\Sav"ing\, a.
1. Preserving; rescuing.
         He is the saving strength of his anointed. --Ps.
                                               xxviii. 8.
2. Avoiding unnecessary expense or waste; frugal; not lavish
   or wasteful; economical; as, a saving cook.
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.
4. Making reservation or exception; as, a saving clause.
Note: Saving is often used with a noun to form a compound
      adjective; as, labor-saving, life-saving, etc.

\Sav"ing\ (s[=a]v"[i^]ng), 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.
      None of us put off our clothes, saving that every one
      put them off for washing.                --Neh. iv. 23.
      And in the stone a new name written, which no man
      knoweth saving he that receiveth it.     --Rev. ii. 17.

\Sav"ing\, n.
1. Something kept from being expended or lost; that which is
   saved or laid up; as, the savings of years of economy.
2. Exception; reservation.
         Contend not with those that are too strong for us,
         but still with a saving to honesty.   --L'Estrange.
{Savings bank}, a bank in which savings or earnings are
   deposited and put at interest.