SAGAMORE

n.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

The head of a tribe among the American Indians; a chief; -- generally used as synonymous with sachem, but some writters distinguished between them, making the sachem a chief of the first rank, and a sagamore one of the second rank. "Be it sagamore, sachem, or powwow." Longfellow.

2.
n.

A juice used in medicine. [Obs.] Johnson.


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