curingn.
/ˈkjʊərɪŋ/ The action of cure v.1
1. Healing, cure.
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the world > health and disease > healing > recovery > [noun]
healingc1000
healc1175
coveringc1230
recovering1380
curinga1382
amendmenta1400
recoverancea1400
sanationc1440
refeting?a1450
mendingc1480
convalescence1490
recovery1533
amendsa1616
restoration1638
upsitting1647
convalescing1650
convalescency1651
reconvalescence1672
analepsis1749
invalescence1755
reformation1772
revalescence1823
pickupa1916
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Jer. xiv. 19 Tyme of curing [a1425 L.V. heeling].
1588 J. Read tr. F. Arcaeus Compend. Method f. 60v Trie all other remedies before he proceede to these sharpe kind of curinges.
a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) iii. iv. 112 Before the curing of a strong disease. View more context for this quotation
1891 B. S. Colyer-Fergusson tr. P. D. Chantepie de la Saussaye Man. Sci. Relig. xxix. 258 The curing of sickness.
2.
a. The process of preparing (fish, etc.) for keeping, by salting, drying or other means.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preserving or pickling > [noun] > curing
curing1672
cure1743
kippering1795
1672 [see curing-house n. at Compounds 2].
1791 Trans. Soc. Arts 9 174 Some observations on the curing of coffee.
1884 Manch. Examiner 25 Feb. 5/3 Efforts to encourage the growth and curing of tobacco.
b. The process of rendering a substance harder or more durable (cf. cure v.1 10, 11).
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the world > matter > constitution of matter > hardness > [noun] > becoming or making hard > in specific manner
curing1853
chilling1881
water curing1932
1853 C. Goodyear Gum-elastic & Varieties I. x. 165 (heading) Curing or tanning, commonly known as the acid gas process.
1881 Encycl. Brit. XII. 841/1 After which the true vulcanization, or ‘curing’ as it is termed, can be brought about in the usual way.
1918 G. A. Hool & N. C. Johnson Concrete Engineers' Handbk. ii. 156 Conditions for curing must be such that the product will not be rapidly dried.
1921 W. K. Hatt & W. Voss Concrete Work I. viii. 180 The process of keeping the product damp is called curing. It is done by sprinkling, immersion, and by the use of steam.
1930 Engineering 25 July 97/3 The sustained pressure during the curing process [of rubber].
1964 S. S. Oleesky & J. G. Mohr Handbk. Reinforced Plastics i. 8 Thermosetting plastics..become increasingly infusable on heating. They undergo a chemical change which is not reversible. This reaction is called polymerization or curing.
Compounds
C1. attributive and in other combinations, as (sense 1) curing-stone; (sense 2) curing-room, curing-stand, curing-yard.
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1629 in Chambers Dom. Ann. Scot. II. 31 She..had sent to the Laird of Lee to borrow his curing-stone for their cattle.
1833 B. Silliman Man. Sugar Cane 46 The line of the floor..deviates only six inches in the curing rooms.
1862 Macmillan's Mag. Oct. 511 The owners of boats at Wick engage to fish for particular curers, who have curing-stands there.
1878 5th Rep. Vermont State Board Agric. 1877–8 79 In connection with..the manufacturing room was the curing room.
C2.
curing-house n. a building where curing is carried on; spec. ‘the building on a sugar estate (in the West Indies) where the hogsheads of newly potted sugar are placed to harden and drain off the molasses’ (Simmonds Dict. Trade, 1858).
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preserving or pickling > [noun] > place for curing, smoking, or salting
smeek housea1225
curing-house1672
smoke-house1746
smokery1794
1672 W. Hughes Amer. Physitian 33 Athwart the end of the Sugar-house, or Curing-house (as they term it).
1791 ‘T. Newte’ Prospects & Observ. Tour 100 For the benefit of the Fisheries, public wharfs, store-houses, and curing-houses, should be constructed upon a moderate scale at first.
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