(kyr) noun
1. A restoration or return to a sound or healthy condition.
2. That which restores health or abolishes an evil.
3. Spiritual care; a curacy: the cure of souls.
4. A mode or manner of curing anything, as hams, fish, etc.
—v. cured, cur·ing v.t.
1. To restore to a healthy or sound condition.
2. To remedy or eradicate, as a disease or bad habit.
3. To preserve, as by salting or smoking.
4. To vulcanize, as rubber.
—v.i.
5. To bring about recovery.
6. To be preserved, as meat, by salting or drying. [<OF <L cura care]
—cure′less adjective

(ky·rā′) noun
In France, a parish priest. [<F, curate]