Guidance for HTML and Word Definitions (2537/3736)

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Governed a wolf.</q>
<qau>Shak.</qau>

<q>Some <qex>currish</qex> plot, -- some trick.</q>
<qau>Lockhart.</qau>

-- <wordforms><wf>Cur"rish*ly</wf>, <pos>adv.</pos> --
<wf>Cur"rish*ness</wf>, <pos>n.</pos></wordforms>

<hw>Cur"ry</hw> <pr>(k?r"r?)</pr>, <pos>v. t.</pos>
<wordforms>[<pos>imp. & p.p.</pos> <er>Curried</er>
<pr>(-r?d)</pr>; <pos>p.pr. & vb. n.</pos>
<er>Currying</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[OE. <ets>curraien</ets>,
<ets>curreien</ets>, OF. <ets>cunreer</ets>, <ets>correier</ets>,
to prepare, arrange, furnish, curry (a horse), F.
<ets>corroyer</ets> to curry (leather) (cf. OF.
<ets>conrei</ets>, <ets>conroi</ets>, order, arrangement, LL.
<ets>conredium</ets>); <ets>cor-</ets> (L.<ets>com-</ets>) +
<ets>roi</ets>, <ets>rei</ets>, arrangement, order; prob. of
German origin, and akin to E. <ets>ready</ets>. See
<er>Ready</er>, <er>Greith</er>, and cf. <er>Corody</er>,
<er>Array</er>.]</ety> <sn>1.</sn> <def>To dress or prepare for
use by a process of scraping, cleansing, beating, smoothing, and
coloring; -- said of leather.</def>

<sn>2.</sn> <def>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.</def>

<q>Your short horse is soon <qex>curried</qex>.</q>
<qau>Beau. & FL.</qau>

<sn>3.</sn> <def>To beat or bruise; to drub; -- said of
persons.</def>

<q>I have seen him <qex>curry</qex> a fellow's carcass