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[From a personal name: see the extract.] A name given to several varieties of plum: as, the green gage, gold en gage, transparent gage, etc. On Plums. Mem. I was on a visit to Sir William IMG:content-2005.png:[blocks in formation] Gage at Hengrave near Bury; he was then near 70. He told me that... in compliment to him the Plum was called the Green Gage; this was about the year 1725. Collins on, Hortus Collins on i an us, p. 60. Gagea (gājē-), n. [NL., named after Sir Thomas Gage, an English botanist (1780-1820).] A genus of small bulbous liliaceous plants, of about 20 species, natives of Europe and central Asia. They have linear radical leaves, and a scape bearing an umbel or a corymb of greenish-yellow flowers. The yellow star-of-Bethlehem, G. lutea, is found in England. gageable, gaugeable (ga'ja-bl), a. [