(n.) Care, heed, or attention.
(n.) 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.
(n.) Medical or hygienic care; remedial treatment of disease; a
method of medical treatment; as, to use the water cure.
(n.) Act of healing or state of being healed; restoration to
health from disease, or to soundness after injury.
(n.) Means of the removal of disease or evil; that which heals; a
remedy; a restorative.
(v. t.) To heal; to restore to health, soundness, or sanity; to
make well; -- said of a patient.
(v. t.) To subdue or remove by remedial means; to remedy; to
remove; to heal; -- said of a malady.
(v. t.) To set free from (something injurious or blameworthy), as
from a bad habit.
(v. t.) To prepare for preservation or permanent keeping; to
preserve, as by drying, salting, etc.; as, to cure beef or fish; to
cure hay.
(v. i.) To pay heed; to care; to give attention.
(v. i.) To restore health; to effect a cure.
(v. i.) To become healed.
(n.) A curate; a pardon.
