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salve | x |

As a verb salve

is .

As a letter x is

the twenty-fourth letter of the.

As a symbol x is

voiceless velar fricative.

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

    *

    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

    * ----

    x

    Translingual

    {{Basic Latin character info, previous=W, next=Y, image= (wikipedia X)

    Etymology 1

    Letter

  • The twenty-fourth letter of the .
    • See also
    (Latn-script)

    Cardinal number

    (mul-number)
  • The number 10.

    • Symbol

    (mul-symbol)
  • A symbol of the IPA, representing a voiceless uvular fricative.
  • strike

    • Etymology 2

    Possibly from skull and crossbones

    Symbol

    (mul-symbol)
    • Derived terms
    * XXX

    See also

    {{Letter , page=X , NATO=X-ray , Morse=–··– , Character=X , Braille=? }} Image:Latin X.png, Capital and lowercase versions of X , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter X.png, Uppercase and lowercase X in Fraktur Roman numerals ----