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