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Curling or tending to curl; having curls; full of ripples; crinkled.

Some thing curled or spiral,, as a flourish made with a pen on paper, or with skates on the ice; a trick; a frolicsome caper. [Sometimes written carlicue.] [ Colloq. U.S.] To cut a curlycue, to make a flourish; to cut a caper. I gave a flourishing about the room and cut a curlycue with my right foot. McClintock.…

An avaricious, grasping fellow; a miser; a niggard; a churl. A gray-headed curmudgeon of a negro. W. Irving.

Like a curmudgeon; niggardly; churlish; as, a curmudgeonly fellow.

Murmuring; grumbling; -- sometimes applied to the rumbling produced by a slight attack of the gripes. [Scot.] Burns.

To coo. [Scot.] The owlets hoot, the owlets curr. Wordsworth.

The acid fruit or berry of the Ribes rubrum or common red currant, or of its variety, the white currant.

A continued or uninterrupted course or flow like that of a sream; as, the currency of time. [Obs.] Ayliffe.

Running or moving rapidly. [Archaic] Like the current fire, that renneth Upon a cord. Gower. To chase a creature that was current then In these wild woods, the hart with golden horns. Tennyson.

In a current manner; generally; commonly; as, it is currently believed.

The quality of being current; currency; circulation; general reception.

A small or short course. Upon a curricle in this world depends a long course of the next. Sir T. Browne.

A race course; a place for running.

See 2d & 3d Curry.

Dressed by currying; cleaned; prepared.

One who curries and dresses leather, after it is tanned.

Having the qualities, or exhibiting the characteristics, of a cur; snarling; quarrelsome; snappish; churlish; hence, also malicious; malignant; brutal. Thy currish spirit Governed a wolf. Shak. Some currish plot, -- some trick. Lockhart. -- Cur"rish*ly, adv. -- Cur"rish*ness, n.

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.

A kind of card or comb having rows of metallic teeth or serrated ridges, used in curryng a horse.

ural power to send injury upon; to imprecate evil upon; to execrate. Thou shalt not . . . curse the ruler of thy people. Ex. xxii. 28. Ere sunset I'll make thee curse the deed. Shak.