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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

... disgust; for I had a peculiar objection to persons in that condition, and never trusted a man who could degrade himself below my own level. I watched them all, every moment expecting the one who had tried to curry favour with me, for I had an instinctive assurance that I had not seen the last of him. Night drew on while I was still on the look-out, and yet he did not appear. The rest of the family went calmly to bed, taking no notice of my disquietude; but nothing could have ...

— Cat and Dog - Memoirs of Puss and the Captain • Julia Charlotte Maitland

... happened the other way around, for it was only after a weary period that I learned. This Cecil Winwood, in order to curry favour with the Captain of the Yard, and thence the Warden, the Prison Directors, the Board of Pardons, and the Governor of California, framed up a prison-break. Now note three things: (a) Cecil Winwood was so detested by his fellow-convicts ...

— The Jacket (The Star-Rover) • Jack London

... began to doubt. She evidently did not relish his glib talk about the university. He was just about to say something deferentially about that institution, for he was not a man who would speak disrespectfully of the equator if he thought he might curry favor with his auditor by doing otherwise, when it occurred to him that Miss Howard's interest was centered in the man, and not ...

— In the Midst of Alarms • Robert Barr

... shooting excursions to the minor islands, a young American informed me that his friends and he himself were most desirous of tasting the iguana and the bat; so, supposing them all to be of the same mind, I ordered my maitre-d'hotel to prepare for dinner a curry of iguana and a ragout of bats. The first dish served round at dinner was the curry, of which they one and all partook with very good appetite; upon which I ventured to say: "You see the flesh of the iguana is most delicate." At these words all my guests turned ...

— Adventures in the Philippine Islands • Paul P. de La Gironiere

... onions, two carrots, and one head of celery cut in small dice. Keep the kettle over a high heat until soup reaches the boiling point; then place where it will simmer for twenty-five minutes. Add one tablespoon of curry powder, one tablespoon of flour mixed together; add to the hot soup and cook five minutes. Pass through a sieve. Serve with small pieces of chicken or ...

— The International Jewish Cook Book • Florence Kreisler Greenbaum

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