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ied pressure, below a horizontal line or plane; as, a line or cable supported by its ends sags, though tightly drawn; the floor of a room sags; hence, to lean, give way, or settle from a vertical position; as, a building may sag one way or another; a door sags on its hinges.

opular historical or religious tale of olden time. And then the blue-eyed Norseman told A saga of the days of old. Longfellow.

Of quick sense perceptions; keen-scented; skilled in following a trail. Sagacious of his quarry from so far. Milton.

The quality of being sagacious; quickness or acuteness of sense perceptions; keenness of discernment or penetration with soundness of judgment; shrewdness. Some [brutes] show that nice sagacity of smell. Cowper. Natural sagacity improved by generous education. V. Knox.

e 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.

Sagapenum.

A fetid gum resin obtained from a species of Ferula. It has been used in hysteria, etc., but is now seldom met with. U. S. Disp.

A mixed woven fabric of silk and cotton; or silk and wool; sayette; also, a light woolen fabric.

ded 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.

A pot or case of fire clay, in which fine stoneware is inclosed while baking in the kiln; a segga.

A bending or sinking between the ends of a thing, in consequence of its own, or an imposed, weight; an arching downward in the middle, as of a ship after straining. Cf. Hogging.

To make fat; to pamper. [R.] "Many a saginated boar." Cowper.

The act of fettening or pampering. [R.] Topsell.