Curl(n.) To twist or form into ringlets; to crisp, as the hair.
Curl(n.) To twist or make onto coils, as a serpent's body.
Curl(n.) To deck with, or as with, curls; to ornament.
Curl(n.) To raise in waves or undulations; to ripple.
Curl(n.) To shape (the brim) into a curve.
Curl(v.) A ringlet, especially of hair; anything of a spiral or winding form.
Curl(v.) An undulating or waving line or streak in any substance, as wood, glass, etc.; flexure; sinuosity.
Curl(v.) A disease in potatoes, in which the leaves, at their first appearance, seem curled and shrunken.
Curl(v. i.) To contract or bend into curls or ringlets, as hair; to grow in curls or spirals, as a vine; to be crinkled or contorted; to have a curly appearance; as, leaves lie curled on the ground.
Curl(v. i.) To move in curves, spirals, or undulations; to contract in curving outlines; to bend in a curved form; to make a curl or curls.
Curl(v. i.) To play at the game called curling.
Curle(pl. ) of Curia
Curled(a.) Having curls; curly; sinuous; wavy; as, curled maple (maple having fibers which take a sinuous course).
Curled(imp. & p. p.) of Curl
Curling(n.) The act or state of that which curls; as, the curling of smoke when it rises; the curling of a ringlet; also, the act or process of one who curls something, as hair, or the brim of hats.
Curling(n.) A scottish game in which heavy weights of stone or iron are propelled by hand over the ice towards a mark.
Curling(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Curl
Curlingly(adv.) With a curl, or curls.
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