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weapon-salves

weapon-salves is the plural of weapon-salve.

Meaning of weapon-salve

Noun

weapon-salve (plural weapon-salves)

  1. (historical) A type of ointment formerly applied to a weapon, believed to heal a wound caused by that weapon.
    • One of his great enthusiasms was for a "sympathetic" weapon salve, an idea originating in Paracelsus.1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 225

Questions about weapon-salves

What is weapon-salves the plural of?
Weapon-salves is the plural of weapon-salve.

Words near weapon-salves in the dictionary

  1. weapon oath
  2. weapon oaths
  3. weapon of mass destruction
  4. weapon of mass disruption
  5. weapon-salve
  6. weapon-salves
  7. weapon-schaw
  8. weapon-schaws
  9. weaponed
  10. weaponeer
  11. weaponeered

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