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Care, heed, or attention. [Obs.] Of study took he most cure and most heed. Chaucer. Vicarages of greatcure, but small value. Fuller.

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Incapable of cure; incurable. With patience undergo A cureless ill, since fate will have it so. Dryden.

One who cures; a healer; a physician.

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.

To make sure or safe; to assure. [Obs.] Hooker.

See Chiaroscuro.

To give additional security to or for. Burke.

To discover; to reveal; to discoure. [Obs.] I will, if please you it discure, assay To ease you of that ill, so wisely as I may. Spenser.

A follower of Epicurus; an Epicurean. [Obs.] Bacon.

Pertaining to Epicurus, or following his philosophy. "The sect Epicurean." Milton.

Attachment to the doctrines of Epicurus; the principles or belief of Epicurus.

Luxuriously. Nash.

Epicurean. [Obs.]

Not secure; not confident of safety or permanence; distrustful; suspicious; apprehensive of danger or loss. With sorrow and insecure apprehensions. Jer. Taylor.

In an insecure manner.

Insecurity.

Incurable. [Obs.]

Treatment of disease by forms of hydrotherapy, as walking barefoot in the morning dew, baths, wet compresses, cold affusions, etc.; -- so called from its originator, Sebastian Kneipp (1821-97), a German priest.

od care of their hands by wearing gloves and availing themselves of the services of a manicure. Pop. Sci. Monthly.