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] [CURRY (2), v.] curse 2. To dre leather, after it is tanned, by beating. rubbing, scraping, and coloring. (CURRYING, 8.] II. Figuratively : 1. To beat, to thrash, to drub. "I may expect her to take care of he family, and curry her hide in case of refusal." -Add is on: Spectator. 2. To flatter, to curry favor with. "Thei curry kings."-Lang land. P. Howman's Crede, 365. 3. To dre , to make ready. "Yea, when he curried was, and dusted slicke and trim me, I causde both hey and prouander to be allowde for him."-Gas coigne: Complaint of the Green Knight. B. In trans.: To curry favor, to use flattery. "If I had a suit to master Shallow, I would humor his if to his men, I would curry with master men; Shallow."- Shakesp.: Henry IV., Pt. II., v. 1. To curry favor : A corruption of Mid. Eng. to curry favell ; Fr. étriller fauveau =lit. to rub down the chestnut horse; favell was a common name for a horse, and the same word, but from an entirely different source (Lat. fabula ), was used for flattery. "Then sche currayed favell well."-Hor a Merchant did his Wufe Betray , 203. ". changed their religior to curry favor with King James." - Macaulay : Hist . En 1, ch. xvi.