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O⋅sage

  [oh-seyj, oh-seyj]
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–noun, plural O⋅sag⋅es, (especially collectively) O⋅sage for 1.
1. a member of a North American Indian people formerly of western Missouri, now living in northern Oklahoma.
2. the Siouan language of the Osage.
3. a river flowing E from E Kansas to the Missouri River in central Missouri. 500 mi. (800 km) long.
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O·sage   (ō'sāj', ō-sāj')   
n.   pl. Osage or O·sag·es

    1. A Native American people formerly inhabiting western Missouri and later southeast Kansas, with a present-day population in north-central Oklahoma. Substantial oil reserves were discovered on Osage lands in the early 20th century.

    2. A member of this people.

  2. The Siouan language of the Osage.


[French, from Osage wazházhe, tribal name.]
O'sage' adj.
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Osage 
name of a group of Sioux Indians originally from Missouri, 1698, from their self-designation Wazhazhe; the ornamental tree osage orange (Toxylon pomiferum), name first attested 1817, originally was found in their country.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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