sagen.¹

Brit.

/seɪdʒ/, U.S.

/seɪdʒ/

Forms: Middle English–1500s sauge, Middle English sawge, salge, (Middle English sauoge), 1500s saulge, sayge, Middle English– sage.

Etymology: Middle English sauge , < French sauge (13th cent. in Littré) < Latin salvia (whence late Old English saluie , Middle English save n.¹). Compare Provençal salvia , Spanish salvia , Italian salvia , Portuguese salva ; also Middle Low German salvie , selve , Dutch salie , Old High German salbeia , salveia (feminine) (modern German salbei masculine). For the phonology in English compare chafe v., gauge n., safe n., save n.¹

1. A plant of the genus Salvia, family Labiatæ; esp. S. officinalis, an aromatic culinary herb. Hence, the leaves of this plant used in Cookery.‘Sage, much esteemed formerly as a medicinal herb, is not now included in the British Pharmacopœia, but in domestic medicine is still used in the preparation of sage-tea’ ( N.E.D.).

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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > medicinal and culinary plants > medicinal and culinary plant or part of plant > [noun] > sage plant, leaf, or root

sagea1350

sage leaf14..

sage root14..

savec1405

tea-sage1728

salvia1844

the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > herb > [noun] > sage

sagea1350

savec1405

claryc1485

tea-sage1728

a1350 in G. L. Brook Harley Lyrics (1968) 32 He is blosme opon bleo, brihtest vnder bis, Wiþ celydoyne ant sauge, ase þou þiself sys.

1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis III. 131 Salge is his herbe appourtenant Aboven al the remenant.

a1475 Liber Cocorum (Sloane) (1862) 11 Do þer to sage and persely ȝoyng.

1541 T. Elyot Castel of Helthe (new ed.) ii. xvi. 29 Sauge. It healeth, and sommewhat byndeth.

1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball ii. lxxvii. 250 There be two sortes of Sage, the one is small and franke, and the other is great. The great Sage is of three sortes, that is to say, greene, white, and redde.

1584 T. Cogan Hauen of Health xi. 33 Sage is vsed commonly in sawces, as to stuffe veale, porke, rosting pigges, and that for good cause.

1590 E. Spenser Muiopotmos 187 The wholesome saulge, and lavender still gray.

?1610 J. Fletcher Faithfull Shepheardesse ii. sig. D1^v These for frenzy be A speedy and a soueraigne remedie. The bitter Wormewood, Sage and Marigold.

1714 J. Gay Shepherd's Week ii. 13 Marbled with Sage the hard'ning Cheese she press'd.

1766 C. Anstey New Bath Guide (ed. 2) ix. ii. 71 But what's the Sage without the Goose?

1881 Encycl. Brit. XII. 289/2 Sage, Salvia officinalis, a hardy evergreen undershrub, belonging to the labiates, of which there are two varieties, the green-leaved and the red-leaved.

2. Cookery.

†a. A forcemeat, ‘pottage’, or sauce in which sage is the chief ingredient. sage yfarced, sage stuffing. Also quasi-adj. in partly anglicized names of culinary preparations containing sage, as fritter sage, sauce sage. Obsolete.

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the world > food and drink > food > additive > stuffing > [noun] > sage stuffing

sage?c1390

sage and onions1747

?c1390 Forme of Cury (1780) 23 Pygges in sawse Sawge.

?c1390 Forme of Cury (1780) 72 Sawge yfarced.

c1430 Two Cookery-bks. 28 Sauge. Take Gyngere, Galyngale, Clowys, & grynde in a morter; þan take an handfulle of Sawge, & do þer-to [etc.].

c1430 Two Cookery-bks. 41 Sauoge. Take Pigis fete clene y-pekyd; þan tak Freysshe broþe of Beff, & draw mylke of Almaundys, & þe Piggys þer-in; þen mence Sawge [etc.].

c1450 Two Cookery-bks. 72 Pigge or chiken in Sauge.

c1460 J. Russell Bk. Nurture 501 Frutur sawge.

b. sage and onions: a stuffing chiefly composed of those ingredients, used for goose, duck, pork, etc. Also sage-and-onion stuffing.

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the world > food and drink > food > additive > stuffing > [noun] > sage stuffing

sage?c1390

sage and onions1747

1747 H. Glasse Art of Cookery i. 4 Some love the Knuckle [of pork] stuffed with Onions and Sage shred small.

1824 New Syst. Cookery 113 Ducks roasted. Stuff one with sage and onion,..crums,..and pepper and salt.

1861 I. M. Beeton Bk. Househ. Managem. x. 241 (heading) Sage-And-Onion Stuffing, for Geese, Ducks, and Pork.

189. T. F. Garrett & W. A. Rawson Encycl. Pract. Cookery (at cited word) Sage-and-Onion Stuffing.

3. In the names of plants of other genera. Bengal sage n. Meriandra bengalensis (Treas. Bot. 1866). bitter sage n., †garlick sage n., †mountain sage n. or †wood sage Teucrium Scorodonia. French sage n. Phlomis fruticosa.† Jerusalem sage n. Obsolete† sage of Jerusalem n. (or †sage of Bethlehem) Obsolete (a) Pulmonaria officinalis; (b) Phlomis fruticosa. seaside sage n. Croton balsamiferum (Treas. Bot.).† rock sage n. Obsolete a species of Sideritis. white sage n. in U.S., a woolly chenopodiaceous plant used as a febrifuge, Eurotia lanata; also applied to other plants of the same order, Kochia prostrata and Audibertia polystachya (Cent. Dict.). wild sage n. (a) = bitter sage n.; (b) see quot. 1866.black sage: see the first element.

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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > labiate plant or plants > [noun] > germander plants

hindheala1300

ambrosea1350

wild sagea1400

germander?a1425

tetterwosea1500

English treacle1548

garlic-germander1548

scordium1548

wood-sage1571

garlic-sage1597

horse-chire1597

tree germander1597

mountain sage1659

marum1666

teucrium1673

mastic plant1718

thorny germander1822

bitter sage1865

the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Compositae (composite plants) > [noun] > other composite plants

wild sagea1400

yellow devil's-bita1400

white golda1425

cotula1578

golden cudweed1597

golden tuft1597

rattlesnake root1682

Cape tansy?1711

hawkbit1713

ambrosia1731

cabbage tree1735

hog's eye1749

Osteospermum1754

ox-tongue1760

scentless mayweed1800

old man's beard1804

ox-eye1818

echinacea1825

sheep's beard1836

shepherd's beard1840

cat's-ear1848

goatweed1869

silversword1888

khaki bush1907

venidium1937

khaki bos1947

Namaqualand daisy1963

the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Boraginaceae (bugloss and allies) > [noun]

ribeOE

hound's-tonguec1000

ox-tonguea1325

rotheren tongue?a1350

buglossa1400

dog's tongue?a1425

lungwort1538

anchusa1548

sheep's tongue1552

cowslip of Jerusalem1578

Our Lady's milkwort1578

pulmonaria1578

sage of Jerusalem1578

wild comfrey1578

maiden-lips1589

bugloss cowslip1597

viper's bugloss1597

viper's herb1597

ribbie1607

lithospermon1646

wall bugloss1650

lady's glove1668

Venus's navelwort1678

spotted comfrey1688

cynogloss1705

Jerusalem sage1736

lawn1778

Mertensia1836

stickseed1843

Virginian cowslip1856

bluebell1858

gooseberry fool1858

Jerusalem cowslip1866

borage-wort1882

echium1883

rose noble1886

milksile-

the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > labiate plant or plants > [noun] > phlomis

sage mullein1562

mullein1578

sage of Jerusalem1578

French sage1597

Jupiter's distaff1597

phlome1715

Jerusalem sage1736

sage tree1736

Phlomis1754

a1400 J. Mirfield Sinonoma Bartholomei (1882) 10/2 Ambrosia, wild sauge.

1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. B.iiij^v Bacchar or Baccaris is the herbe (as I thynke) that we cal in english Sage of Hierusalem.

1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball ii. 135 b Thys kinde [of Sideritis] is called in Duche Glitkraut, it may be called in English Yronwurt or Rock sage.

1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball i. lxxxv. 125 Sage of Jerusalem hath rough, hearie, and large, browne greene leaues, sprinckled with diuers white spots.

1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 535 Wood Sage, or Garlicke Sage.

1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 625 Of French Sage, or woodie Mullein... They are called of the learned men of our time, Verbasca syluestria... In English it is generally called French Sage, we may call it Sage Mullein.

1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 663 Pulmonaria,..Sage of Ierusalem, Cowslip of Ierusalem, Sage of Bethlem.

1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I Scordium,..Wild Sage, vulgo.

1736 Compl. Family-piece ii. iii. 300 Several other Trees and Shrubs..are now in Flower, as the several sorts of Jerusalem Sage.

1864 A. H. R. Grisebach Flora Brit. W. Indian Islands 787 Black sage: Cordia cylindrostachya.

1865 P. H. Gosse Land & Sea 15 The wood germander, or bitter sage.

1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. (at cited word) Wild Sage, a name in the Cape colony for Tarchonanthus camphoratus.

4. = sage-brush n. at Compounds 2 (see Compounds 2).

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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Compositae (composite plants) > [noun] > Artemisia or mugwort

mugworteOE

artemisiaOE

mugweeda1400

motherwort1440

matricary1523

French wormwood1548

holy wormwood1548

sea-mugwort1548

sea-wormwood1548

tree wormwood1548

Roman wormwood1551

southernwood1577

garden cypress1578

mouse-wort1607

field southernwood1739

sage1805

hyssop1807

sage-bush1807

appleringie1808

absinth1841

sage-brush1850

1805 M. Lewis Jrnl. 12 May in Jrnls. Lewis & Clark Exped. (1987) IV. 146 The wild hysop sage..and some other herbs also grow in the plains and hills.

1807 P. Gass Jrnls. 127 A kind of wild sage or hyssop, as high as a man's head,..grows in these bottoms.

1837 W. Irving Adventures Capt. Bonneville II. 206 The country, hereabout,..producing very little grass, but a considerable quantity of sage or wormwood.

1851 M. Reid Scalp Hunters II. iv. 41 A desert country, here and there covered with wild sage and mezquite.

1872 C. King Mountaineering in Sierra Nevada xiii. 265 Desert too gentle and overspread with sage to be terrible.

5. The colour of sage.

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the world > matter > colour > named colours > green or greenness > [noun] > shade or tint of green > greyish green

sage colour1596

sage-green1810

almond green1870

sage1881

Lovat1895

Marina green1935

tea-green1956

1881 C. C. Harrison Woman's Handiwork Mod. Homes i. 20 A ground of sage or of Pompeian red velvet.

1971 Vogue 15 Sept. 129/1 Suit..sizes: 10–16; colours: brown/white, burnt orange/white, olive/sage.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

a. Simple attributive.

sage-ash n.

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1923 D. H. Lawrence Birds, Beasts & Flowers (London ed.) 147 An eagle at the top of a low cedar-bush On the sage-ash desert.

sage colour n.

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the world > matter > colour > named colours > green or greenness > [noun] > shade or tint of green > greyish green

sage colour1596

sage-green1810

almond green1870

sage1881

Lovat1895

Marina green1935

tea-green1956

1596 Acct.-bk. W. Wray in Antiquary (1896) 32 79 Sould him of the leight sayge culler q' & d.

sage juice n.

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the world > food and drink > drink > decoction > [noun] > of herbs, seeds, or bark

sorrela1400

cinnamon-water1589

borage-water1620

sage drink1747

sage juice1747

seed water1747

mauby1790

sabzi1804

gentian1840

Angostura1856

gentian bitter1864

sage gargle189.

hop bitters1894

rooibos1911

1747 J. Wesley Primitive Physick cxvii. 72 Hoarseness... Take a spoonful of Sage-juice, morning and evening.

sage leaf n.

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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > medicinal and culinary plants > medicinal and culinary plant or part of plant > [noun] > sage plant, leaf, or root

sagea1350

sage leaf14..

sage root14..

savec1405

tea-sage1728

salvia1844

14.. Med. MS. in Anglia XIX. 78 Take a sawge-leef and wryte þeron.

1660 J. Childrey Britannia Baconica 5 They have a slate of three sorts, blew, sage-leaf-coloured, and gray.

1747 J. Wesley Primitive Physick 83 Apply..boil'd Sage leaves hot.

1884 R. Browning Ferishtah's Fancies Prol. Sage-leaf is bitter-pungent—so's a quince.

sage oil n.

