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noun
Remedy.
Legal redress of a wrong.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, dialectal, uncountable
Qualifier: Scots law
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noun
Remedy.
Any correction of a wrong or undesirable thing.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Northern-Ireland, Scotland, countable, dialectal, uncountable
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noun
Remedy.
The proportion by which a coin may acceptably deviate from its ideal weight or proportion of precious metal.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Scotland, countable, dialectal, obsolete, uncountable
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verb
To remedy, in its various senses.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Scotland, obsolete
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History
From Middle English remede, from Anglo-Norman and Old French remede. Doublet of remedy.
