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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.

To hasten away or along; to move rapidly; to hurry; as, the rabbit scurried away.

An instrument for currying hairy animals, or cleansing and smoothing their coats; a currycomb.

A preparation used in currying leather.

See 2d & 3d Curry.

Dressed by currying; cleaned; prepared.

In currying, a mixture of fish oil and tallow worked into leather; -- called also dubbing. Knight.

dress leather or cloth; to dress or trim a lamp; to dress a garden; to dress a horse, by currying and rubbing; to dress grain, by cleansing it; in mining and metallurgy, to dress ores, by sorting and separating them.

A horse of a favel or dun color. To curry favel. See To curry favor, under Favor, n.

for the advantage of. -- In favor with, favored, countenanced, or encouraged by. -- To curry favor Etym: [see the etymology of Favor, above], to seek to gain favor by flattery, caresses, kindness, or officious civilities. -- With one's favor, or By one's favor, with leave; by kind permission. But, with your favor,…

To tend or care for, or to curry or clean, as a, horse.

An East Indian curry soup.

pertinacious annoyance. -- To pick a bone with. See under Bone. -- To pick a thank, to curry favor. [Obs.] Robynson (More's Utopia). -- To pick off. (a) To pluck; to remove by picking. (b) To shoot or bring down, one by one; as, sharpshooters pick off the enemy. -- To pick out. (a) To mark out; to variegate; as, t…

s, Will not be rubbed nor stopped. Shak. To rub down. (a) To clean by rubbing; to comb or curry; as, to down a horse. (b) To reduce or remove by rubbing; as, to rub down the rough points. -- To rub off, to clean anything by rubbing; to separate by friction; as, to rub off rust. -- To rub out, to remove or separate by…

Scurry; paltry; as, scald rhymers. [Obs.] Shak. Scald crow (Zoöl.), the hooded crow. [Ireland] -- Scald head (Med.), a name popularly given to several diseases of the scalp characterized by pustules (the dried discharge of which forms scales) and by falling out of the hair.

Scurry. [Obs.] Purchas.

To run quickly; to scurry; to scuttle. [Prov. Eng.]

To run off helter-skelter; to hurry; to scurry; -- with away or off. [Colloq.] A. R. Wallace.

See Scurry.