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A mongrel or inferior dog. They . . . like to village curs, Bark when their fellows do. Shak.

The state of being curable; curableness.

Capable of being cured; admitting remedy. "Curable diseases." Harvey. -- Cur"a*ble*ness, n. -- Cur`a*bly, adv.

or cordial, flavored with orange peel, cinnamon, and mace; -- first made at the island of Curaçcao.

The office or employment of a curate.

A black resinoid extract prepared by the South American Indians from the bark of several species of Strychnos (S. toxifera, etc.). It sometimes has little effect when taken internally, but is quickly fatal when introduced into the blood, and used by the Indians as an arrow poison. [Written also urari, woorali, woorari,…

A deadly alkaloid extracted from the curare poison and from the Strychnos toxifera. It is obtained in crystalline colorless salts.

To poison with curare.

A large gallinaceous bird of the American genera Crax, Ourax, etc., of the family Cracidæ.

A cuirass or breastplate. [Obs.] Spenser.

One who has the cure souls; originally, any clergyman, but now usually limited to one who assist a rector or vicar Hook. All this the good old man performed alone, He spared no pains, for curate he had none. Dryden.

A curacy.

Cure; healing. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Relating to, or employed in, the cure of diseases; tending to cure. Arbuthnot.

One who has the care and superintendence of anything, as of a museum; a custodian; a keeper.

The office of a curator.

A woman who cures.

To bend or curve [Obs.] Crooked and curbed lines. Holland.

A roof having a double slope, or composed, on each side, of two parts which have unequal inclination; a gambrel roof.

Having no curb or restraint.