Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An analgesic or medicinal ointment.
- noun Something that soothes or consoles; a balm.
- noun Flattery or commendation.
- transitive verb To soothe or heal with salve.
- transitive verb To ease the distress or agitation of; assuage.
- transitive verb To salvage.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To apply salve to; heal; cure.
- To help; remedy; redeem; atone for.
- An obsolete form of
save . - Hail!
- To salute or greet with the exclamation “Salve!”
- noun An adhesive composition or substance to be applied to wounds or sores; an ointment or cerate.
- noun Hence Help; remedy.
- To save, as a ship or goods, from danger or destruction, as from shipwreck or fire: as, to
salve a cargo. - To save anything, as the cargo of a ship, from destruction.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To say “
Salve ” to; to greet; to salute. - noun An adhesive composition or substance to be applied to wounds or sores; a healing ointment.
- noun A soothing remedy or antidote.
- noun (Zoöl.) a large, stout isopod crustacean (
Æga psora ), parasitic on the halibut and codfish, -- used by fishermen in the preparation of a salve. It becomes about two inches in length. - verb Recent To save, as a ship or goods, from the perils of the sea.
- transitive verb To heal by applications or medicaments; to cure by remedial treatment; to apply salve to.
- transitive verb To heal; to remedy; to cure; to make good; to soothe, as with an ointment, especially by some device, trick, or quibble; to gloss over.
- interjection Hail!
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete An astronomical term meaning to
save (the appearances or the phenomena); to explain (acelestial phenomenon ); to account for (the apparent motions of the celestial bodies). - verb obsolete to resolve (a difficulty); to
refute (an objection); toharmonize (an apparent contradiction). - verb obsolete To explain away; to
mitigate ; to excuse - noun An
ointment ,cream , orbalm with soothing,healing , orcalming effects. - noun Any thing or action that
soothes or heals. - verb transitive To
calm orassuage . - verb To
salvage .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun semisolid preparation (usually containing a medicine) applied externally as a remedy or for soothing an irritation
- noun anything that remedies or heals or soothes
- verb save from ruin, destruction, or harm
- verb apply a salve to, usually for the purpose of healing
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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_Arnica salve, Urtica urens, tincture and salve_, and Dr. Reisig's _Homoeopathic Pain Extractor_ are the best specific remedies for _Burns_.
Hydriatic treatment of Scarlet Fever in its Different Forms Charles Munde
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This salve is strong stuff, Page, but there is nothing else for it.
ceciliatan: The Prince’s Boy: 33 ceciliatan 2010
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This salve is strong stuff, Page, but there is nothing else for it.
ceciliatan: The Prince’s Boy: 33 ceciliatan 2010
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No long term salve was applied to the state's fiscal problems.
Unions urge voters to take a pass on Ross Hunter for county executive over state budget 2009
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And some parts of the credit markets showed skepticism about the Fed's move, too, despite hopes that it will provide a short-term salve to some of the margin-call issues that have hindered the normal functioning of the financial markets lately.
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Whereon he finds in my name salve for the wounds of his own, and comes aboard, kissing my fist, with Spanish lies of holding himself fortunate that he had fallen into the hands of fortunate Drake, and much more, which he might have kept to cool his porridge.
Westward Ho! 2007
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I recently heard of Arnica salve from a former co-worker who is Mexican.
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Whereon he finds in my name salve for the wounds of his own, and comes aboard, kissing my fist, with Spanish lies of holding himself fortunate that he had fallen into the hands of fortunate Drake, and much more, which he might have kept to cool his porridge.
Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth Charles Kingsley 1847
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After a financial crisis there is no short-term salve to the economic pain.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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But that was a short-term salve for the market, given the strong demand and reduced resources from other Middle Eastern markets.
unknown title 2011
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