Any of several Old World shrubby broad-leaved willows having large catkins

Usage examples of sallow.

There are, furthermore, the accompanying symptoms of a coated tongue, bitter taste in the mouth, unpleasant eructations, scalding of the throat from regurgitation, offensive breath, sick headache, giddiness, disturbed sleep, sallow countenance, heart-burn, morbid craving after food, constant anxiety and apprehension, fancied impotency, and fickleness.

The characteristics of this form of idiocy are an enlarged thyroid gland constituting a goitre or bronchocele, a high-arched palate, dwarfed stature, squinting eyes, sallow complexion, small legs, conical head, large mouth, and indistinct speech.

The portal creaked inward and faces peered out, sallow in the glow of cheap tallow dips, or brosy with drink and primed to proffer lewd comment.

Small, sallow, mussed as the weekend approaches, Tommy Molto bleats the name when I tell the prosecution to call its next witness, as we settle in after lunch.

The sallow complexion of Myrus the Mneiodes had become darker as Ramus Ymph spoke, and eventually achieved the color of damp clay.

Not a face belonging to The Shadow, but the sallow, rattish visage of Snipe Shailey!

The sound welled unbidden from her throat, a rich low outpouring of love and sympathy for the sallow twitching youth who lay on the yellowish sheets, his eyes wild, his hands tensing into claws.

I treated the wound with whortleberry and sallow bark, but it is deep and I am afraid.

MEETING PLACE was in the sallows, the willow thickets down by the Amia as it ran below the smithy.

The other was Cripp, the sallow chauffeur, who was ordinarily the only man who left the Beaverwood grounds.

But his face is sallow and his eyes apparently drained of tears, and his expression seems blanker than anything else.

If you have a sallow skin tone, it usually indicates that blood flow is constricted in the skin and also in the cardiovascular system.

Strapped into a chair, the official looked an habitually sad type: a sallow, slightly porcine individual, drably dressed.

His eyen hollow, grisly to behold, His hue sallow, and pale as ashes cold, And solitary he was, ever alone, And wailing all the night, making his moan.

During the day he would sometimes run into one of the African students, a short Malian boy with sallow skin, and they would nod to each other.