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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > extracted or refined oil > [noun] > other plant-derived oils

oil de baya1398

oil roseta1400

alkitranc1400

laurinec1400

oil of spicac1400

seed oil1400

rape oil1420

nut-oil?c1425

masticine?1440

oil de rose?1440

oil of myrtine?a1450

gingellya1544

rose oil1552

alchitrean1562

oil of spike1577

oil of ben1594

myrtle oil1601

sesamus1601

sampsuchine1616

oil of walnuts1622

rape1641

oil of rhodium1649

rapeseed oil1652

neroli1676

oil of mace1681

spirit of scurvy-grass1682

beech-oil1716

poppy oil1737

castor oil1746

oil of sassafras1753

orange-peel oil1757

wood-oil1759

bergamot1766

sunflower oil1768

Russia oil1773

oil castor1779

tung-yu1788

poppy-seed oil1799

cocoa butter1801

sassafras oil1801

phulwara1805

oil of wine1807

grass oil1827

oil of marjoram1829

cajuput oil1832

essence of mustarda1834

picamar1835

spurge oil1836

oenanthic ether1837

tea oil1837

capnomor1838

cinnamon-oil1838

oil of mustard1838

orange-flower oil1838

resinein1841

mustard oil1844

myrrhol1845

styrol1845

oenanthol1847

shea butter1847

wintergreen1847

gaultheria oil1848

ginger-grass oil.1849

nutmeg oil1849

pine oil1849

peppermint oil1850

cocoa fat1851

orange oil1853

neem oil1856

poonga oil1857

xanthoxylene1857

crab-oil1858

illupi oil1858

Shanghai oil1861

stand oil1862

mustard-seed oil1863

carap oilc1865

cocum butter or oilc1865

Kurung oil1866

muduga oil1866

pichurim oil1866

serpolet1866

sumbul oil1868

sesame oil1870

niger oil1872

summer yellow1872

olibene1873

patchouli oil1875

pilocarpene1876

styrolene1881

tung oil1881

becuiba tallow1884

soy oil1884

tea-seed oil1884

eucalyptus1885

sage oil1888

hop-oil1889

cotton-seed oil1891

lemon oil1896

palmarosa oil1897

illipe butter1904

hydnocarpus oil1905

tung1911

niger seed oil1917

sun oil1937

vanaspati1949

fennel oil-

1888 W. T. Brannt Pract. Treat. Animal & Veg. Fats & Oils 539 Sage oil, oleum salviæ, obtained by distillation from the leaves of the sage.

sage root n.

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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > medicinal and culinary plants > medicinal and culinary plant or part of plant > [noun] > sage plant, leaf, or root

sagea1350

sage leaf14..

sage root14..

savec1405

tea-sage1728

salvia1844

the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medical preparations of specific origin > medicine composed of a plant > [noun] > plant used in medicine > root > specific roots

zedoaryOE

madderOE

setwall?c1225

liquoricec1275

rhubarba1400

ireosc1400

liquorice-racec1400

sage root14..

maple root1523

liquorice-root1530

rhabarbarum1533

orris1545

turmeric1545

cypressc1550

pyrethrum1562

china1582

China root1588

orris root1598

red squill1629

ginseng1654

ague root1676

poke root1687

cassumunar1693

nettle root1707

valerian root1747

belly-ache-root1775

Indian root1775

Turkey rhubarb1789

sumbul1791

serpentaria1803

Honduras sarsaparilla1818

serpentary1837

sang1843

savanilla1856

manaca1866

gelsemium1875

sanguinaria1875

Indian turmeric1890

14.. Stockholm Med. MS. ii. 867 in Anglia XVIII. 328 Rwe is eke a souereyn bote, To settyn abowtyn a sawge-rote.

sage-scrub n.

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1927 D. H. Lawrence Mornings in Mexico 136 Across the grey desert..low, grey, sage-scrub was coming to pallid yellow.

b. Also in the names of preparations flavoured or medicated with sage.

sage ale n.

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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > ale or beer > ale > [noun] > flavoured ale

Welsh aleeOE

braggetc1405

buttered ale1547

sage ale1584

wormwood-ale1603

bragoes1605

mace-ale1605

China-ale1659

horseradish ale1664

butter ale1666

1584 T. Cogan Hauen of Health xi. 33 Much after the same manner [as the making of sage wine] is made Sage ale.

1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 624 Sage ale, being brewed as it shoulde be, with Sage, Scabious, Betonie, Spikenard, Squinanth, and Fennell seedes.

sage bread n.

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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > bread > [noun] > fancy bread > flavoured bread

sage bread1668

orange-flower bread1750

garlic bread1951

1668 R. Sharrock Let. 7 Apr. in R. Boyle Wks. (1744) V. 4 I have known sage bread do much good in drying up watry humours.

sage drink n.

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the world > food and drink > drink > decoction > [noun] > of herbs, seeds, or bark

sorrela1400

cinnamon-water1589

borage-water1620

sage drink1747

sage juice1747

seed water1747

mauby1790

sabzi1804

gentian1840

Angostura1856

gentian bitter1864

sage gargle189.

hop bitters1894

rooibos1911

1747 H. Glasse Art of Cookery x. 121 Sage Drink.

sage gargle n.

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the world > food and drink > drink > decoction > [noun] > of herbs, seeds, or bark

sorrela1400

cinnamon-water1589

borage-water1620

sage drink1747

sage juice1747

seed water1747

mauby1790

sabzi1804

gentian1840

Angostura1856

gentian bitter1864

sage gargle189.

hop bitters1894

rooibos1911

189. T. F. Garrett & W. A. Rawson Encycl. Pract. Cookery Sage gargle.

sage wine n.

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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > wine > drinks made with wine > [noun] > wine flavoured with herbs

sage wine1597

purl royal1675

cool tankard1688

cool cup1775

May drink1851

Maitrank1858

May wine1890

May bowl1951

1597 W. Langham Garden of Health 575 Vse it as Sage wine to consume flegme.

c. Instrumental.

sage-covered adj.

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1851 M. Reid Scalp Hunters III. i. 4 We passed over sage-covered plains.

d. Similative.

sage-leaved adj.

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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > medicinal and culinary plants > medicinal and culinary plant or part of plant > [adjective]

absinthialc1540

sage-leaved1822

1822 S. Clarke Hortus Anglicus II. 13 C. Salvifolius. Sage-leaved Cistus.

1824 J. C. Loudon Green-house Compan. i. 95 Phlomis Lychnites... A sage-leaved whitish rugose plant.

e. Parasynthetic.

sage-coloured adj.

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the world > matter > colour > named colours > green or greenness > [adjective] > greyish green

glass1547

sage-coloured1596

sage1785

sage-greeny1884

Marina green1991

1596 Acct. Bk. W. Wray in Antiquary (1896) 32 79 iij yeardes of leight sayge cullerd fustian.

C2. Special combinations:

sage-apple n. a gall-apple formed on a species of sage, Salvia pomifera, eaten as a fruit in Crete.

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the world > plants > disease or injury > [noun] > gall or abnormal growth > on particular plants

oak-apple1440

bedeguar1578

sponge1608

oak-berry1626

oak nut1626

Aleppo gall1698

grape-gall1753

rose gall1753

oak galla1774

ear cockle1777

honeysuckle apple1818

sage-apple1832

robin's pincushion1835

oak spangle1836

robin's cushion1837

oak-wart1840

spangle1842

shick-shack1847

spangle-gall1864

tomato gall1869

Robin redbreast's cushion1878

knopper1879

trumpet-gall1879

spongiole1884

knot-gall1894

the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > other fruits > [noun]

tamarind1539

zizypha1546

guava1555

tuna1555

turpentine1562

mango1582

mammee1587

durian1588

lychee1588

sapota1589

fritter1591

mangosteen1598

custard apple1648

longan1655

mammee sapota1657

mammee apple1683

breadfruit1697

coco-plum1699

rambutan1707

pawpaw1709

locust bean1731

sapodilla1750

cherimoya1758

wild lime1767

Otaheite apple1777

narra1779

langsat1783

rose apple1790

cinnamon apple1796

sapota plum1797

bhindi1809

salak1820

gingerbread plum1824

geebung1827

loquat1829

sapodilla plum1830

sage-apple1832

kangaroo-apple1834

karaka-fruit1834

quandong1836

mombin1837

terap1839

zapote1842

tamarind plum1846

prairie pea1848

Barbados-cherry1858

kei-apple1859

Natal plum1859

bullock's heart1866

guava-apple1866

Sierra Leone peach1866

Turkey fig1866

marula1877

scarlet banana1885

Suriname cherry1895

feijoa1898

pear apple1898

ume1918

pepino1922

Chinese gooseberry1925

num-num1926

acerola1954

the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > mushrooms or edible fungi > other edible fungi

Jew's ear1544

morel1653

Judas's ear1692

moriglio1698

chanterelle1777

sage-apple1832

swamp-apple1846

swamp-cheese1859

cèpe1865

mayapple1872

thunder-dirt1883

mealy parasol1887

1832 E. Lankester Veg. Substances Food 321 Sage-apples.

sage-brush n. a collective term for various species of Artemisia, esp. A. tridentata; also attributive.

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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Compositae (composite plants) > [noun] > Artemisia or mugwort

mugworteOE

artemisiaOE

mugweeda1400

motherwort1440

matricary1523

French wormwood1548

holy wormwood1548

sea-mugwort1548

sea-wormwood1548

tree wormwood1548

Roman wormwood1551

southernwood1577

garden cypress1578

mouse-wort1607

field southernwood1739

sage1805

hyssop1807

sage-bush1807

appleringie1808

absinth1841

sage-brush1850

1850 K. Webster Gold Seekers of '49 (1917) iii. 84 We were compelled to tie our mules to sage brush to keep them from straying away.

1861 ‘M. Twain’ Lett. (1917) I. 54 On the plains, sage-brush and grease-wood grow about twice as large as the common geranium.

1872 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds 233 Confined to the sterile plains and sage-brush (Artemisia) tracts of Western U.S.

1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. II. xlvii. 217 A desert..whose lower grounds were covered with that growth of alkaline plants which the Americans call sage-brush.

1907 S. E. White Arizona Nights (U.K. ed.) 191 We began to toil in the ankle-deep sand of a little sage-brush flat.

1946 D. C. Peattie Road of Naturalist (U.K. ed.) v. 53 A few forms like sage-brush or creosote bush..repeat themselves for fifty miles on end.

1976 Sci. Amer. Oct. 20/3 Strong lives with his wife and 11-year-old daughter in pine and sagebrush country overlooking the Rio Grande.

1977 J. F. Fixx Compl. Bk. Running ii. 25 We are in a canyon surrounded by mountains, trees and sagebrush.

Sagebrush State n. popular name of Nevada (formerly also applied to Wyoming).

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the world > the earth > named regions of earth > America > North America > [noun] > United States > specific states > Nevada, Wyoming, and Colorado

Washoe1856

silver state1866

Sagebrush State1893

1893 L. Wagner Significance of Names 35 Nevada is also called..The Sage-Brush State, from the wild artemesia covering the plains.

1904 N.Y. Evening Post 6 May 7 A senator from one of the ‘sagebrush’ States..Mr. Newlands of Nevada.

1917 Boston Evening Globe 11 Apr. 16/4 Nevada has been known for many years as the Sagebrush State.

1934 G. E. Shankle State Names ii. 155 The sobriquet, the Sagebrush State, applied to Wyoming, refers to the fact that wild sage (Artemisia tridentata) grows on the desert sections of this State.

1976 Billings (Montana) Gaz. 20 June 10- c/2 Sagebrush, Silver and Battle Born State are nicknames for Nevada, first explored by the Spaniards in 1776.

sage-bush n. = sage-brush n. above.

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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Compositae (composite plants) > [noun] > Artemisia or mugwort

mugworteOE

artemisiaOE

mugweeda1400

motherwort1440

matricary1523

French wormwood1548

holy wormwood1548

sea-mugwort1548

sea-wormwood1548

tree wormwood1548

Roman wormwood1551

southernwood1577

garden cypress1578

mouse-wort1607

field southernwood1739

sage1805

hyssop1807

sage-bush1807

appleringie1808

absinth1841

sage-brush1850

1807 P. Gass Jrnls. 204 The sage bushes..grow in great abundance on some parts of these plains.

1874 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. Suppl. Sage-bush, Artemisia tridentata.

1902 ‘M. Twain’ in Harper's Mag. Jan. 269/2 He started on a run, racing in and out among the sage-bushes.

1977 J. L. Harper Population Biol. Plants xx. 604 Woodland dominated by pinyon pine..is intimately associated with Artemisia sage-bush communities.

sage-cheese n. a kind of cheese which is flavoured and mottled by mixing a decoction of sage-leaves with the cheese-curd.

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the world > food and drink > food > dairy produce > cheese > [noun] > varieties of cheese

goat cheeseOE

green cheesec1390

rowen cheesea1425

bred-cheesec1440

hard cheesec1470

ruen cheese1510

parmesan1538

spermyse1542

angelot1573

cow-cheese1583

goat's cheese1588

Cheshire Cheese1597

eddish-cheese1615

nettle cheese1615

aftermath cheese1631

marsolini1636

Suffolk cheese1636

Cheddar cheesea1661

rowen1673

parmigianoa1684

raw-milk cheesea1687

fleet cheese1688

sage-cheese1714

Rhode Island cheese1733

Stilton cheese1736

Roquefort cheese1762

American cheese1763

fodder cheese1784

Old Peg1785

blue cheese1787

Dunlop cheese1793

Wiltshire1794

Gloucester1802

Gruyère1802

Neufchâtel1814

Limburger cheese1817

Dunlop1818

fog cheese1822

Swiss cheese1822

Suffolk thumpa1825

Stilton1826

skim dick1827

stracchino cheese1832

Blue Vinney1836

Edam1836

Schabzieger1837

sapsago1846

Munster1858

mysost1861

napkin cheese1865

provolone1865

Roquefort1867

Suffolk bang1867

Leicester1874

Brie1876

Camembert1878

Gorgonzola1878

Leicester cheese1880

Port Salut1881

Wensleydale1881

Gouda1885

primost1889

Cantal1890

Suisse1891

bondon1894

Petit Suisse1895

Gervais1896

Lancashire1896

Pont l'Évêque1896

reggiano1896

Romano1897

fontina1898

Caerphilly cheese1901

Derby cheese1902

Emmental1902

Liptauer1902

farmer cheese1904

robiola1907

gjetost1908

reblochon1908

scamorza1908

Cabrales1910

Jack1910

pimento cheese1910

mozzarella1911

pimiento cheese1911

Monterey cheese1912

processed cheese1918

Tillamook1918

tvorog1918

anari1919

process cheese1923

Bel Paese1926

pecorino1931

Oka1936

Parmigiano–Reggiano1936

vacherin1936

Monterey Jack1940

Red Leicester1940

demi-sel1946

tomme1946

Danish blue1948

Tilsit1950

St.-Maure1951

Samsoe1953

Havarti1954

paneer1954

taleggio1954

feta1956

St. Paulin1956

bleu cheese1957

Manchego1957

Ilchester1963

Dolcelatte1964

chèvre1965

Chaource1966

Windsor Red1969

halloumi1970

Montrachet1973

Chaumes1976

Lymeswold1981

cambozola1984

yarg1984

1714 J. Gay Shepherd's Week ii. 16 But Marian now..Nor yellow Butter nor Sage Cheese prepares.

1853 C. Dickens Bleak House xii. 109 It [the sea] is habitually hard upon Sir Leicester, whose countenance it greenly mottles in the manner of sage-cheese.

sage grass n. U.S. = sage-brush n.

