| conserve | |
| —vb | |
| 1. | to keep or protect from harm, decay, loss, etc |
| 2. | to preserve (a foodstuff, esp fruit) with sugar |
| —n | |
| 3. | a preparation of fruit in sugar, similar to jam but usually containing whole pieces of fruit |
| [(vb) C14: from Latin conservāre to keep safe, from servāre to save, protect; (n) C14: from Medieval Latin conserva, from Latin conservāre] | |
| con'servable | |
| —adj | |
| con'server | |
| —n | |
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |