curatrix (kuratriks)

[LL., fem. of L. cu rat or: see curator.] 1. A woman, or anything regarded as feminine, that cures or heals. [Rare.] That "nature" of Hippo crates that is the curatrix of diseases. Cudworth, Intellectual System, p. 167. Richardson. 2. A female superintendent or guardian. curb (kérb), a. and n.1 [I. a.: His sholdres high and cour be , and a grete bonche on his bakke be-hinde and a-nother be-fore a-gein the breste. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 635. 1401 II. n.1 A hard and callous swelling on various parts of a horse's leg, as the hinder part of the hock, the inside of the hoof, beneath the elbow of the hoof, etc.