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salve | joe |

As a verb salve

is .

As a noun joe is

(informal) a male; a guy; a fellow or joe can be (chiefly|us|informal) coffee.

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.

    Anagrams

    * ----

    joe

    English

    (wikipedia Joe)

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • A common nickname for Joseph, also used as a formal male given name.
  • * 1981 , Second Movement , Nebula Winners: Science Fiction Writers of America, Harper&Row, 1981, ISBN 0060148306, page 207
  • "With a name like Joe'," '''Joe''' always said, "I had to open a bar and grill, just so I could put up a sign saying '' Joe' s Bar and Grill'."
  • , Joanne or Josephine.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (informal) A male; a guy; a fellow
  • I'm just an ordinary Joe .

    Derived terms

    * average Joe * Joe Average * Joe Blow * Joe College * Joe Schmoe * Joe Sixpack

    See also

    * cup of joe * sloppy joe English diminutives of male given names