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Sage   /seɪdʒ/   Listen
noun
Sage  n.  (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 (Salvia 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 (Zool.), 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 (Zool.), 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 (Zool.), a species of hare (Lepus Nuttalli syn. Lepus 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 (Zool.), the female of the sage grouse.
Sage sparrow (Zool.), a small sparrow (Amphispiza Belli, var. Nevadensis) which inhabits the dry plains of the Rocky Mountain region, living among sagebrush.
Sage thrasher (Zool.), 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  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."


adjective
Sage  adj.  (compar. sager; superl. sagest)  
1.
Having nice discernment and powers of judging; prudent; grave; sagacious. "All you sage counselors, hence!"
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."
3.
Grave; serious; solemn. (R.) "(Great bards) in sage and solemn tunes have sung."
Synonyms: Wise; sagacious; sapient; grave; prudent; judicious.





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"Sage" Quotes from Famous Books



... day drew nigh on which the guest must part from his host, he asked permission to bring his daughter to the castle, that they might exchange a last farewell. She was introduced with much secrecy, and after some days, finding that her father's fate was so uncertain, the Baron, with the sage's consent, agreed to give the forlorn maiden refuge in his castle, hoping to obtain from her some additional information concerning the languages and the wisdom of the East. Danischemend, her father, left this castle, to go ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 13, - Issue 373, Supplementary Number • Various
... not have this doctrine vulgarly promulgated," said the admirable chaplain, "for its general practice might chance to do harm. Thou, my son, the Refined, the Gentle, the Loving and Beloved, the Poet and Sage, urged by what I cannot but think a grievous error, hast appeared as Avenger. Think what would be the world's condition, were men without any Yearning after the Ideal to attempt to reorganize Society, to redistribute Property, ...
— Burlesques • William Makepeace Thackeray
... said the sage, as he shook his gray locks, "I kept all my limbs very supple, By the use of this ointment, five shillings the box— Allow me to sell you ...
— Alice's Adventures Under Ground • Lewis Carroll
... shaggy face of a wild beast. All his body was covered with hair and bristles, and yet—good heavens! he is said to have striven for mastery with Apollo. 'Twas hideousness contending with beauty, a rude boor against a sage, a beast against a god. The Muses and Minerva, hiding their amusement, stood by to judge, that they might make a mockery of the monster's uncouth presumption and punish his stupidity. But Marsyas, like the peerless fool he was, never ...
— The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura • Lucius Apuleius
... sympathetic and innocent and pure. I longed for my sister—my mother, but to SOME one I must talk at once. Budge fulfilled my requirements exactly; he was an excellent listener, very sympathetic by nature, and quick to respond. Not the wisdom of the most reverend sage alive could have been so grateful to my ear as that child's prattle was on that delightful morning. As for Toddie—blessed be the law of compensation! his faculty of repetition, and of echoing whatever he heard said, caused him to murmur "Miff Mayton, Miff Mayton," all morning long, ...
— Helen's Babies • John Habberton


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