(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.

Hail; a greeting.

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).

simple past tense and past participle of salve

Of or pertaining to salvation.

present participle of salve

plural of salve

An escharotic based on bloodroot extract, fraudulently marketed as an alternative cancer treatment.