salve

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.
• 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.
• An obsolete form of save.
• Hail!
• To salute or greet with the exclamation “Salve!”

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.

• noun An ointment, cream, or balm with soothing, healing, or calming effects.
• noun Any thing or action that soothes or heals.
• verb transitive To calm or assuage.
• verb To salvage.
• verb obsolete An astronomical term meaning to save (the appearances or the phenomena); to explain (a celestial phenomenon); to account for (the apparent motions of the celestial bodies).
• verb obsolete to resolve (a difficulty); to refute (an objection); to harmonize (an apparent contradiction).
• verb obsolete To explain away; to mitigate; to excuse

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