fish of the Red Sea used to come ashore on the eve
of the Sabbath, to tempt the Jews to violate the day of rest. The
offenders at length became so numerous that David, to deter others,
turned the fish into apes.--Jall[^a]lo'ddin.--_Al Zamakh._

=Sabellan Song=, incantation. The Sabelli or Samnites were noted for their
magic art and incantations.

=Sabine= (_The_). Numa, the Sabine, was taught the way to govern by
Eg[)e]r[)i]e, one of the Cam[=e]nae (prophetic nymphs of ancient Italy).
He used to meet her in a grove, in which was a well, afterwards
dedicated by him to the Camenae.

Our statues--she
That taught the Sabine how to rule.

Tennyson, _The Princess_, ii. (1830).

=Sablonni[`e]re= (_La_), the Tuilleries. The word means the "sand-pit."
The _tuilleries_ means the "tile-works." Nicolas de Neuville, in the
fifteenth century, built a mansion in the vicinity, which he called the
"Hotel des Tuilleries," and Fran[c,]ois I. bought the property for his
mother in 1518.

=Sabra=, daughter of Ptolemy, king of Egypt. She was rescued by St. George
from the hands of a giant, and ultimately married her deliverer. Sabra
had three sons at a birth: Guy, Alexander, and David.

Here come I, St. George, the valiant man,
With naked sword and spear in han',
Who fought the dragon and brought him to slaughter,
And won fair Sabra thus, the king of Egypt's daughter.

_Notes and Queries_, December 21, 1878.

=Sabreur= (_Le Beau_), Joachim Murat (1767-1815).

=Sab'rin=, =Sabre=, or =Sabri'na=, the Severn, daughter of Locrine (son of
Brute) and his concubine, Estrildis. His queen, Guendolen, vowed
vengeance, and, having assembled an army, made war upon Locrine, who was
slain. Guendolen now assumed the government, and commanded Estrildis and
Sabrin to be cast into a river, since then called the Severn.--Geoffrey
of Monmouth, _British History_, ii. 5 (1142).

(An exqusite[TN-142] description of Sabine, sitting in state as a queen,
is given in the opening of song v. of Drayton's _Polyolbion_, and the
tale of her metamorphosis is recorded at length in song vi. Milton in
_Comus_, and Fletcher in _The Faithful Shepherdess_, refer to the
transformation of Sabrina into a river.[TN-143]

=Sabrina= (_Aunt_). "Grim old maid in rusty bombazine gown and cap," whose
strongest passion is family pride in the old homestead and farm which
"her grandfather, a revolted cobbler from Rhode Island, had cle