Curry
['kʌrɪ] or ['kɝi]
Definition
(noun.) (East Indian cookery) a pungent dish of vegetables or meats flavored with curry powder and usually eaten with rice.
(verb.) treat by incorporating fat; 'curry tanned leather'.
(verb.) season with a mixture of spices; typical of Indian cooking.
Typist: Serena--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To dress or prepare for use by a process of scraping, cleansing, beating, smoothing, and coloring; -- said of leather.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To beat or bruise; to drub; -- said of persons.
(n.) A kind of sauce much used in India, containing garlic, pepper, ginger, and other strong spices.
(n.) A stew of fowl, fish, or game, cooked with curry.
(v. t.) To flavor or cook with curry.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Curry-powder.
Edited by Karl
Definition
n. a kind of sauce or seasoning much used in India compounded of pepper ginger and other spices: a stew mixed with curry-powder.—n. Curr′y-pow′der.
v.t. to dress leather: to rub down and dress a horse: to beat: to scratch:—pr.p. curr′ying; pa.p. curr′ied.—ns. Curr′ier one who curries or dresses tanned leather; Curr′y-comb an iron instrument or comb used for currying or cleaning horses; Curr′ying.—Curry favour (corruption of Curry favell to curry the chestnut horse) to seek favour by flattery.
obsolete forms of Quarry.
Editor: Louise
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of currying a horse, signifies that you will have a great many hard licks to make both with brain and hand before you attain to the heights of your ambition; but if you successfully curry him you will attain that height, whatever it may be.
Typist: Owen
Examples
- You are mistaken if you think I am anxious to curry favour with rich and great people. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The curry was capital; indeed it was, said Joe, quite gravely. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Give Miss Sharp some curry, my dear, said Mr. Sedley, laughing. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- It is a very depraved taste, I suppose, but I am very fond of curry. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- I do not know how you can eat such things, he said in some disgust, as Eunice took some curry. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- A curry was exactly the medium which would disguise this taste. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Mother, it's as good as my own curries in India. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- What business has an old county man to come currying favor with a low set of dark-blue freemen? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- It was while I was in the carriage, just as we reached the trainer's house, that the immense significance of the curried mutton occurred to me. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- I dunnot stomach the notion of having favour curried for me, by one as doesn't know the ins and outs of the quarrel. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- What are you going to take, Mr. Phelps--curried fowl or eggs, or will you help yourself? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Mrs. Hudson has risen to the occasion, said Holmes, uncovering a dish of curried chicken. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- At a few minutes after nine the maid, Edith Baxter, carried down to the stables his supper, which consisted of a dish of curried mutton. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
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