cure

A method, device or medication that restores good health.

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

An act of healing or state of being healed; restoration to health after a disease, or to soundness after injury.

Past hope! past cure!

I do cures to-day and to-morrow.

A solution to a problem.

Cold, hunger, prisons, ills without a cure.

the proper cure of such prejudices

A process of preservation, as by smoking.

Cured fish.

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.

To restore to health.

Unaided nature cured him.

“Enough, Yet not enough. A bullet through and through, High in the breast. Nothing but what good care And medicine and rest, and you a week, Can cure me of to go again.” The same Grim giving to do over for them both.

To bring (a disease or its bad effects) to an end.

Unaided nature cured his ailments.

Whose smile and frown, like to Achilles' spear, / Is able with the change to kill and cure.

To cause to be rid of (a defect).

Experience will cure him of his naïveté.

To prepare or alter, especially by chemical or physical processing for keeping or use.

The smoke and heat cures the meat.

To preserve (food), typically by salting.

An eccentric person.

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.