medicine

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun The science and art of diagnosing and treating disease or injury and maintaining health.
• noun The branch of this science encompassing treatment by drugs, diet, exercise, and other nonsurgical means.
• noun The practice of medicine.
• noun A substance, especially a drug, used to treat the signs and symptoms of a disease, condition, or injury.
• noun Something that serves as a remedy or corrective.
• noun Shamanistic practices or beliefs, especially among Native Americans.
• noun Something, such as a ritual practice or sacred object, believed to control natural or supernatural powers or serve as a preventive or remedy.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To treat or affect medicinally; work upon or cure by or as if by medicine.
• noun A substance used as a remedy for disease; a substance having or supposed to have curative properties; hence, figuratively, anything that has a curative or remedial effect.
• noun The art of preventing, curing, or alleviating diseases and remedying as far as possible the results of violence and accident.
• noun Something which is supposed to possess curative, supernatural, or mysterious power; any object used or any ceremony performed as a charm: an English equivalent for terms used among American Indians and other savage tribes.
• noun A physician.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• transitive verb To give medicine to; to affect as a medicine does; to remedy; to cure.
• noun The science which relates to the prevention, cure, or alleviation of disease.
• noun Any substance administered in the treatment of disease; a remedial agent; a medication; a medicament; a remedy; physic.
• noun obsolete A philter or love potion.
• noun obsolete A physician.
• noun Among the North American Indians, any object supposed to give control over natural or magical forces, to act as a protective charm, or to cause healing; also, magical power itself; the potency which a charm, token, or rite is supposed to exert.
• noun Hence, a similar object or agency among other savages.
• noun Short for Medicine man.
• noun Slang Intoxicating liquor; drink.
• noun a charm; -- so called among the North American Indians, or in works relating to them.
• noun a person who professes to cure sickness, drive away evil spirits, and regulate the weather by the arts of magic; a shaman.
• noun a small gem or paste engraved with reversed characters, to serve as a seal. Such seals were used by Roman physicians to stamp the names of their medicines.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun A substance which specifically promotes healing when ingested or consumed in some way.
• noun A treatment or cure.
• noun The study of the cause, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of disease or illness.
• noun The profession of physicians, surgeons and related specialisms; those who practice medicine.
• noun Ritual Native American magic used (notably by a medicine man) to promote a desired outcome in healing, hunting, warfare etc.
• noun obsolete black magic, superstition.
• verb rare, obsolete To treat with medicine.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• verb treat medicinally, treat with medicine
• noun the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques
• noun the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries
• noun punishment for one's actions
• noun (medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease