Definition of sage

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Sage (n.) A suffruticose labiate plant (Salvia officinalis) with grayish green foliage, much used in flavoring meats, etc. The name is often extended to the whole genus, of which many species are cultivated for ornament, as the scarlet sage, and Mexican red and blue sage..

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Artemisia :: Artemisia (n.) A genus of plants including the plants called mugwort, southernwood, and wormwood. Of these A. absinthium, or common wormwood, is well known, and A. tridentata is the sage brush of the Rocky Mountain region..
Cheval-de-frise :: Cheval-de-frise (n.) A piece of timber or an iron barrel traversed with iron-pointed spikes or spears, five or six feet long, used to defend a passage, stop a breach, or impede the advance of cavalry, etc..
Semichorus :: Semichorus (n.) A half chorus; a passage to be sung by a selected portion of the voices, as the female voices only, in contrast with the full choir..
Refraction :: Refraction (n.) The change in the direction of a ray of light, and, consequently, in the apparent position of a heavenly body from which it emanates, arising from its passage through the earth's atmosphere; -- hence distinguished as atmospheric refraction, or astronomical refraction..
Driveway :: Driveway (n.) A passage or way along or through which a carriage may be driven.
Transit :: Transit (n.) The passage of a smaller body across the disk of a larger, as of Venus across the sun's disk, or of a satellite or its shadow across the disk of its primary..
Messenger :: Messenger (n.) One who bears a message; the bearer of a verbal or written communication, notice, or invitation, from one person to another, or to a public body; specifically, an office servant who bears messages..
Extract :: Extract (v. t.) To take by selection; to choose out; to cite or quote, as a passage from a book..
Regress :: Regress (n.) The act of passing back; passage back; return; retrogression. The progress or regress of man..
Port :: Port (n.) A passageway in a machine, through which a fluid, as steam, water, etc., may pass, as from a valve to the interior of the cylinder of a steam engine; an opening in a valve seat, or valve face..
Gullet :: Gullet (n.) A preparatory cut or channel in excavations, of sufficient width for the passage of earth wagons..
Bossage :: Bossage (n.) A stone in a building, left rough and projecting, to be afterward carved into shape..
Maze :: Maze (n.) A confusing and baffling network, as of paths or passages; an intricacy; a labyrinth..
Alley :: Alley (n.) A narrow passage; especially a walk or passage in a garden or park, bordered by rows of trees or bushes; a bordered way..
Approach :: Approach (v. i.) A way, passage, or avenue by which a place or buildings can be approached; an access..
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Custom :: Custom (n.) Long-established practice, considered as unwritten law, and resting for authority on long consent; usage. See Usage, and Prescription..
Hard-visaged :: Hard-visaged (a.) Of a harsh or stern countenance; hard-featured.
Reference :: Reference (n.) A work, or a passage in a work, to which one is referred..
Passage :: Passage (v. i.) A separate part of a course, process, or series; an occurrence; an incident; an act or deed..
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