Sabrina

Sabrina,
a poetic name for the river Severn (see under Estrildis ). In Milton's Comus , Sabrina is the goddess of the Severn.

Miss Sabrina is the new schoolmistress in Galt's Annals of the Parish . ‘Old Mr Hookie, her father, had, from the time he read his Virgil, maintained a sort of intromission with the Nine Muses, by which he was led to baptize her Sabrina, after a name mentioned by John Milton in one of his works.’