salve

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. An analgesic or medicinal ointment.
2. n. Something that soothes or heals; a balm.
3. n. Flattery or commendation.
4. v. To soothe or heal with or as if with salve.
5. v. To ease the distress or agitation of; assuage: salved my conscience by apologizing.
6. v. To salvage.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. An adhesive composition or substance to be applied to wounds or sores; an ointment or cerate.
2. n. Hence Help; remedy.
3. To apply salve to; heal; cure.
4. To help; remedy; redeem; atone for.
5. An obsolete form of save.
6. To save, as a ship or goods, from danger or destruction, as from shipwreck or fire: as, to salve a cargo.
7. To save anything, as the cargo of a ship, from destruction.
8. Hail.
9. To salute or greet with the exclamation “Salve!”

Wiktionary

1. n. An ointment, cream, or balm with soothing, healing, or calming effects.
2. n. Any thing or action that soothes or heals.
3. v. transitive To calm or assuage.
4. v. To salvage.
5. v. 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. v. obsolete to resolve (a difficulty); to refute (an objection); to harmonize (an apparent contradiction).
7. v. obsolete To explain away; to mitigate; to excuse

GNU Webster's 1913

1. interj. Hail.
2. v. obsolete To say “Salve” to; to greet; to salute.
3. n. An adhesive composition or substance to be applied to wounds or sores; a healing ointment.
4. n. A soothing remedy or antidote.
5. v. To heal by applications or medicaments; to cure by remedial treatment; to apply salve to.
6. v. 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.
7. v. Recent To save, as a ship or goods, from the perils of the sea.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. semisolid preparation (usually containing a medicine) applied externally as a remedy or for soothing an irritation
2. n. anything that remedies or heals or soothes
3. v. save from ruin, destruction, or harm
4. v. apply a salve to, usually for the purpose of healing