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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 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.