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Definition of Salving
1. Adjective. Having a softening or soothing effect especially to the skin.
Similar to: Soft
Derivative terms: Demulcent, Emollient
Definition of Salving
1. Verb. (present participle of salve) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Salving
1. salve [v] - See also: salve
Lexicographical Neighbors of Salving
Literary usage of Salving
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie, David Shephard Garland (1893)
"The ordinary rule of distribution is to allow to the owner of the salving vessel
one-third of the total sum allowed, and to distribute two-thirds among her ..."
2. The Parliamentary Debates by Great Britain Parliament (1908)
"Cost of salving the " Montagu. " MR. GRETTON (Rutland) : To ask the Secretary to
the Admiralty, -what was the cost to Naval Votes of the attempt to salve ..."
3. Submarine Engineering of To-day: A Popular Account of the Methods by which by Charles William Domville-Fife (1914)
"... CHAPTER XVI THE salving OF SPECIE ALTHOUGH in magnitude the salving of specie
cannot be compared with harbour construction and rock-blasting, ..."
4. The Memoirs of Admiral Lord Charles Beresford edited by Leslie Cope Cornford (1914)
"CHAPTER XXXVIII HMS UNDAUNTED {Continued) II. THE salving OF THE SEIGNELAY THE
Undaunted, lying at Alexandria in 1891, was being rigged up ..."
5. The Memoirs of Admiral Lord Charles Beresford by Leslie Cope Cornford (1914)
"THE salving OF THE SEIGNELAY THE Undaunted, lying at Alexandria in 1891, was
being rigged up for a ball; when a telegram arrived ordering her to go to the ..."
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