: text: Who-so that buildeth his hous al of salwes,
And priketh his blinde hors over the falwes,
And suffreth his wyf to go seken halwes,
Is worthy to been hanged on the galwes!
ref: 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “(please specify the story)”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC, lines 655-658:
text: 1564, William Bullein, A Dialogue Bothe Pleasaunte and Pietifull Wherein Is a Goodly Regimente against the Feuer Pestilence with a Consolacion and Comfort against Death, London: John Kingston, [p. 22b],
[…] set Sallowes about the bedde, besprinkled with vineger and rose water.
text: 1767, Francis Fawkes (translator), The Idylliums of Theocritus, London, for the author, Idyllium 16, p. 156,
For lo! their spears the Syracusians wield,
And bend the pliant sallow to a shield:
text: He stuck a number of sallows in a circle, at equal distances, in the grass; the circle was the size which he wished the basket to be. He then began to weave other sallows between these, in a manner which Frank easily learned to imitate […]
ref: 1822, Maria Edgeworth, Frank: A Sequel to Frank in Early Lessons, volume I, Cambridge, page 111:
text: The sallow knows the basketmaker’s thumb;
The oar, the guide’s.
ref: 1867, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The Adirondacs”, in May-Day, and Other Pieces, Boston: Ticknor & Fields, page 49:
glosses: A willow twig or branch.
Synonyms: sense: Salix caprea
word: goat willow
Derived terms: taxonomic: Salix cinerea
word: grey sallow
word: sallow flute
word: sally