Word Meanings - SALLOWISH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Somewhat sallow. Dickens.

SALLOWISH
Somewhat sallow. Dickens.
SOMEWHAT
1. More or less; a certain quantity or degree; a part, more or less; something. These salts have somewhat of a nitrous taste. Grew. Somewhat of his good sense will suffer, in this transfusion, and much of the beauty of his thoughts will be lost.
DICKENS
The devil. I can not tell what the dickens his name is. Shak.
SALLOWNESS
The quality or condition of being sallow. Addison.
SALLOW
A name given to certain species of willow, especially those which do not have flexible shoots, as Salix caprea, S. cinerea, etc. Sallow thorn , a European thorny shrub much like an Elæagnus. The yellow berries are sometimes used for making jelly,
DISALLOWABLE
Not allowable; not to be suffered. Raleigh. -- Dis`al*low"a*ble*ness, n.
DISALLOWANCE
The act of disallowing; refusal to admit or permit; rejection. Syn. -- Disapprobation; prohibition; condemnation; censure; rejection.
DISALLOW
To refuse to allow; to deny the force or validity of; to disown and reject; as, the judge disallowed the executor's charge. To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God. 1 Pet. ii. 4. That the edicts of Cæsar