sauve-qui-peut, n.m., (—) headlong flight, rout; stampede; panic.
sauver, v.a., to save, to deliver, to rescue; to keep, to be the salvation of; to economize; to ward off, to palliate; to conceal; to excuse, to vindicate. Sauve qui peut; save himself who can, every one for himself. — les apparences; to save appearances. — les défauts d’un ouvrage; to conceal the imperfections of a work. — la vie à quelqu’un; to save any one’s life.
se sauver, v.r., to escape, to make good one’s escape, to run away; to abscond; to make off; to take refuge; to retrieve one’s self; to indemnify one’s self; to work out one’s salvation.
sauvetage (sôv-taj), n.m., (nav.) salvage, saving, rescue. Canot de —; life-boat. Ceinture de —; life-belt. Bouée de —; life-buoy. Société de —; life-boat institution. Appareil, or sac, de —; fire-escape.
sauveteur (sôv-teur), n.m., rescuer; life-preserver; fire-escape; salvor.
sauvette, n.f. duck-stone (game).
sauveur, n.m. and adj., saver, deliverer; Saviour, Redeemer; (Bib.) all-saving.
sauve-vie, n.f., (—) (bot.) wall-rue.
savamment (-va-mān), adv., learnedly, cleverly; knowingly, wittingly.
savane, n.f., savannah.