n. Ointment for the eye. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ D. kwakzalver; cf. kwakzalven to quack or boast of one's salves. See Quack, Salve, n. ] One who boasts of his skill in medicines and salves, or of the efficacy of his prescriptions; a charlatan; a quack; a mountebank. [ Obs. ] Burton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or condition of being salvable; salvableness. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

In the Latin scheme of redemption, salvability was not possible outside the communion of the visible organization. A. V. G. Allen. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. salvare to save, from salvus safe. Cf. Savable. ] Capable of being saved; admitting of salvation. Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Sal"va*ble*ness, n. -- Sal"va*bly, adv. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. salvage, OF. salver to save, F. sauver, fr. L. salvare. See Save. ] 1. The act of saving a vessel, goods, or life, from perils of the sea. [ 1913 Webster ]

Salvage of life from a British ship, or a foreign ship in British waters, ranks before salvage of goods. Encyc. Brit. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Maritime Law) (a) The compensation allowed to persons who voluntarily assist in saving a ship or her cargo from peril. (b) That part of the property that survives the peril and is saved. Kent. Abbot. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. & n. Savage. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. salvacioun, sauvacion, F. salvation, fr. L. salvatio, fr. salvare to save. See Save. ] 1. The act of saving; preservation or deliverance from destruction, danger, or great calamity. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Theol.) The redemption of man from the bondage of sin and liability to eternal death, and the conferring on him of everlasting happiness. [ 1913 Webster ]

To earn salvation for the sons of men. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation. 2. Cor. vii. 10. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Saving power; that which saves. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fear ye not; stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord, which he will show to you to-day. Ex. xiv. 13. [ 1913 Webster ]

Salvation Army, an organization for prosecuting the work of Christian evangelization, especially among the degraded populations of cities. It is virtually a new sect founded in London in 1861 by William Booth. The evangelists, male and female, have military titles according to rank, that of the chief being “General.” They wear a uniform, and in their phraseology and mode of work adopt a quasi military style. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An evangelist, a member, or a recruit, of the Salvation Army. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. salvatorium, fr. salvare to save. ] A place where things are preserved; a repository. [ R. ] Sir M. Hale. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖interj. [ L., hail, God save you, imperat. of salvere to be well. Cf. Salvo a volley. ] Hail! [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To say “Salve” to; to greet; to salute. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

By this that stranger knight in presence came,
And goodly salved them. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. sealf ointment; akin to LG. salwe, D. zalve, zalf, OHG. salba, Dan. salve, Sw. salfva, Goth. salbōn to anoint, and probably to Gr. (Hesychius) &unr_; oil, &unr_; butter, Skr. sarpis clarified butter. √155, 291. ] 1. An adhesive composition or substance to be applied to wounds or sores; a healing ointment. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A soothing remedy or antidote. [ 1913 Webster ]

Counsel or consolation we may bring.
Salve to thy sores. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Salve bug (Zool.), a large, stout isopod crustacean (Aega psora), parasitic on the halibut and codfish, -- used by fishermen in the preparation of a salve. It becomes about two inches in length. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

But Ebranck salved both their infamies
With noble deeds. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

What may we do, then, to salve this seeming inconsistence? Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

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v. t. & i. [ See Salvage ] To save, as a ship or goods, from the perils of the sea. [ Recent ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who salves, or uses salve as a remedy; hence, a quacksalver, or quack. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Salvage. ] A salvor. Skeat. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Bot.) Tubular, with a spreading border. See Hypocraterimorphous. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L., sage. ] (Bot.) A genus of plants including the sage. See Sage. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. salficus saving; salvus saved, safe + facere to make. ] Tending to save or secure safety. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Salvos [ L. salvo jure, literally, the right being reserved. See Safe. ] An exception; a reservation; an excuse. [ 1913 Webster ]

They admit many salvos, cautions, and reservations. Eikon Basilike. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A salute paid by a simultaneous, or nearly simultaneous, firing of a number of cannon. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to Valsalva, an Italian anatomist of the 17th century. [ 1913 Webster ]

Valsalvian experiment (Med.), the process of inflating the middle ear by closing the mouth and nostrils, and blowing so as to puff out the cheeks. [ 1913 Webster ]