n. any of various tropical American orchids with usually solitary fleshy leaves and showy white to green nocturnally fragrant blossoms solitary or in racemes of up to 7. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. any of several plants of the genus Manihot having fleshy roots yielding a nutritious starch.
Syn. -- cassava. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ F. cassave, Sp. cazabe, fr. kasabi, in the language of Haiti. ] 1. (Bot.) A shrubby euphorbiaceous plant of the genus Manihot, with fleshy rootstocks yielding an edible starch; -- called also manioc. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ There are two species, bitter and sweet, from which the cassava of commerce is prepared in the West Indies, tropical America, and Africa. The bitter (Manihot utilissima) is the more important; this has a poisonous sap, but by grating, pressing, and baking the root the poisonous qualities are removed. The sweet (Manihot Aipi) is used as a table vegetable. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A nutritious starch obtained from the rootstocks of the cassava plant, used as food and in making tapioca. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Bot.) A West Indian tree (Turpinia occidentalis) of the family Staphyleaceæ. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

‖n. [ L., he has ceased. ] [ O. Eng. Law ] A writ given by statute to recover lands when the tenant has for two years failed to perform the conditions of his tenure. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Cf. Disadvance. ] To retard; to repel; to do damage to. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Disadventure, Adventure. ] Misfortune. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Misadventurous; unfortunate. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Pref. dis- + avouch. Cf. Disavow. ] To disavow. [ R. ] Daniel. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Disavowed p. pr. & vb. n. Disavowing. ] [ F. désavouer; pref. dés- (L. dis-) + avouer to avow. See Avow, and cf. Disavouch. ] 1. To refuse strongly and solemnly to own or acknowledge; to deny responsibility for, approbation of, and the like; to disclaim; to disown; as, he was charged with embezzlement, but he disavows the crime. [ 1913 Webster ]

A solemn promise made and disavowed. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To deny; to show the contrary of; to disprove. [ 1913 Webster ]

Yet can they never
Toss into air the freedom of my birth,
Or disavow my blood Plantagenet's. Ford. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. able to be disavowed. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The act of disavowing, disclaiming, or disowning; rejection and denial. [ 1913 Webster ]

An earnest disavowal of fear often proceeds from fear. Richardson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Disavowal. [ Obs. ] South. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who disavows. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Disavowal. [ R. ] Wotton. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. allowing one to maintain one's dignity or prestige; designed to avoid admitting something embarrassing; as, a face-saving compromise; -- of actions. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Saving labor; adapted to supersede or diminish the labor of men; designed to replace or conserve human and especially manual labor; as, labor-saving machinery; labor-saving appliances{ 4 }; labor-saving devices like washing machines.
Syn. -- laborsaving. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

a. That saves life, or is suited to save life, esp. from drowning; as, the life-saving service; a life-saving station. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Misadventure. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To misadvise. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a state-chartered savings bank owned by its depositors and managed by a board of trustees. Abbreviated MSB. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Pg. piasaba. ] A fibrous product of two Brazilian palm trees (Attalea funifera and Leopoldinia Piassaba), -- used in making brooms, and for other purposes. Called also piaçaba and piasaba. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ From Save. Cf. Salvable. ] Capable of, or admitting of, being saved. [ 1913 Webster ]

In the person prayed for there ought to be the great disposition of being in a savable condition. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Capability of being saved. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Salvation. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. sauvage, OF. salvage, fr. L. silvaticus belonging to a wood, wild, fr. silva a wood. See Silvan, and cf. Sylvatic. ] 1. Of or pertaining to the forest; remote from human abodes and cultivation; in a state of nature; wild; as, a savage wilderness. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Wild; untamed; uncultivated; as, savage beasts. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cornels, and savage berries of the wood. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Uncivilized; untaught; unpolished; rude; as, savage life; savage manners. [ 1913 Webster ]

What nation, since the commencement of the Christian era, ever rose from savage to civilized without Christianity? E. D. Griffin. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Characterized by cruelty; barbarous; fierce; ferocious; inhuman; brutal; as, a savage spirit. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Ferocious; wild; uncultivated; untamed; untaught; uncivilized; unpolished; rude; brutish; brutal; heathenish; barbarous; cruel; inhuman; fierce; pitiless; merciless; unmerciful; atrocious. See Ferocious. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A human being in his native state of rudeness; one who is untaught, uncivilized, or without cultivation of mind or manners. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A man of extreme, unfeeling, brutal cruelty; a barbarian. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To make savage. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Its bloodhounds, savaged by a cross of wolf. Southey. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a savage manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state or quality of being savage. [ 1913 Webster ]

Wolves and bears, they say,
Casting their savageness aside have done
Like offices of pity. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. sauvagerie. ] 1. The state of being savage; savageness; savagism. [ 1913 Webster ]

A like work of primeval savagery. C. Kingsley. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An act of cruelty; barbarity. [ 1913 Webster ]

