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Meaning of salving

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

salving

verb

Definitions

  1. To calm or assuage.

  2. To heal by applications or medicaments; to apply salve to; to anoint.

  3. To heal; to remedy; to cure; to make good.

  4. To salvage.

verb

Definitions

  1. To save (the appearances or the phenomena); to explain (a celestial phenomenon); to account for (the apparent motions of the celestial bodies).

  2. To resolve (a difficulty); to refute (an objection); to harmonize (an apparent contradiction).

  3. To explain away; to mitigate; to excuse.

verb

Definitions

  1. To say “salve” to; to greet; to salute.