Emily Dickinson Lexicon

SA-GA'CIOUS-NESS, n.

1. The quality of being sagacious; quickness of scent.
2. Quickness or acuteness of discernment.

SA-GAC'I-TY, n. [Fr. sagacité; L. sagacitas.]

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

SAG'A-MORE, n.

Among some tribes of American Indians, a king or chief. [In Sax. sigora is a conqueror.]

SAG'A-PEN, or SAG-A-PE'NUM, n. [Gr. σαγαπηνον.]

In pharmacy, an inspissated sap 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. – Encyc.

SAG'A-THY, n.

A kind of serge; a slight woolen stuff. – Tatler.

SAGE, a. [Fr. sage; It. saggio; L. saga, sagus, sagio. See Sagacious.]

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, n.¹ [Fr. sauge; Ar. saoch.]

A plant of the genus 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. – Encyc.

SAGE, n.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. At his birth a star proclaims him come, / And guides the eastern sages. – Milton. Groves where immortal sages taught. – Pope.

SAGE'LY, adv.

Wisely; with just discernment and prudence.

SA-GENE', n.

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

SAGE'NESS, n.

Wisdom; sagacity; prudence; gravity. – Ascham.

SAG'EN-ITE, n.

Acicular rutile. – Ure.

SAG'GED, pp.

Caused to bend or give way; loaded; burdened.

SAG'GER, n.

A species of clay used in making the pots in which earthen ware is baked.

SAG'GING, ppr.

Causing to bend; burdening.

SAG'IT-TAL, a. [L. sagittalis, from sagitta, an arrow; that which is thrown or driven, probably from the root of say and sing.]

Pertaining to an arrow; resembling an arrow; as, sagittal bars of yellow. – Pennant. In anatomy, the sagittal suture is the suture which unites the parietal bones of the skull. – Coxe.

SAG-IT-TA'RI-US, n. [L. an archer.]

One of the twelve signs of the zodiac, which the sun enters Nov. 22.

SAG'IT-TA-RY, a.

Pertaining to an arrow.

SAG'IT-TA-RY, n. [supra.]

A centaur, an animal half man, half horse, armed with a bow and quiver. – Shak.

SAG'IT-TATE, a.

In botany, shaped like the head of an arrow; triangular, hollowed at the base, with angles at the hinder part; or with the hinder angles acute, divided by a sinus; applied to the leaf, stipula or anther. – Martyn.

SA'GO, n.

A dry mealy substance or granulated paste, imported from Java, the Philippine and Molucca isles, &c. It is the prepared pith of several different plants, as the Sagus Rumphii or Metroxylum Sagus, a palm, and Cycas circinalis, a plant intermediate between palms and ferns, &c. It is much used as an article of diet for the sick.

SA-GOIN', n.

The Sagoins form a division of the genus Simia, including such of the monkeys of America as have hairy tails, not prehensile. – Encyc.

SA'GY, a. [from sage.]

Full of sage; seasoned with sage.

SAH'LITE, n.

A mineral named from the mountain Sahla, in Westermania, where it was discovered. It is of a light greenish gray color, occurs massive, and composed of coarse granular concretions. It is called also malacolite; a subspecies or variety of augite. – Thomson. Ure.

SA'IC, n.

A Turkish or Grecian vessel, very common in the Levant, a kind of ketch which has no top-gallant-sail, nor mizzen-top-sail. – Mar. Dict.