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Curing   /kjˈʊrɪŋ/   Listen
Curing

noun
1.
The process of becoming hard or solid by cooling or drying or crystallization.  Synonyms: hardening, set, solidification, solidifying.  "He tested the set of the glue"



Cure

verb
(past & past part. cured; pres. part. curing)
1.
Provide a cure for, make healthy again.  Synonyms: bring around, heal.  "The quack pretended to heal patients but never managed to"
2.
Prepare by drying, salting, or chemical processing in order to preserve.  "Cure pickles" , "Cure hay"
3.
Make (substances) hard and improve their usability.  "Cure cement" , "Cure soap"
4.
Be or become preserved.



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"Curing" Quotes from Famous Books



... said, "I longed for thee; now listen thou to me: We're very poor indeed—I've nothing save my weekly fee; But Heaven has helped our lives to save—by curing me. Dear boy, already thou art fifteen years— You know to read, to write—then have no fears; Thou art alone, thou'rt sad, but dream no more, Thou ought'st to work, for now thou hast the power! I know thy pain and sorrow, and thy deep alarms; More good than strong—how could thy little arms Ply ...
— Jasmin: Barber, Poet, Philanthropist • Samuel Smiles

... affected the whole economic structure and history of New England for two centuries. Ships and all the shipyard industries; the farm, on which fish was used not only as a medium of exchange, but also as a valuable fertilizer; the home, where the many operations of curing and salting were carried on—all of those were developed directly by the growth of this particular trade. Laws were made and continually revised regarding the fisheries and safeguarding their rights in every conceivable fashion; ship carpenters were exempt from military service, ...
— The Old Coast Road - From Boston to Plymouth • Agnes Rothery

... needing to hire the chemical plant doctor much as sick people are encouraged by medical doctors to view themselves as victims, who are totally irresponsible for creating their condition and incapable of curing it without costly and dangerous ...
— Organic Gardener's Composting • Steve Solomon

... cultivated in France for medicinal purposes solely, for half a century before any one there used it for pleasure, and till within the last hundred years it was familiarly prescribed, all over Europe, for asthma, gout, catarrh, consumption, headache; and, in short, was credited with curing more diseases than even the eighty-seven which Dr. Shew ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 8, No. 50, December, 1861 • Various

... Harvesting and Curing.—In ordinary seasons, the crop will be ready for harvesting about the beginning of September; and should all be secured by the 20th of the month, or before the occurrence of frost. The stalks must be cut at the surface of the ground, and exposed long enough to the sun to wilt them sufficiently ...
— The Field and Garden Vegetables of America • Fearing Burr


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