noun

• (figurative) A solution to a problem.
  "Cold, hunger, prisons, ills without a cure."
• (engineering) A process whereby a material is caused to form permanent molecular linkages by exposure to chemicals, heat, pressure or weathering.
• (obsolete) Care, heed, or attention.
  "vicarages of great cure, but small value"

verb

• (transitive) To restore to health.
  "Unaided nature cured him."
• (transitive) To bring (a disease or its bad effects) to an end.
  "Unaided nature cured his ailments."
• (transitive) To cause to be rid of (a defect).
  "Experience will cure him of his naïveté."
• (transitive) To prepare or alter, especially by chemical or physical processing for keeping or use.
  "The smoke and heat cures the meat."

noun

• (UK, slang, obsolete) An eccentric person.
  "The mud was thick — the crossing clean — / A well dressed man, genteel of mien — / Walked through the first (he might be poor), / The sweeper muttered, "He's a Cure.""