Word Meanings - SALVER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who salves, or uses salve as a remedy; hence, a quacksalver, or quack.

Related words: (words related to SALVER)

• QUACK
  1. To utter a sound like the cry of a duck. 2. To make vain and loud pretensions; to boast. " To quack of universal cures." Hudibras. 3. To act the part of a quack, or pretender.
• QUACKISM
  Quackery. Carlyle.
• QUACK GRASS
  See GRASS
• QUACKLE
  To suffocate; to choke.
• SALVER
  One who salves, or uses salve as a remedy; hence, a quacksalver, or quack.
• SALVER-SHAPED
  Tubular, with a speading border. See Hypocraterimorphous.
• HENCE
  ending; cf. -wards), also hen, henne, hennen, heonnen, heonene, AS. heonan, heonon, heona, hine; akin to OHG. hinnan, G. hinnen, OHG. 1. From this place; away. "Or that we hence wend." Chaucer. Arise, let us go hence. John xiv. 31. I will send
• QUACKSALVER
  One who boasts of his skill in medicines and salves, or of the efficacy of his prescriptions; a charlatan; a quack; a mountebank. Burton.
• HENCEFORWARD
  From this time forward; henceforth.
• QUACKERY
  The acts, arts, or boastful pretensions of a quack; false pretensions to any art; empiricism. Carlyle.
• REMEDY
  The legal means to recover a right, or to obtain redress for a wrong. Civil remedy. See under Civil. -- Remedy of the mint , a small allowed deviation from the legal standard of weight and fineness; -- called also tolerance. Syn. -- Cure;
• SALVE
  Hail!
• HENCEFORTH
  From this time forward; henceforward. I never from thy side henceforth to stray. Milton.
• QUACKISH
  Like a quack; boasting; characterized by quackery. Burke.
• HEREHENCE
  From hence.
• WHENCEFORTH
  From, or forth from, what or which place; whence. Spenser.
• THENCEFROM
  From that place.
• THENCE
  see -wards) thennes, thannes , AS. thanon, thanan, thonan; akin to OHG. dannana, dannan, danan, and G. 1. From that place. "Bid him thence go." Chaucer. When ye depart thence, shake off the dust under your feet for a testimony against them. Mark
• ARCHENCEPHALA
  The division that includes man alone. R. Owen.
• THENCEFORTH
  From that time; thereafter. If the salt have lost his savor, wherewith shall it be salted it is thenceforth good for nothing. Matt. v. 13. Note: This word is sometimes preceded by from, -- a redundancy sanctioned by custom. Chaucer. John. xix. 12.
• WHENCEEVER
  Whencesoever.
• EYESALVE
  Ointment for the eye.
• SITHENCE; SITHENS
  Since. See Sith, and Sithen. Piers Plowman.
• THENCEFORWARD
  From that time onward; thenceforth.