Salve
(Salve), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Salved ; p. pr. & vb. n. Salving.] [AS. sealfian to anoint. See
Salve, n.]
1. To heal by applications or medicaments; to cure by remedial treatment; to apply salve to; as, to salve
a wound. Shak.
2. To heal; to remedy; to cure; to make good; to soothe, as with an ointment, especially by some device,
trick, or quibble; to gloss over.
But Ebranck salved both their infamies
With noble deeds.
Spenser.
What may we do, then, to salve this seeming inconsistence?
Milton. Salve
(Salve) v. t. & i. [See Salvage] To save, as a ship or goods, from the perils of the sea. [Recent]
Salver
(Salv"er) n. One who salves, or uses salve as a remedy; hence, a quacksalver, or quack. [Obs.]
Salver
(Sal"ver) n. [Cf. Salvage.] A salvor. Skeat.
Salver
(Sal"ver) n. [Sp. salva pregustation, the tasting of viands before they are served, salver, fr.
salvar to save, to taste, to prove the food or drink of nobles, from L. salvare to save. See Save.] A
tray or waiter on which anything is presented.
Salver-shaped
(Sal"ver-shaped`) a. (Bot.) Tubular, with a spreading border. See Hypocraterimorphous.
Salvia
(||Sal"vi*a) n. [L., sage.] (Bot.) A genus of plants including the sage. See Sage.
Salvific
(Sal*vif"ic) a. [L. salficus saving; salvus saved, safe + facere to make.] Tending to save or
secure safety. [Obs.]
Salvo
(Sal"vo) n.; pl. Salvos [L. salvo jure, literally, the right being reserved. See Safe.] An exception; a
reservation; an excuse.
They admit many salvos, cautions, and reservations.
Eikon Basilike. Salvo
(Sal"vo), n. [F. salve a discharge of heavy cannon, a volley, L. salve hail, imperat. of salvere to
be well, akin to salvus well. See Safe.]
1. (Mil.) A concentrated fire from pieces of artillery, as in endeavoring to make a break in a fortification; a
volley.
2. A salute paid by a simultaneous, or nearly simultaneous, firing of a number of cannon.
Salvor
(Sal"vor) n. [See Salvation, Save] (Law) One who assists in saving a ship or goods at sea,
without being under special obligation to do so. Wheaton.
Sam
(Sam) adv. [AS. same. See Same, a.] Together. [Obs.] "All in that city sam." Spenser.
Samara
(Sa*ma"ra) n. [L. samara, samera, the seed of the elm.] (Bot.) A dry, indehiscent, usually
one-seeded, winged fruit, as that of the ash, maple, and elm; a key or key fruit.
