salve

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

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

   “Your forgiveness was a salve to my conscience and a balm to my wounded ego.”

3. fiil To calm or assuage.

   “She feels guilty for pampering him, and salves her conscience by bossily ordering him to go and fetch the clothes from the line[.]”

4. fiil To heal by applications or medicaments; to apply salve to; to anoint.

   “I do beseech your majesty […] salve the long-grown wounds of my intemperance."”

5. fiil To heal; to remedy; to cure; to make good.

   “But Ebranck salved both their infamies / With noble deedes.”

6. fiil To salvage.

   “The interior woodwork was largely salved from the two cars, as well as the majority of the fittings and seats.”

7. fiil To save (the appearances or the phenomena); to explain (a celestial phenomenon); to account for (the apparent motions of the celestial bodies).
8. fiil To resolve (a difficulty); to refute (an objection); to harmonize (an apparent contradiction).

   “He which should hold it more rational to make the whole Universe move, and thereby to salve the Earths mobility, is more unreasonable....”

9. fiil To explain away; to mitigate; to excuse.
10. ünlem Hail; a greeting.
11. fiil To say “salve” to; to greet; to salute.

    “By this that ſtraunger knight in preſence came, / And goodly ſalued them; who nought againe / Him anſwered, as courteſie became, / But with ſterne lookes, and ſtomachous diſdaine, / Gaue ſignes of grudge and diſcontentment vaine: […]”