Calve vs Salve - What's the difference?
calve | salve |
To give birth to a calf.
To assist the giving of birth of a calf.
To break off or shed a large piece.
An ointment, cream, or balm with soothing, healing, or calming effects.
Any thing or action that soothes or heals.
To calm or assuage.
To heal by applications or medicaments; to apply salve to; to anoint.
* Shakespeare The First Part of King Henry IV :
To heal; to remedy; to cure; to make good.
* Spenser
* Milton
To salvage.
(obsolete, astronomy) To save (the appearances or the phenomena); to explain (a celestial phenomenon); to account for (the apparent motions of the celestial bodies).
(obsolete) to resolve (a difficulty); to refute (an objection); to harmonize (an apparent contradiction).
* 1662 , Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two World Systems
(obsolete) To explain away; to mitigate; to excuse
To say "salve" to; to greet; to salute.
* Spenser
As verbs the difference between calve and salve
is that calve is to give birth to a calf while salve is to calm or assuage.As a noun salve is
an ointment, cream, or balm with soothing, healing, or calming effects.As an interjection salve is
hail; a greeting.calve
English
Verb
(calv)- The glacier was starting to calve even as we watched.
- The sea was dangerous because of icebergs calving off the nearby glacier.
Anagrams
* ----salve
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) sealf, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* (l)Verb
(salv)- I do beseech your majesty . . . salve the long-grown wounds of my intemperance."
- But Ebranck salved both their infamies / With noble deeds.
- What may we do, then, to salve this seeming inconsistence?
Etymology 2
From (etyl)Verb
(salv)- He which should hold it more rational to make the whole Universe move, and thereby to salve the Earths mobility, is more unreasonable....
References
*Etymology 3
(etyl) (lena)Verb
(salv)- By this that stranger knight in presence came, / And goodly salved them.