'Sally' definitions:
Definition of 'sally'
(from WordNet)
noun
noun
A military action in which besieged troops burst forth from their position [syn: sortie, sally]
noun
A venture off the beaten path; "a sally into the wide world beyond his home" [syn: sally, sallying forth]
Definition of 'Sally'
From: GCIDE
- Sally \Sal"ly\, n.; pl. Sallies. [F. saillie, fr. saillir. See Sally, v.]
- 1. A leaping forth; a darting; a spring. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A rushing or bursting forth; a quick issue; a sudden eruption; specifically, an issuing of troops from a place besieged to attack the besiegers; a sortie. [1913 Webster]
- Sallies were made by the Spaniards, but they were beaten in with loss. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
- 3. An excursion from the usual track; range; digression; deviation. [1913 Webster]
- Every one shall know a country better that makes often sallies into it, and traverses it up and down, than he that . . . goes still round in the same track. --Locke. [1913 Webster]
- 4. A flight of fancy, liveliness, wit, or the like; a flashing forth of a quick and active mind. [1913 Webster]
- The unaffected mirth with which she enjoyed his sallies. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]
- 5. Transgression of the limits of soberness or steadiness; act of levity; wild gayety; frolic; escapade. [1913 Webster]
- The excursion was esteemed but a sally of youth. --Sir H. Wotton. [1913 Webster]
- Sally port. (a) (Fort.) A postern gate, or a passage underground, from the inner to the outer works, to afford free egress for troops in a sortie. (b) (Naval) A large port on each quarter of a fireship, for the escape of the men into boats when the train is fired; a large port in an old-fashioned three-decker or a large modern ironclad. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Sally'
From: GCIDE
- Sally \Sal"ly\ (s[a^]l"l[y^]), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Sallied (-l[i^]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Sallying.] [F. saillir, fr. L. salire to leap, spring, akin to Gr. "a`llesqai; cf. Skr. s[.r] to go, to flow. Cf. Salient, Assail, Assault, Exult, Insult, Saltation, Saltire.] 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. [1913 Webster]
- They break the truce, and sally out by night. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- The foe retires, -- she heads the sallying host. --Byron. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'sally'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- access,
- aggravated assault,
- aggression,
- amphibious attack,
- aphorism,
- apothegm,
- arise,
- armed assault,
- assailing,
- assailment,
- assault,
- attack,
- bail out,
- banzai attack,
- be off,
- blitz,
- blitzkrieg,
- bon mot,
- boutade,
- break cover,
- break forth,
- breakthrough,
- bright idea,
- bright thought,
- brilliant idea,
- burst,
- burst forth,
- campaign,
- charge,
- circuit,
- come,
- come forth,
- come out,
- conceit,
- counterattack,
- counteroffensive,
- coup de main,
- course,
- crack,
- crippling attack,
- dead set at,
- debouch,
- descent on,
- disembogue,
- diversion,
- diversionary attack,
- drive,
- drollery,
- effuse,
- emanate,
- emerge,
- epigram,
- erupt,
- eruption,
- excursion,
- expedition,
- explosion,
- extrude,
- facetiae,
- flank attack,
- flare-up,
- flash of wit,
- flight of wit,
- frontal attack,
- gag,
- gas attack,
- get off,
- gibe,
- go forth,
- grand tour,
- gust,
- happy thought,
- head-on attack,
- infiltration,
- issue,
- issue forth,
- jape,
- jaunt,
- jest,
- journey,
- jump out,
- junket,
- lightning attack,
- lightning war,
- mass attack,
- megadeath,
- mot,
- mugging,
- nasty crack,
- offense,
- offensive,
- onset,
- onslaught,
- outing,
- outset,
- outstart,
- overkill,
- package tour,
- panzer warfare,
- peregrination,
- persiflage,
- pilgrimage,
- play of wit,
- pleasantry,
- pleasure trip,
- progress,
- protrude,
- push,
- put forth,
- quip,
- quips and cranks,
- repartee,
- retort,
- riposte,
- round trip,
- roundabout,
- rubberneck tour,
- run,
- run against,
- run at,
- rush,
- safari,
- sally forth,
- scintillation,
- set forth,
- set forward,
- set off,
- set out,
- shock tactics,
- shoot,
- smart crack,
- smart saying,
- snappy comeback,
- sortie,
- stalk,
- start,
- start off,
- start out,
- strike,
- strike out,
- stroke of wit,
- surface,
- tour,
- trek,
- trip,
- turn,
- turn of thought,
- unprovoked assault,
- voyage,
- waggery,
- wisecrack,
- witticism