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.
- Treatment of disease by forms of hydrotherapy, as walking barefoot in the morning dew, baths, wet compresses, cold affusions, etc.; -- so called from its originator, Sebastian Kneipp (1821-97), a German priest.