God save all this fair company. --Chaucer.
He cried, saying, Lord, save me. --Matt. xiv.
30.
Thou hast . . . quitted all to save A world from
utter loss. --Milton.
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.
Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners.
--1 Tim. i.
15.
3. To keep from being spent or lost; to secure from waste or
expenditure; to lay up; to reserve.
Now save a nation, and now save a groat. --Pope.
4. To rescue from something undesirable or hurtful; to
prevent from doing something; to spare.
I'll save you That labor, sir. All's now done.
--Shak.
5. To hinder from doing, suffering, or happening; to obviate
the necessity of; to prevent; to spare.
Will you not speak to save a lady's blush? --Dryden.
6. To hold possession or use of; to escape loss of.
Just saving the tide, and putting in a stock of
merit. --Swift.
{To save appearances}, to preserve a decent outside; to avoid
exposure of a discreditable state of things.
Syn: To preserve; rescue; deliver; protect; spare; reserve;
prevent.
None of us put off our clothes, saving that every one
put them off for washing. --Neh. iv. 23.
And in the stone a new name written, which no man
knoweth saving he that receiveth it. --Rev. ii. 17.
2. Exception; reservation.
Contend not with those that are too strong for us,
but still with a saving to honesty. --L'Estrange.
{Savings bank}, a bank in which savings or earnings are
deposited and put at interest.
He is the saving strength of his anointed. --Ps.
xxviii. 8.
2. Avoiding unnecessary expense or waste; frugal; not lavish
or wasteful; economical; as, a saving cook.
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.
4. Making reservation or exception; as, a saving clause.
Note: Saving is often used with a noun to form a compound
adjective; as, labor-saving, life-saving, etc.