Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter C - Page 162
Cure (v. t.) To set free from (something injurious or blameworthy), as from a bad habit.
I never knew any man cured of inattention. -- Swift.
Cure (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.
Cure (v. i.) To pay heed; to care; to give attention. [Obs.]
Cure (v. i.) To restore health; to effect a cure.
Whose smile and frown, like to Achilles' spear, Is able with the change to kill and cure. -- Shak.
Cure (v. i.) To become healed.
One desperate grief cures with another's languish. -- Shak.
Cure (n.) A curate; a pardon.
Cure (n.) A medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain [syn: remedy, curative, cure, therapeutic].
Cure (v.) Provide a cure for, make healthy again; "The treatment cured the boy's acne"; "The quack pretended to heal patients but never managed to" [syn: bring around, cure, heal].
Cure (v.) Prepare by drying, salting, or chemical processing in order to preserve; "cure meats"; "cure pickles"; "cure hay."
Cure (v.) Make (substances) hard and improve their usability; "cure resin"; "cure cement"; "cure soap."
Cure (v.) Be or become preserved; "the apricots cure in the sun."
Cure, () A restoration to health.
Cure, () A person who had quitted the habit of drunkenness for the space of nine months, in consequence of medicines he had taken, and who had lost his appetite for ardent spirits, was held to have been cured. 7 Yerg. R. 146.
Cure, () In a figurative sense, to cure is to remedy any defect; as, an informal statement of the plaintiff's cause of action in his declaration is cured by verdict, provided it be substantially stated.
Cureall (n.) A remedy for all diseases, or for all ills; a panacea.
Cureless (a.) Incapable of cure; incurable.
Curer (n.) One who cures; a healer; a physician.
Curer (n.) One who prepares beef, fish, etc., for preservation by drying, salting, smoking, etc.
Curette (n.) A scoop or ring with either a blunt or a cutting edge, for removing substances from the walls of a cavity, as from the eye, ear, or womb.
Curfew (n.) The ringing of an evening bell, originally a signal to the inhabitants to cover fires, extinguish lights, and retire to rest, -- instituted by William the Conqueror; also, the bell itself.
Curfew (n.) A utensil for covering the fire.
Curle (n. pl. ) of Curia.
Curia (n.) One of the thirty parts into which the Roman people were divided by Romulus.
Curia (n.) The place of assembly of one of these divisions.
Curia (n.) The place where the meetings of the senate were held; the senate house.
Curia (n.) The court of a sovereign or of a feudal lord; also; his residence or his household.
Curia (n.) Any court of justice.
Curia (n.) The Roman See in its temporal aspects, including all the machinery of administration; -- called also curia Romana.
Curialism (n.) The view or doctrine of the ultramontane party in the Latin Church.
Curialist (n.) One who belongs to the ultramontane party in the Latin Church.
Curialistic (a.) Pertaining to a court.
Curialistic (a.) Relating or belonging to the ultramontane party in the Latin Church.
Curiality (n.) The privileges, prerogatives, or retinue of a court.
Curiet (n.) A cuirass.
Curing () p. a. & vb. n. of Cure.
Curios (n. pl. ) of Curio.
Curio (n.) Any curiosity or article of virtu.
Curiologic (a.) Pertaining to a rude kind of hieroglyphics, in which a thing is represented by its picture instead of by a symbol.
Curiosities (n. pl. ) of Curiosity.
Curiosity (n.) The state or quality or being curious; nicety; accuracy; exactness; elaboration.
Curiosity (n.) Disposition to inquire, investigate, or seek after knowledge; a desire to gratify the mind with new information or objects of interest; inquisitiveness.
Curiosity (n.) That which is curious, or fitted to excite or reward attention.
Curiosos (n. pl. ) of Curioso.
Curioso (n.) A virtuoso.
Curious (a.) Difficult to please or satisfy; solicitous to be correct; careful; scrupulous; nice; exact.
Curious (a.) Exhibiting care or nicety; artfully constructed; elaborate; wrought with elegance or skill.
Curious (a.) Careful or anxious to learn; eager for knowledge; given to research or inquiry; habitually inquisitive; prying; -- sometimes with after or of.
