Counsel or consolation we may bring. Salve to thy sores.
Milton.
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.
Salve, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Salved (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Salving.] [AS.
sealfian to anoint. See Salve, n.] 1. To heal by applications or
medicaments; to cure by remedial treatment; to apply salve to; as, to
salve a wound. Shak.
2. To heal; to remedy; to cure; to make good; to soothe, as with an
ointment, especially by some device, trick, or quibble; to gloss over.
But Ebranck salved both their infamies With noble deeds.
Spenser.
What may we do, then, to salve this seeming inconsistence?
Milton.
Salve (?), v. t. & i. [See Salvage] To save, as a ship or goods, from
the perils of the sea. [Recent]
Salv"er (?), n. One who salves, or uses salve as a remedy; hence, a
quacksalver, or quack. [Obs.]
Sal"ver (?), n. [Cf. Salvage.] A salvor. Skeat.
Sal"ver (?), n. [Sp. salva pregustation, the tasting of viands before
they are served, salver, fr. salvar to save, to taste, to prove the
food or drink of nobles, from L. salvare to save. See Save.] A tray or
waiter on which anything is presented.
Sal"ver-shaped` (?), a. (Bot.) Tubular, with a spreading border. See
Hypocraterimorphous.
||Sal"vi*a (?), n. [L., sage.] (Bot.) A genus of plants including the
||sage. See Sage.
Sal*vif"ic (?), a. [L. salficus saving; salvus saved, safe + facere to
make.] Tending to save or secure safety. [Obs.]
Sal"vo (?), n.; pl. Salvos (#). [L. salvo jure, literally, the right
being reserved. See Safe.] An exception; a reservation; an excuse.
They admit many salvos, cautions, and reservations.
Eikon Basilike.
Sal"vo, n. [F. salve a discharge of heavy cannon, a volley, L. salve
hail, imperat. of salvere to be well, akin to salvus well. See Safe.]
1. (Mil.) A concentrated fire from pieces of artillery, as in
endeavoring to make a break in a fortification; a volley.
2. A salute paid by a simultaneous, or nearly simultaneous, firing of a
number of cannon.
Sal"vor (?), n. [See Salvation, Save] (Law) One who assists in saving a
ship or goods at sea, without being under special obligation to do so.
Wheaton.
Sam (?), adv. [AS. same. See Same, a.] Together. [Obs.] "All in that
city sam." Spenser.
Sa*ma"ra (? or ?), n. [L. samara, samera, the seed of the elm.] (Bot.)
A dry, indehiscent, usually one-seeded, winged fruit, as that of the
ash, maple, and elm; a key or key fruit.
Sam"are (?), n. See Simar.
Sa*mar"i*tan (?), a. [L. Samaritanus.] Of or pertaining to Samaria, in
Palestine. -- n. A native or inhabitant of Samaria; also, the language
of Samaria.
Sa*ma"ri*um (?), n. [NL., fr. E. samarskite.] (Chem.) A rare metallic
element of doubtful identity.
Samarium was discovered, by means of spectrum analysis, in certain
minerals (samarskite, cerite, etc.), in which it is associated with
other elements of the earthy group. It has been confounded with the
doubtful elements decipium, philippium, etc., and is possibly a complex
mixture of elements not as yet clearly identified. Symbol Sm.
Provisional atomic weight 150.2.
Sam"a*roid (?; 277), a. [Samara + -oid.] (Bot.) Resembling a samara, or
winged seed vessel.
Sa*mar"ra (?), n. See Simar.
Sa*mar"skite (?), a. [After Samarski, a Russian.] (Min.) A rare mineral
having a velvet-black color and submetallic luster. It is a niobate of
uranium, iron, and the yttrium and cerium metals.
Sam"bo, n. [Sp. zambo, sambo.] A colloquial or humorous appellation for
a negro; sometimes, the offspring of a black person and a mulatto; a
zambo.
Sam"boo (?), n. (Zoöl.) Same as Sambur.
||Sam*bu"cus (?), n. [L., an elder tree.] (Bot.) A genus of shrubs and
||trees; the elder.
Sam"buke (?), n. [L. sambuca, Gr. &?;.] (Mus.) An ancient stringed
instrument used by the Greeks, the particular construction of which is
unknown.
Sam"bur (?), n. [Hind. smbar, sbar.] (Zoöl.) An East Indian deer (Rusa
Aristotelis) having a mane on its neck. Its antlers have but three
prongs. Called also gerow. The name is applied to other species of the
genus Rusa, as the Bornean sambur (R. equina).
Same (?), a. [AS. same, adv.; akin to OS. sama, samo, adv., OHG. sam,
a., sama, adv., Icel. samr, a., Sw. samme, samma, Dan. samme, Goth.
sama, Russ. samuii, Gr. &?;, Skr. sama, Gr. &?; like, L. simul at the
same time, similis like, and E. some, a., -some. √191. Cf.
Anomalous, Assemble, Homeopathy, Homily, Seem, v. i., Semi-, Similar,
Some.] 1. Not different or other; not another or others; identical;
unchanged.
Thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end.
Ps. cii. 27.
2. Of like kind, species, sort, dimensions, or the like; not differing
in character or in the quality or qualities compared; corresponding;
not discordant; similar; like.
The ethereal vigor is in all the same.
Dryden.