Definition of sally

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Sally (v.) 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..

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Disally :: Disally (v. t.) To part, as an alliance; to sunder..
Pass :: Pass (v. i.) Fig.: a thrust; a sally of wit.
Throw :: Throw (n.) An effort; a violent sally.
Generally :: Generally (adv.) In general; commonly; extensively, though not universally; most frequently..
Sally :: Sally (v. i.) 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.
Universal :: Universal (n.) A general abstract conception, so called from being universally applicable to, or predicable of, each individual or species contained under it..
Outleap :: Outleap (n.) A sally.
Sally :: Sally (v.) A leaping forth; a darting; a spring.
Skit :: Skit (n.) A reflection; a jeer or gibe; a sally; a brief satire; a squib.
Mesally :: Mesally (adv.) Same as Mesially.
Extravagance :: Extravagance (n.) A wandering beyond proper limits; an excursion or sally from the usual way, course, or limit..
Universally :: Universally (adv.) In a universal manner; without exception; as, God's laws are universally binding on his creatures..
Cosmically :: Cosmically (adv.) Universally.
Dorsally :: Dorsally (adv.) On, or toward, the dorsum, or back; on the dorsal side of; dorsad..
Sally Lunn :: 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..
Schema :: Schema (n.) An outline or image universally applicable to a general conception, under which it is likely to be presented to the mind; as, five dots in a line are a schema of the number five; a preceding and succeeding event are a schema of cause and effect..
Axiom :: Axiom (a.) An established principle in some art or science, which, though not a necessary truth, is universally received; as, the axioms of political economy..
Antilegomena :: Antilegomena (n. pl.) 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 Homologoumena..
Sally :: Sally (v.) A flight of fancy, liveliness, wit, or the like; a flashing forth of a quick and active mind..
Excursion :: Excursion () A running or going out or forth; an expedition; a sally.
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