–noun

1.	a means of healing or restoring to health; remedy.

2.	a method or course of remedial treatment, as for disease.

3.	successful remedial treatment; restoration to health.

4.	a means of correcting or relieving anything that is troublesome or detrimental: to seek a cure for inflation.

5.	the act or a method of preserving meat, fish, etc., by smoking, salting, or the like.

6.	spiritual or religious charge of the people in a certain district.

7.	the office or district of a curate or parish priest.

–verb (used with object)

8.	to restore to health.

9.	to relieve or rid of something detrimental, as an illness or a bad habit.

10.	to prepare (meat, fish, etc.) for preservation by salting 1066 , drying, etc.

11.	to promote hardening of (fresh concrete or mortar), as by keeping it damp.

12.	to process (rubber, tobacco, etc.) as by fermentation or aging.

–verb (used without object)

13.	to effect a cure.

14.	to become cured.