remedy

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. Something, such as medicine or therapy, that relieves pain, cures disease, or corrects a disorder.
2. n. Something that corrects an evil, fault, or error.
3. n. Law A legal order of preventing or redressing a wrong or enforcing a right.
4. n. The allowance by a mint for deviation from the standard weight or quality of coins.
5. v. To relieve or cure (a disease or disorder).
6. v. To remove, counteract, or rectify. See Synonyms at correct, cure.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. That which cures a disease; any medicine or application or process which promotes restoration to health or alleviates the effects of disease: with for before the name of a disease.
2. n. That which corrects or counteracts an evil of any kind; relief; redress; reparation.
3. n. In law, the means given for obtaining through a court of justice any right or compensation or redress for a wrong.
4. n. In coining, a certain allowance at the mint for deviation from the standard weight and fineness of coins: same as allowance, 7.
5. n. A course of action to bring about a certain result.
6. n. Synonyms and Cure, restorative, specific, antidote, corrective.
7. To cure; heal: as, to remedy a disease.
8. To repair or remove something evil from; restore to a natural or proper condition.
9. To remove or counteract, as something evil; redress.

Wiktionary

1. n. Something that corrects or counteracts.
2. n. The legal means to recover a right or to prevent or obtain redress for a wrong.
3. n. A medicine, application, or treatment that relieves or cures a disease.
4. v. To provide or serve as a remedy for.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. That which relieves or cures a disease; any medicine or application which puts an end to disease and restores health; -- with for.
2. n. That which corrects or counteracts an evil of any kind; a corrective; a counteractive; reparation; cure; -- followed by for or against, formerly by to.
3. n. The legal means to recover a right, or to obtain redress for a wrong.
4. v. To apply a remedy to; to relieve; to cure; to heal; to repair; to redress; to correct; to counteract.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. provide relief for
2. n. act of correcting an error or a fault or an evil
3. v. set straight or right
4. n. a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain