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[ME., I hold it no gret wisdome ne sage e To ouermoche suffre sorew and paine. Rom . of Partenay (E. E. T. S.), 1. 6224. sage-thrasher (sāj'thrasher), n. The mountain mocking-bird of western North America, Oreoscoptes montan us : so called because it is abun dant in sage-brush, and has a spotted breast like the common thrasher. See cut under Orcoscoptes. sage-tree (sāj'trē), n. See Psycho tri a. sage-willow (sāj'wil"ō), n. A dwarf gray American willow, Salix trist is, growing in tufts from a strong root. sagewood (sāj' wud), n. Same as sage - brush . saggar (sag'ir), n. [A re duction of safeguard; cf. saggard.] A box or case of hard pottery in which porcelain and other delicate ceramic wares are sagittal inclosed for baking. The object of the saggar is to protect the ve el within from smoke, irregularities of heat, and the like. Saggars are usually so made that the bottom of one forms the cover of the next, and they are then piled in vertical columns. They vary in form and size according to the objects to be contained. Also sag ger, seggar, and case. Ve els resembling the crucibles or seggars of porcelain works. Workshop Receipts , 2d ser., p. 407. saggar (sag'är), v. t. [ saggard saggard (sag'ärd), (sag'ärd), n. [A reduction of safeguard (formerly also safegard ) which is used in various particular senses: see safeguard. Cf. sag gar.] 1. Same as safeguard, 4. Hall i well and Wright (under seggard ).- seggard).-2. A rough ve el in which all crockery, fine or coarse, is placed when taken to the oven for firing. Hall i well. Wrigh [Prov. Eng. (Staff ords hire).] saggar-house (sag är-hous), n. In ceram ., a house in which unbaked ve els of biscuit are put into saggars, in which they are to be fired. sagging (sag'ing), n. That form of breakage in which the middle part sinks more than the extremities: opposed to hogging . saghet, n. A Middle English form of saw2 . saghtelt, saghetylt, v. See settle2 . Sagina Sag (sā-ji'nä), n. [NL. (Linnæus, 1737), so called in allusion to its abundant early growth on the thin rocky soil of the Roman Campagna, where it long furnished the spring food of the large flocks of sheep kept there; na , fattening: see saginate .] A genus of polypetalous plants of the order Caryophylleæ , the pink family, and of the tribe Alsineæ . It is characterized by having four or five sepals, a one-celled ovary bearing four or five styles and splitting in fruit into as many valves, both styles and valves alternate with the sepals, and by the absence of stipules and sometimes of petals, which when present are entire and four or five in number. There are about 9 species, natives of temperate and colder parts of the northern hemisphere, with one species, S. procumbens , also widely diffused through the southern hemisphere. They are annual or perennial close-tufted little herbs with awl-shaped leaves; the herbage is at first tender, but later forms dry wiry mats, with minute white flowers generally raised on long pedicels. A general name for the species is pearlwort . S. glabra is a minute but beautiful alpine species of Europe, which in the garden can be formed into a velvety carpet, in spring and early summer dotted with white blo oms. saginatet (saj'i-nāt), v. t. [L. sag in at us, pp. of sag in are (> It.sag in are, sagginare = Pg.saginar ), stuff, cram, fatten, They use to put them by for sagination , or [as it is sayd] in English for feeding, which in all countries hath a sever all manner or custom. Top sell, Four-Footed Beasts, p. 81. ( Hall i well.) [NL.,