English-Thai Dictionary

sallow

ADJ ซีดเซียว  ซีด  เซียว  colorless pallid sid-siao

 

sallow

N ต้น หลิว  ton-lil

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SALLOW

n.[L. salix. ] A tree of the willow kind, or genus Salix.

 

SALLOW

a.[L. salix, the tree, supra. ] Having a yellowish color; of a pale sickly color, tinged with a dark yellow; as a sallow skin.

 

SALLOWNESS

n.A yellowish color; paleness tinged with a dark yellow; as sallowness of complexion.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

SALLOW

Sal "low, n. Etym: [OE. salwe, AS. sealth; akin to OHG. salaha, G.salwiede, Icel. selja L. salix, Ir. sail, saileach, Gael. seileach, W. helyg, Gr.

 

1. The willow; willow twigs. [Poetic ] Tennyson. And bend the pliant sallow to a shield. Fawkes. The sallow knows the basketmaker's thumb. Emerson.

 

2. (Bot. )

 

Defn: A name given to certain species of willow, especially those which do not have flexible shoots, as Salix caprea, S. cinerea, etc. Sallow thorn (Bot. ), a European thorny shrub (Hippophae rhamnoides ) much like an Elæagnus. The yellow berries are sometimes used for making jelly, and the plant affords a yellow dye.

 

SALLOW

Sal "low, a. [Compar. Sallower; superl. Sallowest.] Etym: [AS. salu;akin to D. zaluw, OHG. salo, Icel. sölr yellow. ]

 

Defn: Having a yellowish color; of a pale, sickly color, tinged with yellow; as, a sallow skin. Shak.

 

SALLOW

SALLOW Sal "low, v. t.

 

Defn: To tinge with sallowness. [Poetic ] July breathes hot, sallows the crispy fields. Lowell.

 

SALLOWISH

SALLOWISH Sal "low *ish, a.

 

Defn: Somewhat sallow. Dickens.

 

SALLOWNESS

SALLOWNESS Sal "low *ness, n.

 

Defn: The quality or condition of being sallow. Addison.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

sallow

sal low 1 |ˈsalō ˈsæloʊ | ▶adjective ( sallower, sallowest ) (of a person's face or complexion ) of an unhealthy yellow or pale brown color. ▶verb [ with obj. ] rare make sallow. DERIVATIVES sal low ish adjective, sal low ness noun ORIGIN Old English salo ‘dusky, ’ of Germanic origin; related to Old Norse sǫlr ‘yellow, ’ from a base meaning ‘dirty. ’

 

sallow

sal low 2 |ˈsæloʊ ˈsalō | ▶noun 1 chiefly Brit. a willow tree, esp. one of a low-growing or shrubby kind. Also called pussy willow. [Genus Salix, family Salicaceae: several species, in particular the great sallow (see goat willow ). ] 2 a moth with dull yellow, orange, and brown patterned wings. The larvae of some species feed on sallow catkins. [Genus Xanthia, family Noctuidae: several species. ] DERIVATIVES sal low y adjective ORIGIN Old English salh, of Germanic origin; related to Old Norse selja, and Latin salix ‘willow. ’

 

Oxford Dictionary

sallow

sallow 1 |ˈsaləʊ | ▶adjective (of a person's face or complexion ) of an unhealthy yellow or pale brown colour. DERIVATIVES sallowish adjective, sallowness noun ORIGIN Old English salo ‘dusky ’, of Germanic origin; related to Old Norse sǫlr ‘yellow ’, from a base meaning ‘dirty ’.

 

sallow

sallow 2 |ˈsaləʊ | ▶noun 1 chiefly Brit. a willow tree, especially one of a low-growing or shrubby kind. Also called pussy willow. ●Genus Salix, family Salicaceae: several species, in particular the great sallow (goat willow, S. caprea ) and the grey (or common ) sallow (grey willow, S. cinerea ). 2 a European moth with dull yellow, orange, and brown patterned wings. ●Genus Xanthia, family Noctuidae: several species. ORIGIN Old English salh, of Germanic origin; related to Old Norse selja, and Latin salix ‘willow ’.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

sallow

sallow adjective a disturbingly sallow complexion: yellowish, jaundiced, pallid, wan, pale, anemic, bloodless, pasty; unhealthy, sickly, washed out; informal like death warmed over; Medicine icteric.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

sallow

sallow adjective his lips were blue with the cold and his cheeks sunken and sallow: yellowish, jaundiced, pallid, wan, pale, waxen, anaemic, bloodless, colourless, pasty, pasty-faced; unhealthy-looking, sickly, sickly-looking, washed out, peaky, peakish, peaked; informal like death warmed up; Scottish informal wabbit, peely-wally; rare etiolated, lymphatic. ANTONYMS rosy, glowing.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

sallow

sal low /sǽloʊ /形容詞 〈顔 肌が 〉 黄ばんで不健康な .動詞 他動詞 〖通例be ～ed 〗〈顔などが 〉黄ばんだ色になる .～ness 名詞