cure : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: cure	by the DICT Development Group
5 results for cure
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
cure n a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain Synonym(s): remedy, curative, cure, therapeutic v provide a cure for, make healthy again; "The treatment cured the boy's acne"; "The quack pretended to heal patients but never managed to" Synonym(s): bring around, cure, heal prepare by drying, salting, or chemical processing in order to preserve; "cure meats"; "cure pickles"; "cure hay" make (substances) hard and improve their usability; "cure resin"; "cure cement"; "cure soap" be or become preserved; "the apricots cure in the sun"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.