remeid

noun /ɹəˈmid/

1. Remedy. — Legal redress of a wrong.

   countable, uncountable

   […] the Commissioners of Burghs […] meet yearly at Inverkeithing “to treat of the welfare of merchandize, the good rule and statutes for the common profit of burghs, and to provide for remeid upon the skaith and injuries sustained within the burghs.”

2. Remedy. — Any correction of a wrong or undesirable thing.

   countable, uncountable

3. Remedy. — The proportion by which a coin may acceptably deviate from its ideal weight or proportion of precious metal.

   countable, obsolete, uncountable

Where it comes from

From Middle English remede, from Anglo-Norman and Old French remede. Doublet of remedy.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry remeid (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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