Definitions for sallies

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sallies sal·ly

Spelling: [sal-ee]

IPA: /ˈsæl i/

Sallies is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 139 anagrams from letters in sallies (aeillss).

Definitions for sallies

noun

1. a sortie of troops from a besieged place upon an enemy.
2. a sudden rushing forth or activity.
3. an excursion or trip, usually off the main course.
4. an outburst or flight of passion, fancy, etc.:
5. a clever, witty, or fanciful remark.
6. Carpentry. a projection, as of the end of a rafter beyond the notch by which the rafter is fitted over the wall plate.
7. a female given name, form of Sarah.

verb (used without object)

1. to make a sally, as a body of troops from a besieged place.
2. to set out on a side trip or excursion.
3. to set out briskly or energetically.
4. (of things) to issue forth.

Origin of sallies

1535-45; Middle French saillie attack, noun use of feminine past participle of saillir to rush forward Latin salīre to leap

Examples for sallies

The laughter at this sally was all it should have been, even the host joining in it.

sally Beauty did not respond for comment by the time this article was published.

Among these rocks, now, he would stand no chance with sally.

Just try to find a mention of sally Hemings at the Jefferson Memorial.

My father lost his last surviving sibling, my Aunt sally, in 2007.

sally Beauty has also partnered with Susan G. Komen to sell special pink cosmetic products.

He looked at his hero, and then he looked into his mind and saw the picture of sally.

Gray Peter had been fresher than sally at the end of the run of the day before.

All in all, Gray Peter was a glorious machine; sally was a tricky intelligence.

KSM enters the complex through a “sally Port,” a series of gates designed to allow just one vehicle in at a time.