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- English Word Sage Definition 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.
- English Word Sage Definition The sagebrush.
- English Word Sage Definition Having nice discernment and powers of judging; prudent; grave; sagacious.
- English Word Sage Definition Proceeding from wisdom; well judged; shrewd; well adapted to the purpose.
- English Word Sage Definition Grave; serious; solemn.
- English Word Sage Definition A wise man; a man of gravity and wisdom; especially, a man venerable for years, and of sound judgment and prudence; a grave philosopher.
- English Word Sagebrush Definition A low irregular shrub (Artemisia tridentata), of the order Compositae, covering vast tracts of the dry alkaline regions of the American plains; -- called also sagebush, and wild sage.
- English Word Sagely Definition In a sage manner; wisely.
- English Word Sagene Definition A Russian measure of length equal to about seven English feet.
- English Word Sageness Definition The quality or state of being sage; wisdom; sagacity; prudence; gravity.
- English Word Sagenite Definition Acicular rutile occurring in reticulated forms imbedded in quartz.
- English Word Sagenitic Definition Resembling sagenite; -- applied to quartz when containing acicular crystals of other minerals, most commonly rutile, also tourmaline, actinolite, and the like.
- English Word Sagged Definition of Sag
- English Word Sagger Definition A pot or case of fire clay, in which fine stoneware is inclosed while baking in the kiln; a seggar.
- English Word Sagger Definition The clay of which such pots or cases are made.
- English Word Sagging Definition A bending or sinking between the ends of a thing, in consequence of its own, or an imposed, weight; an arching downward in the middle, as of a ship after straining. Cf. Hogging.
- English Word Sagging Definition of Sag
- English Word Saginate Definition To make fat; to pamper.
- English Word Sagination Definition The act of fattening or pampering.
- English Word Sagitta Definition A small constellation north of Aquila; the Arrow.
- English Word Sagitta Definition The keystone of an arch.
- English Word Sagitta Definition The distance from a point in a curve to the chord; also, the versed sine of an arc; -- so called from its resemblance to an arrow resting on the bow and string.
- English Word Sagitta Definition The larger of the two otoliths, or ear bones, found in most fishes.
- English Word Sagitta Definition A genus of transparent, free-swimming marine worms having lateral and caudal fins, and capable of swimming rapidly. It is the type of the class Chaetognatha.
- English Word Sagittal Definition In the mesial plane; mesial; as, a sagittal section of an animal.
- English Word Sagittal Definition Of or pertaining to the sagittal suture; in the region of the sagittal suture; rabdoidal; as, the sagittal furrow, or groove, on the inner surface of the roof of the skull.
- English Word Sagittal Definition Of or pertaining to an arrow; resembling an arrow; furnished with an arrowlike appendage.
- English Word Sagittarius Definition The ninth of the twelve signs of the zodiac, which the sun enters about November 22, marked thus [/] in almanacs; the Archer.
- English Word Sagittarius Definition A zodiacal constellation, represented on maps and globes as a centaur shooting an arrow.
- English Word Sagittary Definition The Arsenal in Venice; -- so called from having a figure of an archer over the door.