Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter C - Page 162
Cure (v. t.) To set free from (something injurious or blameworthy), as from a bad habit.
I never knew any man cured of inattention. -- Swift.
Cure (v. t.) To prepare for preservation or permanent keeping; to preserve, as by drying, salting, etc.; as, to cure beef or fish; to cure hay.
Cure (v. i.) To pay heed; to care; to give attention. [Obs.]
Cure (v. i.) To restore health; to effect a cure.
Whose smile and frown, like to Achilles' spear, Is able with the change to kill and cure. -- Shak.
Cure (v. i.) To become healed.
One desperate grief cures with another's languish. -- Shak.
Cure (n.) A curate; a pardon.
Cure (n.) A medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain [syn: remedy, curative, cure, therapeutic].
Cure (v.) Provide a cure for, make healthy again; "The treatment cured the boy's acne"; "The quack pretended to heal patients but never managed to" [syn: bring around, cure, heal].
Cure (v.) Prepare by drying, salting, or chemical processing in order to preserve; "cure meats"; "cure pickles"; "cure hay."
Cure (v.) Make (substances) hard and improve their usability; "cure resin"; "cure cement"; "cure soap."
Cure (v.) Be or become preserved; "the apricots cure in the sun."
Cure, () A restoration to health.
Cure, () A person who had quitted the habit of drunkenness for the space of nine months, in consequence of medicines he had taken, and who had lost his appetite for ardent spirits, was held to have been cured. 7 Yerg. R. 146.
Cure, () In a figurative sense, to cure is to remedy any defect; as, an informal statement of the plaintiff's cause of action in his declaration is cured by verdict, provided it be substantially stated.
Cureall (n.) A remedy for all diseases, or for all ills; a panacea.
Cureless (a.) Incapable of cure; incurable.
With patience undergo A cureless ill, since fate will have it so. -- Dryden.
Curer (n.) One who cures; a healer; a physician.
Curer (n.) One who prepares beef, fish, etc., for preservation by drying, salting, smoking, etc.
Curette (n.) A scoop or ring with either a blunt or a cutting edge, for removing substances from the walls of a cavity, as from the eye, ear, or womb.
Curfew (n.) The ringing of an evening bell, originally a signal to the inhabitants to cover fires, extinguish lights, and retire to rest, -- instituted by William the Conqueror; also, the bell itself.
He begins at curfew, and walks till the first cock. -- Shak.
The village curfew, as it tolled profound. -- Campbell.
Curfew (n.) A utensil for covering the fire. [Obs.]
For pans, pots, curfews, counters and the like. -- Bacon.
Curfew (n.) The time that the curfew signal is sounded.
Curfew (n.) A signal (usually a bell) announcing the start of curfew restrictions.
Curfew (n.) An order that after a specific time certain activities (as being outside on the streets) are prohibited.
Curfew, () The name of a law, established during the reign of the English king, William, the conqueror, by which the people were commanded to dispense with fire and candle at eight o'clock at night.
It was abolished in the reign of Henry I., but afterwards it signified the time at which the curfew formerly took place. The word curfew is derived, probably, from couvre few, or cover fire. 4 Bl. Com. 419, 420.
Curle (n. pl. ) of Curia.
Curia (n.) [L.] (Rom. Antiq.) One of the thirty parts into which the Roman people were divided by Romulus.
Curia (n.) (Rom. Antiq.) The place of assembly of one of these divisions.
Curia (n.) (Rom. Antiq.) The place where the meetings of the senate were held; the senate house.
Curia (n.) (Middle Ages) The court of a sovereign or of a feudal lord; also; his residence or his household.
Curia (n.) (Law) Any court of justice.
Curia (n.) The Roman See in its temporal aspects, including all the machinery of administration; -- called also curia Romana.
Curia (n.) (Roman Catholic Church) the central administration governing the Roman Catholic Church.
Curia, () A court of justice.
Curialism (n.) The view or doctrine of the ultramontane party in the Latin Church. -- Gladstone.
