SAUVE-garde, Fr. Safe-guard. Protection.
Accorder des Sauve-gardes, Fr. To grant protections.
Envoyer une garde en Sauve-garde, Fr. To send out a party for the purpose of escorting persons, or of protecting any particular quarter.
Sauve qui peut! Fr. Let those escape that can. This expression is familiar to the French, it was employed in an early part of the revolution, by the royalists to produce panic in the ranks of the revolutionary army; and was used with success particularly in the corps under gen. Dillon in Flanders.
SAVAN, Ind. The name of an Indian month, which corresponds with July.
SAW. A dentated steel instrument with which wood or metal is cut by attrition. Each pioneer is provided with one.
SAYON, Fr. A kind of coarse habit in which soldiers were formerly clothed among the French.
SCABBARD, (Fourreau, Fr.) A case commonly made of black leather, with a ferrel at the end, in which a sword, sabre, &c. may be sheathed.
Bayonet Scabbard. A leathern sheath made in a triangular form to correspond with the shape of the bayonet.
Scabbard-button. A brass button or hook by which the scabbard is attached to the frog of the belt.