curry

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To groom (a horse) with a currycomb.
2. v. To prepare (tanned hides) for use, as by soaking or coloring.
3. idiom. curry favor To seek or gain favor by fawning or flattery.
4. n. Curry powder.
5. n. A heavily spiced sauce or relish made with curry powder and eaten with rice, meat, fish, or other food.
6. n. A dish seasoned with curry powder.
7. v. To season (food) with curry.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To rub and clean (a horse) with a comb; groom: sometimes used in contempt, with reference to a person.
2. Hence2. To stroke as if to soothe; flatter.
3. To dress or prepare (tanned hides) for use by soaking, skiving, shaving, scouring, coloring, graining, etc.
4. Figuratively, to beat; drub; thrash: as, to curry one's hide.
5. n. A kind of sauce or relish, made of meat, fish, fowl, fruit, eggs, or vegetables, cooked with bruised spices, such as cayenne-pepper, coriander-seed, ginger, garlic, etc., with turmeric, much used in India and elsewhere as a relish or flavoring for boiled rice. The article of food prepared with this sauce is said to be curried: as, curried rice, curried fowl, etc.
6. To flavor or prepare with curry.

Wiktionary

1. n. One of a family of dishes originating from South Asian cuisine, flavoured by a spiced sauce.
2. n. A spiced sauce or relish, especially one flavoured with curry powder.
3. n. Curry powder
4. v. transitive To cook or season with curry powder.
5. v. transitive To groom (a horse); to dress or rub down a horse with a curry comb
6. v. transitive To dress (leather) after it is tanned by beating, rubbing, scraping and colouring
7. v. transitive To beat, thrash; to drub
8. v. transitive To try to win or gain (favour) by flattering.
9. v. transitive, computing To perform currying upon.
10. v. intransitive, obsolete To scurry; to ride or run hastily.
11. v. transitive, obsolete To cover (a distance); (of a projectile) to traverse (its range).
12. v. transitive, obsolete To hurry.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To dress or prepare for use by a process of scraping, cleansing, beating, smoothing, and coloring; -- said of leather.
2. v. 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.
3. v. To beat or bruise; to drub; -- said of persons.
4. n. (Cookery) A kind of sauce much used in India, containing garlic, pepper, ginger, and other strong spices.
5. n. A stew of fowl, fish, or game, cooked with curry.
6. v. To flavor or cook with curry.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. (East Indian cookery) a pungent dish of vegetables or meats flavored with curry powder and usually eaten with rice
2. v. treat by incorporating fat
3. v. season with a mixture of spices; typical of Indian cooking
4. v. give a neat appearance to