To save appearances, to preserve a decent outside; to avoid exposure of a discreditable state of things.

Syn. — To preserve; rescue; deliver; protect; spare; reserve; prevent.

Save
(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
(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 one.
2 Cor. xi. 24.

Syn. — See Except.

Save
(Save), conj. Except; unless.

Saveable
(Save"a*ble) a. See Savable.

Savant
(||Sa`vant") n.; pl. Savants [F., fr. savoir to know, L. sapere. See Sage, a.] A man of learning; one versed in literature or science; a person eminent for acquirements.

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

Save
(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.

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.


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