1. One who or that which cures or heals.
1581. T. Rogers, St. Aug. Praiers, ix. (1597), 45. Thou purger of wickednes and curer of wounds.
1598. Shaks., Merry W., II. iii. 39. He is a curer of soules, and you a curer of bodies.
1775. Adair, Amer. Ind., 438. The curers of ailments.
1845. Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc., VI. II. 548. Panaceas … put forth as checkers or curers of the disease.
2. One whose employment it is to cure fish, etc.
1791. Newte, Tour Eng. & Scot., 103. There is room enough for the cooper and curer to perform their operations all under cover.
1814–5. Act 55 Geo. III., c. 94 § 20. If the curer of such herrings shall not deliver such account thereof.
1864. Reader, 23 Jan., 99. Curers crowd to buy the fish.
