Like the current fire, that renneth
Upon a cord.
Gower.

To chase a creature that was current then
In these wild woods, the hart with golden horns.
Tennyson.

That there was current money in Abraham's time is past doubt.
Arbuthnot.

Your fire-new stamp of honor is scarce current.
Shak.

His current value, which is less or more as men have occasion for him.
Grew.

O Buckingham, now do I play the touch
To try if thou be current gold indeed.
Shak.

Account current. See under Account. -- Current money, lawful money. Abbott.

Two such silver currents, when they join,
Do glorify the banks that bound them in.
Shak.

The surface of the ocean is furrowed by currents, whose direction . . . the navigator should know.
Nichol.

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.