All 4 Uses
salve
in
Chains, by Laurie Halse Anderson
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- The healer woman put a comfrey salve on it to draw out the pestilence.†
p. 151.6 *
- When Angelika set the food in front of me, her eyes went to the fresh scar on my face, rinsed clean of salve and patted dry.†
p. 153.6
- Momma used to rub a salve of bear fat and mint on us as winter approached so our skin would not dry and crack.†
p. 200.7
- I built up the fire in the hearth, set my shoes and damp stockings to dry in front of it, and rubbed a calendula salve on my blisters.†
p. 247.5
Definitions:
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(1)
(salve) a cream or liquid put onto skin to make it feel better or heal
or:
anything that eases pain or anxiety; or the act of doing such - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)