The wildest savagery, the vilest stroke,
That ever wall-eyed wrath or staring rage
Presented to the tears of soft remorse. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Wild growth, as of plants. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being savage; the state of rude, uncivilized men, or of men in their native wildness and rudeness. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) The tarpum. [ Local, U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Of American Indian origin; cf. Sp. sabana, F. savane. ] A tract of level land covered with the vegetable growth usually found in a damp soil and warm climate, -- as grass or reeds, -- but destitute of trees. [ Spelt also savannah. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Savannahs are clear pieces of land without woods. Dampier. [ 1913 Webster ]

Savanna flower (Bot.), a West Indian name for several climbing apocyneous plants of the genus Echites. --
Savanna sparrow (Zool.), an American sparrow (Ammodramus sandwichensis or Passerculus savanna) of which several varieties are found on grassy plains from Alaska to the Eastern United States. --
Savanna wattle (Bot.), a name of two West Indian trees of the genus Citharexylum. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Savants [ F., fr. savoir to know, L. sapere. See Sage, a. ] A man of learning; one versed in literature or science; a person eminent for acquirements. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Sage the herb. ] The herb sage, or salvia. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

God save all this fair company. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

He cried, saying, Lord, save me. Matt. xiv. 30. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thou hast . . . quitted all to save
A world from utter loss. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. 1 Tim. i. 15. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To keep from being spent or lost; to secure from waste or expenditure; to lay up; to reserve. [ 1913 Webster ]

Now save a nation, and now save a groat. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To rescue from something undesirable or hurtful; to prevent from doing something; to spare. [ 1913 Webster ]

I'll save you
That labor, sir. All's now done. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To hinder from doing, suffering, or happening; to obviate the necessity of; to prevent; to spare. [ 1913 Webster ]

Will you not speak to save a lady's blush? Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. To hold possession or use of; to escape loss of. [ 1913 Webster ]

Just saving the tide, and putting in a stock of merit. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

To save appearances, to preserve a decent outside; to avoid exposure of a discreditable state of things. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To preserve; rescue; deliver; protect; spare; reserve; prevent. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To avoid unnecessary expense or expenditure; to prevent waste; to be economical. [ 1913 Webster ]

Brass ordnance saveth in the quantity of the material. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

prep. or conj. [ F. sauf, properly adj., safe. See Safe, a. ] Except; excepting; not including; leaving out; deducting; reserving; saving. [ 1913 Webster ]

Five times received I forty stripes save one. 2 Cor. xi. 24. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- See Except. [ 1913 Webster ]

conj. Except; unless. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. See Savable. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Save + all. ] Anything which saves fragments, or prevents waste or loss. Specifically: (a) A device in a candlestick to hold the ends of candles, so that they be burned. (b) (Naut.) A small sail sometimes set under the foot of another sail, to catch the wind that would pass under it. Totten. [ 1913 Webster ]

(c) A trough to prevent waste in a paper-making machine. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. cervelas, It. cervellata, fr. cervello brain, L. cerebellum, dim. of cerebrum brain. See Cerebral. ] A kind of dried sausage. McElrath. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Safely. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of saving. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who saves. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ OE. saveine, AS. safinae, savine, L. sabina herba. Cf. Sabine. ] [ Written also sabine. ] (Bot.) (a) A coniferous shrub (Juniperus Sabina) of Western Asia, occasionally found also in the northern parts of the United States and in British America. It is a compact bush, with dark-colored foliage, and produces small berries having a glaucous bloom. Its bitter, acrid tops are sometimes used in medicine for gout, amenorrhoea, etc. (b) The North American red cedar (Juniperus Virginiana.) [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Preserving; rescuing. [ 1913 Webster ]

He is the saving strength of his anointed. Ps. xxviii. 8. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Avoiding unnecessary expense or waste; frugal; not lavish or wasteful; economical; as, a saving cook. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Bringing back in returns or in receipts the sum expended; incurring no loss, though not gainful; as, a saving bargain; the ship has made a saving voyage. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Making reservation or exception; as, a saving clause. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Saving is often used with a noun to form a compound adjective; as, labor-saving, life-saving, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

prep. or conj.; but properly a participle. With the exception of; except; excepting; also, without disrespect to. “Saving your reverence.” Shak. “Saving your presence.” Burns. [ 1913 Webster ]

None of us put off our clothes, saving that every one put them off for washing. Neh. iv. 23. [ 1913 Webster ]

And in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it. Rev. ii. 17. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Something kept from being expended or lost; that which is saved or laid up; as, the savings of years of economy. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Exception; reservation. [ 1913 Webster ]

Contend not with those that are too strong for us, but still with a saving to honesty. L'Estrange. [ 1913 Webster ]

Savings bank, a bank in which savings or earnings are deposited and put at interest. [ 1913 Webster ]