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Cur"rent (k?r"rent), a. [OE. currant, OF. curant, corant, p. pr. of curre, corre, F. courre, courir, to run, from L. currere; perh. akin to E. horse. Cf. Course, Concur, Courant, Coranto.] 1. Running or moving rapidly. [Archaic]
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Like the current fire, that renneth
Upon a cord. Gower.
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To chase a creature that was current then
In these wild woods, the hart with golden horns. Tennyson.
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2. Now passing, as time; as, the current month.
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3. Passing from person to person, or from hand to hand; circulating through the community; generally received; common; as, a current coin; a current report; current history.
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That there was current money in Abraham's time is past doubt. Arbuthnot.
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Your fire-new stamp of honor is scarce current. Shak.
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His current value, which is less or more as men have occasion for him. Grew.
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4. Commonly estimated or acknowledged.
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5. Fitted for general acceptance or circulation; authentic; passable.
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O Buckingham, now do I play the touch
To try if thou be current gold indeed. Shak.
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Account current. See under Account. -- Current money, lawful money. Abbott.
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Cur"rent, n. [Cf. F. courant. See Current, a. ]
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1. A flowing or passing; onward motion. Hence: A body of fluid moving continuously in a certain direction; a stream; esp., the swiftest part of it; as, a current of water or of air; that which resembles a stream in motion; as, a current of electricity.
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Two such silver currents, when they join,
Do glorify the banks that bound them in. Shak.
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The surface of the ocean is furrowed by currents, whose direction . . . the navigator should know. Nichol.
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2. General course; ordinary procedure; progressive and connected movement; as, the current of time, of events, of opinion, etc.
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Current meter, an instrument for measuring the velocity, force, etc., of currents. -- Current mill, a mill driven by a current wheel. -- Current wheel, a wheel dipping into the water and driven by the current of a stream or by the ebb and flow of the tide.

Syn. -- Stream; course. See Stream.
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