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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

... Mr. Burns regularly. After the first few days, when he didn't know anybody, he received me as if I had come either to gloat over an enemy or else to curry favour with a deeply wronged person. It was either one or the other, just as it happened according to his fantastic sickroom moods. Whichever it was, he managed to convey it to me even during the period when he appeared ...

— The Shadow-Line - A Confession • Joseph Conrad

... river Orne leading to Caen; and in consequence of this disaster one hundred were unloaded, and sent up again to Rouen. This was not all the damage that the enemy sustained on this part of the coast. In the month of November, captain Curry, of the Acteon, chased a large privateer, and drove her ashore between Cape Barfleur and La Hogue, where she perished. The cutters belonging to admiral Rodney's squadron scoured the coast towards Dieppe, ...

— The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.II. - From William and Mary to George II. • Tobias Smollett

... unexplored question. He wished not merely to advance to the discovery of certain great and valuable truths, but at the same time to overthrow certain unfashionable paradoxes by exaggerated statements—to curry favour with existing prejudices and interests by garbled representations. He has, in a word, as it appears to us on a candid retrospect and without any feelings of controversial asperity rankling in our minds, sunk the philosopher and the friend of his species (a character to which ...

— The Spirit of the Age - Contemporary Portraits • William Hazlitt

... face became instantly harder as he said, "I fawncy the effort to curry favor with the various members of the faculty is not very popular with the ...

— Winning His "W" - A Story of Freshman Year at College • Everett Titsworth Tomlinson

... cross as two sticks. Dinner came at last, we had the tinned soup which is usually the piece de resistance in the halls of Haggard, and we pitched into it. Followed an excellent salad of tomatoes and crayfish, a good Indian curry, a tender joint of beef, a dish of pigeons, a pudding, cheese and coffee. I was so over-eaten after this "hunger and burst" that I could scarcely move; and it was my sad fate that night in the character of the local author to eloquute ...

— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 25 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson

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