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1893 Scribner's Mag. June 801/2 To inhale the odor of..pungent aromatic things in the tall ‘Sage grass’.

sage-green n. a shade of dull greyish green resembling that of the foliage of the sage plant Salvia officinalis; also as adjective.

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the world > matter > colour > named colours > green or greenness > [noun] > shade or tint of green > greyish green

sage colour1596

sage-green1810

almond green1870

sage1881

Lovat1895

Marina green1935

tea-green1956

1810 Repository of Arts Apr. 262/2 Light sage green, or cream-coloured kerseymere breeches.

1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 642 Sage-green, pea, and sea-greens.

1929 A. Huxley Holy Face 28 Her sage-green dress was only demi-semi-evening.

1976 Star (Sheffield) 20 Nov. 10/2 (advt.) Bed-settee with arms. Teak frame. Sage green expanded vinyl.

sage-greeny adj. of the colour of sage-green.

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the world > matter > colour > named colours > green or greenness > [adjective] > greyish green

glass1547

sage-coloured1596

sage1785

sage-greeny1884

Marina green1991

1884 G. Allen Philistia I. 49 Three afternoon dresses, the grey,..the sage-greeny æsthetic one, and the peacock-blue.

sage-grey adj. = sage-green n.

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the world > matter > colour > named colours > grey or greyness > [noun] > greenish grey

olive grey1852

mignonette-grey1900

sage-grey1923

1923 D. H. Lawrence Birds, Beasts & Flowers (London ed.) 190 Day has gone to dust on the sage-grey desert.

† sage mullein n. Obsolete = French sage (see 3 above).

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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > labiate plant or plants > [noun] > phlomis

sage mullein1562

mullein1578

sage of Jerusalem1578

French sage1597

Jupiter's distaff1597

phlome1715

Jerusalem sage1736

sage tree1736

Phlomis1754

1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 161 The wilde one [Verbascum]..may be called in Englishe Sage mullen.

sage rose n. †(a) a plant of the genus Cistus (obsolete); (b) a shrub, Turnera ulmifolia, found in the West Indies and South America.

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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > cultivated or ornamental trees and shrubs > [noun] > cistus

cistus1551

sage rose1597

gum-cistus1688

the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > shrubs > non-British shrubs > [noun] > American or West Indian

ramgoat bush1566

burton-wood1697

cowage cherry1725

Jack-in-the-busha1726

screw tree1739

lady of the night1752

goatweed1756

solandra1797

silk-tassel1833

garrya1835

matico1839

choisya1840

Romneya1845

jointer1847

creosote-bush1851

creosote-plant1854

bridal wreath1856

ocotillo1856

adelaster1863

sage rose1864

white horse1864

tree poppy1866

Tacsonia1869

rain tree1877

piquillin bush1884

tassel-bush1891

bush poppy1899

Mexican orange1923

shrimp plant1941

1597 J. Gerard Herball Table Eng. Names Sage rose and his kinds, looke Cistus.

1864 A. H. R. Grisebach Flora Brit. W. Indian Islands 787 Sage-rose: Turnera ulmifolia.

sage tea n. an infusion of sage-leaves, used as a stomachic and slight stimulant.

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the world > food and drink > drink > infused leaves, flowers, or fruit > [noun] > others

coltsfoota1627

sage tea?1706

pippin tea1709

lemon-tea1725

foltron1748

camomile-tea1753

sassafras tea1783

spruce tea1783

mountain tea1785

cow-slip tea1796

miserable1842

peppermint tea1844

violet tea1853

Swiss tea1860

coffee-tea1866

Jesuits' tea1866

St. Helena tea1875

cotton-leaf tea1881

tamarind watera1883

tamarind tea1883

mullein tea1887

rosehip tea1947

the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines of specific form > decoction or infusion > [noun] > specific decoction or infusion

sabras?c1225

tisanea1398

tamarisk1597

wort1694

sage tea?1706

poppy tea1709

yapon tea1723

herb-tea1744

spring juices1751

balm-tea1752

camomile-tea1753

uva ursi1753

nettle tea1758

bush tea1768

quassia1778

majo bitters1866

Mexican tea1866

?1706 E. Hickeringill Priest-craft: 2nd Pt. vi. 62 As for Sage-Tea, it being an English Drink,..I care not if they Drink it without the assistance of Mr. Say-Grace.

1824 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Gardening (ed. 2) iii. (i.) 669 The decoction called sage-tea is usually made from one variety, the small-leaved green, or sage of virtue.

sage tree n. (a) Phlomis fruticosa; (b) see quot. 1884.

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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > labiate plant or plants > [noun] > phlomis

sage mullein1562

mullein1578

sage of Jerusalem1578

French sage1597

Jupiter's distaff1597

phlome1715

Jerusalem sage1736

sage tree1736

Phlomis1754

the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > Australasian trees > [noun] > other Australasian trees or shrubs

burrawang1826

water gum1826

kaikomako1832

karaka1834

kawa-kawa1838

peppermint1838

bottle tree1844

ngaio1849

Grevillea1853

red birch1853

wooden pear1860

muskwood1866

sugar-tree1866

tulip-tree1866

hop-bush1883

mock orange1884

mountain beech1884

sage tree1884

tile-seed1884

mutton-bird scrub1889

red birch1889

silver-tree1889

whalebone-tree1889

budda1890

camphor laurel1894

pepperbush1895

mustard bush1898

willow myrtle1898

pigeon wood1899

horizontal scrub1909

turkey-bush1911

pandani1923

mock orange1929

1736 Compl. Family-piece ii. iii. 313 There are several other Trees and Shrubs..in Flower, as..Phlomis or Sage-tree.

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. App. (at cited word) Sage of Jerusalem, or Sage-tree.

1884 W. Miller Dict. Eng. Names Plants Sage tree, Brush-land, of Australia. Psychotria daphnoides.

sage-willow n. a dwarf grey American willow, Salix tristis.

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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > willow and allies > [noun] > other types of willow

red willow1547

water willow1583

goat's willow1597

rose willow1597

sweet willow1597

French willow1601

siler1607

palm-withy1609

sallowie1610

swallowtail willow1626

willow bay1650

black willow1670

crack-willow1670

grey willow1697

water sallow1761

almond willowa1763

swallow-tailed willow1764

swamp willow1765

golden osier1772

golden willow1772

purple willow1773

sand-willow1786

goat willow1787

purple osier1797

whipcord1812

Arctic willow1818

sage-willow1846

pussy willow1851

Kilmarnock willow1854

sweet-bay willow1857

pussy1858

palm willow1869

Spaniard1871

ground-willow1875

Spanish willow1875

snap-willow1880

diamond willow1884

sandbar willow1884

pussy palm1886

creeping willow1894

bat-willow1907

cricket bat willow1907

silver willow1914

1846 G. B. Emerson Rep. Trees & Shrubs Mass. 256 The sage willow is a slender, hoary plant, or a spreading tufted bush.

sage-wood n. (a) = sage-brush n.; (b) a small tree or shrub, Buddleia salviifolia, of the family Loganiaceæ, found in southern Africa and bearing leaves like those of common sage and racemes of white or purple flowers; also, the hard, heavy wood of this tree.

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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular timber trees or shrubs > non-British timber trees > [noun] > African

shittima1382

citrus1555

cam-wood1699

jacaranda1753

kokerboom1774

quiver tree1789

geelhout1790

rooihout1790

yellowwood1790

mat-wood1792

assegai1793

assegai tree1793

hardpear1801

rooi els1801

argan1809

beaver-wood1810

mat tree1812

saffraan1819

salie1819

sneezewood1834

African teak1842

hyawaballi1851

sage-wood1854

mvule1858

til1858

yari-yari1858

cannibal stinkwood1859

kiaat1862

knobwood1862

milkwood1862

tryssil1862

sulphur-tree1863

khaya1864

cailcedra1866

flat-crown1868

umzimbeet1870

kuka1882

odum1887

iroko1890

opepe1891

Natal mahogany1904

muhimbi1906

obeche1906

agba1908

makoré1915

afara1920

agboin1920

abura1921

podo1922

afrormosia1923

guarea1936

Mansonia1936

dahoma1955

utile1956

society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood of specific trees > [noun] > sage-wood

salie1819

sage-wood1854

1854 L. Pappe Silva Capensis 31 Sage-wood... Wood hard, tough, heavy.

1932 J. M. Watt & M. G. Breyer-Brandwijk Med. & Poisonous Plants S. Afr. 140 Sagewood, Saliehout,..is possibly used medicinally by the Hottentots.

1973 Standard Encycl. Southern Afr. IX. 458/2 The sagewood..belongs to the rather heterogeneous family Loganiaceæ.

C3. In the names of animals and birds found chiefly in the sage-brush districts of North America.

sage chicken n. = sage grouse.

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1873 E. B. Custer Boots & Saddles App. 293 A pair of sage-chickens, a pair of curlew, and a jack-rabbit complete my present collection.

1902 O. Wister Virginian iv. 53 We..shot some young sage chickens, which were good at supper, roasted at our camp-fire.

sage cock n.

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the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Tetraonidae (grouse) > [noun] > centrocercus urophasianus (sage grouse)

sage cock1840

sage hen1843

sage grouse1884

1840 A. Wislizenus Ausflug nach Felsen-Gebirgen 1839 ix. 49 Sage cock, cock of the plains.

1859 S. F. Baird Catal. N. Amer. Birds (Smithsonian Inst. Publ. 108) 12/2 Centrocercus urophasianus Sw. Sage Cock.

1917 T. G. Pearson Birds Amer. II. 30/1 The Sage Cock has a sharp cackle.

sage fowl n. = sage grouse.

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1870 Amer. Naturalist 3 82 Sage Fowl (Centrocercus Urophasianus). I saw nothing of the Sage Fowl, which..is very rare there.

sage grouse n. the largest grouse found in America, Centrocercus europhasianus.

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the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Tetraonidae (grouse) > [noun] > centrocercus urophasianus (sage grouse)

sage cock1840

sage hen1843

sage grouse1884

1884 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds (ed. 2) 580 Sage Grouse.

sage hare n. = sage rabbit n.

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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Lagomorpha (rabbits and hares) > [noun] > family Leporidae > genus Lepus (hares) > lepus americanus (snowshoe hare)

rabbit1634

prairie hare1840

sage hare1868

snow-shoe1888

snow-shoe rabbit1889

snowshoe hare1921

mountain hare1923

1868 Amer. Naturalist 2 536 The Sage Hare..is more rare near Fort Benton.

sage hen n. = sage cock n.

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the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Tetraonidae (grouse) > [noun] > centrocercus urophasianus (sage grouse)

sage cock1840

sage hen1843

sage grouse1884

1843 J. Williams Jrnl. 27 July in Narr. Tour to Oregon 14 The sage hen is found here also.

1848 E. Bryant What I saw in Calif. ix. 135 An antelope and sage-hen were killed during our march to-day.

1861 G. F. Berkeley Eng. Sportsman ii. 25 There is a certain bird of the grouse species..called the ‘sage hen’.

1917 E. H. Forbush in T. G. Pearson Birds Amer. II. 29 Sage Hen..Cock of the Plains..exceeds all other Grouse in size, with the possible exception of the great Black Grouse.. of Europe.

1962 E. Lucia Klondike Kate viii. 170 A great flight of sagehens darkening the sky.

sage rabbit n. one of several small hares of western North America, esp. Sylvilagus nuttallii.

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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Lagomorpha (rabbits and hares) > [noun] > family Leporidae > genus Sylvilagus (cotton-tail) > other types of

tapeti1613

swamp rabbit1845

sage rabbit1846

1846 R. B. Sage Scenes Rocky Mts. p. iv [The] sage rabbit..is nearly three times the size of the common rabbit.

1859 S. F. Baird Mammals N. Amer. 602 Lepus Artemisia, Bachman. Sage Rabbit.

1879 G. B. Goode Catal. Coll. Animal Resources & Fisheries U.S.: Internat. Exhib. 1876 (Bull. U.S. National Mus. No. 14) 20 Lepus sylvaticus Bach., var. Nuttalli.—Sage Rabbit.

sage sparrow n. each of the two fringilline birds Amphispiza bilineata and A. belli.

