Definitions
1.verbTo calm or assuage.
2.verbTo heal by applications or medicaments; to apply salve to; to anoint.
3.verbTo heal; to remedy; to cure; to make good.
4.verbTo salvage.
5.verbTo save (the appearances or the phenomena); to explain (a celestial phenomenon); to account for (the apparent motions of the celestial bodies).
6.verbTo resolve (a difficulty); to refute (an objection); to harmonize (an apparent contradiction).
7.verbTo explain away; to mitigate; to excuse.
8.verbTo say “salve” to; to greet; to salute.