Definition of current

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Current (a.) Now passing, as time; as, the current month..

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Airy :: Airy (a.) Open to a free current of air; exposed to the air; breezy; as, an airy situation..
Concurrent :: Concurrent (a.) Conjoined; associate; concomitant; existing or happening at the same time.
Restem :: Restem (v. t.) To stem, or move against; as, to restem a current..
Draught :: Draught (n.) A current of air moving through an inclosed place, as through a room or up a chimney..
Galvanism :: Galvanism (n.) The branch of physical science which treats of dynamical elecricity, or the properties and effects of electrical currents..
Ovulist :: Ovulist (n.) A believer in the theory (called encasement theory), current during the last century, that the egg was the real animal germ, and that at the time of fecundation the spermatozoa simply gave the impetus which caused the unfolding of the egg, in which all generations were inclosed one within the other. Also called ovist..
Blow :: Blow (v. i.) To send forth a forcible current of air, as from the mouth or from a pair of bellows..
Thermoelectric :: Thermoelectric (a.) Pertaining to thermoelectricity; as, thermoelectric currents..
Gale :: Gale (n.) A moderate current of air; a breeze.
Electro-dynamics :: Electro-dynamics (n.) The branch of science which treats of the properties of electric currents; dynamical electricity.
Sawyer :: Sawyer (n.) A tree which has fallen into a stream so that its branches project above the surface, rising and falling with a rocking or swaying motion in the current..
Current :: Current (a.) 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..
Concomitantly :: Concomitantly (adv.) In company with others; unitedly; concurrently.
Drift :: Drift (v. t.) To drive into heaps; as, a current of wind drifts snow or sand..
Race :: Race (n.) The current of water that turns a water wheel, or the channel in which it flows; a mill race..
Galvanocautery :: Galvanocautery (n.) Cautery effected by a knife or needle heated by the passage of a galvanic current.
Hydrometer :: Hydrometer (n.) An instrument, variously constructed, used for measuring the velocity or discharge of water, as in rivers, from reservoirs, etc., and called by various specific names according to its construction or use, as tachometer, rheometer, hydrometer, pendulum, etc.; a current gauge..
Franklin Stove :: Franklin stove () A kind of open stove introduced by Benjamin Franklin, the peculiar feature of which was that a current of heated air was directly supplied to the room from an air box; -- now applied to other varieties of open stoves..
Flighter :: Flighter (n.) A horizontal vane revolving over the surface of wort in a cooler, to produce a circular current in the liquor..
Bullion :: Bullion (n.) Base or uncurrent coin.
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