Curmudgeonly
(Cur*mudg"eon*ly), a. Like a curmudgeon; niggardly; churlish; as, a curmudgeonly fellow.
Curmurring
(Cur*mur"ring) n. Murmuring; grumbling; — sometimes applied to the rumbling produced by
a slight attack of the gripes. [Scot.] Burns.
Curr
(Curr) v. i. [Prob. imitative.] To coo. [Scot.]
The owlets hoot, the owlets curr.
Wordsworth.
Currant
(Cur"rant) n. [F. corinthe (raisins de Corinthe raisins of Corinth) currant from the city of Corinth
in Greece, whence, probably, the small dried grape (1) was first imported, the Ribes fruit (2) receiving
the name from its resemblance to that grape.]
1. A small kind of seedless raisin, imported from the Levant, chiefly from Zante and Cephalonia; — used
in cookery.
2. The acid fruit or berry of the Ribes rubrum or common red currant, or of its variety, the white currant.
3. (Bot.) A shrub or bush of several species of the genus Ribes (a genus also including the gooseberry); esp.,
the Ribes rubrum.
Black currant,a shrub or bush (Ribes nigrum and R. floridum) and its black, strong- flavored, tonic
fruit. — Cherry currant, a variety of the red currant, having a strong, symmetrical bush and a very
large berry. — Currant borer (Zoöl.), the larva of an insect that bores into the pith and kills currant
bushes; specif., the larvae of a small clearwing moth (Ægeria tipuliformis) and a longicorn beetle (Psenocerus
supernotatus). — Currant worm (Zoöl.), an insect larva which eats the leaves or fruit of the
currant. The most injurious are the currant sawfly introduced from Europe, and the spanworm The fruit
worms are the larva of a fly and a spanworm — Flowering currant, Missouri currant, a species of
Ribes having showy yellow flowers.
Currency
(Cur"ren*cy) n.; pl. Currencies [Cf. LL. currentia a current, fr. L. currens, p. pr. of currere
to run. See Current.]
1. A continued or uninterrupted course or flow like that of a stream; as, the currency of time. [Obs.]
Ayliffe.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. Fluency; readiness of utterance. [Obs.]
5. Current value; general estimation; the rate at which anything is generally valued.
He . . . takes greatness of kingdoms according to their bulk and currency, and not after intrinsic value.
Bacon.
The bare name of Englishman . . . too often gave a transient currency to the worthless and ungrateful.
W.
Irving.
Current
(Cur"rent) a. [OE. currant, OF. curant, corant, p. pr. of curre, corre, F. courre, courir, to
run, from L. currere; perh. akin to E. horse. Cf. Course, Concur, Courant, Coranto.]
