verb

• (transitive) To calm or assuage.
  "She feels guilty for pampering him, and salves her conscience by bossily ordering him to go and fetch the clothes from the line[.]"
• (dated) To salvage.
  "The interior woodwork was largely salved from the two cars, as well as the majority of the fittings and seats."

verb

• (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).
  "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.

verb

• (transitive) To say “salve” to; to greet; to salute.
  "By this that ſtraunger knight in preſence came, / And goodly ſalued them; who nought againe / Him anſwered, as courteſie became, / But with ſterne lookes, and ſtomachous diſdaine, / Gaue ſignes of grudge and diſcontentment vaine: […]"