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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.

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.

A current which periodically changes or reverses its direction of flow.

The act of concurring; a meeting or coming together; union; conjunction; combination. We have no other measure but our own ideas, with the concurence of other probable reasons, to persuade us. Locke.

Concurrence.

ect; coöperating. I join with these laws the personal presence of the kings' son, as a concurrent cause of this reformation. Sir J. Davies. The concurrent testimony of antiquity. Bp. Warburton.

With concurrence; unitedly.

The state or quality of being concurrent; concurrence.