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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > seed eaters > [noun] > family Emberizidae > subfamily Emberizinae (bunting) > other types of

savannah finch1783

lark bunting1802

savannah sparrow1811

summer finch1823

greenfinch1870

sage sparrow1884

1884 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds (ed. 2) 375 Amphispiza..Sage Sparrows.

sage thrasher n. the mountain mocking bird, Oreoscoptes montanus.

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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > non-arboreal (larks, etc.) > [noun] > family Mimidae > genus Toxostoma (thrasher)

red thrush1789

thrasher1792

brown-thrasher1810

mocking thrush1829

mountain mockingbird1853

red mavis1854

mavis1865

sage thrasher1884

mock-thrush1890

1884 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds (ed. 2) iii. 249 Sage Thrasher.

C4. attributive or as adj. Resembling the colour of sage (sense 1). Cf. sense 5 above.

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the world > matter > colour > named colours > green or greenness > [adjective] > greyish green

glass1547

sage-coloured1596

sage1785

sage-greeny1884

Marina green1991

1785 E. Sheridan Let. in Betsy Sheridan's Jrnl. (1986) ii. 59 I have one [sc. a plume of feathers] for mine [sc. a hat] of dark sage, pink and white feathers.

1820 M. Edgeworth Let. 8 June in M. Edgeworth in France & Switzerland (1979) 160 My two tabbinets, sage and fawn ditto have done excellent service, new furbished.

1904 T. Eaton & Co. Catal. Spring–Summer 187/1 All-wood carpet..in red and sage colorings.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1909; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

sageadj.n.²

Brit.

/seɪdʒ/, U.S.

/seɪdʒ/

Forms: Also 1500s saage, Scottish saig(e, sauge.

Etymology: < French sage adjective and noun (11th cent. in Hatzfeld & Darmesteter; Old French had also saige, savie) < Common Romance sabio (Provençal satge-s, sabi-s, Spanish sabio, Portuguese sabio, Italian saggio, savio) < popular Latin *sapius (compare Latin nesapius ignorant) < sapĕre to be wise (present participle sapiens wise).

A. adj. Now only literary.

a. Of a person: Wise, discreet, judicious. In Middle English often the sage (following a proper name). In modern use in narrowed applications: Practically wise, rendered prudent or judicious by experience.

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the mind > mental capacity > understanding > wisdom, sagacity > [adjective]

glewc725

wiselyc900

snoterc950

wiseOE

keena1000

witterc1100

redewisec1225

redefulc1275

well-donec1275

witfulc1275

sage1297

redya1325

heartya1382

prudenta1382

hearteda1425

subtilea1450

sapient1471

Palladian1562

wittiful1590

judicious1591

cordate1651

sophical1739

sophica1773

sapientious1852

unbesotted1875

sapiential1882

1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 4069 Nou it worþ iended þat Sibile þe sage sede biuore.

1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. xi. 257 For salamon þe sage þat sapience made.

1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis II. 383 This..Is that Sibille of whom ye wite, That alle men yit clepen sage.

c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness l. 1576 As þe sage sathrapas þat sorsory couþe.

1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos liii. 148 Retourne agayn towarde eneas and make peas wyth hym yf ye be sage.

a1500 (a1475) G. Ashby Dicta Philosophorum l. 1222 in Poems (1899) 98 To speke litil, is knowen a man sage.

c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) lxxxvi. 274 There is no clerke lyuynge so sage that can put it in wrytynge.

1545 R. Ascham Toxophilus i. f. 13 The best learned and sagest men in this Realme..both loue shoting and vse shoting.

1562 N. Winȝet Certain Tractates (1888) I. 5 Ȝour wyse, saige, and grave familiar servands.

1571 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xxvii. 11 Bott schaw thyselff both scharpe, sauge [v.r. saig], and sinceir.

1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III iii. vii. 217 Coosin of Buckingham, and you sage graue men Since you will [etc.] .

1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 iv. iii. 249 All you sage counsailers, hence.

a1625 H. Finch Law (1636) 481 The Chancellor, and Treasurer, taking to them the Iustices, and other such sage persons, as they thinke fit.

a1687 E. Waller Maid's Tragedy Alter'd v, in Wks. (1729) 348 Can you expect, that she should be so sage To rule her blood, and you not rule your rage?

1732 G. Berkeley Alciphron I. v. xxxv. 344 The wise reasoning of a certain sage Magistrate.

1818 Ld. Byron Beppo xxvii. 14 For most men (till by losing rendered sager) Will back their own opinions by a wager.

1818 Ld. Byron Beppo xxxiv. 18 No wonder such accomplishments should turn A female head, however sage and steady.

1833 H. Martineau Three Ages ii. 70 These housekeepers, made sage by circumstance, looked and spoke with something very little like mirth.

1868 H. H. Milman Ann. St. Paul's Cathedral xiii. 346 But sager Juxon..withdrew from the proud but perilous office.

a1872 F. D. Maurice Friendship Bks. (1874) i. 12 If I thought of him [sc. Bacon], even as the sagest of book-makers and not as a human being.

b. Of advice, conduct, etc.: Characterized by profound wisdom; based on sound judgement.

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the mind > mental capacity > understanding > wisdom, sagacity > wise man, sage > [adjective]

sage1531

saged1563

sagey1747

Solonic1796

sagely1867

1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour iii. xxii. sig. fviii^v Roboaz..comtempned the sage counsayle of auncient men and imbraced the lyte persuasions of yonge men.

a1593 C. Marlowe Tragicall Hist. Faustus (1604) sig. A3^v Come..make me blest with your sage conference.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) iii. iv. 370 Weel whisper ore a couplet or two of most sage sawes.

1641 J. Milton Of Reformation 45 Little thought he of this sage caution.

1796 H. Hunter tr. J.-H. B. de Saint-Pierre Stud. Nature (1799) II. 380 The infinitely sage plans of Nature.

1871 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues II. 153 He gives sage counsels about the nursing of children.

c. Of the countenance, bearing, etc.: Exhibiting sageness or profound wisdom. In modern use commonly somewhat ironical.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > understanding > wisdom, sagacity > wise man, sage > pretender to wisdom, wiseacre > [adjective]

wiseOE

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nod-crafty1608

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1816 W. Scott Antiquary I. ix. 198 Miss Oldbuck re-entered with a singularly sage expression of countenance.

1849 C. Dickens David Copperfield (1850) xix. 193 Mr. Dick had regularly assisted at our councils, with a meditative and sage demeanour.

†2. Grave, dignified, solemn. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > melancholy > seriousness or solemnity > [adjective]

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(as) grave (also solemn, etc.) as a judge1650

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austere1667

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smileless1740

untriflinga1743

untittering1749

steady1759

dun1797

antithalian1818

dreich1819

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unsmiling1826

laughless1827

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gleeless1850

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mome1855

deedy1895

button-down1959

buttoned-down1960

straight-faced1975

1564 Briefe Exam. C iij b I woulde haue the Ministers of Churches to vse sage vesture.

1592 T. Nashe Pierce Penilesse (Brit. Libr. copy) sig. B3 ^v He wore..a Garnish of nightcaps, with a sage butten cap..ouerspred verie orderly.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Hamlet (1623) v. i. 232 We should prophane the seruice of the dead, To sing sage Requiem, and such rest to her As to peace-parted Soules.

1644 J. Milton in tr. M. Bucer Ivdgem. conc. Divorce To Parl. sig. B3^v In a point of sagest moment.

1645 J. Milton Il Penseroso in Poems 41 And if ought els, great Bards beside, In sage and solemn tunes have sung, Of Turneys and of Trophies hung.

B. n.²

a. A man of profound wisdom; esp. one of those persons of ancient history or legend who were traditionally famous as the wisest of humankind; hence, one whose exceptional wisdom entitles him to a degree of veneration like that which was accorded to these. In early use sometimes with weaker sense, a wise man.The ‘seven sages of Greece’ were Thales, Solon, Periander, Cleobulus, Chilon, Bias, and Pittacus, to each of whom some wise maxim is attributed by ancient writers. The ‘seven sages of Rome’ are the personages of a romance, of eastern origin, which was popular throughout Europe in the Middle Ages. ‘Eastern sages’: often applied in hymns (after Milton) to the ‘three Magi’: see magus n. 1.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > understanding > wisdom, sagacity > wise man, sage > [noun]

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wiseacre1753

sageshipa1832

Yoda1984

society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > Biblical personages > Three Kings > [noun]

the three kingsOE

magusc1175

wise manc1384

Three Kings of Colognec1400

sage1667

the three wise men1867

1399 W. Langland Richard Redeles iii. 7 Me thynkyth, Sauynge souereynes and sages avise, þat þe moste myscheff..Is demed þe dede y-do aȝeins kynde.

a1400 Seuyn Sages (W.) 4 I sal yow tel,..Of the seuen sages of Rome.

c1440 Generydes 88 This old fader..Of vij Saugys callid the wysest That was in Rome.

1547 W. Baldwin Treat. Morall Phylos. i. i. sig. Aij^v There were besides these Sophistes, an other kynde called Sapientes or Sages, as was Thales, Solon [etc.].

1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. I. ii. x. sig. O.viij/2 Musonius, Hierocles, and other auncient sages.

1642 tr. J. Perkins Profitable Bk. xi. §739. 323 Master Littleton who was an honorable sage of the Law.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xii. 362 A Starr..proclaims him com, And guides the Eastern Sages, who enquire His place.

1735 J. Thomson Greece: 2nd Pt. Liberty 222 The great Athenian Sage, And Father of Philosophy [sc. Socrates].

1863 A. P. Stanley Lect. Jewish Church I. xviii. 390 He was..but as one of the old chiefs of the bygone age—half warrior, half sage.

b. In playful or ironic use.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > understanding > wisdom, sagacity > wise man, sage > pretender to wisdom, wiseacre > [noun]

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Solonist1607

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sage1751

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wisebones1894

1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 120. ⁋2 He called for help upon the sages of physick.

1822 W. Irving Bracebridge Hall xxvi. 238 In vain did the sages of the village interfere.

1893 Times 8 May 9/3 They have cited..some of the mustiest sages of the law in confirmation of this view.

Compounds

C1. Simple attributive, as sage-like adj.; objective, as sage-inspiring adj.; instrumental, as sage-exalted, sage-instructed adjs.

ΚΠ

1735 J. Thomson Greece: 2nd Pt. Liberty 197 The Sage-exalted Chief [Xenophon].

1746 J. Thomson Spring in Seasons (new ed.) 13 The dissolving Clouds..to the sage-instructed Eye unfold The various Twine of Light.

1747 T. Warton Pleasures of Melancholy 20 Tho' thro' the graceful seats Ilissus roll His sage-inspiring flood.

1879 R. K. Douglas Confucianism iii. 72 He alone, possessing all the sage-like qualities, shows himself..fitted to exercise rule.

C2. After French use.

† sage fool n. (also in French form fol sage) Obsolete a jester or court fool.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > performance of jester or comedian > [noun] > jester or comedian

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Tom Tram1688

Monaghan1689

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ethologist1727

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Tom1817

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funny man1839

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comedian1860

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Joey1896

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alternative comedian1981

Andrew-

the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > [noun] > jest or pleasantry > one who jests or jokes > professional

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sage fool1377

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funny man1839

jokesman1882

1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xiii. 423 Ȝe lordes and ladyes..þat fedeth foles sages, flatereres and lyeres.

1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xiii. 444 A fol sage syttynge at the heyȝ table.

?c1475 Sage Fool's Test. in H. Gilbert Queene Elizabethes Achademy (1869) i. 77 There was A grete lorde þat had A Sage fole, the whyche he lovyd Marvaylous well.

sage woman n. (also in Anglo-Norman form †sage feme) rare a midwife.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > healer > one skilled in obstetrics or midwifery > [noun]

