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See Rummage. [Obs.] Shak.

Space; place; room. [Obs.] Sir H. Wotton.

Rubbish. [Obs.]

Ruffians, collectively; a body of ruffians. "The vilest ruffianage." Sir F. Palgrave.

A place or room for the stowage of cargo in a ship; also, the act of stowing cargo; the pulling and moving about of packages incident to close stowage; -- formerly written romage. [Obs.]

One who rummages.

Scamped work.

The act of taking by storm and pillaging; sack. [R.] H. Roscoe.

A suffriticose 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.

covering vast tracts of the dry alkaline regions of the American plains; -- called also sagebush, and wild sage.

Nevada; -- a nickname.

In a sage manner; wisely.

A Russian measure of length equal to about seven English feet.

The quality or state of being sage; wisdom; sagacity; prudence; gravity. Ascham.

Acicular rutile occurring in reticulated forms imbedded in quartz.

Resembling sagenite; -- applied to quartz when containing acicular crystals of other minerals, most commonly rutile, also tourmaline, actinolite, and the like.

The act of saving a vessel, goods, or life, goods, or life, from perils of the sea. Salvage of life from a british ship, or a foreign ship in British waters, ranks before salvage of goods. Encyc. Brit.

Stones left after sifting. Smart.

An article of food consisting of meat (esp. pork) minced and highly seasoned, and inclosed in a cylindrical case or skin usually made of the prepared intestine of some animal.

t; remote from human abodes and cultivation; in a state of nature; nature; wild; as, a savage wilderness.