Obs. [An early phonetic variant of COVER; see CURE v.2] = COVER sb.

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1502.  Bury Wills (1850), 92. I beqwethe to … William Coote … myne syluer salt wyth ye cure, and Alys Coote the other wtoute the cure.

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1567.  Test. K. Henrie Stewart, in Scot. Poems 16th C., II. 262. As the woirme, that workis under cuire At lenth the tre consumis.

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a. 1572.  Knox, Hist. Ref., Wks. I. 461. Thei must neidis reteyre in a verray narrow cure.

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