Curialist (n.) One who belongs to the ultramontane party in the Latin Church. -- Shipley.
Curialistic (a.) Pertaining to a court.
Curialistic (a.) Relating or belonging to the ultramontane party in the Latin Church.
Curiality (n.) The privileges, prerogatives, or retinue of a court. [Obs.] -- Bacon.
Curiality, () Scotch law. The same as courtesy. (q.v.) 1 Bell's Com. 61.
Curiet (n.) A cuirass. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Curing () p. a. & vb. n. of Cure.
Curios (n. pl. ) of Curio.
Curio (n.; pl. Curios) [Abbreviation of curiosity.] Any curiosity [3] or article of virtu; any object esteemed for its unusual nature.
The busy world, which does not hunt poets as collectors hunt for curios. -- F. Harrison.
Curio (n.) Something unusual -- perhaps worthy of collecting [syn: curio, curiosity, oddity, oddment, peculiarity, rarity].
Compare: Kyriological
Kyriological (a.) [See Curiologic.] Serving to denote objects by conventional signs or alphabetical characters; as, the original Greek alphabet of sixteen letters was called kyriologic, because it represented the pure elementary sounds. See Curiologic. [Written also curiologic and kuriologic.]
Note: The term is also applied, as by Warburton, to those Egyptian hieroglyphics, in which a part is put conventionally for the whole, as in depicting a battle by two hands, one holding a shield and the other a bow. Kythe
Curiologic (a.) Pertaining to a rude kind of hieroglyphics, in which a thing is represented by its picture instead of by a symbol.
Curiosities (n. pl. ) of Curiosity.
Curiosity (n.) The state or quality or being curious; nicety; accuracy; exactness; elaboration. [Obs.] -- Bacon.
When thou wast in thy gilt and thy perfume, they mocked thee for too much curiosity. -- Shak.
A screen accurately cut in tapiary work . . . with great curiosity. -- Evelin.
Curiosity (n.) Disposition to inquire, investigate, or seek after knowledge; a desire to gratify the mind with new information or objects of interest; inquisitiveness. -- Milton.
Curiosity (n.) That which is curious, or fitted to excite or reward attention.
We took a ramble together to see the curiosities of this great town. -- Addison.
There hath been practiced also a curiosity, to set a tree upon the north side of a wall, and, at a little hieght, to draw it through the wall, etc. -- Bacon.
Curiosity (n.) A state in which you want to learn more about something [syn: curiosity, wonder].
Curiosity (n.) Something unusual -- perhaps worthy of collecting [syn: curio, curiosity, oddity, oddment, peculiarity, rarity].
Curiosity, (n.) An objectionable quality of the female mind.
The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul.
Curiosos (n. pl. ) of Curioso.
Curioso (n.) A virtuoso.
Curious (a.) Difficult to please or satisfy; solicitous to be correct; careful; scrupulous; nice; exact. [Obs.]
Little curious in her clothes. -- Fuller.
How shall we, If he be curious, work upon his faith? -- Beau. & Fl.
Curious (a.) Exhibiting care or nicety; artfully constructed; elaborate; wrought with elegance or skill.
To devise curious works. -- Ex. xxxv. 32
His body couched in a curious bed. -- Shak.
Curious (a.) Careful or anxious to learn; eager for knowledge; given to research or inquiry; habitually inquisitive; prying; -- sometimes with after or of.
It is a pity a gentleman so very curious after things that were elegant and beautiful should not have been as curious as to their origin, their uses, and their natural history. -- Woodward.
Curious (a.) Exciting attention or inquiry; awakening surprise; inviting and rewarding inquisitiveness; not simple or plain; strange; rare. "Acurious tale." -- Shak.
A multitude of curious analogies. -- Macaulay.
Many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore. -- E. A. Poe.
Abstruse investigations in recondite branches of learning or sciense often bring to light curious results. -- C. J. Smith.
Curious arts, magic. [Obs.]
Many . . . which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them. -- Acts xix. 19.
Syn: Inquisitive; prying. See Inquisitive.
