(v. t.) To dress or prepare for use by a process of scraping, cleansing, beating, smoothing, and coloring; -- said of leather.
(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.
(v. t.) To beat or bruise; to drub; -- said of persons.
(n.) A kind of sauce much used in India, containing garlic, pepper, ginger, and other strong spices.
(n.) A stew of fowl, fish, or game, cooked with curry.
(v. t.) To flavor or cook with curry.
Example Sentences:
(1) But Berlusconi and Sarkozy, seeking to curry favour with the strong far-right constituencies in both countries, sought to bury their differences by urging the rest of Europe to buy into their anti-immigration agenda.
(2) Former Tory minister Edwina Currie has tweeted that she had "no sympathy" for food bank users, that they were just "opportunists".
(3) It's not that Thompson isn't a a very good player – he and Steph Curry have been running one of the most potent offensives in the NBA over the last two years or so and he's obviously a much better defensive player than Love.
(4) Is eating curry occasionally proof of the "growing Indianisation of British culture"?
(5) The chairman is Lord Currie, dean of the business school at City University in London.
(6) I thought it was like [Joe] DiMaggio’s hit streak.” The arena was covered in blue and gold and roaring for the home team, cheers that were even louder for each of Curry’s 10 three-pointers.
(7) And I'll be catching several buzzy acts who I contrived to miss last year – Ivo Graham, Ursula Burns, Trygve (Squidboy) Wakenshaw, Phil Wang, Paul Currie.
(8) Almond lamb curry: Atul Kochhar This dish derives its main flavour from a spice blend called vadagam, which can be a little tedious to make.
(9) Meantime, in Tamworth, Australia, Matt Crawford admits that "nerves, sleep deprivation and a curry supper = high risk viewing this morning".
(10) Though BA none producing mutants which were blocked at the steps 1, 10 and 13, respectively in BA biosynthesis also converted BA to BA dimer and If, the mutants blocked at the step 11 (alanylation) could not curry out the conversion.
(11) Stephen Curry , a structural biologist at Imperial College London, says that scientists need to come to a new arrangement with publishers fit for the online age and that "for a long time, we've been taken for a ride and it's got ridiculous".
(12) For him, a good night out was driving around Glasgow or some other part of the west of Scotland, helping activists climb up ladders, putting up posters, and then piling into a curry shop.
(13) Variously billed as edible networking, curry induced knowledge exchange, and a good excuse to eat curry and chat social care, the appetite for curry has surpassed all expectations.
(14) @Stephen_Curry is a professor of structural biology at Imperial College, vice-chair of Science is Vital and a director of CaSE .
(15) William McDougall , infrastructure engineer and transport consultant who has worked on several projects in Victoria , including an early study into the link: “Having studied the East West Link several times over the years, I’m convinced that it’s not needed.“ Dr Alan March , associate professor of urban planning at Melbourne University: “I look at this as a choice about where public investment and resources are going and, when it is compared with other short-term and long-term choices that could be made, this is not a good choice.” Dr John Stone , lecturer in transport policy, University of Melbourne: “This project has problems because the only credible cost benefit analysis has shown that it is not going to make a return on the investment that we make.” Professor Graham Currie , Australia’s first professor of public transport, at Monash University, with 30 years experience as a transit planner: “Is it a good idea to build more motorways in inner areas?
(16) Curry averaged .9 rebounds per game and 2.1 points per game on 46.2% field goal shooting throughout 14 games, one of which he started.
(17) "They have freshly-prepared home-made soups, vegetable curries, and other items more often found in an upmarket restaurant than a football ground bar."
(18) I have a feeling that this one might stand for a while.” Golden State stormed to an early lead behind Curry’s hot shooting, heading into the locker room at half time leading by 20 points.
(19) A Currys promise of a £101 saving on a Samsung TV was not as good as it looked, as the £748 price tag was only a pound less than on the eve of Black Friday and it had been on promotion at £699 in September.
(20) If he was safe he would have made an attempt to get in touch with somebody.” Family members of a young couple, Chloe Rutherford, 17 and Liam Curry, 19, from South Shields, were also in Manchester searching for them.
Daubing
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Daub
(n.) The act of one who daubs; that which is daubed.
