- a medicinal ointment for healing or relieving wounds and sores.
- anything that soothes, mollifies, or relieves.
- to soothe with or as if with salve; assuage: to salve one's conscience.
- to save from loss or destruction; to salvage.
- an ointment for wounds, sores, etc
- anything that heals or soothes
- to apply salve to (a wound, sore, etc)
- to soothe, comfort, or appease
- a less common word for salvage
- an archaic word for save 1 (def. 3)