(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. / (dated) To salvage.

(transitive) To say “salve” to; to greet; to salute.

An ointment, cream, or balm with soothing, healing, or calming effects. / Any remedy or action that soothes or heals.

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

Hail; a greeting.

simple past tense and past participle of salve

present participle of salve

plural of salve

Of or pertaining to salvation.

(now historical) A type of ointment formerly applied to a weapon in order to heal a wound caused by that weapon.