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Salving

adjective
1.
Having a softening or soothing effect especially to the skin.  Synonyms: demulcent, emollient, softening.


Salve

verb
(past & past part. salved; pres. part. salving)
1.
Save from ruin, destruction, or harm.  Synonyms: relieve, salvage, save.
2.
Apply a salve to, usually for the purpose of healing.



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"Salving" Quotes from Famous Books



... dead—among whom was Master Porson, with a great wound of the scalp; also everywhere great piles of freight, chests, bales, and casks—a few staved and taking damage from salt water and rain, but the most in apparent good condition. The crew had worked very busily at the salving, and to the great credit of men who had come through suffering and peril of death. Mr. Saint Aubyn's band, too, had lent help, though by this time the flowing of the tide forced them to give over. ...
— Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts • A. T. Quiller-Couch
... uttering another word. He had not foreseen the possibility of such spirited conduct on the part of his wife; but since she had ventured to revolt, the question of a public scandal was disposed of, and that being a consummation devoutly to be wished, he said no more, salving his lust of power with the reflection that, by deciding the question for herself, she had removed all responsibility from his shoulders, and proved herself to be a contumacious woman and blameworthy. So long as there is no risk ...
— The Heavenly Twins • Madame Sarah Grand
... and salving his injuries bodily and spiritual with a liberal douceur, Lanyard exacted an oath of silence, then turned ...
— The False Faces • Vance, Louis Joseph
... Wilmshurst left the camp, accompanied by the full platoon, to attempt the salving of the crippled seaplane. It was a comparatively easy matter to follow the tracks of the two airmen, for the down-trodden grass and the frequent sights of wisps of clothing adhering to the briars and thorns were evidences of a spoor that even ...
— Wilmshurst of the Frontier Force • Percy F. Westerman
... shores the white boats ride away, Salving the wreckage of the portless ships The light desires of the amorous day, The wayward, wanton ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker


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