Medicine1. (n.) The science which relates to the prevention, cure, or alleviation of disease.
2. (n.) Any substance administered in the treatment of disease; a remedial agent; a remedy; physic.
3. (n.) A philter or love potion.
4. (n.) A physician.
5. (v. t.) To give medicine to; to affect as a medicine does; to remedy; to cure.
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