Definition of sally

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Sally (v.) Transgression of the limits of soberness or steadiness; act of levity; wild gayety; frolic; escapade.

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Pass :: Pass (v. i.) Fig.: a thrust; a sally of wit.
Extravagance :: Extravagance (n.) A wandering beyond proper limits; an excursion or sally from the usual way, course, or limit..
Skit :: Skit (n.) A reflection; a jeer or gibe; a sally; a brief satire; a squib.
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.
Disally :: Disally (v. t.) To part, as an alliance; to sunder..
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..
Sortie :: Sortie (n.) The sudden issuing of a body of troops, usually small, from a besieged place to attack or harass the besiegers; a sally..
Cosmically :: Cosmically (adv.) Universally.
Throw :: Throw (n.) An effort; a violent sally.
Sallyman :: Sallyman (n.) The velella; -- called also saleeman.
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..
Notorious :: Notorious (a.) Generally known and talked of by the public; universally believed to be true; manifest to the world; evident; -- usually in an unfavorable sense; as, a notorious thief; a notorious crime or vice..
Causally :: Causally (n.) The lighter, earthy parts of ore, carried off washing..
Sally :: Sally (v.) A flight of fancy, liveliness, wit, or the like; a flashing forth of a quick and active mind..
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..
Dorsally :: Dorsally (adv.) On, or toward, the dorsum, or back; on the dorsal side of; dorsad..
Sally :: Sally (v.) An excursion from the usual track; range; digression; deviation.
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..
Issue :: Issue (v. i.) To go out; to rush out; to sally forth; as, troops issued from the town, and attacked the besiegers..
Universal :: Universal (n.) A general abstract conception, so called from being universally applicable to, or predicable of, each individual or species contained under it..
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