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- Curl - n. - To raise in waves or undulations; to ripple.
- Curl - n. - To shape (the brim) into a curve.
- 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.
- 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 - 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.
- 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
- Curledness - n. - State of being curled; curliness.
- Curler - n. - One who, or that which, curls.
- Curler - n. - A player at the game called curling.
- Curlew - n. - A wading bird of the genus Numenius, remarkable for its long, slender, curved bill.
- Curliness - n. - State of being curly.
- 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.
- Curly - a. - Curling or tending to curl; having curls; full of ripples; crinkled.
- Curlycue - n. - Some thing curled or spiral,, as a flourish made with a pen on paper, or with skates on the ice; a trick; a frolicsome caper.
- 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.
- Friz - v. t. - To curl or form into small curls, as hair, with a crisping pin; to crisp.
- Toupet - n. - A little tuft; a curl or artificial lock of hair.
- Armadillo - n. - Any edentate animal if the family Dasypidae, peculiar to America. The body and head are incased in an armor composed of small bony plates. The armadillos burrow in the earth, seldom going abroad except at night. When attacked, they curl up into a ball, presenting the armor on all sides. Their flesh is good food. There are several species, one of which (the peba) is found as far north as Texas. See Peba, Poyou, Tatouay.
- Frizette - n. - A curl of hair or silk; a pad of frizzed hair or silk worn by women under the hair to stuff it out.
- Buckle - n. - A curl of hair, esp. a kind of crisp curl formerly worn; also, the state of being curled.
- Calamistrate - v. i. - To curl or friz, as the hair.
- Ringlet - n. - A curl; especially, a curl of hair.
- Hug - v. i. - To cower; to crouch; to curl up.
- Frounce - v. i. - To gather into or adorn with plaits, as a dress; to form wrinkles in or upon; to curl or frizzle, as the hair.
- Earlock - n. - A lock or curl of hair near the ear; a lovelock. See Lovelock.
- Papillote - n. - a small piece of paper on which women roll up their hair to make it curl; a curl paper.
- Calamistrum - n. - A comblike structure on the metatarsus of the hind legs of certain spiders (Ciniflonidae), used to curl certain fibers in the construction of their webs.
- Frizzle - v. t. - To curl or crisp, as hair; to friz; to crinkle.
- Upcurl - v. t. - To curl up.
- Upwreath - v. i. - To rise with a curling motion; to curl upward, as smoke.
- Beaucatcher - n. - A small flat curl worn on the temple by women.
- Bob - n. - A knot or short curl of hair; also, a bob wig.
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