midwifec1300

childwifea1387

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Lucinac1405

matron?a1425

grace-wifec1600

Mother Midnight1602

headswoman1615

handwoman1637

sage woman1672

howdie1725

accoucheur1727

granny1738

obstetrix1773

accoucheuse1795

dukun1817

fingersmith1819

wise woman1821

obstetrician1826

obstetrist1873

tocologist1902

birth attendant1910

S.C.M.1935

monitrice1969

1672 H. Stubbe Rosemary & Bayes 2 Baptisme 'tis thought may be administred by a sage feme.

1832 B. Disraeli Contarini Fleming III. iii. xix. 110 A sage woman of great reputation, [was] at our house.

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单词	sage
释义	sagen.¹ Brit. /seɪdʒ/, U.S. /seɪdʒ/ Forms: Middle English–1500s sauge, Middle English sawge, salge, (Middle English sauoge), 1500s saulge, sayge, Middle English– sage. Etymology: Middle English sauge , < French sauge (13th cent. in Littré) < Latin salvia (whence late Old English saluie , Middle English save n.¹). Compare Provençal salvia , Spanish salvia , Italian salvia , Portuguese salva ; also Middle Low German salvie , selve , Dutch salie , Old High German salbeia , salveia (feminine) (modern German salbei masculine). For the phonology in English compare chafe v., gauge n., safe n., save n.¹ 1. A plant of the genus Salvia, family Labiatæ; esp. S. officinalis, an aromatic culinary herb. Hence, the leaves of this plant used in Cookery.‘Sage, much esteemed formerly as a medicinal herb, is not now included in the British Pharmacopœia, but in domestic medicine is still used in the preparation of sage-tea’ ( N.E.D.). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > medicinal and culinary plants > medicinal and culinary plant or part of plant > [noun] > sage plant, leaf, or root sagea1350 sage leaf14.. sage root14.. savec1405 tea-sage1728 salvia1844 the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > herb > [noun] > sage sagea1350 savec1405 claryc1485 tea-sage1728 a1350 in G. L. Brook Harley Lyrics (1968) 32 He is blosme opon bleo, brihtest vnder bis, Wiþ celydoyne ant sauge, ase þou þiself sys. 1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis III. 131 Salge is his herbe appourtenant Aboven al the remenant. a1475 Liber Cocorum (Sloane) (1862) 11 Do þer to sage and persely ȝoyng. 1541 T. Elyot Castel of Helthe (new ed.) ii. xvi. 29 Sauge. It healeth, and sommewhat byndeth. 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball ii. lxxvii. 250 There be two sortes of Sage, the one is small and franke, and the other is great. The great Sage is of three sortes, that is to say, greene, white, and redde. 1584 T. Cogan Hauen of Health xi. 33 Sage is vsed commonly in sawces, as to stuffe veale, porke, rosting pigges, and that for good cause. 1590 E. Spenser Muiopotmos 187 The wholesome saulge, and lavender still gray. ?1610 J. Fletcher Faithfull Shepheardesse ii. sig. D1^v These for frenzy be A speedy and a soueraigne remedie. The bitter Wormewood, Sage and Marigold. 1714 J. Gay Shepherd's Week ii. 13 Marbled with Sage the hard'ning Cheese she press'd. 1766 C. Anstey New Bath Guide (ed. 2) ix. ii. 71 But what's the Sage without the Goose? 1881 Encycl. Brit. XII. 289/2 Sage, Salvia officinalis, a hardy evergreen undershrub, belonging to the labiates, of which there are two varieties, the green-leaved and the red-leaved. 2. Cookery. †a. A forcemeat, ‘pottage’, or sauce in which sage is the chief ingredient. sage yfarced, sage stuffing. Also quasi-adj. in partly anglicized names of culinary preparations containing sage, as fritter sage, sauce sage. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > additive > stuffing > [noun] > sage stuffing sage?c1390 sage and onions1747 ?c1390 Forme of Cury (1780) 23 Pygges in sawse Sawge. ?c1390 Forme of Cury (1780) 72 Sawge yfarced. c1430 Two Cookery-bks. 28 Sauge. Take Gyngere, Galyngale, Clowys, & grynde in a morter; þan take an handfulle of Sawge, & do þer-to [etc.]. c1430 Two Cookery-bks. 41 Sauoge. Take Pigis fete clene y-pekyd; þan tak Freysshe broþe of Beff, & draw mylke of Almaundys, & þe Piggys þer-in; þen mence Sawge [etc.]. c1450 Two Cookery-bks. 72 Pigge or chiken in Sauge. c1460 J. Russell Bk. Nurture 501 Frutur sawge. b. sage and onions: a stuffing chiefly composed of those ingredients, used for goose, duck, pork, etc. Also sage-and-onion stuffing. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > additive > stuffing > [noun] > sage stuffing sage?c1390 sage and onions1747 1747 H. Glasse Art of Cookery i. 4 Some love the Knuckle [of pork] stuffed with Onions and Sage shred small. 1824 New Syst. Cookery 113 Ducks roasted. Stuff one with sage and onion,..crums,..and pepper and salt. 1861 I. M. Beeton Bk. Househ. Managem. x. 241 (heading) Sage-And-Onion Stuffing, for Geese, Ducks, and Pork. 189. T. F. Garrett & W. A. Rawson Encycl. Pract. Cookery (at cited word) Sage-and-Onion Stuffing. 3. In the names of plants of other genera. Bengal sage n. Meriandra bengalensis (Treas. Bot. 1866). bitter sage n., †garlick sage n., †mountain sage n. or †wood sage Teucrium Scorodonia. French sage n. Phlomis fruticosa.† Jerusalem sage n. Obsolete† sage of Jerusalem n. (or †sage of Bethlehem) Obsolete (a) Pulmonaria officinalis; (b) Phlomis fruticosa. seaside sage n. Croton balsamiferum (Treas. Bot.).† rock sage n. Obsolete a species of Sideritis. white sage n. in U.S., a woolly chenopodiaceous plant used as a febrifuge, Eurotia lanata; also applied to other plants of the same order, Kochia prostrata and Audibertia polystachya (Cent. Dict.). wild sage n. (a) = bitter sage n.; (b) see quot. 1866.black sage: see the first element. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > labiate plant or plants > [noun] > germander plants hindheala1300 ambrosea1350 wild sagea1400 germander?a1425 tetterwosea1500 English treacle1548 garlic-germander1548 scordium1548 wood-sage1571 garlic-sage1597 horse-chire1597 tree germander1597 mountain sage1659 marum1666 teucrium1673 mastic plant1718 thorny germander1822 bitter sage1865 the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Compositae (composite plants) > [noun] > other composite plants wild sagea1400 yellow devil's-bita1400 white golda1425 cotula1578 golden cudweed1597 golden tuft1597 rattlesnake root1682 Cape tansy?1711 hawkbit1713 ambrosia1731 cabbage tree1735 hog's eye1749 Osteospermum1754 ox-tongue1760 scentless mayweed1800 old man's beard1804 ox-eye1818 echinacea1825 sheep's beard1836 shepherd's beard1840 cat's-ear1848 goatweed1869 silversword1888 khaki bush1907 venidium1937 khaki bos1947 Namaqualand daisy1963 the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Boraginaceae (bugloss and allies) > [noun] ribeOE hound's-tonguec1000 ox-tonguea1325 rotheren tongue?a1350 buglossa1400 dog's tongue?a1425 lungwort1538 anchusa1548 sheep's tongue1552 cowslip of Jerusalem1578 Our Lady's milkwort1578 pulmonaria1578 sage of Jerusalem1578 wild comfrey1578 maiden-lips1589 bugloss cowslip1597 viper's bugloss1597 viper's herb1597 ribbie1607 lithospermon1646 wall bugloss1650 lady's glove1668 Venus's navelwort1678 spotted comfrey1688 cynogloss1705 Jerusalem sage1736 lawn1778 Mertensia1836 stickseed1843 Virginian cowslip1856 bluebell1858 gooseberry fool1858 Jerusalem cowslip1866 borage-wort1882 echium1883 rose noble1886 milksile- the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > labiate plant or plants > [noun] > phlomis sage mullein1562 mullein1578 sage of Jerusalem1578 French sage1597 Jupiter's distaff1597 phlome1715 Jerusalem sage1736 sage tree1736 Phlomis1754 a1400 J. Mirfield Sinonoma Bartholomei (1882) 10/2 Ambrosia, wild sauge. 1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. B.iiij^v Bacchar or Baccaris is the herbe (as I thynke) that we cal in english Sage of Hierusalem. 1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball ii. 135 b Thys kinde [of Sideritis] is called in Duche Glitkraut, it may be called in English Yronwurt or Rock sage. 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball i. lxxxv. 125 Sage of Jerusalem hath rough, hearie, and large, browne greene leaues, sprinckled with diuers white spots. 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 535 Wood Sage, or Garlicke Sage. 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 625 Of French Sage, or woodie Mullein... They are called of the learned men of our time, Verbasca syluestria... In English it is generally called French Sage, we may call it Sage Mullein. 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 663 Pulmonaria,..Sage of Ierusalem, Cowslip of Ierusalem, Sage of Bethlem. 1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I Scordium,..Wild Sage, vulgo. 1736 Compl. Family-piece ii. iii. 300 Several other Trees and Shrubs..are now in Flower, as the several sorts of Jerusalem Sage. 1864 A. H. R. Grisebach Flora Brit. W. Indian Islands 787 Black sage: Cordia cylindrostachya. 1865 P. H. Gosse Land & Sea 15 The wood germander, or bitter sage. 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. (at cited word) Wild Sage, a name in the Cape colony for Tarchonanthus camphoratus. 4. = sage-brush n. at Compounds 2 (see Compounds 2). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Compositae (composite plants) > [noun] > Artemisia or mugwort mugworteOE artemisiaOE mugweeda1400 motherwort1440 matricary1523 French wormwood1548 holy wormwood1548 sea-mugwort1548 sea-wormwood1548 tree wormwood1548 Roman wormwood1551 southernwood1577 garden cypress1578 mouse-wort1607 field southernwood1739 sage1805 hyssop1807 sage-bush1807 appleringie1808 absinth1841 sage-brush1850 1805 M. Lewis Jrnl. 12 May in Jrnls. Lewis & Clark Exped. (1987) IV. 146 The wild hysop sage..and some other herbs also grow in the plains and hills. 1807 P. Gass Jrnls. 127 A kind of wild sage or hyssop, as high as a man's head,..grows in these bottoms. 1837 W. Irving Adventures Capt. Bonneville II. 206 The country, hereabout,..producing very little grass, but a considerable quantity of sage or wormwood. 1851 M. Reid Scalp Hunters II. iv. 41 A desert country, here and there covered with wild sage and mezquite. 1872 C. King Mountaineering in Sierra Nevada xiii. 265 Desert too gentle and overspread with sage to be terrible. 5. The colour of sage. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > green or greenness > [noun] > shade or tint of green > greyish green sage colour1596 sage-green1810 almond green1870 sage1881 Lovat1895 Marina green1935 tea-green1956 1881 C. C. Harrison Woman's Handiwork Mod. Homes i. 20 A ground of sage or of Pompeian red velvet. 1971 Vogue 15 Sept. 129/1 Suit..sizes: 10–16; colours: brown/white, burnt orange/white, olive/sage. Compounds C1. General attributive. a. Simple attributive. sage-ash n. ΚΠ 1923 D. H. Lawrence Birds, Beasts & Flowers (London ed.) 147 An eagle at the top of a low cedar-bush On the sage-ash desert. sage colour n. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > green or greenness > [noun] > shade or tint of green > greyish green sage colour1596 sage-green1810 almond green1870 sage1881 Lovat1895 Marina green1935 tea-green1956 1596 Acct.-bk. W. Wray in Antiquary (1896) 32 79 Sould him of the leight sayge culler q' & d. sage juice n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > decoction > [noun] > of herbs, seeds, or bark sorrela1400 cinnamon-water1589 borage-water1620 sage drink1747 sage juice1747 seed water1747 mauby1790 sabzi1804 gentian1840 Angostura1856 gentian bitter1864 sage gargle189. hop bitters1894 rooibos1911 1747 J. Wesley Primitive Physick cxvii. 72 Hoarseness... Take a spoonful of Sage-juice, morning and evening. sage leaf n. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > medicinal and culinary plants > medicinal and culinary plant or part of plant > [noun] > sage plant, leaf, or root sagea1350 sage leaf14.. sage root14.. savec1405 tea-sage1728 salvia1844 14.. Med. MS. in Anglia XIX. 78 Take a sawge-leef and wryte þeron. 1660 J. Childrey Britannia Baconica 5 They have a slate of three sorts, blew, sage-leaf-coloured, and gray. 1747 J. Wesley Primitive Physick 83 Apply..boil'd Sage leaves hot. 1884 R. Browning Ferishtah's Fancies Prol. Sage-leaf is bitter-pungent—so's a quince. sage oil n. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > extracted or refined oil > [noun] > other plant-derived oils oil de baya1398 oil roseta1400 alkitranc1400 laurinec1400 oil of spicac1400 seed oil1400 rape oil1420 nut-oil?c1425 masticine?1440 oil de rose?1440 oil of myrtine?a1450 gingellya1544 rose oil1552 alchitrean1562 oil of spike1577 oil of ben1594 myrtle oil1601 sesamus1601 sampsuchine1616 oil of walnuts1622 rape1641 oil of rhodium1649 rapeseed oil1652 neroli1676 oil of mace1681 spirit of scurvy-grass1682 beech-oil1716 poppy oil1737 castor oil1746 oil of sassafras1753 orange-peel oil1757 wood-oil1759 bergamot1766 sunflower oil1768 Russia oil1773 oil castor1779 tung-yu1788 poppy-seed oil1799 cocoa butter1801 sassafras oil1801 phulwara1805 oil of wine1807 grass oil1827 oil of marjoram1829 cajuput oil1832 essence of mustarda1834 picamar1835 spurge oil1836 oenanthic ether1837 tea oil1837 capnomor1838 cinnamon-oil1838 oil of mustard1838 orange-flower oil1838 resinein1841 mustard oil1844 myrrhol1845 styrol1845 oenanthol1847 shea butter1847 wintergreen1847 gaultheria oil1848 ginger-grass oil.1849 nutmeg oil1849 pine oil1849 peppermint oil1850 cocoa fat1851 orange oil1853 neem oil1856 poonga oil1857 xanthoxylene1857 crab-oil1858 illupi oil1858 Shanghai oil1861 stand oil1862 mustard-seed oil1863 carap oilc1865 cocum butter or oilc1865 Kurung oil1866 muduga oil1866 pichurim oil1866 serpolet1866 sumbul oil1868 sesame oil1870 niger oil1872 summer yellow1872 olibene1873 patchouli oil1875 pilocarpene1876 styrolene1881 tung oil1881 becuiba tallow1884 soy oil1884 tea-seed oil1884 eucalyptus1885 sage oil1888 hop-oil1889 cotton-seed oil1891 lemon oil1896 palmarosa oil1897 illipe butter1904 hydnocarpus oil1905 tung1911 niger seed oil1917 sun oil1937 vanaspati1949 fennel oil- 1888 W. T. Brannt Pract. Treat. Animal & Veg. Fats & Oils 539 Sage oil, oleum salviæ, obtained by distillation from the leaves of the sage. sage root n. