salvatoryt (salvatori)

[= It. salvatorio, Thou art a box of worm-seed, at best but a salvatory Of green mummy. Webster, Duche of Malfi, iv. 2. In what salvatories or repositories the species of things past are conserved. Sir M. Hale , Orig. of Mankind, p. 156. salvel (säv), n. [ salfe , sealf =OS. salbha = D. zalf = MLG. salve = OHG. salba , MHG. G. sal be = Sw.salfva = Dan. salve = Goth. * salba (indicated by the derived verb salbōn ), salve; prob. = Skt. sarpis , clarified butter, so called from its slipperine , ✓sarp , glide: see serpent .] 1. An adhesive composition or substance to be applied to wounds or sores; an ointment or cerate. And [they] smote hem so harde that the i metten that Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 624. Hence-2. Help; remedy. the i neded no salve, and the speres fly in peces. Hadde iche a clerke that couthe write I wolde caste hym a bille, That he sent me vnder his seel a salue for the pestilence. Piers Plowman (B), xiii. 247. There is no better salue to part us from our sinnes than alway to carrie the paine in memorie. Guevara, Letters (tr. by Hellowes, 1577), p. 107. Sleep is a salve for misery. Fletcher , Sea Voyage, iii. 1. We have found A salve for melancholy-mirth and ease. Ford, Love's Sacrifice, ii. 1. Deshler's salve, a salve composed of resin, suet, and yellow wax each twelve parts, turpentine six parts, and linseed-oil seven parts by weight. Also called compound which are with a salve or well-bougie, a bougie having depre ions salvel (säv), v. t.; pret. and pp. salved, ppr. salving. [ And [he] souzte the syke and synful bot he, And salued syke and synful, bot he blynde and crokede. Piers Plowman (B), xvi. 109. But no outward cherishing could salve the inward sore of her mind. Sir P. Sidney, Arcadia, i. I do beseech your majesty may salve The long-grown wounds of my intemperance. Shak., 1 Hen. IV., iii. 2. 155. 2. To help; remedy; redeem; atone for. But Ebrank salved both their infamies With noble deedes. Spenser, F. Q., II. x. 21. When a man is whole to faine himselfe sicke to shunne the bus in e e in Court, to entertaine time and ease at home, to salue offences without discredite. Putten ham , Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 251. I devised a formal tale, That salved your reputation. B. Jonson, Volpone, iv. 2. My only child Being provided for, her honour salved too. Mas singer , Bashful Lover, v. 1. They who to salve this would make the deluge particular proceed upon a principle that I can no way grant. Sir T. Browne , Religio Medici, i. 22. They [the Bishops] were all for a Regency, thereby to Evelyn , Diary, Jan. 15, 1689. salve2t, v. t. An obsolete form of savel . salves (salv), v.; pret. and pp. salved , ppr. sal ving. [A particular use of salve2 for savel , in part a back formation salvage1 : see salvagel , salve their oathes. 5322 salve2, savel.] I. trans. To save, as a ship or goods, from danger or destruction, as from shipwreck or fire: as, to salve a cargo. The Scotsman. II. in trans. To save anything, as the cargo of a ship, from destruction. The Society may from time to time do, or join in doing, all such lawful things as they may think expedient, with a view to further salving from the wreck of the Lutine. Charter of Lloyd's , quoted in F. Martin's Hist. of Lloyd's, [p. 206. sam closed by hairs, and by two anthers, one erect and bearing a perfect anther-cell, the other spreading and club-shaped or bearing an empty and imperfect anther-cell. The flowers are in verticillasters of two or more, these grouped in spikes, racemes, or panicles, or rarely all axillary. There are about 450 species, widely scattered through temperate and warm regions, about 30 in the United States, chiefly southward. They are either herbs or shrubs and of great variety in habit, their leaves ranging from entire to pinnatifid, and their flowers from the spike to the panicle, from a minute to a conspicuous size, and through almost all colors except yellow. The floral leaves are generally changed into bracts, often colored like the flowers, scarlet and showy in the cultivated S. splendens and other species. The members of the subgenus Salvia, including By this the stranger knight in presence came, And goodly salued them. Spenser , F. Q., II. viii. 23. The knyght went forth and kneled downe, And salued them grete and small. Lytell Geste of Robyn Hode (Child's Ballads, V. 62).