Cur·rent a.
  1. Running or moving rapidly. [Archaic]
  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.
  2. Now passing, as time; as, the current month.
  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.
     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.
  4. Commonly estimated or acknowledged.
  5. Fitted for general acceptance or circulation; authentic; passable.
  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.