Dictionary entry

Saving (3)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

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.