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Spice with rice, maybe
Answer for the clue "Spice with rice, maybe ", 5 letters:
curry
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. season with a mixture of spices; typical of Indian cooking treat by incorporating fat; "curry tanned leather" give a neat appearance to; "groom the dogs"; "dress the horses" [syn: dress , groom ] [also: curried ]
Gazetteer
Word definitions in Gazetteer
Population (2000): 45044 Housing Units (2000): 19212 Land area (2000): 1405.949452 sq. miles (3641.392209 sq. km) Water area (2000): 1.718479 sq. miles (4.450841 sq. km) Total area (2000): 1407.667931 sq. miles (3645.843050 sq. km) Located within: New Mexico ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in 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, ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
the spice, 1680s, from Tamil kari "sauce, relish for rice."
Usage examples of curry.
At the head of this formation rode a small group of Ansar on fine Arab steeds, which had been lovingly curried until their hides shone in the sunlight like polished metal.
In the center aisle of the broodmare barn, a horse stood tied and waiting while one of the grooms curried another.
Reuben Curry, who had succeeded Joe Cricks as head groom, usually accompanied us.
She read an article that curcumin, the yellow pigment in curry, acts as an antioxidant and anti-inflammatory.
For explanation, helping myself to what I hoped was a mild dhal curry, I patted my stomach.
I on the other hand had ostentatiously ordered in Swahili: mogo, otherwise known as cassava, served with a tamarind chutney, brinjal curry, karahi karela, tarka dhal and rotis to show my cosmopolitanism.
Do I appear to be less than a gentleman than the dons who curry your favor on the Alameda?
Then we had a slim repast of soda water and bananas, the Hadji worshiped with his face toward Mecca, and the boatmen prepared an elaborate curry for themselves, with salt fish for its basis, and for its tastiest condiment blachang--a Malay preparation much relished by European lovers of durion and decomposed cheese.
Aventii, Fabricius Hildanus, the Ephemerides, and Curry relate instances of a fatal issue following the ingestion of cold water by an individual in a superheated condition.
Rama and Lakshman had sat in the shade of these very trees, eating their fill of the chewy, gumlike fruit, carrying the rest back to Susama-daiimaa, who cooked a delicious sweet-sour phanas curry in the Marathi style.
There were chicken dumplings, dates stuffed with curried jackfruit, and pickled asparagus.
An identical array of spicy flour-thickened stews was saved from anonymity only by the exotic labels promising Madras curry, Hungarian goulash, Irish stew and Mexican chilli.
They laughed and wept and the girl Mellicent ran to hug him in front of everybody and the linkboy who had stabled Greyling last night brought him out all curried and would take no money for the work.
And they tried any and all means to curry favor with the Mughal rulers.
She came once in a while for dinner, and Richie always specified that Aissha was to prepare an English dinner that night, lamb or roast beef, none of your spicy Paki curries tonight, if you please.