CURES
Proper noun
Cures
plural of Cure
Anagrams
• Cruse, Sucre, crues, cruse, cuers, curse, ecrus, sucre
Noun
cures
plural of cure
Verb
cures
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cure
Anagrams
• Cruse, Sucre, crues, cruse, cuers, curse, ecrus, sucre
Source: Wiktionary
CURE
Cure (k, n. Etym: [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.
Cure, v. t. [imp.& p.p. Cured (krd); p. pr. & vb. n. Curing.] Etym:
[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.
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.
Cu`ré" (k`r"), n. Etym: [F., fr. LL. curatus. See Curate.]
Definition: A curate; a pardon.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition