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▪ I. curing, vbl. n.|ˈkjʊərɪŋ|
[-ing1.]
The action of the verb cure.
1. Healing, cure.
1382Wyclif Jer. xiv. 19 Tyme of curing [1388 heeling]. 1588J. Read Compend. Method 60 b, Trie all other remedies before he proceede to these sharpe kind of curinges. 1595Shakes. John iii. iv. 112 Before the curing of a strong disease. 1891tr. De La Saussaye's Sc. Relig. xxix. 258 The curing of sickness.
2. a. The process of preparing (fish, etc.) for keeping, by salting, drying or other means.
1672[see 3]. 1791Trans. Soc. Encourag. Arts IX. 174 Some observations on the curing of coffee. 1884Manch. Exam. 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).
1853C. Goodyear Gum-Elastic I. x. 165 (heading) Curing or tanning, commonly known as the acid gas process. 1881Encycl. Brit. XII. 841/1 After which the true vulcanization, or ‘curing’ as it is termed, can be brought about in the usual way. 1918Hool & Johnson Concrete Engineers' Handbk. ii. 156 Conditions for curing must be such that the product will not be rapidly dried. 1921Hatt & 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. 1930Engineering 25 July 97/3 The sustained pressure during the curing process [of rubber]. 1964Oleesky & 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.
3. attrib. and Comb., as (sense 1) curing-stone; (sense 2) curing-room, curing-stand, curing-yard; curing-house, 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).
1629in Chambers Dom. Ann. Scot. II. 31 She..had sent to the Laird of Lee to borrow his curing-stone for their cattle. 1672W. Hughes Amer. Physician 33 Athwart the end of the Sugar-house, or Curing-house (as they term it). 1791T. Newte Tour Eng. & Scot. 100 For the benefit of the Fisheries, public wharfs, store-houses, and curing-houses, should be constructed upon a moderate scale at first. 1862Macm. Mag. Oct. 511 The owners of boats at Wick engage to fish for particular curers, who have curing-stands there. 1878Rep. Vermont Board Agric. 79 In connection with..the manufacturing room was the curing room. 1933B. Silliman Man. Sugar Cane 46 The line of the floor..deviates only six inches in the curing rooms.
▪ II. curing
var. of covering2. Obs., recovery.
c1440Promp. Parv. 111 Curynge, or recurynge of sekenesse, convalescencia. |