Cure

·vi To become healed.

II. Cure ·noun A curate; a pardon.

III. Cure ·noun Care, heed, or attention.

IV. Cure ·vi To restore health; to effect a cure.

V. Cure ·vi To pay heed; to Care; to give attention.

VI. Cure ·vt To set free from (something injurious or blameworthy), as from a bad habit.

VII. Cure ·noun Means of the removal of disease or evil; that which heals; a remedy; a restorative.

VIII. Cure ·noun Act of healing or state of being healed; restoration to health from disease, or to soundness after injury.

IX. Cure ·vt To Heal; to restore to health, soundness, or sanity; to make well;

— said of a patient.

X. Cure ·noun Medical or hygienic care; remedial treatment of disease; a method of medical treatment; as, to use the water cure.

XI. Cure ·vt To prepare for preservation or permanent keeping; to preserve, as by drying, salting, ·etc.; as, to cure beef or fish; to cure hay.

XII. Cure ·vt To subdue or remove by remedial means; to Remedy; to Remove; to Heal;

— said of a malady.

XIII. Cure ·noun 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.

XIV. Cure ·add. ·- 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.