To cause to be rid of (a defect).
To bring about a cure of any kind.
To preserve (food), typically by salting.
To prepare or alter especially by chemical or physical processing for keeping or use.
To solidify or gel.
To bring (a disease or its bad effects) to an end.
To be undergoing a chemical or physical process for preservation or use.
To restore to health.
Act of healing or state of being healed; restoration to health after a disease, or to soundness after injury.
That which is committed to the charge of a parish priest or of a curate.
A method, device or medication that restores good health.
Spiritual charge; care of soul; the office of a parish priest or of a curate.
A solution to a problem.
A process of solidification or gelling.
A process of preservation, as by smoking.
A process whereby a material is caused to form permanent molecular linkages by exposure to chemicals, heat, pressure and/or weathering.
A cause of such discomfort.
The thing taken by distraining; that which is seized to procure satisfaction.
Physical or emotional discomfort, suffering, or alarm, particularly of a more acute nature.
Serious danger.
A seizing of property without legal process to force payment of a debt.
An aversive state of stress to which a person cannot fully adapt.
To treat a new object to give it an appearance of age.
To retain someone’s property against the payment of a debt; to distrain.
To cause strain or anxiety to someone.