save 
The lift of a round wave helped her (the skiff) on, and 
the bladder-weed saved any chafing. 
R. D. Blackmore, Maid of Sker, iv. 
God save the mark! Save the mark! See mark\. 
Save your reverence. See reverence. to save alive, 
to keep safe and secure. 
Let us fall unto the host of the Syrians : if they save us 
alive, we shall live ; and if they kill us, we shall but die. 
2 Ki. vii. 4. 
To save appearances, originally, to show where any 
given planet would be at any given epoch (Ptolemy's defi- 
nition of the purpose of his astronomical theories) ; now, 
commonly, to manage so that the appearances may be con- 
sistent with a probable theory ; especially, to do something 
to prevent exposure, vexation, or molestation, as to save 
one's financial credit by avoiding the appearance of em- 
barrassment ; or, to keep up an appearance of competence, 
gentility, or propriety by shift or contrivance. 
When they come to model heaven 
And calculate the stars ; how they will wield 
The mighty frame; how build, unbuild, contrive, 
To save appearances; how gird the sphere 
With centric and eccentric scribbled o'er. 
Cycle and epicycl*, orb iu orb. Milton, t. L, viii. 82. 
TO save clean, to save all (the blubber) in cutting in : a 
whaling-term. To save one's bacon. See bacon. 
O Father ! my Sorrow will scarce save my Bacon: 
For 'twas not that I raurder'd, bnt that I was taken. 
Prior, Thief and Cordelier. 
=Syn. 1 and 2. To redeem. 3. To protect 
II. intrans. 1. To be economical ; keep from 
spending; spare. 
It [brass ordnance] saveth ... in the quantity of the 
material. Bacon, Compounding of Metals. 
2. To be capable of preservation : said of fish : 
as, to save well. 
save 1 (sav), conj. [< ME. save, saf, sauf, < OF. 
savf, save, except (sauf man droit, ' save my 
right,' my right being excepted), = Sp. Pg. It. 
salvo, save, except, < L. salro (fern, salvd), abl. 
(agreeing with its noun in the abl. absolute) of 
salvus, safe : see safe. Save is thus a form of 
safe. Ct. salvo 1 .] Except; not including; leav- 
ing out of account ; unless. 
For alle thoughe it were so that hee was not cristned, 
zet he lovede Cristene men more than ony other Nacioun, 
saf his owne. Mandeville, Travels, p. 84. 
Dischevele, sauf his cappe, he rood al bare. 
Chaucer, Gen. Prol. to C. T., 1. 683. 
Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes race one. 
2 Cor. xi. 24. 
Sane that these two men told Christian that, as to Laws 
and Ordinances, they doubted not but that they should as 
conscientiously do them as he. 
Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress, p. 112; 
A channel bleak and bare, 
Save shrubs that spring to perish there. 
Byron, The Giaour. 
Not that any man hath seen the Father, save he which 
is of God. John vi. 46. 
I do entreat you not a man depart, 
Sow I alone. Shalt., J. C., iii. 2. 66. 
Save they could be pluck'd asunder, all 
My quest were but in vain. 
Tennyson, Holy GraiL 
save 2 t, n. [< ME. save, < OF. sauve, < L. salvia, 
sage: see sage?, of which save 2 is a doublet.] 
The herb sage or salvia. 
Fremacyes of herbes, and eek save 
They drunken, for they wolde here lymes have. 
Chaucer, Knight's Tale, 1. 1855. 
saveable, a. Seesavable. 
save-all (sav'al), n. [< save 1 , v., + obj. all.] 
A contrivance for saving, or preventing waste 
or loss; a catch-all. In particular (a) A small pan, 
of china or metal, having a sharp point^ in the middle, 
fitted to the socket of a candlestick, to allow the short 
socket-end of a candle to be burnt out without waste. 
Go out in a Stink like a Candle's End upon a Saiv-all. 
Congreve, Way of the World, iv. 12. 
You may remember, sir, that a few weeks back a new 
save-all came in, and was called candle-wedges, and went 
off well. 
Mayhew, London Labour and London Poor, I. 392. 
(6) A small sail set under another, or between two other 
sails, to catch or save the wind, 
(c) A trough in a paper-making 
machine which collects any 
pulp that may have slopped 
over the edge of the wire-cloth. 
saveguardtj . Same as 
safeguard, o. 
saveloy (sav'e-loi), n. [A 
corrupt form of cervelat: 
see cervelat.] A highly 
seasoned dried sausage, 
a. Save-all. 
originally made of brains, but now of young 
pork salted. 
There are office lads in their first surtouts, who club, as 
they go home at night, for saveloys and porter. Dickens, 
savelyt, adv. A Middle English form of safely. 
savenapet (sav'nap), n. [Also salvenap, sanap; 
< OF. *sauvenape, < sauver, save,+ nape, a table- 
cloth, napkin : see nape%.] A napkin, or a piece 
of linen, oiled silk, or other material, laid over 
a table-cloth to keep it clean. 
