salve bug
English
Noun
salve bug (plural salve bugs)
- (obsolete) A large, stout isopod crustacean (Aega psora), parasitic on the halibut and codfish, and formerly used by fishermen in the preparation of a salve.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for salve bug under salve in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)