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/oʊsˈeɪdʒ/ Listen

Osage

noun

A member of the Siouan people formerly living in Missouri in the valleys of the Missouri and Osage rivers; oil was found on Osage lands early in the 20th century.

A river in Missouri that is a tributary of the Missouri River. Synonym: Osage River.

The Dhegiha dialect spoken by the Osage.

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"Osage" Quotes from Famous Books

... o'clock we were ordered to the attack. We had to pass through an osage orange hedge that was worse than the enemy's fire. Their breastworks were before us. We yelled, and charged, and hurrahed, and said booh! booh! we're coming, coming, look out, don't you see us coming? Why don't you let us hear the cannon's opening roar? ...

— "Co. Aytch" - Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment - or, A Side Show of the Big Show • Sam R. Watkins

... this most enjoyable talk with you, I shall delight myself with an hour's discussion of oil leases upon the Osage Reservation ...

— The Letters of Franklin K. Lane • Franklin K. Lane

... he went to Cambridge and met and was dined by many learned men. The University, through its Librarian, subscribed for his work. Other subscriptions followed. He was introduced to a judge who wore a wig that "might make a capital bed for an Osage Indian during the whole of a cold winter on the ...

— John James Audubon • John Burroughs

Words linked to "Osage" : Osage River, mo, Missouri, Show Me State, Dhegiha, river