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SALLY
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Irregular inflected form: sallied
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A venture off the beaten path
Example:
a sally into the wide world beyond his home
Synonyms:
sally; sallying forth
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("sally" is a kind of...):
venture (any venturesome undertaking especially one with an uncertain outcome)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A military action in which besieged troops burst forth from their position
Synonyms:
sally; sortie
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("sally" is a kind of...):
action; military action (a military engagement)
Domain category:
armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Witty remark
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("sally" is a kind of...):
comment; input; remark (a statement that expresses a personal opinion or belief or adds information)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Present simple (first person singular and plural, second person singular and plural, third person plural) of the verb sally
Context examples:
Then when evening comes we shall sally out upon them and see if we may not gain some honorable advancement from them.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Jugs of water, and watering-pots, were kept in secret places ready to be discharged on the offending boys; sticks were laid in ambush behind the door; sallies were made at all hours; and incessant war prevailed.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
It seems that there had been some informality about their license, that the clergyman absolutely refused to marry them without a witness of some sort, and that my lucky appearance saved the bridegroom from having to sally out into the streets in search of a best man.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I have seen Frenchmen fight both in open field, in the intaking and the defending of towns or castlewicks, in escalados, camisades, night forays, bushments, sallies, outfalls, and knightly spear-runnings.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A general laugh followed this sally at the dentist's expense, in the midst of which the gleeman placed his battered harp upon his knee, and began to pick out a melody upon the frayed strings.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Mon Dieu! yes, ye would not credit it to look at him, or to hearken to his soft voice, but from the sailing from Orwell down to the foray to Paris, and that is clear twenty years, there was not a skirmish, onfall, sally, bushment, escalado or battle, but Sir Nigel was in the heart of it.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
