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   Current , 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.]
   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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   Now passing, as time; as, the current month.
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   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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   Commonly estimated or acknowledged.
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   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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   Current, n. [Cf. F. courant. See Current, a. ]
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   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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   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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