Currier (n.) One who curries and dresses leather, after it is tanned.
Currish (a.) Having the qualities, or exhibiting the characteristics, of a cur; snarling; quarrelsome; snappish; churlish; hence, also malicious; malignant; brutal.
Curried (imp. & p. p.) of Curry
Currying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Curry
Curry (v. t.) To dress or prepare for use by a process of scraping, cleansing, beating, smoothing, and coloring; -- said of leather.
Curry (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.
Curry (v. t.) To beat or bruise; to drub; -- said of persons.
Curry (n.) A kind of sauce much used in India, containing garlic, pepper, ginger, and other strong spices.
Curry (n.) A stew of fowl, fish, or game, cooked with curry.
Curry (v. t.) To flavor or cook with curry.
Currycomb (n.) A kind of card or comb having rows of metallic teeth or serrated ridges, used in currying a horse.
Currycomb (v. t.) To comb with a currycomb.
Cursed (imp. & p. p.) of Curse
Curst () of Curse
Cursing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Curse
Curse (v. t.) To call upon divine or supernatural power to send injury upon; to imprecate evil upon; to execrate.
Curse (v. t.) To bring great evil upon; to be the cause of serious harm or unhappiness to; to furnish with that which will be a cause of deep trouble; to afflict or injure grievously; to harass or torment.
Curse (v. i.) To utter imprecations or curses; to affirm or deny with imprecations; to swear.
Curse (v. t.) An invocation of, or prayer for, harm or injury; malediction.
Curse (v. t.) Evil pronounced or invoked upon another, solemnly, or in passion; subjection to, or sentence of, divine condemnation.
Curse (v. t.) The cause of great harm, evil, or misfortune; that which brings evil or severe affliction; torment.
Cursed (a.) Deserving a curse; execrable; hateful; detestable; abominable.
Cursedly (adv.) In a cursed manner; miserably; in a manner to be detested; enormously.
Cursedness (n.) The state of being under a curse or of being doomed to execration or to evil.
Cursedness (n.) Wickedness; sin; cursing.
Cursedness (n.) Shrewishness.
Curser (n.) One who curses.
Curship (n.) The state of being a cur; one who is currish.
Cursitating (a.) Moving about slightly.
Cursitor (n.) A courier or runner.
Cursitor (n.) An officer in the Court of Chancery, whose business is to make out original writs.
Cursive (a.) Running; flowing.
Cursive (n.) A character used in cursive writing.
Cursive (n.) A manuscript, especially of the New Testament, written in small, connected characters or in a running hand; -- opposed to uncial.
Cursor (n.) Any part of a mathematical instrument that moves or slides backward and forward upon another part.
Cursorary (a.) Cursory; hasty.
Cursores (n. pl.) An order of running birds including the ostrich, emu, and allies; the Ratitaae.
Cursores (n. pl.) A group of running spiders; the wolf spiders.
Cursorial (a.) Adapted to running or walking, and not to prehension; as, the limbs of the horse are cursorial. See Illust. of Aves.
Cursorial (a.) Of or pertaining to the Cursores.
Cursorily (adv.) In a running or hasty manner; carelessly.
Cursoriness (n.) The quality of being cursory; superficial performance; as, cursoriness of view.
Cursory (a.) Running about; not stationary.
Cursory (a.) Characterized by haste; hastily or superficially performed; slight; superficial; careless.
Curst () imp. & p. p. of Curse.
Curst (a.) Froward; malignant; mischievous; malicious; snarling.
Curstfully (adv.) Peevishly; vexatiously; detestably.
Curstness (n.) Peevishness; malignity; frowardness; crabbedness; surliness.
Curt (a.) Characterized by excessive brevity; short; rudely concise; as, curt limits; a curt answer.
Curtailed (imp. & p. p.) of Curtail
Curtailing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Curtail
Curtail (v. t.) To cut off the end or tail, or any part, of; to shorten; to abridge; to diminish; to reduce.
Curtail (n.) The scroll termination of any architectural member, as of a step, etc.
