Vocabulary : Curly to Current
Curly : Curling or tending to curl; having curls; full of ripples; crinkled.
Curlycue : 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.
Curmudgeon : An avaricious, grasping fellow; a miser; a niggard; a churl.
Curmudgeonly : Like a curmudgeon; niggardly; churlish; as, a curmudgeonly fellow.
Curmurring : Murmuring; grumbling; -- sometimes applied to the rumbling produced by a slight attack of the gripes.
Curr : To coo.
Currant : A small kind of seedless raisin, imported from the Levant, chiefly from Zante and Cephalonia; -- used in cookery. ;; The acid fruit or berry of the Ribes rubrum or common red currant, or of its variety, the white currant. ;; A shrub or bush of several species of the genus Ribes (a genus also including the gooseberry); esp., the Ribes rubrum.
Currencies : of Currency
Currency : A continued or uninterrupted course or flow like that of a stream; as, the currency of time. ;; 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. ;; 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. ;; Fluency; readiness of utterance. ;; Current value; general estimation; the rate at which anything is generally valued.
Current : Running or moving rapidly. ;; Now passing, as time; as, the current month. ;; 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. ;; Commonly estimated or acknowledged. ;; Fitted for general acceptance or circulation; authentic; passable. ;; 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. ;; General course; ordinary procedure; progressive and connected movement; as, the current of time, of events, of opinion, etc.
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