Syn. -- Penetration; shrewdness; judiciousness. -- Sagacity,
Penetration. Penetration enables us to enter into the depths of an
abstruse subject, to detect motives, plans, etc. Sagacity adds to
penetration a keen, practical judgment, which enables one to guard
against the designs of others, and to turn everything to the best
possible advantage.
Sag"a*more (?), n. 1. [Cf. Sachem.] The head of a tribe among the
American Indians; a chief; -- generally used as synonymous with sachem,
but some writters distinguished between them, making the sachem a chief
of the first rank, and a sagamore one of the second rank. "Be it
sagamore, sachem, or powwow." Longfellow.