Sag"a*pen (?), n. Sagapenum.
||Sag`a*pe"num (?), n. [L. sagapenon, sacopenium, Gr. &?;: cf. F.
||sagapin, gomme sagapin, sagapénum, Ar. sikbnaj, Per. sakbnah,
||sikbnah.] (Med.) A fetid gum resin obtained from a species of Ferula.
||It has been used in hysteria, etc., but is now seldom met with. U. S.
||Disp.
Sag"a*thy (?), n. [F. sagatis: cf. Sp. sagatí, saetí.] A mixed woven
fabric of silk and cotton, or silk and wool; sayette; also, a light
woolen fabric.
Sage (?), n. [OE. sauge, F. sauge, L. salvia, from salvus saved, in
allusion to its reputed healing virtues. See Safe.] (Bot.) (a) A
suffruticose labiate plant (Salvia officinalis) with grayish green
foliage, much used in flavoring meats, etc. The name is often extended
to the whole genus, of which many species are cultivated for ornament,
as the scarlet sage, and Mexican red and blue sage. (b) The sagebrush.
Meadow sage (Bot.), a blue-flowered species of Salvia (S. pratensis)
growing in meadows in Europe. -- Sage cheese, cheese flavored with
sage, and colored green by the juice of leaves of spinach and other
plants which are added to the milk. -- Sage cock (Zoöl.), the male of
the sage grouse; in a more general sense, the specific name of the sage
grouse. -- Sage green, of a dull grayish green color, like the leaves
of garden sage. -- Sage grouse (Zoöl.), a very large American grouse
(Centrocercus urophasianus), native of the dry sagebrush plains of
Western North America. Called also cock of the plains. The male is
called sage cock, and the female sage hen. -- Sage hare, or Sage rabbit
(Zoöl.), a species of hare (Lepus Nuttalli, or artemisia) which
inhabits the arid regions of Western North America and lives among
sagebrush. By recent writers it is considered to be merely a variety of
the common cottontail, or wood rabbit. -- Sage hen (Zoöl.), the female
of the sage grouse. -- Sage sparrow (Zoöl.), a small sparrow
(Amphispiza Belli, var. Nevadensis) which inhabits the dry plains of
the Rocky Mountain region, living among sagebrush. -- Sage thrasher
(Zoöl.), a singing bird (Oroscoptes montanus) which inhabits the
sagebrush plains of Western North America. -- Sage willow (Bot.), a
species of willow (Salix tristis) forming a low bush with nearly
sessile grayish green leaves.
Sage (?), a. [Compar. Sager (?); superl. Sagest.] [F., fr. L. sapius
(only in nesapius unwise, foolish), fr. sapere to be wise; perhaps akin
to E. sap. Cf. Savor, Sapient, Insipid.] 1. Having nice discernment and
powers of judging; prudent; grave; sagacious.
All you sage counselors, hence!
Shak.
2. Proceeding from wisdom; well judged; shrewd; well adapted to the
purpose.
Commanders, who, cloaking their fear under show of sage advice,
counseled the general to retreat.
Milton.
3. Grave; serious; solemn. [R.] "[Great bards] in sage and solemn tunes
have sung." Milton.
Syn. -- Wise; sagacious; sapient; grave; prudent; judicious.
Sage, n. A wise man; a man of gravity and wisdom; especially, a man
venerable for years, and of sound judgment and prudence; a grave
philosopher.
At his birth a star, Unseen before in heaven, proclaims him come,
And guides the Eastern sages.
Milton.
Sage"brush` (?), n. A low irregular shrub (Artemisia tridentata), of
the order Compositæ, covering vast tracts of the dry alkaline regions
of the American plains; -- called also sagebush, and wild sage.
Sage"ly, adv. In a sage manner; wisely.
Sa*gene" (?), n. [Russ. sajene.] A Russian measure of length equal to
about seven English feet.
Sage"ness (?), n. The quality or state of being sage; wisdom; sagacity;
prudence; gravity. Ascham.
Sag"e*nite (?), n. [F. sagénite, fr. L. sagena a large net. See Seine.]
(Min.) Acicular rutile occurring in reticulated forms imbedded in
quartz.
Sag`e*nit"ic (?), a. (Min.) Resembling sagenite; -- applied to quartz
when containing acicular crystals of other minerals, most commonly
rutile, also tourmaline, actinolite, and the like.
Sag"ger (?), n. [See Seggar.] 1. A pot or case of fire clay, in which
fine stoneware is inclosed while baking in the kiln; a seggar.