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CURRIED
CURRY
dress, groom, curry
(verb) give a neat appearance to; “groom the dogs”; “dress the horses”
curry
(verb) treat by incorporating fat; “curry tanned leather”
curry
(verb) season with a mixture of spices; typical of Indian cooking
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Adjective
curried (comparative more curried, superlative most curried)
Cooked or flavoured with curry.
Verb
curried
simple past tense and past participle of curry
Anagrams
• curdier
Source: Wiktionary
Cur"ried (-r, p.a. Etym: [See Curry, v. t., and Curry, n.]
1. Dressed by currying; cleaned; prepared.
2. Prepared with curry; as, curried rice, fowl, etc.
CURRY
Cur"ry (kr"r), v. t. [imp. & p.p. Curried (-rd); p.pr. & vb. n. Currying.] Etym: [OE. curraien, curreien, OF. cunreer, correier, to prepare, arrange, furnish, curry (a horse), F. corroyer to curry (leather) (cf. OF. conrei, conroi, order, arrangement, LL. conredium); cor- (L.com-) + roi, rei, arrangement, order; prob. of German origin, and akin to E. ready. See Ready, Greith, and cf. Corody, Array.]
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. Beau. & FL.
3. To beat or bruise; to drub; -- said of persons. I have seen him curry a fellow's carcass handsomely. Beau. & FL. To curry favor, to seek to gain favor by flattery or attentions. See Favor, n.
Cur"ry, n. Etym: [Tamil kari.] [Written also currie.]
1. (Cookery)
Definition: 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.
Cur"ry (kr"r), v. t.
Definition: To flavor or cook with curry.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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