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three vols. 8vo. 1785, which was read with great avidity in 
translations, as well as in the original. It contains an abun¬ 
dance of curious particulars relative to the ancient and mo¬ 
dern state of the country. Encouraged by this flattering 
reception, he prepared his “ Lettres sur la Grece,” which, 
however, were not published till after his death, that oc¬ 
curred in Feb. 1788. 
M. Savary was a lively and pleasant man ; he had a well- 
cultivated understanding ; his heart was warm and benevo¬ 
lent ; his imagination was vigorous; his memory retentive. 
He was cheerful and open, and in company exceedingly 
agreeable and instructive. He did not mingle much with 
the world, but was satisfied with performing well the duties 
of a son, a brother, and a friend. 
SAVARY’S ISLAND, an island in the gulf of Georgia, 
so named by Captain Vancouver, about two leagues long 
from east to west, and half a league wide. On the south side 
are numberless sunken rocks, nearly half a league from the 
shore, which Captain Vancouver thinks are only visible at 
low water. The north-east point of the island is situated in 
Lat. 49. 57. N. long. 235. 54. E. 
SAUCE, s. [salsa , Ital.] Something eaten with food to 
improve the taste. 
Epicurean cooks 
Sharpen with cloyless sauce his appetite. Shakspeare. 
To serve one the same sauce. A vulgar phrase. —To 
retaliate one injury with another. 
To SAUCE, v. a. To accompany meat with something 
of higher relish.—To gratify with rich tastes. Obsolete. 
Earth yield me roots 
Who seeks for better of thee, sauce his palate 
With thy most operant poison. Shakspeare. 
To intermix or accompany with any good thing; or, 
ironically, with any thing bad. 
Thou say’st his mouth was sauc'd with thy upbraidings; 
Unquick meals make ill digestions. Shakspeare. 
SAUCE, a small river of the province of Buenos Ayres, 
which runs south, and enters the river Plata. 
SAUCE, another small river of the same province and 
government, which runs west, and enters the Uruguay. 
SA'UCEBOX, s. An impertinent or petulant fellow.— 
The foolish old poet says, that the souls of some women are 
made of sea-water. This has encouraged my saucebox to 
be witty upon me. Addison. 
SAUCEDA, a town of Mexico, in the province of New 
Biscay, on a river of the same name ; 100 miles north-north¬ 
west of Durango. Lat. 25.20. N. long. 105. 44. W. 
SAUCEDA, a river of Mexico, which rises about 20 miles 
south-east of Tmapa, in New Biscay, and joins the Nacas, to 
form the Palmas. 
SA'UCEPAN, s. A small skillet with a long handle, 
in which sauce or small things are boiled.—Your master will 
not allow you a silver saucepan. Swift. 
SA'UCER, s. [sauciere , Fr.] A small pan or plattin 
in which sauce is set on the table. 
Some have mistaken blocks and posts 
For spectres, apparitions, ghosts, 
With saucer eyes and horns. Hudibras. 
A piece or platter of china, into which a tea-cup is set. 
Saucer is also a circular thin plate of iron or brass, with 
a hole in the middle, two of which, with a leather between, 
constitute the valves of the chain-pump. Also, a thick cir¬ 
cular plate of iron fixed in the capstern step for the spindle 
to turn on. 
SAUCES, a river of South America, in Paraguay, which 
washes the territory of the Pampas. It receives in the south 
part of its course, the waters of several rivers flowing down 
from the east side of the Chilian cordillera, and after running 
126 leagues to the south, it turns east, and disembogues itself 
in the sea of Magellan, forming a great bay in Lat. 40. 
42 S. 
SAUCES, a river of Chili, in the island of La Laxa, 
s a v 
which runs west, and turning its course to the north, enters 
the Recoiquen. 
SAUCETHORPE, a village of England, in Lincolnshire, 
near Spilsby. 
SAU'CILY, adv. Impudently; impertinently; petulantly; 
in a saucy manner.—Though this knave came somewhat 
saucily into the world before he was sent for, yet was his 
mother fair. Shakspeare. 
SAU'CINESS, s. Impudence; petulance; impertinence; 
contempt of superiors. 
Being intercepted in your speech. 
Great reason that my noble lord be rated for sauciness. 
Shakspeare. 
SAU'CISSE, s. [French.] In Gunnery, a long train of 
powder sewed up in a roll of pitched cloth, about two inches 
diameter, in order to fire a mine. See Sausage. 
SAU'CISSON, s. [French.] In Military Architecture, 
faggots or fascines made of large boughs of trees bound toge¬ 
ther. They are commonly used to cover men to make epaul- 
ments, traverses, or breast-works in ditches full of water, to 
render the way firm for carriages. 
SAUCON, Lower, a township of the United States, in 
Northampton county, Pennsylvania. Population 1974. 
SAUCON, Upper, a township of the United States, in 
Northampton county, Pennsylvania. Population 1456. 
SAUCONA CREEK, a river of the United States, in 
Pennsylvania, which runs into the Schuylkill. Lat. 40. 26. N. 
long. 75. 58. W. 
SAUCY, adj. [from salsus, Lat.] Pert, petulant, contempt¬ 
uous of superiors; insolent.—You are more saucy with 
lords than the heraldry of your birth and virtue gives you 
commission. Shakspeare. 
And if thou hast the mettle of a king. 
Being wrong’d as we are by this peevish town, 
Turn thou the mouth of thy artillery. 
As we will ours, against these saucy walls. Shakspeare. 
SAUDRE, the name of two rivers of France, in the west 
part of the kingdom. The Lesser Saudre falls into the 
Greater, near Aubigny; and the latter falls into the Cher, 
near Romorantin. 
To SAVE, v. a. \_salvo, Lat.] To preserve from dan¬ 
ger or destruction. 
A wondrous ark, 
To save himself and household from amidst 
A world devote to universal wreck. Milton. 
To preserve finally from eternal death.—His merits save 
them.—Not to spend; to hinder from being spent. 
With your cost you terminate the cause, 
And save th’ expense of long litigious laws. 
Where suits are travers’d, and so little won. 
That he who conquers is but last undone. Dry den 
To reserve or lay by.—He shall not feel quietness; he 
shall not save of that which he desired. Job. —To spare ; to 
excuse.—Will you not speak to save a lady’s blush? 
Dry den.- —To salve; to reconcile. 
How build, unbuild, contrive 
To save appearances; how gird the sphere 
With centric and eccentric. Milton. 
To take or embrace opportunely, so as not to lose.—The 
same persons who were chief confidents of Cromwell, fore¬ 
seeing a restoration, seized the castles in Ireland, just saving 
the tide, and putting in a stock of merit sufficient. Swift. 
To SAVE, v. n. To be cheap.—Brass ordnance saveth 
in the quantity of the material, and in the charge of mount¬ 
ing and carriage. Bacon. 
SAVE, adv. [This word, adverbially used, is, like except, 
originally the imperative of the verb.] Except; not in¬ 
cluding. 
How have I then with whom to hold converse 
Save with the creatures which I made. 
Milton. 
SAVE, 
