Definition of "sallying" in Englisch

verb

1. present participle and gerund of sally

noun

1. The act of one who sallies.

   • 4 September 1798, Charles Brockden Brown, letter to William Dunlap Johnson & I are pretty well, but E H S, by midnight sallyings forth, sudden changes of temperature, fatigue & exposure to a noon day sun, is made sick.