Cure

Pronunciation: k

n.	1.	Care, heed, or attention. Of study took he most cure and most heed. - Chaucer. Vicarages of greatcure, but small value. - Fuller.
	2.	Spiritual charge; care of soul; the office of a parish priest or of a curate; hence, that which is committed to the charge of a parish priest or of a curate; a curacy; as, to resign a cure; to obtain a cure. The appropriator was the incumbent parson, and had the cure of the souls of the parishioners. - Spelman.
	3.	Medical or hygienic care; remedial treatment of disease; a method of medical treatment; as, to use the water cure.
	4.	Act of healing or state of being healed; restoration to health from disease, or to soundness after injury. Past hope! pastcure! past help. - Shak. I do cures to-day and to-morrow. - Luke xii. 32.
	5.	Means of the removal of disease or evil; that which heals; a remedy; a restorative. Cold, hunger, prisons, ills without a cure. - Dryden. The proper cure of such prejudices. - Bp. Hurd.
v. t.	1.	To heal; to restore to health, soundness, or sanity; to make well; - said of a patient. [imp. & p. p. Cured (kūrd); p. pr. & vb. n. Curing.] The child was cured from that very hour. - Matt. xvii. 18.
	2.	To subdue or remove by remedial means; to remedy; to remove; to heal; - said of a malady. To cure this deadly grief. - Shak. Then he called his twelve disciples together, and gave them power . . . to cure diseases. - Luke ix. 1.
	3.	To set free from (something injurious or blameworthy), as from a bad habit. I never knew any man cured of inattention. - Swift.
	4.	To prepare for preservation or permanent keeping; to preserve, as by drying, salting, etc.; as, to cure beef or fish; to cure hay.
v. i.	1.	To pay heed; to care; to give attention.
	2.	To restore health; to effect a cure. Whose smile and frown, like to Achilles' spear, Is able with the change to kill and cure. - Shak.
	3.	To become healed. One desperate grief cures with another's languish. - Shak.
n.	1.	A curate; a pardon.

Noun	1.	cure - a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain Synonyms: curative, remedy
Verb	1.	cure - provide a cure for, make healthy again; "The treatment cured the boy's acne"; "The quack pretended to heal patients but never managed to" Synonyms: bring around, heal
	2.	cure - prepare by drying, salting, or chemical processing in order to preserve; "cure meats"; "cure pickles"
	3.	cure - make (substances) hard and improve their usability; "cure resin"
	4.	cure - be or become preserved; "the apricots cure in the sun"

CURE. A restoration to health.
2. A person who had quitted the habit of drunkenness for the space of nine months, in consequence of medicines he had taken, and who had lost his appetite for ardent spirits, was held to have been cured. 7 Yerg. R. 146.
3. In a figurative sense, to cure is to remedy any defect; as, an informal statement of the plaintiff's cause of action in his declaration is cured by verdict, provided it be substantially stated.

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