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.
2. A juice used in medicine. [Obs.] Johnson.
Sagapen
(Sag"a*pen) n. Sagapenum.
Sagapenum
(||Sag`a*pe"num) n. [L. sagapenon, sacopenium, Gr. : cf. F. sagapin, gomme sagapin,
sagapénum, Ar. sikbinaj, Per. sakbinah, sikbinah.] (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.
Sagathy
(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
(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
(Sage) a. [Compar. Sager ; superl. Sagest.] [F., fr. L. sapius 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
(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.
