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salve

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Word definitions for salve in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 An ointment, cream, or balm with soothing, healing, or calming effects. 2 Any thing or action that soothes or heals. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To calm or assuage. 2 To heal by applications or medicaments; to apply salve to; to ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Salve \Salve\ (?; 277), n. [AS. sealf ointment; akin to LG. salwe, D. zalve, zalf, OHG. salba, Dan. salve, Sw. salfva, Goth. salb[=o]n to anoint, and probably to Gr. (Hesychius) ? oil, ? butter, Skr. sarpis clarified butter. [root]155, 29 ] 1. An adhesive ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English sealfian "anoint (a wound) with salve," from Proto-Germanic *salbojanan (cognates: Dutch zalven , German salben , Gothic salbon "to anoint"), from the root of salve (n.). Figurative use from c.1200. Related: Salved ; salving .

Usage examples of salve.

He rubbed more of the salve between his fingers, until the cool scent of anise spiced the air.

Lord Feltre oiled them, damned them, kindled them to a terrific expiatory blaze, and extinguishingly salved and wafted aloft the released essence of them.

Bonum, malum, qui fecisti Mali imploramus te, Salve fratrem, causa Christi, Miserere Domine!

Warden with his kings still high checked it to Prew, and Prew felt a salve of relief grease over him for sure now Warden had no trips.

I did not care to waste any energy on salving the discomfiture of the frightened ape within me, who thought he might fall out of this green-glowing tree.

Depilatories, salves, foot powder, styptic pencils, mouthwash, cotton swabs for the ears, deodorants for the armpit, deodorants for the male and female crotch, acne cream medication, sinus remedies, denture cleansers, laxatives, com plasters.

Depilatories, salves, foot powder, styptic pencils, mouthwash, cotton swabs for the ears, deodorants for the armpit, deodorants for the male and female crotch, acne cream medication, sinus remedies, denture cleansers, laxatives, corn plasters.

The salve heated as it sank into his bruised skin, and its fragrance sweetened the dampness of the room.

Princess and Kedrigern supervised his treatment, swabbing his face with healing waters at sunrise and sunset and applying a theriacal salve of great potency four times a day.

From a pocket inside her cloak she produced a small stone vial, unstopped it, and began gently rubbing a white salve on the burn as they rode.

My body was washed and their salves were spread, yet their herb-mixture went unswallowed, and they found it necessary to comb my hair as I lay unmoving upon my side.

With a little moan, she turned her thoughts to Perrnodt, aware that the exercise was a salve as well as a necessity.

She got Blackheart settled in his stall, then put the salve on the wound, her features darkening as she worked.

Finished with the salve, Ross stood and began to give Ian a rough haircut and beard trim so he would look like a Bokharan rather than a desert hermit.

Rosamond would hardly be recognised, she was so little known, but Mary had often visited Gloucester for the purpose of healing some sickness, or anointing some sore, while some of the monks had used her pots of herbage, and salves of the danewort and rue.