Usually means: Ointments that heal or soothe skin.
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  1. salves: Collins English Dictionary
  2. salves: Vocabulary.com
  3. Salves, salves: Wordnik
  4. salves: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. salves: Wiktionary
  6. salves: Dictionary.com
  7. salves: TheFreeDictionary.com
  8. salves: Merriam-Webster

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  1. salves: Legal dictionary

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  1. salves: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. salves: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. salves: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (salve)

noun:  An ointment, cream, or balm with soothing, healing, or calming effects.
noun:  Any remedy or action that soothes or heals.
verb:  (transitive) To calm or assuage.
verb:  To heal by applications or medicaments; to apply salve to; to anoint.
verb:  To heal; to remedy; to cure; to make good.
verb:  (dated) To salvage.
verb:  (obsolete, astronomy) To save (the appearances or the phenomena); to explain (a celestial phenomenon); to account for (the apparent motions of the celestial bodies).
verb:  (obsolete) To resolve (a difficulty); to refute (an objection); to harmonize (an apparent contradiction).
verb:  (obsolete) To explain away; to mitigate; to excuse.
verb:  (transitive) To say “salve” to; to greet; to salute.
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