LekhoriLekhoriAn ointment, cream, or balm with soothing, healing, or calming effects.
Any remedy or action that soothes or heals.
Your forgiveness was a salve to my conscience and a balm to my wounded ego.
To calm or assuage.
She feels guilty for pampering him, and salves her conscience by bossily ordering him to go and fetch the clothes from the line[.]
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.
From Old English sealfian, from Proto-West Germanic *salbōn, from Proto-Germanic *salbōną, from *salbō (whence salve (noun)).
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To say “salve” to; to greet; to salute.
By this that ſtraunger knight in preſence came, / And goodly ſalued them; who nought againe / Him anſwered, as courteſie became, / But with ſterne lookes, and ſtomachous diſdaine, / Gaue ſignes of grudge and diſcontentment vaine: […]