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > medicinal and culinary plants > medicinal and culinary plant or part of plant > [noun] > sage plant, leaf, or root sagea1350 sage leaf14.. sage root14.. savec1405 tea-sage1728 salvia1844 the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medical preparations of specific origin > medicine composed of a plant > [noun] > plant used in medicine > root > specific roots zedoaryOE madderOE setwall?c1225 liquoricec1275 rhubarba1400 ireosc1400 liquorice-racec1400 sage root14.. maple root1523 liquorice-root1530 rhabarbarum1533 orris1545 turmeric1545 cypressc1550 pyrethrum1562 china1582 China root1588 orris root1598 red squill1629 ginseng1654 ague root1676 poke root1687 cassumunar1693 nettle root1707 valerian root1747 belly-ache-root1775 Indian root1775 Turkey rhubarb1789 sumbul1791 serpentaria1803 Honduras sarsaparilla1818 serpentary1837 sang1843 savanilla1856 manaca1866 gelsemium1875 sanguinaria1875 Indian turmeric1890 14.. Stockholm Med. MS. ii. 867 in Anglia XVIII. 328 Rwe is eke a souereyn bote, To settyn abowtyn a sawge-rote. sage-scrub n. ΚΠ 1927 D. H. Lawrence Mornings in Mexico 136 Across the grey desert..low, grey, sage-scrub was coming to pallid yellow. b. Also in the names of preparations flavoured or medicated with sage. sage ale n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > ale or beer > ale > [noun] > flavoured ale Welsh aleeOE braggetc1405 buttered ale1547 sage ale1584 wormwood-ale1603 bragoes1605 mace-ale1605 China-ale1659 horseradish ale1664 butter ale1666 1584 T. Cogan Hauen of Health xi. 33 Much after the same manner [as the making of sage wine] is made Sage ale. 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 624 Sage ale, being brewed as it shoulde be, with Sage, Scabious, Betonie, Spikenard, Squinanth, and Fennell seedes. sage bread n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > bread > [noun] > fancy bread > flavoured bread sage bread1668 orange-flower bread1750 garlic bread1951 1668 R. Sharrock Let. 7 Apr. in R. Boyle Wks. (1744) V. 4 I have known sage bread do much good in drying up watry humours. sage drink n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > decoction > [noun] > of herbs, seeds, or bark sorrela1400 cinnamon-water1589 borage-water1620 sage drink1747 sage juice1747 seed water1747 mauby1790 sabzi1804 gentian1840 Angostura1856 gentian bitter1864 sage gargle189. hop bitters1894 rooibos1911 1747 H. Glasse Art of Cookery x. 121 Sage Drink. sage gargle n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > decoction > [noun] > of herbs, seeds, or bark sorrela1400 cinnamon-water1589 borage-water1620 sage drink1747 sage juice1747 seed water1747 mauby1790 sabzi1804 gentian1840 Angostura1856 gentian bitter1864 sage gargle189. hop bitters1894 rooibos1911 189. T. F. Garrett & W. A. Rawson Encycl. Pract. Cookery Sage gargle. sage wine n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > wine > drinks made with wine > [noun] > wine flavoured with herbs sage wine1597 purl royal1675 cool tankard1688 cool cup1775 May drink1851 Maitrank1858 May wine1890 May bowl1951 1597 W. Langham Garden of Health 575 Vse it as Sage wine to consume flegme. c. Instrumental. sage-covered adj. ΚΠ 1851 M. Reid Scalp Hunters III. i. 4 We passed over sage-covered plains. d. Similative. sage-leaved adj. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > medicinal and culinary plants > medicinal and culinary plant or part of plant > [adjective] absinthialc1540 sage-leaved1822 1822 S. Clarke Hortus Anglicus II. 13 C. Salvifolius. Sage-leaved Cistus. 1824 J. C. Loudon Green-house Compan. i. 95 Phlomis Lychnites... A sage-leaved whitish rugose plant. e. Parasynthetic. sage-coloured adj. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > green or greenness > [adjective] > greyish green glass1547 sage-coloured1596 sage1785 sage-greeny1884 Marina green1991 1596 Acct. Bk. W. Wray in Antiquary (1896) 32 79 iij yeardes of leight sayge cullerd fustian. C2. Special combinations: sage-apple n. a gall-apple formed on a species of sage, Salvia pomifera, eaten as a fruit in Crete. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > disease or injury > [noun] > gall or abnormal growth > on particular plants oak-apple1440 bedeguar1578 sponge1608 oak-berry1626 oak nut1626 Aleppo gall1698 grape-gall1753 rose gall1753 oak galla1774 ear cockle1777 honeysuckle apple1818 sage-apple1832 robin's pincushion1835 oak spangle1836 robin's cushion1837 oak-wart1840 spangle1842 shick-shack1847 spangle-gall1864 tomato gall1869 Robin redbreast's cushion1878 knopper1879 trumpet-gall1879 spongiole1884 knot-gall1894 the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > other fruits > [noun] tamarind1539 zizypha1546 guava1555 tuna1555 turpentine1562 mango1582 mammee1587 durian1588 lychee1588 sapota1589 fritter1591 mangosteen1598 custard apple1648 longan1655 mammee sapota1657 mammee apple1683 breadfruit1697 coco-plum1699 rambutan1707 pawpaw1709 locust bean1731 sapodilla1750 cherimoya1758 wild lime1767 Otaheite apple1777 narra1779 langsat1783 rose apple1790 cinnamon apple1796 sapota plum1797 bhindi1809 salak1820 gingerbread plum1824 geebung1827 loquat1829 sapodilla plum1830 sage-apple1832 kangaroo-apple1834 karaka-fruit1834 quandong1836 mombin1837 terap1839 zapote1842 tamarind plum1846 prairie pea1848 Barbados-cherry1858 kei-apple1859 Natal plum1859 bullock's heart1866 guava-apple1866 Sierra Leone peach1866 Turkey fig1866 marula1877 scarlet banana1885 Suriname cherry1895 feijoa1898 pear apple1898 ume1918 pepino1922 Chinese gooseberry1925 num-num1926 acerola1954 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > mushrooms or edible fungi > other edible fungi Jew's ear1544 morel1653 Judas's ear1692 moriglio1698 chanterelle1777 sage-apple1832 swamp-apple1846 swamp-cheese1859 cèpe1865 mayapple1872 thunder-dirt1883 mealy parasol1887 1832 E. Lankester Veg. Substances Food 321 Sage-apples. sage-brush n. a collective term for various species of Artemisia, esp. A. tridentata; also attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Compositae (composite plants) > [noun] > Artemisia or mugwort mugworteOE artemisiaOE mugweeda1400 motherwort1440 matricary1523 French wormwood1548 holy wormwood1548 sea-mugwort1548 sea-wormwood1548 tree wormwood1548 Roman wormwood1551 southernwood1577 garden cypress1578 mouse-wort1607 field southernwood1739 sage1805 hyssop1807 sage-bush1807 appleringie1808 absinth1841 sage-brush1850 1850 K. Webster Gold Seekers of '49 (1917) iii. 84 We were compelled to tie our mules to sage brush to keep them from straying away. 1861 ‘M. Twain’ Lett. (1917) I. 54 On the plains, sage-brush and grease-wood grow about twice as large as the common geranium. 1872 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds 233 Confined to the sterile plains and sage-brush (Artemisia) tracts of Western U.S. 1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. II. xlvii. 217 A desert..whose lower grounds were covered with that growth of alkaline plants which the Americans call sage-brush. 1907 S. E. White Arizona Nights (U.K. ed.) 191 We began to toil in the ankle-deep sand of a little sage-brush flat. 1946 D. C. Peattie Road of Naturalist (U.K. ed.) v. 53 A few forms like sage-brush or creosote bush..repeat themselves for fifty miles on end. 1976 Sci. Amer. Oct. 20/3 Strong lives with his wife and 11-year-old daughter in pine and sagebrush country overlooking the Rio Grande. 1977 J. F. Fixx Compl. Bk. Running ii. 25 We are in a canyon surrounded by mountains, trees and sagebrush. Sagebrush State n. popular name of Nevada (formerly also applied to Wyoming). ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > America > North America > [noun] > United States > specific states > Nevada, Wyoming, and Colorado Washoe1856 silver state1866 Sagebrush State1893 1893 L. Wagner Significance of Names 35 Nevada is also called..The Sage-Brush State, from the wild artemesia covering the plains. 1904 N.Y. Evening Post 6 May 7 A senator from one of the ‘sagebrush’ States..Mr. Newlands of Nevada. 1917 Boston Evening Globe 11 Apr. 16/4 Nevada has been known for many years as the Sagebrush State. 1934 G. E. Shankle State Names ii. 155 The sobriquet, the Sagebrush State, applied to Wyoming, refers to the fact that wild sage (Artemisia tridentata) grows on the desert sections of this State. 1976 Billings (Montana) Gaz. 20 June 10- c/2 Sagebrush, Silver and Battle Born State are nicknames for Nevada, first explored by the Spaniards in 1776. sage-bush n. = sage-brush n. above. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Compositae (composite plants) > [noun] > Artemisia or mugwort mugworteOE artemisiaOE mugweeda1400 motherwort1440 matricary1523 French wormwood1548 holy wormwood1548 sea-mugwort1548 sea-wormwood1548 tree wormwood1548 Roman wormwood1551 southernwood1577 garden cypress1578 mouse-wort1607 field southernwood1739 sage1805 hyssop1807 sage-bush1807 appleringie1808 absinth1841 sage-brush1850 1807 P. Gass Jrnls. 204 The sage bushes..grow in great abundance on some parts of these plains. 1874 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. Suppl. Sage-bush, Artemisia tridentata. 1902 ‘M. Twain’ in Harper's Mag. Jan. 269/2 He started on a run, racing in and out among the sage-bushes. 1977 J. L. Harper Population Biol. Plants xx. 604 Woodland dominated by pinyon pine..is intimately associated with Artemisia sage-bush communities. sage-cheese n. a kind of cheese which is flavoured and mottled by mixing a decoction of sage-leaves with the cheese-curd. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dairy produce > cheese > [noun] > varieties of cheese goat cheeseOE green cheesec1390 rowen cheesea1425 bred-cheesec1440 hard cheesec1470 ruen cheese1510 parmesan1538 spermyse1542 angelot1573 cow-cheese1583 goat's cheese1588 Cheshire Cheese1597 eddish-cheese1615 nettle cheese1615 aftermath cheese1631 marsolini1636 Suffolk cheese1636 Cheddar cheesea1661 rowen1673 parmigianoa1684 raw-milk cheesea1687 fleet cheese1688 sage-cheese1714 Rhode Island cheese1733 Stilton cheese1736 Roquefort cheese1762 American cheese1763 fodder cheese1784 Old Peg1785 blue cheese1787 Dunlop cheese1793 Wiltshire1794 Gloucester1802 Gruyère1802 Neufchâtel1814 Limburger cheese1817 Dunlop1818 fog cheese1822 Swiss cheese1822 Suffolk thumpa1825 Stilton1826 skim dick1827 stracchino cheese1832 Blue Vinney1836 Edam1836 Schabzieger1837 sapsago1846 Munster1858 mysost1861 napkin cheese1865 provolone1865 Roquefort1867 Suffolk bang1867 Leicester1874 Brie1876 Camembert1878 Gorgonzola1878 Leicester cheese1880 Port Salut1881 Wensleydale1881 Gouda1885 primost1889 Cantal1890 Suisse1891 bondon1894 Petit Suisse1895 Gervais1896 Lancashire1896 Pont l'Évêque1896 reggiano1896 Romano1897 fontina1898 Caerphilly cheese1901 Derby cheese1902 Emmental1902 Liptauer1902 farmer cheese1904 robiola1907 gjetost1908 reblochon1908 scamorza1908 Cabrales1910 Jack1910 pimento cheese1910 mozzarella1911 pimiento cheese1911 Monterey cheese1912 processed cheese1918 Tillamook1918 tvorog1918 anari1919 process cheese1923 Bel Paese1926 pecorino1931 Oka1936 Parmigiano–Reggiano1936 vacherin1936 Monterey Jack1940 Red Leicester1940 demi-sel1946 tomme1946 Danish blue1948 Tilsit1950 St.-Maure1951 Samsoe1953 Havarti1954 paneer1954 taleggio1954 feta1956 St. Paulin1956 bleu cheese1957 Manchego1957 Ilchester1963 Dolcelatte1964 chèvre1965 Chaource1966 Windsor Red1969 halloumi1970 Montrachet1973 Chaumes1976 Lymeswold1981 cambozola1984 yarg1984 1714 J. Gay Shepherd's Week ii. 16 But Marian now..Nor yellow Butter nor Sage Cheese prepares. 1853 C. Dickens Bleak House xii. 109 It [the sea] is habitually hard upon Sir Leicester, whose countenance it greenly mottles in the manner of sage-cheese. sage grass n. U.S. = sage-brush n. ΚΠ 1893 Scribner's Mag. June 801/2 To inhale the odor of..pungent aromatic things in the tall ‘Sage grass’. sage-green n. a shade of dull greyish green resembling that of the foliage of the sage plant Salvia officinalis; also as adjective. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > green or greenness > [noun] > shade or tint of green > greyish green sage colour1596 sage-green1810 almond green1870 sage1881 Lovat1895 Marina green1935 tea-green1956 1810 Repository of Arts Apr. 262/2 Light sage green, or cream-coloured kerseymere breeches. 