Curious (a.) Exciting attention or inquiry; awakening surprise; inviting and rewarding inquisitiveness; not simple or plain; strange; rare.
Curious (a.) (Interested) (B1) 好奇的；好打聽的 Interested in learning about people or things around you.
// I was curious to know what would happen next.
// Babies are curious about everything around them.
// "Why did you ask?" "I was just curious."
Curious (a.) (Strange) (Mainly UK) 稀奇的，古怪的，不尋常的 Strange and unusual.
// There was a curious-looking man standing outside.
// A curious thing happened to me yesterday.
// It's curious (that) Billy hasn't phoned when he promised he would.
Synonym:
Peculiar (a.) (Strange) (B2) 奇怪的，古怪的 Unusual and strange, sometimes in an unpleasant way.
// She has the most peculiar ideas.
// What a peculiar smell!
// It's peculiar that they didn't tell us they were going away.
// (UK) The video on road accidents made me feel rather peculiar (= ill).
Peculiar (a.) (Belonging to) (C2) 獨特的，特有的 Belonging to, relating to, or found in only particular people or things.
// He gets on with things in his own peculiar way/ manner/ fashion.
// They noted that special manner of walking that was peculiar to her alone.
// This type of building is peculiar to the south of the country.
Curiously (adv.) In a curious manner.
Curiousness (n.) Carefulness; painstaking.
Curiousness (n.) The state of being curious; exactness of workmanship; ingenuity of contrivance.
Curiousness (n.) Inquisitiveness; curiosity.
Curled (imp. & p. p.) of Curl.
Curling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Curl.
Curl (n.) To twist or form into ringlets; to crisp, as the hair.
Curl (n.) To twist or make onto coils, as a serpent's body.
Curl (n.) To deck with, or as with, curls; to ornament.
Curl (n.) To raise in waves or undulations; to ripple.
Curl (n.) To shape (the brim) into a curve.
Curl (v. i.) To contract or bend into curls or ringlets, as hair; to grow in curls or spirals, as a vine; to be crinkled or contorted; to have a curly appearance; as, leaves lie curled on the ground.
Curl (v. i.) To move in curves, spirals, or undulations; to contract in curving outlines; to bend in a curved form; to make a curl or curls.
Curl (v. i.) To play at the game called curling.
Curl (v.) A ringlet, especially of hair; anything of a spiral or winding form.
Curl (v.) An undulating or waving line or streak in any substance, as wood, glass, etc.; flexure; sinuosity.
Curl (v.) A disease in potatoes, in which the leaves, at their first appearance, seem curled and shrunken.
Curled (a.) Having curls; curly; sinuous; wavy; as, curled maple (maple having fibers which take a sinuous course).
Curledness (n.) State of being curled; curliness.
Curler (n.) One who, or that which, curls.
Curler (n.) A player at the game called curling.
Curlew (n.) A wading bird of the genus Numenius, remarkable for its long, slender, curved bill.
Curliness (n.) State of being curly.
Curling (n.) The act or state of that which curls; as, the curling of smoke when it rises; the curling of a ringlet; also, the act or process of one who curls something, as hair, or the brim of hats.
Curling (n.) A scottish game in which heavy weights of stone or iron are propelled by hand over the ice towards a mark.
Curlingly (adv.) With a curl, or curls.
Curly (a.) Curling or tending to curl; having curls; full of ripples; crinkled.
Curlycue (n.) Some thing curled or spiral,, as a flourish made with a pen on paper, or with skates on the ice; a trick; a frolicsome caper.
Curmudgeon (n.) An avaricious, grasping fellow; a miser; a niggard; a churl.
Curmudgeonly (a.) Like a curmudgeon; niggardly; churlish; as, a curmudgeonly fellow.
Curmurring (n.) Murmuring; grumbling; -- sometimes applied to the rumbling produced by a slight attack of the gripes.
Curr (v. i.) To coo.
Currant (n.) A small kind of seedless raisin, imported from the Levant, chiefly from Zante and Cephalonia; -- used in cookery.
Currant (n.) The acid fruit or berry of the Ribes rubrum or common red currant, or of its variety, the white currant.
Currant (n.) A shrub or bush of several species of the genus Ribes (a genus also including the gooseberry); esp., the Ribes rubrum.
