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.
{Curing house}, a building in which anything is cured;
especially, in the West Indies, a building in which sugar
is drained and dried.