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noun

Salve n.

An adhesive composition or substance to be applied to wounds or sores; a healing ointment.

A soothing remedy or antidote. "Counsel or consolation we may bring. Salve to thy sores."

Salve bug (Zool.), a large, stout isopod crustacean (Aega psora), parasitic on the halibut and codfish, used by fishermen in the preparation of a salve. It becomes about two inches in length.

verb

Salve v. t. & v. i. To save, as a ship or goods, from the perils of the sea. (Recent)

Salve v. t. To say "Salve" to; to greet; to salute. (Obs.) "By this that stranger knight in presence came, And goodly salved them."

Salve v. t. (past & past part. salved; pres. part. salving)

To heal by applications or medicaments; to cure by remedial treatment; to apply salve to; as, to salve a wound.

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. "But Ebranck salved both their infamies With noble deeds." "What may we do, then, to salve this seeming inconsistence?"

interjection

Salve interj. Hail!

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Etymology of 'Salve'

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"Salve" Quotes from Famous Books

... misfortunes; besides, all such underboil'd Drinks are certainly exposed to staleness and sowerness, much sooner than those that have had their full time in the Copper. And if they are boiled too long, they will then thicken (for one may boil a Wort to a Salve) and not come out of the Copper fine and in a right Condition, which will cause it never to be right clear in the Barrel; an Item sufficient to shew the mistake of all those that think to excel in Malt Liquors, by boiling them two or three Hours, to the great Confusion ...

— The London and Country Brewer • Anonymous

... and made this bargain with him in the presence of witnesses: that if he should cure her blindness, he should receive from her a sum of money; but if her infirmity remained, she should give him nothing. This agreement being made, the Physician, time after time, applied his salve to her eyes, and on every visit took something away, stealing all her property little by little. And when he had got all she had, he healed her and demanded the promised payment. The Old Woman, when she recovered her sight and saw none of her goods in her house, would give him nothing. ...

— Aesop's Fables • Aesop

... and then turned to devote herself to Mr. Farraday, who was laying himself out to salve what he thought must be her pain at the loss of his beloved friend. The Violet had soon caught his attitude toward her, and was encouraging his chivalry in every way possible by the most pensive of poses as the generous deserted. Such a situation is all to a woman's ...

— Blue-grass and Broadway • Maria Thompson Daviess

... fortissimo throughout, and accompanied with another tremendous outburst of harmonious thunder in crashing chords, which continues up to the last eight bars, when the voices drop suddenly from the furious fortissimo to an almost inaudible pianissimo on the words "Salve me." The next verse ("Quaerens me") is an unaccompanied six-part chorus in imitative style, of very close harmony. The "Dies Irae" ends with the "Lachrymosa," the longest and most interesting number in the work. It is thoroughly melodic, ...

— The Standard Oratorios - Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers • George P. Upton

... you haven't been in the habit of getting mine," I said firmly. "I wouldn't eat anything you cooked if I starved to death. If you want some occupation, you'd better get some salve and anoint the scratches ...

— Chronicles of Avonlea • Lucy Maud Montgomery

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