conserve

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To protect from loss or harm; preserve: calls to conserve our national heritage in the face of bewildering change.
2. v. To use carefully or sparingly, avoiding waste: kept the thermostat lower to conserve energy.
3. v. To keep (a quantity) constant through physical or chemical reactions or evolutionary changes.
4. v. To preserve (fruits) with sugar.
5. v. To economize: tried to conserve on fuel during the long winter.
6. n. A jam made of fruits stewed in sugar.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To keep in a safe or sound state; save; preserve from loss, decay, waste, or injury; defend from violation: as, to conserve bodies from perishing; to conserve the peace of society.
2. To preserve with sugar, etc., as fruits, roots, herbs, etc.; prepare or make up as a sweetmeat.
3. n. That which is conserved; a sweetmeat; a confection; especially, in former use, a pharmaceutical confection.
4. n. . A conservatory.
5. n. Aconserver; that which conserves.

Wiktionary

1. n. Wilderness where human development is prohibited.
2. n. A jam or thick syrup made from fruit.
3. n. obsolete A medicinal confection made of freshly gathered vegetable substances mixed with finely powdered refined sugar.
4. n. obsolete A conservatory.
5. v. To save for later use.
6. v. To protect an environment.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To keep in a safe or sound state; to save; to preserve; to protect.
2. v. To prepare with sugar, etc., for the purpose of preservation, as fruits, etc.; to make a conserve of.
3. n. Anything which is conserved; especially, a sweetmeat prepared with sugar; a confection.
4. n. (Med.) A medicinal confection made of freshly gathered vegetable substances mixed with finely powdered refined sugar. See Confection.
5. n. obsolete A conservatory.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. fruit preserved by cooking with sugar
2. v. preserve with sugar
3. v. keep constant through physical or chemical reactions or evolutionary change
4. v. use cautiously and frugally
5. v. keep in safety and protect from harm, decay, loss, or destruction