The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Cure \Cure\ (k[=u]r), n. [OF, cure care, F., also, cure,
   healing, cure of souls, L. cura care, medical attendance,
   cure; perh. akin to cavere to pay heed, E. cution. Cure is
   not related to care.]
   1. Care, heed, or attention. [Obs.]
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            Of study took he most cure and most heed. --Chaucer.
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            Vicarages of greatcure, but small value. --Fuller.
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   2. Spiritual charge; care of soul; the office of a parish
      priest or of a curate; hence, that which is committed to
      the charge of a parish priest or of a curate; a curacy;
      as, to resign a cure; to obtain a cure.
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            The appropriator was the incumbent parson, and had
            the cure of the souls of the parishioners.
                                                  --Spelman.
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   3. Medical or hygienic care; remedial treatment of disease; a
      method of medical treatment; as, to use the water cure.
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   4. Act of healing or state of being healed; restoration to
      health from disease, or to soundness after injury.
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            Past hope! pastcure! past help.       --Shak.
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            I do cures to-day and to-morrow.      --Luke xii.
                                                  32.
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   5. Means of the removal of disease or evil; that which heals;
      a remedy; a restorative.
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            Cold, hunger, prisons, ills without a cure.
                                                  --Dryden.
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            The proper cure of such prejudices.   --Bp. Hurd.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Cure \Cure\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cured (k[=u]rd); p. pr. & vb.
   n. Curing.] [OF. curer to take care, to heal, F., only, to
   cleanse, L. curare to take care, to heal, fr. cura. See
   Cure,.]
   1. To heal; to restore to health, soundness, or sanity; to
      make well; -- said of a patient.
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            The child was cured from that very hour. --Matt.
                                                  xvii. 18.
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   2. To subdue or remove by remedial means; to remedy; to
      remove; to heal; -- said of a malady.
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            To cure this deadly grief.            --Shak.
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            Then he called his twelve disciples together, and
            gave them power . . . to cure diseases. --Luke ix.
                                                  1.
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   3. To set free from (something injurious or blameworthy), as
      from a bad habit.
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            I never knew any man cured of inattention. --Swift.
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   4. To prepare for preservation or permanent keeping; to
      preserve, as by drying, salting, etc.; as, to cure beef or
      fish; to cure hay.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Cure \Cure\, v. i.
   1. To pay heed; to care; to give attention. [Obs.]
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   2. To restore health; to effect a cure.
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            Whose smile and frown, like to Achilles' spear,
            Is able with the change to kill and cure. --Shak.
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   3. To become healed.
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            One desperate grief cures with another's languish.
                                                  --Shak.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Cur'e \Cu`r['e]"\ (k[.u]`r[asl]"), n. [F., fr. LL. curatus. See
   Curate.]
   A curate; a pardon.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

cure
    n 1: a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain
         [syn: remedy, curative, cure, therapeutic]
    v 1: 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]
    2: prepare by drying, salting, or chemical processing in order
       to preserve; "cure meats"; "cure pickles"; "cure hay"
    3: make (substances) hard and improve their usability; "cure
       resin"; "cure cement"; "cure soap"
    4: be or become preserved; "the apricots cure in the sun"

Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

252 Moby Thesaurus words for "cure":
   administration, advowson, agency, agentship, aid, air-dry,
   alterative, ameliorate, analeptic, anhydrate, antidote, arrange,
   assignment, assistance, auspices, authority, authorization, bake,
   balm, balsam, bandage, bathe, benefice, better, blast-freeze, blot,
   break of, brevet, brine, bring around, bring round, brush, burn,
   care, care for, care of souls, charge, clear for action,
   clear the decks, commission, commissioning, commitment,
   consignment, corn, correct, corrective, counteractant,
   counteractive, counteragent, countermeasure, counterstep, curacy,
   curative measures, cure-all, curing, custodianship, custody,
   dehumidify, dehydrate, delegated authority, delegation, deploy,
   deputation, desiccate, devolution, devolvement, diagnose,
   disaccustom, doctor, drain, dress, drug, dry, dry-cure, dry-salt,
   elixir, embalm, embassy, empowerment, entrusting, entrustment,
   errand, evaporate, executorship, exequatur, exsiccate, factorship,
   fire, first aid, fix, fix up, flux, freeze, freeze-dry, full power,
   fume, get ready, give care to, glebe, governance, government,
   guardianship, guidance, hands, heal, healing, healing agent,
   healing quality, help, hospitalization, incumbency, insolate,
   irradiate, jerk, jurisdiction, keeping, kiln, kipper, legation,
   license, lieutenancy, living, make arrangements, make preparations,
   make ready, management, mandate, marinade, marinate, marshal,
   massage, medical treatment, medicament, medicamentation, medicate,
   medication, medicine, mend, minister to, ministry, mission,
   mobilize, mummify, nostrum, nurse, office, operate on, oversight,
   panacea, parch, pastorage, pastorate, pastorship, patronage,
   pharmacon, physic, pickle, plan, plaster, plenipotentiary power,
   poultice, power of attorney, power to act, prearrange, prelacy,
   prep, prepare, prescribe, prescription, preservatize, preserve,
   pretreat, process, procuration, protectorship, provide, proxy,
   pull round, purge, purview, put in shape, quick-freeze, ready,
   ready up, receipt, recipe, rectify, rectory, recure, refrigerate,
   regency, regentship, regime, regimen, relief, remedial measure,
   remedy, repair, responsibility, restorative, restore,
   restore to health, rub, safe hands, salt, scorch, sear, season,
   settle preliminaries, shrivel, smoke, smoke-cure, soak up,
   sovereign remedy, specific, specific remedy, splint, sponge,
   stewardship, stop, strap, stuff, succor, sun, sun-dry, swab, tan,
   task, therapy, torrefy, towel, treat, treatment, trim, trust,
   trusteeship, try out, tutelage, vicarage, vicarious authority,
   ward, wardenship, wardship, warrant, watch and ward, wean, weazen,
   wing, wipe, wither, wizen, work a cure



Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856):

CURE. A restoration to health.
     2. 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.
     3. 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.