salve
(noun) anything that remedies or heals or soothes; “he needed a salve for his conscience”
ointment, unction, unguent, balm, salve
(noun) semisolid preparation (usually containing a medicine) applied externally as a remedy or for soothing an irritation
salve
(verb) apply a salve to, usually for the purpose of healing
salvage, salve, relieve, save
(verb) save from ruin, destruction, or harm
Source: WordNet® 3.1
salve (plural salves)
An ointment, cream, or balm with soothing, healing, or calming effects.
Any remedy or action that soothes or heals.
salve (third-person singular simple present salves, present participle salving, simple past and past participle salved)
(transitive) To calm or assuage.
To heal by applications or medicaments; to apply salve to; to anoint.
To heal; to remedy; to cure; to make good.
To salvage.
salve (third-person singular simple present salves, present participle salving, simple past and past participle salved)
(obsolete, astronomy) To save (the appearances or the phenomena); to explain (a celestial phenomenon); to account for (the apparent motions of the celestial bodies).
(obsolete) To resolve (a difficulty); to refute (an objection); to harmonize (an apparent contradiction).
(obsolete) To explain away; to mitigate; to excuse.
salve
Hail; a greeting.
salve (third-person singular simple present salves, present participle salving, simple past and past participle salved)
(transitive) To say “salve” to; to greet; to salute.
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Source: Wiktionary
Sal"ve, interj. Etym: [L., hail, God save you, imperat. of salvere to be well. Cf. Salvo a volley.]
Definition: Hail!
Sal"ve ( or ), v. t.
Definition: To say "Salve" to; to greet; to salute. [Obs.] By this that stranger knight in presence came, And goodly salved them. Spenser.
Salve, n. Etym: [AS. sealf ointment; akin to LG. salwe, D. zalve, zalf, OHG. salba, Dan. salve, Sw. salva, Goth. salb to anoint, and probably to Gr. (Hesychius) sapris clarified butter. sq. root155, 291.]
1. An adhesive composition or substance to be applied to wounds or sores; a healing ointment. Chaucer.
2. A soothing remedy or antidote. Counsel or consolation we may bring. Salve to thy sores. Milton. Salve bug (Zoöl.), a large, stout isopod crustacean (Æga psora), parasitic on the halibut and codfish, -- used by fishermen in the preparation of a salve. It becomes about two inches in length.
Salve, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Salved; p. pr. & vb. n. Salving.] Etym: [AS. sealfian to anoint. See Salve, n.]
1. To heal by applications or medicaments; to cure by remedial traetment; to apply salve to; as, to salve a wound. Shak.
2. 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, v. t. & i. Etym: [See Salvage]
Definition: To save, as a ship or goods, from the perils of the sea. [Recent]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
5 May 2025
(adjective) not developed, improved, exploited or used; “vast unexploited (or undeveloped) natural resources”; “taxes on undeveloped lots are low”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.