An ointment, cream, or balm with soothing, healing, or calming effects.

Any remedy or action that soothes or heals.

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.

To save (the appearances or the phenomena); to explain (a celestial phenomenon); to account for (the apparent motions of the celestial bodies).

To resolve (a difficulty); to refute (an objection); to harmonize (an apparent contradiction).

To explain away; to mitigate; to excuse.

Hail; a greeting.

To say “salve” to; to greet; to salute.