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A willow
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Any tree that looks like a willow
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An object made from the above trees' wood
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A sortie of troops from a besieged place against an enemy.
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A sudden rushing forth.
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Flocks of these birds stir up flying insects, which can then be picked off in quick sallies.
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A witty statement or quip, usually at the expense of one's interlocutor.
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An excursion or side trip.
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A tufted woollen part of a bellrope, used to provide grip when ringing a bell.
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To make a sudden attack (e.g. on an enemy from a defended position).
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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.
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To set out on an excursion; venture; depart (often followed by "forth.")
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As she sallied forth from her boudoir, you would never have guessed how quickly she could strip for action. - William Manchester
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To venture off the beaten path.
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A member of the Salvation Army.
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A kind of stonefly.
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A wren.
Examples of sallies in a Sentence
Robespierre, who was himself on the brink of the volcano, remembered the venomous sallies in the Journal de Paris.
In spite of their desperate sallies, Jerusalem was surrounded by a wall, and its people, whose numbers were increased by those who had come up for the passover, were hemmed in to starve.
For over a year he stayed in the Holy Land, making little sallies from Acre, and negotiating 2 Of the four Latin principalities of the East, Edessa was the first to fall, being extinguished between 1144 and 1150.
His handsome looks and smart sallies attracted the attention of Francois Lefort, Peter's first favourite, who took him into his service and finally transferred him to the tsar.
In these sallies, however, Mr Balfour had no direct share.
One of Wallis's rough sallies in this kind suggested to Hobbes the title of the next rejoinder with which, in 1657, he sought to close the unseemly wrangle.
Many of his eccentricities, both of conduct and opinion, appear less remarkable to us than they did to his contemporaries; moreover, he seems to have heightened the impression of them by his humorous sallies in their defence.
Stevenson's various occasional sallies in verse and prose - his Fables for Grown Gentlemen (1761-1770), his Crazy Tales (1762), and his numerous skits at the political opponents of Wilkes, among whose "macaronies" he numbered himself - were collected after his death, and it is impossible to read them without being struck with their close family resemblance in spirit and turn of thought to Sterne's work, inferior as they are in literary genius.
The events were too near and too well known, and hardly admitted the picturesque sallies into the blue distance which make the charm and the danger of his larger work.
Almost daily sallies, which often turned into pitched battles, were made by the rebels upon the over-worked handful of Europeans, Sikhs and Gurkhas.
Joan succeeded in entering Orleans on the 29th of April 1429, and through the vigorous and unremitting sallies of the French the English gradually became so discouraged that on the 8th of May they raised the siege.
His cheerful conversation, his smart and lively sallies, a singular mixture of malice of speech with goodness of heart, and of delicacy of wit with simplicity of manners, rendered him a pleasing and interesting companion; and if his manner was sometimes plain almost to the extent of rudeness, it probably set all the better an example of a much-needed reform to the class to which he belonged.
Spotted Flycatchers, one of the last migrants to arrive, are a regular sight, making repeated sallies from the same perch.
Im aware of ' straw men ', also known as ' aunt sallies '.
Sallies of wit, jests, good stories and enjoyment, were the soul of the banquet.