Currencies (n. pl. ) of Currency.
Currency (n.) A continued or uninterrupted course or flow like that of a stream; as, the currency of time.
Currency (n.) The state or quality of being current; general acceptance or reception; a passing from person to person, or from hand to hand; circulation; as, a report has had a long or general currency; the currency of bank notes.
Currency (n.) That which is in circulation, or is given and taken as having or representing value; as, the currency of a country; a specie currency; esp., government or bank notes circulating as a substitute for metallic money.
Currency (n.) Fluency; readiness of utterance.
Currency (n.) Current value; general estimation; the rate at which anything is generally valued.
Currency forward (n.) The purchase or sale of a forward foreign exchange contract that locks in the rate and delivery date. also called Outright forward.
Current (a.) Running or moving rapidly.
Current (a.) Now passing, as time; as, the current month.
Current (a.) Passing from person to person, or from hand to hand; circulating through the community; generally received; common; as, a current coin; a current report; current history.
Current (a.) Commonly estimated or acknowledged.
Current (a.) Fitted for general acceptance or circulation; authentic; passable.
Current (a.) A flowing or passing; onward motion. Hence: A body of fluid moving continuously in a certain direction; a stream; esp., the swiftest part of it; as, a current of water or of air; that which resembles a stream in motion; as, a current of electricity.
Current (a.) General course; ordinary procedure; progressive and connected movement; as, the current of time, of events, of opinion, etc.
Currently (adv.) In a current manner; generally; commonly; as, it is currently believed.
Currently (adv.) At this time or period; now; "he is presently our ambassador to the United Nations"; "currently they live in Connecticut" [syn: {presently}, {currently}].
Currentness (n.) The quality of being current; currency; circulation; general reception.
Currentness (n.) Easiness of pronunciation; fluency. [Obs.]
When currentness [combineth] with staidness, how can the language . . . sound other than most full of sweetness? -- Camden.
Currentness (n.) The property of belonging to the present time; "the currency of a slang term" [syn: currentness, currency, up-to-dateness].
Curricle (n.) A small or short course.
Upon a curricle in this world depends a long course of the next. -- Sir T. Browne.
Curricle (n.) A two-wheeled chaise drawn by two horses abreast.
Curriculums (n. pl. ) of Curriculum.
Curricula (n. pl. ) of Curriculum.
Curriculum (n.) A race course; a place for running.
Curriculum (n.) A course; particularly, a specified fixed course of study, as in a university.
Curriculum (n.) An integrated course of academic studies; "he was admitted to a new program at the university" [syn: course of study, program, programme, curriculum, syllabus].
Currie (n. & v.) See 2d & 3d Curry.
Curry (n.) [Written also currie.] (Cookery) A kind of sauce much used in India, containing garlic, pepper, ginger, and other strong spices.
Curry (n.) A stew of fowl, fish, or game, cooked with curry.
Curry powder (Cookery), A condiment used for making curry, formed of various materials, including strong spices, as pepper, ginger, garlic, coriander seed, etc.
Currie, MN -- U.S. city in Minnesota
Population (2000): 225
Housing Units (2000): 127
Land area (2000): 0.572453 sq. miles (1.482646 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.572453 sq. miles (1.482646 sq. km)
FIPS code: 14320
Located within: Minnesota (MN), FIPS 27
Location: 44.069883 N, 95.665343 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 56123
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Currie, MN
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Curried (p. a.) Dressed by currying; cleaned; prepared.
Curried (p. a..) Prepared with curry; as, curried rice, fowl, etc.
Curry (v. t.) [imp. & p. p. Curried; p. pr. & vb. n. Currying.] To dress or prepare for use by a process of scraping, cleansing, beating, smoothing, and coloring; -- said of leather.
Curry (v. t.) To dress the hair or coat of (a horse, ox, or the like) with a currycomb and brush; to comb, as a horse, in order to make clean.
Your short horse is soon curried. -- Beau. & FL.
Curry (v. t.) To beat or bruise; to drub; -- said of persons.
I have seen him curry a fellow's carcass handsomely. -- Beau. & FL.
To curry favor, To seek to gain favor by flattery or attentions. See Favor, n.