Definition of "salve"

salve¹

/sɑːv/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural salves
1. An ointment, cream, or balm with soothing, healing, or calming effects.
2. Any remedy or action that soothes or heals.

salve²

/sɑːv/

verb
third-person singular simple present salves, present participle salving, simple past and past participle salved
1. (transitive) To calm or assuage.
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  She feels guilty for pampering him, and salves her conscience by bossily ordering him to go and fetch the clothes from the line[.]
  1985, Joan Morrison, Share House Blues, Boolarong Publications, page 26
2. To heal by applications or medicaments; to apply salve to; to anoint.
  Quotations
  c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)
3. To heal; to remedy; to cure; to make good.
  Quotations
  But Ebranck salved both their infamies / With noble deedes.
  1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, stanza 21
  What may we do, then, to salve this seeming inconsistence?
  1644, J[ohn] M[ilton], The Doctrine or Discipline of Divorce: […], 2nd edition, London: [s.n.], book
4. (dated) To salvage.
  Quotations
  The interior woodwork was largely salved from the two cars, as well as the majority of the fittings and seats.
  1942 March, “Notes and News: Repairing Blitzed Underground Cars”, in Railway Magazine, page 90

salve³

/sɑːv/

verb
third-person singular simple present salves, present participle salving, simple 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).
  Quotations
  He which should hold it more rational to make the whole Universe move, and thereby to salve the Earths mobility, is more unreasonable....
  1661, Thomas Salusbury, transl., Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
3. (obsolete) To explain away; to mitigate; to excuse.

salve⁴

/sɑːv/

interjection
1. Hail; a greeting.

salve⁵

/sɑːv/

verb
third-person singular simple present salves, present participle salving, simple past and past participle salved
1. (transitive) To say “salve” to; to greet; to salute.
  Quotations
  By this that straunger knight in presence came, / And goodly salved them.
  1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, stanza 23

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