cure

CURE, noun [Latin , to cure to take care, to prepare.] 1. A healing; the act of healing; restoration to health from disease, and to soundness from a wound. We say, a medicine will effect a cure 2. Remedy for disease; restorative; that which heals. Colds, hunger, prisons, ills without a cure 3. The employment of a curate; the care of souls; spiritual charge. CURE, verb transitive [Latin See the Noun.] 1. To heal, as a person diseased or a wounded limb; to restore to health, as the body, or to soundness, as a limb. The child was cured from that very hour. Matthew 17:16. 2. To subdue, remove, destroy or put an end to; to heal, as a disease. Christ gave his disciples power to cure diseases. Luke 9:1. When the person and the disease are both mentioned, cure is followed by of before the disease. The physician cured the man of his fever. 3. To remedy; to remove an evil, and restore to a good state. Patience will alleviate calamities, which cannot cure 4. To dry; to prepare for preservation; as, to cure hay; or to prepare by salt, or in any manner, so as to prevent speedy putrefaction; as, to cure fish or beef.