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Dripping vs Salve - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between dripping and salve

is that dripping is solid animal fat, traditionally collected from dripping off roasting meat while salve is an ointment, cream, or balm with soothing, healing, or calming effects.

As verbs the difference between dripping and salve

is that dripping is present participle of lang=en while salve is to calm or assuage.

As an interjection salve is

hail; a greeting.

dripping

English

Noun

(wikipedia dripping)
  • Solid animal fat, traditionally collected from dripping off roasting meat.
  • * 1915 , ":
    • They were pleased because he was not above drinking a cup of tea with them, and when the dawn came and they were still waiting they offered him a slice of bread and dripping ; he was not squeamish and could eat most things now with a good appetite.
  • The sound or action of something that drips.
    • Lying in bed, I could hear drippings from the leaky roof.

    Derived terms

    * dripping pan

    Verb

    (head)

    • salve

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) sealf, from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An ointment, cream, or balm with soothing, healing, or calming effects.
  • Any thing or action that soothes or heals.
    • Derived terms
    * (l)

    Verb

    (salv)
  • To calm or assuage.
  • To heal by applications or medicaments; to apply salve to; to anoint.
  • * Shakespeare The First Part of King Henry IV :
    • I do beseech your majesty . . . salve the long-grown wounds of my intemperance."
  • To heal; to remedy; to cure; to make good.
  • * Spenser
    • But Ebranck salved both their infamies / With noble deeds.
  • * Milton
    • What may we do, then, to salve this seeming inconsistence?
  • To salvage.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl)

    Verb

    (salv)
  • (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
    • He which should hold it more rational to make the whole Universe move, and thereby to salve the Earths mobility, is more unreasonable....
  • (obsolete) To explain away; to mitigate; to excuse

    • References

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    Etymology 3

    (etyl) (lena)

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • hail; a greeting

    • Verb

    (salv)
  • To say "salve" to; to greet; to salute.
  • * Spenser
    • By this that stranger knight in presence came, / And goodly salved them.

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