salve

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

1. To calm or assuage.
2. To heal by applications or medicaments; to apply salve to; to anoint.
3. To heal; to remedy; to cure; to make good.
4. To salvage.

1. To save (the appearances or the phenomena); to explain (a celestial phenomenon); to account for (the apparent motions of the celestial bodies).
2. To resolve (a difficulty); to refute (an objection); to harmonize (an apparent contradiction).
3. To explain away; to mitigate; to excuse.

interjection

Hail; a greeting.

verb

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