1. Preserving from evil or destruction; hindering from waste or loss; sparing; taking or using in time.
2. Excepting.
3. a. Frugal; not lavish; avoiding unnecessary expenses; economical; parsimonious. but it implies less rigorous economy than parsimonious; as a saving husbandman or housekeeper.
4. That saves in returns or receipts the principal or sum employed or expended; that incurs no loss, though not gainful; as a saving bargain. The ship has made a saving voyage.
5. That secures everlasting salvation; as saving grace.
SA'VING, n.
1. Something kept from being expended or lost.
by reducing the interest of the debt, the nation makes a saving.
2. Exception; reservation.
Contend not with those that are too strong for us, but still with a saving to honesty.
