Obs. [A phonetically reduced form of ME. cuure, COVER, the v being vocalized or elided, as in o’er, e’er; cf. skiver, skewer.] trans. To cover; to conceal; to protect.
a. 1400. Cov. Myst. (Shaks. Soc.), 392. Diveris clowdys eche of us was sodeynely curyng.
c. 1430. Lydg., Chron. Troy, I. vi. He … had his fraude with flatterye ycured.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 110. Curyn’, or hyllyn’ (W. cuueren), operio, cooperio, tego.
1678. trans. Gaya’s Arms War, I. 54. The line of Contrevallation … which cures the Besiegers from Sallies.
