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   Save (?), n. [See Sage the herb.] The herb sage, or salvia. [Obs.] Chaucer.
   
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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. 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”.
   
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   God save all this fair company. Chaucer.
   
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   He cried, saying, Lord, save me. Matt. xiv. 30.
   
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   Thou hast . . . quitted all to save
   
   A world from utter loss. Milton.
   
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   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.
   
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   Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. 1 Tim. i. 15.
   
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   3. To keep from being spent or lost; to secure from waste or expenditure; to lay up; to reserve.
   
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   Now save a nation, and now save a groat. Pope.
   
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   4. To rescue from something undesirable or hurtful; to prevent from doing something; to spare.
   
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   I'll save you
   
   That labor, sir. All's now done. Shak.
   
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   5. To hinder from doing, suffering, or happening; to obviate the necessity of; to prevent; to spare.
   
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   Will you not speak to save a lady's blush? Dryden.
   
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   6. To hold possession or use of; to escape loss of.
   
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   Just saving the tide, and putting in a stock of merit. Swift.
   
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   To save appearances, to preserve a decent outside; to avoid exposure of a discreditable state of things.
   
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   Syn. -- To preserve; rescue; deliver; protect; spare; reserve; prevent.
   
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   Save, v. i. To avoid unnecessary expense or expenditure; to prevent waste; to be economical.
   
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   Brass ordnance saveth in the quantity of the material. Bacon.
   
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   Save, prep. or conj. [F. sauf, properly adj., safe. See Safe, a.] Except; excepting; not including; leaving out; deducting; reserving; saving.
   
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   Five times received I forty stripes save one. 2 Cor. xi. 24.
   
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   Syn. -- See Except.
   
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   Save, conj. Except; unless.
   
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