sally

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• intransitive verb To rush out or leap forth suddenly.
• intransitive verb To issue suddenly from a defensive or besieged position to attack an enemy.
• intransitive verb To set out on a trip or excursion.
• noun A sudden rush forward or leap.
• noun An assault from a defensive position; a sortie.
• noun A sudden effort toward action or expression.
• noun A sudden quick witticism; a quip.
• noun A venturing forth; a jaunt.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To leap; spring; dance.
• To leap, dash, or spring forth; burst out; specifically, to make a sally, as a body of troops from a besieged place to attack the besiegers; hence, to set out briskly or energetically.
• To mount; copulate with: said of horses.
• noun See salenixon.
• noun Same as sallow.
• noun A leap or spring; a darting; a dance.
• noun A sudden rush, dash, or springing forth; specifically, a sudden and determined rush or eruption of troops from a besieged place to attack the besiegers; a sortie: as, the garrison made a sally.
• noun A run or excursion; a trip or jaunt; a going out in general.
• noun In architecture, a projection; the end of a piece of timber cut with an interior angle formed by two planes across the fibers, as the feet of common rafters.
• noun An outburst, as of imagination, fancy, merriment, etc.; a flight; hence, a freak, frolic, or escapade.
• noun The wren, Troglodytes parvulus.
• noun A kind of stone-fly; one of the Perlidæ: as, the yellow sally, Chloroperla viridis, much used by anglers in England.
• noun Also applied to several species of trees belonging to the genus Eucalyptus.
• noun Acacia melanoxylon. See blackwood, 2.
• noun Eucryphia Moorei. See plum, 7.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• intransitive verb 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.
• noun A leaping forth; a darting; a spring.
• noun 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.
• noun An excursion from the usual track; range; digression; deviation.
• noun A flight of fancy, liveliness, wit, or the like; a flashing forth of a quick and active mind.
• noun Transgression of the limits of soberness or steadiness; act of levity; wild gayety; frolic; escapade.
• noun (Fort.), (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.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun A sortie of troops from a besieged place against an enemy.
• noun A sudden rushing forth.
• noun figuratively A witty statement or quip, usually at the expense of one's interlocutor.
• noun An excursion or side trip.
• noun A tufted woollen part of a bellrope, used to provide grip when ringing a bell.
• verb intransitive To make a sudden attack on an enemy from a defended position.
• verb intransitive To set out on an excursion; venture; depart (often followed by "forth.")
• verb intransitive To venture off the beaten path.
• noun A willow
• noun Any tree that looks like a willow
• noun An object made from the above trees' wood
• noun New Zealand, slang A member of the Salvation Army.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun a venture off the beaten path
• noun a military action in which besieged troops burst forth from their position
• noun witty remark