CPage 539
- English Word Curler Definition A player at the game called curling.
- English Word Curlew Definition A wading bird of the genus Numenius, remarkable for its long, slender, curved bill.
- English Word Curliness Definition State of being curly.
- English Word Curling Definition of Curl
- English Word Curling Definition The act or state of that which curls; as, the curling of smoke when it rises; the curling of a ringlet; also, the act or process of one who curls something, as hair, or the brim of hats.
- English Word Curling Definition A scottish game in which heavy weights of stone or iron are propelled by hand over the ice towards a mark.
- English Word Curlingly Definition With a curl, or curls.
- English Word Curly Definition Curling or tending to curl; having curls; full of ripples; crinkled.
- English Word Curlycue Definition 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.
- English Word Curmudgeon Definition An avaricious, grasping fellow; a miser; a niggard; a churl.
- English Word Curmudgeonly Definition Like a curmudgeon; niggardly; churlish; as, a curmudgeonly fellow.
- English Word Curmurring Definition Murmuring; grumbling; -- sometimes applied to the rumbling produced by a slight attack of the gripes.
- English Word Curr Definition To coo.
- English Word Currant Definition A small kind of seedless raisin, imported from the Levant, chiefly from Zante and Cephalonia; -- used in cookery.
- English Word Currant Definition The acid fruit or berry of the Ribes rubrum or common red currant, or of its variety, the white currant.
- English Word Currant Definition A shrub or bush of several species of the genus Ribes (a genus also including the gooseberry); esp., the Ribes rubrum.
- English Word Currencies Definition of Currency
- English Word Currency Definition A continued or uninterrupted course or flow like that of a stream; as, the currency of time.
- English Word Currency Definition The state or quality of being current; general acceptance or reception; a passing from person to person, or from hand to hand; circulation; as, a report has had a long or general currency; the currency of bank notes.
- English Word Currency Definition That which is in circulation, or is given and taken as having or representing value; as, the currency of a country; a specie currency; esp., government or bank notes circulating as a substitute for metallic money.
- English Word Currency Definition Fluency; readiness of utterance.
- English Word Currency Definition Current value; general estimation; the rate at which anything is generally valued.
- English Word Current Definition Running or moving rapidly.
- English Word Current Definition Now passing, as time; as, the current month.
- English Word Current Definition Passing from person to person, or from hand to hand; circulating through the community; generally received; common; as, a current coin; a current report; current history.
- English Word Current Definition Commonly estimated or acknowledged.
- English Word Current Definition Fitted for general acceptance or circulation; authentic; passable.
- English Word Current Definition A flowing or passing; onward motion. Hence: A body of fluid moving continuously in a certain direction; a stream; esp., the swiftest part of it; as, a current of water or of air; that which resembles a stream in motion; as, a current of electricity.
- English Word Current Definition General course; ordinary procedure; progressive and connected movement; as, the current of time, of events, of opinion, etc.
- English Word Currently Definition In a current manner; generally; commonly; as, it is currently believed.