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Webster's English Dictionary

save

n. [See Sage the herb.] The herb sage, or salvia. (Chaucer.)

v. t. [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. ()

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. ()

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v. i. To avoid unnecessary expense or expenditure; to prevent waste; to be economical. ()

Brass ordnance saveth in the quantity of the material. (Bacon.)

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 one. (2 Cor. xi. 24.)

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conj. Except; unless. ()