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saver 1 (sa'ver), n. [< rare 1 + -er 1 .] 1. One 
who saves or rescues from evil, destruction, or 
death ; a preserver ; a savior. 
Tell noble Curius, 
And say it to yourself, you are my savers. 
B. Jonson, Catiline, iii. 4. 
2. One who economizes, is frugal in expenses, 
or lays up or hoards. 
By nature far from profusion, and yet a greater sparer 
than a saver. Sir H. WoUan. 
3. A contrivance for economizing, or prevent- 
ing waste or loss : as, a coal-saver. 
saver 2 t, " A Middle English form of savor. 
save-reverencet (sav'rev'e-rens), n. [See 
phrase under reverence, n.] A kind of apolo- 
getic remark interjected into a discourse when 
anvthing was said that might seem offensive or 
indelicate: often corrupted into sir-reverence. 
The third is a thing that I cannot name wel without 
save -reverence, and yet it sounds not unlike the shooting- 
place ! Sir J. Harington, Letter prefixed to Metam. of 
[Ajax. (Hares.) 
saverlyH (sa'ver-li), adv. [< saver + -ly'*.] In 
a frugal manner. Tusser, Husbandry, p. 17. 
saverly 2 t, and adv. Same as savorly. 
savery 1 !, a. A Middle English form of savory 1 . 
savery 2 t, n. An obsolete form of savory*. 
savetet, w. A Middle English form of safety. 
savetiyet, n. [Appar. a var. of safety, accom. 
to suffix -ive.] Safeguard. 
Operys satisfaccio the souereyne sauety/, 
For soth as I yow tell. 
Polituxtl Poems, etc. (ed. Furnlvall), p. 219. 
Savigny (sa-ve'nyi), . [F.] A red wine of Bur- 
gundy, produced in the department of C6te- 
d'Or, of several grades, the best being of the 
second class of Burgundy wines. 
savillet, . [A corruption of tare-all.] A pina- 
fore or covering for the dress. Fairholt. 
savin, savine (sav'in), n. [Also sabin, sabine; < 
ME. saveine, savyne, partly < AS. safine, sauine, 
savin, and partly < OF. (and F.) sabine = Sp. 
Pg. sabina = It. savina, < L. sabina, savin, 
orig. Sabina herba, lit. 'Sabine herb': Sabi- 
na, fern, of Sabinus, Sabine: see Sabine 2 .] 1. 
A European tree or shrub, Juniperus Sabina. 
Its tops, containing a volatile oil, are the officinal savin, 
which is highly irritant, and is used as an anthelmintic, 
in amenorrhea and atonic menorrhagia, and also as an 
abortifacient The similar American red cedar, J. Vir- 
giniana, is also called savin. (See Juniper.) The name is 
further extended in the United States to Torreya taxifo- 
lia, one of the stinking-cedars, and in the West Indies to 
Cfesalpinia bijuga and Xaiithoxylum Pterota. 
Within 12 miles of the top was neither tree nor grass, but 
low savins, which they went upon the top of sometimes. 
Winthrop, Hist New England, II. 81. 
And when I look 
To gather fruit, find nothing but the savin-tree. 
Middleton, Game at Chess. 
2. A drug consisting of savin-tops. See def. 1. 
Kindly -savin, the variety cupresstfotia of the common 
savin.^Oil of savin. See oil. Savin cerate, a cerate 
composed of fluid extract of savin (25 parts) and resin ce- 
rate (90 parts), used in maintaining a discharge from blis- 
tered surfaces. Also called savin ointment. 
saving (sa'ving), n. [Verbal n. of save 1 , v.] 
1. Economy in expenditure or outlay, or in the 
use of materials, money, etc. ; avoidance or pre- 
vention of waste or loss in any operation, es- 
pecially in expending one's earnings. 2. A re- 
duction or lessening of expenditure or outlay ; 
an advantage resulting from the avoiding of 
waste or loss : as, a saving of ten per cent. 
The bonelessness and the available weight of the meat 
constitute a saving ... of 5Jd. a pound in a leg of mut- 
ton. Saturday Rev. , XXXV. 691. 
3. pi. Sums saved from time to time by the 
exercise of care and economy; money saved 
from waste or loss and laid by or hoarded up. 
Enoch set 
A purpose evermore before his eyes, 
To hoard all savings to the uttermost. 
Tennyson, Enoch Arden. 
The savings of labor, which have fallen so largely into 
the hands of the few, . . . have built our railroads, steam- 
ships, telegraphs, manufactories. 
Pop. Set. Mo., XXV. 792. 
4. Exception; reservation. 
Contend not with those that are too strong for us, but 
still with a saving to honesty. Sir R. L' Estrange. 
saving (sa'ving), p. a. [Ppr. of save 1 , v.] 1. 
Preserving from evil or destruction; redeem- 
ing. 
Scripture teaches us that saving truth which God hath 
discovered unto the world by revelation. 
Hooker, Eccles. Polity, iii. 8. 
