Salve n.
1. An adhesive composition or substance to be applied to wounds or sores; a healing ointment.
2. A soothing remedy or antidote.
Counsel or consolation we may bring.
Salve to thy sores. --Milton.
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.