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Webster 1913 Edition

(k?r′?ng)

Adj.

vb.

Noun.

Curing house

a building in which anything is cured; especially, in the West Indies, a building in which sugar is drained and dried.

The busy world, which does not hunt poets as collectors hunt for curios.

F. Harrison.

ppr.

Healing; restoring to health or soundness; removing, as an evil; preparing for preservation.

curing

curing ‎(plural curings)

The act by which something is cured.
- 1988, Thomas Stephen Szasz, The Myth of Psychotherapy (page 183)
  As I showed, although some rhetoricians, such as Mesmer and Erb, claimed that their interventions were medical treatments, others, such as Freud and Jung, claimed that their interventions were both medical curings and spiritual carings.