Word Meanings - SALLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To leap or rush out; to burst forth; to 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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SALLY)

• Egress
• Exit
• departure
• sally
• outlet
• Foray
• Raid
• inroad
• escapade
• Incursion
• Invasion
• encroachment
• irruption
• foray
• raid
• dragonnade

Related words: (words related to SALLY)

• SALLYMAN
  The velella; -- called also saleeman.
• DEPARTURE
  The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another. Bouvier. (more info) 1. Division; separation; putting away. No other remedy . . . but absolute departure. Milton.
• EGRESS
  The passing off from the sun's disk of an inferior planet, in a transit. (more info) 1. The act of going out or leaving, or the power to leave; departure. Embarred from all egress and regress. Holland. Gates of burning adamant, Barred over us,
• FORAYER
  One who makes or joins in a foray. They might not choose the lowand road, For the Merse forayers were abroad. Sir W. Scott.
• OUTLET
  The place or opening by which anything is let out; a passage out; an exit; a vent. Receiving all, and having no outlet. Fuller.
• SALLY
  To leap or rush out; to burst forth; to 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.
• IRRUPTION
  1. A bursting in; a sudden, violent rushing into a place; as, irruptions of the sea. Lest evil tidings, with too rude irruption Hitting thy aged ear, should pierce too deep. Milton. 2. A sudden and violent inroad, or entrance of invaders; as, the
• INCURSION
  1. A running into; hence, an entering into a territory with hostile intention; a temporary invasion; a predatory or harassing inroad; a raid. The Scythian, whose incursions wild Have wasted Sogdiana. Milton. The incursions of the Goths disordered
• FORAY
  A sudden or irregular incursion in border warfare; hence, any irregular incursion for war or spoils; a raid. Spenser. The huge Earl Doorm, . . . Bound on a foray, rolling eyes of prey. Tennyson.
• ENCROACHMENT
  An unlawful diminution of the possessions of another. (more info) 1. The act of entering gradually or silently upon the rights or possessions of another; unlawful intrusion. An unconstitutional encroachment of military power on the civil
• EGRESSOR
  One who goes out.
• DRAGONNADE
  The severe persecution of French Protestants under Louis XIV., by an armed force, usually of dragoons; hence, a rapid and devastating incursion; dragoonade. He learnt it as he watched the dragonnades, the tortures, the massacres of the Netherlands.
• ESCAPADE
  escape; or F., fr. It. scappata escape, escapade, fr. scappare to 1. The fling of a horse, or ordinary kicking back of his heels; a gambol. 2. Act by which one breaks loose from the rules of propriety or good sense; a freak; a prank. Carlyle.
• SALLY LUNN
  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.
• EGRESSION
  The act of going; egress. B. Jonson.
• INVASION
  1. The act of invading; the act of encroaching upon the rights or possessions of another; encroachment; trespass. 2. A warlike or hostile entrance into the possessions or domains of another; the incursion of an army for conquest or plunder. 3.
• INROAD
  The entrance of an enemy into a country with purposes of hostility; a sudden or desultory incursion or invasion; raid; encroachment. The loss of Shrewsbury exposed all North Wales to the daily inroads of the enemy. Clarendon. With perpetual inroads
• UNIVERSALLY
  In a universal manner; without exception; as, God's laws are universally binding on his creatures.
• TROUTLET
  A little trout; a troutling. Hood.
• NASALLY
  In a nasal manner; by the nose.
• REGRESSIVELY
  In a regressive manner.
• DORSALLY
  On, or toward, the dorsum, or back; on the dorsal side of; dorsad.
• MESALLY
  See MESIALLY
• REGRESSIVE
  1. Passing back; returning. 2. Characterized by retrogression; retrogressive. Regressive metamorphism. See Retrogression. See Katabolism.
• REGRESSION
  The act of passing back or returning; retrogression; retrogradation. Sir T. Browne. Edge of regression , the line along which a surface turns back upon itself; -- called also a cuspidal edge. -- Regression point , a cusp.