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Curing is a term in polymer chemistry and process engineering that refers to the toughening or hardening of a polymer material by cross-linking of polymer chains, brought about by electron beams, heat or chemical additives. When the additives are activated ...
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n. the process of becoming hard or solid by cooling or drying or crystallization; "the hardening of concrete"; "he tested the set of the glue" [syn: hardening , solidifying , solidification , set ]
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Curing \Cur"ing\ (k?r"?ng), p. & v n. of Cure . Curing house , a building in which anything is cured; especially, in the West Indies, a building in which sugar is drained and dried.
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n. The act by which something is cured. vb. (present participle of cure English)
Usage examples of curing.
Rummel, a well-known writer of the same school, speaks of curing a case of jaundice in thirty-four days by Homoeopathic doses of pulsatilla, aconite, and cinchona.
It was at this crisis in their history that they began to be known as buccaneers, or people who practise the boucan, the native way of curing meat.
The bruised leaves are useful externally for curing blotches on the face, and for piles.
In dry climates this would seem to be unnecessary, but in rainy climates it may be wise in some instances to make alfalfa ensilage, the better to insure the curing of the crop.
As soon as we were alone we went to bed together as if we had been doing it for a whole year, and we passed a glorious night, I full of love and the desire of curing her, and she of tender and ardent voluptuousness.
I smiled to myself at her doctrines, which were as much as to say that the best way of curing appetite was to place a series of appetising dishes before a hungry man, forbidding him to touch them.
The women work in the rekin and the fess, cooking, weaving, spinning, curing hides, rearing the children.
The powdered root of the Ribwort Plantain is of use for curing vernal ague, a dessertspoonful being given for a dose, two or three times in a day.
Some whom we have been successful in curing had suffered from childhood to middle and even old age.
Simon Pauli assures us these berries have performed wonders in curing the stone, he having personally treated cases thus, with incredible success.
Such was the specific which the great metaphysician recommended for averting and curing all manner of diseases.
He was not unapprehensive of the influence of time and absence, in curing the most vehement passion, but to this expedient the lady could not be reconciled.
That certain results, claimed from time to time have been proved by experiments upon living animals, and alleged to have been beneficial in preventing and curing disease, have, upon further investigation, been found to be fallacious or useless.
That certain results, claimed from time to time to have been proved by experiments upon living animals and alleged to have been beneficial in preventing or curing disease, HAVE, ON FURTHER INVESTIGATION AND EXPERIENCE, BEEN FOUND TO BE FALLACIOUS OR USELESS.
As Clubfoot bent over him, hurting with the need and the impossibility of curing him by magic, the Warlock had gasped three words.