The Collaborative International Dictionary
Curry \Cur"ry\ (k?r"r?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Curried (-r?d); p. pr. & vb. n. Currying.] [OE. curraien, curreien, OF. cunreer, correier, to prepare, arrange, furnish, curry (a horse), F. corroyer to curry (leather) (cf. OF. conrei, conroi, order, arrangement, LL. conredium); cor- (L.com-) + roi, rei, arrangement, order; prob. of German origin, and akin to E. ready. See Ready, Greith, and cf. Corody, Array.]
To dress or prepare for use by a process of scraping, cleansing, beating, smoothing, and coloring; -- said of leather.
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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.
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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.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 vb. (present participle of curry English) Etymology 2
n. (context computing English) The technique of transforming a function that takes multiple arguments into a function that takes a single argument (the first of the arguments to the original function) and returns a new function that takes the remainder of the arguments and returns the result.
Wikipedia
In mathematics and computer science, currying is the technique of translating the evaluation of a function that takes multiple arguments (or a tuple of arguments) into evaluating a sequence of functions, each with a single argument. It was introduced by Gottlob Frege, developed by Moses Schönfinkel, and further developed by Haskell Curry.
Uncurrying is the dual transformation to currying, and can be seen as a form of defunctionalization. It takes a function f(x) that returns another function g(y) as a result, and yields a new function that takes a number of additional parameters and applies them to the function returned by function f. The process can be iterated.
Usage examples of "currying".
She brought grain to Whinney, and spent a few moments currying her with a teasel and scratching the little colt with it as well.
She untied the waterlogged thongs that held her currying basket to her back and shrugged it off, then took out a heavy aurochs hide and a sturdy branch stripped of twigs.
L AFTER DORRIN FINISHES currying Meriwhen, he saddles the mare, patting her neck.
After he has finished a quick currying of Meriwhen, and as he is closing the stall, Reisa walks into the barn.
Once he gets a drink, he needs to find his errant striker, although he suspects Vaos is in the barn, currying Meriwhen or the broken-down bay that Merga uses to go to market.
Once he gets a drink, he needs to find his errant striker, although he suspects Vaos is in the barn, currying Meriwhen or the broken-down bay thai Merga uses to go to market.
A good currying helped, but Jiro had his ears laid back and kept reaching around to nip him, not hard, just Jiro's little way of saying he was damned mad.
Meanwhile Jiro wants currying, the garden wants watering—we missed the rain.
In one of the saddlebags, he found brushes, and took his time carefully currying each of them and then picking their hooves clean.
In peacetime I'd think you were crawling, currying favour with a comment like that.
She untied the waterlogged thongs that held her currying basket to her back and shrugged it off, then took out a heavy aurochs hide and a sturdy branch stripped of twigs.
It was a nightly ritual that consisted of greetings, shared affection, fresh hay, grain, water, and, particularly after a long ride, a rubdown with absorbent leather and a currying with a teasel.
Their little red sides were sleek and silky from all the curryings Almanzo had given them.