. Scott,
_Peveril of the Peak_ (time, Charles II.).

_Saunders_ (_Richard_), the pseudonym of Dr. Franklin, adopted in _Poor
Richard's Almanac_, begun in 1732.

=Saunders Sweepclean=, a king's messenger, at Knockwinnock Castle.--Sir W.
Scott, _The Antiquary_ (time George III.).

=Saunderson= (_Saunders_), butler, etc., to Mr. Cosmo Comyne Bradwardine,
baron of Bradwardine and Tully Veolan.--Sir W. Scott, _Waverley_ (time,
George II.).

=Saurid=, king of Egypt, say the Coptites (2 _syl._) built the pyramids
300 years before the Flood, and according to the same authority, the
following inscription was engraved upon one of them:--

I, King Saurid, built the pyramids ... and finished them in six
years. He that comes after me ... let him destroy them in 600 if he
can ... I also covered them ... with satin, and let him cover them
with matting.--Greaves, _Pyramidographia_, (seventeenth century).

=Savage= (_Captain_), a naval commander.--Captain Marryat, _Peter Simple_
(1833).

=Sav'il=, steward to the elder Loveless.--Beaumont and Fletcher, _The
Scornful Lady_ (1616).

=Sav'ille= (2 _syl._), the friend of Doricourt. He saves Lady Frances
Touchwood from Courtall, and frustrates his infamous designs on the
lady's honor.--Mrs. Cowley, _The Belle's Stratagem_ (1780).

_Saville_ (_Lord_), a young nobleman with Chiffinch (emissary of Charles
II.).--Sir W. Scott, _Peveril of the Peak_ (time Charles II.).

=Saviour of Rome.= C. Mar[)i]us was so called after the overthrow of the
Cimbri, July 30, B.C. 101.

=Saviour of the Nations.= So the duke of Wellington was termed after the
overthrow of Bonaparte (1769-1852).

Oh, Wellington ... called "Saviour of the Nations!"

Byron, _Don Juan_, ix. 5 (1824).

=Sawney=, a corruption of Sandie, a contracted form of Alexander. Sawney
means a Scotchman, as David a Welshman, John Bull an Englishman, Cousin
Michael a German, Brother Jonathan a native of the United States,
Macaire a Frenchman, Colin Tampon a Swiss, and so on.

=Sawyer= (_Bob_), a dissipated, struggling young medical practitioner, who
tries to establish a practice at Bristol, but without success. Sam
Weller calls him "Mr. Sawbones."--C. Dickens, _The Pickwick Papers_
(1836)

=Saxon Duke= (_The_), mentioned by Butler in his _Hudibras_, was John
Frederick, duke of Saxony, of whom Charles V. said, "Never saw I such a
swine before."

=Sboga= (_Jean_), the hero of a r