1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 642 Sage-green, pea, and sea-greens. 1929 A. Huxley Holy Face 28 Her sage-green dress was only demi-semi-evening. 1976 Star (Sheffield) 20 Nov. 10/2 (advt.) Bed-settee with arms. Teak frame. Sage green expanded vinyl. sage-greeny adj. of the colour of sage-green. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > green or greenness > [adjective] > greyish green glass1547 sage-coloured1596 sage1785 sage-greeny1884 Marina green1991 1884 G. Allen Philistia I. 49 Three afternoon dresses, the grey,..the sage-greeny æsthetic one, and the peacock-blue. sage-grey adj. = sage-green n. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > grey or greyness > [noun] > greenish grey olive grey1852 mignonette-grey1900 sage-grey1923 1923 D. H. Lawrence Birds, Beasts & Flowers (London ed.) 190 Day has gone to dust on the sage-grey desert. † sage mullein n. Obsolete = French sage (see 3 above). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > labiate plant or plants > [noun] > phlomis sage mullein1562 mullein1578 sage of Jerusalem1578 French sage1597 Jupiter's distaff1597 phlome1715 Jerusalem sage1736 sage tree1736 Phlomis1754 1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 161 The wilde one [Verbascum]..may be called in Englishe Sage mullen. sage rose n. †(a) a plant of the genus Cistus (obsolete); (b) a shrub, Turnera ulmifolia, found in the West Indies and South America. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > cultivated or ornamental trees and shrubs > [noun] > cistus cistus1551 sage rose1597 gum-cistus1688 the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > shrubs > non-British shrubs > [noun] > American or West Indian ramgoat bush1566 burton-wood1697 cowage cherry1725 Jack-in-the-busha1726 screw tree1739 lady of the night1752 goatweed1756 solandra1797 silk-tassel1833 garrya1835 matico1839 choisya1840 Romneya1845 jointer1847 creosote-bush1851 creosote-plant1854 bridal wreath1856 ocotillo1856 adelaster1863 sage rose1864 white horse1864 tree poppy1866 Tacsonia1869 rain tree1877 piquillin bush1884 tassel-bush1891 bush poppy1899 Mexican orange1923 shrimp plant1941 1597 J. Gerard Herball Table Eng. Names Sage rose and his kinds, looke Cistus. 1864 A. H. R. Grisebach Flora Brit. W. Indian Islands 787 Sage-rose: Turnera ulmifolia. sage tea n. an infusion of sage-leaves, used as a stomachic and slight stimulant. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > infused leaves, flowers, or fruit > [noun] > others coltsfoota1627 sage tea?1706 pippin tea1709 lemon-tea1725 foltron1748 camomile-tea1753 sassafras tea1783 spruce tea1783 mountain tea1785 cow-slip tea1796 miserable1842 peppermint tea1844 violet tea1853 Swiss tea1860 coffee-tea1866 Jesuits' tea1866 St. Helena tea1875 cotton-leaf tea1881 tamarind watera1883 tamarind tea1883 mullein tea1887 rosehip tea1947 the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines of specific form > decoction or infusion > [noun] > specific decoction or infusion sabras?c1225 tisanea1398 tamarisk1597 wort1694 sage tea?1706 poppy tea1709 yapon tea1723 herb-tea1744 spring juices1751 balm-tea1752 camomile-tea1753 uva ursi1753 nettle tea1758 bush tea1768 quassia1778 majo bitters1866 Mexican tea1866 ?1706 E. Hickeringill Priest-craft: 2nd Pt. vi. 62 As for Sage-Tea, it being an English Drink,..I care not if they Drink it without the assistance of Mr. Say-Grace. 1824 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Gardening (ed. 2) iii. (i.) 669 The decoction called sage-tea is usually made from one variety, the small-leaved green, or sage of virtue. sage tree n. (a) Phlomis fruticosa; (b) see quot. 1884. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > labiate plant or plants > [noun] > phlomis sage mullein1562 mullein1578 sage of Jerusalem1578 French sage1597 Jupiter's distaff1597 phlome1715 Jerusalem sage1736 sage tree1736 Phlomis1754 the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > Australasian trees > [noun] > other Australasian trees or shrubs burrawang1826 water gum1826 kaikomako1832 karaka1834 kawa-kawa1838 peppermint1838 bottle tree1844 ngaio1849 Grevillea1853 red birch1853 wooden pear1860 muskwood1866 sugar-tree1866 tulip-tree1866 hop-bush1883 mock orange1884 mountain beech1884 sage tree1884 tile-seed1884 mutton-bird scrub1889 red birch1889 silver-tree1889 whalebone-tree1889 budda1890 camphor laurel1894 pepperbush1895 mustard bush1898 willow myrtle1898 pigeon wood1899 horizontal scrub1909 turkey-bush1911 pandani1923 mock orange1929 1736 Compl. Family-piece ii. iii. 313 There are several other Trees and Shrubs..in Flower, as..Phlomis or Sage-tree. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. App. (at cited word) Sage of Jerusalem, or Sage-tree. 1884 W. Miller Dict. Eng. Names Plants Sage tree, Brush-land, of Australia. Psychotria daphnoides. sage-willow n. a dwarf grey American willow, Salix tristis. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > willow and allies > [noun] > other types of willow red willow1547 water willow1583 goat's willow1597 rose willow1597 sweet willow1597 French willow1601 siler1607 palm-withy1609 sallowie1610 swallowtail willow1626 willow bay1650 black willow1670 crack-willow1670 grey willow1697 water sallow1761 almond willowa1763 swallow-tailed willow1764 swamp willow1765 golden osier1772 golden willow1772 purple willow1773 sand-willow1786 goat willow1787 purple osier1797 whipcord1812 Arctic willow1818 sage-willow1846 pussy willow1851 Kilmarnock willow1854 sweet-bay willow1857 pussy1858 palm willow1869 Spaniard1871 ground-willow1875 Spanish willow1875 snap-willow1880 diamond willow1884 sandbar willow1884 pussy palm1886 creeping willow1894 bat-willow1907 cricket bat willow1907 silver willow1914 1846 G. B. Emerson Rep. Trees & Shrubs Mass. 256 The sage willow is a slender, hoary plant, or a spreading tufted bush. sage-wood n. (a) = sage-brush n.; (b) a small tree or shrub, Buddleia salviifolia, of the family Loganiaceæ, found in southern Africa and bearing leaves like those of common sage and racemes of white or purple flowers; also, the hard, heavy wood of this tree. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular timber trees or shrubs > non-British timber trees > [noun] > African shittima1382 citrus1555 cam-wood1699 jacaranda1753 kokerboom1774 quiver tree1789 geelhout1790 rooihout1790 yellowwood1790 mat-wood1792 assegai1793 assegai tree1793 hardpear1801 rooi els1801 argan1809 beaver-wood1810 mat tree1812 saffraan1819 salie1819 sneezewood1834 African teak1842 hyawaballi1851 sage-wood1854 mvule1858 til1858 yari-yari1858 cannibal stinkwood1859 kiaat1862 knobwood1862 milkwood1862 tryssil1862 sulphur-tree1863 khaya1864 cailcedra1866 flat-crown1868 umzimbeet1870 kuka1882 odum1887 iroko1890 opepe1891 Natal mahogany1904 muhimbi1906 obeche1906 agba1908 makoré1915 afara1920 agboin1920 abura1921 podo1922 afrormosia1923 guarea1936 Mansonia1936 dahoma1955 utile1956 society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood of specific trees > [noun] > sage-wood salie1819 sage-wood1854 1854 L. Pappe Silva Capensis 31 Sage-wood... Wood hard, tough, heavy. 1932 J. M. Watt & M. G. Breyer-Brandwijk Med. & Poisonous Plants S. Afr. 140 Sagewood, Saliehout,..is possibly used medicinally by the Hottentots. 1973 Standard Encycl. Southern Afr. IX. 458/2 The sagewood..belongs to the rather heterogeneous family Loganiaceæ. C3. In the names of animals and birds found chiefly in the sage-brush districts of North America. sage chicken n. = sage grouse. ΚΠ 1873 E. B. Custer Boots & Saddles App. 293 A pair of sage-chickens, a pair of curlew, and a jack-rabbit complete my present collection. 1902 O. Wister Virginian iv. 53 We..shot some young sage chickens, which were good at supper, roasted at our camp-fire. sage cock n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Tetraonidae (grouse) > [noun] > centrocercus urophasianus (sage grouse) sage cock1840 sage hen1843 sage grouse1884 1840 A. Wislizenus Ausflug nach Felsen-Gebirgen 1839 ix. 49 Sage cock, cock of the plains. 1859 S. F. Baird Catal. N. Amer. Birds (Smithsonian Inst. Publ. 108) 12/2 Centrocercus urophasianus Sw. Sage Cock. 1917 T. G. Pearson Birds Amer. II. 30/1 The Sage Cock has a sharp cackle. sage fowl n. = sage grouse. ΚΠ 1870 Amer. Naturalist 3 82 Sage Fowl (Centrocercus Urophasianus). I saw nothing of the Sage Fowl, which..is very rare there. sage grouse n. the largest grouse found in America, Centrocercus europhasianus. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Tetraonidae (grouse) > [noun] > centrocercus urophasianus (sage grouse) sage cock1840 sage hen1843 sage grouse1884 1884 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds (ed. 2) 580 Sage Grouse. sage hare n. = sage rabbit n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Lagomorpha (rabbits and hares) > [noun] > family Leporidae > genus Lepus (hares) > lepus americanus (snowshoe hare) rabbit1634 prairie hare1840 sage hare1868 snow-shoe1888 snow-shoe rabbit1889 snowshoe hare1921 mountain hare1923 1868 Amer. Naturalist 2 536 The Sage Hare..is more rare near Fort Benton. sage hen n. = sage cock n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Tetraonidae (grouse) > [noun] > centrocercus urophasianus (sage grouse) sage cock1840 sage hen1843 sage grouse1884 1843 J. Williams Jrnl. 27 July in Narr. Tour to Oregon 14 The sage hen is found here also. 1848 E. Bryant What I saw in Calif. ix. 135 An antelope and sage-hen were killed during our march to-day. 1861 G. F. Berkeley Eng. Sportsman ii. 25 There is a certain bird of the grouse species..called the ‘sage hen’. 1917 E. H. Forbush in T. G. Pearson Birds Amer. II. 29 Sage Hen..Cock of the Plains..exceeds all other Grouse in size, with the possible exception of the great Black Grouse.. of Europe. 1962 E. Lucia Klondike Kate viii. 170 A great flight of sagehens darkening the sky. sage rabbit n. one of several small hares of western North America, esp. Sylvilagus nuttallii. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Lagomorpha (rabbits and hares) > [noun] > family Leporidae > genus Sylvilagus (cotton-tail) > other types of tapeti1613 swamp rabbit1845 sage rabbit1846 1846 R. B. Sage Scenes Rocky Mts. p. iv [The] sage rabbit..is nearly three times the size of the common rabbit. 1859 S. F. Baird Mammals N. Amer. 602 Lepus Artemisia, Bachman. Sage Rabbit. 1879 G. B. Goode Catal. Coll. Animal Resources & Fisheries U.S.: Internat. Exhib. 1876 (Bull. U.S. National Mus. No. 14) 20 Lepus sylvaticus Bach., var. Nuttalli.—Sage Rabbit. sage sparrow n. each of the two fringilline birds Amphispiza bilineata and A. belli. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > seed eaters > [noun] > family Emberizidae > subfamily Emberizinae (bunting) > other types of savannah finch1783 lark bunting1802 savannah sparrow1811 summer finch1823 greenfinch1870 sage sparrow1884 1884 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds (ed. 2) 375 Amphispiza..Sage Sparrows. sage thrasher n. the mountain mocking bird, Oreoscoptes montanus. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > non-arboreal (larks, etc.) > [noun] > family Mimidae > genus Toxostoma (thrasher) red thrush1789 thrasher1792 brown-thrasher1810 mocking thrush1829 mountain mockingbird1853 red mavis1854 mavis1865 sage thrasher1884 mock-thrush1890 1884 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds (ed. 2) iii. 249 Sage Thrasher. C4. attributive or as adj. Resembling the colour of sage (sense 1). Cf. sense 5 above. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > green or greenness > [adjective] > greyish green glass1547 sage-coloured1596 sage1785 sage-greeny1884 Marina green1991 1785 E. Sheridan Let. in Betsy Sheridan's Jrnl. (1986) ii. 59 I have one [sc. a plume of feathers] for mine [sc. a hat] of dark sage, pink and white feathers. 1820 M. Edgeworth Let. 8 June in M. Edgeworth in France & Switzerland (1979) 160 My two tabbinets, sage and fawn ditto have done excellent service, new furbished. 1904 T. Eaton & Co. Catal. Spring–Summer 187/1 All-wood carpet..in red and sage colorings. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1909; most recently modified version published online June 2022). SAGEn.³ Brit. /seɪdʒ/, U.S. /seɪdʒ/ Forms: Also Sage. Etymology: Acronym < the initial letters of ‘semi-automatic ground environment’. Military. A name given to an early warning and air defence control system covering the United States and Canada. Frequently attributive. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > defence > [noun] > means of defence > specific defence system SAGE1955 missile defence1971 1955 N.Y. Times 25 Sept. iv. 2/2 Some time in 1954—the exact date has not been disclosed—the National Security Council gave the Air Force the go-ahead on a project..called Sage. 1958 Times 23 July 9/6 Sage is basically a computer..which will evaluate all the information received from the early warning networks, guide missiles and aircraft to their targets, and even work out which is the best weapon to use in a particular situation. 1958 Electr. Engin. (U.S.) 77 793/1 At the present time, excluding other connecting weapons systems, there are three main types of data systems used in the SAGE system. Grouped according to use, these are ground-to-ground, ground-to-air and radar data systems. 