curry

1. (transitive) To cook or season with curry powder.transitive

1. (transitive) To groom (a horse); to dress or rub down a horse with a curry comb.Examples: "Your short horse is soon curried."; "One day I was out in the barn and he drifted in. I was currying the horse and he set down on the wheelbarrow and begun to ask questions."transitive

2. (transitive) To dress (leather) after it is tanned by beating, rubbing, scraping and colouring.transitive

3. (transitive) To beat, thrash; to drub.Examples: "I have seen him curry a fellow's carcase handsomely."; "[…]By setting brother against brother / To claw and curry one another."transitive

4. (transitive, figurative) To try to win or gain (favour) by flattering.Examples: "A middle-aged woman waves and calls to her, as if she, like the hungry reporters, were currying the girl's favor: Florence Aadland (Sarandon, in a wily, multilayered performance), Beverly's mother, wears an expression of maternal concern, though her self-serving motives become increasingly clear."figurativelytransitive

1. (transitive, computing) To perform currying upon.Examples: "The easiest way to curry parameters is to create a function that takes a parameter block and returns a function that will call the original function with the presupplied parameters as defaults […]."; "Next, we curry the avg function to 3 arguments and put it into an option."transitive

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To scurry; to ride or run hastilyintransitiveobsolete

2. (transitive, obsolete) To cover (a distance); (of a projectile) to traverse (its range).Examples: "I am not hee that can ... by midnight leape my horse, curry seauen miles."; "All these shots shall curry or finish their ranges in times equal to each other."obsoletetransitive

3. (transitive, obsolete) To hurry.Examples: "A sermon is soon curryed over."obsoletetransitive