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Except; besides; save. Who can it be, ye gods! but perjured Lycon E. Smith.

, private, or obscure street; an out of the way or cross street. He seeks by-streets, and saves the expensive coach. Gay.

The sharp broken noise made by a goose or by a hen that has laid an egg. By her cackle saved the state. Dryden.

; the principles and motives that control the life; as, a man of character; his character saves him from suspicion.

oundabout language; a periphrese. the plain Billingagate way of calling names . . . would save abundance of time lost by circumlocution. Swift. Circumlocution office, a term of riducle for a governmental office where business is delayed by passing through the hands of different officials.

(Rom. Antiq.), a crown or garland of oak leaves and acorns, bestowed on a soldier who had saved the life of a citizen in battle.

. Milton. Friendship is the which really combines mankind. Dr. H. More. And all combined, save what thou must combine By holy marriage. Shak. Earthly sounds, though sweet and well combined. Cowper.

To keep in a safe or sound state; to save; to preserve; to protect. The amity which . . . they meant to conserve and maintain with the emperor. Strype.

f sin to that of holiness. He which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death. Lames v. 20.

roper cost. Shak. At less cost of life than is often expended in a skirmish, [Charles V.] saved Europe from invasion. Prescott.

To haunt, or enter by, crannies. All tenantless, save to the cranning wind. Byron.

tion of dividing, severing, incising, intersecting, etc.; to use a cutting instrument. He saved the lives of thousands by manner of cutting for the stone. Pope.

int; to set at liberty; to release; to liberate, as from control; to give up; to free; to save; to rescue from evil actual or feared; -- often with from or out of; as, to deliver one from captivity, or from fear of death. He that taketh warning shall deliver his soul. Ezek. xxxiii. 5. Promise was that I Should Israel f…

One of a sect of Anabaptists who maintain that the demons or devils will finally be saved.

Disheveled. [Obs.] Dishevele, save his cap, he rode all bare. Chaucer.

d commas" ("), or small marks. Used in bills, books of account, tables of names, etc., to save repetition. A spacious table in the center, and a variety of smaller dittos in the corners. Dickens.

t. Do, did, and done often stand as a general substitute or representative verb, and thus save the repetition of the principal verb. "To live and die is all we have to do." Denham. In the case of do and did as auxiliaries, the sense may be completed by the infinitive (without to) of the verb represented. "When beauty l…

ssage; means of approach or access. I am the door; by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved. John x. 9.

in expenditure; -- said of character or habits. Just rich enough, with economic care, To save a pittance. Harte.

; management without loss or waste; frugality in expenditure; prudence and disposition to save; as, a housekeeper accustomed to economy but not to parsimony. Political economy. See under Political.