Curious (a.) Beyond or deviating from the usual or expected; "a curious hybrid accent"; "her speech has a funny twang"; "they have some funny ideas about war"; "had an odd name"; "the peculiar aromatic odor of cloves"; "something definitely queer about this town"; "what a rum fellow"; "singular behavior" [syn: curious, funny, odd, peculiar, queer, rum, rummy, singular].
Curious (a.) Eager to investigate and learn or learn more (sometimes about others' concerns); "a curious child is a teacher's delight"; "a trap door that made me curious"; "curious investigators"; "traffic was slowed by curious rubberneckers"; "curious about the neighbor's doings" [ant: incurious].
Curious (a.) Having curiosity aroused; eagerly interested in learning more; "a trap door that made me curious."
Curious (a.) (Interested) (B1) 好奇的；好打聽的 Interested in learning about people or things around you.
// I was curious to know what would happen next.
// Babies are curious about everything around them.
// "Why did you ask?" "I was just curious."
Curious (a.) (Strange) (Mainly UK) 稀奇的，古怪的，不尋常的 Strange and unusual.
// There was a curious-looking man standing outside.
// A curious thing happened to me yesterday.
// It's curious (that) Billy hasn't phoned when he promised he would.
Synonym:
Peculiar (a.) (Strange) (B2) 奇怪的，古怪的 Unusual and strange, sometimes in an unpleasant way.
// She has the most peculiar ideas.
// What a peculiar smell!
// It's peculiar that they didn't tell us they were going away.
// (UK) The video on road accidents made me feel rather peculiar (= ill).
Peculiar (a.) (Belonging to) (C2) 獨特的，特有的 Belonging to, relating to, or found in only particular people or things.
// He gets on with things in his own peculiar way/ manner/ fashion.
// They noted that special manner of walking that was peculiar to her alone.
// This type of building is peculiar to the south of the country.
Curiously (adv.) In a curious manner.
Curiously (adv.) In a manner differing from the usual or expected; "had a curiously husky voice"; "he's behaving rather peculiarly" [syn: curiously, oddly, peculiarly].
Curiously (adv.) With curiosity; "the baby looked around curiously" [syn: curiously, inquisitively, interrogatively].
Curiousness (n.) Carefulness; painstaking. [Obs.]
My father's care With curiousness and cost did train me up. -- Massinger.
Curiousness (n.) The state of being curious; exactness of workmanship; ingenuity of contrivance.
Curiousness (n.) Inquisitiveness; curiosity.
Curiousness (n.) A state of active curiosity [syn: curiousness, inquisitiveness].
Curiousness (n.) The quality of being alien or not native; "the strangeness of a foreigner" [syn: foreignness, strangeness, curiousness] [ant: nativeness].
Curled (imp. & p. p.) of Curl.
Curling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Curl.
Curl (v. t.) To twist or form into ringlets; to crisp, as the hair.
But curl their locks with bodkins and with braid. -- Cascoigne.
Curl (v. t.) To twist or make onto coils, as a serpent's body.
Of his tortuous train, Curled many a wanton wreath in sight of Eve. -- Milton.
Curl (v. t.) To deck with, or as with, curls; to ornament.
Thicker than the snaky locks That curledMeg[ae]ra. -- Milton.
Curling with metaphors a plain intention. -- Herbert.
Curl (v. t.) To raise in waves or undulations; to ripple.
Seas would be pools without the brushing air To curl the waves. -- Dryden.
Curl (v. t.) (Hat Making) To shape (the brim) into a curve.
Curl (v. i.) To contract or bend into curls or ringlets, as hair; to grow in curls or spirals, as a vine; to be crinkled or contorted; to have a curly appearance; as, leaves lie curled on the ground.
Thou seest it [hair] will not curl by nature. -- Shak.
Curl (v. i.) To move in curves, spirals, or undulations; to contract in curving outlines; to bend in a curved form; to make a curl or curls. "Cirling billows." -- Dryden.
Then round her slender waist he curled. -- Dryden.
Curling smokes from village tops are seen. -- Pope.
