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Sag [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To yield; to give way; to lean or incline from an upright position, or to bend from a horizontal position. Our workmen say, a building sags to the north or south; or a beam sags by means of its weight.

2. In sailing, to incline to the leeward; to make lee way.

Sag [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To cause to bend or give way; to load or burden.

Sag [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

State of sinking or bending; sagging.

Sag [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To sink, in the middle, by its weight or under applied pressure, below a horizontal line or plane; as, a line or cable supported by its ends sags, though tightly drawn; the floor of a room sags; hence, to lean, give way, or settle from a vertical position; as, a building may sag one way or another; a door sags on its hinges.

2. Fig.: To lose firmness or elasticity; to sink; to droop; to flag; to bend; to yield, as the mind or spirits, under the pressure of care, trouble, doubt, or the like; to be unsettled or unbalanced.

3. To loiter in walking; to idle along; to drag or droop heavily.

Sag [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To cause to bend or give way; to load.

Saga [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A Scandinavian legend, or heroic or mythic tradition, among the Norsemen and kindred people; a northern European popular historical or religious tale of olden time.

Saga [Plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Sagum

Sagacious [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Quick of scent; as a sagacious hound; strictly perhaps, following by the scent, which sense is connected with Latin sequor; with of; as sagacious of his quarry.

2. Quick of thought; acute in discernment or penetration; as a sagacious head; a sagacious mind.

3. I would give more for the criticisms of one sagacious enemy, than for those of a score of admirers.

Sagacious [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Of quick sense perceptions; keen-scented; skilled in following a trail.

2. Hence, of quick intellectual perceptions; of keen penetration and judgment; discerning and judicious; knowing; far-sighted; shrewd; sage; wise; as, a sagacious man; a sagacious remark.

Sagaciously [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. With quick scent.

2. With quick discernment or penetration.

Sagaciousness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. The quality of being sagacious; quickness of scent.

2. Quickness or acuteness of discernment.

Sagacity [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Quickness or acuteness of scent; applied to animals.

2. Quickness or acuteness of discernment or penetration; readiness of apprehension; the faculty of readily discerning and distinguishing ideas, and of separating truth from falsehood.

3. Sagacity finds out the intermediate ideas, to discover what connection there is in each link of the chain.

Sagacity [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The quality of being sagacious; quickness or acuteness of sense perceptions; keenness of discernment or penetration with soundness of judgment; shrewdness.

Sagamore [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Among some tribes of American Indians, a king or chief.

Sagamore [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. 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.

2. A juice used in medicine.

Sagan Encyclopedia Britannica

SAGAN, a manufacturing town in Prussian Silesia, situated on the Bober, a tributary of the Oder, lies 60 miles south-south-east of Frankfort-on-the-Oder and 102 miles south-east of Berlin. It contains the handsome palace of the dukes of Sagan, several interesting churches, a Roman Catholic gymnasium, and a large Gothic hospital, named after its founder, the duchess Dorothea (1793-1862). The leading industry of the town is cloth-weaving, with wool and flax spinning; it has also some trade in wool and grain. The population in 1880 was 11,373.

The mediate principality of Sagan, formed in 1397 out of a portion of the duchy of Glogau, has several times changed hands by purchase as well as by inheritance, One of its most famous possessors was Wallenstein, who held it for seven years before his death in 1634. Bought by Prince Lobkowitz in 1646, the principality remained in his family until 1786, when it was sold to Peter, duke of Courland, whose descendant, the duke of Talleyrand-Périgord and Valençay in France, now owns it. The area of the principality is about 467 square miles, and its population is about 65,000.

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Sagapen [\N] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. SAG'APEN ,

2. SAGAPE'NUM, noun In pharmacy, a gum-resin, brought from Persia and the East in granules or in masses. It is a compact substance, heavy, of a reddish color, with small whitish or yellowish specks. It is an attenuant, sperient and discutient.

Sagapen [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Sagapenum.

Sagapenum [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A fetid gum resin obtained from a species of Ferula. It has been used in hysteria, etc., but is now seldom met with.

Sagar Encyclopedia Britannica

SAGAR, or Saugor, a British district of India, situated in the extreme north-west of the Central Provinces, and comprised between 23° 4' and 24° 27' N. lat., and between 78° 6' and 79° 12' E. long., with a total area of 4005 square miles. It is bounded on the N. by the Lálitpur district of the North-Western Provinces and the native states of Bijáwar, Panná, and Charkhári; on the E. by Panná and Damoh district; on the S. by Narsinhpur district and the native state of Bhopal; and on the W. also by Bhopal. Ságar district is an extensive, elevated, and in parts tolerably level plain, broken in places by low hills of the Vindhyan sandstone. It is traversed by numerous streams, chief of which are the Sunar, Beás, Dhupan, and Bina, all flowing in a northerly direction towards the valley of the Ganges. In the southern and central parts the soil is black, formed by decaying trap; to the north and east it is a reddish-brown alluvium. Iron ore of excellent quality is found and worked at Hirapur, a small village in the extreme north-east. The district contains several densely wooded tracts, the largest of which is the Ramna teak forest preserve in the north. Roads are the only means of communication; of these the total length is 134 miles, 50 being returned as first class. The climate is moderate; the average temperature is 75°, and the average rainfall is about 46 inches....

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Sagas [Plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Sagathy [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A kind of serge; a slight woolen stuff.

Sagathy [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A mixed woven fabric of silk and cotton, or silk and wool; sayette; also, a light woolen fabric.

Sage [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Wise; having nice discernment and powers of judging; prudent; grave; as a sage counselor.

2. Wise; judicious; proceeding from wisdom; well judged; well adapted to the purpose; as sage counsels.

Sage [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A plant of the genius Salvia, of several species; as the officinalis, or common large sage of several varieties; the tomentosa or balsamic sage; the auriculata, or sage of virtue; and the pomifera.

2. A wise man; a man of gravity and wisdom; particularly, a man venerable for years, and known as a man of sound judgment and prudence; a grave philosopher.

3. At his birth a star proclaims him come, and guides the eastern sages.

4. Groves where immortal sages taught.

Sage [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. 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.

2. The sagebrush.

3. A wise man; a man of gravity and wisdom; especially, a man venerable for years, and of sound judgment and prudence; a grave philosopher.

Sage [Superlative] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Having nice discernment and powers of judging; prudent; grave; sagacious.

2. Proceeding from wisdom; well judged; shrewd; well adapted to the purpose.

3. Grave; serious; solemn.

Sage Encyclopedia Britannica

SAGE, Le. See Le Sage.

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Sagebrush [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

Sagely [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Wisely; with just discernment and prudence.

Sagely [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

In a sage manner; wisely.

Sagene [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A Russian measure of about seven English feet. [ See Sajene .]

Sagene [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A Russian measure of length equal to about seven English feet.

Sageness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Wisdom; sagacity; prudence; gravity.

Sageness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The quality or state of being sage; wisdom; sagacity; prudence; gravity.

Sagenite [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Acicular rutile.

Sagenite [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Acicular rutile occurring in reticulated forms imbedded in quartz.

Sagenitic [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Resembling sagenite; -- applied to quartz when containing acicular crystals of other minerals, most commonly rutile, also tourmaline, actinolite, and the like.