salve
Pronunciation
  • (British) enPR sălv, IPA: /sælv/, /sɑːv/
  • (America) enPR sălv, IPA: /sælv/, /sæv/
Noun

salve (plural salves)

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

salve (salves, present participle salving; past and past participle salved)

  1. (transitive) To calm or assuage.
  2. To heal by applications or medicaments; to apply salve to; to anoint.
    • 1591, William Shakespeare The First Part of King Henry IV:
      I do beseech your majesty . . . salve the long-grown wounds of my intemperance."
  3. To heal; to remedy; to cure; to make good.
    • But Ebranck salved both their infamies / With noble deeds.
    • 1644, John Milton, The Doctrine or Discipline of Divorce:
      What may we do, then, to salve this seeming inconsistence?
  4. To salvage.
Translations Translations Verb

salve (salves, present participle salving; past and past participle salved)

  1. (obsolete, astronomy) To save (the appearances or the phenomena); to explain (a celestial phenomenon); to account for (the apparent motions of the celestial bodies).
  2. (obsolete) To resolve (a difficulty); to refute (an objection); to harmonize (an apparent contradiction).
    • 1661, Thomas Salusbury (translator), Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
      He which should hold it more rational to make the whole Universe move, and thereby to salve the Earths mobility, is more unreasonable....
  3. (obsolete) To explain away; to mitigate; to excuse.
Interjection
  1. Hail; a greeting.
Verb

salve (salves, present participle salving; past and past participle salved)

  1. (transitive) To say “salve” to; to greet; to salute.
    • By this that stranger knight in presence came, / And goodly salved them.



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