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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Save \Save\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Saved}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Saving}.] [OE. saven, sauven, salven, OF. salver, sauver, F. sauver, L. salvare, fr. salvus saved, safe. See {Safe}, a.] 1. To make safe; to procure the safety of; to preserve from injury, destruction, or evil of any kind; to rescue from impending danger; as, to save a house from the flames. [1913 Webster] God save all this fair company. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] He cried, saying, Lord, save me. --Matt. xiv. 30. [1913 Webster] Thou hast . . . quitted all to save A world from utter loss. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 2. (Theol.) Specifically, to deliver from sin and its penalty; to rescue from a state of condemnation and spiritual death, and bring into a state of spiritual life. [1913 Webster] Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. --1 Tim. i. 15. [1913 Webster] 3. To keep from being spent or lost; to secure from waste or expenditure; to lay up; to reserve. [1913 Webster] Now save a nation, and now save a groat. --Pope. [1913 Webster] 4. To rescue from something undesirable or hurtful; to prevent from doing something; to spare. [1913 Webster] I'll save you That labor, sir. All's now done. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 5. To hinder from doing, suffering, or happening; to obviate the necessity of; to prevent; to spare. [1913 Webster] Will you not speak to save a lady's blush? --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 6. To hold possession or use of; to escape loss of. [1913 Webster] Just saving the tide, and putting in a stock of merit. --Swift. [1913 Webster] {To save appearances}, to preserve a decent outside; to avoid exposure of a discreditable state of things. [1913 Webster] Syn: To preserve; rescue; deliver; protect; spare; reserve; prevent. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Saving \Sav"ing\ (s[=a]v"[i^]ng), 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] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Saving \Sav"ing\, 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] Note: Saving is often used with a noun to form a compound adjective; as, labor-saving, life-saving, etc. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Saving \Sav"ing\, 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] From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: saving adj 1: bringing about salvation or redemption from sin; "saving faith"; "redemptive (or redeeming) love" [syn: {redemptive}, {redeeming(a)}, {saving(a)}] 2: characterized by thriftiness; "wealthy by inheritance but saving by constitution"- Ellen Glasgow n 1: an act of economizing; reduction in cost; "it was a small economy to walk to work every day"; "there was a saving of 50 cents" [syn: {economy}, {saving}] 2: recovery or preservation from loss or danger; "work is the deliverance of mankind"; "a surgeon's job is the saving of lives" [syn: {rescue}, {deliverance}, {delivery}, {saving}] 3: the activity of protecting something from loss or danger [syn: {preservation}, {saving}]