Save (2)
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. T...
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, C. & G. Merriam Co., 1913.
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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. T...
Save, v. i. To avoid unnecessary expense or expenditure; to prevent waste; to be economical.Brass ordnance saveth in the quantity of the material. Bacon.
Save, prep. or conj. [F. sauf, properly adj., safe. See Safe, a.] Except; excepting; not including; leaving out; deducting; reserving; saving.Five times received I forty stripes...
Save, conj. Except; unless.
Save″–all′ (?), n. [Save + all.] Anything which saves fragments, or prevents waste or loss. Specifically: (a) A device in a candlestick to hold the ends of candles, so that they...
Save″a‐ble (?), a. See Savable.
Sav″e‐loy (?), n. [F. cervelas, It. cervellata, fr. cervello brain, L. cerebellum, dim. of cerebrum brain. See Cerebral.] A kind of dried sausage. McElrath.
Save″ly (?), adv. Safely. Chaucer.
Save″ment (?), n. The act of saving.
Sav″er (?), n. One who saves.
{ Sav″in, Sav″ine (?) }, n. [OE. saveine, AS. safinæ, savine, L. sabina herba. Cf. Sabine.] [Written also sabine.] (Bot.) (a) A coniferous shrub (Juniperus Sabina) of Western As...
Sav″ing (?), a. 1. Preserving; rescuing.He is the saving strength of his anointed. Ps. xxviii. 8.2. Avoiding unnecessary expense or waste; frugal; not lavish or wasteful; econom...
Sav″ing (sāv″ĭng), prep. or conj.; but properly a participle. With the exception of; except; excepting; also, without disrespect to. “Saving your reverence.” Shak. “Saving your ...
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 t...
Sav″ing‐ly, adv. 1. In a saving manner; with frugality or parsimony.2. So as to be finally saved from eternal death.Savingly born of water and the Spirit. Waterland.
Sav″ing‐ness, n. 1. The quality of being saving; carefulness not to expend money uselessly; frugality; parsimony. Mrs. H. H. Jackson.2. Tendency to promote salvation. Johnson.
Sav″ior (sāv″yẽr), n. [OE. saveour, OF. salveor, F. sauveur, fr. L. salvator, fr. salvare to save. See Save, v.] [Written also saviour.] 1. One who saves, preserves, or delivers...
Sav″ior‐ess, n. A female savior. Bp. Hall.
Sa″vor (?), n. [OE. savour, savor, savur, OF. savor, savour, F. saveur, fr. L. sapor, fr. sapere to taste, savor. See Sage, a., and cf. Sapid, Insipid, Sapor.] [Written also sav...
Sa″vor, v. i. [imp. & p. p.Savored (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Savoring.] [Cf. OF. savorer, F. savourer. See Savor, n.] [Written also savour.] 1. To have a particular smell or taste; — ...
Sa″vor, v. t. 1. To perceive by the smell or the taste; hence, to perceive; to note. B. Jonson.2. To have the flavor or quality of; to indicate the presence of.That cuts us off ...
Sa″vor‐i‐ly (?), adv. In a savory manner.
Sa″vor‐i‐ness, n. The quality of being savory.
Sa″vor‐less, a. Having no savor; destitute of smell or of taste; insipid.
Sa″vor‐ly, a. Savory.
Sa″vor‐ly, adv. In a savory manner. Barrow.
Sa″vor‐ous (–ŭs), a. [Cf. F. savoureux, OF. saveros, L. saporosus. Cf. Saporous, and see Savor, n.] Having a savor; savory. Rom. of R.