Sage

sāj, n. any plant of genus Salvia , of the mint family, esp. Common or Garden Sage, used for flavouring meats.— ns. Sage′-app′le , a gall formed on a species of sage; Sage′-bread , bread baked from dough mixed with a strong infusion of sage in milk; Sage′-brush , a collective name of various shrubby species of Artemisia in the western United States; Sage′-cock , -grouse , a large North American grouse; Sage′-green , a gray slightly mixed with pure green; Sage′-rabb′it , a small hare or rabbit abounding in North America; Sage′-rose , a plant of the genus Cistus: an evergreen shrub of tropical America; Sage′-sparr′ow , a fringilline bird characteristic of the sage-brush of North America; Sage′-thresh′er , the mountain mocking-bird of west North America; Sage′-will′ow , a dwarf American willow.— adj. Sā′gy , full of, or seasoned with, sage.— Apple-bearing sage , a native of southern Europe, with large reddish or purple bracts, and bearing on its branches large gall-nuts; Meadow Sage , or Meadow clary , a common ornament of meadows in the south of England, with bluish-purple flowers; Oil of sage , an e ential oil, yielded by the sage, once much used in liniments against rheumatism. [O. Fr. sauge (It. salvia )—L. salvia — salvus , safe.]