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salve
/sæ(l)v/
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What does salve mean?
noun
- An ointment, cream, or balm with soothing, healing, or calming effects.
- Any remedy or action that soothes or heals.
verb
- To calm or assuage.
More meanings (8)
verb
- To heal by applications or medicaments; to apply salve to; to anoint.
- To heal; to remedy; to cure; to make good.
- To say “salve” to; to greet; to salute.
- (dated) To salvage.
- (obsolete) To save (the appearances or the phenomena); to explain (a celestial phenomenon); to account for (the apparent motions of the celestial bodies).
- (obsolete) To resolve (a difficulty); to refute (an objection); to harmonize (an apparent contradiction).
- (obsolete) To explain away; to mitigate; to excuse.
interjection
- 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.
And this time the thing he wanted was to get the dervish to rub some of the salve on his other eye.
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.
Before transformation he smeared himself with the salve, which be preserved in a small pot, and hid his clothes in the thicket.
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.