The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Save \Save\, n. [See Sage the herb.]
   The herb sage, or salvia. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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.
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            God save all this fair company.       --Chaucer.
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            He cried, saying, Lord, save me.      --Matt. xiv.
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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.
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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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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Save \Save\, conj.
   Except; unless.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Save \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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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Save \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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Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

221 Moby Thesaurus words for "save":
   abet, abstain, accumulate, aid, amass, anticipate, aside from,
   assist, avail, avert, backlog, bail out, bar, barring, bear a hand,
   befriend, benefit, beside, besides, bottle up, but, cache, collect,
   comfort, conserve, convert, copyright, cork up, cumulate, debar,
   defend, deflect, deliver, deposit, deter, discounting, discourage,
   dishearten, dispense with, do good, do without, doctor, ease,
   economize, enforce economies, estop, ex, except, except for,
   except that, excepting, exception taken of, exclude, excluding,
   exclusive of, extract, extricate, favor, fend, fend off, forbear,
   forbid, foreclose, forestall, forgo, free, from, garner, garner up,
   gather into barns, give a boost, give a hand, give a lift,
   give help, give salvation, guard, heap up, help, hide, hoard,
   hoard up, hold, hold back, hold in, hold off, however, husband,
   if not, inhibit, keep, keep alive, keep back, keep by one,
   keep from, keep in, keep in hand, keep in reserve, keep in store,
   keep intact, keep inviolate, keep off, keep on hand, keep safe,
   keep up, keep within compass, lay aside, lay away, lay by, lay in,
   lay up, leaving out, lend a hand, lend one aid, less, let alone,
   liberate, lock in, maintain, make ends meet, make sure, manage,
   minus, not counting, not destroy, not endanger, not expend,
   not touch, not use, not use up, not waste, obviate, off, omitting,
   outside of, patent, pile up, play safe, preclude, precluding,
   preserve, prevent, proffer aid, prohibit, protect, put apart,
   put aside, put away, put by, put something aside, put up, rally,
   ransom, reclaim, recover, redeem, reform, refrain, regenerate,
   register, release, relieve, remedy, render assistance, repel,
   repress, rescue, reserve, restore, resuscitate, retain, retrieve,
   revive, rule out, safeguard, salt away, salvage, save and except,
   save up, saving, scrape, scrape and save, scrimp, secrete, secure,
   set apart, set aside, set by, set free, set up, shelter, shield,
   skimp, spare, squirrel, squirrel away, stave off, stock up,
   stockpile, store up, stow, succor, support, suppress, sustain,
   take in tow, take precautions, than, treasure, treasure up,
   turn aside, unchain, unless, unless that, unshackle, uphold, waive,
   ward off, were it not, withhold, without, yet