(n.) A rough coat of mortar put upon a wall to give it the appearance of stone; rough-cast.
(n.) In currying, a mixture of fish oil and tallow worked into leather; -- called also dubbing.
Example Sentences:
(1) He went from minstrel show to blackface, from vaudeville to Broadway before he hit a fabulous prosperity as the most sentimental of all sentimental singers, a poor Russian cantor's son daubed with burnt cork and down on one knee sobbing for the "mammy" he had never known in a south that nobody ever knew.
(2) Marc Lanza has been cooking all morning a Provençal daube, in one of Olney's favourite red-wine reductions, and its rich flavour fills the farmhouse kitchen that has been preserved just as Olney created it.
(3) To underline the semi-communal vibe, the phrase "We're all in this together" has been daubed in various locations, and there are yurts for massages near the herb garden.
(4) The health debate in the US is taking an ugly turn with Barack Obama and other Democrats pushing reform being compared with Nazis and one congressman having a swastika daubed outside his office.
(5) More often than not in Perlman's career it has been swaddled, daubed, be-horned, encrusted and variously garlanded with the work of the great pioneering makeup technicians of the last 30 years, including Rick Baker, Dick Smith and Stan Winston (Perlman is, all else apart, a crucial figure in the history of movie makeup).
(6) I congratulated him on the upsurge in his fortunes, such as his sideways move from squeezing, baking and daubing his filthy and infantile clay urns into broadcasting on the prestigious Channel 4 network.
(7) Around this mere handful of works by its hero – which do at least include his sumptuous The Garden of Love (c 1635) and his vulnerable, shivering nude the Venus Frigida (1614) – the curators have strung together a fragile daisy chain of prints, copies and daubs of dubious relevance, and sometimes very poor quality.
(8) The graffiti here says: ‘Homeland is racist.’ Photograph: Courtesy of the artists In the second episode of the fifth season, which aired in the US and Australia earlier this week, and will be shown in the UK on Sunday, lead character Carrie Mathison, played by Claire Danes, can be seen striding past a wall daubed with Arabic script reading: “Homeland is racist.” Other slogans painted on the walls of the fictional Syrian refugee camp included “Homeland is a joke, and it didn’t make us laugh” and “#blacklivesmatter”, the artists – Heba Amin, Caram Kapp and Stone – said in a statement published online.
(9) You can’t treat us like this.” Graffiti denouncing Ahok – as he is known to friend and foe alike – is daubed across the walls here.
(10) Photograph: Eamonn Mccabe for the Guardian When she was a child living in a Tudor cottage in rural Cheshire, the walls were lumpy, and badly painted, wattle and daub.
(11) As we talk at the Posk centre, which has been cleaned of the graffiti daubed on it last week, journalists from around the world inspect the vases of flowers from local well-wishers and the memorials in the lobby to fallen Polish heroes from the second world war, during which 2,408 Polish airmen alone were killed.
(12) The Arabic letter "N" for Nasrani (Christians) was daubed on the doors of houses – to show that they had been seized as the property of the Islamic state declared by Isis.
(13) By the second page of A Dragon Apparent, one already knows that his reputation as a stylist is safe: "On the morning of the fourth day the dawn light daubed our faces as we came down the skies of Cochin-China .
(14) Many of the windows were smashed and "Revolution HQ" was daubed in black paint on its stone Stalinist facade.
(15) "May the Lord keep you in good health for a long time, with love," stated a typical, anonymous, message addressed to Messina Denaro, daubed last year in large letters on a wall by a road heading out of town.
(16) On the hill above Christ Church, for example, the pretty little Mount Zion Primitive Methodist church is a graffiti-daubed mess, its windows bricked up, its doors barred.
(17) It always has been for Abbado: as a child during the war in Milan, he daubed the motto "Viva Bartók!"
(18) Norman says the one she uses most often is the daube de boeuf, "which works for everybody and is so good".
(19) Several other countries are now planning to introduce plain packaging, following Australia – legislation last week in Ireland, and now the UK,” its president, Mike Daube, said.
(20) An Ann Summers' shop window was smashed on Wardour Street, with "Fuck the police" graffiti daubed on its walls.