(n.) The herb sage, or salvia.
(a.) 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.
(a.) 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.
(a.) To keep from being spent or lost; to secure from waste or
expenditure; to lay up; to reserve.
(a.) To rescue from something undesirable or hurtful; to prevent
from doing something; to spare.
(a.) To hinder from doing, suffering, or happening; to obviate the
necessity of; to prevent; to spare.
(a.) To hold possession or use of; to escape loss of.
(v. i.) To avoid unnecessary expense or expenditure; to prevent
waste; to be economical.
(a.) Except; excepting; not including; leaving out; deducting;
reserving; saving.
(conj.) Except; unless.
