Definition: cure

Source: WordNet (r) 1.7

cure
     n : a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain
         [syn: remedy, curative]
     v 1: provide a cure for, make healthy again [syn: heal]
     2: prepare by chemical processing in order to preserve; "cure
        meats"

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Kneippism \Kneipp"ism\, n. Also Kneipp's \Kneipp's\, or Kneipp
\Kneipp\, cure \cure\
   Treatment of disease by forms of hydrotherapy, as walking
   barefoot in the morning dew, baths, wet compresses, cold
   affusions, etc.; -- so called from its originator, Sebastian
   Kneipp (1821-97), a German priest.

Cure \Cure\> (k?r), n. [OF, cure care, F., also, cure, healing,
   cure of souls, L. cura care, medical attendance, cure; perh.
   akin to cavere to pay heed, E. cution. Cure is not related to
   care.]
   1. Care, heed, or attention. [Obs.]

            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.

Cure \Cure\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cured (k?rd); p. pr. & vb. n.
   Curing.] [OF. curer to take care, to heal, F., only, to
   cleanse, L. curare to take care, to heal, fr. cura. See
   Cure,.]
   1. To heal; to restore to health, soundness, or sanity; to
      make well; -- said of a patient.

            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.

Cure \Cure\, v. i.
   1. To pay heed; to care; to give attention. [Obs.]

   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.

Cur'e \Cu`r['e]"\ (k[.u]`r[asl]"), n. [F., fr. LL. curatus. See
   Curate.]
   A curate; a pardon.