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sally
English
Alternative forms
- salley (obsolete)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?sæli/
- Rhymes: -æli
Etymology 1
From Middle English saly, from Old English sali?, sealh (“willow”). More at sallow.
Noun
sally (plural sallies)
- A willow
- Any tree that looks like a willow
- An object made from the above trees' wood
Derived terms
- sally rod
Translations
Etymology 2
Borrowed from French saillie, from sailli, the past participle of the verb saillir (“to leap forth”), itself from Latin sal?re (“to leap”)
Noun
sally (plural sallies)
- A sortie of troops from a besieged place against an enemy.
- A sudden rushing forth.
- Flocks of these birds stir up flying insects, which can then be picked off in quick sallies.
- (figuratively) A witty statement or quip, usually at the expense of one's interlocutor.
- An excursion or side trip.
- Everyone 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.
- A tufted woollen part of a bellrope, used to provide grip when ringing a bell.
Translations
See also
- sally port
Verb
sally (third-person singular simple present sallies, present participle sallying, simple past and past participle sallied)
- (intransitive) To make a sudden attack (e.g. on an enemy from a defended position).
- The troops sallied in desperation.
- A feeding strategy of some birds is to sally out from a perch to snatch an insect and then returning to the same or a different perch.
- (intransitive) To set out on an excursion; venture; depart (often followed by "forth.")
- As she sallied forth from her boudoir, you would never have guessed how quickly she could strip for action. - William Manchester
- (intransitive) To venture off the beaten path.
Translations
Etymology 3
salvation +? -y
Noun
sally (plural sallies)
- (New Zealand, slang) A member of the Salvation Army.
Synonyms
- Salvo
Related terms
- Sally Army
Etymology 4
Unknown.
Noun
sally (plural sallies)
- A kind of stonefly.
- A wren.
Anagrams
- Sylla, lylas, y'all's
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onrush
English
Etymology
From on- +? rush. Compare Middle English onresen (“to rush upon; attack”), from Old English onr?san (“to rush, rush on”); Old English onr?s (“an onrush, assault, attack”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??n????/
Noun
onrush (plural onrushes)
- A forceful rush or flow forward.
- 1856, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh, New York: C.S. Francis & Co., 1857, First Book, pp. 32-33,[1]
- The love within us and the love without
- Are mixed, confounded; if we are loved or love,
- We scarce distinguish. So, with other power.
- Being acted on and acting seem the same:
- In that first onrush of life’s chariot-wheels,
- We know not if the forests move or we.
- 1958, Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart, London: William Heinemann, Chapter 22,
- For a brief moment the onrush of the egwugwu [masked men representing ancestral spirits] was checked by the unexpected composure of the two men. But it was only a momentary check, like the tense silence between blasts of thunder. The second onrush was greater than the first. It swallowed up the two men.
- 1987, Paul Goldberger, “A Baker’s Dozen of New York City’s Urban Masterpieces,” New York Times, 31 July, 1987,[2]
- So persistent is the onrush of new construction in New York that the first temptation for the architecture buff is to track down the latest things, be they good or bad […]
- 1856, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh, New York: C.S. Francis & Co., 1857, First Book, pp. 32-33,[1]
- An aggressive assault.
Synonyms
- onslaught
Translations
Verb
onrush (third-person singular simple present onrushes, present participle onrushing, simple past and past participle onrushed)
- To rush or flow forward forcefully.
- To assault aggressively.
Translations
Anagrams
- Hurons
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