{ } n. [ OE. saveine, AS. safinae, savine, L. sabina herba. Cf. Sabine. ] [ Written also sabine. ] (Bot.) (a) A coniferous shrub (Juniperus Sabina) of Western Asia, occasionally found also in the northern parts of the United States and in British America. It is a compact bush, with dark-colored foliage, and produces small berries having a glaucous bloom. Its bitter, acrid tops are sometimes used in medicine for gout, amenorrhoea, etc. (b) The North American red cedar (Juniperus Virginiana.) [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Preserving; rescuing. [ 1913 Webster ]

He is the saving strength of his anointed. Ps. xxviii. 8. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Avoiding unnecessary expense or waste; frugal; not lavish or wasteful; economical; as, a saving cook. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Bringing back in returns or in receipts the sum expended; incurring no loss, though not gainful; as, a saving bargain; the ship has made a saving voyage. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Making reservation or exception; as, a saving clause. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Saving is often used with a noun to form a compound adjective; as, labor-saving, life-saving, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

prep. or conj.; but properly a participle. With the exception of; except; excepting; also, without disrespect to. “Saving your reverence.” Shak. “Saving your presence.” Burns. [ 1913 Webster ]

None of us put off our clothes, saving that every one put them off for washing. Neh. iv. 23. [ 1913 Webster ]

And in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it. Rev. ii. 17. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Something kept from being expended or lost; that which is saved or laid up; as, the savings of years of economy. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Exception; reservation. [ 1913 Webster ]

Contend not with those that are too strong for us, but still with a saving to honesty. L'Estrange. [ 1913 Webster ]

Savings bank, a bank in which savings or earnings are deposited and put at interest. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. 1. In a saving manner; with frugality or parsimony. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. So as to be finally saved from eternal death. [ 1913 Webster ]

Savingly born of water and the Spirit. Waterland. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The quality of being saving; carefulness not to expend money uselessly; frugality; parsimony. Mrs. H. H. Jackson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Tendency to promote salvation. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]