2. 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.
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.
CURRY
Cur"ry, n. Etym: [Tamil kari.] [Written also currie.]
1. (Cookery)
Defn: A kind of sauce much used in India, containing garlic, pepper, ginger, and other strong spices.
2. A stew of fowl, fish, or game, cooked with curry. Curry powder (Cookery), a condiment used for making curry, formed of various materials, including strong spices, as pepper, ginger, garlic, coriander seed, etc.
CURRY
Cur"ry (kr"r), v. t.
Defn: To flavor or cook with curry.
CURRYCOMB
Cur"ry*comb` (kr"r-km`), n.
Defn: A kind of card or comb having rows of metallic teeth or serrated ridges, used in curryng a horse.