Gayly curl the waves before each dashing prow. -- Byron.
He smiled a king of sickly smile, and curled up on the floor. -- Bret Harte.
Curl (v. i.) To play at the game called curling. [Scot.]
Curl (n.) A ringlet, especially of hair; anything of a spiral or winding form.
Under a coronet, his flowing hair In curls on either cheek played. -- Milton.
Curl (n.) An undulating or waving line or streak in any substance, as wood, glass, etc.; flexure; sinuosity.
If the glass of the prisms . . . be without those numberless waves or curls which usually arise from the sand holes. -- Sir I. Newton.
Curl (n.) A disease in potatoes, in which the leaves, at their first appearance, seem curled and shrunken.
Blue curls. (Bot.) See under Blue.
Curl (n.) A round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals) [syn: coil, whorl, roll, curl, curlicue, ringlet, gyre, scroll].
Curl (n.) American chemist who with Richard Smalley and Harold Kroto discovered fullerenes and opened a new branch of chemistry (born in 1933) [syn: Curl, Robert Curl, Robert F. Curl, Robert Floyd Curl Jr.].
Curl (n.) A strand or cluster of hair [syn: lock, curl, ringlet, whorl].
Curl (v.) Form a curl, curve, or kink; "the cigar smoke curled up at the ceiling" [syn: curl, curve, kink].
Curl (v.) Shape one's body into a curl; "She curled farther down under the covers"; "She fell and drew in" [syn: curl up, curl, draw in].
Curl (v.) Wind around something in coils or loops [syn: coil, loop, curl] [ant: uncoil].
Curl (v.) Twist or roll into coils or ringlets; "curl my hair, please" [syn: curl, wave].
Curl (v.) Play the Scottish game of curling.
Curled (a.) Having curls; curly; sinuous; wavy; as, curled maple (maple having fibers which take a sinuous course).
Curled hair (Com.), The hair of the manes and tails of horses, prepared for upholstery purposes. -- McElrath.
Curled (a.) Of hair having curls [syn: curled, curling].
Curledness (n.) State of being curled; curliness.
Curler (n.) One who, or that which, curls.
Curler (n.) A player at the game called curling. -- Burns.
Curler (n.) A small cylindrical object sometimes having a clamping attachment, around which hair is wound so as to produce curls; as, she slept all night with a head full of curlers.
Curler (n.) An electrical appliance with a handle and a metal rod-shaped tip which is heated and around which hair is wound, to produce curls in the hair; -- called also curling iron.
Curler (n.) A mechanical device consisting of a cylindrical tube around which the hair is wound to curl it; "a woman with her head full of curlers is not a pretty sight" [syn: curler, hair curler, roller, crimper].
Curlew (n.) (Zool.) A wading bird of the genus Numenius, remarkable for its long, slender, curved bill.
Note: The common European curlew is Numenius arquatus.
The long-billed ({Numenius longirostris), The Hudsonian ({Numenius Hudsonicus), and the Eskimo curlew ({Numenius borealis, are American species. The name is said to imitate the note of the European species.
Curlew Jack (Zool.) The whimbrel or lesser curlew.
Curlew sandpiper (Zool.), A sandpiper ({Tringa ferruginea"> Curlew sandpiper (Zool.), a sandpiper ({Tringa ferruginea or Tringa subarquata), common in Europe, rare in America, resembling a curlew in having a long, curved bill. See Illustation in Appendix.
Curlew (n.) Large migratory shorebirds of the sandpiper family; closely related to woodcocks but having a down-curved bill.
Curlew, IA -- U.S. city in Iowa
Population (2000): 62
Housing Units (2000): 36
Land area (2000): 0.758220 sq. miles (1.963780 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.758220 sq. miles (1.963780 sq. km)
FIPS code: 17895
Located within: Iowa (IA), FIPS 19
Location: 42.980293 N, 94.737480 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 50527
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Curlew, IA
Curlew
Curliness (n.) State of being curly.
Curliness (n.) (Of hair) a tendency to curl [syn: curliness, waviness] [ant: straightness].