Curtail dog () A dog with a docked tail; formerly, the dog of a person not qualified to course, which, by the forest laws, must have its tail cut short, partly as a mark, and partly from a notion that the tail is necessary to a dog in running; hence, a dog not fit for sporting.
Curtailer (n.) One who curtails.
Curtailment (n.) The act or result of curtailing or cutting off.
Curtain (n.) A hanging screen intended to darken or conceal, and admitting of being drawn back or up, and reclosed at pleasure; esp., drapery of cloth or lace hanging round a bed or at a window; in theaters, and like places, a movable screen for concealing the stage.
Curtain (n.) That part of the rampart and parapet which is between two bastions or two gates. See Illustrations of Ravelin and Bastion.
Curtain (n.) That part of a wall of a building which is between two pavilions, towers, etc.
Curtain (n.) A flag; an ensign; -- in contempt.
Curtained (imp. & p. p.) of Curtain
Curtaining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Curtain
Curtain (v. t.) To inclose as with curtains; to furnish with curtains.
Curtal (a.) Curt; brief; laconic.
Curtal (n.) A horse with a docked tail; hence, anything cut short.
Curtal ax () Alt. of Curtelasse
Curtle ax () Alt. of Curtelasse
Curtelasse () A corruption of Cutlass.
Curtal friar () A friar who acted as porter at the gate of a monastery.
Curtana (n.) The pointless sword carried before English monarchs at their coronation, and emblematically considered as the sword of mercy; -- also called the sword of Edward the Confessor.
Curtate (a.) Shortened or reduced; -- said of the distance of a planet from the sun or earth, as measured in the plane of the ecliptic, or the distance from the sun or earth to that point where a perpendicular, let fall from the planet upon the plane of the ecliptic, meets the ecliptic.
Curtation (n.) The interval by which the curtate distance of a planet is less than the true distance.
Curtein (n.) Same as Curtana.
Curtes (a.) Courteous.
Curtesies (pl. ) of Curtesy
Curtesy (n.) the life estate which a husband has in the lands of his deceased wife, which by the common law takes effect where he has had issue by her, born alive, and capable of inheriting the lands.
Curtilage (n.) A yard, courtyard, or piece of ground, included within the fence surrounding a dwelling house.
Curtly (adv.) In a curt manner.
Curtness (n.) The quality of bing curt.
Curtsy (n.) Same as Courtesy, an act of respect.
Curule (a.) Of or pertaining to a chariot.
Curule (a.) Of or pertaining to a kind of chair appropriated to Roman magistrates and dignitaries; pertaining to, having, or conferring, the right to sit in the curule chair; hence, official.
Cururo (n.) A Chilian burrowing rodent of the genus Spalacopus.
Curval (p. pr.) Alt. of Curvant
Curvant (p. pr.) Bowed; bent; curved.
Curvate (a.) Alt. of Curvated
Curvated (a.) Bent in a regular form; curved.
Curvation (n.) The act of bending or crooking.
Curvative (a.) Having the margins only a little curved; -- said of leaves.
Curvature (n.) The act of curving, or the state of being bent or curved; a curving or bending, normal or abnormal, as of a line or surface from a rectilinear direction; a bend; a curve.
Curvature (n.) The amount of degree of bending of a mathematical curve, or the tendency at any point to depart from a tangent drawn to the curve at that point.
Curve (a.) Bent without angles; crooked; curved; as, a curve line; a curve surface.
Curve (a.) A bending without angles; that which is bent; a flexure; as, a curve in a railway or canal.
Curve (a.) A line described according to some low, and having no finite portion of it a straight line.
Curved (imp. & p. p.) of Curve
Curving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Curve
Curve (a.) To bend; to crook; as, to curve a line; to curve a pipe; to cause to swerve from a straight course; as, to curve a ball in pitching it.
Curve (v. i.) To bend or turn gradually from a given direction; as, the road curves to the right.
Curvedness (n.) The state of being curved.
Curvet (n.) A particular leap of a horse, when he raises both his fore legs at once, equally advanced, and, as his fore legs are falling, raises his hind legs, so that all his legs are in the air at once.