n. [ 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. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Of study took he most cure and most heed. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Vicarages of greatcure, but small value. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

The appropriator was the incumbent parson, and had the cure of the souls of the parishioners. Spelman. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Medical or hygienic care; remedial treatment of disease; a method of medical treatment; as, to use the water cure. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Act of healing or state of being healed; restoration to health from disease, or to soundness after injury. [ 1913 Webster ]

Past hope! pastcure! past help. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

I do cures to-day and to-morrow. Luke xii. 32. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Means of the removal of disease or evil; that which heals; a remedy; a restorative. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cold, hunger, prisons, ills without a cure. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

The proper cure of such prejudices. Bp. Hurd. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Cured p. pr. & vb. n. Curing. ] [ 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

The child was cured from that very hour. Matt. xvii. 18. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To subdue or remove by remedial means; to remedy; to remove; to heal; -- said of a malady. [ 1913 Webster ]

To cure this deadly grief. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Then he called his twelve disciples together, and gave them power . . . to cure diseases. Luke ix. 1. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To set free from (something injurious or blameworthy), as from a bad habit. [ 1913 Webster ]

I never knew any man cured of inattention. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To prepare for preservation or permanent keeping; to preserve, as by drying, salting, etc.; as, to cure beef or fish; to cure hay. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To pay heed; to care; to give attention. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To restore health; to effect a cure. [ 1913 Webster ]

Whose smile and frown, like to Achilles' spear,
Is able with the change to kill and cure. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To become healed. [ 1913 Webster ]

One desperate grief cures with another's languish. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F., fr. LL. curatus. See Curate. ] A curate; a pardon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A remedy for all diseases, or for all ills; a panacea. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Incapable of cure; incurable. [ 1913 Webster ]

With patience undergo
A cureless ill, since fate will have it so. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who cures; a healer; a physician. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who prepares beef, fish, etc., for preservation by drying, salting, smoking, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. surgery to remove tissue or growths from a bodily cavity (as the uterus) by scraping with a curette; the act of scraping with a curette.
Syn. -- curettement. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. [ F., fr. curer to cleanse. ] (Med.) A scoop or ring with either a blunt or a cutting edge, for removing substances from the walls of a cavity, as from the eye, ear, or womb. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Curetted p. pr. & vb. n. Curetting. ] (Med.) To scrape with a curette. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]