Meaning of cure | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname.
2. An eccentric person.
   UK, obsolete, slang
3. A method, device or medication that restores good health
4. A method, device or medication that restores good health.
5. cure (something that restores good health)
6. An act of healing or state of being healed; restoration to health after a disease, or to soundness after injury
7. drunkenness
8. An act of healing or state of being healed; restoration to health after a disease, or to soundness after injury.
9. A solution to a problem
10. priest; curate
11. A solution to a problem.
    figuratively
12. A process of preservation, as by smoking
13. avocado
14. A process of preservation, as by smoking.
15. Cured fish.
16. Cured fish
17. female equivalent of curo (“someone from Courland”)
18. A process of solidification or gelling.
19. A process whereby a material is caused to form permanent molecular linkages by exposure to chemicals, heat, pressure or weathering.
20. Care, heed, or attention.
    obsolete
21. Spiritual charge; care of soul; the office of a parish priest or of a curate.
22. That which is committed to the charge of a parish priest or of a curate.

Equivalents

Examples

“When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose. And the queerer the cure for those ailings the bigger the attraction. A place like the Right Livers' Rest was bound to draw freaks, same as molasses draws flies.”

“'Cause if there's a cure for this, I don't want it / I don't want it”

“Past hope! past cure!”

“I do cures to-day and to-morrow.”

“A disease among cattle, called the murrain, then prevailed to a very great extent through that district of Yorkshire. The cattle were made to pass through the smoke raised by this miraculous fire, and their cure was looked upon as certain.”

“Cold, hunger, prisons, ills without a cure.”

“the proper cure of such prejudices”

“Well into the twentieth century, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia's Grand Banks fleet stayed with sail power. "The Lunenburg cure," heavily salted on the schooners and then dried on flakes along the rocky sheltered coastline, was traded in the Caribbean.”

“vicarages of great cure, but small value”

“This worke devysed is For suche as do amys, And specyally to controule Such as have cure of soule, […] No good priest to offende, But suche dawes to amend, […]”

“[T]he Appropriator was the incumbent Parſon, and had the Cure of the Souls of the Pariſhioners, and that upon the Preſentation of the Appropriation, or upon the Diſſolution of the Abbey, the Church became void, and preſentative, as other Churches upon Reſignation, or Death of the Incumbent.”

“During this interval, my thoughts were employed on some future means of supporting them; and at last a small Cure of fifteen pounds a year was offered me in a distant neighbourhood, where I could still enjoy my principles without molestation.”

“The mud was thick — the crossing clean — / A well dressed man, genteel of mien — / Walked through the first (he might be poor), / The sweeper muttered, "He's a Cure."”

“He’s quite a nice gentleman, though, to be sure, he does look a cure.”

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