*sall*

n. (Mining.) The lighter, earthy parts of ore, carried off washing. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To alienate from allegiance. [ Obs. & R. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Disallowed p. pr. & vb. n. Disallowing. ] [ Pref. dis- + allow: cf. OF. desalouer, desloer, to blame, dissuade. ] To refuse to allow; to deny the force or validity of; to disown and reject; as, the judge disallowed the executor's charge. [ 1913 Webster ]

To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God. 1 Pet. ii. 4. [ 1913 Webster ]

That the edicts of Cæsar we may at all times disallow, but the statutes of God for no reason we may reject. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ This verb was sometimes followed by of; as, “What follows, if we disallow of this?” Shak. See Allow.

Syn. -- To disapprove; prohibit; censure; reject. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not allowable; not to be suffered. Raleigh. -- Dis`al*low"a*ble*ness, n. [1913 Webster]

n. The act of disallowing; refusal to admit or permit; rejection.

Syn. -- Disapprobation; prohibition; condemnation; censure; rejection. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Pref. dis- + ally: cf. F. désaltier. ] To part, as an alliance; to sunder. [ R. ] “Disallied their nuptials.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. (Anat.) On, or toward, the dorsum, or back; on the dorsal side of; dorsad. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. ] A marriage with a person of inferior social position; a misalliance. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Same as Mesially. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A erroneous statement or allegation. Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To state erroneously. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. mésalliance. ] A marriage with a person of inferior rank or social station; an improper alliance; a mesalliance. [ 1913 Webster ]

A Leigh had made a misalliance, and blushed
A Howard should know it. Mrs. Browning. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Wrongly allied or associated. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A wrong allotment. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a nasal manner; by the nose. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. [ F. solandres, solandre. ] (Far.) An eruption on the hind leg of a horse. [ Written also sellanders, and sellenders. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

On the inside of the hock, or a little below it, as well as at the bend of the knee, there is occasionally a scurfy eruption called “mallenders” in the fore leg, and “sallenders” in the hind leg. Youatt. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. salade, Sp. celada, or It. celata, fr. L. (cassis) caelata, fr. caelare, caelatum, to engrave in relief. So called from the figures engraved upon it. ] A light kind of helmet, with or without a visor, introduced during the 15th century. [ Written also salade. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Then he must have a sallet wherewith his head may be saved. Latimer. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. Salad. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Salience. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

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]

a. [ Compar. Sallower superl. Sallowest. ] [ AS. salu; akin to D. zaluw, OHG. salo, Icel. sölr yellow. ] Having a yellowish color; of a pale, sickly color, tinged with yellow; as, a sallow skin. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To tinge with sallowness. [ Poetic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

July breathes hot, sallows the crispy fields. Lowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Somewhat sallow. Dickens. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or condition of being sallow. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Sallied p. pr. & vb. n. Sallying. ] [ F. saillir, fr. L. salire to leap, spring, akin to Gr. "a`llesqai; cf. Skr. s&rsdot_; to go, to flow. Cf. Salient, Assail, Assault, Exult, Insult, Saltation, Saltire.] To leap or rush out; to burst forth; to issue suddenly; as a body of troops from a fortified place to attack besiegers; to make a sally. [1913 Webster]

They break the truce, and sally out by night. Dryden. [1913 Webster]

The foe retires, -- she heads the sallying host. Byron. [1913 Webster]

n.; pl. Sallies [ F. saillie, fr. saillir. See Sally, v. ] 1. A leaping forth; a darting; a spring. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A rushing or bursting forth; a quick issue; a sudden eruption; specifically, an issuing of troops from a place besieged to attack the besiegers; a sortie. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sallies were made by the Spaniards, but they were beaten in with loss. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. An excursion from the usual track; range; digression; deviation. [ 1913 Webster ]

Every one shall know a country better that makes often sallies into it, and traverses it up and down, than he that . . . goes still round in the same track. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A flight of fancy, liveliness, wit, or the like; a flashing forth of a quick and active mind. [ 1913 Webster ]

The unaffected mirth with which she enjoyed his sallies. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Transgression of the limits of soberness or steadiness; act of levity; wild gayety; frolic; escapade. [ 1913 Webster ]

The excursion was esteemed but a sally of youth. Sir H. Wotton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sally port. (a) (Fort.) A postern gate, or a passage underground, from the inner to the outer works, to afford free egress for troops in a sortie. (b) (Naval) A large port on each quarter of a fireship, for the escape of the men into boats when the train is fired; a large port in an old-fashioned three-decker or a large modern ironclad. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ From a woman, Sally Lunn, who is said to have first made the cakes, and sold them in the streets of Bath, Eng. ] A tea cake slighty sweetened, and raised with yeast, baked in the form of biscuits or in a thin loaf, and eaten hot with butter. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) The velella; -- called also saleeman. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A famous horse market in London, established in 1766 by Richard Tattersall, also used as the headquarters of credit betting on English horse races; hence, a large horse market elsewhere. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]