Curling (n.) 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.
Curling (n.) A scottish game in which heavy weights of stone or iron are propelled by hand over the ice towards a mark.
Curling . . . is an amusement of the winter, and played on the ice, by sliding from one mark to another great stones of 40 to 70 pounds weight, of a hemispherical form, with an iron or wooden handle at top. The object of the player is to lay his stone as near to the mark as possible, to guard that of his partner, which has been well laid before, or to strike off that of his antagonist. -- Pennant (Tour in Scotland. 1772).
Curling irons, Curling tong, An instrument for curling the hair; -- commonly heated when used. Called also curler [4].
Curling (a.) Of hair having curls [syn: curled, curling].
Curling (n.) A game played on ice in which heavy stones with handles are slid toward a target.
Curlingly (adv.) With a curl, or curls.
Curly (a.) Curling or tending to curl; having curls; full of ripples; crinkled.
Curly (a.) (Of hair) Having curls or waves; "they envied her naturally curly hair" [ant: straight].
Curlycue (n.) 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. [Sometimes written curlycue or carlicue.] [Colloq. U.S.]
Curlycue (n.) 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. Same as curlicue. [Sometimes written carlicue.] [Colloq. U.S.]
To cut a curlycue, To make a flourish; to cut a caper.
I gave a flourishing about the room and cut a curlycue with my right foot. -- McClintock.
Curmudgeon (n.) An avaricious, grasping fellow; a miser; a niggard; a churl.
A gray-headed curmudgeon of a negro. -- W. Irving.
Curmudgeon (n.) A crusty irascible cantankerous old person full of stubborn ideas.
Curmudgeonly (a.) Like a curmudgeon; niggardly; churlish; as, a curmudgeonly fellow.
Curmudgeonly (a.) Brusque and surly and forbidding; "crusty remarks"; "a crusty old man"; "his curmudgeonly temper"; "gruff manner"; "a gruff reply" [syn: crusty, curmudgeonly, gruff, ill-humored, ill-humoured].
Curmurring (n.) Murmuring; grumbling; -- sometimes applied to the rumbling produced by a slight attack of the gripes. [Scot.] -- Burns.
Curr (v. i.) To coo. [Scot.]
The owlets hoot, the owlets curr. -- Wordsworth.
Currant (n.) A small kind of seedless raisin, imported from the Levant, chiefly from Zante and Cephalonia; -- used in cookery.
Currant (n.) The acid fruit or berry of the Ribes rubrum or common red currant, or of its variety, the white currant.
Currant (n.) (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"> Black currant,a shrub or bush ({Ribes nigrum and Ribes 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 (Zool.), The larva of an insect that bores into the pith and kills currant bushes; specif., the larvae of a small clearwing moth ({[AE]geria tipuliformis) and a longicorn beetle ({Psenocerus supernotatus).
Currant worm (Zool.), An insect larva which eats the leaves or fruit of the currant. The most injurious are the currant sawfly ({Nematus ventricosus), introduced from Europe, and the spanworm ({Eufitchia ribearia). The fruit worms are the larva of a fly ({Epochra Canadensis), and a spanworm ({Eupithecia).
Flowering currant, Missouri currant, A species of Ribes ({Ribes aureum), having showy yellow flowers.
Currant (n.) Any of several tart red or black berries used primarily for jellies and jams.
Currant (n.) Any of various deciduous shrubs of the genus Ribes bearing currants [syn: currant, currant bush].
Currant (n.) Small dried seedless raisin grown in the Mediterranean region and California; used in cooking.
Currencies (n. pl. ) of Currency.
Currency (n.) A continued or uninterrupted course or flow like that of a stream; as, the currency of time. [Obs.] -- Ayliffe.
Currency (n.) 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.
Currency (n.) 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.
Currency (n.) Fluency; readiness of utterance. [Obs.]
Currency (n.) 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.
Currency (n.) The metal or paper medium of exchange that is presently used.
Currency (n.) General acceptance or use; "the currency of ideas."
