salve

  1. Noun.  An ointment, cream, or balm with soothing, healing, or calming effects.
  2. Noun.  Any thing or action that soothes or heals.
  3. Verb.  (transitive) To calm or assuage.
  4. Verb.  To salvage.
  5. Verb.  (obsolete) An astronomical term meaning to save (the appearances or the phenomena); to explain (a celestial phenomenon); to account for (the apparent motions of the celestial bodies).
  6. Verb.  (obsolete) to resolve (a difficulty); to refute (an objection); to harmonize (an apparent contradiction).
  7. Verb.  (obsolete) To explain away; to mitigate; to excuse.

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