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is the Latin salʹvia (sage), one of the most efficient of mediæval remedies.
“To other woundes, and to broken armes,
Some hadde salve, and some hadde charmes.”
Chaucer: Canterbury Tales, line 2, 715.
Salve. To flatter, to wheedle. The allusion is to salving a wound.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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