It is given to us sometimes ... to witness the saving 
influence of a noble nature, the divine efficacy of rescue 
that may lie in a self-subduing act of fellowship. 
George Eliot, MUldlemarch. 
savior 
2. Accustomed to save ; avoiding unnecessary 
expenditure or outlay; frugal; economical: as, 
a saving housekeeper. 
She loved money ; for she was saving, and applied her 
fortune to pay John's clamorous debts. 
Arbuthnot, Hist. John Bull. 
3. Bringing in returns or receipts the principal 
or sum invested or expended; incurring no loss, 
though not profitable: as, the vessel has made 
a saving run. 
Silvio, . . . finding a twelvemonth's application unsuc- 
cessful, was resolved to make a saving bargain of it ; and, 
since he could not get the widow's estate, to recover at least 
what he had laid out of his own. * 
Addison, Guardian, No. 97. 
4. Implying or containing a condition or reser- 
vation : as, a saving clause. See clause. 
Always directing by saving clauses that the jurisdiction 
of the Barons who had right of Haute Justice should not 
be interfered with. Brougham. 
Saving grace. See grace. 
saving (sa'ving), conj. [< ME. savyng; prop, 
ppr. of gave 1 , v.; cf. save 1 , conj.'] 1. Except- 
ing; save; unless. 
Rewarde and behold what gift will be hauyng ; 
Vnto you with-say neuer shall hire me, 
Sauyng and excepte only o gift be. 
Rom. ofPartenay (E. E. T. S.), 1. 6528. 
I could see no notable matter in it [the Cathedral church], 
saving the statue of St Christopher. 
Coryat, Crudities, I. 29. 
Hardly one 
Could haue the Lover from his Loue descry'd, . . . 
Saving that she had a more smiling Ey, 
A smoother Chin, a Cheek of purer Dy. 
Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, i. 6. 
Thou apt rich In all things, sailing in goodness. 
Dekker, Seven Deadly Sins, Ind., p. 9. 
2. Regarding; having respect for; with apol- 
ogy to. See reverence. 
Saving your reverence. Shak., Much Ado, iii. 4. 32. 
Yon looked 'so grim, and, as I may say it, saving your 
presence, more like a giant than a mortal man. 
Beau, and Fl., Knight of Burning Pestle, ii. 8. 
savingly (sa'ving-li), adv. 1. In a saving or 
sparing manner; with frugality or parsimony. 
2. So as to secure salvation or be finally 
saved from spiritual death : as, savingly con- 
verted. 
To take or accept of God and his Christ sincerely and 
savingly is proper to a sound believer. 
Baxter, Saints' Kest, iii. 11. 
savingness (sa'ving-nes), . 1. The quality 
of being saving or sparing; frugality; par- 
simony. 2. Tendency to promote spiritual 
safety or eternal salvation. 
The safety and savinffness which it promiseth. 
Brevint, Saul and Samuel atEndor, Pref., p. v. 
savings-bank (sa'vingz-bangk), n. An insti- 
tution for the encouragement of the practice of 
saving money among people of slender means, 
and for the secure investment of savings, man- 
aged by persons having no interest in the prof- 
its of the business, the profits being credited 
or paid as interest to the depositors at certain 
intervals, as every month (in Great Britain), or 
every three or six months (as in the United 
States) Post-office savings-bank. See post-ofce. 
savior, saviour (sa'vior), . [< ME. sareour, 
saveoure, savyor, saryour, savyoure, saryowre, < 
OF. saveor, sauveor, sauveour, salreor, F. sauvevr 
= Pr. Salvador = Sp. Pg. Salvador = It. salva- 
tore, < LL. salvator, a saver, preserver (first 
and chiefly with ref . to Christ, as a translation 
of the Gr. aur^p, saviour, and the equiv. 'lt/anvf, 
Jesus), < salvare, save : see save 1 , salvation, etc. 
The old spelling saviour still prevails even 
where other nouns in -our, esp. agent-nouns, 
are now spelled with -or, the form savior being 
regarded by some as irreverent.] 1. One who 
saves, rescues, delivers, or redeems from dan- 
ger, death, or destruction; a deliverer; a re- 
deemer. 
The Lord gave Israel a saviour, so that they went out from 
under the hand of the Syrians. 2 Ki. xiii. 5. 
The Lord . . . shall send them a saviour, and a great 
one, and he shall deliver them. Isa. six. 20. 
Specifically 2. [.cap.] One of the appellations 
given to God or to Jesus Christ as the one who 
saves from the power and penalty of sin. (Luke 
ii. 11 ; John iv. 42.) The title is coupled in the New 
Testament sometimes with Christ, sometimes with God. 
In this use usually spelled Saviour. 
Item, nexte is the place where ye Jewes consrreyned 
Symeon Cirenen, comynge from the towne, to take the 
Crosse after our Sauyour. 
Sir R. (fuylforde, Pylgrymage, p. 29. 
In the same Tower ys the ston vpon the whiche ower 
Savyor stonding ascendid in to hevyn. 
Torkington, Diarie of Eng. Travel], p. 80. 
