Crossword clues for salve
salve
- Soothe, as hurt feelings
- Local's first in to deliver soothing treatment
- Prevent a total loss and rescue about 50
- Tray not right for cream
- Soothing application
- Soothing substance
- Soothing agent
- Soothing balm
- Soothing lotion
- Soothing cream
- Source of relief
- Medicine-chest item
- Medicinal ointment
- Wound application
- Healing lotion
- Burn covering
- Aloe, for one
- Topical application
- Soothing remedy
- Soothing goop
- Soothe or smooth over
- Calamine lotion, for one
- Aloe, e.g
- Mollifier
- Soothing ointment
- Unguentine, e.g.
- Comfort
- Burn soother
- Unguent
- Burn balm
- Balm — ointment
- Soothing stuff
- Rash decision?
- Restorative
- Wound soother
- Mollify
- Healing ointment
- Sore helper
- Semisolid preparation (usually containing a medicine) applied externally as a remedy or for soothing an irritation
- Anything that remedies or heals or soothes
- Ointment
- Assuage
- Healing substance
- Medicament
- Palliate
- Nard
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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 composition or substance to be applied to wounds or sores; a healing ointment.
--Chaucer.-
A soothing remedy or antidote.
Counsel or consolation we may bring. Salve to thy sores.
--Milton.Salve bug (Zo["o]l.), a large, stout isopod crustacean ( [AE]ga psora), parasitic on the halibut and codfish, -- used by fishermen in the preparation of a salve. It becomes about two inches in length.
Salve \Salve\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Salved; p. pr. & vb. n. Salving.] [AS. sealfian to anoint. See Salve, n.]
To heal by applications or medicaments; to cure by remedial treatment; to apply salve to; as, to salve a wound.
--Shak.-
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.
--Spenser.What may we do, then, to salve this seeming inconsistence?
--Milton.
Salve \Sal"ve\, interj. [L., hail, God save you, imperat. of salvere to be well. Cf. Salvo a volley.] Hail!
Salve \Sal"ve\ (? or ?), v. t. To say ``Salve'' to; to greet; to salute. [Obs.]
By this that stranger knight in presence came,
And goodly salved them.
--Spenser.
Salve \Salve\, v. t. & i. [See Salvage] To save, as a ship or goods, from the perils of the sea.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English sealf "healing ointment," from West Germanic *salbo- "oily substance" (cognates: Old Saxon salba, Middle Dutch salve, Dutch zalf, Old High German salba, German salbe "ointment"), from PIE *solpa-, from root *selp- "fat, butter" (cognates: Greek elpos "fat, oil," Sanskrit sarpis "melted butter"). The figurative sense of "something to soothe wounded pride, etc." is from 1736.
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.
"to save from loss at sea," 1706, back-formation from salvage (n.) or salvable. Related: Salved; salving.
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 anoint. 3 To heal; to remedy; to cure; to make good. 4 To salvage. Etymology 2
vb. 1 (context obsolete astronomy English) To save (the appearances or the phenomena); to explain (a celestial phenomenon); to account for (the apparent motions of the celestial bodies). 2 (context obsolete English) to resolve (a difficulty); to refute (an objection); to harmonize (an apparent contradiction). 3 (context obsolete English) To explain away; to mitigate; to excuse Etymology 3
interj. hail; a greeting vb. (context transitive English) To say "salve" to; to greet; to salute.
WordNet
Wikipedia
A salve is a medical ointment used to soothe the surface of the body.
A salve is a medical ointment used to soothe the head or other body surface.
Salve may also refer to:
- Salve (film), a 2011 Iranian film
- Salve, Apulia, a town in Italy
- Salve Regina, a Christian prayer
- Salve Andreas Salvesen (1909–1975), Norwegian politician
- Harish Salve (21st century), Indian lawyer
- Lahuji Raghoji Salve (1811–1881), Indian revolutionary
Salve (, translit. Marham) is a 2011 Iranian drama film directed by Alireza Davood Nejad.
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.