Sallow

n.	1.	The willow; willow twigs. And bend the pliant sallow to a shield. - Fawkes. The sallow knows the basketmaker's thumb. - Emerson.
	2.	(Bot.) 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.
a.	1.	Having a yellowish color; of a pale, sickly color, tinged with yellow; as, a sallow skin.
v. t.	1.	To tinge with sallowness. July breathes hot, sallows the crispy fields. - Lowell.

Noun	1.	sallow - any of several Old World shrubby broad-leaved willows having large catkins; some are important sources for tanbark and charcoal
Verb	1.	sallow - cause to become sallow; "The illness has sallowed her face"
Adj.	1.	sallow - unhealthy looking Synonyms: sickly

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

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