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