1961 Aeroplane 100 115/1 Construction has started on the new SAGE (semi-automatic ground environment) defence system which is to be introduced into Canada during this year. 1971 E. Luttwak Dict. Mod. War 44/2 Guidance is by command direct from the SAGE Air Defence System supplemented by radar homing for final interception. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1982; most recently modified version published online March 2022). sageadj.n.² Brit. /seɪdʒ/, U.S. /seɪdʒ/ Forms: Also 1500s saage, Scottish saig(e, sauge. Etymology: < French sage adjective and noun (11th cent. in Hatzfeld & Darmesteter; Old French had also saige, savie) < Common Romance sabio (Provençal satge-s, sabi-s, Spanish sabio, Portuguese sabio, Italian saggio, savio) < popular Latin sapius (compare Latin nesapius* ignorant) < sapĕre to be wise (present participle sapiens wise). A. adj. Now only literary. 1. a. Of a person: Wise, discreet, judicious. In Middle English often the sage (following a proper name). In modern use in narrowed applications: Practically wise, rendered prudent or judicious by experience. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > wisdom, sagacity > [adjective] glewc725 wiselyc900 snoterc950 wiseOE keena1000 witterc1100 redewisec1225 redefulc1275 well-donec1275 witfulc1275 sage1297 redya1325 heartya1382 prudenta1382 hearteda1425 subtilea1450 sapient1471 Palladian1562 wittiful1590 judicious1591 cordate1651 sophical1739 sophica1773 sapientious1852 unbesotted1875 sapiential1882 1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 4069 Nou it worþ iended þat Sibile þe sage sede biuore. 1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. xi. 257 For salamon þe sage þat sapience made. 1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis II. 383 This..Is that Sibille of whom ye wite, That alle men yit clepen sage. c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness l. 1576 As þe sage sathrapas þat sorsory couþe. 1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos liii. 148 Retourne agayn towarde eneas and make peas wyth hym yf ye be sage. a1500 (a1475) G. Ashby Dicta Philosophorum l. 1222 in Poems (1899) 98 To speke litil, is knowen a man sage. c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) lxxxvi. 274 There is no clerke lyuynge so sage that can put it in wrytynge. 1545 R. Ascham Toxophilus i. f. 13 The best learned and sagest men in this Realme..both loue shoting and vse shoting. 1562 N. Winȝet Certain Tractates (1888) I. 5 Ȝour wyse, saige, and grave familiar servands. 1571 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xxvii. 11 Bott schaw thyselff both scharpe, sauge [v.r. saig], and sinceir. 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III iii. vii. 217 Coosin of Buckingham, and you sage graue men Since you will [etc.] . View more context for this quotation 1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 iv. iii. 249 All you sage counsailers, hence. View more context for this quotation a1625 H. Finch Law (1636) 481 The Chancellor, and Treasurer, taking to them the Iustices, and other such sage persons, as they thinke fit. a1687 E. Waller Maid's Tragedy Alter'd v, in Wks. (1729) 348 Can you expect, that she should be so sage To rule her blood, and you not rule your rage? 1732 G. Berkeley Alciphron I. v. xxxv. 344 The wise reasoning of a certain sage Magistrate. 1818 Ld. Byron Beppo xxvii. 14 For most men (till by losing rendered sager) Will back their own opinions by a wager. 1818 Ld. Byron Beppo xxxiv. 18 No wonder such accomplishments should turn A female head, however sage and steady. 1833 H. Martineau Three Ages ii. 70 These housekeepers, made sage by circumstance, looked and spoke with something very little like mirth. 1868 H. H. Milman Ann. St. Paul's Cathedral xiii. 346 But sager Juxon..withdrew from the proud but perilous office. a1872 F. D. Maurice Friendship Bks. (1874) i. 12 If I thought of him [sc. Bacon], even as the sagest of book-makers and not as a human being. b. Of advice, conduct, etc.: Characterized by profound wisdom; based on sound judgement. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > wisdom, sagacity > wise man, sage > [adjective] sage1531 saged1563 sagey1747 Solonic1796 sagely1867 1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour iii. xxii. sig. fviii^v Roboaz..comtempned the sage counsayle of auncient men and imbraced the lyte persuasions of yonge men. a1593 C. Marlowe Tragicall Hist. Faustus (1604) sig. A3^v Come..make me blest with your sage conference. a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) iii. iv. 370 Weel whisper ore a couplet or two of most sage sawes. View more context for this quotation 1641 J. Milton Of Reformation 45 Little thought he of this sage caution. 1796 H. Hunter tr. J.-H. B. de Saint-Pierre Stud. Nature (1799) II. 380 The infinitely sage plans of Nature. 1871 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues II. 153 He gives sage counsels about the nursing of children. c. Of the countenance, bearing, etc.: Exhibiting sageness or profound wisdom. In modern use commonly somewhat ironical. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > wisdom, sagacity > wise man, sage > pretender to wisdom, wiseacre > [adjective] wiseOE over-wisea1425 self-wise1573 wiseacred1603 nod-crafty1608 sapienta1763 sage1816 wiseacreish1834 1816 W. Scott Antiquary I. ix. 198 Miss Oldbuck re-entered with a singularly sage expression of countenance. 1849 C. Dickens David Copperfield (1850) xix. 193 Mr. Dick had regularly assisted at our councils, with a meditative and sage demeanour. †2. Grave, dignified, solemn. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > melancholy > seriousness or solemnity > [adjective] seinec1330 sober1362 unfeastlyc1386 murec1390 unlaughter-milda1400 sadc1400 solemnyc1420 solemned1423 serious1440 solemnc1449 solenc1460 solemnel?1473 moy1487 demure1523 grave1549 staid1557 sage1564 sullen1583 weighty1602 solid1632 censoriousa1637 (as) grave (also solemn, etc.) as a judge1650 untriumphant1659 setc1660 agelastic1666 austere1667 humourless1671 unlaughing1737 smileless1740 untriflinga1743 untittering1749 steady1759 dun1797 antithalian1818 dreich1819 laughterless1825 unsmiling1826 laughless1827 unfestive1844 sober-sided1847 gleeless1850 unfarcical1850 mome1855 deedy1895 button-down1959 buttoned-down1960 straight-faced1975 1564 Briefe Exam. C iij b I woulde haue the Ministers of Churches to vse sage vesture. 1592 T. Nashe Pierce Penilesse (Brit. Libr. copy) sig. B3 ^v He wore..a Garnish of nightcaps, with a sage butten cap..ouerspred verie orderly. a1616 W. Shakespeare Hamlet (1623) v. i. 232 We should prophane the seruice of the dead, To sing sage Requiem, and such rest to her As to peace-parted Soules. 1644 J. Milton in tr. M. Bucer Ivdgem. conc. Divorce To Parl. sig. B3^v In a point of sagest moment. 1645 J. Milton Il Penseroso in Poems 41 And if ought els, great Bards beside, In sage and solemn tunes have sung, Of Turneys and of Trophies hung. B. n.² a. A man of profound wisdom; esp. one of those persons of ancient history or legend who were traditionally famous as the wisest of humankind; hence, one whose exceptional wisdom entitles him to a degree of veneration like that which was accorded to these. In early use sometimes with weaker sense, a wise man.The ‘seven sages of Greece’ were Thales, Solon, Periander, Cleobulus, Chilon, Bias, and Pittacus, to each of whom some wise maxim is attributed by ancient writers. The ‘seven sages of Rome’ are the personages of a romance, of eastern origin, which was popular throughout Europe in the Middle Ages. ‘Eastern sages’: often applied in hymns (after Milton) to the ‘three Magi’: see magus n. 1. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > wisdom, sagacity > wise man, sage > [noun] wise manc888 wisec897 witec900 snoterc950 divinera1387 sage1399 mage?a1425 wisdom1432 wizardc1440 sapientc1550 Solomon1554 oracle1579 sophy1587 Solon1631 sapientipotent1656 magus1700 wiseacre1753 sageshipa1832 Yoda1984 society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > Biblical personages > Three Kings > [noun] the three kingsOE magusc1175 wise manc1384 Three Kings of Colognec1400 sage1667 the three wise men1867 1399 W. Langland Richard Redeles iii. 7 Me thynkyth, Sauynge souereynes and sages avise, þat þe moste myscheff..Is demed þe dede y-do aȝeins kynde. a1400 Seuyn Sages (W.) 4 I sal yow tel,..Of the seuen sages of Rome. c1440 Generydes 88 This old fader..Of vij Saugys callid the wysest That was in Rome. 1547 W. Baldwin Treat. Morall Phylos. i. i. sig. Aij^v There were besides these Sophistes, an other kynde called Sapientes or Sages, as was Thales, Solon [etc.]. 1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. I. ii. x. sig. O.viij/2 Musonius, Hierocles, and other auncient sages. 1642 tr. J. Perkins Profitable Bk. xi. §739. 323 Master Littleton who was an honorable sage of the Law. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xii. 362 A Starr..proclaims him com, And guides the Eastern Sages, who enquire His place. View more context for this quotation 1735 J. Thomson Greece: 2nd Pt. Liberty 222 The great Athenian Sage, And Father of Philosophy [sc. Socrates]. 1863 A. P. Stanley Lect. Jewish Church I. xviii. 390 He was..but as one of the old chiefs of the bygone age—half warrior, half sage. b. In playful or ironic use. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > wisdom, sagacity > wise man, sage > pretender to wisdom, wiseacre > [noun] owl1568 tire-brain1589 wiseacre1595 Solonist1607 formalist1612 nodder1625 Solon1631 wiseling1633 self-wiseling1649 sophy1649 Solomon1656 conjurer1668 wisdomship1692 sage1751 wisehead1756 wisebones1894 1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 120. ⁋2 He called for help upon the sages of physick. 1822 W. Irving Bracebridge Hall xxvi. 238 In vain did the sages of the village interfere. 1893 Times 8 May 9/3 They have cited..some of the mustiest sages of the law in confirmation of this view. Compounds C1. Simple attributive, as sage-like adj.; objective, as sage-inspiring adj.; instrumental, as sage-exalted, sage-instructed adjs. ΚΠ 1735 J. Thomson Greece: 2nd Pt. Liberty 197 The Sage-exalted Chief [Xenophon]. 1746 J. Thomson Spring in Seasons (new ed.) 13 The dissolving Clouds..to the sage-instructed Eye unfold The various Twine of Light. 1747 T. Warton Pleasures of Melancholy 20 Tho' thro' the graceful seats Ilissus roll His sage-inspiring flood. 1879 R. K. Douglas Confucianism iii. 72 He alone, possessing all the sage-like qualities, shows himself..fitted to exercise rule. C2. After French use. † sage fool n. (also in French form fol sage) Obsolete a jester or court fool. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > performance of jester or comedian > [noun] > jester or comedian jugglerc1175 foolc1300 jangler1303 fool sagec1330 ribald1340 ape-ward1362 japer1377 sage fool1377 harlotc1390 disporter?a1475 jocular?a1475 joculatora1500 jester?1518 idiot1526 scoffer1530 sporter1531 dizzardc1540 vice1552 antic1564 bauble-bearer1568 scoggin1579 buffoon1584 pleasant1595 zany1596 baladine1599 clown1600 fiddle1600 mimic1601 ape-carrier1615 mime1616 mime-man1631 merry man1648 tomfool1650 pickle-herring1656 badine1670 puddingc1675 merry-andrew1677 mimical1688 Tom Tram1688 Monaghan1689 pickled herring1711 ethologist1727 court-foola1797 Tom1817 mimer1819 fun-maker1835 funny man1839 mimester1846 comic1857 comedian1860 jokesman1882 comique1886 Joey1896 tummler1938 alternative comedian1981 Andrew- the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > [noun] > jest or pleasantry > one who jests or jokes > professional japer1377 sage fool1377 harlotc1390 jocular?a1475 joculatora1500 jester?1518 bauble-bearer1568 buffoon1584 merry-andrew1677 court-foola1797 fun-maker1835 funny man1839 jokesman1882 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xiii. 423 Ȝe lordes and ladyes..þat fedeth foles sages, flatereres and lyeres. 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xiii. 444 A fol sage syttynge at the heyȝ table. ?c1475 Sage Fool's Test. in H. Gilbert Queene Elizabethes Achademy (1869) i. 77 There was A grete lorde þat had A Sage fole, the whyche he lovyd Marvaylous well. sage woman n. (also in Anglo-Norman form †sage feme) rare a midwife. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > healer > one skilled in obstetrics or midwifery > [noun] midwifec1300 childwifea1387 midwomana1400 Lucinac1405 matron?a1425 grace-wifec1600 Mother Midnight1602 headswoman1615 handwoman1637 sage woman1672 howdie1725 accoucheur1727 granny1738 obstetrix1773 accoucheuse1795 dukun1817 fingersmith1819 wise woman1821 obstetrician1826 obstetrist1873 tocologist1902 birth attendant1910 S.C.M.1935 monitrice1969 1672 H. Stubbe Rosemary & Bayes 2 Baptisme 'tis thought may be administred by a sage feme. 1832 B. Disraeli Contarini Fleming III. iii. xix. 110 A sage woman of great reputation, [was] at our house. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1909; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.¹a1350n.³1955adj.n.²1297
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