Curing
['kjʊərɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cure
(-) p. a. & vb. n. of Cure.
Checker: Raymond
Examples
- A bad case, murmured the Rector, shaking his gray head; a very bad case, which needs curing. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- In the dry-salt curing cellars are kept enormous stocks of the cheaper kinds of meat. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- She started--then endeavoured to say calmly, Cynics say that cures the anxiety by curing the love. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- But come, Maurice, said the Rector, after a pause, I was talking about curing you by marriage. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- To remedy which, there was a sort of people bred up among us in the profession, or pretence, of curing the sick. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- The brines and curing mixtures are prepared by trained men who do no other work but this. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The average person does not have even an idea of what the modern curing cellar is like. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- In the great curing room thousands of vats and tierces are piled, and the usual tierces hold about three hundred pounds of meat, while the vats hold nearly fifteen hundred pounds. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- In Scotland, foreign salt is very little used for any other purpose but the curing of fish. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- As an adjunct in curing mild hams and bacon it would be of great use, for these, when cured lightly, would not go bad, as they often do in the summer time. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- With these big plantations some other way to cure the rubber had to be devised from the smoking process used in curing the native rubber which comes from South America. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- A single one of these dry-salt curing rooms holds over three million pounds. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- All could be mildly cured if this material was used with the other curing substances. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
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