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Curry   /kˈəri/   Listen
noun
Curry  n.  (Written also currie)  
1.
(Cookery) A kind of sauce much used in India, containing garlic, pepper, ginger, and other strong spices.
2.
A stew of fowl, fish, or game, cooked with curry.
Curry powder (Cookery), a condiment used for making curry, formed of various materials, including strong spices, as pepper, ginger, garlic, coriander seed, etc.


verb
Curry  v. t.  (past & past part. curried; pres. part. currying)  
1.
To dress or prepare for use by a process of scraping, cleansing, beating, smoothing, and coloring; said of leather.
2.
To dress the hair or coat of (a horse, ox, or the like) with a currycomb and brush; to comb, as a horse, in order to make clean. "Your short horse is soon curried."
3.
To beat or bruise; to drub; said of persons. "I have seen him curry a fellow's carcass handsomely."
To curry favor, to seek to gain favor by flattery or attentions. See Favor, n.


Curry  v. t.  To flavor or cook with curry.





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"Curry" Quotes from Famous Books



... you and Mrs. Dodd might think I praised Dodd so, and did what little I did for him, knowing who you were, and wishing to curry favour with you by all that; and that is so underhand and paltry a way of going to work, I should ...
— Hard Cash • Charles Reade
... of Mrs Major Molony, fortunately head uppermost, in a semi-sitting posture,—the joint of meat serving as a cushion to that part of her body which is usually thus accommodated, while one of her feet stuck into a dish of potatoes and the other into one of curry and rice, the gravy flying on all sides like the ...
— The Young Rajah • W.H.G. Kingston
... is conceded by all right-thinking people, that the education of the colored race is the only true solution of the Southern problem. This has been declared in Presidential messages, in the utterances of such candid men as Dr. Curry, Dr. Haygood and Colonel Keating, by writers in all the Northern religious papers, and is, we believe, the accepted and settled opinion of Christian people at the North. Everybody admits, also, that there is a crisis coming, ...
— The American Missionary Vol. XLIV. No. 2. • Various
... longitudes, perhaps, the blood is always near boiling-point, which accounts for Indian tempers, though not for the curry and pepper they eat. But I must not wander; there is no curry at all in this story. About temper ...
— The Wouldbegoods • E. Nesbit
... of years and of curry-powder had not improved his lungs—he labored at the helpless form, and laid it at last in ...
— Mary Anerley • R. D. Blackmore


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