These are the meanings of the letters AVES when you unscramble them.
- Aves (n. pl.)
The class of Vertebrata that includes the birds.
- Save (a.)
Except; excepting; not including; leaving out; deducting; reserving; saving.
- Save (a.)
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.
- Save (a.)
To hinder from doing, suffering, or happening; to obviate the necessity of; to prevent; to spare.
- Save (a.)
To hold possession or use of; to escape loss of.
- Save (a.)
To keep from being spent or lost; to secure from waste or expenditure; to lay up; to reserve.
- Save (a.)
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.
- Save (a.)
To rescue from something undesirable or hurtful; to prevent from doing something; to spare.
- Save (conj.)
Except; unless.
- Save (n.)
The herb sage, or salvia.
- Save (v. i.)
To avoid unnecessary expense or expenditure; to prevent waste; to be economical.
- Vase (n.)
A vessel adapted for various domestic purposes, and anciently for sacrificial uses; especially, a vessel of antique or elegant pattern used for ornament; as, a porcelain vase; a gold vase; a Grecian vase. See Illust. of Portland vase, under Portland.
- Vase (n.)
A vessel similar to that described in the first definition above, or the representation of one in a solid block of stone, or the like, used for an ornament, as on a terrace or in a garden. See Illust. of Niche.
- Vase (n.)
The body, or naked ground, of the Corinthian and Composite capital; -- called also tambour, and drum.
- Vase (n.)
The calyx of a plant.