Currants, the fruit of a species of grossularia. See Grossularia.

The white and red sort are mostly used; for the black, and chiefly the leaves, upon first coming out, are in use to flavour English spirits, and counterfeit French brandy. Currants greatly afflauge drought, cool, and fortify the stomach, and help digestion; and the jelly of black currants is said to be very efficacious in curing inflammations of the throat.

Currants, also signify a smaller kind of grapes, brought brought principally from Zant and Cephalonia. They are gathered off the bushes, and laid to dry in the sun, and to put up in large butts. They are opening and pectoral; but are more used in the kitchen, than in medicine.