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salve

/sæ(l)v/

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What does salve mean?

noun

  1. An ointment, cream, or balm with soothing, healing, or calming effects.
  2. Any remedy or action that soothes or heals.

verb

  1. To calm or assuage.
More meanings (8)

verb

  1. To heal by applications or medicaments; to apply salve to; to anoint.
  2. To heal; to remedy; to cure; to make good.
  3. To say “salve” to; to greet; to salute.
  4. (dated) To salvage.
  5. (obsolete) To save (the appearances or the phenomena); to explain (a celestial phenomenon); to account for (the apparent motions of the celestial bodies).
  6. (obsolete) To resolve (a difficulty); to refute (an objection); to harmonize (an apparent contradiction).
  7. (obsolete) To explain away; to mitigate; to excuse.

interjection

  1. Hail; a greeting.

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IPA pronunciation

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If the tree has been lacerated to some extent, a plaster of moistened clay or cow-manure makes a good salve.
Edward Payson RoeThe Home AcreProject Gutenberg ebook #5418
And this time the thing he wanted was to get the dervish to rub some of the salve on his other eye.
Mark TwainTom Sawyer AbroadProject Gutenberg ebook #91
More book examples (3)
Wipe with a clean, soft cloth and apply a very little witch hazel or carbolated salve to the eyes, nostrils and head.
Edward J. (Edward James) WicksonOne Thousand Questions in California Agriculture AnsweredProject Gutenberg ebook #5152
Before transformation he smeared himself with the salve, which be preserved in a small pot, and hid his clothes in the thicket.
S. (Sabine) Baring-GouldThe Book of Were-WolvesProject Gutenberg ebook #5324
And Jude told him the names and addresses of the cottagers who were willing to test the virtues of the world-renowned pills and salve.
Thomas HardyJude the ObscureProject Gutenberg ebook #153