currish

Then I saw a thousand faces made currish by the cold, whence shuddering comes to me, and will always come, at frozen pools.

Let Aesop fable in a winter's night; His currish riddle sorts not with this place.

Again the dog stopped; its bark became a currish howl - as its pointed nose stared up toward a tree branch.

Surely such crazy craft and such currish crews have never before, and never since, accomplished so wonderful an undertaking.

I have a wife who I protest I love; I would she were in heaven, so she could Entreat some power to change this currish Jew.

"English dogs": the gentle (i.e. well-bred) kind, serving game - harriers, terriers, bloodhounds, gazehounds, greyhounds, limers, tumblers and stealers; "the homely kind"; "the currish kind", toys.

Thy currish spirit Govern'd a wolf who, hang'd for human slaughter, Even from the gallows did his fell soul fleet, And, whilst thou layest in thy unhallowed dam, Infus'd itself in thee; for thy desires Are wolfish, bloody, starv'd and ravenous.

Of this a reviewer remarked that 'The strong sentiment of disgust and anger which is excited, while contemplating the selfishness of the spoiled and currish urchin in Mr Webster's clever little work, is sufficient proof of his success' (London Literary Gazette, March 27, 1830, p. 211).