Currency (n.) The property of belonging to the present time; "the currency of a slang term" [syn: currentness, currency, up-to-dateness].
Currency. () The money which passes, at a fixed value, from hand to hand; money which is authorized by law.
Currency. () By art. 1, s. 8, the Constitution of the United States authorizes congress "to coin money, and to regulate the value thereof." Changes in the currency ought not to be made but for the most urgent reason, as they unsettle commerce, both at home and abroad. Suppose Peter contracts to pay Paul one thousand dollars in six months-the dollar of a certain fineness of silver, weighing one hundred and twelve and a half grains-and afterwards, before the money becomes due, the value of the dollar is changed, and it weighs now but fifty-six and a quarter grains; will one thousand of the new dollars pay the old debt? Different opinion may be entertained, but it seems that such payment would be complete; because, 1. The creditor is bound to receive the public currency; and, 2. He is bound to receive it at its legal value. 6 Duverg. n. 174.
Currency forward (n.) A currency forward is a customized, written contract between parties that sets a fixed foreign currency exchange rate for a transaction that will occur on a specified future date. The future date for which the currency exchange rate is fixed is usually the date on which the two parties plan to conclude a buy/ sell transaction of goods.
Currency forward (n.) The purchase or sale of a forward foreign exchange contract that locks in the rate and delivery date. also called Outright forward.
Current (a.) Running or moving rapidly.
Current (a.) Now passing, as time; as, the current month.
Current (a.) 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.
Current (a.) Commonly estimated or acknowledged.
Current (a.) Fitted for general acceptance or circulation; authentic; passable.
Current (a.) 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.
Current (a.) General course; ordinary procedure; progressive and connected movement; as, the current of time, of events, of opinion, etc.
Currently (adv.) In a current manner; generally; commonly; as, it is currently believed.
Currently (adv.) At this time or period; now; "he is presently our ambassador to the United Nations"; "currently they live in Connecticut" [syn: {presently}, {currently}].
Currentness (n.) The quality of being current; currency; circulation; general reception.
Currentness (n.) Easiness of pronunciation; fluency. [Obs.]
When currentness [combineth] with staidness, how can the language . . . sound other than most full of sweetness? -- Camden.
Currentness (n.) The property of belonging to the present time; "the currency of a slang term" [syn: currentness, currency, up-to-dateness].
Curricle (n.) A small or short course.
Upon a curricle in this world depends a long course of the next. -- Sir T. Browne.
Curricle (n.) A two-wheeled chaise drawn by two horses abreast.
Curriculums (n. pl. ) of Curriculum.
Curricula (n. pl. ) of Curriculum.
Curriculum (n.) A race course; a place for running.
Curriculum (n.) A course; particularly, a specified fixed course of study, as in a university.
Curriculum (n.) An integrated course of academic studies; "he was admitted to a new program at the university" [syn: course of study, program, programme, curriculum, syllabus].
Currie (n. & v.) See 2d & 3d Curry.
Curry (n.) [Written also currie.] (Cookery) 咖喱；咖喱粉 [U]；咖喱菜肴 [C] [U] A kind of sauce much used in India, containing garlic, pepper, ginger, and other strong spices.
Compare: Cookery
Cookery (n.) 烹調術；烹調業；烹調 [U]
Curry (n.) 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.
Currie, MN -- U.S. city in Minnesota
Population (2000): 225
Housing Units (2000): 127
Land area (2000): 0.572453 sq. miles (1.482646 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.572453 sq. miles (1.482646 sq. km)
FIPS code: 14320
Located within: Minnesota (MN), FIPS 27
Location: 44.069883 N, 95.665343 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 56123
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Currie, MN
Currie
Curried (p. a.) Dressed by currying; cleaned; prepared.
Curried (p. a..) Prepared with curry; as, curried rice, fowl, etc.
Curry (v. t.) [imp. & p. p. Curried; p. pr. & vb. n. Currying.] To dress or prepare for use by a process of scraping, cleansing, beating, smoothing, and coloring; -- said of leather.
Curry (v. t.) 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.
Curry (v. t.) 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.