Word Meanings - CURRY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

prepare, arrange, furnish, curry , F. corroyer to curry (cf. OF. conrei, conroi, order, arrangement, LL. conredium); cor- + roi, rei, arrangement, order; prob. of German origin, and akin to E. ready. See Ready, Greith, and cf. 1. To dress or

Additional info about word: CURRY

prepare, arrange, furnish, curry , F. corroyer to curry (cf. OF. conrei, conroi, order, arrangement, LL. conredium); cor- + roi, rei, arrangement, order; prob. of German origin, and akin to E. ready. See Ready, Greith, and cf. 1. To dress or prepare for use by a process of scraping, cleansing, beating, smoothing, and coloring; -- said of leather. 2. To dress the hair or coat of with a currycomb and brush; to comb, as a horse, in order to make clean. Your short horse is soon curried. Beau. & FL. 3. To beat or bruise; to drub; -- said of persons. I have seen him curry a fellow's carcass handsomely. Beau. & FL. To curry favor, to seek to gain favor by flattery or attentions. See Favor, n.

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• FURNISHMENT
  The act of furnishing, or of supplying furniture; also, furniture. Daniel.
• GERMANIZATION
  The act of Germanizing. M. Arnold.
• DRESSINESS
  The state of being dressy.
• ORIGINABLE
  Capable of being originated.
• ORIGINATION
  1. The act or process of bringing or coming into existence; first production. "The origination of the universe." Keill. What comes from spirit is a spontaneous origination. Hickok. 2. Mode of production, or bringing into being. This eruca
• READY-MADE
  Made already, or beforehand, in anticipation of need; not made to order; as, ready-made clothing; ready-made jokes.
• ORIGINANT
  Originating; original. An absolutely originant act of self will. Prof. Shedd.
• ORIGINATOR
  One who originates.
• DRESS CIRCLE
  A gallery or circle in a theater, generally the first above the floor, in which originally dress clothes were customarily worn.
• GERMANISM
  1. An idiom of the German language. 2. A characteristic of the Germans; a characteristic German mode, doctrine, etc.; rationalism. J. W. Alexander.
• ORDERLY
  1. Conformed to order; in order; regular; as, an orderly course or plan. Milton. 2. Observant of order, authority, or rule; hence, obedient; quiet; peaceable; not unruly; as, orderly children; an orderly community. 3. Performed in good
• GERMANE
  Literally, near akin; hence, closely allied; appropriate or fitting; relevant. The phrase would be more germane to the matter. Shak. must be germane. Barclay .
• DRESSING
  An application to a sore or wound. Wiseman. 3. Manure or compost over land. When it remains on the surface, it is called a top-dressing. A preparation to fit food for use; a condiment; as, a dressing for salad. The stuffing of fowls, pigs, etc.;
• ORIGINATE
  To give an origin or beginning to; to cause to be; to bring into existence; to produce as new. A decomposition of the whole civill and political mass, for the purpose of originating a new civil order. Burke.
• CURRY
  prepare, arrange, furnish, curry , F. corroyer to curry (cf. OF. conrei, conroi, order, arrangement, LL. conredium); cor- + roi, rei, arrangement, order; prob. of German origin, and akin to E. ready. See Ready, Greith, and cf. 1. To dress or
• DRESSY
  Showy in dress; attentive to dress. A dressy flaunting maidservant. T. Hook. A neat, dressy gentleman in black. W. Irving.
• FURNISH
  Pr. formir, furmir, fromir, to accomplish, satisfy, fr. OHG. frumjan to further, execute, do, akin to E. frame. See Frame, v. t., and - 1. To supply with anything necessary, useful, or appropriate; to provide; to equip; to fit out, or fit up; to
• ORIGIN
  The point of attachment or end of a muscle which is fixed during contraction; -- in contradistinction to insertion. Origin of coördinate axes , the point where the axes intersect. See Note under Ordinate. Syn. -- Commencement; rise;
• GERMAN
  Nearly related; closely akin. Wert thou a leopard, thou wert german to the lion. Shak. Brother german. See Brother german. -- Cousins german. See the Note under Cousin. (more info) full, own ;
• ORIGINAL
  1. Pertaining to the origin or beginning; preceding all others; first in order; primitive; primary; pristine; as, the original state of man; the original laws of a country; the original inventor of a process. His form had yet not lost
• UNDRESS
  To take the dressing, or covering, from; as, to undress a wound. (more info) 1. To divest of clothes; to strip. 2. To divest of ornaments to disrobe.
• DEMANDRESS
  A woman who demands.
• ABORIGINALLY
  Primarily.
• OFFENDRESS
  A woman who offends. Shak.
• IMBORDER
  To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.
• OVERREADY
  Too ready. -- O"ver*read"*i*ly, adv. -- O"ver*read"i*ness, n.
• MISORDER
  To order ill; to manage erroneously; to conduct badly. Shak.
• MISARRANGEMENT
  Wrong arrangement.
• REDRESSIVE
  Tending to redress. Thomson.
• ACCORDER
  One who accords, assents, or concedes.
• ADDRESS
  To consign or intrust to the care of another, as agent or factor; as, the ship was addressed to a merchant in Baltimore. To address one's self to. To prepare one's self for; to apply one's self to. To direct one's speech or discourse to. (more
• TOP-DRESSING
  The act of applying a dressing of manure to the surface of land; also, manure so applied.