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Small black raisin
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currant
Alternative clues for the word currant
Word definitions for currant in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE red ▪ Give a little extra nitrogen to blackcurrants and cooking apples; extra potash to gooseberries and red and white currants . ▪ Gooseberries and red and white currants can now be pruned if this was not done ...
Usage examples of currant.
Rice, Currants, Sugar, Prunes, Cynamon, Ginger, Pepper, Cloves, Green Ginger, Oil, Butter, Holland cheese or old Cheese, Wine-Vinegar, Canarie-Sack, Aqua-vitae, the best Wines, the best Waters, the juyce of Limons for the scurvy, white Bisket, Oatmeal, Gammons of Bacons, dried Neats tongues, Beef packed up in Vineger, Legs of Mutton minced and stewed, and close packed up, with tried Sewet or Butter in earthen Pots.
The seasoning may be varied by using one teaspoon of curry powder, a few grains of cayenne or half a tumbler of currant jelly and salt to taste.
Her face reminded Cec of a boarding-house pudding with currants for eyes.
The juice of Red Currants also contains malic and citric acids, which are cooling and wholesome.
Dunn, as likely as not, is making a cherry pie or currant jell or maybe a strawberry shortcake.
I had chicken korma, a currant square and tea, followed by a short snooze in an armchair.
The little gardens were bright with daffodils, mezereon, and flowering currant.
THIRD NEIGHBOUR Black as a chimbley FOURTH NEIGHBOUR Ringing doorbells THIRD NEIGHBOUR Breaking windows FOURTH NEIGHBOUR Making mudpies THIRD NEIGHBOUR Stealing currants FOURTH NEIGHBOUR Chalking words THIRD NEIGHBOUR Saw him in the bushes FOURTH NEIGHBOUR Playing mwchins THIRD NEIGHBOUR Send him to bed without any supper FOURTH NEIGHBOUR Give him sennapods and lock him in the dark THIRD NEIGHBOUR Off to the reformatory FOURTH NEIGHBOUR Off to the reformatory TOGETHER Learn him with a slipper on his b.
Saxifrage tribe, this generic term Ribes being applied to all fresh currants, as of Arabian origin, and signifying acidity.
It MIGHT have been useful had she kept it to tie up currant bushes with, when it would have served the double purpose of supporting the branches and frightening away the birds--for it is an admitted fact that the ordinary tomtit of commerce has a sounder aesthetic taste than the average female relative in the country.
But for the smudge of oil left by his fingers, I could tell myself that none of it had happened, and get on with banging my typewriter keys, ordering mustard by the tub and jam by the barrel and currants by the sackload as the ordnance trucks trundled their deadly trains of long steel canisters across the concrete and the groundcrew hauled fuel bousers and the aircrew watched the maps being unrolled and the pointers pointed at the name of a town in Europe that would mean death for some of them.
She leaves him gentle and absurd gifts as apology currants, offprints, lozenges at the first hint of a cough.
Irish soda bread, rich with currants yet the dough sternly unsweet, into my mouth beneath the veil.
In the Northern counties this red Currant is called Wineberry, or Garnetberry, from its rich ruddy colour, and transparency.
She must also look into the availability of such items as arsenic and aqua fortis while she was trying to learn who had sold the dates, currants and sugar to Appleton Manor.