Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Saury \Sau"ry\, n.; pl. {Sauries}. [Etymol. uncertain.]
   (Zo["o]l.)
   A slender marine fish ({Scomberesox saurus}) of Europe and
   America. It has long, thin, beaklike jaws. Called also
   {billfish}, {gowdnook}, {gawnook}, {skipper}, {skipjack},
   {skopster}, {lizard fish}, and {Egypt herring}.