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What does salve mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word salve? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. An ointment, cream, or balm with soothing, healing, or calming effects.
  2. Any remedy or action that soothes or heals.
Verb
  1. (transitive) 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.
Verb
  1. (astronomy) To save (the appearances or the phenomena); to explain (a celestial phenomenon); to account for (the apparent motions of the celestial bodies).
  2. (obsolete) to resolve (a difficulty); to refute (an objection); to harmonize (an apparent contradiction).
  3. (obsolete) To explain away; to mitigate; to excuse
Interjection
  1. hail; a greeting
Verb
  1. (transitive) To say "salve" to; to greet; to salute.
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