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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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"Salve" Quotes from Famous Books

... with. As to the medicinal qualities of the leaves, they are numerous. Indeed, a book has been written upon them. I speak, however, from my own experience. The young, yet unrolled leaves are superior to any salve or ointment. If applied to an inflamed part of the body, the effect is soothing and cooling, or if applied to a wound or ulcer, they excite a proper healthy action, and afterwards completely heal the wound. Decoctions made of the leaves are used among the natives ...

— Scientific American, Vol.22, No. 1, January 1, 1870 • Various

... the shore one morn, A holy man by chance I found Who by a tiger had been torn And had no salve to heal his wound. Long time he suffered grievous pain, But not the less to the Most High He offered thanks. They asked him, Why? For answer he thanked God again; And then to them: "That I am in No greater ...

— Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul • Various

... more feeble attempt to save Jesus by asking what was to be done with Him. The question was an ignoble abdication of his judicial office, and perhaps was meant as a salve for his own conscience, and an excuse to his wife, enabling him to say, 'I did not crucify Him; they did,'—a miserable pretext, the last resort of a weak man, who knew that he was doing a ...

— Expositions of Holy Scripture - St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII • Alexander Maclaren

... a miracle like that performed in North Carolina. Two men were disputing about the relative merits of the salve they had for sale. One of the men, in order to demonstrate that his salve was better than any other, cut off a dog's tail and applied a little of the salve to the stump, and, in the presence of the spectators, a new tail grew out. But the other man, who also ...

— The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume VIII. - Interviews • Robert Green Ingersoll

... William at Breslau; but the King hardly deigned to see him, and the greatest of German patriots was suffered to remain in a garret of that city during a wearisome attack of fever. But he lived through disease and official neglect as he triumphed over Slavonic intrigues; and he had at hand that salve of many an able man—the knowledge that, even while he himself was slighted, his plans were adopted with beneficent and ...

— The Life of Napoleon I (Volumes, 1 and 2) • John Holland Rose

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