remedies

Noun

remedy (plural remedies)

1. Something that corrects or counteracts.
2. The legal means to recover a right or to prevent or obtain redress for a wrong.

   Synonyms:

   remeid

3. A medicine, application, or treatment that relieves or cures a disease.
   • Beautie alone is a ſoveraigne remedy againſt feare,griefe,and all melancholy fits; a charm,as Peter de la Seine and many other writers affirme,a banquet it ſelfe;he gives inſtance in diſcontented Menelaus that was ſo often freed by Helenas faire face: and ʰTully, 3 Tusc. cites Epicurus as a chiefe...1638, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy. […], 5th edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] [Robert Young, Miles Flesher, and Leonard Lichfield and William Turner] for...
4. The accepted tolerance or deviation in fineness or weight in the production of gold coins etc.

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