saving

SA'VING, participle present tense 1. Preserving from evil or destruction; hindering from waste or loss; sparing; taking or using in time. 2. Excepting. 3. adjective 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, noun 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.