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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 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.