A healing ointment for application to wounds or sores. See also eye salve, n., lipsalve, n.

An aromatic resinous vegetable juice; = balm, n.1 1, balsam, n. 1.

Ointment.

An aromatic substance, consisting of resin mixed with volatile oils, exuding naturally from various trees of the genus Balsamodendron, and much…

The action of anointing with salve (literal and figurative); healing as if with salve, soothing. †Also semi-concrete, a healing application.

A cosmetic or (now chiefly) medicinal preparation in the form of a soft, smooth paste, usually intended to be applied to the skin; an unguent. Also…

(See quot. 1721.)

Medicine. A thick ointment or salve. Obsolete.

An ointment or (esp.) liniment that is rubbed on the body for therapeutic purposes.