salve
/sæ(l)v/ noun C1- An ointment, cream, or balm with soothing, healing, or calming effects.
- Any remedy or action that soothes or heals. · Your forgiveness was a salve to my conscience and a balm to my wounded ego.
Plural salves
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This agreement being made, the Physician, time after time, applied his salve to her eyes, and on every visit took something away, stealing all her property little by little.
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