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Curbs
- noun - a horse's bit with an attached chain or strap to check the horse
- a stock exchange in New York
- an edge between a sidewalk and a roadway consisting of a line of curbstones (usually forming part of a gutter)
- keep to the curb; "curb your dogs"
- lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits; "
- place restrictions on; "curtail drinking in school"
- the act of restraining power or action or limiting excess;
- to put down by force or authority; "suppress a nascent uprising"; "stamp down on littering"; "conquer one's desires"
Curds
- noun - a coagulated liquid resembling milk curd; "bean curd"; "lemon curd"
- coagulated milk; used to make cheese; "Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet eating some curds and whey"
- The flower or head of a cauliflower
Curdy
- - Like curd; full of curd; coagulated.
Cured
- verb - (used especially of meat) cured in brine
- (used of concrete or mortar) kept moist to assist the hardening
- (used of hay e.g.) allowed to dry
- (used of rubber) treated by a chemical or physical process to improve its properties (hardness and strength and odor and elasticity)
- (used of tobacco) aging as a preservative process (`aged' is pronounced as one syllable)
- be or become preserved; "the apricots cure in the sun"
- Better
- freed from illness or injury; "the patient appears cured"; "the incision is healed"; "appears to be entirely recovered"; "when the recovered patient tries to remember what occurred during his delirium"- Normon Cameron
- Made well again
- make (substances) hard and improve their usability; "cure resin"
- prepare by drying, salting, or chemical processing in order to preserve; "cure meats"
- provide a cure for, make healthy again; "The treatment cured the boy's acne";
Curer
- - One who cures; a healer; a physician.
Cures
- noun - a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain
- be or become preserved; "the apricots cure in the sun"
- make (substances) hard and improve their usability; "cure resin"
- prepare by drying, salting, or chemical processing in order to preserve; "cure meats"
- provide a cure for, make healthy again; "The treatment cured the boy's acne";
- to heal something or someone
Curet
- noun - a surgical instrument shaped like a scoop to remove tissue from a bodily cavity
Curia
- noun - (Roman Catholic Church) the central administration governing the Roman Catholic Church
- a radioactive transuranic metallic element; produced by bombarding plutonium with helium nuclei
Curie
- noun - a unit of radioactivity equal to the amount of a radioactive isotope that decays at the rate of 37,000,000,000 disintegrations per second
- French chemist (born in Poland) who won two Nobel prizes; one (with her husband and Henri Becquerel) for research on radioactivity and another for her discovery of radium and polonium (1867-1934)
- French physicist; husband of Marie Curie (1859-1906)
- Unit of radioactivity equal to 3.7x1010 disintegrations per second