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English Dictionary: curing by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
curing
n
  1. the process of becoming hard or solid by cooling or drying or crystallization; "the hardening of concrete"; "he tested the set of the glue"
    Synonym(s): hardening, solidifying, solidification, set, curing
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]:
   Curing \Cur"ing\ (k?r"?ng),
      p. a. & vb. n. of {Cure}.
  
      {Curing house}, a building in which anything is cured;
            especially, in the West Indies, a building in which sugar
            is drained and dried.
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