All you sage counselors, hence! --Shak.
2. Proceeding from wisdom; well judged; shrewd; well adapted
to the purpose.
Commanders, who, cloaking their fear under show of
sage advice, counseled the general to retreat.
--Milton.
3. Grave; serious; solemn. [R.] ``[Great bards] in sage and
solemn tunes have sung.'' --Milton.
{Meadow sage} (Bot.), a blue-flowered species of Salvia ({S.
pratensis}) growing in meadows in Europe.
{Sage cheese}, cheese flavored with sage, and colored green
by the juice of leaves of spinach and other plants which
are added to the milk.
{Sage cock} (Zo["o]l.), the male of the sage grouse; in a
more general sense, the specific name of the sage grouse.
{Sage green}, of a dull grayish green color, like the leaves
of garden sage.
{Sage grouse} (Zo["o]l.), a very large American grouse
({Centrocercus urophasianus}), native of the dry sagebrush
plains of Western North America. Called also {cock of the
plains}. The male is called {sage cock}, and the female
{sage hen}.
{Sage hare}, or {Sage rabbit} (Zo["o]l.), a species of hare
({Lepus Nuttalli, or artemisia}) which inhabits the arid
regions of Western North America and lives among
sagebrush. By recent writers it is considered to be merely
a variety of the common cottontail, or wood rabbit.
{Sage hen} (Zo["o]l.), the female of the sage grouse.
{Sage sparrow} (Zo["o]l.), a small sparrow ({Amphispiza
Belli}, var. {Nevadensis}) which inhabits the dry plains
of the Rocky Mountain region, living among sagebrush.
{Sage thrasher} (Zo["o]l.), a singing bird ({Oroscoptes
montanus}) which inhabits the sagebrush plains of Western
North America.
{Sage willow} (Bot.), a species of willow ({Salix tristis})
forming a low bush with nearly sessile grayish green
leaves.
At his birth a star, Unseen before in heaven, proclaims
him come, And guides the Eastern sages. --Milton.