Search the Dictionary

issue suddenly; as a body of troops from a fortified place to attack besiegers; to make a sally. They break the truce, and sally out by night. Dryden. The foe retires, -- she heads the sallying host. Byron.

A tea cake slighty sweetened, and raised with yeast, baked in the form of biscuits or in a thin loaf, and eaten hot with butter.

The velella; -- called also saleeman.

According to the order or series of causes; by tracing effects to causes.

To part, as an alliance; to sunder. [R.] "Disallied their nuptials." Milton.

On, or toward, the dorsum, or back; on the dorsal side of; dorsad.

Same as Mesially.

In a nasal manner; by the nose.

In a universal manner; without exception; as, God's laws are universally binding on his creatures.

Certain books of the New Testament which were for a time not universally received, but which are now considered canonical. These are the Epistle to the Hebrews, the Epistles of James and Jude, the second Epistle of Peter, the second and third Epistles of John, and the Revelation. The undisputed books are called the Hom…

A bawd, or a prostitute. [Obs.] Shak. Aunt Sally, a puppet head placed on a pole and having a pipe in its mouth; also a game, which consists in trying to hit the pipe by throwing short bludgeons at it.

tablished principle in some art or science, which, though not a necessary truth, is universally received; as, the axioms of political economy.

In a catholic manner; generally; universally. Sir L. Cary.

Universally. [R.] Emerson.

The exterior portion of the earth, formerly universally supposed to inclose a molten interior.

show. [R. & Colloq.] He must fight a duel before his claim to . . . dashism can be universally allowed. V. Knox.

Toward the dorsum or back; on the dorsal side; dorsally.

A sally. "Thousand escapes of wit." Shak.

A running or going out or forth; an expedition; a sally. Far on excursion toward the gates of hell. Milton. They would make excursions and waste the country. Holland.

A wandering beyond proper limits; an excursion or sally from the usual way, course, or limit.