salve : Idioms & Phrases


Lip salve

  • a salve for sore lips.
Webster 1913

mentholated salve

  • noun a salve containing menthol
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Salve bug

  • (Zoöl.), a large, stout isopod crustacean (Æga psora), parasitic on the halibut and codfish, used by fishermen in the preparation of a salve. It becomes about two inches in length.
Webster 1913

Weapon salve

  • a salve which was supposed to cure a wound by being applied to the weapon that made it. Obs. Boyle.
Webster 1913